Before dawn, the neighborhood that had been fighting fiercely for half the night finally fell silent.
In the end, the counterattack force of the Chahar Independent Regiment failed to completely drive the Japs out of the neighborhood outside the North Gate. With the cover of artillery, the Japs still firmly occupied the two outermost streets. As a result, after dawn, they
It is no longer necessary to launch an attack from the outside of the city, but can directly use these two blocks as the forward base to launch the attack, which will make the combat efficiency much higher.
When the first ray of sunshine finally fell from the eastern sky, the Chahar Independent Regiment took the initiative to retreat a hundred meters, and the little devils also had a tacit understanding and did not pursue. The two sides quickly broke away from contact, no matter for the Chahar Independent Regiment
, or for the Japanese, they all urgently need time to lick their wounds at this time.
It didn't take long for the number of casualties to be quickly calculated.
In the counterattack last night, the fifth battalion responsible for the North Gate battlefield suffered more than a thousand casualties, including more than 800 killed. This death rate is quite high! In other words, the fifth battalion lost just one night counterattack.
Nearly half of the people were killed. If there was another night counterattack like this, the fifth battalion would basically be able to cancel its establishment.
The Sixth Battalion in charge of the East Gate Battlefield and the Seventh Battalion in charge of the West Gate Battlefield are similar.
The number of casualties in the entire regiment exceeded 3,000, of which nearly 2,000 were killed!
Looking at these two shocking figures, Wang Husheng's hands were trembling slightly, as if the thin piece of paper in his hand was actually of great weight! There were more than three thousand people, and this was more than three thousand pieces of paper.
Living life! One night, just one night, these more than 3,000 living men turned into more than 3,000 cold corpses!
What is even more distressing is that the remains of a considerable number of soldiers have not been recovered from the battlefield!
After taking a deep breath of the hot air, Wang Husheng still couldn't suppress his sadness and asked in a trembling voice: "Ajie, why are the casualties so high? Especially why is the death rate so high?"
Logically speaking, the Chahar Independent Regiment is the attacker and has firmly controlled the fighting area from beginning to end, so the injured soldiers have enough opportunities and time to receive rescue, so the death rate should be very low, and
Because the Japanese have lost control of the battlefield, the death rate will be much higher, but that doesn't seem to be the case now.
Du Junjie sighed and said sadly: "The main reason is that hand-to-hand combat is too cruel, and those who were injured were basically killed."
"Hand-to-hand combat?!" Wang Husheng jumped up and shouted hoarsely, "Before the counterattack, Lao Xu and I had repeatedly stressed that hand-to-hand combat is not allowed unless absolutely necessary. Why didn't they listen? Why didn't they listen?!"
Because he felt sorry for the fallen officers and soldiers, Wang Husheng lost control of his emotions.
Xu Rui patted Wang Husheng on the shoulder and said, "Old Wang, calm down."
"I can't calm down!" Wang Husheng shook off Xu Rui's hand, and then vented his anger on Xu Rui's head, saying angrily, "I haven't talked about you yet! We have obviously built more complete defenses in the city.
, and even dug four vertical and four horizontal main tunnels. Such a strong defense was not used, but they had to fight back in the ruined neighborhoods outside the city. Are you satisfied now? More than 3,000 soldiers were lost in one night.
Are you satisfied now? Om?!"
The entire regiment was silent, except for Wang Husheng's roar one after another.
Wang Husheng vented for a long time before Leng Tiefeng said: "Old Wang, you wrongly blamed Lao Xu. Lao Xu did not ignore the sacrifice of soldiers in order to protect the fortifications in the city, nor did he deliberately want to fight back in the ruins outside the city, but because
Ishihara Wanji, an old Japanese soldier, is too cunning. If he does not fight back but retreats to the city to hold on, this old Japanese soldier may temporarily stop attacking and instead target the puppet troops and peasant armed forces around Fengtian!"
"Yes!" Du Junjie also explained immediately, "With the strength of the Seventh Army of the Japanese Army, if Ishihara Wanji changes the direction of the war now, our Chahar Independent Regiment will be powerless. I am afraid we can only watch the surrounding areas of Fengtian.
Anyway, the puppet troops and the peasant armed forces who rebelled were annihilated one by one by the Japanese Seventh Army."
Leng Tiefeng continued: "In this way, although our Chahar Independent Regiment can easily achieve the goal of holding on for six months in Fengtian, after completing this goal, we can still only break out from Fengtian!"
After a pause, Leng Tiefeng continued: "But on the other hand, if Ishihara Wan'er can be given a little false hope to firmly contain the Japanese Seventh Army in Fengtian, then the puppet troops and peasant armed forces around Fengtian will have enough power.
It takes time to grow, and then when the effective strength of the Japanese Seventh Army drops to a critical point, we can launch a full-scale counterattack. In this way, the Japanese Seventh Army may be completely submerged in the vast sea of People's War, and the three eastern provinces will
We can recover!"
To put it bluntly, the Chahar Independent Regiment is now taking human lives to carve out a bloody road to regaining the three eastern provinces!
