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Chapter 166: Garrison Jinxi

The burning of the remains is a heavy job. Tens of thousands of corpses were put together, and even if it was burned, it would take a long time to complete. The soldiers had just died not long ago, and the toxicity of chemical weapons remained on their bodies. The soldiers who were not prepared dared not approach them, which also brought great trouble to the 99th Army's handling of the funeral.

There is not enough full set of protective suits, so the soldiers can only be responsible for the funeral of the fallen soldiers in the army. Fortunately, it is winter now, the temperature is so low, and so many corpses will not cause plague or anything else if they are left for one or two days.

The Ninety-Nine Army stayed there for two days. They had been doing the same job these two days, which was to constantly search for names and addresses from the dead soldiers, and then each company began to order people and assemble troops to count the detailed casualties.

This was basically the first time that the Ninety-Nine Army had carried out these tasks, and there was no experience in all aspects. So at the beginning, everyone was confused. The numbers reported below were too different from those recorded by the military headquarters, so they had to verify the casualties again and again.

Time passed little by little, and there was still some gap between the numbers recorded by the military headquarters and the numbers reported below, but this gap narrowed a lot compared to the beginning. According to the original plan, today will be the last day for the Ninety-Nine Army to stay here. Early tomorrow morning, more than 20,000 troops in the 766th Division will set off to station in Jinxi City. However, with more than 20,000 troops to defend Jinxi City, the 766th Division is under a relatively high pressure.

In desperation, Su Dao could only transfer the armored brigade back to 200 tanks to assist the 766th Division, and at the same time, two regiments were transferred from the 767th Division and the 768th Division. A troops of about 12,000 people were to assist the 766th Division's defense. Although the 99th Army had about 140,000 people after this battle, its non-combat troops were also a very large number. The entire combat troops were basically less than 100,000.

Facing the danger of the Kwantung Army's possible raising troops again, the 99th Army's strength seemed a little insufficient. In desperation, Su Dao could only order each division to recruit 20,000 troops and incorporate new soldiers into the logistics force. At the same time, some veterans of the logistics force were transferred to the front-line troops. It was too late to train new soldiers, and it was a forced task to adopt this method.

"How is the count of casualties?" Su Dao stood in the military headquarters and looked at Wu Zhongguo who was already busy.

"It's still a little bit too bad. The missing soldiers reported below were 100 more than the ID cards we collected." Wu Zhongguo looked at Su Dao speechlessly. Since the establishment of this financial and logistics department, Wu Zhongguo found that it seemed that there was no impact on Su Dao's work. But the work that was supposed to be on Su Dao's head suddenly fell on him. In addition, the two deputy section chiefs who had just been promoted were still somewhat inexperienced. When facing such a thing, they were also a little busy and didn't know where to start? So whether it was the matter in the military or the financial and logistics department, Wu Zhongguo was basically responsible for it.

But then again, Su Dao, the boss of the hand-off, is becoming more and more convenient, but Su Dao is also getting more and more capable of taking on him. Of course, all the things he takes are left to Wu Zhongguo to take charge.

"You must find those more than one hundred soldiers, or their identity cards. If you can't find them, you will be troublesome in the future." Su Dao said softly with a little sadness. The identity card is the only certificate that Su Dao can ensure that the soldiers are alive or dead. Without finding the identity card, the soldiers' bodies were burned. In the future, even if you want to verify it, you cannot verify it.

"Can we deal with the soldiers who have confirmed their identities first? People who die will be buried in peace. I think it is a bit inappropriate to put them in this ice and snow." Wu Zhongguo sighed and asked.

"Well, that's fine. We must pay tribute to every soldier. They are heroes of the motherland. The soldiers who die under the poisonous gas will wait a moment. They have to deal with it separately, otherwise the bodies of the soldiers will not grow here." Su Dao lowered his head silently.

In front of a dug tomb pit, the body of a soldier was placed respectfully next to the tomb pit. Due to the lack of supplies, it would be good to prepare a tomb pit for each of these soldiers. As for the coffin, it is impossible to do it with the current financial resources or situation of the 99th Army.

A soldier sat next to a corpse, looked at the body silently with his head down, and did not say a word for a long time. With the joint efforts of several soldiers, the soldier had already put on a clean military uniform, but the coat outside was still the same, covered with dust, but it was slapped as clean as possible.

"Old squad leader, what's the point of asking me to tell you? Teach me the ability to kill the enemy, teach me how to shoot, teach me how to fight, teach me how to avoid enemy bullets, but why didn't you dodge?" The soldier looked at the body with a bit of infarction and suddenly spoke.

