At the Hongquan Village Independent Battalion Station, the telegram from the military sub-district was like a thunderclap, which alarmed everyone in the battalion headquarters.

The independent battalion was expanded into an independent regiment, the battalion commander was the regiment commander, and all the non-commissioned officers were promoted to one level, which meant that even an ordinary soldier in the independent battalion was now a deputy squad leader.

No one doesn't like to be promoted, even if everyone is a revolutionary soldier.

So the independent battalion headquarters that was the first to receive the news, everyone had a smile on their faces!

In the headquarters, when he learned that Li Hao had been promoted to regiment commander, Peng Yunfeng did not show a disbelieving expression.

This counter-sweep made him clearly realize the gap between himself and Li Hao, and in the words of the deputy chief of general staff, Li Hao deserved to be the head of the independent regiment.

"Commander Li, congratulations on your appointment as the head of the Independent Regiment, and congratulations to Political Commissar Wang on your appointment as the political commissar of the Independent Regiment!" Peng Yunfeng gave a military salute to each of them, and then said with a serious face!

Li Hao shook his head and replied, "There's nothing to congratulate!"

"As the old saying goes, one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, the reason why the independent battalion can achieve such a great record, the reason why we were able to win this counter-sweep and kill the old devil Watanabe, the sacrificed and wounded soldiers on the battlefield are indispensable!"

"Also, if this battle didn't have Battalion Commander Peng's battalion and your battalion, our independent battalion alone would definitely not be able to fight so neatly, so your battalion would also be indispensable."

"If I guessed correctly, when Battalion Commander Peng returns to the army, the commendation of a deputy regiment will definitely be indispensable!"

After speaking, Li Hao shifted his gaze to Wang Hong.

"Lao Wang, I think we still have to study the matter of the expansion of the independent battalion into an independent regiment, and the top priority now is to count the losses, casualties, and results."

"Especially the results and casualties, whether our independent battalion can be expanded into a real independent regiment is very important!"

"I don't want the expansion order from my superiors to come down, but our independent regiment is a fancy regiment because of no people and equipment!"

The smile on Wang Hong's face disappeared in an instant, and even flashed a touch of solemnity, and then replied with a serious face: "It's basically all counted!"

"The final decisive battle plus three raid battles, as well as guerrilla warfare, a total of 598 soldiers were sacrificed in the independent battalion, and a total of 58 people were sacrificed in the local district squad and guerrilla units, for a total of 656 casualties!"

"There are 42 officers and men who were seriously injured and disabled and had to leave the combat unit, which means that the main force has been directly reduced by 640 people!"

"211 people who have lost their combat effectiveness due to minor and serious injuries, and these soldiers have all been sent to intensive treatment!"

"All the combat units in front of the independent battalion add up to more than 1,500 people, and now the total strength of each company adds up to 750 people!"

Li Hao nodded, his face became solemn, and the casualties were greater than he expected, especially the direct attrition.

Shifting his gaze to Peng Yunfeng next to him, he took a deep breath and asked, "What about you, Old Peng?"

Peng Yunfeng's face also became gloomy: "The casualties on my side are smaller, after all, I only participated in the decisive battle later."

"The whole battalion sacrificed 168 people with aggravated injuries and disabled, and more than 80 people were slightly injured!"

"The seriously wounded have been handed over to Political Commissar Wang to be sent to your secret camp for treatment, and the lightly wounded are moving with the team, and there are still three hundred people!"

Li Hao sighed and replied: "The two troops directly lost nearly 900 people, plus the lightly wounded almost 1,300 people, which really fulfills the old saying, kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800!"

Wang Hong immediately said: "Regiment Commander, I think the situation is far better than killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred!"

"According to the confession of the puppet army officers we captured, the Japanese puppet army sent a total of 3,400 troops in this sweep, and these people were all wiped out by us, and in terms of the casualty ratio, it is almost 1 to 3, which can definitely be called a big victory."

Li Hao shook his head and retorted: "The account can't be calculated like this!"

