"Hi..." The chief of staff immediately arranged for his deputy to give the order.
Then he continued to report: "Also, all our casualties and losses last night have been calculated!"
"Say, I'll listen!" Lieutenant General Ito frowned even deeper.
Although I had already guessed that the troops would suffer heavy losses last night, actually facing it was another matter.
Every number the chief of staff spoke next was bloody to him.
"Division Commander, please tell me about the two mobile brigades first!"
"Both brigades were reinforced brigades, with a full strength of 1,100 men before the war, and a total of 2,200 men. In the end, only two reinforced squadrons carrying radios came back intact, and the remaining six reinforced squadrons were all attacked by the Eighth Route Army.
, the entire army was destroyed, a total of more than 1,500 imperial troops!"
"The ten infantry brigades on the front line, the ten battalions of the Imperial Alliance Army, the fifth infantry brigade and the one battalion of the Imperial Alliance Army assigned to them were all destroyed!"
"The other nine infantry brigades also suffered heavy losses. According to statistics, the first battalion lost 321 people from the Imperial Army and 86 people from the Imperial Alliance Army..."
"The Second Infantry Battalion lost 351 people from the Imperial Army and 105 people from the Imperial Army~"
"The Third Infantry Battalion lost 294 people from the Imperial Army and 128 people from the Imperial Army~"
"These figures are too detailed. I won't listen. I only want the final casualty figures and the current situation of each infantry brigade!" Lieutenant General Ito interrupted with a stern face.
The chief of staff was frightened today. As the division commander's old partner, he was very aware of the division commander's anger at this moment.
Just like a powder keg or a pile of dry wood, as long as there is a little spark, it will explode or burst into flames in an instant!
After taking a deep breath, he replied: "Last night, the Imperial Army lost a total of 4,958 people. This loss only refers to those who were killed in battle. There were also 329 people who were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness! The Imperial Army lost a total of 1,586 people, seriously injured.
153 people lost combat effectiveness..."
"How many troops are left on the front line to continue fighting?" Lieutenant General Ito stared at the chief of staff and continued to ask.
"There are 4,591 people left in the Imperial Army and 1,953 people left in the Imperial Army!" the chief of staff lowered his head and replied in a low voice like a mosquito.
"Why are there only these few people? I remember that for this sweep, we mobilized 12,000 imperial troops and more than 4,000 imperial alliance troops!" Lieutenant General Ito's eyes widened and he shouted with disbelief.
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The chief of staff lowered his head and replied: "In the past ten days of fighting, we have suffered a lot of casualties every day. The total number of the ten-way mopping up troops must have been two to three thousand!"
"There are only a few thousand people left on Bage Ya Road, how should we continue the sweep?" Lieutenant General Ito cursed unceremoniously.
After he finished, he just stared at the combat sandbox without saying a word.
After watching for a long time, he asked the chief of staff: "Have the garrison troops in these counties begun to attack the Eighth Route Army base areas?"
The chief of staff breathed a sigh of relief and immediately replied: "They have already started to attack, and the effect is very good. The situation in the hinterland of the new regiment is as judged by the division commander. There is almost no main force!"
"Several attacking troops have been blocked by the Eighth Route Army. However, the Eighth Route Army that blocked them are local garrison troops and have no combat effectiveness at all!"
"There were a total of five routes to mop up the troops. It only took three hours of the attack to achieve considerable results. At least one thousand Eighth Route Army local troops were killed!"
"Not bad!" Lieutenant General Ito's tense face finally relaxed a lot.
"It's less than thirty kilometers from their station to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army's New Regiment. If we march quickly, we can reach them before dark today!"
"Order, the five-way sweep forces should not hesitate to attack their headquarters from different directions and strive to destroy their command system!"
"The aviation force, under the guidance of ground intelligence personnel, will immediately bomb all important targets of the new regiment in the hinterland of the base area."
"After the main force of the new regiment on the front line learns that the hinterland of their base area has been attacked, they will definitely send troops to return to support. The aviation force will send additional reconnaissance planes to conduct aerial reconnaissance of this area. As long as the main force of the Eighth Route Army is found returning to the hinterland of their base area, do not hesitate.
Directly dispatch fighter planes to bomb them!"
"From now on, the five-way mopping up force here is our trump card. As long as we use this trump card well, the effect will definitely not be too bad!"
"What about our frontline troops?" the adjutant asked subconsciously.
"We are not moving! The order to continue the sweep this morning has been cancelled!" Lieutenant General Ito replied in a shocking voice.
"A dozen battalions of the new regiment are staring at our more than 4,000 imperial troops. It's okay if we don't move. If we continue to sweep, they might find a chance to kill one or two of our infantry brigades. After all, they own us now.
Unparalleled strength advantage!"
"Buzz buzz~"
A huge roar of engines sounded in the sky above the hinterland of the base area.
The roar became louder and louder, and three black dots slowly appeared on the edge of the sky. Then, the three black dots turned into three silver-white airplanes.
"Little Japanese plane... move the villagers quickly and leave the village!" the guerrilla captains and garrison cadres of each village shouted loudly.
Then the villages that the plane passed along the way fell into chaos.
Fortunately, the Japanese plane only flew over their heads and did not lay any eggs.
Just when everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, a series of earth-shaking explosions reached their ears.
"No, Dongzhuang was bombed by Japanese planes. There is a branch of our field hospital there, and there are seventy or eighty seriously injured people inside!" Several garrison battalion cadres shouted with shock on their faces.
"The first company will assemble immediately and run with me to Dongzhuang. The guerrillas will stay behind to protect the people!" a company commander from the garrison battalion ordered with a solemn look on his face.
When I hurried to the station, the explosion in Dongzhuang had stopped.
Dozens of houses were ignited in the explosion and were burning with raging fires. At a glance, there were black smoke columns rising into the sky, huge craters, corpses everywhere and wounded people screaming. There was something like a wild battle.
The wounded, doctors and nurses in the hospital are mostly ordinary people.
"Why are you still standing there? Save people first, and then put out the fire." The company commander shouted loudly.
"First move all the wounded and corpses out of the village. There must still be doctors and nurses alive in the field hospital, let them save people! The squad leader went to find medicines and found all the medicines in the field hospital that were not destroyed by bombs and sent them over. These are life-saving
drug……"
The Japanese bombing continued, and a village less than 20 kilometers away from the headquarters of the New Regiment was also in chaos.
The difference was that they were not being bombed by Japs' planes, but by seven to eight hundred Japs who were attacking them with great force.
"Boom...ta-da-da..."
Suddenly, the sound of intense firefights came from the road less than five miles away from the village.
The already chaotic village became even more chaotic at this time. The commander of the garrison battalion who was standing at the entrance of the village directing the retreat, the former commander of the main company, suddenly frowned.
The one who was blocking the Japs was a garrison company under his command. There were only a hundred men in total. Although each man had a rifle, his machine gun firepower was pitiful!
The entire company only has three light machine guns, one of which was reinforced by the guard platoon.
When such a force faces seven to eight hundred well-equipped Japanese, the result can be imagined.
The battalion commander can be sure that within half an hour at most, this company will be completely devoured.
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