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[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 300: Light another fire! (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!) ）

The battle in Datong City continued, and the offensive of the Seventh Brigade was extremely fierce, and more than 30 mountain artillery and field guns of 75mm caliber of the artillery regiment kept firing, turning the Japanese puppet army defending the city on their backs. If Ma Zheng had not given an order and not allowed the troops to enter the city, Huang Sicheng was confident that he would have taken Datong City in three hours, of course, this confidence was based on a certain number of casualties.

However, Ma Zheng took into account that it did not make much sense to lay down Datong City, Datong as the most important city in northern Shanxi, the traffic is so developed, there are railways in the southeast, north and south directions, and the highway network is also extended in all directions.

Therefore, Ma Zheng ordered the Duqi Brigade not to think about seizing the city, but to use the powerful firepower offensive to kill and injure a large number of the enemy's living forces, and to maintain this huge pressure all the time, forcing the Japanese army to constantly ask for help from the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia and fully mobilize the Japanese army.

At the same time, Ma Zheng also ordered the 1st Brigade of the 7th Independent Brigade and the fire support regiment directly under the Military Region to quietly withdraw from the battlefield and go to the front line of Gelao Mountain, 10 kilometers east of Datong, to build a position and ambush the 12th Wing of the Japanese Army, which had returned to help.

Of course, Ma Zheng also knew that the Japanese army might have taken precautions, and if the ambush failed, he would immediately block the Japanese reinforcements on the spot.

The 12th Wing of the Japanese Army, Keinosuke Haraguchi, was extremely depressed at this time, and it was already very disturbing to be called up in the middle of the night to reinforce Tenjin. The troops easily assembled and rushed to Tianzhen, seeing that they had already passed thirty miles, and they were only less than 15 kilometers away from the county seat of Tianzhen, but they received a telegram from the chief of staff of the division **** Dazuo. said that Datong was attacked, and the city fortifications were crumbling, and he was asked to immediately lead his troops back to Datong.

Haraguchi almost vomited blood, knowing that this fast march, although the soldiers took turns to rest in the car, they were still very tired. If you go back the way you came. Haraguchi Daisa really didn't know that even if the troops returned to Datong, there would be several layers of combat power left.

And Haraguchi Osa knew very well that once they turned around and went back like this, there would be no hope for the defenders of Tenjin at all. They had just contacted Takahashi Daisa, and learned that Tianzhen City was already crumbling, the second line of defense was about to collapse, and if reinforcements did not arrive soon, the fall of Tianzhen was almost a foregone conclusion. However, Datong is Datong after all, and it is by no means comparable to a small Tianzhen county.

As the headquarters of the 26th Division, if it is broken by the Chinese people. The consequences were unimaginable, so Haraguchi Daisa only hesitated for a few seconds before making a decision on the spot, ordering the troops to immediately turn around and return to Datong.

Fortunately, when **** Dazuo sent a report, he told him a pretty good news, saying that the 16th Wing of the 19th Division had set off from Huai'an and was now on its way to Tianzhen. And this 19th Wing is a rare mechanized wing in the imperial army, more than 3,000 people are traveling by car, and Huai'an is not very far from Tianzhen County, and it can be reached in an hour and a half at the latest. And His Excellency, the commander of the division, was also on his way to Huai'an.

As long as Takahashi's headquarters holds out for another hour and a half, reinforcements will definitely arrive. Although Haraguchi Daisa did not think that Takahashi would be able to hold out for two hours. But reinforcements are better than none.

In fact, until now, the Japanese have not figured out what Ma Zheng wants to do, in the eyes of the Japanese, robbing coal mines and sneaking up on the Japanese transport team can only do things that can only be done by the Eighth Route Army, and although Ma Zheng's department still nominally belongs to the Eighth Route Army, both Harem Jun and Abe Guixiu have always regarded Ma Zheng's department as a regular force with enough threat.

Because of this, they didn't think that Ma Zheng launched such a large-scale battle for the sake of those few good coal mines, even if Ma Zheng stood in front of him and told him personally. Harem Jun won't believe it either.

It's not that Harem Chun can't see the importance of the Datong mining area, it's just that Harem Chun doesn't think that those coal mining equipment are of any use to the Chinese. If it was just to attack the strength of the imperial army in the mining area, there was no need for Ma Zheng's department to launch such a big battle and engage in so many gimmicks, and only needed to send a small force with dozens of explosives bags to solve it.

