[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1088: The Prophecy Comes True (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Liangshui Town is less than eighty miles away from Liaocheng, and it can be reached in two hours by horse. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the remnants of Liangshui Town fled back to Liaocheng, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke ordered the troops to immediately enter the battle state, and all the weapons, ammunition and part of the food and salary were all distributed, and even the puppet army received a Guangyang reward one by one.

However, what Major General Uchida Ginnosuke did not expect was that a large number of Tubalu suddenly appeared under Liaocheng City that night, and the dozen groups of secret posts and two blockade lines he arranged on the periphery of Liaocheng almost did not play any role, and when Tubalu forcibly attacked the outlying positions of Liaocheng, he was alarmed by the brigade commander.

"Report to the brigade commander, the entire outer position of the North Gate is in an emergency, Xiao Yinjiro Nakasa has been martyred, Da Tengjia and Shao Zuo have taken over the position of the supreme commander of the front line, ask for support!"

"Report to the brigade commander that all the fortifications of the West Gate City have been destroyed, the Chinese army has occupied the outer positions, and the 16th Squadron and the 2nd Squadron of the 16th Infantry Brigade and the remnants of the 165th Regiment of the Imperial Alliance Army have withdrawn to the city, and are relying on the city wall to block the enemy and ask for reinforcements."

"Report to the brigade commander, the artillery shelled the position of the East Gate, the defenders suffered heavy losses, the captain of the 17th Infantry Brigade Ichiro Sato Nakasa was seriously wounded, two infantry captains were killed, a large number of soldiers were injured, and reinforcements were urgently needed, otherwise the East Gate will be occupied by the Chinese army..."

"Report to the brigade commander, the south gate is in an emergency, the strength of an infantry regiment in China suddenly launched an attack on the position at the south gate, and all the peripheral positions of the imperial army were occupied by the Chinese troops within half an hour, and now the Chinese troops are storming the city wall, and the Iga Youth Alliance Nakasa requests the brigade commander to give tactical guidance."

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"Kawaguchi, tell me what's going on, why did the Chinese army suddenly appear under Liaocheng City, why didn't those dark sentinels and the blockade line of our army react at all?" At this time, Uchida Ginnosuke's mood was very calm, and he had never been so calm as he was today.

Before, he had always been worried that the main force of Tubalu, especially the Saibei Corps, would suddenly appear in front of him, so he was worried every day, and his mood was also abnormal. But when Tu Balu really appeared in front of him, he was really not in a hurry at all, but a little happy and calm.

Uchida Ginnosuke knew that this was Ma Zheng's department, which had left a deep shadow in his heart, and if he couldn't completely defeat Ma Zheng's department once in the front, he wouldn't want to achieve anything in his life. Because there will always be an invincible mythical army in his heart, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke hopes that this time he can completely defeat the Shina army under Liaocheng Castle to relieve the shackles in his heart.

After hearing Major General Uchida's questioning, the chief of staff of the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, Kawaguchi Keiyasu Osa, said: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, I am afraid that the people of Shina have come this time with the intention of completely annihilating our army, so it is impossible for them to let us find out before the attack, and I dare to guarantee that they must have dispatched some mysterious special forces." ”

"How so?"

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, no matter how powerful the combat effectiveness of the ordinary Chinese army is, it is impossible to quietly clear out more than a dozen groups of secret posts of our army. And from the layout of the Zhina people, we can see that the Zhina people are really here this time. According to the usual practice, if the Tuba Road is not sure, it will set up an encirclement of three and one, and then break the hearts of our army, so that our soldiers can escape from that seemingly open place. ”

Then Kawaguchi Daisa said with a slight tremble: "But now the Shina people are full of troops at the four gates, and they have also dispatched artillery that is precious to the Shina troops, which shows that the Shina people have confidence and determination to destroy us." Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, I think that all the Imperial Army can do at the moment is to immediately withdraw the troops outside the city into the city, and immediately ask His Excellency the Commander for operational guidance. ”

"Yo Xi!"

In Major General Uchida's view, I'm afraid that Tsuchihachi will not give up today, but this is also his chance to be ashamed.

