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Chapter 448 Chapter 447, Statistics
With the destruction of the Yamazaki Battalion, Yoshio Shinozuka no longer planned to continue the attack. Instead, he changed the active attack into a defensive and nibbling strategy to cooperate with the policy of iron wall encirclement.

As a result, the Japanese retreated, and the Eighth Route Army had some time to catch its breath. So the troops did not take the initiative to provoke the Japanese, but stayed in their respective bases to rest. Preparations started at the end of July, the battle started at the end of August, and now it is early November. The participating troops have also suffered some losses, and it is time to rest and recuperate.

However, the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop! For Shinozuka Yoshio, he did not want to continue fighting, because his 4th Independent Mixed Brigade lost nearly half of its troops in the battle of Yangquan, and other units also lost thousands of troops. The total casualties were more than people! This was undoubtedly a huge loss for his First Army!
Therefore, Yoshio Shinozuka's idea was to rest steadily, accumulate strength, and then attack.

However, his idea was still too conservative in the eyes of the Front Army, and it was not in the vital interests of the devils! Therefore, under the dispatch of the Front Army, the devils turned their troops and carried out a series of sweeps on the bases of Taiyue District to the west of Taihang District, Beiyue District to the north, Northwest Shanxi, Pingxi District, etc.

According to the information Li Yuexuan had, this mopping-up operation did not end until January of 41. Counting the days, it took more than five months from the official start of the Hundred Regiments Campaign to the end of the Japanese mopping-up operation.

When summarizing the battle process, the head of the headquarters counted the numbers of all the participating regiments and found that more than 100 regiments participated directly in the battle. Thus, the name of the Hundred Regiments Campaign came into being! In December, Li Yuexuan also saw the headquarters' battle results statistics report from Minister Zhang.

On December 12, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters announced that from August 10 to December 8, in the three and a half months, the Eighth Route Army fought a total of 20 battles of varying sizes, killing or wounding 12 Japanese soldiers (including 5 officers above the rank of battalion commander) and 3 puppet soldiers, captured 1824 Japanese soldiers and 22985 puppet soldiers, 20 Japanese soldiers who voluntarily surrendered with weapons, and 5155 puppet soldiers who defected; seized 281 guns of various types and 18407 cannons of various types; destroyed 47 kilometers of railways, 1845 kilometers of roads, 7242 bridges, 53 railway stations, 474 tunnels, more than 1502 rails, more than 213 million sleepers, more than 39 electric poles, and more than 11 kilograms of telephone wires; destroyed eight coal mines and 21.7 warehouses.

In addition, a large number of other military supplies were seized and destroyed. The loss of Japanese and puppet troops, if we add the more than 2000 killed and wounded in the Fuwang Campaign of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the more than 2500 killed and wounded in the anti-"mopping up" campaign in northwest Shanxi, reached more than 52880.

According to Japanese military statistics, a total of 44681 meters of track, 93 meters of tunnels and 1014 meters of bridges on the Zhengtai, Tongpu and Pinghan railways were destroyed, 2440 electric poles were either cut off or knocked down, and 146 kilometers of electric wires were cut; the new mine in Jingxing would be unable to produce coal for at least half a year.

In the first three and a half months of the Hundred Regiments Campaign, the Eighth Route Army suffered 3 casualties and more than 1.6 poisonings. According to statistics from the 2th Division after the war, the division suffered 129 casualties and 7362 missing in the Hundred Regiments Campaign, and the total number of casualties in the Hundred Regiments Campaign reached 450.

It was very detailed information. Li Yuexuan was reading it while using the auxiliary search function to search for the numbers in his memory. He found that the results of the Eighth Route Army were not much different from the numbers in his information. If there were any differences, it would be that the Japanese casualties were more than 2000 more, while their own casualties were more than 1000 less, and more than 1000 more weapons were seized... There was no big difference in other aspects. Don't underestimate the insignificant number of just over 2000 or 2000, but behind it are lives! If the Japanese lost more than 1000 people, then they would have less than 1000 veterans, which would have a great impact on the future expansion of the troops! And the more than soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who had no casualties in the battle were definitely more than veterans!
There are more than 1000 veterans, and many of them are excellent cadres. If they didn't die in Lijiapo, then when the 386th Brigade and the 129th Division expand their teams in the future, there will be more than 1000 veterans and cadres! If the division commander wants, it will be easy to expand a new brigade-level unit!
After reading the report, Li Yuexuan couldn't hide his smile! He was just a time traveler, and he didn't dare to compare his military exploits with these old predecessors! However, with his presence, the Japanese lost more than 2000 heads in this battle! If so, then the victory of more than 2000 heads will be counted on his head!

What if, what if among these 2000-odd Japanese descendants, there are those from TEPCO? Those who tampered with textbooks? Those who were in charge of education and trained overseas students to be traitors? Those who were behind the scenes, setting up the love streets and schools? If there were... So, it would be a great merit!
"How about it, Comrade Youshun, isn't this victory very impressive?" Minister Zhang asked Li Yuexuan with a smile, looking at him from across the desk.

"Too impressive! The Taierzhuang victory that the bald guy boasted about only wiped out a few thousand Japanese soldiers, right? They said more than 10,000 people were killed, but not many were actually killed! Moreover, the Northwest Army played the leading role! Look at us... Although we didn't have a large-scale battle, and we didn't fight the Japanese head-on with airplanes and artillery, we have achieved so many results and gains!"

"So... Minister Zhang, in the future, should we just let go and produce weapons and ammunition, vigorously develop the team, and strengthen the construction of the army?" Li Yuexuan asked.

"We will definitely be able to produce without restraint!" Minister Zhang nodded happily, and then continued: "The external situation we need to face will be very tense! Now, not only are the Japanese devils sweeping us, but the bald guys are also blocking us!"

"Look, the two ministers He and Bai of the Military Commission of the National Government sent a telegram to the commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief and commander of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army, slandering the armed forces we lead, saying that they have been pretending to fight against Japan but actually causing friction in various places in North China and Central China since the beginning of the war. They also forced the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, which persisted in the war of resistance in the north and south of the Yangtze River, to withdraw to the north of the Yellow River within one month. Their wolfish ambitions are obvious!"

"Is this true? Isn't this the thief crying thief? Who is behind all these frictions? This is really a lie!" When Li Yuexuan said this, he suddenly remembered a movie called Let the Bullets Fly. The person who slandered you for eating a few bowls of noodles knew best how many bowls you ate... It's true...

But thinking of this, Li Yuexuan was shocked, then looked at Minister Zhang and said: "This bald Chiang never shows mercy to us! So, the New Fourth Army must be careful."

(End of this chapter)