[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 802: Fierce Battle (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Another important reason why Ma Zheng is jealous of Okamura Ningji is that this person knows how to deal with ordinary people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info And the facts have proved that Okamura Ninji is not easy to provoke, whether it is a military discipline purge or a sweep has achieved great results, the purge of military discipline can greatly reduce the Chinese people's hostility towards the Japanese, this is also an extremely vicious means to disintegrate the Chinese anti-Japanese army and people.

Needless to say, the effect of the sweep was to quickly strike at the anti-Japanese forces in the enemy-occupied areas and consolidate the rule of the Japanese puppet army. Ma Zheng believed that with these two measures alone, the Japanese would be able to stabilize the crumbling situation in North China, and once the situation in the occupied areas was stabilized, the Japanese army would begin to expand outward again, turning those non-occupied areas into occupied areas.

However, Ma Zheng also believed that if Okamura Ninji had not been arrogant to the point that no one was in sight, he would not have made provocative moves against the Suicha Military Region at this stage, but once the Japanese army in North China had resolved the internal problems in the occupied areas, then the North China Front Army would definitely start a battle with the Suicha Military Region on an unprecedented scale.

Okamura Ningji's appointment put great pressure on Ma Zheng, but Ma Zheng still recognized the combat effectiveness of the unit under his command, and no matter how the situation in North China changed, Ma Zheng still decided to develop according to the established strategy.

Regarding the current movement of the Japanese army, Ma Zheng had no intention of making a move. As for the two reasons, the first is of course because of the geographical location, although the forces of the Suicha Military Region have penetrated deep into the Hebei region, but after the end of the southern Hebei campaign, almost all the main forces of Ma Zheng's department withdrew to Luxi, even if they want to help, they will not be able to arrive in a while.

Although the Suicha Military Region is training its own airborne troops, to be honest, he feels hung up on the airborne troops of the Suicha Military Region. Not to mention that the number of people is only 500, just to say that these guys have only been trained for less than three months, whether they can land safely is still a question, and sending these people is really a human head for the Japanese.

More importantly, according to the intelligence information transmitted by the intelligence department, what the Japanese army launched this time was nothing more than a brigade and regiment-level sweep, and for the sake of a battle of this scale, it was revealed that the paratroopers of the Suicha Military Region had obviously gained more than they lost.

Moreover, Ma Zheng also believed that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army could deal with this level of sweeping, at this time the strength of the Eighth Route Army was obviously not comparable to the Eighth Route Army in history, the Eighth Route Army was in February 1939 by the Eighth Route Army Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai issued a training order for the whole army plan, the training of troops in stages, each period of 3 months, the first phase from March 1, the training of 31 regiments totaling about 100,000 people.

However, due to the change of history, the strength of the Eighth Route Army at this time was much stronger than that of the Eighth Route Army at the same time in history, taking the Eighth Route Army in Shandong as an example, the Jizhong Military Region alone had 12 integrated regiments, each regiment was full of 2,500 people, and there were also multiple detachments. Because of this, Ma Zheng did not move when the Japanese army launched a sweep.

Of course, Ma Zheng did not wait and see, while waiting for the situation to change, the two divisions of the Suicha Military Region quietly began to assemble to the front line, once the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army showed signs that it could not deal with it, Ma Zheng would take action at the first time.

Yongye Xiu obviously underestimated the strength of the Eighth Route Army, he didn't expect that the Eighth Route Army, which had always been like a mouse, would dare to besiege Nangong County, which was heavily garrisoned by the imperial army, and more importantly, it was also broken by them, which was simply a slap in the face, a naked slap in the face.

As a senior senator of the base camp and the chief of guard of Emperor Hirohito, Nagano Shusei has always felt that he knows the national defense force very well, but this time he was slapped in the face by the groundhog-like Eighth Route Army, which made General Nagano Shusei extremely angry.

Feeling that his authority was being challenged, General Nagano Xiushen ordered the Japanese troops around Nangong to immediately move closer to the periphery of Liaocheng, and at the same time ordered the Japanese troops near Baoding and Dezhou to immediately reinforce the county town of Nangong, while he himself continued to direct the battle on the front line with fifty or sixty senior officers of the observation group.

