Liu Lang's calculations were very accurate. From the start of the battle to the complete defeat of the stubborn Japanese army in the valley, to the three infantry regiments and three infantry battalions searching the entire valley and the foot of the mountain grass by grass and hole by hole to clear out the remaining Japanese invaders, it took a whole time.
3 and a half hours.
By the time the three infantry regiment commanders came over to report to the headquarters composed of Liu and Deng, as well as Liu Lang, who had arrived at the front line, that they had completed the search for the remaining enemies, the sky had completely darkened.
However, there were dots of fire on the mountains and in the valleys. During the battle at the front, the baggage company behind the mountains was not idle. They used all their hands to prepare a large number of torches and dry firewood, and sent them to the destination when it got slightly dark.
Frontline departments.
All the baggage troops of the two armies were responsible for lighting piles of bonfires in the valley. The soldiers holding torches had not yet sat down to rest. They were still busy cleaning the battlefield, counting the number of enemies killed and seizures.
Every time a battle is won, it is the happiest moment for the soldiers, especially the red soldiers. They can replenish enough ammunition to last several battles.
The corpses of the Japanese soldiers who were killed were carried to one end of the river valley, and they were densely packed all over the river beach. After counting, not counting those outside the river valley, there were 2,319 corpses in the entire river valley, including Japanese soldiers.
The bodies of the major captain, Ryo Ikeda, as well as three captains and four lieutenants were found. There were even dozens of squad leaders, second lieutenants, and sergeants.
The bodies of the eight Japanese officers were lined up together, and the red central reporters accompanying the 129th Division specially took pictures, and then went to cool off with their subordinates.
Their role is to confirm the results of the battle, which cannot be reported to the Jindong Frontline Headquarters yet. There is no need for Liu Lang to remind Liu Lang, but the two of them should tactfully remind Liu Lang that it is still during the war, and it is best to keep it confidential during the period.
Do not report the results of the battle here to above.
In fact, the Jindong Frontline Command sent inquiries to the 129th Division Headquarters and the 386th Brigade Headquarters as early as noon, asking about the activities of the Japanese troops in the Cheyu Town area and the location of the main force of the 129th Division.
The answers given by the future military god and future general were half-truths and half-falsehoods, saying that the main force of the 129th Division had arrived at Qigen Village, and that a total of more than 10,000 people from five infantry regiments, including one brigade and three regiments, were setting up a defense line south of Teyu Town to reach Japan.
The Japanese invaders, due to the advantage of the mountain, had already resisted more than 6,000 Japanese troops. Please ask the headquarters to mobilize a large army to participate in the encirclement to annihilate the Japanese invaders, and support 12 mountain cannons or 40 mortars to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese invaders.
Admiral Huang, who was at the Jindong Frontline Command, felt relieved after receiving the news. Wululing was lost. Thousands of Japanese troops passed through Wululing and detoured around Chaiyu Town, which has always been a thorn in his back. Now there are eighteen
The more than 10,000 men of the 129th Division of the Group Army blocked them based on the mountain conditions, which was really great.
The battle involving nearly 20,000 people can also explain why there are fighter planes in the skies of Shanxi. The second theater has been asking for air support from Nanjing for a long time. These young guys in the Air Force are good. When they first entered Shanxi, they gave Shanxi
The Japanese army aviation, which had been wreaking havoc on the front line for a long time, was given a harsh lesson.
Although he is mainly in charge of government affairs in Guangxi, General Huang is not incompetent in military matters. He knows that once the air threat is gone, no matter how scummy the troops on the ground are, they can still resist the Japanese invaders for some time, not to mention the gang of national government officials.
What about the "Red Bandits" who were not wiped out even with hundreds of thousands of troops? Although they were poorly equipped, they had an extremely tenacious will to fight. With more than 10,000 people and favorable terrain, they would have no problem resisting the offensive of more than 6,000 Japanese troops for several days.
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As for the future military god's request in the message to mobilize a large army to encircle the Japanese army, General Huang just laughed and didn't take it seriously at all. He really took himself seriously. It would be great if he could block it, but he also encircled the Japanese army.
.The old man mobilized the country's elite troops to fight the Japanese army in Songhu. How many Japanese soldiers were killed and injured in total?
The battle report in early October stated that there were more than three to five thousand, but he didn't know how much water there was in it. If he squeezed it, he still didn't know if it was twenty-five thousand. For those colleagues who were good at inflating their military exploits, he felt that
But it couldn't be clearer.
If the Japanese want to encircle these 6,000-strong infantry brigade, not even 40,000 to 50,000 people can encircle them? Do they want him to mobilize all the 26th Route Army on the southeastern Shanxi front and the 22nd Army, which is still 150 miles away from the battlefield?
Come here? That's Huang Shaohong's head! The 108th and 109th divisions, which are rushing southward along the Pinghan-Han Line, only need to make a slight turn to fight through Shandong, which has lost its southern front strength.
When the time comes, shouldn't he, the commander of the eastern Shanxi front line, take the blame?
As for the support of 12 mountain cannons or 40 mortars required by the future military god, the commander threw them to the side of the desk. What a joke, how many mountain cannons and mortars did he have in the entire Shanxi Eastern War Zone?
Here you go, not to mention other ministries that have strong opinions, even those in Nanjing will be scolded when they hear about it!
