After knowing that the Japs had bypassed the Jinsui Army's defense area, the leaders did not get angry during the meeting.
He happily praised all departments: "The workers of the arsenal performed very well in this battle. They did not panic in times of crisis. They organized themselves and armed themselves to cooperate with our army in the battle! I heard that Director Su is still cleaning up.
Kill a Japanese on the battlefield?"
Su Xin blushed, stood up and replied: "Report to the leader, he is an injured Japanese!"
"Those are also Japs!" the leader joked: "Comrade Wang Xuexin is a man who fights Japs and knows how to make equipment. You are a man who makes weapons and knows how to fight Japs! That's great!"
Everyone laughed heartily, knowing that the leader also intended to bring the two of them together.
The chief went on to say:
"The First Guard Company also performed very well. It knows how to use tricks to expose disguised enemies and knows how to fight with its brains! It deserves praise!"
"Comrade Wang Xuexin's Seventh Company performed particularly well. They reacted bravely and resourcefully in a timely manner, and thwarted the enemy's plot to attack Lujiagou and the arsenal one by one."
"Comrade Xie Baolin's recruits also fought bravely. I heard that more than fifty comrades died?"
Xie Baolin stood up and said: "Reporting to the leader, a total of sixty-two people have died. Not long ago, seven more seriously injured people died!"
Most of these comrades died while guarding minefields.
In the open area, although it was difficult for the Japanese to cross the minefield, they could shoot accurately.
This is fatal to new recruits, especially puppet troops who are severely undertrained.
Because they didn't know how to fire quickly after popping up their heads and then retract their heads, and they didn't know how to change places when shooting, let alone listen to the whistling sound of shells to dodge, so they suffered a lot of casualties.
The leader nodded heavily and said regretfully: "They are all good comrades. The motherland and the people will never forget them. At the same time, I want to apologize to you. I did not expect that the enemy would appear in the rear..."
The leader was very sincere in what he said. He really wanted to protect this team composed of normal university students because he knew very well what role this team would play in the army in the future.
"No, Chief!" Xie Baolin stood up and replied: "You don't need to apologize. More than 400 Japanese soldiers, including elite troops, attacked us. We all thought we were going to die on the battlefield, but in the end it was the Japanese soldiers who left more than 100 soldiers behind.
We repelled the corpses, we exchanged one for two, it was worth it! No one expected this result, so we feel happy, proud and grateful!"
Wang Xuexin could understand the meaning of Xie Baolin's words.
For the vast majority of puppet troops, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese is an unchallengeable ceiling, an extremely terrifying existence, and an invincible army.
This is not surprising, because stubborn armies often end up collapsing when fighting the Japanese, and it is not uncommon for several Japanese soldiers to occupy a city.
In addition, the puppet army generally promotes and supports this view...
On the one hand, most of the puppet troops are weak surrenderers. They can only find reasons for their greedy surrender behavior by exaggerating the combat effectiveness of the Japanese.
On the other hand, the Wang puppet regime wants to find a basis for its own theory of "saving the country through curves":
Only by shaping the Japanese into an invincible opponent can we conclude that China cannot win.
Since there is no way to win, resistance is meaningless and will only result in more people dying and consuming more financial, material and resources.
With this push, his act of surrender was successfully glorified as "saving the country through curves."
Therefore, in this brainwashing atmosphere of "top and bottom working together", each and every puppet army was obedient to the Japanese and did not dare to disobey easily... In many artillery towers, only one Japanese sergeant with dozens of puppet soldiers could control the puppet soldiers.
The army is very tight-lipped.
But now, when they joined the Eighth Route Army, they suddenly discovered that the Japanese were not that terrible. Not only could they defeat them, they could also defeat them and escape with a high casualty ratio.
So this shock, confidence, and pride are beyond words.
Xie Baolin was in this state at this time. To be precise, he and the recruits he led were in this state.
Xie Baolin looked around and said excitedly: "I want to thank you all. Everyone here has allowed us to see China's way out, let us see China's hope, and made us understand that as long as you are here, China will not perish!"
After saying that, Xie Baolin saluted the commanders and soldiers present in an upright manner.
The chief and chief of staff looked at each other and nodded slightly.
They knew that Xie Baolin and his party would change sooner or later, but they didn't expect it to happen so quickly and after a battle.
After a pause, the leader raised his head towards Xie Baolin and said: "Comrade Xie Baolin, what you said is very good, but there is one thing you said wrong! You should not say, 'As long as you are here, China will not perish', but you should
They say, 'As long as we are here, China will not perish'!"
"The chief is right!" the chief of staff continued: "You are also one of us. You have contributed to this battle, and you will perform well in the future!"
"Yes!" Xie Baolin stood up and saluted excitedly, as if he was honored to be called a member by the chief and chief of staff.
"We won't talk more about the merits!" The chief glanced at Wang Xuexin and said, "If we really count them, some people's merits would take days and nights to count, so let's not talk about them now!
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Everyone laughed and turned their attention to Wang Xuexin. They all knew that the "certain people" the leader mentioned was Wang Xuexin.
Wang Xuexin thought to himself, I can’t finish talking about the far ones, let’s talk about the close ones!
At any rate, let's count them and let us have some fun.
But thinking about it, of course I wouldn't say that.
The chief waited for everyone to become quiet, and then continued: "This battle also taught us a lesson. The Japanese army cannot penetrate from the front, so they try to get around the Jinsui Army from the side! This is difficult to do, and we can't do it.
Go give Yan Laoxi advice and ask him to keep his territory secure?"
The conference room burst into laughter again.
"Chief!" Chen Fujun suggested: "The Japanese's large-scale sneak attack this time means that Lujiagou is completely exposed. I think we should move!"
The leader was silent for a while, then turned to Zhang Wanhe and asked: "Old Zhang, what do you think?"
Zhang Wanhe hesitated for a while and then replied: "Chief, the headquarters can be moved, but our arsenal will stay here! We can block the Japanese from the front, but are we afraid that they will launch a sneak attack from behind? How can the arsenal develop if we move around?"
"That's right!" The leader nodded and said: "The situation is different now. In the past, we couldn't stop the front, and had to move as soon as we were discovered. Now the Japanese can only carry out sneak attacks, and the soldiers will cover them up with water and earth. Why don't we be afraid of him?"
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"But the chief..."
Chen Fujun wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by the chief: "You'd better think about how we can prevent the Japanese from sneaking around from the side and attacking!"