[Anti-Japanese Iron and Blood King] Chapter 989: Siege of Zhangjiakou (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After reading the telegram, Yang Chengwu immediately got up and said: "Comrades, Commander Ma Zheng has now passed Chaigou Fort, which is less than twenty kilometers away from our headquarters. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Ma Zheng and his party were all in cars, so the speed was very fast, and Yang Chengwu and the others only waited outside the headquarters for a short time before they saw Ma Zheng's convoy.

Wenwu has always followed Tie Xinlan's follower, he was a military advisor when Tie Xinlan was a bandit, and later Tie Xinlan participated in the Eighth Road and deliberately followed her as the Eighth Road. Don't look at the current Tie Xinlan and Wenwu are already division-level cadres, but the number of times they meet Ma Zheng is very limited, and the time they get along is very short.

Although they have heard of this legendary general for a long time, and they have been under Ma Zheng for more than three years, there are very few times they have stood together face-to-face like this.

Especially when they saw Ma Zheng's convoy, everyone was surprised. Although Ma Zheng's guard unit only had the strength of a regiment, the luxury of the equipment of this regiment far exceeded the expectations of Wen Wenwu and others.

At the head were fifty side-bucket three-wheeled motorcycles, each with two soldiers and a light machine gun on it. Twenty armored vehicles followed, followed by more than fifty military vehicles, each with more than thirty soldiers standing on it, each with an artillery cannon behind it, and a standard cavalry battalion at the back.

Wen Wenwu and the others believed that this guard regiment alone would be enough to eat all of his recruit division, and it would not take more than an hour.

Accompanied by Yang Chengwu and others, Ma Zheng and others came to the temporary operational headquarters of the Second Route Army.

As soon as the group sat down, Yang Chengwu reported their situation to Ma Zheng, and when he heard that the attack of the troops was not going well, and there were even deserters, Yang Chengwu found that Ma Zheng was obviously very unhappy.

After Yang Chengwu finished his report, Ma Zheng looked around at all the military and political cadres of the Second Route Army, and then said: "The progress of the troops is not going well is also expected by the military region headquarters, because you are not facing an ordinary Japanese army, the 10th Division of the former Japanese army is stationed in Zhangjiakou, and its division commander Ueda Zhiyi is an officer with rich combat experience, so it is normal that the attack did not go well at the beginning." ”

"As for the desertion, it's not a big deal, although it must be brought to our attention, but it is inevitable. You must know that we have formed more than 300,000 new recruits in just seven months, and the vast majority of these recruits have never been on the battlefield, and it is inevitable that they will be a little afraid and frightened when they hear the sound of artillery and their comrades who keep falling to the ground. As for the two cadres who took the lead in escaping, they couldn't just be pulled out and shot, which was not legal. ”

"If you let them go like this, I'm afraid more people will follow suit." Yang Chengwu said worriedly.

"Whoever said that they should be released like this, but no matter how they are handled, they need a legal way and a reasonable explanation, first put the two officers who took the lead in escaping into custody, and when the battle is over, they will be handed over to a military court, and let the law try them. We can't shoot anyone at will, even if he is guilty, except of course traitors and devils, because they are not human beings. Ma Zheng said.

Then Ma Zheng said: "Zhangjiakou is not an ordinary city, in addition to a large number of regular troops stationed here, there are dozens of large and small companies, they are frantically plundering China's coal resources, there are thousands of Japanese expatriates there. Now that the Japanese expatriates are all armed, we can't just treat them as ordinary expatriates this time, and any Japanese can be an enemy with weapons. ”

"Therefore, after the meeting is adjourned for a while, each of you will give an order to the troops, that is, regardless of men, women, children, as long as they do not voluntarily surrender to our army, they will be shot, this is discipline. In addition, attacking the big cities heavily defended by the Japanese army is not as brutal as you, if you are allowed to continue fighting like this, even if we destroy the Japanese army and our own casualties, we will lose the ability to continue the attack. From now on, I will personally take over the command of the front. ”

Then Ma Zheng said loudly: "Order: The 1st Brigade of the 22nd Division will continue to attack the Japanese positions in Majiayao Village and Houjinggou Village, and the military region will allocate you fifty unconscionable guns and enough shells, and my guard regiment will also assist you in the attack." The main force of the reorganized 2nd Division, the 2nd Brigade of the 22nd Division, and the 1st Brigade of the 23rd Division returned to the east and west of Zhangjiakou, and then the whole army surrounded Zhangjiakou City. ”

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The commander of the Datong garrison, Ueda Zhiichi, was definitely an outlier among the Japanese officers, and he was very similar to Yamashita Fumi, who was transferred to serve in the Southern Army, and was quite strategically minded and discerning.

He was not busy attacking outside the country like most Japanese officers, but after capturing Zhangjiakou, he drove Chinese laborers to build Zhangjiakou fortifications for the Japanese army, and also built two strong defensive lines outside Zhangjiakou to prevent the troops of the Suicha Military Region from directly attacking Datong from Zhangbei and Shangyi.

After receiving the order from the Front Command, Lieutenant General Ueda was far more sensitive than ordinary people, and he immediately gave the order to all the defenders of Zhangjiakou to enter the combat state.

Under the order of Ueda Toichi, all field troops were given enough supplies and ammunition for ten days of combat, and even the puppet army was issued with ammunition and supplies needed for three days of operation, and all the mines outside Zhangjiakou were closed in a very short time, and all the miners and prisoners were imprisoned in the dungeons of the city.

Due to the attack on Japanese-funded enterprises in China at the West Lake of the Suicha Military Region, huge losses were caused to the Japanese army. This time, Ueda Toichi decisively transferred all the company's property and personnel to Zhangjiakou City to prevent a sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army.

And all the Japanese expatriates in the city were also armed in a very short time, including women and children. Ueda believed that with these strong fortifications and so many troops, even if Ma Zheng concentrated all his troops in Zhangjiakou, he would not have achieved much success, and even his troops would be greatly damaged.

As Lieutenant General Takagi had predicted, the Eighth Route Army was routed on the first day of the offensive in a matter of time, with hundreds of corpses left on the battlefield alone.

In addition, in the battle of less than two hours yesterday, the Eighth Route Army lost at least 1,000 people, while the Imperial Army only lost less than 300 people, of which less than 100 were actually killed. Ueda was very satisfied with this result, and the performance of the Takagi division was beyond his expectations.

On August 24, the three infantry divisions of the Eighth Route Army attacked the two counties of Zuo Wanquan and Chongli from the east and west, and used the tactics of diverting the tiger from the mountain to break the defenders of the two counties.

Immediately after that, the large army of China attacked Zhangjiakou from the east and west, and the strength of about three infantry divisions directly turned to attack the positions on the east and west sides of Zhangjiakou. In addition, a large number of Eighth Route Army was also found in the direction of Shalingzi and Xuanhua in the south of Zhangjiakou, and the number seems to be as large as an infantry brigade.

At this point, the Eighth Route Army encircled Zhangjiakou from the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and the entire 20,000 regular Japanese troops and 10,000 overseas Chinese and 20,000 imperial troops were directly encircled by at least four Chinese infantry divisions.

These things were all done in a very short period of time, and even Ueda Toichi, a veteran officer who had been in battle, did not have time to react. It wasn't until August 27 that the Eighth Route Army approached the city, and Ueda thought of ordering the two infantry wings of the northern defense line outside Zhangjiakou to retreat quickly.

But unfortunately it was too late, and the Eighth Route Army, which had about three divisions, surrounded these two infantry wings in an area less than 10 kilometers long and wide to attack in turns.