After repeated persuasion and explanations from Leng Tiefeng and Du Junjie, Wang Husheng finally regained his composure and sighed: "In fact, Lao Xu has said it a long time ago. I understand the truth, but I have to sacrifice so much at once, and I feel a little uncomfortable.
, and I'm even more worried that if we continue to spend like this, we may not be able to outlast the Japs. After all, there are 150,000 Japs, and after the expansion of our Chahar Independent Regiment, it will only be 50,000! There is a whole difference in strength.
three times!"
"Don't worry!" Xu Rui finally spoke and said firmly, "Old Wang, I assure you, the first ones who can't hold on will be the Japs, and it will definitely not be our Chahar Independent Group!
"
Wang Husheng said: "Old Xu, are you really so confident? The Japanese haven't even used T-34 tanks yet!"
Xu Rui said coldly: "The devils have the trump card, don't we?" After a slight pause, Xu Rui said again, "When the day comes that the bayonets will see red, our Chahar Independent Regiment will use massive amounts of anti-infantry directional mines.
Tell the Japanese that Fengtian City is hell to them, and they must pay a heavy price for every step they take!"
Wang Husheng sighed again and said, "Well, I can't always defeat you."
Seeing that Wang Husheng's mood had completely calmed down, Leng Tiefeng suddenly said: "Old Wang, actually last night's battle was not all news. There is still good news."
"Oh?" Wang Husheng asked, "What's the good news?"
Leng Tiefeng said: "Because of the sacrifice of Fifth Battalion Commander Yue Zhensheng, Li Dan also ran away violently!"
"Li Dan went berserk?" Before Wang Husheng could speak, Xu Rui couldn't help but ask, "Runner like a sweet potato?"
"Of course, otherwise how can we call it a runaway?" Leng Tiefeng said cheerfully, "Our Langya Brigade will soon welcome another runaway member."
"This is indeed good news." Wang Husheng nodded and said, "However, the number of casualties in the counterattack last night was a bit high. Can we try to do something about it?"
Xu Rui and Leng Tiefeng could only smile bitterly.
…
It is not only Wang Husheng who feels sorry for the loss, but also Ishihara Wanji, an old Japanese devil.
Because at this time, the number of Japanese casualties has also been calculated. It is a bit unacceptable to say that the number of Japanese casualties is actually less than that of the Chahar Independent Regiment, only more than 2,000 people! And it is not a battlefield casualty, but
It is the total number of the three battlefields. However, since the Japanese failed to control the battlefield, being wounded also means death. The two thousand casualties are basically the number of casualties.
This means that in terms of the number of casualties, the two sides are tied.
Regarding this result, Ishihara Wanji, an old devil, still feels a little distressed.
The reason is very simple, because the Seventh Army did not take a moment to rest after the battle of Chita, which means that the remaining officers and soldiers are all veterans who crawled out from the dead, and they are all elites.
They were elites, so every death in battle was a heavy loss, but now, more than two thousand were killed overnight!
If we include the casualties in the previous few days and in the Battle of Tieling, the Seventh Army has already lost more than 10,000 people. This is basically the number of infantry in a three-unit division! In other words, in this short period of time,
After several days of fighting, his Seventh Army had already lost a three-unit infantry division!
The only good thing is that the casualties of the Chahar Independent Regiment will only be more than theirs, not less.
Junzaburo Koizumi paused and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, although there are no exact statistics, it is estimated that in the counterattack last night, the number of casualties of the Chahar Independent Regiment will greatly exceed the number of casualties of the Imperial Army. A conservative estimate is,
The Chahar Independent Regiment also suffered at least 5,000 casualties!”
"Five thousand people?" Ishihara Wanji remained awake enough, shook his head and said, "Koizumi-kun, I'm afraid you are too optimistic. According to my estimate, the casualties of the Chahar Independent Regiment are only three thousand at most.
Considering that they control the battlefield from beginning to end and the wounded can receive timely treatment, the number of casualties is at best half!"
After a pause, Ishihara Wanji added: "In other words, our imperial army actually lost the battle last night."
"Your Excellency, Commander..." Junzaburo Koizumi was unconvinced, and when he was about to defend himself, he was stopped by Wanji Ishihara.
Ishihara Kanji stopped Koizumi Junzaburo and continued: "However, even according to this casualty ratio, the first one to be unable to support must be the Chahar Independent Regiment, not our Imperial Army. After all, we
There are a full 150,000 people, and the Chahar Independent Regiment only has more than 30,000 veterans."
"Hai!" Junzaburo Koizumi nodded heavily.
Ishihara Wanji asked again: "Koizumi-kun, where are the T-34 tanks transported?"
"It has been transported to Xinjing." Koizumi Junzaburo said, "However, the railway line from Xinjing to Fengtian has been damaged, so it can no longer be transported by railway, and can only rely on the T-34 tank's own maneuvers, which is another problem.
Half of the diesel fuel will be consumed, so only one division of T-34 tanks can be sent to Fengtian."