Chapter 607 This is the first and last time (first update)
Compared with the depressing atmosphere at the Japanese brigade headquarters, the atmosphere at the Japanese garrison headquarters in Yixian County was much more relaxed.
No, the garrison headquarters at this moment has become the former enemy headquarters of the Duer Regiment.
Everyone in the conference room had genuine smiles on their faces. The battalion commanders and regimental commanders gathered together to discuss their recent battle experiences. It was very lively.
It wasn't until Kong Jie, Liu Sen, and Huang Yu walked in that everyone sat upright.
"Comrades..." Kong Jie was not the kind of person who liked to talk nonsense, so he spoke frankly as he sat on the chair.
"Today's meeting mainly discusses three things with you: two good things and one bad thing. I don't know if you want to hear the good thing or the bad thing first?"
"Captain, let's break the bad news first!" Chief of Staff Liu Sen answered.
"I heard Xiao Huang say that when you were in the Northwestern Shanxi Independent Regiment, the battle summary meeting would first report the bad news, so that everyone could realize their shortcomings and deficiencies on the battlefield, summarize the combat experience, and then talk about the good news to encourage them.
Military spirit.”
"I think this method is good, and it should be promoted in the Duer Group..."
Kong Jie nodded: "Then let me break the bad news to everyone first!"
After saying that, his face became extremely serious, and he turned to look at Huang Yu: "Xiao Huang, come and tell everyone."
"Comrades..." Huang Yu introduced the list of losses that he had already calculated.
"In this round of reinforcements, although we severely damaged the Japanese reinforcements and captured the county seat of Yixian, we also paid a huge price for ourselves, especially the city-wide garrison responsible for the frontal blocking mission."
"According to statistics: a total of 768 people from the city's garrison were killed, 126 were seriously injured, and half of the group was wiped out."
"However, looking at the entire battlefield, although the losses of the Mancheng Garrison Regiment were huge, the Mancheng Garrison Regiment was the best fighting group among all the participating troops, and even fought better than the main force of the regiment."
"Especially the 1st Battalion of the Mancheng Garrison Regiment: Facing the fierce attack of Japanese field artillery and mortars, the participating troops suffered more than 60% casualties without collapse. They continued to fight head-on, defeated the fierce attack of two Japanese infantry squadrons, and completely wiped out one infantry squadron.
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"All the battalion commanders in the base area are here. I want to ask, who dares to say that his troops can hold their position under the fierce attack of dozens of Japanese artillery fire, repel the Japanese attack, and completely wipe out a replacement squadron."
The conference room instantly became silent, and many people had embarrassed expressions on their faces, especially Deng Jingye, the leader of the Wangdu Guard Regiment, and his three battalion commanders, whose heads were almost lowered to their crotches, for fear that Huang Yu would notice them.
them.
The troops who were beaten back by the Japanese during the pursuit came from the Wangdu Garrison Regiment.
Their opponents were also two infantry squadrons and had no artillery to participate in the battle. Logically speaking, their combat pressure should be much lower than that of the city-wide garrison.
In the end, they were beaten by the Japs to the point where the entire army was almost wiped out. It was completely opposite to the results obtained by the First Battalion of the Mancheng Guard Regiment.
If Huang Yu brought this battle up to make a fuss, the Wangdu garrison would definitely be embarrassed.
At this moment, Huang Qi of the Mancheng Garrison suddenly stood up: "Report to the Deputy Chief of Staff, the reason why we can hold our position is not because I have trained the troops well, but because the proportion of veterans in the team is far higher than that of other troops.
, even twice as many as the main force of the group."
Speaking of this, Huang Qi's face clearly showed an expression of embarrassment: "When we attacked Mancheng, we rescued a large number of prisoners from the frontal battlefield from the Japanese. After mobilization, most of the prisoners of war chose to join us."
"These people are veterans who were accidentally captured on the frontal battlefield. They are very capable and have fought in big battles."
"If these people hadn't been holding on to the position, the blocking force would have collapsed on the battlefield..."
Huang Yu pressed his hand and motioned Huang Qi to sit down, and continued: "I understand what Captain Huang said, and this is what I want to tell you next."
"The city-wide garrison relied on hundreds of veterans to withstand the fierce attack of the Japanese army and successfully defended its position. The proportion of veterans in other teams was too small. If they suffered a slight blow, they would collapse and lose their combat effectiveness. This shows that the number of veterans in an army is very low.
The importance of grassroots cadres.”
"In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, all the troops in the base area are trained to be as elite as the city-wide garrison, capable of attacking and defending on the battlefield. The regiment decided to set up a teaching team and hired some military school teachers to serve as instructors to help train everyone at the grassroots level.
cadre."
"Before the war, the head of the regiment set up a teaching team and started this war before he even had time to notify everyone."
"Now I officially inform everyone of this."
"After the meeting, no matter how big the casualties are, each garrison regiment will send thirty veterans to the teaching team who have made meritorious service on the battlefield and are capable of serving as squad leaders."
"Of course, if there are outstanding recruits, we can send them over."
"The teaching team helps train everyone to become qualified grassroots cadres, and then they are unified and decentralized to each unit to serve as squad leaders, deputy platoon leaders, and even platoon leaders."
