[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 728: The Unclear Battle Situation in Southern Hebei (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

It was already impossible to assassinate Wang Jingwei, but the early establishment of Wang's puppet regime did sound the alarm for Ma Zheng, and he couldn't help but think of another major event that was about to happen, a big event related to the Chinese nation and the whole world. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn contrast, the current establishment of the Wang puppet regime is much inferior.

But no matter what happens in the outside world, you still have to live your life. Now the situation of the Battle of North China has gradually become clear, and in eastern Hebei, more than 60,000 people, including the 1st Division, the 110th Division, and the 1st Wing of the Military Police Headquarters in China, were blocked by Liu Fengchi's headquarters in the Qian'an area, and they were not allowed to advance an inch. Although the Japanese army used all the means at their disposal, they were stunned and could not tear through the defense line of Liu Fengchi's department.

On the front line of Zhangjiakou and Xuanhua, the 26th Division of the Japanese Army was heavily damaged by Yang Chengwu's department, although there were a large number of reinforcements, but they did not dare to go too deep into the defense area of the Suicha Military Region, both sides have been fighting on the front line of Zhangjiakou, and both sides are very restrained, almost all of them are regiments and below the regimental level of the scale of fighting.

In northern Shanxi, the Japanese army mobilized 780,000 troops, including the Fifth Division, to attack the defensive line in the southern part of the Suicha Military Region, but it was blocked by the Yanbei Detachment of the 120th Division and the integrated 1st Division of the Suicha Military Region in the area south of Ningwuguan to Yuanping Town.

In Jizhong, the Japanese army was tragically besieged by the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region, and most of the independent mixed second brigade was annihilated, and even the brigade commander of the brigade, Lieutenant General Numata Shigetoku, was also killed. Although it is said that there are still more than 10,000 troops of the Japanese army in Jizhong, the Jizhong Military Region and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region together have more than 60,000 troops, and now it is not a question of whether the Japanese army will fight the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, but a question of Commander Nie Rongzhen's inability to find trouble with the Japanese army. Therefore, Abe's successor had no choice but to order the troops to be deployed on the spot to strictly prevent the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army.

In the previous period of operations, the Japanese army only took a week to defeat Gao Shuxun's troops, not only lost an infantry division, but also an infantry division was surrounded by the Japanese army in Wu'an, and the new Sixth Division defending Yong'an County was also heavily damaged, both Lao Jiang in Chongqing and Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater of Operations, had already seen clearly that the New Eighth Army and the 69th Army had reached the countdown to destruction.

However, Ma Zheng knew that although the Japanese army had an absolute advantage on the surface of the war situation in southern Hebei, the Japanese army had a fatal loophole, that is, they did not know the true strength of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, let alone that the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei had reached a secret agreement with Gao Shuxun.

At present, the distribution of the strength of the two infantry divisions and two infantry brigades of the Japanese attack group in southern Hebei is as follows: the Japanese army on the Wu'an side has two infantry brigades, the Yongan front line is the 32nd Division of the Japanese army led by the supreme commander of the southward attack group, Kimura Hyotaro, and the 35th Infantry Division is divided into two parts by Kimura Hyotaro to garrison Shimen and Shahe respectively, so as to ensure that the rear road of the southbound troops will not be cut off by the Eighth Route Army.

In Wu'an, the 3rd and 4th Separate Mixed Brigades of the Japanese Army, under the command of Major General Sasaki Ichi, fiercely attacked the county town of Wu'an, which was defended by the 181st Division of the 69th Army. Although the 181st Division, which originally had strong combat effectiveness, had a lot of combat effectiveness due to internal strife, it still supported for a week under the attack of Sasaki to the first division, and caused a lot of casualties to Sasaki to the first division.

However, this is already the limit of the 181st Division, now there are only more than 3,000 people left in the 181st Division, and there is little ammunition left, in the 181st Division's telegram to Gao Shuxun for help, Division Commander Zhang Yuting made it clear that Wu'an will be captured by the Japanese army in two days at most, and the fate of the 181st Division is also annihilated.

