[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 69: Wait for the rabbit

Ma Zheng This is Xiang Zhuang's sword dance intended to Pei Gong, nominally guarding the territory, but in fact, he is eyeing the entire Suicha region.

Of course, Ma Zheng's thoughts were hidden in his head and not revealed to anyone. It's not that he doesn't trust these people around him, but he's afraid that they won't understand him.

Ma Zheng had tested Yun Jian before, but the great political commissar of Yunwen and Yunwu immediately spoke out against it. Even he is like this, let alone others, if Ma Zheng goes to tell them now that his real purpose is to seize the entire Suiyuan and Chahar, I am afraid that everyone will think that he is really crazy, so Ma Zheng can only bury this idea deep in his heart.

Zhuozi County is located at the southeast foot of the Yinshan Mountain Range on the Mongolian Plateau, with many hills and few flat rivers. Zhuozishan Town, the county seat, is located between Guisui and Jining, 70 kilometers away from Guisui and 55 kilometers away from Jining.

On April 17, Ma Zheng led two regiments and another battalion directly under him, totaling more than 5,000 people, to appear on the outskirts of Zhuozi Mountain. At the same time, the two cavalry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army had already completed the assembly of their battalions more than 20 kilometers east of Guisui and could leave for Chanan at any time.

In order to completely annihilate these two puppet cavalry divisions, Ma Zheng decided to take down Zhuozishan Town first, and still waited for the rabbit to wait for the rabbit.

In a mountain forest in the northeast of Zhuozishan Town, Ma Zheng, Wu Xiuda, Lu Ming, Tie Niu and others sat on the ground and listened to Xu Xiaolin's report on the enemy.

"After the investigation of our intelligence officers, we learned that there is an infantry squadron of the Japanese army stationed in Zhuozishan Town, and there is also a regiment of the puppet army. The supreme commander's name was Naojiro, a young samurai, and it was said that he was the nephew of the commander of the Mongolian army, Hasunuma Pan. ”

As soon as Xu Xiaolin's words fell, Lu Ming frowned and said, "With so many defenders, this battle is not easy to fight!" ”

Ma Zheng shook his head and said: "It's not that exaggerated, whether it is the Japanese army or the puppet army, the strength of their garrison force cannot be looked at, but the actual soldiers." Especially the puppet army, how could the little devil place an infantry regiment composed of Chinese around his station, even the puppet army can't do it, I think that eighty percent of the puppet army infantry regiment is just an empty shell. ”

Xu Xiaolin immediately said: "What the brigade commander said is right, although the pseudo-regiment claims to be an infantry regiment to the outside world, it actually has less than two hundred people, at most a reinforced company. ”

"Even so, the enemy's forces are not weak. The most important thing is that if we want to wait for the two puppet military divisions to take the bait, we won't be able to make much movement in this battle, otherwise we will probably alarm the enemy. Lu Ming.

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "Commander Lu is right, we must quietly enter the village in this battle, and don't shoot." Even if you want to shoot, you can't make too much movement, otherwise your efforts will be wasted. You must know that what we have to face is not an ordinary puppet army, this puppet army is all cavalry, once they are on guard, they can escape from our sight at any time! ”

Xu Xiaolin said: "Brigade commander, in fact, there are not so many defenders in the city, Zhuozi Mountain is hundreds of kilometers from east to west, and more than 70 kilometers wide from north to south, there are many devil strongholds in such a wide area, and these strongholds need to be garrisoned, so the county will not have more than two hundred defenders." ”

"Are you sure it's two hundred?" Ma Zheng asked in surprise.

"Sure, our intelligence officers have infiltrated this area a long time ago, Zhuozishan Town is so big, how can we not know how many devils there are." Xu Xiaolin said.

"It's so much easier! Iron Bull, it's up to you today! Ma Zheng said in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, brigade commander, we'll clear the way for the big army." Tie Niu said confidently.

At two o'clock in the morning that night, dozens of black shadows outside Zhuozishan Town quickly approached the east gate of the city. It is said to be a city gate, but in fact it is just a larger sentry box. Zhuozi Mountain, like most of the banner counties in Chahar, does not have a complete city wall, but only sets up two guard boxes at the intersection of the east and west roads across the county, which should be the city gates.

