[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 674: The Japanese Small Moves (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Ma Zheng's good mood did not last long, when he had just returned to Guisui and was about to take people south to Shandong, but there was a news that made him angry, the Japanese actually smeared the Eighth Route Army in the world, and called those Japanese expatriates killed in the battle in Beiping Chengtou as civilians massacred by Ma Zheng's department, and at the same time claimed that Ma Zheng's department shamelessly kidnapped a large number of imperial expatriates, in short, Ma Zheng's department was portrayed as a shameless, cunning, despicable and bottomless rogue army. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because there are not many channels for China to speak out to the outside world, and Ma Zheng was busy trading with the Soviet Union during this time, he did not stand up to refute it at the first time, so it directly led to many foreigners who did not know the truth to complain about the Eighth Route Army, and some even publicly criticized the Eighth Route Army, which put Yan'an under a lot of pressure.

After learning the news, Ma Zheng immediately held a press conference, revealing the true details of the so-called "overseas Chinese", supplemented by a large number of photos and physical objects as evidence, to refute the accusations of the Japanese.

However, many people already have preconceived ideas, so they don't buy Ma Zheng's defense, especially some Western media, especially in this regard.

In this regard, Ma Zheng did not say much except for a hint of anger, and what he is most concerned about now is Tada Jun's attitude. If this old devil still values the lives of those Japanese expatriates as much as Shouichi Terauchi and Sugiyama Moto, then this matter will be much easier. On the other hand, if the old devil is not willing to comply, this matter will be in trouble.

He doesn't mind raising more than 10,000 Japanese, anyway, these Japanese expatriates don't just eat and work here, so many people just serve as free labor for Ma Zheng's department.

However, the changes in the Japanese army still made Ma Zheng quite worried, although the Japanese army did not come to make trouble during this time, it did not mean that the Japanese did not make small moves in private. With the gradual expansion of the intelligence department of the Suicha Military Region and the gradual improvement of its ability to collect intelligence, a large amount of information about the North China Front was sent to Ma Zheng's desk during this period.

After the Battle of Pingjin, the Japanese moved frequently, and by early December, with the arrival of a large number of reinforcements from the Japanese mainland, the North China Front quickly recovered its strength, and it also expanded to 12 divisions and 8 brigades. Excluding the puppet army, there were as many as 300,000 regular Japanese field troops alone.

In addition, the Japanese army also vigorously expanded the number of puppet troops during this period, and the puppet North China Security Army suffered extremely heavy losses after withstanding the blows of Ma Zheng's subordinates, and the total strength of the army dropped rapidly from more than 80,000 to less than 30,000. However, with the help of the Japanese army, the number quickly swelled from 30,000 to 120,000 in just a few months. In addition to the more than 20,000 strong men forcibly captured by Qi Xieyuan in various places, the remaining 60,000 people were all *** troops captured by the Japanese army from the Jiangnan battlefield.

Originally, the top brass of the North China Front in the Sugiyama Yuan era believed that the puppet army was not successful enough and more defeated, and was an untrustworthy subservient, so they did not replenish it on a large scale after the Japanese army was annihilated in large numbers.

However, the consequences of this were soon manifested, and with the rapid decline in the number of puppet troops, the law and order in the rear occupied areas of the Japanese army deteriorated. The Japanese army had to pay attention to the role of the puppet army again, so after Tada Jun took office, he began to select those soft bones from those *** prisoners to enrich the puppet army.

In addition to Qi Xieyuan's puppet North China Security Army, with the strong support of the Japanese army, the Japanese army also formed three traitor units, the Xingya Alliance Army, the East Asian Alliance National Salvation Army, and the Appeasement Garrison, with Wang Shengwu as the commander-in-chief of the Xingya Alliance Army, and more than 7,000 people in two brigades. Bai Fengxiang, commander-in-chief of the East Asian Alliance National Salvation Army, has 3 regiments of the puppet army under his command, with a total strength of more than 3,000 people. Ding Qichang, commander of the appeasement garrison, has three brigades of the puppet army under his command, with a total strength of more than 2,000 troops. For a time, the puppet army in North China was full of numbers, and there were all kinds of demons.

Ma Zheng knew that the little devil was accumulating strength, and in just a few months, the total strength of the Japanese puppet army had skyrocketed to 470,000, and the total strength was more than before the Pingjin Campaign, which made Ma Zheng worried.

