[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1097: Operation Hostage Rescue (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

On June 2, a mysterious force of about 100 men attacked the convoy from Jining to Heze. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although the escort of the convoy had a large infantry brigade, the supplies were still destroyed.

In this battle, half of the officers of the infantry brigade in charge of the escort, including the captain, were killed, and almost all the machine gunners and grenadiers of the entire brigade were killed, and the artillery squadron was all killed before it could make a move.

Although the Japanese army only lost less than 300 people in this battle, in the eyes of insiders, the essence of this infantry brigade has been lost, and its combat effectiveness has been basically destroyed. The most important thing is that the way of fighting the Tubalu that sneaked up on this transport team was too weird, which made the entire front line suddenly fall into tension again.

Although the scale of this sneak attack was not large, it aroused the great attention of Okamura Ningji and the entire North China Front Army, and all the high-level leaders, including Okamura Ningji, believed that Ma Zheng was trying to provoke a new battle. Of course, this is not a conventional positional offensive and defensive battle, but a special duel on a small scale.

The last time Okamura Ningji retreated, this time he didn't plan to retreat again, besides, the special combat team of the North China Front has been training for more than four years, even if every time he fights with Ma Zheng's special combat team, he still loses more than wins, but its combat effectiveness has been recognized by Okamura Ningji and many famous generals in the Japanese military circles.

Immediately, Okamura Ninji appointed Hattori Zangtomi, who had just been promoted to lieutenant general of the army, as the supreme commander of this special operation, responsible for the task of the special combat team of the Shandong encirclement and suppression of the Saibei Corps.

At the same time, Okamura Ninji ordered all the Japanese puppet troops in the Heze area to obey the orders of Hattori's Tibetan ministers, and under his unified command, to serve the special forces of the encirclement and suppression of the Saibei Corps.

However, to Hattori's dismay, just after they arrived in Heze, the Chinese special forces suddenly disappeared. Not only could they find no clues, but they didn't even find any traces of their existence.

However, Hattori was not discouraged, he knew and deeply understood the awesomeness of the special combat team of the Saibei Corps. If Ma Zheng's special combat team was really so easy to deal with, it would not have caused several commanders of the entire North China Front Army to be anxious.

Hattori Zangchen took over as commander with an incomparable advantage over people, that is, his intelligence gathering ability is far stronger than ordinary people, just in the two days that he led the team to stay in Heze, a large amount of intelligence was sent to Heze every day for Hattori Zangchen to select.

Kung fu did not take much effort, and soon a very ordinary news aroused the idea of the Hattori Zangchen, not long ago, Xu Youcai, a big grain merchant in Heze, suddenly sold more than 40,000 catties of grain at cost price to a person named Jiang Zhiguo, and quickly bought the guards in the city to transport them out of the city.

But what's even more bizarre is that after the investigation of the special high-tech secret agent, they found that Xu Youcai, an undisciplined businessman, was crying bitterly at home, and dozens of people in the Xu family were all full of gloom and emotions.

Hattori's ministers judged that Xu Youcai's grain was not sold voluntarily, and such a large grain sale had to be reported to the Imperial Army Garrison Headquarters for approval, but there was no such transaction in the archives of the day.

Combined with other intelligence, Hattori concluded that Xu Youcai's transaction was not voluntary, but forced.

Since this is the case, it is worth scrutinizing, and there is no doubt that those who dare to go to Heze to buy such a war-ready commodity as grain at this juncture are certainly not ordinary people.

More importantly, although these people forced Xu Youcai to sell grain to them, they did not excessively deduct Xu Youcai's grain price, and although Xu Youcai did not make much money by buying and selling Xu Youcai at a fair price, they did not lose money.

There is no doubt that the person who can do this kind of thing in the eyes of Hattori Zangchen is both a bitch and a torii, and only the earth will do this kind of thing, that is, rob you but do it on the surface to say that it is high-sounding.

Since it was done by Tubalu, Hattori couldn't help but think of Ma Zheng's special combat team. That special combat team appeared in this area during this time, and although it suddenly disappeared in the past few days, it certainly did not withdraw.

Although Hattori Zaochen did not have conclusive evidence that Ma Zheng's special combat team was still in Heze, he intuitively believed his own judgment. And the one who can go out of Heze City freely at this time must be the special combat team, so Hattori Zangchen decided to pursue it from this batch of grain.

