Chapter 206: Recovering and Returning to Sui (Third Update!! ）

It was only on the morning of July 29 that Ma Zheng learned that Ma Desheng's cavalry group had won three battles and three victories, completely erasing the invincible Japanese cavalry group from the battle sequence of the Mongolian army, and even one of its supreme commanders, Lieutenant General Naito, was blown into pulp in Huxiao Gorge.

Although Ma Desheng regretted that the department could not capture one of Naito's lives and let him go to be with Takamori Koichi, Ma Zheng did not bother about it. He knew that even if one of Naito was not killed in this battle, he would die on the front line next year. According to historical records, Naito will succeed Watahisao, who died of illness, as commander of the 11th Division in early 39.

On November 25 of the same year, Naito Shoichi braved heavy snow to organize a troop exercise, and during the impact, he fell into a trench dug by the Japanese army, was seriously wounded, and suffered from freezing, and died on the 28th. Compared with falling to death in exercises, the real death on the battlefield is obviously more in line with his identity as a general.

The cavalry group completely annihilated one of Naito's troops in one day and one night, such a record exceeded Ma Zheng's expectations, but it is not difficult to understand. Although the total strength of the Japanese puppet army is more than 13,000 people, the real Japanese army is only more than 5,000 people, and the rest are all puppet troops. The puppet army is just that, and they are all puppet armies that have just been formed, take the third cavalry division of the puppet Mongolian army, which was formed at the latest, for example, its formation time is only 22 days.

Besides, almost all of the soldiers of these puppet armies came from the captured troops on the Chinese battlefield, especially the local warlord forces. These people themselves were not very good, coupled with greed for life and fear of death, and finally succumbed to the bayonets of the Japanese army. According to the normal trajectory, the Japanese army had to train these people for at least half a year before they could really take them to the battlefield.

But due to the urgency of time, these puppet soldiers had just escaped their captive status and let them turn their guns to kill the Chinese, which made many people feel painful. In addition, the Japanese army burned, killed and looted along the way, which made these puppet soldiers very uncomfortable. is also very angry, and as a result, he seems to have no fighting spirit when facing Ma Desheng's department, and there is almost no suspense when the whole army is annihilated.

The Japanese cavalry group was completely annihilated, and a gap suddenly appeared in the Japanese army's ironclad encirclement of the Suicha base area! What's more, one of Naito's subordinates was annihilated, and the Suiyuan Provincial Government became an empty city. Zhou Lieyang's two regiments can completely take this holy city in the hearts of the Mongols.

And Guisui is not very far from Baotou, as long as Guisui is taken, the infantry of the brigade in Baotou City will become a lone army, as long as Ma Zheng is willing, he can send troops to eat this infantry brigade at any time. It can be said that this battle can definitely trigger a chain reaction, depending on how the Japanese army responds, whether to continue fighting or withdraw immediately.

Obviously, Ma Zheng still underestimated Harem Chun's determination to exterminate the Duqi Division, and after the cavalry group of one of Naito lost contact, Harem Chun was shocked but did not order the rest of the three-way army to retreat. Instead, they continued to increase their troops to the front line, trying to break through Jining City in one go.

Harem Chun is also an understanding person, and the cavalry group is likely to be more than lucky, so the next step will definitely not let go of Guisui. Zhuozi Mountain is only less than ninety kilometers away from Guisui, and it can be reached in three and a half hours if the war horse runs, and the closest unit to Guisui is the second garrison brigade in Baotou, but this army cannot be used, after all, Baotou is an important town in Suixi. The geographical location is not worse than that of Guisui, and the impact of losing Baotou and Losing Guisui is actually the same.

In addition, the nearest unit is the 26th Division stationed in Datong Abe Norihide. However, because the Eighth Route Army occupied Jining and cut off the main road from Datong to Guisui, if you want to increase your troops and return to Sui, you can only take the Qingshui River and the small road from Helinger to Guisui, which is more than 100 kilometers more than taking the main road, not to mention, it is still rugged and difficult to travel, and it will not be possible to reach it in a day or two. Far water can't quench your thirst!

Therefore, the only way now is to continue to put pressure on the defense area of the Chinese people, so that they have no time to attack Guisui, which is the only way to solve the crisis in Guisui.

