[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 992: Yan Junliu who is in a hurry (ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

When the news of the destruction of Zhangjiakou reached Nanjing, General Yan Jun was shocked and immediately convened an emergency military meeting to ask the General Staff to immediately formulate a rescue plan. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the staff of the Japanese army was a mess, they still burst out with amazing potential in this situation, and in just 2 hours they worked out a rescue plan.

According to this plan, a force of reinforcements with a total strength of three divisions and one mixed brigade led by Lieutenant General Anan Weiji, commander of the 11th Army, immediately set out from Wuhan and went straight to the southern Hebei battlefield through Henan.

However, this time, because Yan Xishan and General Wei Lihuang were contributing, Lao Jiang was also a rare wise time, and he saw the opportunity and ordered Xue Yue's First Corps to immediately send troops to Henan, and it was necessary to intercept Anan's only few troops in the defense area of the first theater, and absolutely not let these more than 60,000 Japanese elites enter the southern Hebei or Shanxi battlefield.

After receiving the information from Xu Xiaolin's intelligence department, Ma Zheng learned that about 60,000 Japanese reinforcements had left Wuhan and were now on their way north to Henan.

The First Corps of Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater of the Nationalist Government, had also set out from northern Hubei and headed for Henan, and several group armies of the main force of the First Theater were also assembling in central Henan.

To be honest, now Ma Zheng also admires the old devil Ueda Zhiichi, although he was caught off guard by the nails lurking in the puppet army, and the 10th Division lost the strong city fortifications, but the Ueda Division did not collapse like other Japanese puppet armies, but soon established a new defensive position in the city, and insisted on fighting street battles with the troops of the Suicha Military Region.

As we all know, street fighting is the most tragic form of war, in the street fighting, both sides are not impossible to use heavy artillery, chariots and other heavy weapons, not to mention that there are many ordinary people in Zhangjiakou City, although the population is not very large, but there may also be accidental injuries.

In addition, the Japanese army built more than a dozen solid defensive lines in the center of the city, and even the headquarters of Ueda to Ichichi were more than ten meters deep underground, so that several special combat teams sent by Ma Zheng returned with heavy losses.

What made Ma Zheng feel most depressed was that when the uprising was launched again, the infantry regiment commander who was lurking in the Japanese puppet army took control of the arsenal from Ueda to the department at the first time, but after the city was broken, the Japanese army's ammunition was still sufficient, and the plan of Wenhuawu, Wu Bing and other troops to exhaust the Japanese army's ammunition died before it was implemented.

According to the news from the front, Ma Zheng judged with certainty that Ueda seemed to have expected that the puppet army was not very reliable before World War I, so there was not all the ammunition stored in the arsenal outside, which means that the Japanese army was likely to have one or even more arsenals in the shadows. For this alone, Ueda was better than the average Japanese general.

Moreover, Ueda's command was indeed outstanding, although there were only 10,000 Japanese troops who stayed in Zhangjiakou City to fight street battles, the remaining thousands of people were all armed expatriates. As we all know, this expatriate is not a real soldier after all, although some expatriates may have touched a gun before, but in terms of discipline and will to fight, it is still impossible to compare with the field troops, not to mention that the 10th Division has always been the elite of the Japanese army.

However, Ueda Zhiichi had a way to improve the combat effectiveness of these expatriates, and he rationally reorganized these expatriates with his own elite soldiers, basically two veterans with one expatriates, and this combination also exploded into strong combat effectiveness in a short period of time. In addition, the terrain in the urban area is narrow, which is not suitable for large corps to fight at all, so for a while, Ma Zheng actually had no way to take Ueda to 10,000 or 20,000 people.

Originally, it was proposed to use the seized gas bombs to completely destroy those little devils humanely, and I don't think there would be many gas masks in the city. However, Xu Xiaolin told Ma Zheng that there was also a secret prison in Zhangjiakou City for Chinese political prisoners, which held several big figures in the party, and that two days ago Director Li of the Central Special Branch sent a secret telegram asking him to rescue those important people.

Although Ma Zheng did not know who was detained by the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou Prison, there is no record of these incidents in history, and even if there were, it was not something that Ma Zheng could have access to at that level.

