[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1085: Besiege but Not Attack (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After the operator left, Ma Zheng fell into deep thought, and just received the latest information from the front line, the Japanese First Army almost took the initiative to abandon the peripheral positions in Dezhou, and all the troops retreated into Dezhou City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info also set up some of the artillery directly to the head of the city of Texas, putting on a dead guard.

"Report!" Just when Ma Zheng was thinking hard about what kind of medicine the Japanese army was selling in the gourd, Xu Hu's steady voice sounded outside the door.

"Come in, hehehe, you kid is still playing this game, hurry up and sit down, how is the progress of the troops?" Ma Zheng asked with a smile.

"It's okay, the battlefield on Xiaopingba's side has been cleaned up, and the results have been counted. A lieutenant general, a major general, two big generals, and more than a dozen adjutants, this net did not catch a lot of big fish. ”

"Not bad!" Ma Zheng nodded and said.

"The troops have opened the passage to Texas, and the little devil somehow gave up all the peripheral positions, our army marched very smoothly, but because the enemy situation is unknown, and I can't understand what the little devil is going to do, I didn't dare to let the troops go too fast, and it is expected to reach the city of Texas this afternoon." Xu Hu said.

"Well, you're doing it right, the little devil's schematic diagram is unclear this time, it is said that although an infantry division is important, the loss will not hurt the Japanese army, what does this little devil want to do." Ma Zheng said.

"Not only that, just now I sent a telegram to the troops in the direction of Cangzhou and Nangong, and they said that the Japanese troops in those two directions have also completely reduced their forces, and their intentions are also very unclear."

"What, do you mean that the Japanese are on the defensive on all fronts?" Ma Zheng asked in surprise.

"Yes, I didn't believe it originally, but the intelligence of various intelligence officers on the front line has also been transmitted back through secret channels, and it can already be determined that the little devil is really shrinking, but I don't know what their idea is, we still have to be careful." Xu Hu said.

"I can see a little bit of eyebrows, the little devil Eighth Layer is preparing to do a big thing somewhere, so he doesn't want to have a large-scale battle with our army in North China, even if he suffers a little loss, they will admit it, but where are they going to attack?" Ma Zheng seemed to be talking to Xu Hu, and he was also talking to himself.

Although Ma Zheng has a vague guess about the abnormal behavior of the Japanese army, due to limited intelligence, Ma Zheng can't think of what kind of medicine the Japanese army sells in the gourd for the time being.

However, Ma Zheng knew that the more this happened, the more it showed that the little devils were not small, and the more necessary it was for them to attack.

Therefore, Ma Zheng instructed all the troops on the front line not to let the little devil's temporary strategic concession confuse his eyes, and it is advisable to chase after the poor man, since the little devil's intention is not clear, then he will expose his intentions.

Under Ma Zheng's instructions, the 3rd Route Army of the Saibei Corps did not stop attacking, but attacked more bravely, occupying a large number of towns in northwest Shandong in just 3 days.

Although Dezhou, Leling and other places did not make a breakthrough for the time being due to the heavy defense of the Japanese army, the Ma Zheng Corps still achieved major results in the vast township areas and hilly and mountainous areas.

On April 16, the two infantry divisions of the North Route Army of the Saibei Corps surrounded the 21st Division of the Japanese Army outside the city of Leling, and launched a crazy attack on Leling on the same day.

Although the troops did not charge due to casualties, they still put a lot of pressure on the Japanese army.

At the same time, the other two armies of the Saibei Corps also launched a siege on the two important military towns of Dezhou and Linqing, and Ma Zheng's request was that there was no need to make a major breakthrough immediately, and the troops had time, as long as the strategic intentions of the Japanese army were brought out.

Although the Saibei Corps spared no effort to attack, and the Japanese army was already in an absolute defensive state in the northwest of Shandong, the Japanese army still had no intention of counterattacking, but shrank even more.

Moreover, according to the information sent back by the intelligence officers in the city, it seems that the Japanese army is going to build several key cities such as Dezhou, Leling and Linqing into bunker cities, and now these cities will have Japanese engineering units and ordinary people forcibly recruited by them to build fortifications both day and night, and many old urban areas have been completely transformed into bunker areas. A large number of houses that hindered the shooting of the pillboxes were forcibly demolished, and there was a feeling that there was no way out.

The abnormal behavior of the Japanese army made Ma Zheng even more puzzled, this is not Okamura Ningci's style, who is Okamura Ningci, that is the only god of war in the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War who can make the Eighth Route Army and the Nationalist Government suffer big losses in North China, he will be afraid of the more than 200,000 people in the Saibei Corps?

Obviously impossible, this only shows that the little devil has a big operation, and it is a huge and shocking plan.

