[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 739: Mutual Calculation (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After such a long confrontation, Lieutenant General Tada Jun also knew that both the Eighth Route Army and Ma Zheng's headquarters had a powerful intelligence network, and many times it was not that the front army's eyeliner was not effective, nor that their troops were not effective in combat, but that they lost in intelligence. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

So this time all the actions of the Japanese army were secret, not to mention the division commanders such as Abe Norihide, even old fritters such as Yoshio Shinozuka and Iida Sadagu didn't know what Tada Jun was doing.

At 7 o'clock in the evening of 24 January, the two most combat-effective field wings of the 20th Division and the 109th Division of the Japanese Army, after reinforcing their firepower, and with the cooperation of the Hattori Special Operations Team and the Mashiko Advance Team, attacked Dai County, where Ma Zheng himself was located, according to the predetermined plan, and the First Wing of the 1st Brigade of the Airborne Forces had already set off from Baoding Airport and flew to Dai County an hour earlier.

At the same time, more than 5,000 cavalry members composed of the cavalry wing of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, the cavalry wing of the 110th Division, and the second cavalry group of the Imperial Cooperative Army also set out from the front line of Qian'an to raid Chengde.

In fact, at this time, Liu Fengchi had already completed the layout of the Japanese army, and at the first time when the Japanese cavalry troops attacked, Liu Fengchi had already received a secret report from an informant, after all, Liu Fengchi had a single high position in Qi Xieyuan's puppet North China Security Army, and there were some protégés and former officials.

After receiving the secret report, Liu Fengchi immediately ordered a tank regiment of Shi Dingfang's armored division and Ma Desheng's headquarters, which had already arrived in Genan, to take action and set up an ambush at Majiaping, thirty miles west of Kuancheng, to encircle and annihilate the thousands of cavalry of the Japanese army. And he continued to act as a decoy in Qian'an, confusing the first division of the Japanese army and other units.

In order to achieve the effect of concealing people's eyes, Liu Fengchi ordered all regular troops, guerrillas, and local militias west of Qian'an and east of Kuancheng to withdraw, leaving only a few small troops to retreat after a slight resistance.

Moreover, Liu Fengchi also expected that the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou would definitely be unwilling to be lonely and want to intervene, after all, there were still tens of thousands of people in Zhangjiakou under Yang Chengwu's department, and the Japanese army would definitely let the troops carry out a diversion attack in order to avoid Yang Chengwu's troops from reinforcing Chengde. Therefore, he informed the reorganization of the second division early, so that they did not need to reinforce Chengde.

But whether it was Liu Fengchi in Jidong or Ma Zheng in Daixian, or Yang Chengwu in Zhangjiakou, they didn't expect that when they were confusing the Japanese, they were also confusing them, and Tada Jun's main goal this time was to kill Ma Zheng, the number one rival!

Lieutenant Shigeo Mashiko was particularly pleased tonight, for this was the first time he and his advance team had taken part in such an important combat mission. Before leaving, Commander Yoshio Shinozuka specially told him that the Ma Zheng Department also had a special operations force with amazing combat effectiveness, and at least ten officers at the general level of the empire had fallen into the hands of the special operations team of the Ma Zheng Department.

Although his Mashiko Advance Team has been established for a long time, and each soldier is an elite carefully selected from the entire North China Front, after all, their achievements are limited, so they are required to cooperate with the Hattori Special Operations Team.

However, in Mashiko Shigeo's opinion, his Mashiko Advance Team is already the most elite unit in the world, and in order to train this force, he has killed many Zhina, and even infiltrated Ma Zheng's defense area in China a month ago to assassinate several county magistrates in China, and also terminated a regimental headquarters under Ma Zheng's department.

Although the Hattori special combat team is strong, it lost troops in the process of fighting with the Chinese special combat team, so it can't really be recognized by him and his team. However, in order to complete the mission, Shigeo Mashiko decided to reluctantly cooperate with the group of special operations teams dressed in fancy clothes and strange appearances.

Shigeo Mashiko is proud of his capital, he graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and was also a professional soldier who participated in the "Manchurian Incident" (9.18 Incident). More importantly, at the time of the Battle of the Central Plains, he and Xuanfuguan, as advisers, entered the frontline and surrendered more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Sixth Advance Column of the Central Army of the Nationalist Government Army and the First Division of the 27th Army.

Therefore, many generals in the Japanese army base camp admired him very much as a small lieutenant, and even His Excellency Tojo, the Minister of Land, called him a "brave", "extremely resourceful", and "courageous" man. Later, because of his merits, Mashiko Shigeo was transferred to the staff of the 36th Division of the Japanese Army. He received the commendation of the commander of the First Army, and also received the Golden Bird Medal.