"From now on, all squad platoon leaders in the base area must join the teaching team for one to three months of rotation training..."
"When the teaching team expands in the future, even the battalion commanders will have to join the teaching team for rotation training to learn and improve everyone's commanding capabilities."
"If someone is reluctant to part with the talents they have, they are afraid that the regiment headquarters will not return them to everyone if they want them, and they will just find some people to come and make up the number. When the first batch of grassroots cadres complete the rotation training and be distributed in the future, don't blame the regiment headquarters for favoring one over others."
"No more nonsense. I will continue to inform you of the losses of each unit in the battle."
"The Wangdu garrison was responsible for attacking the Japanese field artillery positions and chasing down the defeated Japanese troops. A total of 519 people were sacrificed and 254 were seriously injured. It did not affect the operation and there were no statistics on the lightly wounded who did not require hospitalization."
"Shunping garrison was responsible for attacking Japanese flank guard positions and offensive positions. A total of 426 people were sacrificed and 120 were seriously injured."
"The main force of the regiment was responsible for attacking the county seat of Yixian County. A total of 694 people were sacrificed and 158 were seriously injured."
"The entire army sacrificed a total of 2,407 people, seriously injured 658 people, and almost wiped out a reinforced regiment."
"Since the establishment of the Du Er Regiment, not ten thousand but six or seven thousand Japanese and puppet troops have been wiped out, but there has never been a battle with such a heavy sacrifice."
"Although there are many reasons beyond our control, I hope this is the first and last time."
"From now on, we must train our troops well, straighten our backs, and not give the Japanese and puppet troops any opportunity to take advantage of us."
If you don’t tell me, you don’t know. If you tell me, you will be shocked.
The battalion commander below was well aware of the casualties of his own troops, but did not know the casualties of other troops. He always felt that the base had won a great victory, and the casualties of other troops must be smaller than his own.
Unexpectedly, the total casualties of each unit exceeded 3,000, and more than 2,400 people died alone.
Overnight, more than 2,400 fresh lives were lost.
A person who was jumping around yesterday has now turned into a cold corpse.
Many of the sacrificed soldiers were recruited into the army and trained by them, but now they are all gone.
There are also many sacrificed soldiers who don’t even know their names...
The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became particularly depressing, with everyone looking down with heavy expressions.
"Cheer up, everyone!" Kong Jie suddenly interrupted.
"Although the price we paid in this war was unprecedented, all the sacrifices were worth it."
"With this victory, the Baoding mixed brigade will definitely not dare to rashly raid the Yizhong base area in the short term. Everyone will have time to train and improve their combat effectiveness."
"When the Japanese raid the base next time, we must teach them a lesson and avenge the comrades who died tonight."
"Now, I would like to ask the Chief of Staff to inform everyone of our gains in this war, so that everyone can be happy and let the fallen comrades know that their efforts were not in vain."
Liu Sen stood up immediately: "Comrades..."
"Our gains from this war are divided into two parts. Let me first introduce to you the gains from attacking Yixian County."
"Total annihilation of 429 Japanese soldiers below the rank of major captain, 398 puppet soldiers, and capture of 317 puppet soldiers."
"We seized 749 long and short guns of various types, 19 light machine guns, 6 heavy machine guns, and four mortars..."
"We also seized 100 unopened 38-guns from the Yixian Arsenal, six light machine guns, two heavy machine guns, two mortars, nearly 200,000 rounds of various bullets, and 600 artillery shells.
A thousand grenades, fifteen hundred grenades."
"180,000 kilograms of various grains, 21 boxes of cans, a large amount of bed clothes, and salt were seized from the granaries and material warehouses in Yixian County..."
"A total of 2,647 Japs were wiped out in the Peishan Blockade, including one major and seven captains."
"There are so many weapons seized, including four intact field guns, six intact mountain guns, two infantry platoons, 14 mortars, 16 heavy machine guns, 53 light machine guns, and 1,659 other items.
gun."
"This is what we gained after the Japs destroyed a lot of weapons and ammunition before they left. If the Japs didn't blow up the weapons, our gain would have been 30% more, especially the field artillery."
"There are a total of twelve guns. Eight of them were blown up by the Japanese. If they are all captured, we can immediately expand the field artillery battalion into a field artillery regiment."
"But we ourselves also lost a lot of weapons in the battle, especially artillery and frontal blocking troops."
"In order to reduce the pressure on the frontal blocking troops, the artillerymen used themselves as bait and engaged in artillery battles with the Japanese when their artillery skills were inferior to the Japanese. They lost a total of two field guns, two mountain guns, three infantry guns, and nine mortars.
, 8 heavy machine guns, 26 light machine guns, and more than 1,200 long guns."
"In general, we still make a profit. After replenishing the losses, the remaining weapons and ammunition are still enough for us to expand our troops."
"In order to make the best use of these weapons and prevent them from rusting in the warehouse, the regiment decided to add a field artillery company to the field artillery battalion. Each garrison regiment is equipped with an artillery company equipped with four mountain guns or infantry guns. The main battalion
Equip a mortar company, a fire platoon for the main force company, and equip the troops with all the light and heavy machine guns and artillery we captured."
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