Because of this, on the morning of the 29th, Lieutenant General Juni Gohara ordered Naoji Sakai, Jiro Sugawara, and Shigetoku Kuroda at the front to speed up the march at all costs. It is necessary to crush the defenders of Zhina before the soldiers return to Suicheng, and join the army under Jining City.

And in these three-way army, Kuroda Shigetoku's department was pinned on by Harem Jun. First, Kuroda Shigetoku's headquarters is the closest to Jining, and it is only 100 kilometers after a full battle, and if the road goes well, the mechanized troops will be able to reach it in less than a day. In addition, Kuroda's division concentrated almost all the armored forces of the front army and had extremely strong assault capabilities, while the Shina army did not have anti-armor forces, so they had the best hope of breaking through the blockade along the way.

However, in fact, it was difficult for the army to move an inch on all three routes, and all the units in the Suicha base area mobilized more than 200,000 people to clear the fields and damage the roads throughout the base area, and almost all the roads that the Japanese army needed to pass were completely destroyed.

Not to mention that along the way, they also had to face the cold guns and cold artillery attacks of the Eighth Route Army and the blockade of machine gun positions, so these three armies did not change their state of turtle speed because of Harem Chun's orders.

On the 29th, the Japanese army marched an average of 15 kilometers on the whole day, and at ten o'clock in the morning of this day, Zhou Lieyang led two cavalry regiments to seize Guisui, the capital of Suiyuan Province.

But in any case, Guisui was recovered, which was also the second provincial capital city recovered by the Chinese after Zhangjiakou, and when the news reached Wuhan, the national government was greatly shaken and immediately ordered the Central News Agency to carry out vigorous propaganda.

Although this great victory was won by Ma Zheng's troops left in Chanan, and it had little to do with the Nationalist Government, if it had been a few months ago, the Nationalist Government would never have publicized this matter, and would even try to cover up the "truth" by all means. But now it is different, China and Japan are fighting bloody battles on the outskirts of Wuhan, and there is news that the Japanese 27th Division, the 9th Division and other reinforcements have arrived on the periphery of the battlefield, and it is conceivable that it will not be long before the war breaks out again.

Therefore, now the Nationalist Government needs to use all its resources to raise and stimulate the morale of the front-line troops and the people in the rear, and the good news is undoubtedly the most convincing thing, so the Nationalist Government will spare no effort to carry out propaganda.

Early in the morning of the 30th, the people of Wuhan learned that the Eighth Route Army had won another great victory in the north, annihilating more than 13,000 Japanese puppet troops, killing a Japanese lieutenant general, and recovering Guisui, the capital of Suiyuan Province, which had been occupied by the enemy for ten months.

Suddenly, Wuhan turned into a sea of joy here, and people took to the streets one after another to express their joy and support for the government, and there were even long queues in front of the recruiting stations of various military units in Wuhan, and many young and middle-aged people wanted to go to the front line to kill devils.

Under such circumstances, whether it was Okamura Ningji on the front line of Wuhan or Chahar's harem Chun, they all felt pressure, you must know that they are now besieging Ma Zheng's department by two heavy army groups, which are far stronger than Ma Zheng's department in terms of strength and firepower, but the result is a mess.

The Wuhan front line was annihilated by a brigade and a division disabled, and a naval fleet was also boarded, which can be described as heavy losses. The Mongolian army in the north lost more than 13,000 people and sent a provincial capital, and the defeat was as miserable as it was, and the base camp would not accept such a result under any circumstances.

Okamura Ninji and Harem Jun were inevitably reprimanded by the base camp, and their tone was extremely harsh, and the base camp demanded that they immediately find a way to make up for the negative impact of this incident and correct the name of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Great Japanese Empire.

After receiving the order from the base camp, Okamura Ninji and Harem Jun did not dare to slack off, and immediately took action, ready to use practical actions to redeem the damaged reputation.

At noon on the 30th, Harem Chun came to Datong by special car, and he wanted to personally supervise the battle here. At the same time, Okamura Ninji also held a military meeting at the level of division commanders in Anqing to discuss the next battle plan. (To be continued.) )

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