Chapter 104: The Battle of Xiangxi (6)
"Poof, what the hell! The organization of the two divisions fell so fast! The number of dead soldiers has reached 4,000! What happened last night! I just slept for a while! All that equipment is in vain! ”
Yu Ling stared at the numbers on the battle report, how could it be! How is the combat effectiveness of your own troops, you have already tried it in the capital of Cheng (meow)! How could there be such large casualties!
"It can't be said that this is a night battle, the equipment is weakened, and there are still about 10,000 enemies destroyed. However, the commander also has the responsibility to fight tactical restraint at the beginning yesterday, but then it was broken by the opponent's tactical defeat...... The commander of the other side should not be underestimated. ”
In the case of the opponent's complete superiority in equipment, it can still be broken into tactics, this kind of talent is definitely a talent during the War of Resistance Against Japan...... But alas, it was born in the wrong era.
Looking at the person in the photo, Clea pondered.
Xiao Liangchen, the guy who will be promoted to lieutenant general of the Beiyang Army in a few years...... Compared with Cai Yi, these are already small people, and the only thing that stands out is that he has been to the United States and seen the real armies of the great powers.
Sure enough, in this era, guys with the rank of general cannot be underestimated...... Unfortunately, war is never something that can be decided by an individual.
"No matter, anyway, according to the current casualty ratio, these 50,000 people can't get through, and the second batch of supplies transported by the horse convoy is almost here."
With this two-to-one battle loss ratio, even if all the opponents are killed, half of the two divisions can still be left.
Although neither Yuling nor Claya expected that 50,000 people would come out from Hunan.
Obviously, the new army in Hunan plus the patrol battalion is about 20,000 people in total...... I really can't figure out how these 50,000 people came together.
"Huh~ That batch of shells is more than a month's output in your factory, is there enough inventory?" Claya smiled playfully.
This guy knew that the arsenal's production capacity couldn't keep up, but he still looked relaxed.
"This time, the 3rd Division was left at the garrison because there were not enough shells...... Annoying, it's obvious that there have been all kinds of open-level development. Speaking of cannonballs, Yu Ling's face was not very good...... Lowered the standard of workers twice, coupled with the fastest training method, but the workers are still not enough, in the batch of stored machine tools, there are still three milling machines that no one opens, and even some people on the assembly line have nothing to do...... "I really want to end things here quickly, and I'm worried about problems on the railway." ”
Sure enough, there was nothing wrong with the previous hunch, once there was a war, the work would become more arduous.
"It's an important thing here, it's a financial issue! You don't even have an official system, be careful that the four (meow) rivers are completely messed up! "Yu Ling's capital chain is at risk of collapsing now, and things will be much more troublesome at that time.
"Don't worry, anyway, the bureaucrats in these years are not so important, they are the trouble of collecting taxes."
----- dividing line Ji ------
"Division commander, more than half of the regiment has been reduced, should you take it down and repair it?"
In addition to the two battalions that were wiped out yesterday, there are now more than 300 more people on the list of the dead that can be proved in the first regiment, and with the addition of the wounded, the attrition has reached nearly 1,000.
There are less than two thousand who are still holding their positions. And now that it was dawn, during the day, the advantage of the enemy occupying the heights was simply too great, and even though the 75mm guns of the artillery regiment were constantly supporting a regiment, the number of casualties increased much faster than at night.
"After a night of fighting, their physical strength should be almost at the limit. The commander of the first regiment was informed that in fifteen minutes the artillery regiment would cover their retreat, abandon the first echelon position, move to the third echelon, and set up camp for repair. Yuan Mingzhang closed his eyes.
After dawn, he could clearly see the situation on the battlefield through the viewing glass, and the corpses in familiar military uniforms were piled up on the battlefield.
It's not like the blood in those books that stains the earth, there is no red at all, only a deep black that represents death, and it is all their own soldiers, not some chess pieces on a chessboard.
Ci is not in charge of the soldiers! That's right. Yuan Mingzhang thought that he was not a benevolent person, but when he saw this situation, he was still a little panicked in his heart.
"Master's seat, Master Li's phone number." The voice of the communications soldier pulled his thoughts back.
There has been no news from the Sixth Division for eight full hours, and since he has adopted a conservative strategy, he is in such a state...... That, the 6th Division...
"Lao Li, how are you doing over there?"
Yuan Mingzhang felt that his voice trembled a little, before the communication was cut off, he knew that the Sixth Division was attacked more violently than here.
"The first regiment is finished, there are two battalions left, and more than half of them are casualties, but the artillery battalion is intact, how are you doing there?"
Li Qinyan's voice didn't show too much sadness...... Probably, I don't have the strength to do this anymore.
Of the eight infantry battalions of 500 men, there are now only two battalions left......
"Even if I'm more conservative, two battalions of my regiment are gone, and three battalions are more than half of them killed, hehehe... The guy on the other side is very powerful. ”
Smiling self-deprecatingly, Yuan Mingzhang shook his head...... Ever since he got the information on the equipment of the Qing army, all he was worried about was the number of enemies...... However, unexpectedly, the other party directly slapped him.
"Old Yuan? Do you want to make a big one? ”
"What?" Yuan Mingzhang's brows furrowed, even on the phone, he could hear Li Qinyan's suppressed anger.
If this affects Li Qinyan's sanity, the next battle will fall into a deeper predicament.
"Do you feel that the group of enemies who came up from behind and the group in front of them have a big gap in combat effectiveness?"
However, unexpectedly, he did not directly say what he was going to do...... That is, there is no loss of reason?
"Noticed." Although I didn't see it on the battlefield with my own eyes, the casualty report also showed that the quality of the enemy army that appeared in front was much higher than that of the large group behind...... But this ......
"I bet all the enemy's elite troops are on those two hills, send men to surround them! After that, that kind of unit is very easy to fight, I tried, a battalion can kill more than three times as many enemies! What do you think? Interested? ”
There was a long silence.
This thing...... The order given by the commander-in-chief was to delay the enemy, however, now......
"Well, the 155 heavy artillery was not originally used for defense, it was hidden for so long before, and now, it's time to pull it out and see the world."
"It's time to pay a price for defeating half of my regiment!"