Due to the inland location of Zhuozi Mountain, and the absence of Chinese rebels nearby, the defenders were always relatively lax. In addition, it was freezing at this time, and the two soldiers standing guard outside the sentry box were shivering around the wood fire, and the remaining dozens of Japanese puppet soldiers had already fallen asleep in the sentry box.

easily solved the two sentries standing guard, and then the special combat team members touched the sentry box and wiped all the Japanese puppet soldiers without leaving all their necks.

After doing these things, Tie Niu took out his flashlight and shook it six times in the distance in a row—three long and three short.

This was the code he had agreed with Ma Zheng, and after receiving the reply, Tie Niu continued to touch the town with the special combat team.

Everything went smoothly, the process of capturing Zhuozishan Town was unexpectedly smooth, the whole process was clean and neat, not even a single shot was fired, more than 70 Japanese soldiers and more than 100 puppet soldiers were all wiped off without even resisting.

On this night, whether it was the puppet Mongolian army in its battalion, the Japanese army in Jining City, or even the ordinary people in Zhuozishan County, they didn't know that this small city had changed hands in the cold wind last night.

Even the next morning, the people in the city still did not realize that this place had been occupied by the Eighth Route Army, but everyone felt that there were more "imperial troops" established today than before.

At a quarter past 9 o'clock in the morning, the headquarters of the Mongolian army sent a telegram to the defenders of Zhuozishan Town, saying that the 1st Mongolian Cavalry Division and the 3rd Mongolian Cavalry Division would arrive at Zhuozishan Town at about 2 o'clock this afternoon, ordering the defenders in the city to be ready for reception and provide support in terms of food and lodging.

After receiving the telegram, Ma Zheng immediately called a meeting of the officers under his command and set it up.

The enemy came a little later than expected, and at half past three in the afternoon, Ma Zheng saw a group of cavalry coming from west to east, starting with the dogskin plaster flag of the Japanese devils and the four flags on the blue background of the puppet Mongolian Xinjiang Autonomous Government.

Knowing that the fish had already taken the bait, Ma Zheng immediately waved his hand and ordered the troops in the city to prepare for battle.

After a while, a team of about 300 cavalry came to the city gate, and saw Ma Zheng and others waiting for them at the city gate, a Japanese second lieutenant dismounted and trotted in front of Ma Zheng, saluted and said: "Report, Koizumi Saburo, the second lieutenant adviser of the ninth battalion of the 1st Mongolian cavalry division, salutes you!" ”

Ma Zheng replied with a military salute and said, "Koizumi-kun has worked hard, may I ask if Sato Nakasa has arrived?" ”

Ma Zheng has already investigated clearly, although the two cavalry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army are headed by Li Shouxin's people, they are actually controlled by Japanese advisers, and the adviser of the first Mongolian cavalry division is named Sato Kogoro, who is a cavalry lieutenant.

"Sato Nakasa and the large force are behind, we are the advance search team, and they are expected to arrive in half an hour." Second Lieutenant Koizumi arrived.

"We've prepared lunch for you, and we'll be ready to eat as soon as the army arrives, and you can rest after eating!" Ma Zheng said.

"Thank you so much!"

"It is my honor to serve the Great Japanese Empire!"

Between talking and laughing, I saw smoke and dust billowing in the distance, covering the sky and the sun, and the momentum was extraordinary.

It was the first time Ma Zheng saw the posture of thousands of war horses running together, and thinking that these war horses would belong to him immediately, Ma Zheng was unexpectedly excited in his heart.

Soon, this huge cavalry came to the city gate, and when he saw that the head was actually a Japanese lieutenant who was 2800, Ma Zheng immediately stepped forward and said: "Kikujiro, the lieutenant adjutant of the lowly Zhuo Zishan Garrison Headquarters, salutes you, you have worked hard!" ”

"Adjutant? Where is Naojiro, why don't you come out to greet your old classmates, is it that he, the young man of the field wing, looks down on me as an advisor? ”

"Report, Shao Zuo suddenly got dysentery last night, and is now hanging bottles at the health center, and I hereby order to wait for you here. In addition, Shaozo has already prepared a banquet at the garrison headquarters, and there are good sake and geisha brought from home, and Shaosa said that he wants to catch up with you. Ma Zheng immediately said with sincere fear.

"Yo Xi! Lead the way ahead and go into town! Sato Kogoro said with satisfaction.

"Wait a minute!"