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Chapter 504 Chapter 503, Further Mobilization

Minister Zhang had been paying close attention to the battle at Yixiantian, and even had a dedicated telephone line to report the battle situation to him in a timely manner. As a result, Minister Zhang was able to accurately deliver ammunition and other supplies, and he could call Li Yuexuan to inquire about the situation ten minutes after the battle ended.

However, with the span of more than three miles and the large number of Japanese soldiers, it was impossible to get a comprehensive understanding in ten minutes. So Li Yuexuan could only report the information he had on hand to Minister Zhang.

Minister Zhang didn't really want to know the specific results of the battle. He also knew that this matter could not be resolved within 10 minutes. He called Li Yuexuan because he actually wanted to hear Li Yuexuan personally admit a fact that he couldn't believe - the Japanese were completely wiped out!
That’s right. As a veteran cadre, Minister Zhang knew a lot about the combat effectiveness of the Japanese devils, but he didn’t dare to accept the news handed over to him for a while.

"Minister Zhang, I can say for sure that we have wiped out three-fifths of the large attacking force of the Japanese this time! I mean annihilated, not including the wounded!" Li Yuexuan used an affirmative tone to calm Minister Zhang's heart, and then said: "According to the intelligence analysis we obtained before, all the infantry and artillery of the Japanese 222nd Regiment have been eliminated in the battle just now!"

"There was also a mountain artillery battalion brought by the Japanese, which was also eliminated by our 120mm heavy mortars during the battle! This also included the four mountain artillery squads belonging to this regiment."

"That is to say, the only Japanese troops occupying Xijing Town now are the search troops, baggage soldiers, and engineers who followed the Japanese! Unfortunately, the troops we have are not enough for us to rush out and actively attack the Japanese! After all, if the Japanese hold on to Xijing Town, we will have to fight street battles with them, which is too strenuous!"

"If you are willing, what I actually want to do is to mobilize all the heavy troops to go south to the narrow gap, set up positions right here on the narrow gap, and blow Xijing Town directly into ruins, burying those devils there forever!"

"Oh, by the way, Minister Zhang, after this battle, we have data on the actual battlefield test of our 120 heavy mortars. This is very good news for our arsenal! After the battle is over, Xu Nan and the others will submit the battle report, which will be important information for our future production and design of heavy mortars!"

"And..." Li Yuexuan kept talking on the phone to offset the tension that had accumulated over the past few days. The battle was almost over, and Li Yuexuan felt that he could breathe a sigh of relief.

On Minister Zhang's side, holding the receiver in his left hand, with a smile on his face, he listened quietly to Li Yuexuan's words, while his right hand was writing something on paper from time to time.

This time, Minister Zhang and the Chief of Staff gave Li Yuexuan such an important task as Yixiantian. They were a little nervous because Li Yuexuan was still too young.

Now, after listening to Li Yuexuan's words and knowing the previous results of the battle, Minister Zhang felt relieved and was willing to listen to Li Yuexuan's story.

"Okay, Minister Zhang, I still have a lot of things to deal with here. Please report to the head of the headquarters and mobilize the troops here. Don't let the devils in Xijing Town escape!"

After Li Yuexuan finished speaking, he put down the phone, breathed a sigh of relief, then stood up and planned to go outside for a walk.

At this time, the Japanese in the canyon outside were being cleared out, and some soldiers who could drive had already gotten into the intact tanks and were trying to start them up.

In the south, outside the narrow sky, the soldiers of the basic regiment put down their swords and spears and were carrying the bodies of the devils one by one. Political Commissar Wei and a group of staff were recording the confiscated spoils with their bloody hands and pen and paper. At this time, they had no intention of fighting for the spoils, because the guerrillas didn't care about the spoils at all, and they were the ones who benefited the most. "Captain, do you want to transfer the two third companies out of the tunnel? There are too many devils, and we can't deal with them all in a short time!" Zheng Changfeng came over and asked when he saw Li Yuexuan coming out.

"Well, it's not impossible! In this way, you let all the new recruits come out and participate in cleaning the battlefield!" Li Yuexuan said after thinking for a while.

"Okay, I'll go right away!" Zheng Changfeng took two steps at a time.

"Captain Peregrine, Captain Peregrine, is the fighting over? Where are the wounded? Just those few?" Dean Zhang appeared near the air-raid shelter with some armed nurses and shouted from afar.

"Well, these are the only wounded. There are no wounded on the Japanese side. They have all been killed!" Li Yuexuan said, pointing at the Japanese corpses all over the ground.

"Hey, because of this incident, we prepared more than 20 doctors, but there were not enough to take care of the wounded!" Minister Zhang said, pointing to the nurses behind him, "What do you think? Let them help clean up the battlefield. You know, nurses need training too!"

"No problem, the nursing team can participate... Comrade Hongying, please bring all the nurses under your command here to help clean up the battlefield, which is also a good thing!" Li Yuexuan saw Xu Hongying.

"Well, Xu Hongying, go ahead and bring all the nurses here!" Director Zhang instructed Xu Hongying with a smile.

Perhaps knowing that the battle was won, Captain Ou also dispatched a battalion to help clean up the battlefield. Not long after, the Workers' Self-Defense Force also organized more than 300 workers to rush over and help dig pits to bury the Japanese...

Soon, there were more than 2,000 people working on the Yixiantian side, just looting the Japanese soldiers one by one and burying them in the ground. At this time, no Japanese soldiers came to ask for corpses or anything...

"The battle to defend the arsenal is probably over now. What we are considering now is how to defeat the Japanese in Xijing Town and Licheng and force them to return to their original defense areas! Where are the troops of the 385th Brigade?" The deputy commander-in-chief asked in the conference room, pointing to the map.

"The 385th Brigade has arrived at Liaocheng Township!" A combat staff officer pointed out the location on the map.

"Give them an order to abandon most of the baggage and hand it over to the local troops for temporary safekeeping. Let their main force, carrying combat supplies, advance directly westward along the Nanweiquan River Valley and try to set up a position near the fork in the road east of Nanweiquan before dark! Tell the 385th Brigade that the devils only have some baggage soldiers, engineers and search teams left, as well as some puppet troops, so they are not to be feared! Tell them to fight hard!"

"One 385th Brigade is enough to deal with about 385 remnants of the Japanese devils, and they have also arranged positions in advance. Oh, and give an order to the arsenal to organize some troops to cover the artillery unit's southward advance. When appropriate, provide artillery support to the th Brigade!"

(End of this chapter)