After issuing a series of orders, the commander turned his head and turned his attention to Nakata Yamaro next to him, regardless of whether his subordinates reacted from the trap!
"Nakata-kun, you have seen the power of the garrison in the past two days. In addition, you have studied all the information related to the garrison. Now you should have an intuitive understanding of them, right?"
"Hi!"
Nakata Yamaro immediately replied: "The garrison is different from other Eighth Route Army units!"
"They are well-equipped, have sufficient ammunition, and are even equipped with a certain number of heavy artillery and siege artillery!"
"So in terms of equipment, the imperial army with the same strength no longer has any advantage!"
"In addition, their fighting style is very strange and cunning, and they are good at hiding their strength. They can always take it by surprise, seize a weakness exposed by the imperial army, and use tactics and tactics that the imperial army has never encountered before. They are sure to hit with one hit and defeat the emperor.
The army was caught off guard!"
"Yoshi!"
The military commander was very satisfied with this answer, and then began to issue orders: "Since you already know your opponent well enough, and you are the military commander designated by the front army to deal with the garrison, continuing to stay in the military headquarters will definitely not be conducive to your ability to show your full potential.
command ability.”
"So I decided to let you go to the battlefield now!"
"You are appointed as the former enemy commander-in-chief of the offensive garrison. You can determine the specific location of the headquarters yourself."
"At the same time, in order to cooperate with the independent mixed brigade operations and ensure that the garrison will be defeated in a single battle in the future, I have decided to place all the garrisons within fifty kilometers from the front line under your control. You will command them to sweep the garrison base and kill the garrison.
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"The chief of staff is responsible for providing you with intelligence and material support!"
Nakata Yamaro was so happy that he almost jumped up!
It’s been a long time since I came to the military headquarters to report, and now I can finally go to the battlefield and show off my talents!
More importantly, the military headquarters also handed over the frontline troops to itself!
In the past few days, in addition to getting to know the garrison regiment, he also analyzed the situation of the imperial garrison surrounding the garrison regiment, truly knowing himself and the enemy.
According to the commander's order, the troops assigned to him include at least 5,000 imperial troops and 10,000 imperial alliance troops.!
Including the independent mixed brigade that will soon be in place, there will be more than 20,000 people, almost a division!
Although a large part of them are from the Imperial Alliance Army, they have poor combat effectiveness and low fighting will!
But he is a soldier with a weapon after all!
With the imperial army supervising the battle, there will definitely be no problem in dealing with the local troops and guerrillas of the garrison!
This is equivalent to the fact that although he is only a major general with the position of brigade commander, he commands a division of more than 20,000 people and is actually the division commander!
Such good things have happened to you, how can you not be happy?
Nakata Yamaro no longer hesitated and answered immediately: "Commander, please rest assured, I will strictly implement the order you just gave me, and I promise not to disappoint you!"
In Laiyuan City, although Wang Hong had been mentally prepared after being reminded by Li Hao, he was still frightened by the steady stream of prisoners sent by local troops!
There are too many prisoners!
Others would get cramps in their hands from counting money, but now Wang Hong is taking prisoners and getting cramps in his hands!
The original Japanese and puppet army garrison in Laiyuan City is already full, and there is a steady stream of prisoners being sent over!
We have no choice but to pitch tents outside the city and set up a temporary prisoner camp!
Each of the fifty political cadres brought from the regiment headquarters was divided into more than a hundred prisoners, screened, mobilized, and did ideological work...
It was so busy that I didn’t even have time to take a breath.
Deputy leader Luo Yun also came.
Laiyuan is not only the concentration center for all prisoners, but also the distribution center for all captures!
Because of the convenient transportation, the food, supplies, weapons and ammunition, gold and silver finances seized on the battlefield are all sent here for statistics first, and then distributed to the entire base area!
Some directly equip the troops and send them to local governments, while others are sent to the mountains to stockpile them.
In the dense forest where Laiyuan City ambushed, there were tents piled with supplies everywhere.
When there were no tents left, they were piled up in the open air. Mules, horses and carts loaded with supplies were going in and out of the forest, making it very busy.
With the assistance of more than a dozen clerks, Luo Yun occupied an entire tent, counted the materials sent by each army, and then classified them into categories.
Li Hao and Wang Hong walked into the tent, and Luo Yun was calculating something. It took a long time to find out!
Then he was stunned for a moment before he realized: "Regiment leader, political commissar... why are you here?"
"Of course I will come!" Li Hao affirmed!
"We have made the Japanese suffer such a big loss. With their vengeful character, they will definitely launch a large-scale raid on us to retaliate against us!"
"The seizures you are counting are our confidence in the next counter-sweep!"
"How about it? During the two days of counterattack, have all the seizures by the troops been classified into categories?"
Luo Yun picked up a stack of lists on the table and replied: "That's almost it!"
"Except for those that have not been sent to Laiyuan City, all others have been counted!"
"I am now distributing these seizures, giving what should be given to the troops to the troops, and hoarding everything that should be hoarded."
