"Our Eighth Route Army has achieved great results in this battle!"
At the new regiment headquarters, Zhao Gang was all smiles:
"Annihilating more than 60,000 Japanese troops, killing three lieutenant generals, and forcing one lieutenant general to commit suicide by caesarean section, which is equivalent to killing four lieutenant generals!"
Seven days have passed since the end of the battle. All units of the Eighth Route Army have returned to their respective bases. Each unit has reported on the enemy's kills and its own casualties.
Originally, Li Yunlong was planning to lead a new regiment to the north and took the opportunity to clean up the 1st Division.
However, Li Yunlong received a secret message from Boss Chen, saying that reinforcements from five Japanese divisions had arrived in North China.
Therefore, Li Yunlong ordered Ding Wei and Kong Jie to lead their troops to withdraw to northwest Shanxi.
The 1st Division is the fat on Li Yunlong's lips. He can eat it whenever he wants. It is only a matter of time to deal with the 1st Division.
In addition, the Eighth Route Army headquarters sent two troops to garrison Yangquan and Shouyang.
However, Japanese reinforcements from 8 divisions and 1 cavalry brigade arrived, and the Eighth Route Army headquarters ordered the Yangquan and Shouyang troops to evacuate.
The Japanese North China Front received reinforcements from five divisions and retook Yangquan and Shouyang, as well as the Zhengtai Railway.
Li Yunlong was not only not angry, but also very happy.
The more Japanese soldiers came to Shanxi, the more excited Li Yunlong became.
In Li Yunlong's eyes, these devils are not devils, but walking weapons, ammunition and food.
Beside Zhao Gang, Chief of Staff Wang Dehou, Deputy Commander Xing Zhiguo and First Battalion Commander Zhang Dabiao were also smiling from ear to ear.
Wang Dehou pointed to a stack of telegrams on the table and said happily: "Not long after our battle report was made public, congratulatory messages from all over the country came. From the Second Theater Command Headquarters, the mountain city government, the theater headquarters and patriots from all walks of life,
In the past two days, our New Regiment has received dozens of congratulatory messages, congratulating our Eighth Route Army for launching an active offensive in the Shanxi area and achieving great results, which has dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese invaders and strengthened our country's prestige."
After a pause, Wang Dehou pointed to another stack of telegrams and said: "These telegrams are congratulatory messages from the headquarters, division headquarters and brigades. By the way, Commander, YA also personally sent you a commendation telegram.
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"YA?" Li Yunlong's expression changed, "Find out the YA award telegram and show it to me."
"Yes, leader."
Wang Dehou immediately found the telegram from YA and handed it to Li Yunlong.
The telegram was sent in the morning, but at that time Li Yunlong was in the field hospital, checking on the conditions of the wounded.
Since it was not important information or an important order from his superiors, Wang Dehou waited until Li Yunlong returned to the regiment headquarters before showing it to him.
Li Yunlong took the telegram and read it. The writing was very sophisticated. Li Yunlong saw that it was the telegram that he had drafted himself.
Sure enough, at the end of the telegram, Li Yunlong saw that person's name.
In the telegram, the man praised Li Yunlong for his sound strategy and fruitful results in this battle, praised Li Yunlong as a handsome man, and said that he would like to meet him in person if he had the opportunity.
At the end of the telegram, the person wrote a poem to Li Yunlong.
The poem is majestic and not inferior to the one written by the boss: "The mountains are high, the roads are far away and the ditches are deep, and the armies are galloping in all directions. Who dares to stand upright with a sword? I am the only one, General Peng."
After reading this telegram, Li Yunlong's face was filled with excitement and he couldn't help but feel full of energy.
Li Yunlong knew that that man didn't often praise others.
Apart from the brigade commander, that person was the person Li Yunlong respected and admired the most in his life.
After staring at the telegram for a long time, Li Yunlong was so happy that he put it away reluctantly. The expression on his face was as if he was kissing for the first time, with a sweet smile.
"Captain, what's the content of the telegram?" Looking at the expression on Li Yunlong's face, Zhang Dabiao asked with wide eyes, "Can you show it to me?"
In addition to Wang Dehou, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo also had extremely interested expressions on their faces.
This piece of shit, reading a telegram is like seeing an airplane or a tank, it's so beautiful.
"Hold it carefully, don't fucking tear it to pieces, I want to use it as a family heirloom."
Li Yunlong glanced at Zhang Dabiao angrily, took out the telegram and handed it to Zhang Dabiao to satisfy his curiosity.
Zhang Dabiao was most afraid of Li Yunlong. He looked solemn and quickly took the telegram with both hands and carefully read it.
After reading the telegram, Zhang Dabiao could not help but admire and admire him endlessly.
Then, Zhang Dabiao handed the telegram to Zhao Gang. After reading the contents of the telegram, Zhao Gang couldn't help but smile: "The gap between educated people and educated people is really big. This writing style is amazing, and if you look at this poem, it is majestic."
, I can already feel the killing energy coming towards me."
Zhao Gang boasts that his cultural level is not low, but compared with this one, it is far behind.
"Old Zhao, why are you so happy?" Li Yunlong curled his lips, "Make it seem like your kid has won an award?"
"Hey!" Zhao Gang was speechless for a moment, "You, Old Li, are in charge of the heavens and the earth. Do you also care if others are happy?"
After Xing Zhiguo read the telegram, Li Yunlong carefully put the telegram in his pocket.
Taking a deep breath, suppressing the urge in his heart, Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang: "What are the casualties of our Eighth Route Army?"
"The casualties in this battle are within expectations."
Zhao Gang put away the smile on his face and continued:
"I don't know the casualties of our brother troops, but the casualties of the 129th Division and our Northwestern Shanxi Eighth Route Army have been calculated."
