[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 765: Battle Break (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The attack on Baoding was very smooth, although the fortifications of Baoding were also very complete, and even the ancient city walls were protected, and the garrison had a lot of troops, so it stands to reason that it could hold on for a period of time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But isn't there a saying that the strongest bastions often break through from the inside, and this statement is not wrong at all. As the capital city of Hebei Province and the closest big city to the Suicha Military Region Defense Zone, the intelligence personnel of Ma Zheng's department have long carried out a large-scale infiltration into Baoding and its surrounding areas, and many intelligence elites of the Suicha Military Region are lurking inside and outside the city.

After receiving Ma Zheng's order, the intelligence organs lurking in Baoding, in accordance with Ma Zheng's instructions, contacted the "Anti-Japanese Hoe Gang" organized on the periphery of the military command overnight, and together with the intelligence department of Ma Zheng's department, they cooperated with the troops outside the city to fight.

At the first time when Ma Desheng's troops attacked the city, more than 300 elite agents under Xu Yinghui's intelligence department quickly occupied important strongholds such as Baoding Railway Station, while more than 100 armed forces of the underground party and more than 400 members of the anti-Japanese hoe gang attacked the north gate of Baoding with Ma Desheng's department, and the north gate of Baoding was lost in less than an hour.

As soon as the city gate was broken, the puppet army in the city was the first to collapse, and a large number of them surrendered to the Eighth Route Army, and the remaining Japanese troops could only fight alone, and were finally annihilated near the garrison headquarters.

At the same time, Ma Desheng ordered his troops to immediately take over all the strategic points in the city, including railway stations, banks, city governments, foreign banks, etc., and more than a dozen trains stopped at Baoding Railway Station became the spoils of Ma Desheng's department.

After occupying Baoding, Ma Desheng immediately contacted the local underground party organization, asking them to immediately organize people to rush to transport materials, in order to thank the hoe gang for their help this time, after obtaining Ma Zheng's consent, Ma Desheng suddenly gave all the equipment of an infantry battalion of the hoe gang.

Ma Desheng's department moved quickly, because the wealth contained in Baoding City was too huge, fortunately, the Japanese army stored a large number of cars in Baoding City, and the cavalry troops were most indispensable for war horses, so the rush to transport supplies was still very smooth.

However, because the Japanese army plundered too many materials, and some of them are really not suitable for transportation, and some of the things captured this time really cannot be taken away, such as the trains and heavy artillery of the Japanese army, etc., so for the materials captured this time, Ma Desheng gave priority to rushing to transport the weapons and equipment with the greatest value, as well as medicines and medical equipment, food and cultural relics were ranked last, and only a part of the gold, silver, jewelry, and silver dollar currency were transported, and the vast majority were left to the local underground party. And under the connection of the underground party, it was directly deposited into the Baoding branch of Citibank in the United States.

On January 29, the 26th Division of the Japanese Army, which followed Ma Desheng's department, finally arrived at the periphery of Baoding, and at this time, Ma Desheng's department had already emptied most of Baoding, and the Eighth Route Army did not have much interest in Baoding, a lonely city, so Ma Zheng ordered all troops on the front line to immediately withdraw to the Suicha Military Region.

Of course, as before, all the things that can be taken with you when you leave, and those that you can't take away are distributed to the citizens, and those that no one wants and are of great military value are blown up.

In addition, all the Japanese expatriates in the city will be taken away, although Ma Zheng will not do anything to them, let alone massacre civilians, but for these accomplices of the invasion of China, Ma Zheng will still not let them stay and enjoy the blessings, besides, in the southern Hebei region, Kimura Hyotaro is still detaining more than 100,000 ordinary people.

And just two days ago, the remnants led by Major General Hirata Masashi were also surrounded by the Eighth Route Army near Lingqiu. This time, Major General Hirata did not order the troops to put up a stubborn resistance, but made a surprising move, he went alone to the headquarters of the 300th Division to negotiate with Ma Zheng, and after Ma Zheng guaranteed the basic conditions for the safety of his subordinates with the honor of a soldier, Major General Hirata Masaju led the remnants of about 8,000 people to surrender to Ma Zheng's headquarters.

