[The Iron Blood King of the Anti-Japanese Army] Chapter 76: Suicha the base area behind the enemy line of the anti-Japanese war

"Hay! The lesson of Your Excellency the Commander is that the humble duty must be corrected! Kuroda said in a deep voice.

Lieutenant General Hasunuma Pan sighed and said, "There are many people in my Imperial Japanese Army who think like you, not to mention you, this is the most terrifying. Once we all have the idea of underestimating the enemy, that is the beginning of defeat. ”

"Your Excellency, please rest assured! Since the dirt is like rats, then we only need to send a large army to destroy their rat nests to destroy them. If two wings can't work, just two divisions, and if you can't mobilize another division, there's nothing to be afraid of! Kuroda said in a deep voice.

Lieutenant General Liannuma said: "I just said that the general Eighth Route Army, but the Eighth Route Army operating in the Chahar region is different, this group of Eighth Route Army led by Ma Zheng is extremely well equipped, and has reached or exceeded the firepower of the first division of the empire. Moreover, this Eighth Route Army is well-trained, the quality of the soldiers is very high, and the combat effectiveness is very strong. ”

"The Sakai Brigade of the former Chahar Dispatch Corps also sent troops to encircle and suppress this Tuba Road many times, and the number of people reached more than 3,000 people at one time, and this Tuba Road was only a brigade-level establishment at that time. It stands to reason that this is a battle that must be won, but in the end it was still defeated by this Ma Zheng, and even Sakai Hoji almost sacrificed his life there for the country. The most terrifying thing is that until now we don't know who Ma Zheng is and how many troops he has under his command. ”

Shi Benyin thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency Commander, through the study of the Eighth Route Army, we found that whether it is the former Red Army or the current Eighth Route Army, in the final analysis, its foundation is still the common people of China, as long as we eradicate their foundation, then these Eighth Route Army will destroy themselves without a fight. ”

"Yo Xi, what do you think of Ishinomoto, please speak up quickly." Lieutenant General Hasunuma said.

Shi Benyinsan immediately said: "The 7th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has now occupied Fengzhen, Jining and other places, and has seriously endangered the safety of the Pingsui Railway, so we must solve this hidden danger as soon as possible, there is no doubt about it, so although we are newly defeated, there is no reason to rest." ”

"Well, keep talking!"

"But if we launch a large-scale military operation now, we have problems with the number of troops, and we simply cannot mobilize more troops. Since the Eighth Route Army used small units to defeat the Imperial Army, then we also used small units to attack this independent 7th Brigade. ”

"Do you have a specific operational idea?"

"There is a point, but it is not yet mature, please correct your Excellency the commander!" Shi Benyin three ways.

"Yo Xi, if you have one, say it quickly!"

"Hay! The specific combat method is to send a small force with the squadron as a unit, accompanied by war horses or automobile soldiers, to the military objectives of the Seventh Brigade or the villages and market towns of China that focus on supporting the Eighth Route Road, once it is found that the Eighth Route Army is wiped out on the spot, all the people in the village are wiped out. We must take the initiative of the war into our own hands and let Ma Zheng and his troops be led by the nose by the imperial army. ”

Lieutenant General Hasunuma thought for a while and said, "Yo Xi, Ishimoto's idea is very good, you will immediately make a battle plan with the people of the staff department with this as the core, I will personally arrange this matter, and I will let the intelligence department cooperate with you." ”

"Hay!"

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Ma Zheng, the conspiracy of the Mongolian army headquarters, did not know that he had a large mess of things on hand that he needed to deal with at this time. The territory has increased so much at once, and there are several more county seats, but how to manage it has become the most realistic problem in front of Ma Zheng.

The Chanan area is vast and sparsely populated, and the distance between the fresh orange juices is very long, so if you divide the troops to garrison, it is easy to be broken by each person. But if you don't garrison troops, you can't do it, in that case, the Japanese puppet army can take the city at any time.

