Chapter 44: The Nameless Mountain Road
The predecessor of the 26th Division was the 11th Brigade of the Kwantung Army, which was the most elite strategic force of the Japanese Army, so the combat effectiveness of the 26th Division, which was formed on this basis, was also extremely strong. After hearing the sound of the explosion, the well-trained soldiers were only slightly stunned for a moment and immediately began to fight back.
The car responsible for transporting the soldiers immediately braked suddenly, and the ghost soldiers jumped out of the car one after another. Look for cover and start shooting. The light machine guns mounted on the cars also began to turn their muzzles and suppress the fire on the slopes on both sides.
It's a pity that Ma Zheng, the prey who fell into the trap, would not let go, their fate was already doomed from the moment they fell into the trap.
10,000 grenades exploded at once, which can be regarded as a big deal at any time. I saw that the Japanese army couldn't even find a place to hide, and the violent explosion threw cars, guns, and even the corpses of Japanese soldiers into the air together, and the sound of gunshots, explosions, shouts of killing, dying screams, and wounded ** sounded on the battlefield, and played a war waltz, but this song was the same as the Japanese army's military song, and the smell of death and blood was too strong.........
Basically, all the cars burned and caught fire at the first moment of the explosion, and the devils who jumped out of the car tried to seize the hillside and establish a position, but there were mines everywhere, and the sound of explosions was accompanied by screams, undulating non-stop. Half of the devil's arms and legs flew in the air, how miserable it would be.
Ma Zheng's intention was obvious, that is, to take advantage of the Japanese army's eagerness to quickly reinforce and completely eliminate the devils of these two brigades with steel bullets.
Although the first wave of grenade strikes failed to completely destroy the devils, they almost wiped out the devils' armored forces, and only two of the fifty or sixty tanks and armored vehicles were left to fight back, and the surviving Japanese soldiers surrounded the two tanks and used them as cover to return fire.
In addition to these, more than half of the soldiers were killed or wounded, and less than 1,000 people survived and fought at the fighting capacity.
The commander of the 11th Wing, Sadao Chida, was already cool and cool in his heart, and he knew that he had fallen into a well-arranged trap. Looking at the posture, ambushing yourself is definitely the main force of the main force of the Chinese army, the elite of the elite. It should be the most elite Central Army under the command of the Chiang government. In his experience, judging by the amount of automatic fire of the enemy, the strength should be 2 integrated divisions.
Sadao Chida hurriedly asked the adjutant next to him to send a report to the division headquarters asking for help, which was his only hope. The adjutant searched left and right, only to find that the communicator and the radio had already been blown into a pile of flesh and blood.
Seeing that there was no hope for help, Sadao Chida did not dare to delay a little, and immediately got up to collect troops to organize a counterattack. Finally gathered more than 500 people, Chida Sadao Daisa immediately ordered these people to rush to the hilltop position where the anti-Japanese detachment in southern Chanan was located.
It should be said that Chida Sada's disposition is correct, as long as one place is breached, then the ambush circle will be useless, and the surrounded troops will be able to break out of the encirclement. It's a pity that the opponent he met was Ma Zheng, a military genius from later generations, how could the wisdom and ability of a great Zuo be compared to the fighting philosophy of later generations for decades.
What's more, Ma Zheng's troops are not only several times more than the strength of the Japanese army, even if they are slightly inferior in tactical literacy and will to fight, but they are by no means able to compete with these lost dogs in the encirclement.
What's more, in terms of weapons and ammunition, Ma Zheng was only stronger than the Japanese army. Both sides now have no heavy weapons, but Ma Zheng has an absolute advantage in automatic firepower, and with the favorable terrain, the possibility of Chita's division successfully breaking through is very small.
