[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 900: The Secret Adjustment of the Japanese Army (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Since Japan's expansion into Southeast Asia since last year, the United States, a major power in the region, has aroused dissatisfaction, and in order to give Japan a little color, the US government has frozen economic trade with Japan, the most important of which is oil. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Without oil, Japan's planes would not be able to ascend into the sky, ships would not be able to sail in the sea, and Japan would not be able to continue its expansion abroad.

In addition, Japan's oil can only last for half a year, and Japan understands that it can either withdraw its troops from China, stop its external expansion, and move closer to the United States diplomatically. Either they will form their own banner, go south to seize strategic resources, and continue to intensify their aggression against foreign countries.

There are colonies of the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands in the South Seas, and entering the South Seas is tantamount to declaring war on the United States and Britain. Therefore, for a time, Japan's top leaders faced a huge test, but Japan's ally Germany was obviously happy to see Japan's declaration of war with Britain, France, and the United States, and did a lot of work in private. Therefore, the atmosphere in Japan became extremely strange for a while, and even the attack on the Suicha Military Region with the entire North China Front Army was pale.

As for the specific plans in Japan, except for the high-ranking military officers who held real power in the base camp and the emperor of Japan, no one else knew about it. Even Ma Zheng didn't notice it, but Okamura Ningji is now complaining bitterly.

Originally, Okamura Ninji planned to ask for reinforcements from Japan, but he didn't expect to receive an order to promote his military rank, and his military rank was promoted from lieutenant general to general.

It was a happy thing to be promoted, but then another order from the base camp made Okamura Ningji dumbfounded. In view of the chaotic establishment of the North China Front, the impurity of personnel, and the existence of huge loopholes in management, the base camp decided to adjust the troop establishment in North China.

After the adjustment, the North China Front Army still has two armies under its jurisdiction, namely, the First Army stationed in Shanxi and the Twelfth Army stationed in Shandong, as well as units directly under the Front Army.

The 1st Army stationed in Shanxi was stationed in Taiyuan, under the commander of Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, and the 1st Army was under the jurisdiction of the 36th Division, the 37th Division, the 41st Division, the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, the 4th Independent Brigade, and the 16th Independent Brigade.

The 12th Army stationed in Shandong, the military headquarters is stationed in Jinan, the commander is Iida Sadagu, and the 12th Army has the 21st Division, the 35th Division, the 32nd Division, the 10th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 6th Independent Mixed Brigade.

The troops directly under the Front Army are under the jurisdiction of the 38th Division, the 39th Division, the 10th Division, the 3rd Tank Division, the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 6th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, and the Aviation Group.

At the same time, the base camp ordered the North China Front to drive Ma Zheng's headquarters out of Hebei and Chanan, especially after recovering Zhangjiakou and removing the threat of the Eighth Route Army to the Beijing-Tianjin area, it temporarily stopped advancing to the hinterland controlled by the Japanese Ma Zheng's headquarters.

As a result, the entire North China Front Army was reduced from 16 divisions and eight independent mixed brigades and 380,000 troops under its current jurisdiction to only 9 divisions and seven independent mixed brigades and 260,000 troops, and was ready to reduce 130,000 troops at once.

If it is calculated according to the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army two years ago, then even if it is reduced by tens of thousands of people, it is not a big deal. But now that the front army has just suffered heavy losses and has not fully recovered its combat effectiveness, if so many troops are transferred at once, it will really make it difficult for Okamura Ningji, an old devil.

With Okamura Ninji's IQ, it is not difficult to think of the reasons for the domestic adjustment of China's battlefield troop deployment, which of the above problems is just a cover, it must be that the country has already made a decision on going north or south, and now the adjustment of troops is just to prepare for the next big war.

Moreover, with Okamura's understanding of the domestic situation, I am afraid that the probability of going south is greater, which means that the empire is about to go to war with the powerful United States, Britain, the Netherlands and other Western countries. It can be said that the critical moment for the survival of the Yamato nation has arrived, and if it wins, the Empire of Japan will become a superpower that dominates the world, and if it fails, I am afraid that the whole of Japan will be completely wiped off the face of the earth by these enemies.

Ma Zheng did not know that the Japanese army had begun to plan how to withdraw at this time, and at the same time planned how to deal with the possible retaliation of Ma Zheng's troops. Ma Zheng still thought that the Japanese army would follow the steps of the troops of the Suicha Military Region step by step as he had set, so in the next few days, Ma Zheng's front-line troops continued to retreat and retreat.

However, Ma Zheng was not idle when he retreated, and he ordered the senior cadres of the military region who remained in Guisui to form a new unit as soon as possible. On the other hand, he ordered the intelligence department to step up the infiltration of the puppet North China security army, and it was imperative that the Japanese puppet army could be dealt a blow when needed. Of course, this ruined cauldron must make the Japanese puppet army really sink the cauldron and sink the boat.