However, the Suicha Military Region has not been idle, and all the units of the Suicha Military Region have been training and expanding their strength desperately in the past half month. The units have not only regained their vitality, but also increased their combat effectiveness considerably.

On 8 December, the third day after Ma Zheng returned to Sui from Erenhot, the Suicha Military Region Headquarters issued a notice that a meeting of divisional and brigade-level officers would be held in Guisui two days later, and all senior officers at the division and brigade level must attend it unless for special reasons.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of 8 o'clock, the headquarters of the Suicha Military Region gathered a star-studded meeting, and the conference room was full of officers, including division commanders and brigade commanders.

Ma Zheng, who was dressed in military uniform, walked into the conference room under the protection of the two special combat team members.

"Stand Up"

Ma Zheng said lightly: "Sit"

"Are you all there?"

Xu Yinghui, chief of staff and head of the intelligence department, got up and replied: "Commander, Tie Xinlan, the political commissar of the third division of the reorganization, is commanding troops in eastern Hebei and the Japanese army is unable to attend the meeting, and the rest are all here." ”

"Now that we're here, let's get started. There are a total of 3 things that call everyone here today, let's talk about the first thing first, although the Japanese army did not come to disturb us during this time, but they were not idle, after the investigation of the intelligence department, the number of Japanese troops in North China increased rapidly, so we must pay attention to it, let Chief of Staff Xu tell you about the changes in the Japanese army. Ma Zheng said.

Xu Yinghui was not hypocritical, and quickly stood up and said after hearing Ma Zheng's roll call: "After the battles of Qingdao and Pingjin, the strength of the Japanese army was greatly damaged, and it had to give up some counties in Shanxi and Hebei. However, after a period of expansion, the strength of the North China Front has been strengthened in all aspects. After investigation by our intelligence department, we learned that the regular troops of the Japanese army in North China had exceeded 300,000, and there were nearly 160,000 or 70,000 puppet troops. ”

As soon as Xu Yinghui's words fell, there was a buzz in the conference room, this news is really shocking, what is the concept of 470,000. After the Pingjin Campaign, there were less than 160,000 regular troops left in the Suicha Military Region, and although the troops developed rapidly during this period, no one thought that the troops could grow to more than 400,000 in a short period of time, let alone the Suicha Military Region, and even if all the Chinese resistance forces in North China were combined, they were probably not much more than the strength of the Japanese army.

Although there are 150,000 puppet troops in it, the 320,000 Japanese army is still a powerful force, and now most of the territory in North China has fallen, and the garrison only has a part of the troops left in the second theater and the Sulu theater, as for the first theater has been withdrawn from Hebei to the south of Henan, and the fifth and third theaters are far away from North China.

Speaking of the strength of the two sides, there are about 300,000 troops in the second theater, about 80,000 troops in the Sulu theater, about 200,000 troops in the first theater in Henan, plus more than 300,000 troops in the Suicha Military Region and the Eighth Route Army, the total strength is not more than 800,000, 500,000 vs 800,000.

"It's all quiet, although the Japanese army has not launched an attack on our army, but it is accumulating strength, so we must always be vigilant and beware of a sudden all-out attack by the Japanese army."

Then Ma Zheng continued: "So the second thing is to talk about the strategic layout of our army, more than half a month has passed, let me look at your respective achievements, take the military division as a unit, and tell me about the equipment of the soldiers of your respective troops, right?" ”

The reorganized 1st Division has always been the vanguard of the Suicha Military Region, so this time it was Huang Sicheng who was the first to report: "Commander, after more than half a month of development, our reorganized 1st Division has recovered a little vitality, and now our department has under the jurisdiction of the field troops of 2 brigades and 6 regiments, plus the direct troops of 6 regiments, the supplementary troops of 4 regiments, and the garrison troops of 6 regiments, with a total strength of 47,212 people. At present, the unit has a total of 11 Japanese armament regiments, 2 new rifle regiments, and 1 cavalry, artillery, engineer, and transport regiment. ”

After Huang Sicheng sat down, Yang Chengwu, Liu Fengchi, Chen Xudong, Huang Bingyan and others made reports one by one and told them about their respective family backgrounds. (To be continued.) )