Chapter 160: Unexpected Results
This afternoon, for the Chinese officers and soldiers in the direction of Luo Wenyu, it was both joy and sorrow.
Rejoicingly, they defeated the enemy at the pass.
According to the approximate statistics obtained after cleaning the battlefield, they killed more than 4,500 Japanese soldiers and more than 1,400 puppet soldiers in the three days and two nights of the pass defense battle, the night attack battle of Banbi Mountain, the triangular defense battle, and the pass defeat battle, and the wounded were not counted.
Destroyed four Japanese tanks, two airplanes, captured 8 intact mountain guns, and about 5 damaged mountain artillery parts, of course, those that need to be sent to the military factory for repair and installation are not something that can be solved by the ordnance maintenance department directly under the military department; more than 2,600 firearms of various types, three adjutant-level command knives, and 16 captain-level sabers; Perhaps there were far more Japanese officers killed, but many of them had already been taken away by the Japanese army.
In addition, what may not be the largest but most significant capture is a major general-level command knife, an ivory handle with a golden pattern printed on the inside of the knife command knife is now in the division headquarters of the 2nd Division.
Speaking of which, this seizure, which was not discovered until half an hour ago, was quite interesting, it was found in the ruins of a trench, the scabbard was gone, only a dusty broken knife was thrown into the dust of the trench, and no one from the soldiers next to it took it too seriously. The reason is also very simple, most of the 29 military are made in Hanyang, and they are far inferior to the Japanese army's Type 38 rifles in terms of range.
The Japanese army also has a characteristic, that is, they like to pretend to be forced, starting from the military cao, whether they are a person or not, they hang a saber on their bodies. At the beginning of cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers saw the sabers hanging on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and happily disregarded the filth and smell and handed them over to the company platoon commanders, but the Chinese lieutenants who took more than 20 stinky sabers in succession were too lazy to ask for them, and with a wave of their hands, they threw these big road goods, which were not very valuable at first glance, to the soldiers who performed bravely in this battle, which was an encouragement.
The Japanese army saber was strictly graded, with aluminum knives for non-commissioned officers, bronze for lieutenants, silver for adjutants, and ivory for generals. From the rank of adjutant officer, each command knife is a gift from the emperor and a symbol of status and honor; The lieutenant level is the military system, that is, the arsenal is uniformly customized, and the work under the assembly line is done. The non-commissioned officer rank is even worse, it was not distributed before the outbreak of the war, and if you want to hang a knife and pretend to be forced down, you can buy it yourself.
Therefore, many lieutenants with good family backgrounds don't look down on the army's choice to spend a lot of money to buy it, which is naturally still very exquisite, and non-commissioned officers are basically hard-working, so they spend a little money to buy a handful themselves, and they usually use it to peel an apple or pear, as for fighting on the battlefield, aren't they also cannon fodder on bayonets at this level! When will it be their turn to use katanas? The level is not enough.
Such knives are not good, and there are still many of them, naturally, the Chinese soldiers are not much interested in this kind of saber, and the officers look at some of the beautifully decorated ones that are quite sharp, and hand them over to them, and the rest are all thrown to their subordinate soldiers who fought bravely, and the officers at the battalion level also know that these little kittens under their subordinates are tired, but after a big victory, if you even have to take care of this little benefit from your subordinates, then who will give you your life in the future? Naturally, I also turned a blind eye and didn't care.
As a result, the general-level command knife that was thrown into the dust of the trenches was ignored by the soldiers, until a small soldier who had rummaged on the battlefield for a long time and did not find the captured saber held the idea of "thieves do not go empty", and dug out this gray saber that no one could see from the dirt with a disgusted face, so that the beloved imperial saber of Major General Mitsu Suzuki could be regarded as seeing the light of day.
The reason why the saber of this Japanese major general appeared here is thanks to the two Japanese soldiers who "let pears" each other for a long time. The two Japanese soldiers themselves were very troubled by the shirk of command, and in the face of the defeat, the mood was very bad, and they could still think that the vegetative Suzuki Mitsu was already very humane, where would they pay attention to the command knife hanging on his body?
The artillery fire was continuous, lying on the stretcher so bumpy, the saber hanging on the body of the vegetative major general fell into the trench like this, and then was swept over by the waves of shells from both China and Japan, and the exquisite scabbard had long been turned into pieces, only the handle and blade of the knife remained intact, but the appearance was slightly worse, and it looked like a beggar used it when it was dug out of the soil.
Isn't this person just a good-looking animal! Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, all the same.
The soldier even just informed his squad leader that the broken knife was considered his trophy. If you wash it with water, you may be able to show the edge of the Japanese major general's sword, but unfortunately, water is a scarce commodity on the battlefield, and how can soldiers be willing to take water to wash this broken knife.
Fortunately, this soldier heard that Liu Lang had returned with the army on the front line, and followed a large group of comrades-in-arms to greet him, and that group of people was a hero in the eyes of all the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Division.
You must know that on the first day of the battle, don't look at the Japanese army dispatched 2,000 infantry to attack, but the officers and men of the 2nd Division who died in artillery fire were at least twice as many as those who died under bullets.
At the position of Luowenyu Pass, thousands of soldiers lined up to welcome Liu Lang and his group back victoriously, the two generals and all the officers personally carried the stretchers, and the soldiers held their heads high, using manpower to carry their booty with captured Japanese pack horses.
The Japanese-style katana hanging diagonally from the soldier's waist made Liu Lang involuntarily stop, because Liu Lang knew that the more advanced the command knife, the longer the style, it was because the steel quality was better.
And the unscabbarded command knife hanging on this high-ranking soldier is the longest one Liu Langlai has seen in this world.
Because Liu Lang took one more look in the crowd, a Japanese Army Major General's command knife, which made the whole country excited and the Japanese Kwantung Army collectively humiliated, was born.
The soldier's booty was confiscated, of course, he did not cry, and as a reward, the lieutenant general personally gave him a second lieutenant saber as compensation, which was justified and no one could take it.
The results of the battle were amazing, and even Liu Ruming and the others, who had already predicted that they would be victorious, couldn't help but be happy after getting the long list reported by the commanders of the three infantry battalions responsible for cleaning up the battlefield.
But the losses are also huge, as the main force of the blocking war, the most elite infantry battalion of the 2nd Division has been disabled, the battalion has more than 600 people, only one-third of them can walk off the battlefield, nearly 300 people killed in battle, more than 100 seriously injured, and the light injuries can walk on their own, naturally among the 200 people who are still embarrassed.
The guard company of the division headquarters also suffered heavy losses, a total of three platoon commanders, one killed in battle and one seriously wounded, and one infantry eliminated the seriously injured Cai Dadao platoon commander, all of whom were reimbursed.
Not to mention Liu Lang's death squad, almost everyone was wounded, and the casualty rate was more than 50 percent.
That's it, it's still Wang Changhai who came quickly, if he comes half a day late, I'm afraid that the sequence of these three troops who have made great contributions will disappear from the list of the 37th Division and the 2nd Division for the time being in the future.
The losses of the 217th and 218th regiments in this rout battle were slight, the two regiments had a total of only 120 killed and more than 300 wounded, and the losses of the 2nd Division were mainly in the tragic battle with the Japanese the day before yesterday.
But if you look at all the three days and two nights of fighting, the victory is definitely a victory, and it is a big victory, but the loss of troops is also more than 1,600, which makes the lieutenant general's heart ache.
He had no more than 6,000 people here, almost a third of them at once, and nearly 900 seriously wounded.
That's even more tricky, he can't watch these seriously injured people die in front of him without medical care.
At this time, Mingyu took the initiative to stand up.
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