[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 265: Return to Guisui (Ask for subscription!) ）

Ma Zheng stayed in Yan'an for nearly half a month, during which Huang Sicheng returned to Guisui with three regiments of elite escorts carrying the booty, while Ma Zheng waited for the wounded with the remaining troops.

While waiting for the wounded to recuperate, Ma Zheng invited the chairman, Mr. Zhu and others to give five speeches to the officers of the department. First, it is to let these bigwigs talk about the policies of the troops for these officers in their subordinates, and at the same time, it is also to let these officers under their command become familiar with the chairman and others.

At seven o'clock in the morning of September 8, under the send-off of the chairman and others, Ma Zheng left Yan'an with the remaining more than 10,000 troops and headed for the base area.

Since the car was basically taken back by Huang Sicheng and others, Ma Zheng could only take the troops north on foot, walked a full nine days, and finally returned to Jining City.

However, Ma Zheng did not stay in Jining City for a long time, because the headquarters of the base had been moved to Guisui, so he only rested in Jining for one day, and then Ma Zheng led the team to Guisui. At this point, the task of fighting southward in the Suicha base area was finally successfully completed.

Although he had already reported the details of the southward operation to the chairman and others when he was in Yan'an, it was only an oral report after all, and the objects of the report were only limited to a limited number of people such as the chairman and Mr. Zhu.

Therefore, on the second day after returning to Guisui, Ma Zheng sent a report to Yan'an and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and reported the details of the southward operation to the leaders in the form of a written article.

After receiving Ma Zheng's telegram, the Yan'an side immediately responded, and the party Central Committee decided to abolish the Suicha anti-Japanese base area and establish the Suicha Military Region at the same time. The defense area of the military region includes Suiyuan and Chahar provinces, and it has developed to Shanxi, Hebei, and Rehe. It was also planned to establish the 63rd Army as the main force of the Suicha Military Region.

The newly established Suicha Military Region has three military subdivisions under its jurisdiction, namely the Guisui Military Subdistrict, the Jining Military Subdistrict, and the Xinghe Military Subdistrict. It also stipulates that the entire army of the Suicha Military Region shall have under the jurisdiction of a Type B army of two divisions and four brigades, a cavalry group, and some units directly under it. Ma Zheng was appointed commander of the Suicha Military Region and commander of the 63rd Army, and Ma Zheng was ordered to immediately carry out preparations before the reorganization of the troops.

On 10 September, Ma Zheng convened a military meeting at the division and brigade level in Guisui to give a detailed report to the officers who remained in the base area about the southward journey. To introduce some of the newly joined senior officers, the second is to convey the spirit of Yan'an.

The meeting was held in the Guisui General Office, which was originally the office yamen of the Qing Dynasty's Suiyuan General who governed the Naturalization City, Monan Mongolia and the garrison of Datong and Xuanhua and other places. Later, it was occupied by the puppet Mongolian army as a headquarters, and after Yun Jian and others broke through Guisui City, it naturally became the headquarters of the Suicha base area.

The meeting started on time at eight o'clock in the morning, and after training the troops, Ma Zheng took Yun Jian and others to the large conference room of the general's office. By the time he arrived, it was already full, and before he could get closer, he heard the noise of the generals.

Hearing the announcement of the guards outside, the conference room instantly fell silent, and everyone was sitting in a precarious position, waiting for Ma Zheng's arrival.

After Ma Zheng came in, everyone got up at the same time and saluted Ma Zheng.

Suddenly, such a formal move really made Ma Zheng a little uncomfortable, and immediately said after returning the salute: "Sit." Why is it so formal today, like the Kuomintang? ”

Huang Sicheng immediately got up and said: "Didn't you say that our troops should be regularized and modernized. So we consulted Brigade Commander Deer and others to standardize the etiquette system. ”

Ma Zheng smiled and said: "It is good to standardize the etiquette system, but there is no need to copy the Kuomintang, you must know that the biggest feature of our army is the equality of officers and soldiers. That's not good! ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "Don't do this in the future, it's better for us to be before, everyone sits together and talks and laughs, so you don't have to be so restrained." Whether you respect me or not Ma Zheng is not something that can be reflected in this set of false etiquette, right! ”

Wu Xiuda slapped the table heavily. said: "I'll just say, there are so many twists and turns, it's too aggrieved, it's better to be a commander, know how to be considerate of the brothers, hahaha!" ”

Hearing this, everyone also chuckled.