Major General Uchida Ginnosuke did not think that the defeat of Ma Zheng's troops was to destroy how many of their troops, but that it could destroy their combat intentions at a small cost, resulting in the inability to achieve their strategic goals, which was also called a military victory.

Now the ultimate goal of Tubalu must be to occupy Liaocheng, and use it as a springboard to echo other troops in northwest Shandong. Therefore, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke ordered all the troops outside the city to immediately withdraw into the city, and all the troops in the city were immediately sent to the four city gates for reinforcements.

Of course, Uchida Ginnosuke couldn't forget to ask the front army headquarters for help, after all, the entire independent mixed 15th brigade only had four infantry brigades, and these four infantry brigades had less than 2,000 people stationed in Liaocheng, and the rest were scattered in various county towns, so reinforcements had to be requested.

After a night of fighting, the 3rd Independent Division and the 1st Brigade directly attacked Liaocheng City with the cooperation of the divisional artillery regiment and cavalry units, and directly surrounded the 5th Brigade and the 28th Division of the puppet army in Liaocheng, and achieved good results.

There were more than 700 corpses left by the Japanese army outside the city at night, and the number of puppet troops was even more, but unfortunately Liaocheng was still not taken.

However, this result was still exciting, and the independent mixed 5th Brigade was defeated by the troops in the city, which was very satisfactory and in line with the battle plan specified by the command before the war.

Just now, the intelligence officers came to report that the frequency of telegram exchanges between Jinan and Liaocheng this morning has increased a lot, and at the same time, the Japanese troops in Heze and Jining have suddenly become violent, and the troops stationed in the surrounding counties and districts of Heze have been quickly assembled, and it seems that they want to go north to reinforce Liaocheng, and the effect of this battle is surprisingly good.

As Ma Zheng expected, Okamura Ninji immediately talked to Shinozuka Yoshio on the front line after receiving a telegram from Major General Uchida Ginnosuke, and finally the two of them decided to order Heze's 59th Division to immediately dispatch two infantry brigades, an artillery brigade and a puppet infantry brigade north to reinforce the Liaocheng defenders; At the same time, the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Jining transferred an infantry wing and an infantry brigade of the puppet army north to Liaocheng.

The actions of the Japanese army have long been watched by Ma Zheng, who has been planning for a long time, and after receiving the news from the intelligence officers in southwest Lu, Ma Zheng was overjoyed but did not dare to be careless. Now the Japanese troops on these two roads have just been dispatched, and if there is any trouble, it is likely to retreat back to Heze and Jining again.

Therefore, Ma Zheng ordered Liu Fengchi's two armies not to act rashly and continue to lurk and wait. The other units of the Saibei Corps were desperately trying to create trouble in northwest Lu, constantly attacking the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army, and even began to try to attack the few remaining big cities in northwest Lu that were controlled by the Japanese puppet army.

In the past few days, in addition to Liaocheng, Dezhou and several nearby counties and cities have been attacked, which only provoked a few senior officers of the North China Front Army to be furious.

The summer of 1943 was definitely an unusual summer for the Allies, and not long after Ma Zheng predicted that the Allies were about to usher in a strategic turn, good news came from the North African battlefield. At the beginning of the year, the Allies took advantage of the weakness of the German army and decided to advance quickly into Tunisia.

By early March, the Eighth Army, advancing westward along the coast of North Africa, had reached the Tunisian border. Rommel and von Arnim found themselves on two sides of the Allied attack, surrounded from the flanks by an opponent superior in weapons and numbers.

Subsequently, the Eighth Army detoured to the Axis Marres Line, while in mid-April the First Army launched a major offensive in central Tunisia to squeeze the Axis forces until their resistance in Africa collapsed. axis

On 13 May, the Axis forces were completely routed and surrendered to the Allies, taking more than 275,000 prisoners in the battle. Although a large percentage of Axis forces fled Tunisia, the huge losses of these experienced troops greatly reduced the military capabilities of the Axis powers.

When the news came, the world was shocked, and while Eisenhower became a big hero in the world's attention, people couldn't help but think of the prophecy of an oriental general, and the name Ma Zheng was once again concerned by military and political bigwigs from all over the world.