It was not until ten o'clock in the evening that all the troops who had been dispersed returned to the enemy headquarters in Laiyuan Independent Battalion.
Each company brought back a large number of lightly and seriously wounded soldiers, paid a huge price, and showed no sign of joy after winning the battle.
Liu Wenxuan took out the calculated list of losses and said in a serious tone: "Battal Commander, the losses have been calculated: Li Zhiyong's company lost 59 people, and 21 people were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. The local troops who cooperated with their actions and the guerrillas lost 85 people, including
43 people died.”
"The Second Company and the local troops and guerrillas who cooperated with their actions lost a total of 218 people, and 142 people were directly sacrificed."
"The baggage company, guard company, fire company, and second company of recruits that you took away, battalion commander, lost a total of 246 people, and 138 people were directly sacrificed."
"There are now 68 people left in the first company, 79 people left in the second company, and the third company has returned to full strength after a day of replenishment and rest, but it will take at least one day to fully form combat effectiveness. There are still 58 people left in the guard company and 58 people left in the baggage company.
There are 79 people, 101 people are left in the firepower company, only cadres are left in the first recruit company, and 149 people are left in the second company, but they are all untrained recruits and have little effect."
Zhao Wen's face became more and more solemn, the troops suffered too many casualties.
It had only been three days since the counter-mopping up began, and more than half of the entire independent battalion had suffered casualties.
If the fight continues like this, the independent battalion will be exhausted in two days at most.
If the independence camp is completed, the villagers within a radius of dozens of miles will definitely be persecuted by the Japanese, and that's it.
As he thought about it, a trace of worry appeared on Zhao Wen's solemn face.
Several company commanders had ugly expressions on their faces, lowered their heads and said nothing.
At this time, instructor Liu Wenxuan continued: "The troops suffered heavy casualties, but the results were also great."
"We seized eighty carts of food and ammunition supplies in Lizhuang."
"There are more than 100,000 kilograms of grain alone, and there are also 20 cartloads of bullets and artillery shells."
"By the way, the battalion commander also seized one large-caliber mountain cannon, two ordinary mountain cannons, four mortars, two heavy machine guns, 298 rifle machine guns, 84 mules and horses in Lizhuang, and killed 403 Japanese people.
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"The results of the first and second companies were also unbearable. Although we did not capture many weapons and ammunition, we used our best guerrilla warfare and mountain warfare to eliminate a large number of Japanese and puppet troops. We captured 715 prisoners and rescued nearly two hundred people.
The wounded puppet soldiers who were thrown into the mountains by the little devils."
"More than half of them are lightly wounded. With the help of medicine, they will definitely be able to regain their combat effectiveness within ten days."
"As long as we capture the minds of those captives, we will immediately get more than five hundred recruits with actual combat experience."
"All political cadres in the battalion are now in the prison camp, doing their ideological work in batches."
"Before the meeting, more than two hundred prisoners had already offered to join our Eighth Route Army."
"I am confident that I can work through the ideological work of at least four hundred prisoners before midnight at night, so that they will be convinced to join our garrison."
The heavy expression on Zhao Wen's face disappeared, and hope was rekindled.
The biggest problem of the independent battalion now is the shortage of soldiers, and they are veterans who can join the war by replenishing the troops. As long as the problem of the shortage of soldiers is solved, he will not be afraid of the enemy no matter how many more they come.
Staring at Liu Wenxuan, he asked expectantly: "Instructor, are you sure you have mobilized more than two hundred people?"
"The meeting has been going on for so long, there must be 300 people now!" Liu Wenxuan was very confident in the abilities of his several instructors and affirmed as Zhao Wen looked at him.
"Great!" Zhao Wen smiled.
Looking at Liu Wenxuan, he said happily: "Instructor, you are worthy of being the steward of our independent camp. Whatever we need, we will provide you with it!"
"As long as you can mobilize four hundred people to join the independent battalion before twelve o'clock, no, as long as three hundred people, the army's operations in the next two days will not be affected."
Speaking of this, Zhao Wen quickly put away the smile on his face, looked at the several company commanders and said with serious faces: "The regiment just sent a telegram, Huailai County has just dispatched another baggage team, a hundred large vehicles and
Four guns."
"The escort troops were twice as many as the baggage trains we killed during the day."
"This baggage train must be coming towards us. I judge that the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line will definitely send troops to respond tomorrow."
"They are not fools, and they will definitely not do the same thing twice."
"So if we try to kill the baggage train and intercept all the supplies tomorrow, the possibility of success is almost zero."
"In order to slow down the Japanese and puppet troops' attack speed, I decided to change my tactics and focus on sneak attacks. If I couldn't intercept the supplies, I wouldn't intercept them and just blow them up."
"It's still the old rules. The guard company, baggage company, and fire company will follow me. The first and second companies will continue to protect the nearby folks."
"Everyone should take the time to rest tonight. At twelve o'clock in the morning, each company will go to the instructor to take fifty captured soldiers back to directly replenish the troops and train them while fighting."
"The remaining captured soldiers supplement a company of new recruits and are ready to join the battle at any time!"
‘In addition, while ensuring the safety of the villagers during the operation of the First and Second Companies, in addition to killing more Japanese soldiers, they must also find ways to capture more prisoners.”
"With more prisoners, the instructor can mobilize more captured soldiers to join us, and then everyone will have enough supplementary soldiers to fight the Japanese."
"Otherwise, our independent business will be exhausted in just a few days."
At the headquarters of the Laishui Independent Regiment, Hong Linfeng hurriedly hurried in front of Li Hao, handed the telegram to him, and reported while searching for Huaiyuan County on the nearby map.
"Captain, we have found the Little Japs logistics base."
"In Huaiyuan County, the little devil's chief of staff of the Shanxi garrison is personally in charge of Huaiyuan."
"There are at least two months' worth of combat supplies for 20,000 troops stored inside."
"If Huaiyuan can be captured, the food supplies carried by the more than 20,000 puppet troops on the front line can last for ten days at most."
"If our troops try to destroy some more, they may not be able to last even five days."
"Huaiyuan County!" Li Hao said to himself as he looked at a point circled by Hong Linfeng on the map.
He drew two signs on the map with a ruler and analyzed: "We are less than a hundred kilometers away, and we can get there by marching hard for two days and two nights."
"If there is a leader, we will attack Huaiyuan County."
"Chief of Staff, have the commando team and the reconnaissance company figured out the strength of Huaiyuan?"
Hong Linfeng shook his head and replied: "I haven't sent a telegram back yet."
"But the commando team and the reconnaissance company are here, so it shouldn't take too long to figure it out."
Li Hao immediately ordered: "Tell Zhou Liang that the radio station must be on 24 hours a day and keep in touch with the commandos at any time."
"Chief of Staff, you should immediately organize your troops to formulate a marching plan from here to Huaiyuan County."
"All troops are required to march day and night to prevent the Japanese from noticing that we have gone to Huaiyuan."
"We also need to bring artillery. Huaiyuan is an ancient city and must have strong fortifications. Without siege artillery, it will be difficult for us to take it down."
Say Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will come.
Communications platoon leader Zhou Liang ran in with a serious look on his face: "Regiment commander, chief of staff, this is a telegram from the political commissar reporting the anti-mopping up situation in the base area today. The form is not optimistic."
"The three independent battalions have suffered heavy casualties and have begun to use prisoners to replenish the troops. The political commissar wants to transfer some people from the new barracks to support them and ensure that more than 50% of the three independent battalions are veterans of the garrison to prevent accidents when the troops capture too many prisoners.
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