He punched the table in front of him with too much force, and blood began to ooze out from many places!
The adjutant was shocked and didn't care whether his next behavior would offend the captain. He immediately shouted: "Medical soldier, come here quickly, the captain is injured!"
As soon as the medical soldier carrying the medicine box ran to the headquarters entrance, he saw the brigade captain glared at him, and then yelled: "Get out!"
"Hundreds of soldiers have lost their lives. This small injury is nothing!"
After saying that, he turned his attention to the adjutant!
"Excluding these casualties, how many fighting troops can the entire brigade have?"
The adjutant quickly replied: "I plan to recruit people from the baggage train squadron, artillery squadron, heavy machine gun squadron, and guard squadron to supplement the infantry, ensuring that the first, third, and two infantry squadrons are fully equipped!"
"Too little!" the captain replied angrily!
"The two squadrons attacked in three directions, with a hundred men in each direction. They also had to protect the artillery and heavy machine gun units! If there was a surprise attack by the Eighth Route Army, they would have to divide their forces to counterattack. There would not be enough troops to attack!"
"But we have no more troops left!" the adjutant replied helplessly!
"I just made some calculations. In order to ensure that the two infantry squadrons are full, the baggage train will be emptied. The extra gunners, machine gunners, and ammunition handlers from the artillery unit and heavy machine gun squadron will also be taken away!"
"If we draw more, the artillery and heavy machine gun units will have more equipment than people, and the gain will outweigh the loss!"
The captain shook his head, ignored the adjutant's explanation, and insisted on shouting: "I don't care what the reasons are, we still need an infantry squadron, so as to ensure that the three-pronged offensive force can advance, attack, retreat, and defend!"
The adjutant replied bravely: "Sir, we only have so many troops left, and it is definitely impossible to solve it internally! If we want to have an additional squadron, we can only ask for help from neighboring troops and ask them to support us with some troops!"
The captain will subconsciously reject it!
Once you open this mouth, you will lose your face!
We were all part of a brigade, but after a battle we were reduced to asking for help from neighboring troops. When word spread, the superiors' first reaction was that the brigade captain himself was too incompetent, and his commanding ability was not as good as that of the other brigade captains.
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But in the end he agreed: "The overall situation is the most important thing. If you ask for help, ask for help. As long as we can capture Lingqiu City, reduce the casualties of some imperial soldiers, and avenge the imperial soldiers who died in the battle, I will lose my personal face if I lose it!"
"Send a telegram now and ask each infantry brigade to send me an infantry squad as reinforcements!"
"Hi!" the adjutant replied quickly!
But he came back less than two minutes after leaving, his face even more solemn than before!
The captain didn't notice it and asked subconsciously: "Has the rescue telegram been sent out?"
"No!" the adjutant replied hesitantly!
"Before I had time to send the telegram, the telegrams from the three brigade captains arrived first. After I finished reading the telegram, I made the decision without sending it!"
"Snapped……"
The captain punched the table again, thinking that the adjutant dared to disobey his own orders, so he cursed: "Bagh Yalu, don't you know that I, the captain, can execute him on the spot for disobeying military orders on the battlefield?"
"Do you think that since I have lost the battle, you can disobey my orders?"
"Sir, calm down!" the adjutant replied hastily!
"I would never dare to disobey military orders in my humble position, but the other three brigades also sent us telegrams asking for help!"
"They also suffered heavy casualties in the street fighting in the afternoon and are in urgent need of reinforcements. We don't have any extra troops to help us! Even if I send a telegram for a humble job, I won't get reinforcements, and it will make others laugh!"
"Nani?"
The captain grabbed the telegram handed over by the adjutant and read it quickly!
"Plop!"
After reading the three telegrams, the captain slumped in his seat on the spot, the anger on his face disappeared, and then he was covered with despair little by little!
"It's over!"
It took a long time before these two words came out of the captain's mouth!
Then the whole person seemed to have aged several years instantly, his face was pale and he had no strength at all!
If only one of your own brigade suffers heavy casualties, as long as you take Lingqiu and have military exploits in hand, your superiors won't say anything!
Now that the other three brigades have also suffered heavy casualties and have no available troops, then my dream of taking Lingqiu tonight will be shattered!
And the three captains will definitely put the responsibility for the defeat of the army on themselves!
Once you go up to the peak to hold someone accountable, you are doomed!
The adjutant was anxious and immediately comforted him: "Sir, you must calm down. The casualties are a bit heavy, but the responsibility should not be borne by you alone!"
The captain shouted in despair: "Such a large number of casualties are not a little big, but they are obviously very big!"
"All three infantry brigades suffered more than 500 casualties!"
"Including our losses, that's more than 2,300 people!"
"If I hadn't been too anxious and ordered them to attack as soon as the troops arrived, charging into Lingqiu City and engaging in street fighting with the Eighth Route Army, the two thousand or so imperial troops would certainly not have died in the battle!"
"I must be responsible for the more than two thousand imperial troops who died in battle!"
"I'm just a captain. I can command more than a thousand imperial troops at most! This afternoon, more than two thousand imperial troops were killed because of impulse. How do you think the military will punish me?"
