[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 860: Expanding Armament War (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Ma Zheng knew that his partner was moved, after all, the North China Front had been severely damaged once half a year ago, and if it happened again, the entire North China Front was likely to collapse, and then the war in the entire North China region might usher in a new climax, and it was even possible to directly expel the Japanese forces from North China. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as the war in North China ended, then the war in the entire northern part of China was basically over, and all that remained was to settle the puppet Manchu regime in the northeast. The Kwantung Army, which had lost the flank support of the North China Front and had to face the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army that was eyeing the enemy, was not terrible, so Lao Luo was very excited and excited at this time, but before that, he needed a positive answer from Ma Zheng.

In fact, Ma Zheng is not fully sure how long he can support under the attack of the two major fronts of the Japanese army, although the North China Front is no longer a concern for Ma Zheng, compared to those new troops that have just been formed, Ma Zheng is most concerned about the old strong brigade like the Kwantung Army.

If the North China Front Army, which has more than 10 divisions under its command, is a behemoth, then the Kwantung Army, which has 31 infantry divisions, 11 infantry and tank brigades, 1 death squad brigade and 2 aviation armies, plus the troops of the puppet Manchukuo, and a total strength of about 1.2 million people, is a giant.

Although Ma Zheng also knew that the combat effectiveness of the Kwantung Army at this time was not as strong as people imagined, these cannon fodder in the Pacific Theater were still an invincible force for the current Eighth Route Army.

The Suicha Military Region now has nearly 400,000 troops, but there are only more than 200,000 truly well-trained elites, and these 200,000 troops are all veterans who have seen blood on the battlefield, but the rest of the troops are all garrison units formed later, not to mention that their combat effectiveness is not high, and their weapons and equipment are not as good as those of the front-line troops.

Therefore, Ma Zheng did not dare to guarantee that he would be able to achieve victory under the joint attack of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the North China Front, but Ma Zheng did not believe that the Japanese army dared to transfer the main force of the Kwantung Army to North China, you must know that Japan and the Soviet Union at this time have always been very dirty, and the relationship between the two countries is extremely strange.

In particular, in the past Battle of Nomenkan, the Soviet Union and Japan invested more than 200,000 soldiers, more than 500 artillery pieces, 900 aircraft, and thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, killing more than 60,000 people. During the four-month war, the Soviet army invested about 57,000 men, more than 500 tanks and about 350 armored vehicles; The official death toll was more than 9,000 casualties.

But according to archives declassified after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the true death toll of Soviet troops was about 7,000, more than 1,000 were missing, and about 16,000 were wounded.

After the war, the military medical department of the 6th Army announced that the number of Japanese killed was 7,696, the number of wounded was 8,647, the number of unaccounted for was 1,021, and the total number of troops dispatched was 58,925.

First of all, this number can be found to be too close to the number of wounded and the number of killed, if the number of dead is added to the number of missing, the two are almost equal, and the number of dead and missing is more than the number of wounded, which should be relatively rare in war, unless the wounded have a deliberate motive to commit suicide, otherwise the number of wounded on the side should be much larger than the number of dead.

Immediately after that, the Japanese army authorities released a general casualty figure, which published the number of killed and wounded as about 18,000 casualties, but Ma Zheng knew that the Japanese army's losses in this battle were at least more than 50,000 people, and if it were not for the defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Nomenkan, then the Japanese army was likely to abandon the United States, Spain and Britain in Southeast Asia and directly attack the Soviet Union, which threatened them the most.

It is precisely because of this that Ma Zheng was still happy about the negotiations between Japan and the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union and Japan signed a series of cease-fire agreements and non-aggression pacts, which led to disasters and caused Japan to turn its guns on the United States, and then there was the Pearl Harbor incident that shocked the whole world.

As Professor Lorenz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology once said, "A butterfly flapping its wings in the heart of Asia may cause a storm in the South Pacific in a few weeks." "In the military and political spheres, the causes of many major historical events may be negligible, but the "butterfly effect" produced is eye-popping. The Battle of Normenheim is a case in point, as one could have predicted that an inconspicuous border conflict in the heart of Asia would set the stage for the eventual defeat of the Axis powers.