Of course, without troop support or equipment support, General Huang was still very particular. He sent a telegram to praise the 129th Division and even the 18th Group Army, and promised to report the 129th Division's achievements in resisting the Japanese invaders to the Commander-in-Chief of the Second Theater Command.
Report to the Military and Administrative Office of the National Government. If the Japanese invaders can be delayed for three days until the 22nd Army arrives in the theater, they will be asked to change defenses here.
He said it was more beautiful than flowers, but in reality it meant nothing. Even when he said he would switch defenses after three days, it was the Sichuan Army that he regarded as the unlucky ones.
However, perhaps because he was somewhat embarrassed, this person stopped sending telegrams after sending the encouraging telegrams, and never kept silent about the war here. This saved Liu Lang and others a lot of worries.
, it would be very troublesome if this man also imitated the man in the government who wanted to be a famous general and commanded by remote control. In this way, it would be good to stay at the headquarters and be his imperial envoy.
In fact, this is also the advantage of General Huang. As the head of the administration in Guangxi, there is a big boss named Li who sits above him. General Bai, who is known as the "Little Zhuge" in the military, is in charge. He also takes care of people's livelihood and central affairs.
Coordinating, he has become accustomed to not telling the military generals below. Although this time he took up the post of deputy commander of the 2nd Theater with Shang Fang's sword, the habit formed over a long time is not easy to change.
Otherwise, how could Liu Lang be so convenient? After greeting several division commanders and army commanders who were familiar with giving gifts, the troops were mobilized in various defense areas. This can be regarded as a good place arranged by the bald principal for Liu Lang and the independent regiment this time.
!If you were walking around the Independent Regiment in Songhu and looking around, the big boss sitting in Nanjing, commanding Ruoding Company and even asking about the whereabouts of an infantry battalion, would not chop off your Liu Tuanzuo's head first to prove it.
According to military law, the halo of your protagonist Liu Lang is too bright.
However, I am afraid that even Liu Lang could not have imagined that part of the military intelligence report that was placed on this man's desk at noon had already appeared on Bunzaburo Kawagishi's desk when he happily harvested it here in the river valley. That was Huang
The admiral briefly mentioned the current war situation at the military meeting in the afternoon, just to reassure the generals. He did not specify how many Japanese troops there were.
However, this is enough, and it can completely reassure the Japanese Army Lieutenant General who is a little anxious after losing contact with the reinforcements of 3,000 people again.
The 129th Division of the 18th Group Army, with only 13,000 troops, began to take advantage of the terrain to catch that idiot Yoshio Utsuki off guard. But if they wanted to eat them in one bite, they couldn't even send a message.
, that dream is a bit too ridiculous, not to mention he has 3,000 infantry reinforcements!
It's just that this field radio is a little too impatient! As soon as it enters the mountainous area there, it can no longer receive or send signals. The idiot experts from the Imperial Communications Department don't know how it was designed.
The Army Lieutenant General's focus this time in the office was no longer on his own subordinates, but on domestic ordnance researchers.
Not only did the battle report deceive the superiors, but several military reporters, including Liu Xueyuan, wrote the celebration manuscripts but did not publish them. Including reporting to the Red Central Committee, they only said, "The battle is still going on and our losses are huge."
Words such as "micro" were not reported as a great victory.
In other words, in these high mountains, no one except these ten thousand people knew how big a victory they had fought.
From 7:30 in the morning to 6:30 in the afternoon, in just 11 hours, they wiped out more than 9,000 Japanese invaders.
Countless weapons and baggage were seized.
Not counting the previous ones in Qigen Village, in the battle in the river valley alone, they seized more than 2,500 usable and damaged but repairable rifles, 21 intact light machine guns, 30 grenade launchers, and 5 damaged heavy machine guns.
However, it can repair two infantry guns and two intact mountain guns. 355 artillery shells, 450 special grenade rounds, more than 4,000 Japanese grenades, and more than 830,000 rounds of various machine rifle bullets.
Bundles of rifles were piled somewhere, and machine guns glowed faintly blue in the dim light of the fire. Especially the two mountain cannons placed there intact looked so cute. In the past, the red soldiers would have been eager to eat.
I didn’t even eat, I was full just looking at these babies.
But this time, there was a precedent of Qigen Village annihilating more than 6,000 people and capturing a huge sum. These more than 2,000 rifles, a mere 20 machine guns and two small cannons could no longer provoke their G-spot.
Instead, Liu Tuanzuo waved his hand and distributed more than 20,000 cans of canned meat in ten trucks brought by the Japanese reinforcements, making them very happy.
Groups of soldiers sat in platoons around the campfire, laughing and laughing as they ate potato stewed fat pork and white rice served by the independent regiment's military supplies office and the cooking classes of the 129th Division, plus the Japanese army's delicious canned beef with kimchi.
Not only was there rice and meat, but each infantry platoon was also given three kilograms of liquor. In fact, on average, each person only received less than one or two, and it was purely to satisfy their cravings. But that was all the inventory that the independent regiment's munitions department could transport.
Okay, fifteen hundred kilograms of liquor needs a big truck to transport it!
"Come on, Commander Liu, let me toast you. You, Commander Liu, and the Independent Regiment should take the lead in this battle." Even the always serious future military god, holding a can of meat in one hand and a small bowl of white wine in the other, offered Liu Lang a toast.