Hirata surrendered not because he did not have the courage to fight to the death, but because he knew very well that even if he fought to the end, his army would end up completely annihilated. First, because the Eighth Route Army that surrounded them had tens of thousands of people, and the strength was more than five times that of them, and the difference in strength was too great. The second reason is that they have consumed almost most of the ammunition in these days of fighting, and now the ammunition carried by the soldiers cannot last even half an hour.

Without ammunition, the weapon in your hand is like a burning stick. Let the soldiers with bayonets fight against the Eighth Route Army, armed to the teeth and full of ammunition, even if you think about it with your ass, you know what the outcome will be.

More importantly, the unit under the command of Hirata Masashi was severely damaged by the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army not long ago, and even the brigade commander Numata Shigetoku was also killed. This was a sudden defeat, and the morale of the troops had fallen to a low point. On the other hand, the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side came with victory and high morale, and there was no comparison at all.

Even if a unit that has lost its fighting spirit has the most advanced weapons in the world, its combat effectiveness will not be very strong, and it will still not be able to escape annihilation in the end, so Hirata Masashi can only choose to surrender for the sake of the lives of the eight or nine thousand people under his command.

Ma Zheng still admires Hirata's ability to put down the honor and other ideological baggage of soldiers at this time and think about the soldiers under his command wholeheartedly. At the same time, in order to alleviate the casualties of the Eighth Route Army itself, it agreed to guarantee the safety of the lives of these Japanese soldiers and accept their surrender.

However, it is a pity that Major General Hirata, a Japanese general who can let go of his body, still did not see it thoroughly, and ended his life with a pistol in the barracks after giving the surrender order, which made Ma Zheng feel extremely sorry.

At this point, only the southern Hebei direction was still fighting in North China, which had been inseparable before, and the battles in the eastern Hebei battlefield, the Zhangxuan battlefield, the Pingjin battlefield, and the Shanxi battlefield were basically over.

As for the southern Hebei direction, it was not that the Eighth Route Army did not want to withdraw, but that the old devil of Kimura Hyotaro was biting more than 100,000 people, so Ma Zheng instructed the troops on the front line to fight hard, and if they couldn't beat Shimen, they would hit the places around Shimen, in short, they would rescue the more than 100,000 people.

At the same time, after this period of deliberation, the Central News Agency of the Nationalist Government and the Xinhua News Agency in Yan'an also began to exert their efforts to report the news that the Japanese army wantonly arrested innocent civilians in southern Hebei, resulting in more than 100,000 people being placed around the battlefield under the rumbling artillery fire without the ability to defend themselves, and there was also the danger of being slaughtered by the Japanese army.

Ma Zheng also sent a telegram to Li Lanqing, who was inspecting oil fields in Texas, asking her to find connections in the United States as well, and to publish such a report in major American newspapers to exert pressure on the Japanese Government.

As soon as the news came out, the world was in an uproar, although everyone knew the virtues of the Japanese and had heard of their brutal character, but they never imagined that these bastards could be so cruel to such a point of inhumanity. Therefore, there were constant protests at home and abroad, but the Japanese government was also very irritated, and then the base camp sent a telegram to the North China Front Command, demanding that they must properly handle the matter.

In view of the heavy losses suffered by the Japanese army in this battle and was no longer able to fight, Lieutenant General Tada Jun immediately used this as an excuse to demand a truce between the two sides and conduct high-level negotiations, after all, Ma Zheng also controlled many Japanese expatriates in his hands.

Ma Zheng naturally has no opinion on this, anyway, a transportation hub like Shimen can't be beaten for a while and a half, and the reinforcements of the two divisions of the First Army stationed in Shanxi have already set off from the Xinkou front line and are stationed on the front line of Shouyang and Jingchengguan, and they can reinforce Shimen through the Zhengtai line at any time, so the result of continuing to fight is the same, only to increase casualties.

Besides, now that he also controls a lot of Japanese expatriates, coupled with international pressure, it is expected that Kimura Hyotaro will not dare to slaughter those civilians in the face of the world's condemnation, so Ma Zheng also agreed to negotiate.

Immediately, the units of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei also received Ma Zheng's order to withdraw from the attack on the Shimen area, ending the battle in southern Hebei. At this point, the 24-day anti-sweeping campaign in North China finally came to an end, and the two sides ushered in a short vacation. (To be continued.) )