[Anti-Japanese Iron and Blood King] Chapter 627: The Sword Refers to Qingdao (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

On November 1, at the same time that Liu Fengchi's unit was annihilating the 12th Division of the Japanese Army in Kailu, Ma Zheng held an emergency meeting in Jingyanggang, Yanggu County. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After receiving Ma Zheng's order to hold a meeting, all the divisional and brigade-level officers of the Independent Division of the Shandong Military Region came, and before the time came, all the participants had arrived.

Knowing that there were wars going on on all battlefields now, and that the commander must have a task in convening them for a meeting at this time, the atmosphere in the conference room was naturally very tense with the big war imminent, and everyone sat quietly in their positions, not chatting, laughing, and scolding as casually as before.

With great strides, Ma Zheng walked into the conference room.

Seeing Ma Zheng walk in, all the officers hurriedly got up to show respect.

After Ma Zheng sat on the main seat, he said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Everyone is here, please take a seat!"

"Before the meeting, I will announce a few things, I have just received news that the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division Combined Cavalry Division have won a complete victory on the Tongliao front, completely annihilating the 12th Division of the Japanese Army, in addition to annihilating three divisions of the puppet army, annihilating more than 40,000 enemies."

Before Ma Zheng finished speaking, there was a burst of applause in the conference room, followed by a burst of warm applause.

"Okay, great fun! Well played! ”

"It's another big victory, I don't know what happened to that old devil in the upper village, if he is killed, there will be no less than ten devil generals in our hands!"

"Not only ten, but twenty if you count the major general!"

signaled everyone to be quiet, and then Ma Zheng said again: "The battle on the Tongliao front is really good, not only the 12th Division of the Japanese Army has been completely annihilated, but the division has escaped from the lieutenant general division commander Lieutenant General Uemura, the brigade commander Major General Suzuki, down to the ordinary soldiers. However, on the Xinkou front, we fell into an extremely passive situation, and the Japanese Fifth Division, together with the 20th Division and the Independent Mixed Second Brigade and other units, launched an extremely fierce siege on the integrated 1st Division in Yuanping Town, and Huang Sicheng's unit suffered heavy casualties. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "I have ordered the reorganized 4th Division and the artillery brigade, assault brigade and cavalry brigade directly under the military region to go south to reinforce the reorganized 1st Division, and the reorganized 5th Division is also assembled in Jining, ready to go south as a reserve at any time. ”

As he spoke, Ma Zheng stood up, walked to the hanging map, pointed to the Yuanping area and said: "Everyone, please see, now our army has deployed nearly 60,000 troops of two divisions and three brigades in Shuoxian, Daixian, Shanyin and Yuanping Town, in addition to 40,000 reserves on the front line of Datong and Jining, and the total strength gathered has reached 100,000. Coupled with the combat troops in the Tongliao direction, our army used a total of more than 140,000 troops in this battle, accounting for almost 70% of our troops. ”

"The opponent of our army is the most elite 5th Division and 20th Division of the Japanese army, in addition to at least two divisions and regiments in Taiyuan, Shouyang, Yangquan and other places, plus two independent mixed brigade reserve troops, with a total strength of more than 100,000 people. The troops of China and Japan on the front line of Xinkou alone are at least 120,000 or more, and it can be said that this is a strategic decisive battle! ”

Xie Wensheng couldn't help but ask in a deep voice: "Commander, is it too early to have a strategic decisive battle with the Japanese army, if we fight with the Japanese army, I'm afraid we will only cheapen others." ”

Ma Zheng's natural way Xie Wensheng meant, immediately smiled and said: "Now is really not suitable for a strategic decisive battle with the Japanese, so the battle on the Xinkou front is just a pretense, and what we really want to do is to play a big game of chess!" ”

"Hiss" Everyone gasped when they heard this, what kind of big chess needs to send more than 100,000 troops to make a cover, it seems that the commander's big chess game is extraordinary!

Ma Zheng continued: "Everyone still remembers what our mission was to go south to Shandong this time, yes, it is to form the Shandong Military Region and coordinate the anti-Japanese forces in the land of Qilu. But more importantly, it is necessary to control part of the coastline and receive overseas aid to China. ”

"Control the coastline?"

"Receiving supplies for China?"

This task is an extremely confidential matter, and the people in the entire Suicha Military Region who know about this matter are definitely no more than a slap in the face, and none of the officers present are of a very high rank, so they obviously do not know about this matter.