Don't underestimate this Golden Bird Medal, it is an extremely important medal in the Japanese army, and it is difficult for ordinary people to obtain. The Golden Bird Medal was established on February 11, 1890, and is divided into seven ranks, from "Meritorious Rank 1" to "Meritorious Rank 7", which is a medal expressed by meritorious rank. Unlike the rank of the Ruibao Medal or other medals, which is conditional on officials or civilians who have obtained a certain number of years of service, the Golden Medal is only awarded to soldiers with military merits, and lieutenant generals and imperial soldiers will not be awarded if they have no military merits.

Even if you receive a first-class or second-class medal such as the Rising Sun Medal or the Ruibao Medal as a general and a commander, it may only be a soldier of the fifth or fourth rank for the Golden Bird Medal. In addition, those who receive the merit level 1 to the 7th grade receive an annuity payment of 900 yen to 65 yen. In the early days of the Showa era, the monthly salary of a private at that time was only 8 yen and 80 yen, so it was quite high, which shows that Mashiko Shigeo's qualifications are definitely extraordinary.

The Mashiko Advance Team is a special force programmed in the name of Shigeo Mashiko, or a professional destructive force, which is not a special combat team in terms of professionalism, but in terms of destructiveness, it far surpasses any special combat team in the history of the Japanese army.

In order to deal with the extremely "cunning" Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army decided to conduct a-for-tat special operation, using a small unit to carry out a decapitation operation in a ninja-like manner, and directly attacked the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

According to the order of the Japanese North China Front, the 223rd Infantry Wing of the 36th Division of the Army selected a capable infantry squadron to form a standing team, and Lieutenant Shigeo Mashiko, who graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and participated in the Manchurian Incident, and his 3rd Infantry Squadron, who had rich experience, courage and meticulousness, were honorably selected.

The main force of the Mashiko Advance Team was the 9th Squadron of the 223rd Wing of the 36th Division, with 4 commanders and 102 soldiers including Captain Mashiko Shigeo, and 18 Chinese spies and interpreters led by Commander Cao of the Amamiya Military Police, with a total of 124 people. It is equipped with sophisticated weapons such as heavy machine guns, heavy grenadiers, and small wireless communication machines.

The main target of the Mashiko Advance was the Eighth Route Army, and even if the Japanese army began to attack, the Eighth Route Army was able to skillfully evade, hide supplies, and move to safety, and through such maneuvers, the Eighth Route Army grew stronger. Realizing that the existing methods of warfare had little effect, the Japanese army demanded that all units update their tactics in order to completely eliminate and eradicate their forces.

To this end, the 36th Division of the Japanese Army, which was the main force of the purge operation, formed two special advance teams, which were led by Lieutenant Mashiko Shigeo, squadron leader of the 223rd Wing, and Lieutenant Momoyoshi Okawa, squadron leader of the 224th Wing.

The Japanese troops of these two squadrons were all disguised and put on the costumes of the Eighth Route Army, and before their large units launched operations, they secretly entered the anti-Japanese base areas from weakly guarded places at night, and aimed at reconnoitring and reporting on the location of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the location of the quartermasters, the assassination of the head of the Eighth Route Army, and the disrupting of the central command organs of the Eighth Route Army.

In particular, I want to talk about the Mashiko Advance Team, because the losses caused by the Mashiko Advance Team to the Eighth Route Army were particularly heavy. In each battle, the unit was lightly armed, each carrying only four days' rations and a rifle equipped with 120 rounds of ammunition, in addition to some machine guns, flares, smoke bombs, etc., and each infantry carried two grenades and raincoats.

In order to maintain secrecy, the marching formation of the Mashiko Advance Team was led by Chinese guides, followed by members of the Sun Special Service Task Force, Zhang Yi, Commander of the advance team Amamiya Cao, Squadron Leader Mashiko, and combat troops. The advance party was usually led by Chinese guides at night, marched against very detailed military maps, approached the destinations, camped in the more secluded ravines, ate dry rations, and began to organize the march before night if they wanted to move.

When they received the order to move, they began to infiltrate the vicinity of the villages, carrying out surprise attacks and taking advantage of the opportunity to kill, arrest, steal documents, set fires and carry out surprise attacks, fire flares, burn smoke agents, burn the national flag and military flags, or shout loudly to cause chaos in the vicinity of the command organs of the anti-Japanese troops, so as to achieve their objectives and complete their tasks. (To be continued.) )