I'm killing enemies with my sword and exploding equipment

Huangping Town, the temporary command post of the Special Forces Regiment.

After Yang Yuanshan reprimanded these arrogant and brave generals under his command, he changed the subject and talked about business:

“Today is only the first day of this war. The battles ahead will surely become more difficult. I hope you are all mentally prepared.

Now, let's all report our casualties and results.

Xu Wei from the First Battalion will arrive first."

Hearing Yang Yuanshan's name being called, Xu Wei quickly stood up and answered loudly:
"We had more than 2000 casualties or serious injuries in our first battalion, and we killed an estimated Japanese soldiers."

As soon as he said this, several battalion commanders who were hearing the news for the first time were all stunned.

Everyone was thinking: Didn’t we just keep saying that the Japanese were powerful? Are they elite?

Why are the results now different from what we said?

The commander of the Fifth Battalion, Zhao Tietou, could not help but exclaimed:
"What? More than 400 casualties, and more than 2000 enemies eliminated?
Old Xu, with only one to five casualties, you still say the Japanese are powerful?"

He felt like Xu Wei was joking!

Xu Wei understood what he meant and quickly explained:

“We suffered few casualties because the Japanese who attacked our position had no artillery, only light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and Type 38 rifles.

In addition, Lao Guo also used his machine gun to level the target and provided us with help.

Otherwise, how could such a result be achieved?
Moreover, our soldiers were hiding in the trenches and firing their guns, while the Japanese had to attack from the unobstructed ridge. It was normal for the casualties to be this high.”

"That's right. Your position is on the ridge. It is indeed difficult for the Japanese to get their artillery up there."

Zhao Tietou nodded thoughtfully.

Yang Yuanshan already knew the situation of the first battalion, so he was very calm at this moment.

Seeing that Zhao Tietou stopped talking and the others had no problem, he immediately looked at the battalion commander He Yunfu and motioned for him to continue.

Noticing his gaze, He Yunfu quickly stepped forward and answered:

"Commander, our battalion was bombarded by the Japanese tanks today, killing more than 30 soldiers and seriously injuring more than 40.

As for the results of the battle, it should be those dozens of Japanese tanks.

However, this credit mainly goes to Chu Kun and his team, and has nothing to do with our Second Battalion.

Their dozens of recoilless guns were able to deal with the Japanese tanks with one shot and one kill."

"Okay, not bad!"

Upon hearing that the Second Battalion had only lost more than 70 people, Yang Yuanshan was of course very satisfied.

This means that the Second Battalion alone might be able to hold off the Japanese army for a whole day!

Now, the troops in northwestern Shanxi are harassing the Japanese's rear transportation lines. The longer the special forces regiment can stop them, the more miserable the Japanese's fate will be.

Once the ammunition and food they carry with them are used up, these two divisions will be completely wiped out!

If you want to break out and plunder the people's food for food, it depends on whether these fierce generals like wolves and tigers in northwestern Shanxi agree!

"More than 70 people from our third battalion died today and more than 110 were seriously injured.

It is estimated that about 1500 Japanese soldiers were killed.

Many of these achievements were made by the comrades of the Second Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion."

Third Battalion Commander Wang Quanfa reported.

With less than 200 casualties, they achieved a result of 1500. This obviously made the several battalion commanders who did not participate in the battle today feel very speechless.

Everyone is thinking: Are you guys who got to eat meat today kidding me?
They say the Japanese are powerful, but is this all?
It's either a 1:5 casualty ratio or a 1:7 casualty ratio, which is simply outrageous!

……

The fourth battalion commander, Li Dahe, could not help but say:

"Captain, judging from the casualties of the first and third battalions, these little devils aren't that scary, right?
If we continue to fight like this for another three or four days, these tens of thousands of Japanese will be wiped out, right?"

Yang Yuanshan was of course also shocked by the results of the Third Battalion. After all, the First Battalion had great results with few casualties, which could be attributed to the Japanese's lack of understanding of the Special Forces Regiment and their underestimation of the enemy and their reckless advance.

But the Japanese shouldn't continue to deliver food to the Third Battalion after suffering such a huge loss!
How stupid was that Japanese commander?

All that experience in battlefield battles, have you thrown it all away?

He knew that Wang Quanfa was a talented person, but he couldn't be this good, right?

Could it be that this kid has the talent of a military god?

hiss……

So outrageous?

Thinking of this, he immediately asked eagerly:

"Quanfa, how did you fight today?

Why would the Japanese send you so many heads?

Even if there were 1500 pigs running all over the mountains, it would take you several hours to kill them, right? "

Wang Quanfa heard this and explained with a smile:

“Commander, today it was mainly the Japs who were in command, and we deceived them.

Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to play so well.”

"Cheat? How do you say that?"

Zhan Haishan asked curiously.