"The Japanese puppet army adds up to more than 3,000 people, but the puppet army accounts for more than half of them, and the real devils are only a little more than one-third!"

"If you calculate it this way, the casualty ratio between us and the little devil is almost one to one!"

Wang Hong's face slowly became solemn: "After statistics, there are less than 1,500 real devils in the more than 3,000-day puppet army, including four infantry squadrons, a cavalry squadron, a mortar squadron, a mountain artillery squadron, a baggage squadron, and the other is Watanabe's guard!"

"If only the Japanese army is counted, the casualty ratio is indeed a little more than one to one!"

The atmosphere in the headquarters suddenly became depressed, and at this time, Peng Yunfeng spoke: "Commander Li, even if this counter-sweep is a fiasco, then we will win!"

"Although the casualties of the troops are a bit large, but with the weapons and ammunition captured on the battlefield, it won't take long for us to make up for these losses!"

"Not bad!" Li Hao's face looked a little better.

"Battalion Commander Peng is right, although the losses of the troops are large, those who remain are elite! With these elite foundations, coupled with our gains in this battle, it will be a matter of time before we recover our strength! Commissar, you go ahead and talk about our harvest! ”

Wang Hong's solemn facial expression soothed a lot, and he thought for a while and replied: "Let's talk about the equipment first, and it is intact."

"A total of three mountain guns, thirteen mortars, twelve heavy machine guns, 38 grenadiers, and 46 light machine guns!"

"There are two kinds of rifles: there are three or eight big covers and seven nine rifles: seven and nine rifles are more, a total of eight hundred and twenty, and three or eight big covers are less, a total of five hundred and sixty!"

"In addition, there are 159 war horses, including a squadron of little devil cavalry, officer mounts, and heralds."

"There are 128 sets of cavalry equipment, about 1,400 sets of little devil infantry equipment, and about 2,000 sets of puppet army equipment!"

"With these quilts and equipment, our independent regiment will not be afraid of spending the winter this year!"

"Let's talk about the equipment that was damaged by shells and planes: three mountain guns, eight mortars, nine heavy machine guns, 12 grenadiers, 31 light machine guns, and more than 700 rifles of all kinds!"

Li Hao's face looked better, and he asked, "Where is the ammunition?"

Wang Hong took out another list and reported: 89 boxes of mountain artillery shells, mortar shells have been captured in several battlefields, a total of 56 boxes, grenades and grenades add up to 8,000 rounds, heavy machine gun bullets add up to 60,000 rounds, and there are two kinds of rifle machine gun bullets, 180,000 rounds of 79 caliber bullets, and a little more 65 caliber bullets, a total of 210,000 rounds! ”

Li Hao continued to ask: "How many weapons and ammunition have we lost ourselves?"

Wang Hong took out another list: "This is the loss reported by each company, although there are some exaggerated elements, but it is not much worse!"

"Including one mortar, two heavy machine guns, nine light machine guns, and three hundred and fifty-eight rifles, all of which were blown up by the enemy with artillery!"

"There is a bit too much ammunition, a total of 489 mortar shells, 192 mountain artillery shells, 2,800 grenades and grenades, 28,500 heavy machine gun bullets, 110,000 rifle machine gun bullets, plus our supplementary battalion, a total of 170,000 rounds!"

Li Hao sighed with a long sigh of relief and replied: "Fortunately, there is no loss in weapons and ammunition, and there is still a lot of money, especially grenades and mountain artillery shells!"

Wang Hong continued: "In addition to these real seizures, the regiment commander, you asked the troops to pick up all the bullet shells and shell shells on the battlefield, the number is very large, a total of more than 300,000, it is possible to get 400,000, almost 20,000 catties, all piled up in the warehouse!"

"Now that we have mobilized the people in the base area to help us collect bullet shells, I estimate that the bullet shells produced by the battle with the devils half a year ago, or even a year ago, can be found, and the number will be even more, at least 600,000 rounds!"

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