Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

"Well, send the injured to the hospital for treatment immediately and don't miss the treatment time." Li Jin nodded and gave orders.

He didn't want any of the wounded to die because they missed the time for treatment.

"I understand." Liu Changshun nodded. In fact, the soldiers carrying stretchers had already carried the injured soldiers to the hospital.

"Give me the list of casualties, and I will hand it over to the brigade for record." Li Jin continued as he turned and walked towards the military camp.

"Battalion commander, this is the list of casualties." Liu Changshun caught up with Li Jin, took out a list of casualties from his arms and handed it to Li Jin.

"For these fallen soldiers, have someone deliver death notices to their families as soon as possible, along with the death pensions. Also, send two bags of food, some bacon, canned beef, etc. to their families." Li Jin took the death list and began to read it, while instructing Liu Changshun to handle these matters.

As for the two soldiers who died in battle, Li Jin took Liu Changshun and others to the Hero Mountain where the sacrificed soldiers were buried.

These are soldiers who sacrificed their lives fighting the Japanese invaders. We must let them rest in peace.

"Yes." Liu Changshun responded. He had already decided who would deliver the death notice.

The two soldiers who died this time were basically new recruits. They lacked experience and were too nervous during combat, which led to mistakes. It was just a small mistake that led to their loss of life.

However, the casualties were not too great, and the performance of other recruits was okay. After all, a lot of resources were spent. If a bunch of soldiers were sacrificed just to train them, then it can only be said that there was a problem with the training.

Soon, they arrived at the halfway point of the mountain. After burying the fallen soldiers, they wrote their names and their achievements in fighting the Japanese on a wooden tablet.

Li Jin and his men saluted solemnly towards the wooden tablet. The new recruits looked at the two new graves with serious expressions on their faces. Some of them even had tears in their eyes. They were in the same class as the fallen soldiers.

Although they didn't spend a particularly long time together, they often trained, ate, and slept together, and their relationship had long been as close as family.

"You must remember, although they sacrificed their lives, it was only their bodies that died. Their spirits are still there. What you have to do is to carry on their spirits and carry on their expectations to fight the Japanese invaders. Go and see for them the moment when the Japanese invaders are driven out! Do you understand?!" Li Jin turned around and looked at the new recruits and spoke with a serious face.

"Understood!" A group of new recruits responded loudly. They kept Li Jin's words in mind. Although their sacrificed comrades would not be able to see the Japanese being driven out, they were still there.

Even if one falls, there are thousands and millions more. Their spirit will live forever and be inherited by the living.

"I hope you will never forget them. The saddest thing in this world is forgetting!" After Li Jin said this, he went down the mountain with Xu Qingfeng and Liu Changshun.

"We need to hurry up and deliver the death notices to the soldiers. The New 1st Regiment will probably set out soon. Don't let the people delivering the notices miss this operation." Li Jin said to Liu Changshun as they walked.

"Okay, I'll arrange for people to go off right away. They will be back when the new regiment arrives." Liu Changshun didn't dare to delay and hurriedly trotted away.

"Alas, the two soldiers who died were both quite young." Xu Qingfeng couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes." Li Jin nodded.

"It would be better if there were more bandits around here." Xu Qingfeng sighed. If there were more bandits around here, these new recruits would not go to fight the Japanese without seeing blood. In this way, the probability of sacrifice would be greatly reduced.

"There's nothing we can do. All the bandits who could fight have been beaten by us." Li Jin was also a little helpless. If he had left some bandits behind when he was training the troops, perhaps this would not have happened.

But since he already knew where the bandits were, Li Jin would not keep them there, because keeping those bandits would mean that the people would continue to be persecuted, and he did not want to see this situation.

"The casualties in other companies shouldn't be too great." Xu Qingfeng said as they walked towards the hospital.

After they arrived at the hospital and entered the ward, they saw many medical soldiers starting to use alcohol to clean the wounds of some wounded soldiers. Many soldiers grimaced in pain but did not scream out because they were afraid of being embarrassed, so they just endured it.

"Battalion Commander, Deputy Battalion Commander." The wounded greeted Li Jin and Xu Qingfeng one after another, their expressions somewhat ferocious.