Immediately the soldier took out a box of cigarettes from his shirt pocket, lit one and took two puffs, then tugged it beside the body, and lit a cigarette again, and finally stuffed the remaining half of the cigarette box matches into the pocket of the body.

"You taught me to smoke, really don't say that this thing is really fucking useful. I feel much better after taking a few puffs. You take the remaining half of the box on the way, but don't give it to other brothers. This was something I stolen from the king's pawn. Not only cigarettes, but also good things." As he said that, the soldier took out a small bottle of wine from another pocket, shook it in front of the body, and continued.

"See? This is a good thing, and I came from Wang Pai. I heard that the Master Prize was awarded to the group Prize. The group Prize gave Wang Pai a bottle. I wonder what would happen if Wang Pai found out that the wine was gone? No matter what, now there is wine, we two will drink one first. I know you have a lot of alcohol, but we only have a small bottle of this wine. Let's talk about it first. I'll give you more than half and I drink half. How about it?"

The soldier opened the wine bottle, poured it a bit next to the body, and then poured it into his mouth a little, and he also said that there was no food to serve. Let's just let it go first, and the conditions will be better in the future. I'm setting a table for you.

"Huzi, haven't finished saying goodbye yet? Okay. Just say it's almost done. Maybe one day our brothers will meet there. It's not too late to talk there. Come clean up and be buried." An officer in a lieutenant uniform trotted over. When he looked at the cigarette and wine in Zhang Hu's hand, his eyes were stunned.

"Good boy, I dare to steal my cigarettes and wine. I'm too brave, right?" the lieutenant looked at Zhang Hu and cursed. But that's all. He didn't continue to scold him. He could see Zhang Hu's actions clearly just now, and he also knew what he was doing with these things.

Not long afterwards, four soldiers stood beside each body. After a command, the soldiers gently placed the bodies of the fallen soldiers into the tomb. Without a coffin, they could only put their clothes in. Then they covered their faces with extra clothes.

Not long after, the bodies of these soldiers were placed in the tomb. Four soldiers stood in a row at one end of the tomb, raising the steel guns in their hands. A regular fire in the air, and gunshots were heard everywhere for a moment, and the sound of gunshots shook the sky. The people in Jinxi City, who had just stabilized, couldn't help but become nervous again. Could it be that the Japanese came so quickly?

After doing this, the troops began to gather slowly. Then they were assigned the next task. Since the subsequent processing work could not be completed in one or two days, and in order to prohibit the surrounding people from entering the poison area and being infected, some soldiers had to be left to continue to be alert.

The next morning, the troops began to bypass the battlefield a few days ago and swaggered from the surrounding areas to Jinxi. They also knew clearly whether there were Guandong troops inside.

This is also the reason why Su Dao delayed the troops' time to enter the city. It was mainly because Lu Guo did not send any information from Jinxi City. Su Dao didn't know what was going on inside. Although he was not worried about the Eastern Army waiting, he really didn't want to see any casualties in the army. After this battle, Su Dao was now afraid of the number of casualties.

The main force of the 766th Division was entering Jinxi City in an orderly manner under the guidance of the special forces. Although the Kwantung Army did not stay and ambush, they had destroyed what was destroyed here before leaving, and snatched away all the valuable things. All that was left was a broken city. But even so, the soldiers of the 766th Division were also very happy. After fighting for so long, they finally had their own territory.

The Air Force kept patrolling in the air, monitoring all the dynamics in the surrounding area. It was necessary for the large forces of the East Army to appear, and it would inevitably be impossible to escape the air force's reconnaissance. The Kwantung Army's fighter jets had not appeared after that failure. The reason was that the north had already started fighting. The Kwantung Army was now unable to take care of their side. Since it could not draw more troops to eliminate the Ninety-Nine Army, nor could it completely contain the Ninety-Nine Army, so they could only set up a new defensive position in Jinzhou. They wanted to block the Ninety-Nine Army south of Jinzhou, and at the same time asked the Navy to launch artillery bombardment in Jinxi and other places.

At this time, Su Dao did not enter Jinxi immediately, but asked Wu Zhongguo to enter Jinxi City first to command all actions. He continued to stay in the original military headquarters to do one thing, which was a sample of the death notice. Su Dao never wanted to be with Wuhan. So whether it was the promotion of officers, or weapons, equipment, military pay, Su Dao never asked for instructions in Wuhan. These were all done by himself.
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