Ma Zheng carefully combed it through it, and thought about it, around 43 years, the Japanese army didn't seem to have any big moves. Originally, in 43 years, the Japanese army and the American army launched a protracted battle for Kuah Island, but now the battle is over, and the Japanese army has returned defeated.

If you can't figure it out, Ma Zheng is not discouraged, the Japanese retreat is a good thing for Ma Zheng and the entire Saibei Corps, and it is not necessarily a good thing to force Okamura Ningji and the Saibei Corps to work hard.

Okamura Ninji's level of strategic command is not comparable to that of ordinary Japanese officers, and since Okamura Ninji arrived in Shandong to take charge of the North China Front Army, Ma Zheng has deeply felt tremendous pressure.

Why do you say that, not to mention anything else, the Eighth Route Army in Shandong was extremely active before the arrival of Okamura Ningji, and there were often astonishing moves to fight devils to pull out strongholds, pick up railways and rob trains, and the results continued.

Prior to this, the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were extremely prosperous in the entire southeast of Shandong, and then to Lunan and Luxi, and the traitors and puppet armies of all sizes did not dare to move when they saw the guerrillas. Especially after the reconstruction of the Shandong Military Region, the Japanese puppet army threw away its armor and hugged its head.

However, since Okamura Ningji took office, the Japanese army was not busy dealing with Ma Zheng's subordinates, and even ignored the Nationalist Government, but concentrated its forces to launch a brutal sweep against the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, and even more shamelessly sent special forces to constantly sneak attack the well-known guerrillas.

Under such a large-scale and brutal sweep, not to mention the small group of guerrillas struggling to survive, even the Shandong Military Region under the command of Yun Jian had to temporarily retreat and retreat to the Yimeng Mountains with all its might.

This is how powerful Okamura Ninji is, this old guy is really good at strategic command. Now, after more than half a year of rectification and sweeping, the strength of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Shandong has dropped to a freezing point.

It is precisely because of this that Ma Zheng is forced to make a move, otherwise the entire Shandong will be operated into an iron bucket by Okamura Ningji in one or two years, and it will not be easy to make a move at that time.

Fortunately, Ma Zheng made up his mind to fight Texas this time, otherwise he really didn't find the abnormality of the little devil.

Although I still don't know what the little devil wants to do, at least Ma Zheng has begun to order the whole military region to enter a state of first-level alert, and the villages and towns near Shandong have begun to be consciously merged, and the villagers in the weakly defended areas have even been collectively relocated to the nearby county town to prevent unnecessary losses.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was October 27, and the troops of the Saibei Corps had been fighting in the northwest of Shandong for more than a month. The current situation in northwest Shandong is very complicated, the most powerful has changed from the Japanese puppet army to the Eighth Route Army under Ma Zheng, and the Japanese army has been compressed in several large cities such as Dezhou, Leling and Linqing.

However, out of consideration of casualties, Ma Zheng temporarily ordered the troops not to attack the heavily guarded county town of the Japanese army at will, and only to occupy the vast countryside. This is because according to the experience gained in the previous war, the Japanese army has already deployed heavy troops in all the counties along the railway line from Dezhou to Jinan, and there are ironclad patrols along the line, and it is difficult for the troops to make progress.

Not long ago, the 3rd Brigade and 3rd Regiment of the 4th Division carried out a surprise attack on a Japanese station in Pingyuan County, but was stubbornly resisted by the heavy Japanese troops, and the Japanese army took advantage of the favorable terrain and strong fortifications to inflict huge losses on the 3rd Brigade and 3rd Regiment. With the support of Japanese airplanes and artillery on the ground, the 3rd Brigade and 3rd Regiment had to retreat after a day and a night of fierce attack, and the whole regiment suffered more than a third of casualties, while the Japanese infantry brigade stationed at that station suffered less than 300 casualties.

This incident reminded Yang Chengwu and Ma Zheng that if the Japanese army did not attack, it would not attack, but it did not mean that the Japanese army had reached the point of defeat. On the contrary, the Japanese army is now just retracting their fists, in order to be more powerful when they fight again.

Taking advantage of the strong fortifications and favorable terrain, the Japanese army inflicted at least 10,000 casualties on the Saibei Corps in just one month. Although the losses of the Japanese puppet army were equally huge, almost all the rural towns in the entire northwestern part of Shandong were lost, and the few large cities that remained were also in jeopardy, if the headquarters of the North China Front did not come up with a new countermeasure plan in a short period of time, the loss of the northwestern part of Shandong was almost only a matter of time.

However, this is already the best that the North China Front can do in order to protect the overall situation, and it is already commendable to achieve this level.

Under Ma Zheng's instructions, the Saibei Corps began to only encircle Dezhou and other places, but instead used its heart for the vast rural areas.

Soon, with the support of the troops, all the counties in northwestern Shandong established people's power in a very short period of time, and also formed their own armed forces, and the situation of Shandong's resistance against Japan suddenly changed greatly.