Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 56: Big Casualties, Big Gains (Votes Requested)

After Shimada Hideo gave the order, in order to create conditions for their escape, the remaining one hundred or so Japanese infantrymen shouted and rushed towards the New Second Regiment.

"Onboard!"

It's dark and the card is on board!

They are going to use their lives to buy time for Shimada Hideo.

Seeing that the devils didn't care about their own lives and wanted to drag the Eighth Route Army to death, Chen Chengxing immediately ordered: "Use guns to fight quickly and decisively, don't trade lives with the devils!"

The brainwashed Japanese regarded death as an honor, and many of them rushed into the crowd of the New Second Regiment with grenades.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, the New Second Regiment will definitely suffer as few casualties as possible.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!".
"Boom!" "Boom!".
With a burst of gunfire and grenade explosions, there was no Japanese soldier left standing on the battlefield.

"The reconnaissance platoon goes to chase down those fleeing devils, and the rest of you clean up the battlefield immediately! Pay attention to finishing off the enemy!" Chen Chengxing ordered.

There were less than 20 Japanese soldiers escaping. The reconnaissance platoon would kill as many of them as they could, but it didn't matter if they couldn't.

Under the threat of death, Shimada Hideo ran faster than the reconnaissance platoon with enhanced characteristics. The reconnaissance platoon was ultimately unable to catch up and had no choice but to return to Xingjiashan to clean up the battlefield.

While cleaning up the battlefield, the casualties of the New Second Regiment had already become known.

Luo Ping found Chen Chengxing and said in a low voice: "Old Chen, we are a bit injured this time."

"How many casualties?" Chen Chengxing sat down on the box of the Japanese infantry artillery shells.

"A total of 732 people, 284 of whom were killed on the spot, and the rest were basically seriously injured." Luo Ping whispered.

In this battle, those lightly wounded soldiers who were cut and scratched were not counted directly. The staff of the regiment headquarters only counted those who had lost their combat effectiveness. If the lightly wounded soldiers were also counted, the number would at least double.

"Let the medical team do their best to treat the wounded. Also, let the political department send someone to find a doctor and try to ensure that all the wounded are treated."

“In addition, ask the logistics department to send the canned food and remaining dried meat to the medical team, and then use the money to buy some laying hens, and try to provide enough nutrition for the wounded.” Chen Chengxing rubbed his face and said.

This was the only thing he could do now. Although he had managed to snatch some medical supplies when he was fighting guerrilla warfare in Guangshan, it was simply a drop in the bucket to sustain the treatment of such a large number of wounded.

You should know that there are still nearly 130 wounded people in the medical team, which was caused by the previous ambush on the Japanese reinforced squadron.

The ambush on the Japanese resulted in nearly 200 casualties in total, and this was the result of the Japanese diving into the trenches. If the Japanese had chosen to fight to the death, the number of casualties would have increased significantly.

By this calculation, although the New Second Regiment wiped out a battalion of the Japanese, it also suffered nearly 1/3 casualties. This cannot be said to be a serious injury, it is just equivalent to having a leg cut off.

The combat effectiveness of the Japs can be seen from this. In both battles, the New Second Regiment launched unexpected attacks, and the Japs' firepower advantage was not shown at all. Even so, the New Second Regiment suffered more than 900 casualties.

Moreover, this casualty is due to Chen Chengxing's 20% increase in attack and defense. If there were no characteristic enhancement, the number of casualties would have increased by at least 200.

The only thing Chen Chengxing was thankful for was that it was winter now. As long as the wound was kept clean, the infection rate should be relatively low, and he would be able to restore the health of the New Second Regiment.

However, even though it is winter now, many soldiers were still infected. Only 349 of them were able to return to the army. Another 85 people did not die, but lost the possibility of continuing to fight.

After returning to Hongni Bay and resting for a while, Chen Chengxing became interested in opening the system panel.

The system's prompt sounded when the reconnaissance platoon returned, but he was checking the condition of the wounded with Luo Ping at the time and had no mood to look at it.

[The battle is over. Battle evaluation: great victory! ]

[Obtained 4604 honor points (currently 6736 honor points).] [Side quest: Defeat the Japanese brigade. Completed!]

【Rewards are waiting to be claimed! 】

[Rewards are being distributed]

[Information obtained: Three days later, the Japanese Army's 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade will send a 3-man escort team and an infantry battalion of the Locust Army to protect the artillery squad to Xiaocaozhuang. (Click here to view detailed routes, personnel and weapon configurations.)]

Before Chen Chengxing could click on it to see what it was, Wei Dayong came in and reported, "Captain, comrades from Luyang have sent us a piece of intelligence."

At the same time, the system's voice also sounded.

[Side quest released: Seize the Italian cannon. ]

[Task Reward: Skill Point +1.]

When he saw the task, Chen Chengxing sat up straight.

The Italian cannon and Xiaocaozhuang, it goes without saying that they are Li Yunlong’s main weapons.

Of course, Chen Chengxing also knew very well that although the name was Italian cannon, it was actually the M1897 field gun made in France, and it was also the world's first annealed cannon. It was just that Italian was printed on it after Italy bought it.

These two Italian cannons should have been captured by the Japanese from the Guo army, but we don’t know which unit they belonged to.

Although the Italian artillery is a product of the First World War, it does not mean that it is bad. On the contrary, this artillery is considered to be one of the best weapons in China. Otherwise, the Japanese would not have given these two guns to their own artillery teams, although the Japanese only used them to defend their strongholds.

But you have to know that the Liao-made 77mm field guns and Shanxi-made 88mm field guns captured by the Japanese were all transferred to the puppet Mongolian army or the puppet Manchukuo army, or were left gathering dust in warehouses.

If these two Italian guns can be obtained, the New Second Regiment will immediately be able to go from weakened combat power to strengthened combat power.

Just as Chen Chengxing was checking the information sent to him, Luo Ping also walked in from outside.

"Old Chen, this is what we have seized this time. We have a great harvest!" Luo Ping handed the document in his hand to Chen Chengxing.

After Chen Chengxing took the document, he handed the information to Luo Ping. The information only stated that a team from Luyang would transport supplies to Xiaocaozhuang in three days. The specific information was far from the system.

Chen Chengxing looked at the documents in his hand and felt that this haul could truly be described as a great harvest.

Because Chen Chengxing led the team to rush out suddenly, the two sides started hand-to-hand combat in less than 10 seconds. By the time the Japanese heavy machine gun units and infantry artillery units found something wrong, they had been surrounded by the New Second Regiment and more than half of them had been knocked down, so this time the Japanese had no chance to blow up their weapons.

All of the devil's heavy weapons were captured intact by the New Second Regiment.

The specific quantity is clearly stated on the document.

Two Type 92 70mm infantry guns and 80 rounds of ammunition.

92 Type 8 heavy machine guns and more than 5 rounds of bullets.

There are 18 grenade launchers and 288 special grenades.

486 rifles, 18 Type 4 light machine guns, and more than 6 rounds of bullets.

56 pistols and 648 bullets.

　Another Chapter 5 p.m.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)