[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 722: The Huge Gap (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

According to Gao Shuxun's conservative estimate, the strength of the two divisions and ten regiments of the 69th Army can at most compete with one infantry wing of the Japanese army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, fortunately, the troops of the Japanese army going south this time were not all elite, and the troops of the two infantry divisions and two infantry brigades were not bad as the third brigade and regiment independently, and they could barely be regarded as elite, while the other troops were much inferior, especially the 32nd and 35th divisions were new units that had just been formed for less than four months.

Except for a small number of veterans with combat experience, the vast majority of the soldiers of these two divisions are recruits who have never been on the battlefield, which is why Tada Jun did not send the two infantry divisions to the battlefield in eastern Hebei or northern Shanxi, but let them go south to mess with the Kuomintang miscellaneous army and the Eighth Route Army.

Neither Tada Jun nor Kimura Hyotaro took the 69th Army and the New Eighth Army into account, because of Shi Yusan's reasons, so the Japanese army was extremely aware of the actual situation of this army. Therefore, after the troops moved south, Kimura Hyotaro did not use the 60th Army as an opponent at all, but wanted to attack Gao Shuxun's new Eighth Army with all his might.

On the one hand, of course, there are reasons for Shi Yousan, but more importantly, under the betrayal of the traitor, the 69th Army's virtual and real Japanese army has been clearly investigated. According to the analysis reported by the special high-tech department to the North China Front, the actual combat effectiveness of the 23,000-strong troops of the Shiyou Third Division was equivalent to that of an infantry brigade of the Imperial Japanese Army, so Kimura Hyotaro was completely dismissive of the Shiyou Third Division.

The reason why Shi Yousan was trying to force Shi Yousan to surrender several times was entirely out of political considerations, and a strategic group army of the Chinese government surrendered en masse under the leadership of the commander and commander of the lieutenant general's group army.

But no one thought that Shi Yousan, who had been a wall-to-wall grass all his life, would be killed by his old subordinate and good brother Gao Shuxun at this critical time, and it was also an upright death, and even the 69th Army, which had been listed as a friendly army by the Japanese army, was indirectly controlled by Gao Shuxun, and the results of the Japanese army's painstaking operation for so many years were suddenly in vain.

Of course, the Japanese were extremely dissatisfied with this matter, so Kimura Hyotaro couldn't take care of the Eighth Route Army that he had been thinking about before, but was ready to concentrate his forces to solve the Takashuxun department first.

Originally, according to the analysis of the special high-tech, whether it was Shi Yousan or Gao Shuxun, the troops led were just miscellaneous troops of the national government, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low, so Kimura Hyotaro was ready to solve the threat of Gao Shuxun's department in a week, and defeat or completely annihilate the new Eighth Army and the sixty-ninth army head-on, and it was best to wipe out these two armies.

But Gao Shuxun called so many helpers at once that Kimura Hyotaro was also a little anxious, originally according to the report submitted by the special high-tech to the North China Front, the relationship between Gao Shuxun and the leader of the Chinese government Jiang was not harmonious, once the imperial army attacked Gao Shuxun's department, the possibility of the Chinese government to rescue was very small, but it was more likely to order Gao Shuxun's department to retreat south.

But they still underestimated Lao Jiang's vigilance against the Eighth Route Army, in fact, Tegaoke's judgment was correct, if there was no existence of the Eighth Route Army, Lao Jiang would have ordered Gao Shuxun to retreat south. After all, the strength of Gao Shuxun's department is there, and it is impossible for him to be an opponent of the Japanese at all. But when Lao Jiang learned that the Eighth Route Army was eyeing southern Hebei and had gathered at least forty or fifty thousand people, things were different.

In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from being cheapened after the troops withdrew south, Lao Chiang had to reinforce the southern Hebei side. Coupled with Chen Cheng's persuasion before, Lao Jiang ordered Sun Dianying, Sun Liangcheng, Sun Lianzhong and other troops to immediately march to southern Hebei.

This series of actions by the Nationalist Government triggered a fierce backlash from the Japanese army in North China, and the North China Front Command ordered the Japanese troops in Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and other places to immediately build defensive lines on the spot to block enemy reinforcements. At the same time, he ordered Kimura Hyotaro to intensify his offensive and make sure to occupy Handan before the reinforcements from Takashu's department arrived.