Before the more than 500 Japanese troops who rushed up the hill could rush up the hill, they were hit down by hundreds of machine guns, suffering heavy casualties.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Ma Zheng ordered the trumpeter to blow the trumpet. The Japanese thought that the Eighth Route Army was going to fight with them with bayonets, and they rushed towards the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in groups of three or five with bayonets, but they were greeted not by steel guns and bayonets, but by machine guns spraying steel flames.
The soldiers with plenty of ammunition greeted the stubborn Japanese soldiers with bullets and grenades, and Ma Zheng would not let the soldiers give up shooting to fight the enemy in order to save bullets, not to mention that he did not have that time.
Soon, the resistance of the Japanese army became weaker and weaker, and after ten minutes the gunfire on the battlefield stopped. Except for the occasional sporadic gunfire, the whole battle was basically over.
After a while, the excited cheers of the soldiers came from the battlefield. Even Ma Zheng, who has always been at the top of Mount Tai and his face has not changed, couldn't help but say excitedly: "Win!" Win! Win! ”
At the end of the battle in two and a half hours, Ma Zheng was very satisfied with the annihilation of an infantry wing and a cavalry wing of the Japanese army. Overjoyed, Ma Zheng strictly ordered the troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, it was already more than three o'clock in the morning, less than four and a half hours before dawn, and the troops must immediately and quickly evacuate, otherwise the Japanese planes would definitely come after dawn.
At five o'clock in the morning, Ma Zheng, Huang Sicheng and others met in Tianzhen City.
As soon as they met, Huang Sicheng reported to Ma Zheng about the seizure, and the weapons and ammunition were more than 40 from the truck. Although mainly ammunition, it was also equipped enough to arm a reinforced regiment.
In addition, large quantities of grain and cotton clothing were seized, as well as silver dollars and other valuables. Fortunately, Tianzhen is the logistics transit point of this war, and there are many cars in it, otherwise it really can't be transported.
However, Ma Zheng's task of asking Huang Sicheng to find the underground organization was not completed, mainly because now the county seat of Tianzhen is basically a barracks, and there are not many ordinary people in the city at all. According to the results of their investigation, after the Japanese army captured Tianzhen, in order to retaliate for the stubborn resistance of Li Fuying's subordinates, they actually slaughtered the city inhumanely, and as a result, the surviving people in the city were almost killed.
As for how to deal with these materials, Ma Zheng thought about it, and it was definitely not possible to bring them, mainly because they had to evade the detection of Japanese planes, and they basically had to hide in the ravines and ravines during the day, and it was not very suitable to bring these cars at all.
Fortunately, it is not very far from Xinghe, and there is a road along the way, so after thinking about it, Ma Zheng decided to ask Huang Sicheng to immediately bring people to escort these materials back to Xinghe.
If the speed is fast, it will take more than three hours to return to Xinghe by car, and the supplies should be safely transported to Daqingshan before dawn.
However, for the sake of safety, Ma Zheng still asked the operator to send troops down the mountain to pick up Huang Sicheng and others immediately to Wang Hansen on Daqing Mountain.
After doing this, Ma Zheng led the remaining troops and some weapons and equipment to the south overnight. However, before leaving, Ma Zheng sent people to blow up all the railways and bridges leading to the county seat of Tianzhen, so as not to let the Japanese train enter the county seat as soon as they left the front foot.
Although Tianzhen County is also a strategic point that can be defended, Ma Zheng knows that with the little force in his hands, it is better not to fight the Japanese army. Once surrounded by the main force of the Japanese army in Tianzhen County, it will really be impossible to escape.
Besides, now Tianzhen is already an empty city, as long as the traffic to Tianzhen is completely destroyed, there will be no strategic value here, and there will basically be no impact on the overall situation in a short period of time, and it is actually the same whether to keep it or not.
Moreover, the order he received was to break through the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and although Tianzhen was the logistics base of the Japanese army, it was in the rear after all, and there was still some distance from the front line, so Ma Zheng had to tear a hole in the encirclement of the Japanese army for them before the organs and troops of the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region broke through.