"The group of devils we faced today seemed to be about 3000 strong.

At first, they were very cautious and only sent out more than 100 people to test our defenses.

I thought that this number of people was not enough to fill the gap between our teeth, so I lured the enemy deep into our territory and asked the soldiers to pretend to be weak and just lie down in the trenches. I then used about 200 rifles to fight against them.

The Japanese commander was cautious. Seeing that his people were already two or three hundred meters in front of our position and our artillery was silent, he was still a little worried, so he sent a second wave of six or seven hundred people to follow up and continue the test.

I only used four infantry guns, and after each gun fired four shells, I let them rush towards our positions.

Now, the Japanese commander mistakenly thought that we had run out of ammunition.

So he immediately brought all the remaining people in his hands forward.

So what else can we talk about?
Once they come within range of the infantry guns, they will open fire at full force and make them cry for mercy."

"Good boy, your command is quite good!
This trick of luring the enemy deep into our territory is really good!"

Yang Yuanshan praised repeatedly.

Even Han Yang and Zhan Haishan looked at Wang Quanfa with admiration.

The fourth battalion commander, Li Dahe, could not help but ask curiously:
"Old Wang, even if the Japanese are stupid, since they have a regiment that is charging at full speed regardless of casualties, I'm afraid that the small number of people in your battalion won't be able to stop them, right?
If you let them charge into your position and engage in hand-to-hand combat, you will definitely suffer heavy casualties!"

“That’s our luck.

Just when the Japanese army was halfway through their charge under the full-scale bombardment of our artillery fire, they suddenly retreated.

It directly gave us the opportunity to unilaterally beat the person who was down.

In order to kill as many of them as possible, the soldiers destroyed many infantry guns and recoilless guns.

And Lao Guo’s machine gun also helped us a lot.

If the Japanese had not used heavy artillery to bombard the machine guns, their casualties would have been even worse. "

Wang Quanfa explained with a smile.

"I see."

Li Dahe nodded, very envious of the other party's good luck.

There aren't many chances of your opponent making a fatal mistake in a battle!
"It is probably the Japanese front-line commander who received orders from the rear.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to suddenly retreat in the middle of a fight."

Yang Yuanshan pondered and guessed.

"Well, I discussed it with Lao Zheng, and I also think this is a possibility."

Wang Quanfa nodded, agreeing with his guess.

"Haha, who cares why!
Anyway, this one is a bargain we got for free!
God help me! "

Han Yang laughed excitedly.

"That's right!
It doesn't matter whether the Japanese front-line commander made a stupid mistake or their internal combat thinking was not straightened out.

We killed a large number of devils with minimal casualties, and that was the most satisfying thing!" Yang Yuanshan also nodded excitedly, putting this entanglement behind him.

……

After talking about the situation of the infantry, he asked about the artillery, which he was most concerned about:
"Yuanzhi, what's the current situation of your First Artillery Battalion?"

Gao Yuanzhi had just heard that the infantry battalion had achieved such great results with such few casualties, and he had been feeling uneasy. When he was called out by name, he was almost startled.

He quickly replied:

"My...our battalion lost...we lost 26 guns.

As for how much we achieved, we don't know, but we should have destroyed more than a dozen of the Japanese guns, right?"

"What? Lost 26 guns?
So your battalion now only has 16 mountain cannons left, right?"

Yang Yuanshan couldn't help but gasp and screamed.

After several hours of fighting, an artillery battalion with 42 mountain guns actually lost most of its artillery!

This loss is not small.

You know, if these 26 artillery pieces were handed over to the leaders of the headquarters, they could definitely be reorganized into two or three artillery regiments!

When Gao Yuanzhi saw Yang Yuanshan's reaction, his face became even uglier.

Yang Yuanshan quickly asked again:
"And what about the casualties among your gunners?"

He was not actually too sad about the loss of the artillery.

For him, as long as he has enough gunners, everything will be fine.

"The artillery lost 215 men and 78 were seriously injured."

Gao Yuanzhi answered honestly.

After hearing that the loss was less than 300, Yang Yuanshan's expression finally eased a little.

The 1100st Artillery Battalion had about people before the war.

Although we have lost 300 people, we still have about 800 people. We have not completely lost our combat effectiveness, which is a blessing in disguise.

However, Zhan Haishan still said distressedly:
"Captain Gao, your loss is too great!

Today is only the first day of fighting!"

Upon hearing this, Gao Yuanzhi felt so ashamed that he wished he could find a hole to crawl into.

Fortunately, Wang Gensheng quickly stepped forward to smooth things over for him:
"Captain, Deputy Captain Zhan, Lao Gao and his men suffered heavy losses, not because we fought badly, but because the Japanese heavy artillery was too powerful.

The 120mm heavy mortar of our battalion is quite powerful, but it is still no match for the heavy artillery used by the Japanese this time!

