Speaking of losses, Li Xiangbei's face was a little heavy.

"Battalion commander, a total of 89 comrades were sacrificed this time, and more than 60 people were wounded, including a platoon commander and two squad leaders."

The Hujialing ambush battle, although the results were abundant, but the losses were not small, the previous six companies of more than 300 people, now only about 200 people remain, and there are more than a dozen seriously wounded among them.

Including the second platoon commander Li Hai was also wounded, he was hit by a bullet from the devil, and his left hand is still wrapped in a bandage.

Not to mention the loss of a platoon commander.

Of course, there are many benefits, not to mention the capture, after this ambush battle, those recruits can also grow up quickly.

"What about the comrades who died? Is it properly buried? The battalion commander nodded solemnly and said with concern.

"They have been buried in a mountain forest in Yingxian County, and in order to find them in the future, we have erected a monument at the burial place."

Of course, it is a wooden monument.

This was actually Lehi's suggestion, because he felt a little uncomfortable thinking of the martyrs who died in the War of Resistance in history, and many of them ended up in the wilderness.

So Li Hai suggested leaving Hujialing with the bodies of those sacrificed comrades, and then burying them in another place, also for fear of being destroyed by the Japanese army, and at the same time write down the location so that they could be found later.

"They're all good." The battalion commander nodded heavily, and the instructor next to him gave the battalion commander a gesture in his eyes, and the battalion commander hesitated for a while and said, "Sixth company commander, this time, you keep the weapons of the devils you captured, and leave you two heavy machine guns, and most of the others will be handed over in addition to being assigned to other companies."

Originally, your company had just experienced a major battle and should rest for a while, but the regimental headquarters had an order for us to march south, so the day after tomorrow we would leave Hunyuan and go to Pingshan County, north of the Zhengtai Line, to join the brigade headquarters.

Hope you understand! ”

Li Xiangbei nodded and saluted, "Please rest assured that the Sixth Company will not drag the whole battalion back." ”

Two heavy machine guns, which is already quite good for the sixth company.

The sixth company has a lot of light machine guns and submachine guns, as well as two Japanese-style 90mm mortars, plus a large number of grenadiers, such equipment can be said to be very luxurious for a company, and a squadron of the Japanese army may not have such good equipment.

Even the battalion commander couldn't keep all the captures, at least the two mountain guns couldn't be kept, and even if the regiment could keep it, even if it was very lucky, there was a high chance of being snatched by the brigade headquarters.

For artillery, the entire Eighth Route Army is lacking, the entire 115th Division does not have many mountain artillery, and one regiment is equipped with two mountain artillery, which can only be said to be very luxurious.

However, there was a 92 infantry gun in the battalion, plus those mortars and grenadiers, which were enough.

"Battalion commander, why did we pull out so quickly? Now that Hunyuan and Yingxian are occupied by our battalion, it is entirely possible to establish an anti-Japanese base here, and it is a pity that we have withdrawn. Lehi was puzzled.

"In the first battle of Xinkou, the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army were defeated, and the Japanese army occupied Niangzi Pass, and was about to attack Taiyuan. It is estimated that this order may have been issued by the division headquarters or even the headquarters, and we must go to help the national army, otherwise it will not be justified. ”

The battalion commander didn't hide it, and he also had a good impression of Lehi, and this one had a lot of credit for this capture.

"The national army is defeated? That's 200,000 troops, if we change to our Eighth Route Army with 200,000, one devil division is nothing, and two of them will kill him. Lehi pouted.

The instructor looked at Li Hai in surprise, "College student, your mouth is getting oilier and oilier, I didn't see you so good at blowing before, but now you are running the train with your mouth." ”

"Instructor, I'm telling the truth, look at the national army, that's called war? I think this Taiyuan will soon fall into the hands of devils, but it's a pity! ”

Li Hai was not joking, he really felt that it was a pity that Taiyuan fell into the hands of the Japanese, because the main factory of the Taiyuan Arsenal was near Taiyuan, and as the most industrially developed place in Shanxi, if it fell into the hands of the Japanese, it would become a tool for Japan to expand its war of aggression.

"Okay, you're all injured and not serious, but you are a commander and fighter of our Eighth Route Army, and you are also a platoon commander, pay attention to your image." The battalion commander glared at Lehi, "By the way, you know Japanese, why didn't you say it before." ”

"Hey, hey. When I was studying, I learned it from a teacher who had studied in Japan, but I didn't have the opportunity to use it later, so I didn't say anything. ”

Lehi was not afraid of being exposed, and it was impossible for them to go to Changsha anyway to find out if there was a teacher who could speak Japanese.

If it is difficult to find someone who can speak English, it is not easy to find someone who can speak Japanese in a big city like Changsha.

In modern times, the largest number of Chinese students go to Japan to study.

"You should have said this in advance, maybe it will come in handy later."

The battalion commander is not exaggerating, in today's Eighth Route Army, there are not many people who can speak Japanese, and Li Hai seems to be able to deceive the Japanese, obviously Japanese is not bad, such a may be rare in the entire Eighth Route Army.

If he speaks Russian, English, and some German, it is estimated that nine times out of ten he will be immediately transferred back to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and maybe even to the Wuhan office or Yan'an.

There were Russian-speaking people in the Eighth Route Army, but there were very few, and Lehi could speak four foreign languages at the same time, so it would not be a waste of talent for such a person to be a platoon commander on the front line.

Lehi also thought about it, or didn't he want to expose his language talent after staying at the front line?

But it's a bit difficult to explain, you can still speak Japanese if you say you can speak Japanese, but you know several foreign languages at the same time, how do you explain it?

You can't all learn it while you're studying, right?

The evacuation of the northern Shanxi region was an order issued by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but it did not mean that the base areas of Hunyuan County and Ying County should not be needed.

After the Battle of Pingxingguan, the 115th Division established an anti-Japanese base area centered on Wutai Mountain, and after the second battalion withdrew, someone naturally came to replace them.

Moreover, there are also many wounded in the second battalion during this time, and it is inconvenient to travel, so they will stay.

Just as the 2nd Battalion was heading south, the results of the 2nd Battalion's capture of thousands of rifles also reached the brigade headquarters.

You must know that the regimental headquarters can't suppress this matter, it is thousands of rifles, which are enough to arm the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army.

And now the brigade headquarters is going to form the 689 regiment, which is in need of weapons.

However, not every battalion could capture a lot like the second battalion, and many others suffered great losses at the hands of the Japanese army.

Therefore, after learning that the 687th Regiment had captured two 75mm mountain guns, the brigade commander, political commissar, chief of staff and others of the 344th Brigade were shocked.

The brigade commander said even more unceremoniously, "Tell the 687 Regiment to immediately send those two mountain guns to the brigade headquarters, with these two mountain guns, the brigade headquarters can finally form an artillery battalion!" ”