[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 375: Familiar Recipe (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) ）

On the front line of the temple, Ma Zheng's department has been here and the Japanese puppet army for a whole day, because the Japanese army received a death order, so it fought very tenaciously, from last night's ruins to six o'clock this afternoon, although two lines of defense were lost, but the Japanese still did not have the intention of retreating.

The temple could not be attacked for a long time, which made Ma Zheng very depressed, mainly because the terrain of the temple generation was too dangerous, and the Japanese army was defending according to the danger, and the situation was very unfavorable to Ma Zheng's department.

In addition, a large number of Japanese planes came to reinforce the operation during the day, which caused considerable losses to the attacking troops and also affected the effectiveness of the operation.

And Tie Xinlan's department was also blocked by the Japanese army on the Luanping front, and did not make a breakthrough after fighting for half a day, and the situation seemed to have entered a state of anxiety all of a sudden.

The only thing that satisfied Ma Zheng was that Song Shilun's fourth column was progressing relatively smoothly, and after a day and a night of fighting, by three o'clock in the morning on March 6, the fourth column had occupied Qianxi County, and the main force was advancing towards Zunhua.

Ma Zheng knew that dragging it out would be detrimental to the Suicha Military Region, after all, the strength of the Japanese puppet army in eastern Hebei was not weak, and reinforcements would arrive soon, so Chengde must be defeated before the Japanese reinforcements arrived.

Since the first line of the Great Temple could not be broken through for the time being, Ma Zheng immediately left a small force to continue to maintain the situation against the enemy of the Great Temple, and continued to put pressure on the Japanese army, and the main force was to cross the Yin Xun River and go straight to the direction of Gaositai on the right side of the Great Temple.

Although there are mountains and rivers between the Great Temple and the High Temple, there is no complete transportation, but Ma Zheng responded and led the troops to open a passage between the two places. After more than 20 hours of arduous marching, the troops finally arrived at the periphery of Gaositai at about 8 o'clock on the evening of the 6th.

After a short rest, let the fighters eat a little dry food. Ma Zheng then ordered his troops to launch an attack on the Japanese troops in the direction of Gaositai. Because the Japanese army did not expect the main force of Ma Zheng's department to suddenly appear in Gaositai, they were not prepared, so they were caught off guard.

In less than an hour of fighting, Ma Zheng's headquarters easily annihilated the defenders in the direction of Gaositai, and more than 1,300 people from a reinforced Japanese squadron and a regiment of the puppet army were annihilated.

In the Rehe Garrison Headquarters, Lieutenant General Yasui Toji was stupid after receiving the news. An hour ago, the troops in the direction of the temple also sent back the news that the main force of the people was still attacking, but they did not expect that a few hours later, the people of the country would arrive at Gaositai, and they also beat down Gaositai, so that Ma Zheng's headquarters could quickly move south and the troops came to Chengde City.

The most important thing is that as soon as the high temple platform is lost, the big temple in front can no longer be defended. If the main force of Ma Zheng's department went around to the back of the temple and cooperated with the troops in front of him to flank the Japanese army, the consequences would be unimaginable. It can be said that this roundabout attack of Ma Zheng's department can be regarded as hitting the soft underbelly of Yasui Fujiji, and the enemy will be saved.

As a last resort, Yasui Toji had to order the troops on the front line of the Great Temple to immediately withdraw to Chengde, so as not to be surrounded and annihilated when the time came.

Yasui Fujiji really didn't expect that Ma Zheng's attack would be so sharp, and under the light enemy, a good hand of cards in the first line of the temple made him stink. According to Yasui Toji's estimate, with the strength of Ma Zheng's department, as long as the troops, weapons and ammunition are sufficient. The position on the front line of the temple is enough to become the north gate of Chengde.

During this time, he also investigated clearly, and the total strength of Ma Zheng's department was only twenty or thirty thousand people. And that's plus a bunch of miscellaneous troops. The defeat in the battle some time ago was just that he was too light on the enemy, and now as long as he uses heavy troops in Damiaotun to take advantage of the terrain to drag Ma Zheng's department, and then wait for the arrival of reinforcements, he will defeat Ma Zheng's department in a short time. But as a result, he didn't expect to be used by Ma Zheng's subordinates to use their most commonly used tactics of long-distance roundabout attacks to destroy Yasui Fujiji's plan.

Fortunately, there were many Japanese pillboxes on the periphery of the city. I hope it can play a role, otherwise this Chengde City will be in danger.

