Rise from the sword

Chapter 193 Casualties and Casualties

"what?"

"How could this be?"

In the independent regiment headquarters, Zhao Gang, who was answering the call from the brigade headquarters, suddenly raised his voice. He seemed to have heard some shocking news, and his tone was full of disbelief.

Then Zhao Gang fell into silence, listening to the voice on the phone quietly, with a gloomy and dignified expression.

"what happened?"

When Zhao Gang hung up the phone, Li Yunlong at the side immediately asked.

He still rarely sees his partner with such an expression.

"The first line of defense has been breached." Zhao Gang took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart: "Yang Xiantuan's position in the central position was breached by the devils, causing the rest of the troops to retreat while fighting."

"Yang Xian?"

Li Yunlong remembered this person.

An old comrade, joined the army at about the same time as him, and stayed in the same regiment together, and is now the commander of the same division, and he has a good relationship with him. We fought a few times on the grass, and we showed our affection up.

"How about the others?"

Li Yunlong was a little worried.

He also plans to have a chance to drink with this guy in the future!

Don't die.

"The injury was serious. He was stabbed in the lung by the little devil's bayonet. He has been sent to the headquarters hospital. The specific situation is still unclear."

Zhao Gang said: "Furthermore, his regiment lost a lot this time. None of the battalions deployed in the front came back, most of their weapons and equipment were lost, and even a battalion commander was sacrificed. Less than half of the soldiers were withdrawn."

"How could this be?"

Li Yunlong stood up, turned out the map, found the location where Yang Xian's regiment was stationed, squinted his eyes, and said in a puzzled tone: "Yang Xian's skills are not bad, this kid is also good at fighting, and he is also good at leading troops. How could he be beaten?" so miserable?"

"The devils just started attacking yesterday. It took only one day and one night. How could the position be broken through?"

How could someone who had fought with him, Chief Li, be so poor?

Moreover, the regiment in this kid's hand is the main regiment, with a number of close to 1000 or more than [-], and its combat effectiveness is relatively strong. This time, it will definitely be able to supplement some of the machine guns he brought, and it shouldn't be broken by the devils so quickly.

Back then, he led the Xinyi regiment to block the Sakata United team for several days.

"Could it be that kid Kazuki Yamamoto?" Li Yunlong squinted his eyes and guessed.

"This time, there was an accident in the report, not Kazuki Yamamoto and his secret service team."

"Originally, it was expected that there would be only two and a half brigades in front of Yang Xian, with more than 1000 devils, but in fact it was almost one alliance, with a total of more than [-]."

Zhao Gang explained: "Moreover, this time the devils uncharacteristically launched a night attack. A brigade launched a group charge against Yang Xian's position at night. Their group was caught off guard and the position was directly dispersed."

Li Yunlong fell into silence.

For a long time, the devils rarely took the initiative to fight the Eighth Route Army at night.

Night is a close combat, which can greatly weaken the advantage of firepower, and the advantage of numbers is strengthened. The devils with strong firepower and insufficient troops will naturally not give up their advantages and fight for consumption with the Eighth Route Army.

However, just because devils don't need it doesn't mean devils can't.

"The little devil's night combat level is not low."

After a moment of silence, Captain Li finally said a word.

It has been nearly four years since the Anti-Japanese War, and Li Yunlong has often fought night battles with devils. Even in the early days of the new regiment, he could only survive by relying on night owl tactics.

Many times, he led the new regiment and suffered losses in night battles, even big losses.

Often killing a devil, he would lose two or more on his side, and this was when he attacked suddenly and the devil was caught off guard.

This time the devils acted unexpectedly and suddenly, coupled with the misjudgment of the intelligence, the devils' strength was higher than that of the defending troops, it was normal to lose a position, and half of the casualties were also normal.

In terms of the quality of troops, whether it is firepower or the quality of soldiers, even the main regiment is not as good as those elite devils. This is a fact.

If a brigade of devils attacked the position at night and really let the devils approach, even the current independent regiment would have a very difficult time dealing with it.