Wang Hong is the real logistics manager of the garrison!
Before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first!
The garrison regiment is different from other Eighth Route Army units. They can fight the enemy with bayonets after firing three shots on the battlefield!
We must resolutely adhere to the regiment leader's strategy against the enemy. If the enemy can be defeated with artillery shells, we must not use bullets. If we can defeat the enemy with bullets, we must not use grenades. If we can defeat the enemy with grenades, we must not use bayonets!
This results in the garrison requiring a large amount of weapons and ammunition to support every battle!
As a logistics manager, one can imagine the pressure on Wang Hong!
Always think of ways to increase the logistics reserves of the garrison and prepare more supplies for the garrison's next battle!
Although the garrison now has the ability to produce its own weapons and ammunition, the output is not high due to various reasons such as the production of raw materials. A large part of the material aid still relies on seizures!
So when he saw the mountains of supplies outside the tent, Wang Hong's eyes lit up, he stared at the list in Luo Yun's hand and asked.
"Tell me, what good things are there?"
Luo Yun quickly replied: "The largest amount of seizures is grain. The grain that has been delivered here is 11.53 million kilograms, and there should be about one million kilograms that have not been delivered on the road!"
"Then there are quilts, cans, salt...these military supplies!"
"The quantity is very large, enough to take the whole garrison regiment two years!"
"The next thing is ammunition, shells, grenades, grenades, grenades, bullets, and explosives, everything!"
"Nearly 500 mountain artillery shells, more than 700 infantry artillery shells, and more than 2,110 mortar shells!"
"Grenade, grenade, grenade, 386 boxes in total, nearly 10,000!"
"Heavy machine gun bullets, 65-caliber rifle bullets, and 79-caliber rifle bullets, totaling 856 boxes, more than one million rounds!"
"Then there are weapons..."
Speaking of this, the smile on Luo Yun's face became obviously thicker!
"Except that there are fewer heavy weapons, and they are all seized from the garrison in Guangling and Laiyuan counties, all kinds of light weapons can definitely be described as a pile of mountains!"
"Especially rifles, 38 caps, old sleeves, made in Hanyang, and Jinmeng rifles, everything is available!"
"The Japanese have newly formed a 10,000-member Imperial Army, which not only provides us with a large number of prisoners, but also brings countless guns and ammunition!"
"We have already made statistics. According to different calibers, they are mainly divided into two categories. Sixty-five calibers, which are the 38-caliber guns equipped by the Japanese and some Jin-made rifles, a total of 4,135 items!"
"The seventy-nine caliber rifles mainly include old sleeves, made in Hanyang, medium and formal, and some Mauser rifles, a total of 10,536 items!"
"The Ten Thousand Imperial Alliance Army has just been formed. Because it has not yet formed a combat capability and the Japanese do not trust it very much, there are very few heavy weapons and equipment. Even each company can only get one light machine gun!"
"But the rifles are very neat, and there is one hand for everyone. They were all captured by the Japanese on the frontal battlefield."
"There are also two types of light machine guns, the 65-caliber crooked gun and the Type 96, a total of 135, and the remaining more than 100 were destroyed in the battle!"
"The devils are becoming more and more cunning now. After knowing that they will be defeated, they will definitely find ways to destroy their weapons before they die!"
"But now that we have an arsenal, most of the machine guns can still be repaired!"
"There were 105 79-caliber Czech and domestic imitation light machine guns, and more than 20 more were damaged on the battlefield!"
"There were 21 heavy machine guns in total, and the rest were all damaged. The total number exceeds seventy."
"Basically, they are captured Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns. The puppet troops rarely equip them!"
"There are also 108 grenade launchers, all of which are also equipped by the Japanese."
"Next is the artillery. There are a total of 21 81mm caliber mortars, six 150mm heavy mortars, eight infantry guns, and six mountain guns!"
"The last thing is the finances, which were basically seized from the landlords, traitors, and maintenance societies in the areas occupied by the Japanese!"
"Gold, gold and silver jewelry, silver, oceans, if all converted into oceans, it would be almost 356,000 yuan!"
Wang Hong was frightened and stunned!
In his memory, the gains achieved by the garrison in this battle were absolutely unprecedented!
Li Hao was also scared!
Although the troops gained more from fighting Datong last year than this, most of the gains did not belong to the garrison!
And in this battle, the mountains of supplies, food, weapons and ammunition piled up around them all belong to the garrison!
If conditions permit, the garrison can directly form a huge army of 15,000 people!
But this idea is just a thought and will never be realized!
It is already difficult enough for the garrison to feed these troops. If the troops are more than doubled, they will not be able to survive even if they eat coarse grains every day!
More importantly, drought will begin in North China next year, and it will last for a long time. By then, the garrison will be able to feed even fewer troops!
Rather than forming an army now and then disbanding it when it cannot survive, it is better to start hoarding supplies and food now and save it to feed more elites when there is a drought in the future!