At the same time that Lieutenant General Yasui Toji ordered the troops stationed at the temple to withdraw to Chengde, he immediately ordered the two wings of the Fourth Division stationed in Qinhuangdao, the Tangshan Garrison Wing, and the 1st, 6th, and 3rd Groups of the puppet security army to form a westward group army and immediately reinforce Chengde, with Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the Fourth Division, as commander.

Actually, as early as two days ago. Lieutenant General Yasui Toji ordered the Eighth Wing and the 37th Wing of the Fourth Brigade of the Fourth Division to move west to Qian'an, on the one hand, to deal with the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army, which was about to move, and at the same time, it also meant that the Fourth Division would reinforce Chengde. However, because Yasui Toji did not expect that Ma Zheng's troops would be under Chengde City so quickly, he did not urge the Fourth Division to speed up, so in two days, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru's headquarters only advanced 50 kilometers.

After receiving the order from Toji Yasui, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the above-mentioned troops to immediately join the main force of his Fourth Division. The three puppet army groups (brigades), which had already been prepared, quickly drove to Qian'an and completed the assembly on March 7.

Since the distance between Qian'an and the Chengde front line is not short, Lieutenant General Yasui Toji first ordered the Westward Group Army to take a special military column to Qianxi, and then cooperated with the defenders of Zunhua to defeat the fourth column of the Eighth Route Army active in this area, and then detoured from Qianxi to Zunhua and went directly north to Chengde.

The speed of the Japanese army was not unfast, but it was stubbornly blocked by Song Shilun's troops in Qianxi, and it was unable to break through for a while, which made Yasui Fujiji and Sawada Shigeru both angry and helpless.

When Ma Zheng on the Chengde front line learned that the Japanese Fourth Division had come to reinforce Chengde, not only was he not in a hurry, but he was a little looking forward to it, and immediately ordered Chen Xudong's department and Tie Xinlan's department to immediately join forces, and then take Luanping at all costs.

On March 7, under the fierce attack of Chen Xudong's troops, the Luanping defenders, who had held out for two and a half days, finally inevitably collapsed, and the more than 4,000 defenders finally fled back to Chengde with less than 1,000 men, and the rest were either killed or taken prisoner.

After capturing Luanping, Ma Zheng ordered Tie Xinlan's troops to immediately go north to cooperate with the North Route Army to encircle Chengde, and at the same time ordered Chen Xudong's troops to immediately march east to meet the enemy's Fourth Division. Based on Ma Zheng's understanding of Song Shilun's department, although they have a lot of soldiers, their weapons and equipment are far behind the Japanese army, especially compared with field divisions like the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army, so Ma Zheng decided to let Chen Xudong's department take over.

In addition, Ma Zheng still wanted to see if this Fourth Division was as unbearable as recorded in history, and if that was the case, this should be a good opportunity for Ma Zheng's department.

After all the troops arrived at the designated position, Ma Zheng immediately gave the order to attack Chengde. A total of more than 30,000 troops from the north and south launched fierce attacks on the north and south of Chengde, and the Battle of Chengde, which shocked China and the rest of the world, began.

In the face of the fierce attack of the Eighth Route Army, the Chengde garrison of less than 13,000 people was extremely worried to Yasui Toji, and the combat effectiveness shown by Ma Zheng's troops was too strong. Therefore, Yasui Toji ordered Sawada Shigeru's troops to break through the enemy in front of them at all costs and quickly reinforce Chengde.

But what made Yasui Fujiji angry was that the Fourth Division did not know how to do it, and after receiving the order, not only did it not move forward quickly, even though Song Shilun's headquarters had cleared the road, this army was still nested in Qianxi and refused to advance. This made everyone stunned, and the fourth division was too unreliable, and it didn't follow common sense at all.

Even if Yasui Toji issued three orders in succession, this army only advanced from Qianxidong to Qianxixi and then moved again, and in the name of consolidating the occupied area and eliminating the remnants of the enemy.

After receiving the telegram from the 4th Division, Captain Toji Yasui was annoyed and scolded your sister, is this time to purge the remnants of the enemy? It's all burning eyebrows, and they're still grinding, and they're really drunk with such teammates.

Ma Zheng, who is familiar with the history of the Fourth Division, immediately smiled when he learned the news, and sure enough, it was still the Fourth Division in history, the original recipe, and the original taste. (To be continued.) )