Chapter 1532: Condemnation and meritorious service
150,000 yuan, which is only the amount of military pay for two months for the entire division. The Eighth Route Army opened its mouth to leave, and its appetite was not as big as usual.
This was no longer within the scope of the chief of staff's decision. He immediately decided to suspend the negotiations and return to the county seat to ask for instructions before coming back.
The Jinsui Army was indeed in a hurry.
There is only enough food for today. If the negotiations do not go smoothly, everyone will be hungry tomorrow.
The chief of staff reappeared in front of Li Hao less than two hours after leaving. Just like the previous negotiations, he got straight to the point and didn't say any nonsense.
"Captain Li, the price of 30 oceans in compensation for a private house is too high. We have investigated and found that ordinary people's houses are only worth more than 10 oceans, and these are just new houses. The ones we burned were all occupied by the villagers.
This old house is definitely not worth the price."
"We will compensate your army ten yuan for a private house. A total of fifty thousand yuan will be compensated for your army. We will give it to you when we withdraw to the edge of your army's base area."
Li Hao shook his head and refused: "The account cannot be settled like this."
"Whether you are burning old houses or new ones, we have to build new houses for the villagers so that they can have a place to live. Therefore, you must pay for the construction cost of these more than 5,000 houses."
"In addition, in addition to burning the house, you also burned the furniture, clothes, and tools that the villagers left at home. Don't you want to keep these things with you?"
"If you add the two items together, thirty yuan for a private house is already very little."
The chief of staff frowned deeper and deeper. He didn't expect Li Hao to be so difficult to deal with.
Taking a deep breath, he suppressed the anger welling up in his heart and said: "Add five yuan to each private house, a total of seventy-five thousand yuan, which is equivalent to a month's military pay and living expenses of the main division, which is already a lot.
Already."
Li Hao knew that the other party had taken advantage of him, and as long as the two parties started bargaining, they would definitely be able to negotiate a compensation of twenty dollars for each private house.
Seeing the chief of staff relent, Li Hao also relented: "Fifteen yuan is too little. Seeing that your army is really in difficulty, I can reduce the labor costs for the villagers to repair their houses."
"We dispatched local troops and guerrillas to help the villagers build houses, and each house is calculated at a compensation standard of 25 yuan."
Seeing Li Hao relent, the chief of staff of the Jinsui Army also breathed a sigh of relief.
This shows that the specific compensation price is still in negotiation between the two parties.
Staring at Li Hao, he continued: "In this way, both of us will make a concession and set the compensation standard at twenty oceans."
"As long as your army agrees, we will give you money as soon as you leave your base."
This is exactly Li Hao's psychological price, so of course he would agree.
But he didn't show it right away. He pretended to be embarrassed and replied: "It's calculated based on the standard of twenty oceans, but I have a request."
"The payment time cannot wait until your army leaves the base area."
"We can only open a channel when we see 100,000 oceans, allowing your army to safely withdraw from our base area."
"We can decide on the trading point in advance. Your army will send cavalry to send Dayang there, and we will go to the trading point to respond. If we hurry up, we can complete the transaction tonight and your army can retreat tomorrow morning."
The Jinsui Army in the city is now a piece of meat on the chopping block of the garrison, without any bargaining capital.
The army is their foundation and nothing can go wrong.
Faced with Li Hao's toughness, the chief of staff had no choice but to agree...
At five o'clock the next morning, the commando team received 100,000 yuan as compensation from the Jinsui Army on the edge of the base area.
This money was originally a reward for the Jinsui Army's successful occupation of Hunyuan City. Now that the mission has failed, Hunyuan City will have to give up, and the reward of 100,000 oceans will be gone.
It fell directly into the hands of the garrison as compensation.
Li Hao fulfilled his promise and sold 10,000 kilograms of grain to the Jinsui Army. After that, he cleared a path in the minefield outside the city and watched the Jinsui Army withdraw from the base in an orderly manner to prevent them from playing tricks again.
When the garrison base was completely withdrawn, the additional food, weapons and ammunition in the theater were just in time delivered.
The division commander Dai Zui made meritorious service and commanded the troops to be stationed near the garrison base area, hoping to have the opportunity to control Hunyuan again in the future.
In the division headquarters, the division commander's nerves, which had been tense for several days, finally calmed down and he could lie quietly on his chair and think about the problem.
In the past few days, he had been frightened by the endless tactics of the Eighth Route Army.
There is no longer any thought of taking advantage of the Eighth Route Army. Now there is only one thought: to restore the damaged strength of the army as soon as possible.
"Master, the troops we brought out of the garrison base area have been arranged, and the specific losses have been calculated." The chief of staff came over and reported.
"Tell me, how many troops have we lost in this assault on the garrison base, how many wounded are there in the division now, and what is the overall combat effectiveness?" the division commander opened his eyes and asked.
He is now anxious to know his losses before he can find a way to regain his strength.
The chief of staff replied solemnly: "During the entire assault, a total of 2,216 officers and soldiers were missing in the division. All officers and soldiers below the commander of the mountain artillery battalion, transport battalion, cavalry company, and self-support company were missing. There were also two infantry companies, except for a few wounded.
They are all missing too.”
"The division commander still has 6,128 officers and soldiers. Excluding the troops directly under the division headquarters, there are an average of more than 1,600 people in the three regiments. Each regiment has between 300 and 500 lightly and seriously injured people."
"The only good thing is that most of the injured can recover and return to the team within half a month, and almost no soldiers have left the team due to injuries."
A worried look flashed on the teacher's face.
The losses were too great, equivalent to losing one-third of the entire division's combat effectiveness.
The raid on Hunyuan failed, and I felt sorry for the commander-in-chief.
Now that he is guilty of meritorious service, if he cannot make up for the losses as soon as possible and is punished for both crimes, he will definitely lose his position as division commander in the end.
Suddenly he sat up from his chair, looked at the chief of staff and asked: "Has the mountain artillery battalion that the war zone promised to compensate us as compensation is in place?"
The chief of staff nodded: "Twelve mountain cannons were sent here together with our supply of food and ammunition."
"Where are the horses and cavalry equipment?" the division commander continued to ask.
The chief of staff replied: "The war zone has given us thirty war horses and supporting equipment from two neighboring divisions. We will leave the remaining horses and equipment to our own devices."
"In addition, we have been provided with 500 rifles and ten light machine guns."
The division commander immediately made a decision: "Now that we have the equipment, we just need soldiers."
"Chief of Staff, the first thing we need to restore now is the mountain artillery camp, the transport camp, and the cavalry company."
"They are our heavy firepower force, mobile force, and logistics and transportation force. They are indispensable at any time and are very important."
"After building them up, restore a few regiments to full strength."
The chief of staff immediately agreed: "The teacher is wise, and the humble official thinks so too."
"But the most difficult part is also these units, especially the cavalry and artillery. They are all technical arms and must undergo specialized training before they can go on the battlefield."
"We definitely can't get it together within the division, so we have to think of solutions from outside."
"However, these types of soldiers are also treasures in other armies. If you want to recruit them, you will definitely have to pay a high price, and you will also have to contact the commanders of the neighboring armies to obtain their consent."
"It costs money again!" The teacher's face darkened again.
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