"Chief, the Japanese puppet army attacking the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments began to retreat!" Another communications soldier rushed over to report.

"Little devil, this is trying to shrink the line of defense!" Commander Yang quickly made a judgment.

Then a pair of eyes began to glow, and he ordered very decisively: "Tell the three regiment commanders to speed up the assault." ”

"The artillery opened fire with all their might, blocked the back road of these Japanese puppet troops, and cooperated with the attacking troops to eat them, and they must not be allowed to retreat."

"Contact the air defense battalion to prepare for air defense."

"If I'm not mistaken, the Japanese puppet army has already called in air support."

"This is the only way for them to turn defeat into victory and change the situation."

"The air defense battalion must give the little devil planes that come to help a head start, shoot down a few planes, and cover the infantry to annihilate all the Japanese puppet troops on the battlefield."

"Also, inform the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison regiment to hurry up and move and hide well."

"After it was over, the air defense battalion of the garrison regiment quickly rushed here to participate in the battlefield air defense."

"The mobile battalion of the garrison regiment serves as a reserve for the whole army, ready to participate in the battle at any time."

At this time, Hong Linfeng, who had been guarding beside him, suddenly spoke: "Chief, I have a suggestion!" ”

"Say!"

Commander Yang didn't talk nonsense, and asked bluntly.

"Yes, Chief!" Hong Linfeng seized the opportunity and hurriedly answered.

"I propose to add another sentence to the order of the four-way attacking troops: in the course of the battle, the output of firepower should be increased, and the problems that can be solved with artillery shells should never be solved with bullets, and the problems that can be solved with bullets should not be solved with bayonets."

"Before coming, the regiment commander had a special order, let us bring all the ammunition in stock over to support Commander Yang in fighting devils."

"So all three cannon companies had enough shells to support them in two battles."

A flash of surprise flashed on Commander Yang's face, but he quickly reacted: "Chief of Staff, add Comrade Hong Linfeng's suggestion just now to the order." ”

"This time, we also learned from the garrison regiment, regardless of ammunition consumption, and ended the battle in the shortest time and with the least casualties."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the gunfire that had been going off for a whole day finally ended.

All the Japanese puppet troops were wiped out, three of the six planes that came to help were destroyed, and the remaining three were evacuated from the battlefield in disarray.

Inside the headquarters, everyone had a smile on their faces.

After this battle, the anti-sweeping pressure of the 1st Division was not only gone, but it was also able to gather troops to reinforce other base areas, and use the Japanese puppet army killed today as a breakthrough point to completely smash the Japanese puppet army's sweep.

"Commander. The results and losses have been counted. The chief of staff hurriedly ran over and reported, with a smile on his face.

"Plus last night, we killed a total of more than 5,600 puppet troops, including three infantry brigades of the Japanese army, three regiments of the puppet army, captured 1,153 puppet soldiers, and captured 29 Japanese soldiers."

"In addition, a large amount of weapons and equipment were seized."

"Including two mountain artillery, two infantry guns, 19 mortars, 18 heavy machine guns, 86 light machine guns, and 3,598 rifles of various kinds, all of which are intact and can be used by equipping troops."

"About 1,500 rifles, 60 light and heavy machine guns, 24 mortars, and six mountain and infantry guns were damaged."

"I have ordered the troops to collect all of them, including bullet casings and artillery shells used by the Japanese puppet army, and send them to the garrison regiment for repair when the counter-sweep is over, even if they are not repaired, they can be used as scrap metal to refurnace and make new guns."

Commander Yang's expression didn't fluctuate much, and he directly asked the question he was most concerned about.

"What about casualties? Destroying so many Japanese puppet troops, the troop losses must be very large. ”

"Especially before the arrival of reinforcements from the garrison regiment last night, the troops did not have strong artillery support and did not have much ammunition, so it must have been a very difficult battle."

The smile on the chief of staff's face was gone, and he replied heavily.

"The casualties are indeed very large, and now the losses have been counted at more than 1,500 people!"

Commander Yang's face was not good-looking at that time, and he directly interrupted: "Chief of Staff, you stay and finish, continue to clean up the battlefield, and then retreat, and the others will go to the field hospital with me to help." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the deadliest battle since the establishment of our 1st Division."

"There are a lot of wounded, there are few professional medical staff, and there are not enough medicines, so there will definitely be a lot of manpower in the hospital."

There were so many wounded that the improvised field hospital was simply not enough.

Many of the wounded were placed outside and waited for the doctor to judge the condition of the injuries and then determine the order of treatment.

There are also people who are constantly being carried out of field hospitals.

It was the seriously injured who died in the hospital bed because the rescue was not timely, or the medicine was not enough.

Commander Yang's already frowning brow wrinkled even deeper at this time.

The form of the field hospital was much worse than I had imagined.

Seeing the body of another soldier being carried out of the tent by two soldiers, Commander Yang was in a hurry and immediately ordered.

"I'm still stunned for what to do, go and help immediately."

"Inform the guard battalion that the whole army will collect tents and send them to the field hospital, and the wounded must not be exposed to the field."

"Order the medical officers and medics of each regiment to come to the field hospital immediately to help."

"There are also medicines seized on the battlefield, how many and how many, all of them are sent to field hospitals, and no one can detain them."

After a series of orders were issued, Commander Yang walked directly into the field hospital.

The white coat on Dean Zhang's body had become bloodstained, and it was all blood flowing from the wounded.

Seeing Commander Yang walk in, he subconsciously prepared to salute!

"Commander, why are you here!"

Commander Yang waved his hand and replied, "Don't engage in these false courtesies, you continue to be busy with yours." The casualties of the troops in this battle were unprecedented, and there were nearly 500 seriously wounded alone. ”

"They are all heroes of our Eighth Route Army, they did not die on the battlefield, and they must not die on the hospital bed because they were not rescued in time, so we must save them at any cost."

"If there is any difficulty in the hospital, just say, if there are conditions, I will meet them now, and if there are no conditions, I will create conditions to meet you."

"Medicine, I need a lot of medicines, especially sulfonamide tablets for anti-inflammatory, the more the better!" Dean Zhang blurted out.

This is a problem that field hospitals have always faced, and the more wars are fought, the greater the impact of this problem becomes.

Dean Zhang pointed to the seriously injured who had just been examined in front of him and continued: "These people are in urgent need of surgery, but if they want to survive, even if the operation is successful, there is still one hurdle that must be passed, that is, the wound is not inflamed. ”

"The weather is too hot now, and the effect of Chinese medicine in this regard is too slow, as long as the wound is inflamed, it means that there is no help!"

"So I need a lot of special anti-inflammatory drugs, otherwise judging by my experience, these seriously injured people will only survive forty percent."

"In addition, nearly 30% of the slightly injured have had their limbs amputated because of wound inflammation, and some of the more serious ones have even lost their lives."

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