Our anti-artillery caves provide excellent protection against the explosion of 75mm artillery shells.

But it won’t be very effective when encountering more powerful heavy artillery.

Many soldiers, although they were hiding in the anti-artillery holes, were still injured or killed in batches. "

After hearing what he said, Yang Yuanshan also realized that he and Zhan Haishan had put too much pressure on Gao Yuanzhi.

Seeing Gao Yuanzhi's face full of shame, wishing he could pull out the box gun at his waist and shoot him, he nodded quickly and comforted him:
“Well, Gensheng is right.

The Japanese should have used 150mm howitzers.

This kind of heavy artillery is indeed much more powerful than our mountain artillery.

Our anti-bomb shelters are, after all, just civil structures, not permanent fortifications made of reinforced concrete. There is nothing we can do when this happens.

Yuanzhi, you don't have to blame yourself too much."

After hearing this, Gao Yuanzhi felt a lot better.

At this time, Guo Youqing also said:
"Commander, today our battalion was bombarded by four heavy artillery pieces from the Japanese, and more than a dozen soldiers were injured.

The shells of these guns are more powerful than the 120mm mortar shells of Gensheng and his men. They should be the 150mm howitzers you mentioned."

"This should be."

Yang Yuanshan nodded.

Zhao Tietou quickly suggested:
"Captain, since the Japanese heavy artillery is so powerful, we must quickly destroy it!

Otherwise, you can have our battalion go out tonight to attack the Japanese artillery positions!"

"We'll talk about the night raid later."

Yang Yuanshan waved his hand, signaling him not to be anxious.

Then he asked Wang Gensheng:

"Gensheng, how is the situation of your Second Artillery Battalion?"

"We have a total of 24 mountain guns and 12 heavy mortars. We have lost 11 mountain guns and 7 mortars today."

Wang Gensheng answered quickly.

"This is more than half of the loss. It's not optimistic!"

Yang Yuanshan frowned and sighed.

He has been busy commanding the battle today and has not had time to check his system rewards.

I don’t know whether the number of mountain artillery released by the system in today’s battle can make up for the loss of two artillery battalions.

"Captain Wang, what about your casualties?"

Zhan Haishan asked further.

“Our battalion lost 179 men and 68 were seriously injured.

However, our casualties were mostly experienced gunners, which had a great impact on the combat effectiveness of our battalion.”

As Wang Gensheng spoke, his face looked very ugly.

His Second Artillery Battalion was newly formed, and the number of experienced gunners was already less than that of the First Artillery Battalion. Now it has lost more than 200 of them, which is a very miserable situation.

"It seems that we still can't confront the Japanese heavy artillery regiment head-on!

This time, I was too careless.

I thought the Japanese field artillery regiment was similar to the ones we dealt with before, but I didn't expect to run into a tough one."

Yang Yuanshan took the responsibility on himself.

It helped Gao Yuanzhi and Wang Gensheng relieve their mental burden.

Zhan Haishan, who was standing next to them, was speechless when he heard what they said.

I thought to myself: After fighting against the Japanese field artillery regiment and losing several hundred people, this can't be considered a defeat, right?

Why do all of you look like you've suffered a great loss?

Outrageous!

……

Seeing that Yang Yuanshan took the responsibility himself, Gao Yuanzhi suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

He quickly pulled himself together and suggested:
"Captain, we now have 36 guns and more than 1600 men left in our two battalions. Do you want to use tonight to reorganize them into an artillery battalion to strengthen our combat effectiveness so that we can have a fierce fight with the Japanese tomorrow?"

“No need. I’ll think of a way to replace the artillery you lost.

This time the Japanese have two Class A divisions, and the number of heavy artillery must be considerable.

There will be another fierce battle tomorrow!
The amount of artillery you have now will definitely not work!"

Yang Yuanshan waved his hand, indicating that the other party did not need to worry about the artillery.

After hearing what he said, Han Yang, He Yunfu and other die-hard fans didn't have any thoughts in their minds and didn't doubt whether he could get the artillery.

But Zhan Haishan began to have doubts in his heart.

I thought to myself: Where else can you go to get some wild artillery at this late hour?
Are you going to pick it up again?
Outrageous!

At this time, Yang Yuanshan remembered something and quickly told Gao Yuanzhi and Wang Gensheng:
"By the way, Yuanzhi, Gensheng, the Japanese reconnaissance plane came here for reconnaissance today.

They may have discovered your artillery positions.

So before daybreak, you have to move your artillery positions to avoid being bombarded by the Japanese at daybreak, understand?"

"clear!
We have prepared several artillery positions in advance, and we will be able to complete the transfer of artillery positions soon."

Gao Yuanzhi and Wang Gensheng agreed in unison.

...(End of chapter)