"Well, you did a good job on this mission. Once your injuries are healed, you can continue fighting." Li Jin nodded and praised everyone.

"Yes!" everyone responded.

.........

That night, soldiers from each company returned one after another, leaving only soldiers from the ninth company. The ninth company's combat location was a little far away, so they did not return so quickly.

All the returning companies suffered casualties, some lost two or three soldiers, others lost four or five. More than twenty new graves were added on Yingxiong Mountain.

The casualties were similar to what Li Jin had expected. Although the 9th Company had not returned yet, the casualties were estimated to be not large. The number of people sacrificed in this mission would not exceed 30, so the mission was barely completed quite well.

The next morning, the soldiers of the 9th Company also returned. Three of them were killed and more than a dozen were injured.

In this battle, the number of injured soldiers reached eighty or ninety, which was not too serious overall.

In the conference room, the company commanders of nine companies came here for a meeting.

They reported the casualties, the number of enemies killed, and the amount of supplies seized in turn. After summarizing the numbers, they concluded that this operation killed more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers and more than 2,000 puppet troops.

"Your performance was pretty good and there were no mistakes in command." Li Jin praised everyone.

Such small casualties have already proved that the command capabilities of these company commanders are indeed very strong, otherwise the casualty rate would not be so low.

"Battalion Commander, we're making such a big noise, will the Japanese want to send troops to encircle and suppress us again?!" Liu Changshun asked.

The noise they made last time was even bigger than this time, which directly pissed off the Japanese, so they dispatched a division of Japanese soldiers to encircle and suppress them.

"It's unlikely. Don't forget that the new division of the Japanese is the Osaka Division, and this division doesn't want to fight.
We are not the only ones who know this, the Japanese are even more aware of this, and it is harder than climbing to the sky to transfer this division to fight. "Li Jin said.

If the division that was transferred here was not the Osaka Division, but other Japanese divisions, the Japanese might really attack them again.

"That's true." Everyone nodded when they heard this. Even if the Japanese wanted to mobilize troops to encircle them, it would be too late because they were no longer in that area.

"I guess the other Japanese devils will choose to abandon the occupied county and withdraw their troops." Zhao Ming guessed.

Since the Japanese have no plans to dispatch troops to attack them, they will most likely choose to gather their forces. After all, they made such a big noise all of a sudden, and the Japanese, who are outnumbered, are worried that they will attack the city, so it would be strange if they don't run away.

"Compared to this, I think the most panicked ones should be the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. They may even curse at us." Fourth Company Commander Tang Qingshan laughed when he said this.

"Haha, they must be panicking. We didn't say a word and went to fight the devils again, and made such a big noise. How can they not panic?" The others couldn't help laughing. The Shanxi Suiyuan Army had been targeted by the devils before, and suffered heavy losses. If the devils targeted them again this time, they would have no place to cry.

"Battalion Commander, we always cause trouble for the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. Isn't that a bit unfair?" Liu Changshun said this with a smile on his face.

"What do you mean by looking for trouble? Is there anything wrong with us fighting the Japanese? If the Japanese misunderstand us, it's none of our business." Li Jin said with a smile.

"That's right." Everyone nodded in agreement. How could this be their problem? They didn't fight the Japanese under the banner of anyone else this time. If the Japanese misunderstood, it was their own business.

"Okay, enough joking. I have something to announce." Li Jin said seriously.

Everyone's smiles stopped and they all looked at Li Jin, wanting to know what Li Jin was going to say.

"More than a week ago, the political commissar of the brigade came to our base in person." Li Jin said slowly.

"What?! The political commissar is here?! Is he here to issue a mission?!" Liu Changshun was shocked, and so were the others. They didn't expect a big shot like the political commissar to come to them.

You have to know that they are very far away from the brigade headquarters, and it is amazing that the political commissar would come here all the way.

"It's not a mission. The political commissar came here for an inspection and gave me a letter of appointment. From now on, our battalion will be officially upgraded to a regimental-level unit. I will be the regiment commander and chief of staff, and Xu Qingfeng will be the political commissar and deputy regiment commander! And you will all be promoted one level to become battalion commanders!" Li Jin announced the news.