"You know, this was caused by the fact that the imperial army had an absolute advantage!"
The adjutant lowered his head and said nothing!
The captain is right, more than two thousand imperial troops died in the battle, someone must take the blame!
As the commander-in-chief of this attack, he does his job!
If the captain's military rank is Colonel, maybe a demotion will be enough!
But he is only a lieutenant colonel, and a captain at that! He is suddenly burdened with such a big responsibility. If you make a good judgment, the best solution is to go to a military court!
The captain has obviously thought of this, and his face is getting paler and paler!
Finally, he forced himself to calm down and ordered: "Send a telegram to the military headquarters immediately: report the situation here truthfully!"
"In order to shirk responsibility, the other three captains must have reported the afternoon's battle situation through their own channels. With so many casualties among the troops, these captains must be very angry!"
"Tell the military department that I bear full responsibility for the failure of our attack today and the heavy casualties of our troops. I am no longer qualified to serve as the group leader and temporary commander. Please ask the military department to appoint a new commander immediately!"
After finishing speaking, the captain seemed to have used up the last bit of strength in his body and completely collapsed in his seat, with a look of death on his face!
He waved his hand and continued the order: "Go and send a telegram now. Everyone gets out. From now on, no one can enter the headquarters without my order!"
The adjutant had vaguely guessed the captain's thoughts and shouted anxiously: "Captain, don't be impulsive!"
"Maybe your superiors won't let you take charge!"
"Get out!" the captain ordered firmly!
"Don't forget, I am still the captain now, executing orders!"
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the chief of staff hurried in with a telegram in his hand, his face solemn and very anxious!
When he saw the commander, he hurriedly reported: "Sir, something happened in Lingqiu!"
"Four reinforced brigades launched an attack at the same time. There are less than 2,000 Eighth Route Army soldiers guarding Lingqiu, and we also have aircraft support. What could happen?" The commander was very confident in his arrangement and answered without thinking!
The chief of staff ignored the explanation and reported directly: "Their attack failed and the troops suffered heavy casualties!"
"This is a telegram jointly sent by the three brigades. In just one afternoon, the three brigades suffered more than 1,600 casualties, almost all of them killed in battle!"
"Now they have stopped the attack in accordance with the order, and all troops have retreated to the line of the city wall, preparing to change the way of attack!"
The army commander couldn't sit still and stared at the chief of staff and asked: "Three brigades? Don't they have four brigades? And we also appointed a brigade captain as the temporary commander. Why didn't the commander report it!"
"More than 1,600 imperial troops died in the battle. Aren't they trying to attack a small Lingqiu City? How could so many imperial troops die!"
"Are the mountain artillery and aircraft that the military department has given them good-looking? Why not use them to attack the Eighth Route Army!"
"Contact their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Motoki, immediately. I want to know what happened to Lingqiu City?"
Just as the chief of staff was about to send a telegram, the communications staff rushed in hastily!
"Sir, there's an urgent call from Lingqiu City!"
The chief of staff took the telegram and glanced at it, then his expression changed drastically and he shouted!
"How can it be?"
"What's the matter?" the military commander took the telegram and started browsing it!
Halfway through seeing it, his eyes widened and he once again showed a shocked expression of disbelief!
He took a breath and shouted: "How is it possible? Their casualties exceeded 700 people, which was greater than the casualties of the other three brigades. What does he, the captain of the brigades, do for food and how do they fight!!"
"In just one afternoon, we lost more than 2,300 people in Lingqiu City. Isn't it just a small county town? How can it be so difficult to defeat!"
The chief of staff read the telegram carefully and replied: "Sir, our troops were too careless and underestimated the enemy, and the Eighth Route Army was cunning, and then they used street fighting to kill so many of our imperial troops!"
"They have come up with new tactics. They use artillery and aircraft to destroy the buildings in the city. They will first make the Eighth Route Army lose the street fighting battlefield and have no place to hide, and then attack!"
"If we fight like this, the casualties of the troops will definitely be much smaller!"
The Lieutenant General was still angry and cursed: "Since this method of warfare is so good, why did Lieutenant Colonel Motoki think about what he was doing all afternoon now? There are more than two thousand imperial troops, and even if the front army launches a large-scale battle, there may not be casualties.
so many people!"
"If this loss is reported to the front army headquarters, the commander will definitely hold you accountable!"
""More than two thousand imperial troops died in the battle, someone must be in charge!"
"Where is Major General Sakai who went to Lingqiu? Tell him that he must arrive at Lingqiu City before dawn tomorrow to take over command of all the troops, otherwise military law will be imposed!"
"At the same time, take down Lieutenant Colonel Motoki. What he said in the telegram is right. As the temporary commander, he must be responsible for this defeat, and he is no longer qualified for the position of captain!"
"Also, send a telegram to the Lingqiu front line now. All troops cannot attack tonight. Just hold on to the existing occupied area!"
"The troops suffered heavy casualties, and night fighting is what the Eighth Route Army is good at! If you attack rashly, you will easily suffer losses when you have insufficient troops!"
"For the sake of Lingqiu City, we have already suffered enough casualties. I don't want any more unnecessary casualties!"
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