It is not easy to transport such a large amount of grain, and now it is certainly not all transported out of Shandong, and it has not even left Heze. As long as you follow the footprints, you will definitely gain something, even if it is not the special combat team of the Saibei Corps that is found in the end, but it is a great achievement to recover more than 40,000 catties of grain for the imperial army.

Hattori didn't know that this was just an iron bull who was suspicious. As Ma Zheng's most powerful assistant, Tie Niu's command level is obviously not low.

He knew very well that the biggest enemy in front of them to rescue the hostages was not the more than 1,000 defenders in Weixian, but the Japanese army's equally powerful special combat team. Therefore, Tie Niu formulated a plan to repair the plank road and secretly Chen Cang before the operation, and now Lu Southwest will create a little incident to attract the Japanese special combat team to come, and then make a guy in the rear of the dog day.

It was clear that their ploy had succeeded, attracting the attention of the top brass of the entire North China Front. This is a good phenomenon, as long as the Japanese army does not guard their own doorstep like dogs, everything will be fine.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of this rescue of the Allied expatriates and some prisoners of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Ma Zheng even sent his own personal guards out, and it was this team that fought wits and courage with the special combat team of Hattori Tibetan ministers in the Heze area in the past few days.

Ming Xiu plank road did a good job, has successfully attracted the attention of the Japanese high-level, seeing that the time is ripe, the Iron Bull Department immediately carried out the next operation.

On June 8, 1943, the Saibei Corps set out from Tianjin by more than 400 special combat teams and more than 500 marines.

The troops disembarked in the sea area more than ten miles away from the mouth of the Weihe River, and then went ashore on a deserted beach. After the troops docked, all the ships withdrew from the waters of Shandong and returned to Tianjin, leaving no trace.

Under the response of the special combat team members who arrived in Weifang one step earlier and the local underground party, Tie Niu and the others successfully passed through the originally not very strict defense line in the Weifang area and directly lurked on the outskirts of Weifang County.

At this time, Weixian was far less prosperous than Weifang City, Shandong Province in later generations, and there were only all the devastation common to all Chinese counties in this era, and they were witnesses of history, witnessing the harm and suffering caused by the Japanese invaders to the land of China.

Tie Niu and the others did not act immediately, although there were not many defenders in the entire Weifang, and there were only two infantry squadrons, a police squadron and an infantry regiment of the puppet army, with a total strength of only 1,300 people. Moreover, they were scattered in various counties and towns in Weifang, and only more than 350 Japanese soldiers and more than 300 puppet soldiers were actually stationed in the county.

With the strength in Tie Niu's hands now, there is no need to plan at all, and only one charge is needed to defeat this small county town, let alone annihilate the Japanese puppet army. But the problem is that they didn't come to Shandong this time for this small county, but to save people.

According to information provided by informants Zhang Xingtai and his son, Wang Yingchun and others, there are now about 1,800 allied expatriates and more than 250 Chinese in Weifang Ledao Yuan, which is a large scale.

And compared with those foreign nationals, the degree of defense of these more than 250 Chinese is obviously more tight. In addition to the regular infantry of the Japanese army, there are also some police and puppet troops guarding the Allied expatriate, but only the regular infantry of the Japanese army guards the Chinese, not even the Japanese police, and each guard post is four people and four posts, which is far tighter than the double double post guarding the Allied expatriate.

Such a large-scale rescue operation obviously requires careful planning and meticulous organization, otherwise even if Weifang County is captured, it will not be possible to rescue so many hostages. Because it takes more than half a month to travel by land from Weifang to the area controlled by the Saibei Corps, and although the sea route is closer, almost all the activities in the waters near Shandong are Japanese warships.

In contrast, the only two cruisers in the Saibei Corps were only the worst performing warships of the Japanese Navy, with a maximum displacement of only 2,600 tons, while the warships of the Japanese army anchored in Qingdao Port could be beaten to the bottom of the sea by pulling out one at will.

The most important thing is not the difference between the warships, the biggest difference is the personnel on the warships of the two sides, and almost all the soldiers from the commander Ma Zheng to the ordinary soldiers of the Northern Saibei Corps have received naval training, and this is the key.

Even Ma Zheng, a special soldier from later generations, has only simply received training in the operation of warships and small water vehicles, but that can only ensure that this warship can be operated at sea, if it is about sea operations, it will not work.

Because of this, Tie Niu and others did not dare to take risks. If you attract the attention of the Japanese navy, not only will you not be able to save people, but you will probably put yourself in it, which will be a bit more than worth the loss.