Ma Zheng shook his head and said, "Okay, don't talk about this, there are a few things to talk about when I called everyone over this time." First of all, I would like to report on the results and casualties of the southward operation, first of all, the results of the battle, this time our department carried out five major battles, first of all, on the surface of the Yangtze River, the 11th Squadron of the Japanese Navy Fleet, annihilated more than 1,200 Japanese Navy personnel, and captured more than 30 large and small ships. ”

Later, on the way to Jiujiang, he encountered a Japanese troop transport, and completely annihilated the 47th Wing of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army, sinking six troop transports with more than 4,000 soldiers. In the First Battle of Jiujiang, our army completely annihilated the Japanese Hatian detachment, killed the enemy chieftain Lieutenant General Hatada Shigeichi, and captured more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers. ”

"When recovering Hukou, our army inflicted heavy losses on the 101st Division of the Japanese Army and killed and captured more than 7,000 Japanese soldiers. Subsequently, in the process of fighting for Pengze, our army completely annihilated the remnants of the 101st Division, and severely damaged the enemy's 106th Division, killing and capturing more than 8,000 Japanese puppet soldiers in the whole battle. Finally, in the decisive stage, our army completely annihilated the 106th Division and annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese troops. So far, our army has annihilated more than 30,000 Japanese generals on the Wuhan front, including five generals. ”

"In addition, in this battle, our army rescued more than 18,000 Chinese soldiers captured by the Japanese army, captured more than 60,000 guns of various types, more than 1,300 light and heavy machine guns, more than 500 large and small artillery, more than 40 combat vehicles, half a military flag, and countless other materials."

Speaking of this, Ma Zheng stood up suddenly: "The most important thing is that while fulfilling the sacred mission entrusted by the party and the people, our department has not been wiped out by the enemy, but has developed and strengthened itself. When we went south, our army had a total of more than 7,400 people, but when we came back, there were more than 22,000 people, and it can be said that our army created a miracle in military history in this battle. ”

"Bang Bang !!"

As Ma Zheng's voice fell, the entire conference room burst into warm applause. Although all the officers already knew that the southward army had achieved an unprecedented victory, even Lao Chiang, who had always looked down on the Eighth Route Army, specially awarded the commander a certificate of merit and gave the commander the position of army commander.

But when they really learned the detailed results of this southward journey from the commander's mouth, everyone was still stunned by these gorgeous data, it was too awesome, 7,000 people wiped out the opponent's 30,000 elites and also included a naval fleet, if anyone else learned about it, I'm afraid no one would believe it, this is all fun! However, now it is what Ma Zheng said from his mouth, and they believe it.

Ma Zheng motioned for everyone to be quiet first, and then Ma Zheng said again: "The results of the battle are brilliant and unquestionable. But the casualties of our army were equally heavy, more than half of the more than 7,000 veterans who went south with me from Chahar were killed in the battle, and when they returned, there were less than 4,000 left, including more than 1,800 wounded, many of them could not return to the battlefield even after they were wounded, they were all in their twenties and a half years old, but it was a pity! ”

In addition, the former Kuomintang troops that were absorbed by our army this time also suffered heavy losses, with a total of more than 7,000 casualties in various departments, and according to the statistics of the two phases, our army suffered more than 17,000 casualties on its trip to the south, of which more than 10,500 were killed in battle, more than 7,000 were wounded, and more than 3,000 were healed, and now there are more than 4,000 wounded who have not recovered. Therefore, although our army has achieved unprecedented results, the casualties have also set a record for the Eighth Route Army. ”

Hearing such heavy casualties, everyone felt as if someone had poured a basin of cold water on their heads at the happiest time, and the warm atmosphere suddenly disappeared, and the entire conference room was silent, and everyone lowered their heads. (To be continued.) )

PS: PS: Dizzy, I thought it was automatically updated, but I forgot to set the update time, oolong!