"Damn, it's really a regiment-level unit!"

"This day has come so quickly. I thought I would have to wait for a while before I could be promoted to a regiment-level unit!"

"Damn it, I'm going to be a battalion commander in the future!"

Everyone was talking about it, and they all had happy expressions on their faces. Although they had already heard from Li Jin that the unit would be upgraded to a regiment-level unit, the appointment letter had not been issued yet. Now it had finally been issued.

"Please be quiet. I will give you your appointment letters and officer certificates." Li Jin raised his hand to stop everyone from talking. He and Xu Qingfeng took out the appointment letters.

The two men began to distribute appointment letters to everyone. In addition to the appointment letter of the battalion commander, there were also appointment letters for officers at the company and platoon levels.

"These are the appointment letters and officer certificates of your respective battalions. I have already written your names on them. When you take them back, distribute them to the officers under you. Do you understand?" Li Jin instructed.

"Yes!" Everyone responded loudly.

"Okay, let's adjourn the meeting!" Li Jin waved his hand.

Everyone took their things and left the meeting room happily.

"These guys, it's just a promotion to battalion commander, why are they so happy?" Xu Qingfeng shook his head helplessly. He didn't know why these people were so happy. They didn't join the army for promotion.

"We are all young people, and we have an obsession with promotion in our bones. Not everyone can be as calm and composed as us." Li Jin said with a smile.

Most soldiers were illiterate and had low educational levels before joining the army. If they were not promoted after joining the army, they would lose face when they returned to the village.

"That's true." Xu Qingfeng nodded.

"By the way, I guess the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army might ask Chu Yunfei to send us a telegram, asking us what the situation is. What should we say then?!" Xu Qingfeng changed the subject.

They inexplicably put the blame on the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, which is somewhat hard to understand.

"What else can we say? Just say that the Osaka Division doesn't like fighting and we won't attack them." Li Jin said, and what he said was indeed true.

The Japanese don't have the time to do so many things, especially when the Osaka Division is still not behaving itself, the Japanese have no plans to send troops.

"They probably won't believe it." Xu Qingfeng said. They also tried to test the situation of the Osaka Division and confirmed that the other side posed no threat, but they were not sure about the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.

"Who cares about them? Believe it or not. I'm too lazy to explain so much." Li Jin spread his hands.

.........

On the other side, the headquarters of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.

A lieutenant general rushed into Commander Yan's room.

"Commander, something happened!" The lieutenant general came to Commander Yan's bed and said, his face full of anxiety!
"What's wrong? Are the Japanese attacking again?!" Commander Yan sat up, rubbed his eyes and asked.

"That's possible." The lieutenant general responded.

"What?! What's going on?! Is this little Japanese crazy?! He was chasing us and fighting us before, and it hasn't been long since he stopped, and now he's attacking us again?!" Commander Yan was immediately furious when he heard this.

He thought the Japanese would not think of attacking again after the ceasefire, but he didn't expect them to attack again. He was so angry that he wanted to die.

"Commander, I'm actually not too sure." The lieutenant general swallowed and responded.

"What?! Unsure?! What's going on? Tell me clearly!" Commander Yan's face darkened when he heard this.

"We received a telegram saying that an unknown group of forces are attacking the Japanese. The number of people is estimated to be no less than 4,000 to 5,000.
Moreover, it was not far from us. This group of forces attacked the Japanese bunkers and checkpoints, killing at least 2,000 Japanese soldiers. "The lieutenant general told the story and took a step back.

"Are you saying it was done by that Northeast Army?!" Commander Yan suddenly understood.

"Yes, apart from the Northeast Army, no other unit could achieve this. Intelligence said that this unit accomplished all this in one night. The affected area was very wide, and almost all the counties and towns occupied by the Japanese were affected." The lieutenant commander continued.

"What the hell is this army trying to do? They used to pretend to be us and fight the Japanese, and brought hatred to our side.

We have been targeted by the devils for so long, and now they come again?! And they didn't even say hello!" Commander Yan gnashed his teeth in anger.

If he was not active in fighting the Japanese before, it would be understandable that the other side caused trouble for them, but what happened this time? He didn't do anything!

(End of this chapter)