"The devils will conduct special night combat training, and they also have flares, and their weapons and equipment are better than ours. From the perspective of the whole army, the devils have a great advantage in bayonet technology."

Zhao Gang sighed.

If the strength of the troops is one to one, the independent regiment can cut down the devils with bayonets.

But there is only one independent group, but there are many devils.

The devils with a complete logistics system, reserve system, and recruit training system have far greater advantages. In terms of overall strength, the Eighth Route Army is at an absolute disadvantage.

"This failure is also a lesson learned."

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes: "We have to be more careful in the future, and we have to guard against the devil's tricks. At the beginning of the year, the Yamamoto Secret Service was also caught off guard by a night attack. We must not forget the lesson."

"Correct."

Zhao Gang nodded: "It's time to remind the troops. Now that the weapons and equipment are ready, some people in our regiment are a little smug, thinking that the devils are nothing more than that, and that the difference between us and the devils is only in weapons. Suffering."

"I've noticed that too."

Li Yunlong tapped his fingers on the table, and said in a bad tone: "Some guys, with some good fortune, think they are Guan Gong. I have to find a time to educate this group of people."

"We'll talk about this after this battle is over. Where is the devil now?"

Li Yunlong brought the topic back on track.

The Independent Regiment's position is located on the third line of defense, which is also the last line of defense. With the devil's attack strength, I am afraid that it will not take long before they will exchange fire with the Independent Regiment. If this is the case, then he will speed up the deployment of the second and third battalions up.

"The devil's attack force has not yet reached the second line of defense."

Zhao Gang was a bit puzzled: "We can't figure out the specific movements of the Devil's troops. We only know that the Devil's regiment that broke through Yang Xian's position has stopped attacking, and the Devil's troops in other directions are blocked by various regiments. They are far away from the second line of defense. There is still a distance."

There is no air force for reconnaissance, and there are small groups of troops around the army of devils on the march to guard against reconnaissance. It is difficult for the troops to accurately control the specific movements of the Japanese army.

"No matter what, the actions of the second and third battalions must be accelerated."

Li Yunlong said: "You will set off tomorrow to let the second and third battalions speed up the formation of positions. We want to block the little devils. The position is very important. We must dig it tightly, especially the artillery holes. We need to dig more."

"The devil's artillery fire is much stronger than our regiment."

"In addition, night defense must be strengthened to prevent little devils from repeating their old tricks."

"it is good."

Zhao Gang nodded.

"strangeness······"

After arranging the tasks, Li Yunlong looked at the map on the table, still frowning and talking to himself:

"Something's wrong, Yang Xian shouldn't be? He lost more than 600 people in one day and one night. Even if it was a night attack by devils, it's impossible for the casualties to be so heavy?"

Li Yunlong couldn't figure out why Yang Xian, who had a good relationship with him, lost half of the main team after a day's fighting.
Only less than half of the people withdrew, which means that all those who did not withdraw were lost on the ground.Calculated in this way, the casualties of the whole regiment may exceed two-thirds.

A main regiment of 1000 or [-] people may have more than [-] casualties, almost crippled, even worse than the independent regiment attacked by Kazuki Yamamoto.

The Yang Xian he knew could not fight this kind of battle.

In the end what happened?
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A captain of the Japanese army's corps was standing on the top of a bunker with a saber, looking down at the position in front of him.

Foxholes, trenches, civil bunkers, machine gun bunkers, and artillery holes were scattered and row upon row. At this time, the position in front of him was relatively intact, with only a small amount of damage caused by artillery fire.

And the damage is not serious.

Does not seem to have experienced a brutal battle.

But on the position that has not been greatly damaged, there are corpses all over the place, there are yellow imperial warriors, and there are also eighth route army guerrillas in gray uniforms, but judging from the number.

Yellow seems to be almost the same as gray.

The scattered corpses covered the entire position with a layer of yellow and gray carpet, and between the yellow and gray was dazzling red, blood red red, and the soil was dyed blood red.