By this time, the evil Nazis had extended their grip to the surrounding countries, even though the Soviet Union had previously signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. However, Stalin, as a mature politician, did not believe in Germany's sincerity, knowing that at this time Germany had begun to occupy Western Europe and Northern Europe, Finland, Norway and Sweden and other countries had been defeated, and Luxembourg, Belgium and Portugal were also in danger.

If the Soviet Union and Germany were to go to war in Eastern Europe, then the question of whether the security of the rear could be guaranteed was a question. However, fortunately, Zhukov was not bad, and lived up to Stalin's trust, and defeated the invading Japanese army on the Sino-Mongolian border a year ago.

The distrust between the Soviet Union and Japan also caused Japan to dare not send nearly 800,000 troops stationed on the Sino-Soviet border to the battlefield in Kannai, and with the current situation, it was already a miracle that the Japanese army was able to mobilize four divisions to go south, and you must know that at this time there were still more than 100,000 Soviet Red Army troops stationed on the Sino-Soviet border.

However, this is just Ma Zheng's speculation, in fact, whether the Japanese Kwantung Army can go south is still a question, if it can't go south, then the North China Front Army alone is simply a piece of scum, and the North China Front Army, which has lost its elite strength and even more lost its belief in fighting, has lost the qualification to compete with the Suicha Military Region. Although Okamura Ninji's tactical command level was indeed a step stronger than that of Tada Hayao and his ilk, in the face of the declining quality of the Japanese army, Okamura Ninji's personal ability could not turn things around.

Moreover, Ma Zheng already had a preliminary plan for the next battle, so although he was not completely sure in his heart, he still wanted to gamble, and if he lost the bet, he would spit out all the results of the previous period of battle, and if he won the bet, there would be no more war in the entire North China region.

The gain is not proportional to the pay, where to find such a good thing? Therefore, after thinking for a while, Ma Zheng asked Political Commissar Luo and cadres at the ministerial level of the Military Region to send a joint telegram to the Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, hoping that the Eighth Route Army Headquarters would cooperate with the Suicha Military Region's actions.

Immediately after that, Ma Zheng issued new orders to all military subdivisions, and from now on, all the special forces of the Suicha Military Region immediately infiltrated the occupied areas in the form of combat squads to create chaos.

At the same time, the military and political chiefs of all the counties under the jurisdiction of the Suicha Military Region have received the latest orders issued by the military region, and Ma Zheng ordered all counties to assemble troops centered on the county seat, whether it is militia or guerrillas, or those stragglers and guerrillas, as long as they are sincere in resisting Japan, they can assemble and train strictly, and wait for the latest instructions of the military region.

After receiving the telegram sent by the Suicha Military Region, the party Central Committee finally agreed to this adventurous plan led by Ma Zheng after some discussion; of course, the party Central Committee was not unconditional, and the chairman directly replied to Ma Zheng personally, demanding that Ma Zheng must focus on preserving the strength of the troops when he cannot do anything, and prohibit the decisive battle with the main force with the Japanese army when he is not sure of victory.

Ma Zheng predicted that within two or three months, the strength of the Suicha Military Region would be at least 300,000 more than the current one; after all, there were no known number of large and small guerrilla units and militia organizations in the entire Suicha Military Region, and not long ago dozens of tribes in the northern grasslands came to contact the Suicha Military Region, recognizing the status of Ma Zheng's troops in the northern grasslands, and demanding that the Suicha Military Region accept the warriors of their tribes to join the Eighth Route Army.

Ma Zheng still had some concerns before, after all, the men on the grassland are more than brave, but the discipline is obviously insufficient, and what makes people even more speechless is that their temper is not small, like the current small-scale recruitment is fine, but if these people are conscripted into the army on a large scale, then the military discipline of the entire Suicha Military Region must be perfected, and it must conform to the habits and interests of ethnic minority soldiers, otherwise the unity of the troops will become a problem.

But with the successful cases of Bilig and the Chahar tribes, Ma Zheng decided to agree to the requests of those tribal leaders and the Khan kings, and all the tribes in the northern steppe were included as military bases.

Ma Zheng expected that the special combat team and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army would be contained, and that the Japanese army would have to prepare for at least two months, and after two months, the first batch of soldiers had all completed their rotational training, and the reserve forces were about to be formed. (To be continued.) )