[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 705: Encircling and Annihilating Kato's Department (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Ma Zheng was very confident in this battle, and even if the enemy was outnumbered, he did not waver at all. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Because Ma Zheng knows that the Japanese army is not iron-clad, and their excellent soldiers are not industrial products on the assembly line, they can produce as much as they want.

The Japanese army is also flesh and blood, and elite soldiers can only be formed after years of training, and the combat effectiveness of untrained or poorly trained soldiers is the same. However, Japan was originally an island country with few resources, and its economic rise was only based on the decline of Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain in the second half of the 19th century, and it was only half a century before and after.

From the perspective of pure economic development, the Japanese have undoubtedly created an economic miracle second only to the British Industrial Revolution. But Japan's economy is a deformed economy, just like China at the same time. Japan's economy is surviving in the cracks, and it must guard against the oppression and squeeze of the Western powers, and at the same time, it cannot do without the support of the Western powers.

Therefore, Japan's economy has never been independent, and an economy that is not independent cannot support the government's large-scale military expansion, so Japan also carried out large-scale disarmament for a period of time, and forcibly cut four of its already small divisions.

It can be said that at the beginning of the war, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was indeed very strong, but the background was not as deep as people imagined, and the reserve force reserve was not strong. The war of more than two years and nearly three years had already consumed a large part of the experienced veterans of the Japanese army, so the Japanese government had to assemble the reserve soldiers, that is, the young and middle-aged soldiers whom the Japanese called soldiers in the countryside, and sent them to the Chinese battlefield after a short period of adaptive training.

Although these people have left the army, they still have the minimum quality of soldiers, and as long as they have fought a few battles, they can transform into real soldiers.

However, the consumption in the past two years was too great, especially the North China Front, which had wiped out so many soldiers one after another. Therefore, Japan had to send some peasants or small industrialists who had not undergone any training to the army to make up for the shortage of troops on the front line, and the 35th Infantry Division of the Japanese Army, which participated in the attack on southern Hebei, was one of them.

Although there were quite a few units used by the Japanese army to attack southern Hebei this time, there were two divisions and two mixed brigades, and third, except for the two independent mixed brigades, the rest were newly formed units of the Japanese army, and the 35th Infantry Division was the weakest in combat effectiveness.

The reason why the Japanese army sent these troops to southern Hebei was that, on the one hand, it really couldn't stand Shi Yousan's face showing off his might in southern Hebei, and on the other hand, it wanted to use the Chinese/army in southern Hebei to train troops.

Like at the beginning of the war, the Japanese army's training method was generally to use innocent Chinese civilians to practice, especially when practicing basic skills such as bayonet fighting and shooting accuracy, the victims were generally Chinese civilians.

However, in the past two years, the Chinese have risen and fallen into a huge rebellion, which has also made high-level Japanese people realize the hidden danger of brutality, so they sent military police to China to maintain discipline in the army. Although the Japanese military police generally went through the motions, they played a role in maintaining discipline in the army. Therefore, Tada Juncai wanted to use several well-known miscellaneous armies in China to train troops, among which Shi Yousan and the Eighth Route Army bore the brunt.

Since the Japanese army wanted to use the Eighth Route Army to train its troops, Ma Zheng suddenly had a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone in his heart, he wanted to pull out the teeth of the Japanese army, eat a complete infantry division of the Japanese army in southern Hebei, and deal a severe blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army.

Ma Zheng himself could not take command of the war in southern Hebei, but he handed over all the command of the troops to the former enemy command with Xie Wensheng and Liang Shangren as the core. As far as this former enemy command is concerned, it is still Xie Wensheng who is in charge.

Southern Hebei is an important strategic point in Ma Zheng's layout this time, and if the affairs in southern Hebei are properly handled, the situation in the entire northern part of Hebei will immediately undergo earth-shaking changes. At present, the strength of the Eighth Route Army in the north is almost the same as that of the Japanese army, although it is still inferior to the Japanese army in terms of quality, but in terms of quantity, it is not less than the Japanese army, and even more.