Although the number of the Central China Front was not as large as that of the North China Front, the Central China Front had won a decisive victory in the previous war, breaking through Wuhan, the most important city along the Yangtze River in China, and defeating the million-strong army of China head-on.

The North China Front Army has not had a good day since the strong rise of Ma Zheng's headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, especially after the loss of all the northern grasslands, Ma Zheng's headquarters has a solid base area, perfect logistics and sufficient soldiers to greatly increase the combat effectiveness of this army, and even has directly threatened Beiping, the ruling center of the empire in North China.

In addition, the situation on the battlefields in various localities was also very unsatisfactory, and the great rebellion in eastern Hebei, the chaos in Shandong, the northern Jin Campaign, the Pingjin Campaign, the Southern Hebei Campaign, and other large and small battles greatly restrained the energy of the front army.

Some time ago, the Imperial Base Camp sent a telegram scolding the officers of the entire Front Army, large and small, from which it can be seen how dissatisfied the Base Camp is with the Front Army. Even His Excellency Tada Jun is in danger of being transferred back to China, and these lieutenant generals and major generals have also been scolded by the base camp.

The front army was reprimanded, and high-ranking officers like Hyotaro Kimura were not having a good time, and the base camp was full of doubts about their abilities. Therefore, for Kimura Hyotaro, this battle is not allowed to be defeated. In order to march south to Handan as soon as possible, Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro even personally commanded the battle on the Yongnian front.

The defense of Yongnian County is the new Sixth Division of Gao Shuxun's New Eighth Army, which is the absolute main force of the New Eighth Army. Listening to the fierce artillery sound coming from the position outside the city, Ma Runchang, the commander of the newly formed Sixth Division, was nervous, and the fierceness of the Japanese artillery fire was far beyond his expectations.

Ma Runchang was born in the army, and according to the whistling sound of shells in the sky, it can be judged that the artillery used by the Japanese army not only has 75mm caliber mountain artillery field artillery, but also 105mm caliber cannon, which is rare in the Chinese battlefield, and according to the intensity of artillery fire Ma Runchang judged that the Japanese army had at least one artillery wing, or even more.

In the past two days, although the New Sixth Division hid in strong fortifications, its casualties were not much smaller than those of the Japanese army. On the one hand, the weapons and equipment of the New Eighth Army, a ragtag army that does not care about grandma and uncle and does not love stepmother, are very poor, except for two old-fashioned infantry guns, there are only 12 mortars in the whole army, there are less than 50 heavy machine guns, and there is nothing else except light machine guns for air defense weapons.

Such weapons and equipment were not at the same level as the Japanese army, which was equivalent to the firepower of a reinforced wing of the Japanese army, so the New Sixth Division lost more than 3,000 people in just two days.

The phone rang in the headquarters, but there was no good news.

"Division, Liu Tuanzuo from the front line called and said that the Japanese army had just carried out a 20-minute artillery bombardment of our army's position, causing heavy casualties to our army, and the third company of the second regiment, one battalion, and three companies suddenly collapsed because the air-raid shelter was hit head-on by eight Japanese shells...... Liu Tuanzuo begged the division commander to send reinforcements as soon as possible......"

"Division, news came from the front line, ten minutes ago the Japanese Yamamoto Brigade launched a continuous group charge like a regimental position, and used tank fighting vehicles and air support, although the first regiment repelled the enemy's attack, but he was also seriously injured, Zhang Tuanzuo of the first regiment said that if the division commander did not send reinforcements, the position of the first regiment would be supported for two hours at most and would fall into the hands of the enemy......"

Ma Runchang gritted his teeth and said: "Tell me Liu Da'er and Zhang Erwa, just say that there are no reinforcements, but the position must be defended for me, and let them come to see if the position is lost." ”

Ma Runchang himself knows that although several regiment commanders on the front line are crying and shouting for reinforcements, it is easy to say that they can still support it, although there is still a regiment in his hand that has not been used, but that is the last family of the new Sixth Division, if the reserves are used so early, then how can the next battle be fought.

So now he doesn't have any reinforcements, and the army commander gave Ma Runchang an order to hold Yongnian for a week, which means that within a week, don't think about the arrival of reinforcements on the Yongnian front, everything has to rely on yourself. (To be continued.) )