The Japanese 32nd Division is now continuing to attack the defense line of the New Sixth Division on the Yongan front, and has achieved major results, the division headquarters of the New Sixth Division was detected by the Japanese artillery, so Kimura Hyotaro concentrated all the artillery to the location of the New Sixth Division Division for ten minutes.

Although it is said that the headquarters of the new Sixth Division was built underground, and a lot of reinforced concrete was used, it could not withstand such wanton and indiscriminate bombardment, and soon the top floor of the division headquarters collapsed, and all the officers of the entire division headquarters were buried in the ground. Fortunately, Ma Runchang was not in the division headquarters at that time, so he escaped by luck.

However, there was a brief period of confusion in the command system of the entire New Sixth Division, and it was for such a short period of time that the Japanese army seized the opportunity to open the way with a large artillery and combat vehicles, and finally tore a big hole in the right flank position of the New Sixth Division. In order not to be surrounded by the Japanese army, Ma Runchang decisively ordered the troops to retreat, and the county seat of Yongan was lost.

The loss of Yong'an County is definitely not good news for Gao Shuxun, but he has no way to save it, he also knows that the troops on the front line have done their best, although the Japanese 32nd Division is only a newly formed force, but with the 8,000 troops of the new Sixth Division, it is extremely rare to block the 32nd Division for 6 days.

The Yong'an defense line was lost, the northern gateway of Handan was opened, and Handan City became a stripped beauty, waiting for the ravages of the mob. However, Gao Shuxun also knew that no matter how hard it was, he would have to defend Handan City, because the main force of the Eighth Route Army had already set off for Wu'an, or it would not be long before the Japanese army in Wu'an would withdraw, and then the troops of the Eighth Route Army would detour back to the back of the 32nd Division.

Now the key to the turning point of the war situation in southern Hebei is in his hands Gao Shuxun, as long as he can defend Handan City and not be broken through by the Japanese army within at least a week, then the next battle will change greatly, and it will change in the favorable direction of the New Eighth Army.

But it is not easy to defend Handan City, which is not a city that is conducive to defense in the first place, and the city fortifications are in disrepair.

Although Gao Shuxun mobilized a large number of troops and civilians to repair the city fortifications after taking over Handan City, and also urgently built a lot of pillboxes and trenches, it was impossible to raise the defense level of a city in less than half a month.

And the biggest problem is that the number of troops is limited, but there are less than 10,000 people in the hands of Gao Shuxun in the big city of Nuo, and almost everyone in the new Sixth Division withdrawn from Yong'an County is wounded, and the pressure to defend Handan City is not ordinarily great.

Handan is different from Yong'an, Yong'an is a small county town, whether it is the urban area or the urban population is far less than Handan, just such a small place, although the Japanese army used an infantry division, but in fact, there is less than an infantry wing that can open fire with hands and feet, and the others cannot intervene.

But Handan City is different, if Kimura Hyotaro wants to take Handan at all costs, the eight directions of Handan can be used as the direction of the main attack, not to mention an infantry division, even if it is three infantry divisions.

Moreover, although the 32nd Division is only a C-class division that has just been formed, there are more than 16,000 people, almost as many as the miscellaneous army of the New Eighth Army.

However, soon Gao Shuxun was no longer worried about the defense of Handan City, and just received a telegram from Xie Wensheng, saying that about three regiments of the Eighth Route Army were urgently rushing to Handan to help Gao Shuxun's troops defend Handan City, and the strength of these three regiments was all under the command of Gao Shuxun.

However, in order to reduce Chiang's suspicion of the Eighth Route Army and Gao Shuxun himself, Xie Wensheng hoped that Gao Shuxun could support the Eighth Route Army's 7,000 sets of new Eighth Army uniforms, so that all the soldiers of these six regiments would change into Kuomintang uniforms to fight.

Gao Shuxun was grateful to the Eighth Route Army's request, and he could still say no, the Eighth Route Army not only helped him defend Handan City, but also helped him reduce Chairman Jiang's suspicions. Such an ally is a real ally, and the Eighth Route Army has really done a good job in buying people's hearts, Gao Shuxun thought in his heart. (To be continued.) )