Seeing the satisfaction on the leader's face, Chen Wei asked with confusion on his face.
"Weren't those artillery pieces, cars, and ammunition all blown up by the Japs before they retreated? I can see this very clearly. Are those artillery pieces that were blown into scrap metal useful?"
"Of course they are useful, and they are all treasures." Li Hao affirmed without hesitation.
Then he explained: "Our arsenal has long been capable of producing rifles and mortars, but it has never produced them. It only repairs damaged weapons of the troops. Do you know why?"
Seeing everyone shaking their heads and saying nothing, Li Hao didn't hide anything and answered to himself.
"We have no raw materials!"
"Especially the raw materials for the production of gun barrels and barrels."
"We can use ordinary steel as raw materials for producing other parts, which can be obtained by making steel ourselves and scraping rails, but not gun barrels and gun barrels."
"They must use special steel, and our base area does not have the ability to produce special steel."
"The heavy artillery and field artillery that the little devils blew up were all made of special steel, especially the stronger gun barrels, which are the best of the best steels."
"With them, we have the raw materials for producing gun barrels and barrels."
"Don't underestimate these eight blown-up field guns and heavy artillery. Excluding the spare parts that can still be used, we can collect at least 10,000 kilograms of the special steel we want."
"If it takes five kilograms of steel to produce a gun barrel, this steel is enough for the arsenal to produce two thousand barrels and make two thousand guns."
"There is another gain that you definitely don't know: the Japanese army blew up all the artillery and cars before leaving, but not the ammunition."
"They hid the ammunition in a nearby ravine. By chance, one of our soldiers who was searching the mountain fell into the ravine and discovered these ammunition."
Chen Wei suddenly realized and shouted: "No wonder I didn't hear the explosion of ammunition when the Japanese army exploded the artillery."
"I thought the little devils used up all their artillery shells when they attacked us."
"It turned out that they used explosives as cover and hid the unused ammunition."
"They are really clever. The artillery and cars are too big, there is no place to hide, and they cannot hide from our surveillance,"
"Cannonballs are different. You can hide them in any ravine."
"Captain, how many shells are there in total?"
"The puppet troops who rebelled against the Japs on the battlefield told me that in order to deal with us, the Japs artillery reinforcements that came over this morning brought several trucks of artillery shells. If they had not been destroyed, there would definitely be a lot left."
Li Hao smiled and replied: "There are quite a few."
"Two hundred and forty rounds of heavy artillery shells, three hundred and fifty rounds of field artillery shells, three hundred rounds of mountain artillery shells, nine hundred rounds of mortar shells, and forty-five boxes of bullets and grenades."
It was only then that the self-blaming expression on Chen Wei's face relaxed a lot.
"Captain, telegram from the Second Battalion..." Zhou Liang, the communications platoon leader, suddenly stood up and interrupted, while the radio station in front of him still flashed a red light.
"All the Japanese and puppet troops within the scope of their activities returned to Datong City and requested a withdrawal."
Li Hao thought for a moment and replied: "I agree with their retreat."
"Contact the third battalion and ask them to retreat together."
"After fighting all day, the Japanese division commander, even a fool, knows about the existence of our garrison and will definitely not be fooled again."
At the Japanese division headquarters in Datong City, the chief of staff stood in front of the division with his head lowered and said nothing.
As a defeated person, facing the division commander's anger, he could not utter a single rebuttal and could only endure it.
After a long time, the division commander's anger slowly calmed down and he answered with a long sigh.
"Forget it, more than one unit under your command lost the battle during the day. Now I am very sure: the units operating outside the city during the day all belong to the Eighth Route Army garrison, which is our old opponent."
"They are too cunning and can't prevent us with all kinds of methods. It's not unfair at all to lose in their hands."
The chief of staff was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses and quickly asked: "Sir, were there other troops attacked today? Are the losses heavy?"
"Kumamoto-kun, please introduce the situation to the chief of staff." The division commander looked at the deputy chief of staff and ordered.
"Hi!"
Lieutenant Colonel Kumamoto produced a list of statistics and replied: "Sir, in addition to the attack troops under your command being attacked by the garrison outside the city, the attack troops in the west and north of the city were also attacked by the garrison cavalry on their way back to Datong City.
Attack jointly with infantry."
"Wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Army, they avoided the reconnaissance of the Imperial Army aircraft. With the cooperation of the cavalry troops, they succeeded several times, annihilating all four of our attacking troops and severely damaging three of them."
"According to statistics: we lost a total of 1,453 imperial troops in the west and north of the city, 1,586 imperial associate troops, and more than 3,000 prisoners of the rescued Jinsui Army. We also lost a large number of heavy weapons. The losses were very heavy...
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"Hiss, hiss..."
The chief of staff took a breath and shouted: "So many people have been lost."
Then his face became solemn, he looked at the division commander and asked: "Sir, after deducting these losses, and then deducting the losses from the humble position, there will definitely be a large shortage of troops in Datong City."
The division commander did not deny it.
"Yes, in order to make up for the defense loopholes in Datong City and prevent the Chinese army from taking advantage of it."
"I have ordered all the Imperial Army and Imperial Alliance Army in the city to enter their positions and strengthen their alert."
"Police, gendarmerie, and special agents all patrol the streets to prevent enemy intelligence agents lurking in the city from taking the opportunity to cause trouble."
"At the same time, order the Japanese in the city and the mining team outside the city to dispatch samurai and escorts to the division headquarters, and set up two temporary mixed squadrons as the division headquarters reserve team to enter the battlefield at any time."
"Now that you are back, the defense of Datong City will be handed over to you from now on."
"Kumamoto-kun, you are responsible for the prisoners of the Jinsui Army brought back by the attack force, and use them to form the Imperial Association Army. At least one regiment will be formed to cooperate with the Imperial Army to defend Datong City."
"I am responsible for drafting telegrams, reporting the results of the war to the military headquarters, and requesting support."
"Datong City is too important to the imperial army, and there must be no accidents."
Because the losses of the troops were too great, the Japanese army redeployed all the troops outside the city and concentrated all their forces to ensure the safety of Datong City.
This situation actually benefited the garrison regiment, resulting in the 23rd Battalion not encountering any Japanese soldiers on the way back, and finally retreating directly to the Caoziling position by road.
Li Hao led the Hunyuan Independent Battalion to retreat here first, and then stayed on the road, waiting eagerly.
"Captain, the Second Battalion is back..." Hong Linfeng shouted excitedly as he saw a torch appearing at the end of the road.
Soon, a few torches connected together to form a fire dragon, with no end in sight.
Li Hao also had a smile on his face and immediately replied: "Let's go together to greet our hero!"
"Judging from the length of the fire dragon, they brought back at least 1,500 people."
The fire dragon starting from Caoziling and the fire dragon composed of the Second Battalion quickly merged on the road, with Liu Yutian, the commander of the Second Battalion, leading the way.
When he saw Li Hao, he immediately quickened his pace and trotted over.
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