The retaliatory shelling of the devils continued for more than half an hour, and the shelling did not stop until it was completely dark.

After the shelling stopped, the devils made another surprise request, allowing their corpse collection team to enter the battlefield and take away their bodies.

In exchange, the Coastal Defense Corps can also transport its own corpses.

When transporting bodies, neither side was allowed to shoot at the other.

Zhong Yi agreed to the little devil's request, because it was the end of summer, the weather was still very hot, and if the corpse was left on the battlefield without burial, it would soon decompose.

Allowing the bodies of fallen soldiers to decompose is not only a desecration of the heroic spirits, but also a warm epidemic.

Therefore, the two sides agreed on a time, and each sent a team of officers and soldiers to the battlefield to collect the remains.

In the middle of the night, the bodies of the fallen Japanese soldiers were transported back to Zhangqi Town and placed outside the ancestral hall.

Surrounded by Takeshi Sakurada and several wing commanders, Sakata Shun walked out of the ancestral hall that served as the headquarters and saw the corpses of Japanese soldiers laid out at the entrance of the ancestral hall at a glance.

Katano took a step forward and said, "Detachment leader, in today's battle, the 1st Infantry Brigade had a total of 489 imperial soldiers, and another 16 were seriously injured. ”

Sakata Shun's cheeks immediately flushed with regret.

Four hundred and eighty-nine imperial soldiers, that's nearly three squadrons!

In just one day, strictly speaking, in less than half a day, almost three infantry squadrons were lost! This made Sakata Shun regret and secretly frightened.

Zhong Yi's combat effectiveness of the coastal defense corps is so strong!

This is still under the premise that the coastal defense corps lacks strong fortifications, and if this is changed to another battlefield, if the coastal defense corps has strong fortifications as a battle, wouldn't the losses of their Sakata detachment be even greater?

It wasn't until this moment that Shun Sakata really realized that the Haiphong Corps might really be a tricky opponent!

At that moment, Sakata Shun asked with a dark face, "Katano-kun, please tell me, how this battle was fought?" ”

The eyes of Takeshi Sakurada and several other wing captains also fell on Katano Tasumi's face, and they all wondered, how did Katano United's battle go?

How bad is Katano Sadami's command to die so much?

"Hello." Katano Tasumi bowed deeply and said, "Detachment leader, here's the thing. ”

Speaking of this, Katano Tasumi told Sakata Shun the battle that happened at the western foot of Jiulong Mountain this afternoon, and the old devil was still tough, and he didn't mean to excuse himself.

After listening to Katano Tarumi's narration, Sakata Shun's face finally looked better.

Sakata Shun nodded and said in a deep voice: "So, the first infantry squadron lost was completely due to lack of preparation, and the second and third squadrons were also due to insufficient firepower?" ”

"Yes." Katano said, "In the first attack, because I didn't know much about the firepower intensity of the Shina Army, I suffered a big loss, and the two infantry squadrons that were put into the attack the second time were also because of the superior light firepower of the Shina Army, and before the two sides started a white-knuckle battle, the Imperial Army lost more than half of its troops. ”

"But even so, there are still seventy or eighty imperial soldiers who broke through into the defensive positions of the Chinese army, aren't they?" Sakamoto said, "Seventy or eighty imperial soldiers faced an army of less than 100 people, and they couldn't take advantage of it in a white-knuckle battle?" ”

"Yes." Katano said with a dark face, "Although I don't want to admit it, but the fact is that at least eighty imperial soldiers did suffer defeat in the white-knuckle battle against less than a hundred Zhina soldiers. ”

"Yaga." Sakamoto said, "It seems that it is necessary for us to re-estimate the combat effectiveness of the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Corps, and the next battle will be more difficult than expected!" ”

……

The Sakamoto detachment suffered heavy losses, as did the coastal defense corps.

The 2nd Detachment of the 2nd Detachment of the 5th Regiment, 1st Company, 1st Platoon, 125 people in the platoon, only two survived, namely Yu Qi and Qin Jiu, and the only two remaining were injured to varying degrees.

At this moment, the 123 bodies in the first row have been transported back to Xuejia Village.

Looking at the more than 100 bodies laid out at the entrance of the village, Zhong Yi inevitably felt sad.

Cao Guolin stood behind Zhong Yi and wept secretly, as a patrol officer, Cao Guolin usually saw one or two dead people at most when he was chasing fugitives, when had he ever seen so many dead people put together?

More than 100 corpses were placed together, and it looked really scary.

At this moment, a convoy of women and children suddenly passed by the entrance of the village.

Today, the battle to defend the Yinjiang River has been launched in an all-round way, and the manpower and material resources of the entire Yinjiang River have been mobilized.

In particular, the manpower, the fathers, elders, villagers, and even women and children of the entire Yinjiang River all took action to support the front line, and the men formed the people's wives to help the army build fortifications, while the women and children took over the work left by the men and organized transport teams to transport food, weapons and ammunition to the front line.

It's really a coincidence, the transport team passing through the entrance of Xuejia Village happens to be from Camel Town.

This is a terrible thing, because the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Regiment is based on the militia regiment in Camel Town.

Seeing so many corpses at the entrance of the village, the little daughter-in-law and eldest lady of the transport team panicked, and when they inquired again, dozens of people in the team immediately cried.

Looking at the women and children crying together, Zhong Yi felt even more painful.

Especially one of the eldest mothers, who looked to be in her seventies, walked unsteadily, trembling, and seemed to be likely to fall down in the next second.

Cao Guolin wiped away his tears and said to Zhong Yi: "Counselor, this old man's husband's surname is Fang." ”

Speaking of this, Cao Guolin said with a gloomy expression: "Almost all of the entire camel town is surnamed Qin, and there are only a dozen families with the surname Fang, and Mrs. Fang's family is one of them. ”

Zhong Yi said in a deep voice: "How do you recognize her?" ”

Cao Guolin said: "Because Aunt Fang has seven sons. ”

"Seven sons?" When Zhong Yi heard this, his heart suddenly sank.

"Well, Aunt Fang gave birth to a total of seven sons." Cao Guolin nodded, and said, "However, now there are only three sons left, oh no, there are only two left." ”

Zhong Yi said awe-inspiringly: "Now there are only two left?" What's going on? ”

Cao Guolin said: "His eldest son and second son participated in the Zhejiang Army and died in the warlord melee, the third son died in the Northern Expedition, and the fourth son died in the 128th Songhu Anti-Japanese War. ”