In addition, Ma Zheng also ordered the local governments of Xinghe, Tianzhen, and other localities to immediately call on the masses of the people to build a large fortress group at the junction of Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei.

Although this task seems to be daunting, according to the construction drawings issued by Ma Zheng to the two county governments, this project will hollow out all the bellies of the 32 small hills on the way from Xinghe County to Tianzhen County.

Moreover, at least 55 pillboxes should be built along the road, and at the same time, this sub-mother pillbox group composed of 13 main forts and 61 auxiliary pillboxes should be built in the mountain, except for the shooting holes. All the forts required a large number of underground passages to connect them, and the amount of work was far greater than anyone expected.

Even if the headquarters of the military region sent three engineer regiments to assist in the work, such a large amount of work could not be completed in a day or two, but fortunately, Ma Zheng gave him a long enough time.

Ma Zheng predicted that it was still impossible for the Japanese army to take Weixian, Yangyuan, Wanquan and other counties in a short period of time, and it would not be difficult for the Japanese army to take Yangyuan and other counties with its current strength, but under the stubborn resistance of the various units of the Suicha Military Region, this time would take one to two months at the shortest.

Ma Zheng is a person who is good at calculation, so after careful calculation, Ma Zheng believes that as long as the raw materials can keep up, then this huge bunker group can be built in two months.

However, the situation from the front line was very strange, although the Japanese 33rd Division still advanced after taking Wei County, the speed slowed down unconsciously.

The 40th Division, another unit of the Japanese army, stopped directly at Nangaoya and no longer advanced, as for the Japanese army in the direction of Zhangjiakou, there was no abnormal situation, the 10th Division still attacked Xuanhua County desperately, although Shi Wenhu's division achieved a lot of results, but it was still attacked by the Japanese army step by step into Xuanhua City.

The situation of the 35th Division of the Japanese Army, which attacked Chongli, was the least optimistic, because the 35th Division was a newly formed three-unit garrison division, and the entire division and regiment directly governed three infantry wings, and there were no military units at the brigade level, so the entire 38th Division had only more than 13,240 people.

The most important thing is that, except for the veterans of an infantry wing, the rest of these units are some soldiers who have just completed three months of basic military training for recruits, and such troops are okay against the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, which are generally not high in combat effectiveness, but it is somewhat reluctant to allow such Japanese troops to attack well-armed and well-trained regular troops.

Not to mention confronting the elite of Ma Zheng's department, even in the face of the elite of the Nationalist Government or the leaders of the local miscellaneous armies like the 35th Army in the Second War Zone, they may not have a chance of winning, if it weren't for the old devil Okamura Ningji who sent a lot of reinforcements to the 35th Division, Li Wenqing couldn't bear to swallow this Japanese division alive early in the morning, and it would be their turn to continue to march in the direction of Chicheng and Chongli.

Except for a veteran unit of less than 4,000 people, which is not quite decent, the others are simply peasants who have just learned to shoot, and they are no better than the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and the accurate shooting that the Japanese army is proud of is not applicable to this unit at all.

However, due to the assistance of the tank brigade just sent by the North China Front Headquarters and a large number of air forces, Li Wenqing did not try to defeat this infantry division, but used the fortifications of Akagi to greatly damage the living forces of the Japanese army.

After more than a week of hard fighting, Li Wenqing's unit stubbornly inflicted more than 11,000 casualties on the Japanese puppet troops participating in the attack, directly killed more than 6,500 Japanese puppet troops, and lost more than 4,000 Japanese troops during the period.

However, the results of the 35th Division can be regarded as being explained, and they recaptured the territory of dozens of towns and villages in two county towns from the Japanese Ma Zheng headquarters at the cost of 4,000 casualties, and this transaction is not a loss of money.

In the minds of all the officers of the Japanese army, the puppet army actually does not belong to the battle sequence of the Japanese army, and even sometimes they do not treat the puppet army as a human being. So it doesn't matter how many Japanese troops are lost.

Of the 4,000 people lost by the 35th Division, only more than 1,400 died, and the rest were wounded of varying degrees of severity, and even more than 1,000 people could return to the battlefield after three or five days of cultivation at most, or they could still go to the battlefield to fight after enduring it, so the top leaders of the 35th Division believed that the Imperial Army had only lost more than 3,000 recruits.

What's more, they also strategically completed a semi-encirclement of Zhangjiakou, as long as they rushed to the city of Zhangjiakou, then several armies besieged Zhangjiakou, and the possibility of Ma Zheng's troops wanting to hold this provincial capital city was very small. (To be continued.) )