However, Ma Zheng knew very well which Director Li of the Central Special Branch in Xu Xiaolin's mouth was, Director Li's surname was Li Kenong, and in official words, he was a time-tested proletarian politician, an outstanding social activist, a diplomat, and an outstanding leader and organizer of the hidden front of our party and army.

In Ma Zheng's eyes, it may be an intelligence expert who is far more shrewd than Xu Xiaolin or even Dai Li of the Military Command Bureau of the National Government. Both Xu Xiaolin and Dai Li established their respective intelligence systems under relatively good or favorable circumstances, but this Director Li has worked on the party's secret front for a long time under extremely harsh conditions, and has also achieved major results, and his leadership and professional ability can be imagined.

Since this Director Li was mentioned, Ma Zheng had to pay attention to it, as soon as he was mentioned, he would involve the party's secret front, so Ma Zheng had no choice but to cancel the plan to kill the devil with poison gas bombs.

What's more, there are still many ordinary people in Zhangjiakou City, and if they use poison gas bombs, they will definitely be the first to be harmed. As a result, for a while, the battle on the front line in Zhangjiakou turned out to be scorching.

However, Ma Zheng was not in a hurry, after all, the current Japanese army was already the eighth king in the urn, and it was impossible to escape, and there was no need to be anxious about how to eat. Not to mention anything else, if there was no threat from Anan's only few subordinates, Ma Zheng's first thought of was to besiege him.

No matter how powerful the troops are, they will be wasted after three days of starvation, and the Japanese puppet army in Zhangjiakou City is as high as 20,000 people, and people eat horses and chew them, and they consume at least 20,000 catties of food every day, or even more.

And now the grain has not been harvested, and the food consumption in the city depends on the supply of Pingjin and other big cities, and it is impossible to hoard much grain in ordinary times. According to the intelligence obtained before the war, the military rations in Zhangjiakou City did not exceed 5 million catties at most, and the Japanese army may have hoarded grain and grass for two months for the 100,000 army.

However, after the city was broken, Ma Zheng's department captured six of the grain depots, and collected at least 3.5 million catties of grain under his name, plus the two grain depots that were destroyed, the Japanese army only had two grain depots left in the inner city at most 600,000 catties of grain. According to the consumption of 20,000 catties a day, it will be eaten for a month at most.

And this is still calculated based on the supply of one pound of food per person per day, to say that one pound of food per day is not too unacceptable, although it is not enough to eat, but it will not starve to death. However, now that it is during the war, one pound of grain a day cannot meet the needs of the soldiers at all, so the hundreds of thousands of pounds of grain in Ueda's hand may not be able to consume even half a month.

Therefore, as long as Ma Zheng's subordinates continue to harass him, Ueda will collapse without a fight in a maximum of twenty days, and it will be much easier to clean up at that time.

But now Anan Weiji commanded tens of thousands of troops to go north, and now the front of the army has approached Henan, as we all know, there are not many Kuomintang troops in Henan, and the main force is still concentrated in the Luoyang line in western and northern Henan, and there are not too many troops in southern Henan.

In addition, Anan only a few troops are the elite troops of the Japanese army, once they are allowed to enter Henan, it will only take half a month to fight in northern Henan, when the eleventh army and the first army will meet in Henan, and then the main force will march north, not to mention that Gao Shuxun's department in southern Hebei and the administrative office of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei may be in danger, and even his troops stationed on the front line of Shimen may be in danger, so Ma Zheng can't take risks, he must take Zhangjiakou as soon as possible, and continue to advance the battlefield to the south.

Although Ma Zheng also knew that the Nationalist Government had sent the elites of the Ninth War Zone and the First War Zone to block the Japanese army on the front line of Xinzheng and Kaifeng in the hinterland of Henan, Ma Zheng did not dare to put his hope on the Nationalist Government, you must know that the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang troops was very unreliable, and sometimes they did fight very tenaciously and admirably, such as the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Taierzhuang, but more often than not, it was a thousand miles, and pinning hope on them was pure gambling, and Ma Zheng did not have the courage.