Liu Hua came to the battlefield, looked at the corpses on the ground, looked at the tired soldiers, looked at the remains of the fallen martyrs one after another, Liu Hua shed tears of his own.
"Political Commissar, the soldiers have worked too hard and are too tired. They should take a rest. What do you think?" Liu Hua looked at the political commissar Guan Xiangying behind him.
"Well, Army Commander, just give the order what to do!" Political Commissar Guan Xiangying also nodded with tears in his eyes.
"Correspondent, order the commanders of each regiment to let the soldiers seize the time to rest on the spot, clean the battlefield in the afternoon, and order the guard units and artillery units of each regiment, division, and legion to take on security duties. Issue the order immediately."
"Yes, legion commander."
The General Headquarters of the Red Second Front Army said, "Congratulations, President, congratulations to President, the Seventh Army has a great victory, the Seventh Army has a great victory!" Excited shouts slowly passed into the command headquarters. Looking at the communications staff who hurried in in front of them, congratulations to General
Quickly hand over a glass of water.
"Quick, show me." Before the staff member could react, Mr. He grabbed the telegram in his hand.
"Haha, Liu Hua, this young boy, always gives us surprises. He wiped out five enemy brigades. Oh my God, he even killed Chen Quzhen himself. Now Xiangxi has conquered our Red Army." Mr. He said with a smile.
"Quick, let me ask you about the casualties of the Seventh Army?" Although so many enemy troops were wiped out, Mr. He immediately began to worry when he thought of the losses suffered by his own division ambushing two enemy battalions.
"Yes, Mr. He." The staff officer quickly ran to the radio station.
The enemy's Shimen County Headquarters. "Brigadier Commander, Brigadier Commander, it's bad, all contact between us and the commander-in-chief has been cut off." The communications staff officer ran in panting.
"What, how is it possible? Hurry up and keep in touch, and send me a signal force..." After hearing this, the brigade commander was shocked and sat down on the ground.
At noon, the communications staff officer ran in again. "Brigade commander, something happened, and we still can't contact the commander-in-chief. All the communications troops were sent out, but no one came back."
"What? How is it possible?" Cold sweat began to break out on the brigade commander's forehead.
"Let the three regiment commanders come to the headquarters for a meeting." The brigade commander said weakly.
Soon, the three regiment commanders came to the headquarters, and they all looked at their brigade commander with puzzled faces. "Brigade commander, what happened?" Looking at the pale brigade commander, one regiment commander couldn't help but ask.
Asked.
"Brothers, I got news this morning that we lost radio contact with the commander-in-chief. We sent out all the signal troops this morning, but none of them came back. I'm calling you here just to discuss with you. What is our situation now?"
After finishing speaking, he stopped talking.
…
Soon, after a fierce debate, several regiment commanders reached an agreement that saving their lives was more important than saving their own lives first! Soon, the brigade commander issued the final order: all troops should assemble within two hours and lead all
Evacuate Shimen County and head to Changsha with all the baggage and supplies that can be taken away.
When Liu Hua's Seventh Army Corps was preparing to clean up the battlefield, Shimen County had become an empty city. Soon, this information was passed to Liu Hua through the reconnaissance camp.
"Order: The political commissar will lead the first and second regiments as the vanguard to immediately occupy Shimen County. I will lead the remaining troops to clean the battlefield here. We must clean the battlefield thoroughly and take away everything that can be used. We will basically have no big accounts in the future.
, so we must collect as much supplies as possible.”
His army immediately started functioning like a machine.
In the evening, at the original headquarters of Chen Quzhen, the Seventh Army of the Red Army held a summary of the Shiwanping Ambush Battle. Although the battle was victorious, every commander and soldier who came to the meeting had a gloomy face and no smile. Everything
, all caused by that casualty report.
Liu Hua picked up the report on the table again:
One regiment, 280 people were killed, 84 were seriously injured, and more than 400 were slightly injured, which is equivalent to the loss of a battalion. Now one can imagine the combat effectiveness of a battalion...
The Second Regiment, 240 people were killed, 110 were seriously injured, and more than 350 were slightly injured....
The two regiments of the Third Division suffered the most casualties, with more than half of them being casualties...
A total of 3,254 people were killed in the whole legion, 1,100 were seriously injured, and more than 4,500 were slightly injured. After this battle, the combat effectiveness of the Seventh Legion was basically lost by more than half.
"Fortunately, there haven't been any major battles recently, otherwise we wouldn't have had time to recover!" Liu Hua said with emotion.
Political Commissar, we all know the casualty situation. There are still more than 12,000 people left in the entire army. Excluding the logistics personnel, the average number of people per division is about 3,000, and each regiment has less than 1,000 people left. Haha, it’s sad.
Now that we have finished talking about the happy things, political commissar, let us read to our comrades the results of this battle." Liu Hua stood up and said.
"Yes! Comrades, although more than half of our Seventh Army Corps suffered casualties and heavy losses this time, comrades, we have also achieved great results. Therefore, comrades should not be discouraged and should cheer up. Now I will read
Let’s take a look at the great results we achieved this time.
In this battle, we annihilated five enemy brigades in total, killing more than 11,000 of them, seriously wounding more than 1,000, and capturing about 3,000 prisoners. After our screening, about 2,000 of the more than 3,000 prisoners could join our Red Army, so comrades
You have to work hard!
Seized: We seized a total of 42 heavy machine guns, 124 light machine guns, more than 4,000 rifles, a total of 800,000 rounds of bullets, a total of 25 mortars, and 2,000 artillery shells. All other weapons and ammunition were destroyed by artillery shells in Shimen County.
Nearly 1 million jins of grain and a portion of silver dollars were seized.
That’s all.” After the political commissar finished speaking, he sat down.
"Comrades, this battle is the first time that our Seventh Army has suffered such heavy casualties since its establishment. I know you are heartbroken, and so am I. However, we cannot be angry, because there will be more severe battles waiting in the future.
Us. So we have to cheer up and lead the troops.
After the meeting is over, each regiment will immediately go back to count the strength of each battalion and company. Tomorrow, we will prepare for the unified reorganization of the entire army. We will reduce the establishment, train elite troops, and strengthen the individual combat effectiveness of the troops. The specific time of the next meeting will be announced. The meeting will adjourn. "