Compared with the Eighth Route Army, the Nationalist Government is far behind, and all the armies in the First and Second War Zones and the Sulu Theater together are not as good as the Eighth Route Army. Although the Eighth Route Army does not yet have the ability to completely annihilate the Japanese army in North China for the time being, Ma Zheng believes that it will not take a few years for the Eighth Route Army to grow into a behemoth, and it will definitely be able to fight the Japanese army head-on until they are completely annihilated.

It is precisely because of this confidence that Ma Zheng feels that he can already lay out. When the time comes, all the forces of the Japanese army in North China can be wiped out in one fell swoop and the war in the north can be completely resolved.

Just when Ma Zheng was worried about the war in southern Hebei, the war in Dashuiquan Village was also coming to an end. Under the careful layout of Yang Chengwu's department, the main force of the 26th Division of the Japanese army of more than 7,000 people was surrounded and annihilated by the Second Division of the Suicha Military Region in Dashuiquan Village, north of Xuanhua, although at the end of the battle, Lieutenant General Abe Guixiu personally led the main force of the 26th Division to come to the rescue, but it was blocked by the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division in Xujiaji, which was ten kilometers away from Dashuiquan.

The two sides fought an unusually fierce resistance battle on the land of less than 15 square kilometers in Xujiaji, in which the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division was reorganized and suffered heavy casualties, two of the three infantry regiments were disabled, and even the artillery regiment sent by Yang Chengwu to reinforce was basically destroyed by the artillery wing of the 26th Division.

But Abe Norihide's department did not bargain much, Abe Norihide always believed that the tenacious will to fight can often reverse the victory of a battle, but the Eighth Route Army used its strength to teach Abe Norihide a good lesson, in the face of absolute strength, no matter how tenacious the will to fight is in vain, it is just to increase casualties. In this battle, the 26th Division paid more than 4,600 casualties, but it was never able to push further from Xujiaji, and could only watch Kato's headquarters being torn to pieces in blood.

Annihilating Kato's headquarters is far more difficult than imagined, although Kato Osa is lightly surrounded by the enemy, but Kato is an out-and-out tactician, although the terrain in the valley area is not conducive to the defense of the Japanese army, but Kato ordered the troops to shrink into points of different sizes, hundreds of people as a meeting point, temporarily condensed a plate of scattered sand into a fighting force.

Although the troops gathered in groups were easily attacked by the devastating artillery units, the troops of the reorganized Second Division were deployed along the river valley, and there was not much stage for the soldiers to display, so Yang Chengwu concentrated so much automatic firepower to participate in the battle. This concentration of Japanese troops, coupled with Kato Daisa's command to break through to Taniguchi in the south, directly led to the fact that the Eighth Route Army, which was ambushed in the two-kilometer-long valley to the north, was useless.

Fortunately, Jiang Hao changed the battle mode in time, and the large army and the troops defending the valley mouth in the north immediately rushed into the valley, arranged defensive positions in the valley, and bit by bit encroached on the living space of Kato's headquarters. At the same time, he ordered the artillery unit to bombard Zhuyuan in the middle of the project, and take the river valley in the south as the key attack area.

But even so, not many Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded in the full four hours, and even half of the expected results were not achieved. In addition, there was also a fierce sound of gunfire from the south of the ambush zone, and both Kato Osa and Jiang Hao knew that it was Japanese reinforcements arriving.

Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, Kato Daisa's heart was relieved, although they are still not out of danger, but Kato Daisa believes that he can definitely wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

At the same time, Kato Daisa has other plans. It was already a quarter past two o'clock in the morning, and as long as it was dawn, the air force of the Great Japanese Empire could arrive, and then the tide of the war would take a new turn, and the prey and hunter would change their identities again.

Kato Daisa thought of this, and Yang Chengwu, who was sitting on the front line, also saw this. But speed is not enough, and none of them thought that Kato's department would be so difficult. In four hours, less than 3,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and this has to count more than 1,100 people in the cavalry wing, which means that there are still more than 2,000 Japanese troops in the encirclement.

According to the current attack intensity, it is not ordinarily difficult to take Kato's headquarters before dawn, and the Japanese army's land and air reinforcements will arrive after dawn, and then the large army will be passive. (To be continued.) )