The sudden fall of Nangong County made the Japanese army on the front line very worried, and the situation of the front-line troops was very clear, if the supplies could not be delivered in time, not to mention the annihilation of the Chinese army in the encirclement, whether they could protect themselves or not was a problem.

Originally, according to the Japanese army's consistent marching principle, any unit that went out to fight had to carry a week's worth of supplies and ammunition. However, in order to achieve a surprise effect this time, Nemoto ordered the troops to carry only three days of supplies for the battle, and now the supply stock has reached below the warning line, and according to the current consumption rate, the little supply in the stock can only last for 20 hours at most.

The food is okay, after all, there are so many Shina villages nearby, and the Imperial Japanese Army can easily raise a large amount of food. But ammunition was a big problem, and the farmers didn't have it in their hands. Without ammunition, fighting a war is just a joke. In desperation, Hiroshi Nemoto had no choice but to ask for help from General Nagano Cultivation.

This problem was also realized by General Nagano Cultivation, and the loss of the logistics base of Nangong had indeed made the Fundamental Bo Department of the lone army extremely passive, and there was a danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Zhina people if it was not done well.

Now there are two roads in front of them, one is that all the Japanese puppet troops immediately break away from the encirclement of the Tuba Road, and then retreat north, or return to Beiping or go east to Dezhou, the other way is that the troops continue to attack, and the front army is to drop ammunition to the root Bosuo department.

Forget about ground transportation, the nearest stronghold is not close to the battlefield, and the surrounding area of the battlefield has been captured by Tubalu, and the risk of land transportation is too great. In addition, the ground transportation time was too long, and there was no other way than to airdrop the Japanese army.

On March 23, the Japanese army gathered more than 30 transport planes to airdrop supplies to the Genbo headquarters on the battlefield, and at the same time, the Japanese army that arrived on the periphery of Nangong engaged in a fierce battle with the Eighth Route Army.

After the Eighth Route Army captured Nangong, it obtained a large amount of weapons and equipment, and this time Division Commander Liu gathered more than 50,000 people at once, so the battle was extremely tragic from the beginning. One side fights for honor and the other fights for survival, and at the beginning of the battle, each side shows its strongest means of attack.

On March 24, under the response of the 386th Brigade, the remnants of the Jinpu Detachment and more than 20,000 civilians finally broke through the encirclement of the Japanese army. However, the headquarters of Gen Bo did not retreat, and the puppet army of more than 10,000 days under the command of Gen Bo came towards Nangong, plus the 32nd Division from the direction of Shimen and the 35th Division from the direction of Dezhou, the Japanese army formed a huge encirclement around Nangong.

Realizing that this was the best opportunity to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army, General Nagano Xiushen hurriedly mobilized a mixed brigade and an artillery brigade from other parts of Shandong to join the battle. As the two sides became more and more courageous, the troops around Nangong also gathered more and more.

As of March 25, at least 80,000 people had gathered on the battlefield near Nangong, and more than 50,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army were defending the city, and more than 30,000 Japanese troops launched attacks again and again under the cover of aircraft and artillery.

This time, General Nagano Xiu was completely blind, he thought that only one mixed brigade would be enough to wipe out the Jinpu detachment of the Eighth Route Army entrenched near Nangong, but now the number of troops used has reached 2 divisions, 2 mixed brigades plus an artillery brigade and still haven't been able to take this unit, not to mention that there are 2 puppet army brigades on the side to help.

The Japanese army had a hard time, and the Eighth Route Army was also not easy. Although they had the advantage in numbers, they were far behind the Japanese in terms of firepower, especially in terms of artillery, when the Japanese artillery brigade joined the battlefield, the pressure on the front line of the Eighth Route Army increased sharply.

Holding out until March 27, after transferring most of the common people, Division Commander Liu ordered the troops to break through to the west. After a hard battle, the Eighth Route Army finally jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army and smoothly transferred to the hinterland of central Hebei. And the Japanese did not pursue, and this somewhat oolong battle ended. (To be continued.) )