It doesn't make sense to say that Ma Zheng's department went to those equipment. You must know that coal mining equipment is only useful for those places where coal is used, as far as they know, there is no large coal base in the defense area of Ma Zheng's department, and those equipment are useless even if they are sent to them. So until now, they have firmly believed that the purpose of Ma Zheng's department is to capture Datong City, so the Japanese puppet troops near Datong have been fully mobilized and have reinforced Datong City.

After learning that the 12th Wing of the Japanese Army had turned back halfway, Ma Zheng immediately sent a report to the 92nd Division. They were ordered to immediately take the county seat of Tianzhen, and then garrison it on the spot, and also ordered the 92nd Division to pull out the railroad tracks outside the city immediately after taking Tianzhen, these are good materials for the production of weapons, and it is a pity to leave them to the Japanese.

At the same time that Ma Zheng's headquarters was besieging Datong, the Japanese army's independent mixed second brigade in Shuo County also received an order from the headquarters of the Mongolian army, and the headquarters urgently assembled, and then went north to reinforce Datong.

The defense area of the 2nd Brigade of the Japanese Army was next to the defense area of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and as soon as there was a movement on the Japanese side, the 120th Division received the news. Although Master He did not know that Ma Zheng was attacking Datong City, there was still a problem with the Japanese army rushing north, and after discussing with the officers of the division headquarters, Division Commander He immediately ordered the 715th Regiment of the 358th Brigade stationed in Pinglu to immediately block the enemy on the front line of Beizhouzhuang, and at the same time, all units of the 120th Division immediately assembled to harass the Japanese strongholds in the defense area.

Division Commander He's meaning was very clear: no matter what the Japanese army wanted to do, it would definitely be detrimental to the Chinese. Since you don't know the intentions of the Japanese army, then hit out their intentions.

Soon the 715th Regiment sent a telegram saying that the Japanese attack was very fierce and that it was a deadly fight. Despite their advantage over the terrain, they suffered heavy casualties.

After receiving the 715 regiment, the 120th Division headquarters suddenly exploded, according to the analysis of Division Commander He, this group of Japanese troops should have received a death order, otherwise it would not be such a way of fighting. Therefore, Division Commander He immediately ordered the 715th Regiment to immediately devote all its combat strength to take advantage of the terrain to block the enemy, not caring how many enemies were killed, as long as it could delay the enemy's movements.

At the same time, Division Commander He sent a report to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the name of the division headquarters to reflect the situation.

Soon the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army responded, telling them that Ma Zheng's headquarters was attacking Datong City, and now that the battle had begun, the independent mixed second brigade should go north to reinforce Datong. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army ordered the 120th Division to block enemy reinforcements at all costs and create opportunities for the Suicha Military Region.

Knowing that the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade was blocked by the 120th Division in Yinshan County, Ma Zheng was happy, and even the 120th Division was also put into battle, and the Japanese army may find it more difficult to find out his intentions, and I don't know if I think that the Eighth Route Army launched a strategic counteroffensive against the Japanese army, if that is the case, it will be lively.

Ma Zheng immediately thought that it was time to light another fire for the Japanese army, so he immediately ordered the Duqi Brigade to quickly break through the frontal defense line of Datong, advance the forward position by one kilometer, knock down the frontal wall of Datong, and put pressure on the Japanese army in the city.

Ma Zheng's order was very timely, and after more than an hour of attack, the Japanese front-line defenders suffered heavy casualties, and the outer positions were almost lost. However, due to Ma Zheng's order not to enter the city, the soldiers had to hide in their positions and shoot at each other with the few remnants of the Japanese army.

Wu Xiuda, the commander of the Seventh Brigade, was an anxious man, and he was anxious about the situation on the Japanese position. While the Japanese reinforcements had not yet come up, his troops only needed a charge to kill all the remnants of these devils in front of them and control the position in their hands.

But the military order is like a mountain, and without the commander's order, even he Wu Xiuda does not dare to assert himself. Moreover, it is not only their Du7th Brigade that is fighting now, but also the Du12th Brigade, the 92nd Division, and the Special Operations Brigade are all fighting, and if he disrupts the war situation because of his arbitrary opinions, the commander will definitely not spare him when he goes back.

Fortunately, Ma Zheng didn't let him hold back for long, and the order for the assault was quickly issued. After receiving Ma Zheng's order, Wu Xiuda couldn't help but feel excited, and immediately ordered the troops to let go of their hands and take down the outlying positions set up by the Japanese army outside the city.

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