"I won't say much about the specific things, in short, we are heading south this time to go to one place, that is, the east coast. And I've already received news that the supply ship to help us has departed from the port and is expected to arrive off the coast of China in a month, which means that we have to control a section of the coastline within 20 days, or even a port, in order to receive the supplies. ”

"Commander, isn't a month too short?" Xu Weiguo also asked.

"Short code? In fact, it's not short, you must know that I have been arranging for three months to fight this battle, and it is not short. Ma Zheng said with a smile.

"Three months?" Everyone was shocked again, they have almost been with Ma Zheng in the past few months, and the troops have been fighting during this time, and they haven't seen anything Ma Zheng arrange!

"Commander, Shandong's coastline is very long, where are you going to fight?" The person who asked this was Hu Yanbing, the former commander of the assault brigade of the Suicha Military Region.

Hu Yanbing was transferred by Ma Zheng half a month ago, and he was transferred with 500 naval soldiers who had been brought to North China by Hu Yanbing from the Third Fleet of the Nationalist Government Navy, and Hu Yanbing was appointed by Ma Zheng as the commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Division three days ago.

Hearing Hu Yanbing's words, Ma Zheng pointed to a point on the map and said, "Here!" ”

"Qingdao?"

"Qingdao!"

Everyone was shocked again, this Qingdao was formerly known as "Jiaoao", also known as "Qindao", "Island City", also known as "Oriental Switzerland", located in the southeast coast of Shandong Peninsula, the east of Jiaodong Peninsula, east and south of the Yellow Sea, across the sea and the Korean Peninsula, the geographical location is extremely important. Moreover, Qingdao is also a famous port city, with the best natural deep-water port, and is an extremely important passage to the sea in North China.

In March of the 24th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, the German government forced the corrupt and incompetent Qing government to sign the "Lend-Lease Treaty of Jiaoao" on the grounds of the "Caozhou Teaching Case". According to the treaty, most of Qingdao became a German colony.

After the outbreak of World War I, Japanese militarism, which had long coveted Qingdao Port, immediately declared war on Germany under the pretext of dispatching about 50,000 troops of the 18th Independent Division and the 29th Infantry Brigade to seize the German Jiaoao leased land. Germany was defeated, and Japan replaced Germany and began to colonize Qingdao for eight years.

In 1919, after the vigorous "May Fourth Movement" and the indomitable struggle, the Chinese people were forced to return Qingdao to China in December 1922, but the Japanese invaders have always been smug to Qingdao, adopted various means, left a large number of secret agencies and opened a number of Japanese-funded enterprises, in an attempt to control Qingdao politically and economically; And actively look for opportunities to be ready for another armed invasion at any time.

On July 7, 1937, the "Lugou Bridge Incident" broke out that shocked China and the rest of the world, and Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China! After the "77 Incident," Japan launched a larger-scale and deeper-level war in order to cooperate with the world war between Germany and Italy in the European theater. Facing the Yellow Sea, Qingdao is located at the outpost of national defense, and it is a mixed area of Chinese and foreign, especially the Japanese and overseas Chinese, and the situation is even more tense.

At the beginning of August, the Japanese cabinet approved the secret plan for the military to attack Qingdao and prepared for armed invasion of Qingdao. At the same time, the Japanese army's military operations in North China were approaching step by step, China's resistance was minimal, and Qingdao was already in the wind. In addition, Japan has also deployed troops at sea and repeatedly provoked them, which has further tense the situation in Qingdao. Subsequently, Japan announced a blockade of Qingdao's sea traffic, at this time Shandong had fallen to most of the enemy, the western section of the Jiaoji Railway was also occupied by the Japanese army, and Qingdao was isolated.

Subsequently, for various reasons, a situation of diplomatic delay was formed. By January 10, 1938, the Japanese army immediately launched a large-scale military operation to invade Qingdao. On 14 January, the Kunisaki Detachment of the Japanese North China Front and the Fourth Fleet of the Navy entered the city one after another. At this point, Qingdao fell again, and became a colony of Japanese imperialism for the second time.

The Japanese army used Qingdao as a land, sea and air base, as a bridgehead for invasion into the interior, and stationed a large number of troops. Among them are the Qingdao Garrison, the Special Service Department, the Military Police, the Garrison and the Tong Force, as well as the Admiralty of the China Fleet and the Naval Base Command. Now Ma Zheng wants to use troops against Qingdao, which is unrealistic in everyone's eyes. (To be continued.) )