In addition, there are still many Japanese strongholds in the jurisdiction that have not been uprooted, mainly because this battle was fought too quickly, Ma Zheng's troops are rushing to occupy the county seat, and the towns below have not yet had time to deal with it. Even many devil strongholds don't know that the county seat has been lost, and they are still hiding in their strongholds.

There is also the issue of troop reorganization, and the headquarters of this battle has absorbed more than 8,000 puppet troops at once, and how to integrate these people is still a problem. Since these people are all cavalry, and the cavalry under Ma Zheng's department is only three or four hundred, it is not appropriate to disrupt the establishment and reorganize.

However, Yun Jian has more experience than Ma Zheng in these problems, especially the garrison. Ma Zheng didn't want to divide the troops, Yun Jian saw it, so he suggested that Ma Zheng only stationed a small force in these places, and the scale could be controlled at the battalion or company level. Then militia groups were formed in various places and they were allowed to cooperate with the local garrison to maintain law and order in peacetime.

As for the main force of the troops, they can be stationed in one or two important cities, and in the event of an attack elsewhere, reinforcements can be sent at any time. In this way, it is possible to concentrate forces to the greatest extent possible, and it will not appear that the forces are scattered due to the expansion of the territory.

When Ma Zheng heard this suggestion, he thought it was very good, and immediately discussed the feasibility of this plan with Yun Jian, and then came up with a detailed plan and reported it to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

Soon the reply from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army came, agreeing to implement their ideas, and at the same time, the headquarters also sent instructions on the establishment of the Suicha base area. The General Headquarters agreed in principle to establish a base area behind the enemy line in Suicha to resist Japan, but it specifically warned Ma Zheng and Yun Jian, requiring them to be particularly cautious in the war against Japan and to preserve their own strength as much as possible, especially when the troops were not equipped to carry out large-scale offensive operations against the Japanese army.

The General Headquarters also gave instructions on the selection of leaders for the newly established base areas behind the anti-Japanese enemy lines in Suicha, with Ma Zheng as commander, Yun Jian as political commissar, Huang Sicheng as chief of staff, and Wang Hansen as logistics director.

With the instructions and support of the General Headquarters, the shelves of the base areas behind the anti-Japanese enemy lines were soon erected, and the defense areas of the base areas involved the four provinces of Chahar, Suiyuan, Shanxi, and Hebei, and there were five county towns under complete control, among which Huade County was too remote because of its location, if the troops were stationed there, it would be equivalent to sending fat to the mouths of the Japanese army, so after discussion, Ma Zheng and others decided to temporarily abandon the stationing of troops in Huade County.

Subsequently, with the strong support of Ma Zheng and Yunjian, the people's governments of Xinghe, Jining and Shangdu took the lead in establishing them. Although the candidate for the county magistrate has not yet been decided, the sign is hung up. At the same time, some of the backbone fighters were transferred and began to form county brigades, joint district squads, and militia self-defense units.

At the same time as the establishment of the Suicha anti-Japanese base area, Lu Ming commanded his supplementary regiment to launch an attack on the Japanese puppet army in Tuguiwula Town, Chayouqian Banner, and after three hours of fierce fighting, the defenders were completely annihilated and the Chacha Right Front Banner was recovered.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd regiments were supplemented and divided into dozens of routes, and began to carry out a dragnet clearance of the Japanese puppet army strongholds in Jining, Chayouqianqi, Fengzhen, and Xinghe.

By 20 April, all the more than 30 Japanese strongholds in the base area had been cleared out, and all of the six banner counties in Chachanan were under the control of Ma Zheng's headquarters.

At the same time, Ma Zheng carried out a large-scale mixing of the troops under his command, and some of the infantry who knew how to ride horses were classified as cavalry, and some of the cavalry were classified as infantry. After the reorganization, the army still retained four infantry regiments with a total of 10,350 people, while the cavalry was retained with a total of 4,200 people in three regiments.

At this point, the troops in the base areas behind the anti-Japanese enemy lines in Suicha were finally integrated, with four infantry regiments, three cavalry regiments, one guard regiment, one artillery regiment, and one engineer regiment, in addition to a special operations brigade, a motor transport team, and a field hospital, with a total strength of 17,494 people.