"The total casualties were more than 10,000, including more than 5,000 killed and more than 5,000 injured, including more than 2,000 seriously injured."
After a pause, Zhao Gang sighed with emotion: "The casualty ratio between the Japanese army and us is almost six to one. If it is a field battle and the advantages of our Eighth Route Army are fully utilized, the Japanese army's casualties will be greater, and our casualties will be smaller."
In the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain in another time and space, the casualty ratio between the Japanese army and the Chinese army was 1:26, which was very exaggerated.
In this battle, most of the Eighth Route Army's casualties were caused by street fighting with the Japanese army.
There is no way to fight in a street fight.
Japanese soldiers received bushido-style training from an early age. They had high spiritual understanding of bushido, and their minds were full of loyalty to the Locust and the empire. Moreover, the 33rd Division and the 37th Division were the elite divisions of the Japanese army.
After being besieged in the city, the Japanese army refused to surrender and fought against the Eighth Route Army with a desperate fight and shared death strategy.
But if it is a field battle, it may not be possible to completely wipe out the 33rd Division and the 37th Division.
If things go wrong, the Japanese may break out and take away some troops.
But if it was a field battle, the Eighth Route Army could achieve a battle loss ratio of 1:10 with the Japanese army, or even an even more exaggerated battle loss ratio.
For example, in the Datong battlefield, the Dingkong Corps fought against the Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia. The Dingkong Corps suffered about 1,000 casualties, while the Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia suffered more than 20,000 casualties.
certainly.
This is because almost all the heavy firepower of the new regiment was given to Kong Jie's command to achieve this effect.
"Yeah! With good weapons and equipment and sufficient logistical supplies, fighting is a pleasure."
Li Yunlong nodded with the same emotion in his tone.
In 1939, Li Yunlong's troops captured a Type 92 infantry gun. He was so happy that he didn't sleep all night, thinking that now someone would attack the Japanese gun tower!
As a result, within two days, the Type 92 infantry gun was robbed by the brigade commander. Li Yunlong was dumbfounded on the spot.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Yunlong led his troops to capture the Japanese's crooked guns, the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the 38-type cover, which were great things.
Now, these Japanese equipment were placed in front of Li Yunlong, and he didn't even look at them. In his eyes, the Japanese equipment was only slightly better than scrap metal.
Li Yunlong didn't want to give it to him. Even the soldiers under his command disliked the Japanese weapons after using the weapons and ammunition produced by Boss Chen.
Zhao Gang nodded and said: "In addition to the good equipment, the bloody fighting of the soldiers is also inseparable from the strategy of you, the commander-in-chief."
Li Yunlong nodded without comment.
My former enemy commander-in-chief conducted this battle beautifully, and even the YA guy was full of praise for it.
After all, even if you have first-class equipment and first-class soldiers, if your commanders and generals are not up to par, it will be difficult to win the battle.
For example, a certain principal.
First-class commanders, first-class equipment and first-class soldiers will fight and win more battles, the more elite veterans will survive, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will be stronger. This is a virtuous circle.
For example, Xinyi Tuan can achieve its current strength because of this, just like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.
And now, the new regiment is developing faster and faster, and can expand to tens of thousands of troops at a time.
Li Yunlong looked at Wang Dehou: "Send a telegram to the 129th Division, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment each, asking them to send the total number of weapons and ammunition consumed as soon as possible, so that I can arrange delivery with Boss Chen."
On the Shanxi battlefield, the Eighth Route Army dispatched a total of 220,000 main elites, and the consumption of weapons and ammunition was not a small amount.
Hundreds of thousands of shells alone were fired, not to mention bullets. It is conservatively estimated that 10 million rounds of bullets were consumed.
Most of the Japanese were killed by shells.
The Brothers Military Region also helped the 129th Division and the New Regiment with reinforcements, but the Brothers Military Region was not under the command of Li Yunlong, so the consumption of weapons and ammunition in the Brothers Military Region was not reimbursed by Li Yunlong.
"Yes, Commander." Wang Dehou said, "I urge all ministries to report the lost ammunition consumption as soon as possible."
"Okay." Li Yunlong nodded.
Zhao Gang suggested with a smile on his face: "Lao Li, we have used a lot of troops this time. It may take some time to calculate the consumption of weapons and ammunition, but you can contact Boss Chen first and settle our business account first."
"That makes sense."
Li Yunlong's eyes lit up slightly.
Wang Dehou, Xing Zhiguo and Zhang Dabiao on the side had deep expectations in their eyes.
His original plan was to wait for the statistics of weapons and ammunition to be released before contacting Boss Chen together.
However, these partners of mine are obviously eager to know what good things Boss Chen will give them.
In this battle, 4 lieutenant generals were killed, plus the 16 Japanese generals killed before, a total of 20 Japanese generals were killed.
Although Lieutenant General Sakurai Shozo, the commander of the 33rd Division, committed suicide, it was the Eighth Route Army that forced him to commit suicide, and the result of the battle was naturally attributed to the new regiment.
Li Yunlong heard Boss Chen say last time that if you kill 20 Japanese generals in total, you will unlock new weapons.
Captain Li is also a little impatient. I wonder what new weapons Boss Chen will give us this time?
At that moment, Li Yunlong was about to get up, go get the radio phone given to him by Boss Chen, and contact Boss Chen to settle the bill.
But at this moment, guard Huang Erhu ran in quickly and gave a military salute: "Report to the leader, Boss Chen has arrived at the entrance of the village!"
Li Yunlong's eyes suddenly lit up: "Please come quickly."
Just as Huang Erhu was about to turn around and leave, Li Yunlong quickly stopped him: "Wait a minute, I'll go and invite Boss Chen in person."
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