Click...
The veins in Da Zuo's hand holding the saber were exposed, and the scabbard pierced a wooden board that was dyed red, and dug deep into the soil.

His face was as cold as ten thousand years of iron, and his eyes exuded a biting murderous intent.

According to the battle plan, after breaking through this position, his wing will continue to attack and quickly attack the second line of defense while the enemy is caught off guard. However, with such huge casualties in the main infantry brigade, it will take at least a day to repair.

As a result, the battle plan cannot be implemented smoothly at all.

"Your Majesty."

A devil officer with gauze tied on his head and covered in blood and mud came over.

The Captain of the General Commander looked at the squadron leader in front of him, focused on the ear that seemed to be shattered by a bullet, and spoke like a blade: "Where is Major Tianye? Let him come to see me and tell him to bring his samurai sword. "

Attacking a position of the Eighth Route Army, the loss was so huge. Looking at the corpses on the position, I am afraid that the loss was no less than 200 imperial warriors, and a brigade lost almost half of its troops. What kind of waste is this?
The Empire of Japan does not need such waste officers.

Cut seppuku.

"The leader of the field team is already broken, including the adjutant, the staff, etc., all the staff are broken."

The squadron leader bowed his head deeply, and responded emphatically: "The other two squadron leaders were also seriously injured. According to the brigade's command regulations, I will take over the position of the brigade leader temporarily."

The captain of the Great Zuo Alliance suddenly fell silent.

The situation seemed to be more serious than he expected.

The captain Yu Sui, the brigade deputy Yu Sui, and the staff are all Yu Sui, that is to say, the entire team of the Field Brigade is gone, the brigade command organization is paralyzed, and two squadron leaders are also injured, as well as at least two hundred imperial warriors in front of them. corpse.

The entire brigade was completely disabled.

"Go and count the casualties."

After another long silence, the regimental captain said to the squadron leader.

"It has been counted."

The squadron leader lowered his head even lower.

"Nani?"

The captain of the Dazuo Lian opened his eyes wide.

The battle had just ended not long ago, how could the number of casualties be counted so quickly?
Is it?

An extremely bad feeling emerged in his heart.

"Say···"

Seeing that the squadron leader hesitated a bit, the wing leader raised his tone.

"Only the third infantry brigade and the artillery squad survived in the field brigade, and the rest were all broken."

The squadron leader's tone was very low.

In this night attack, his third infantry squadron was in charge of the rear, so all the survivors were his squadron and artillery squadron. Completely overwhelmed by the crazy counterattack of the defenders, no one came out alive, and the captain was also crushed.

"Ba Ga, how is it possible?"

Accompanied by the unbelievable roar, the captain's eyes were tearing open.

Even though he had expectations in his heart, the reality was far beyond his expectations.

A brigade with a full staff of nearly 600 people, in a night raid, nearly 500 people were killed overnight, leaving only one squadron and one artillery squadron alive. , was wiped out.

If so, there's simply not enough trimming time in that day.

A main brigade was completely wiped out. Excluding the flanking troops, he now has less than 700 troops left, including a large number of wounded and heavy soldiers. How can he continue to attack?
Moreover, a brigade was beaten and lost its establishment, let alone a day, even a week, he couldn't make up for it.

Officer, it's not that easy to add.

"Commander Captain, Yamamoto's call."

Suddenly, a staff officer ran over.

Mr. Yamamoto.

Hearing Kazuki Yamamoto's name, the captain silently inserted his samurai sword back, and glanced bitterly at the intertwined yellow and gray all over the mountains and plains.

Inexplicably, he felt a stabbing pain in his stomach.

As the captain of the First Army, he had fought against the Eighth Route Army not once or twice, but this was the first time he encountered such a situation.

The mere beggar's army, Tubalu, even with the same strength, actually fought a close to one-to-one casualty with his elite Japanese Imperial Army.

This is something he has never encountered.

And he, the captain of the alliance who has achieved such a record, I am afraid...

　From noon, I slept until two o'clock in the middle of the night, and slept for a total of thirteen hours...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)