Chapter 254: Pros and Cons Gains and Losses Killing Disaster

Shuihe Village, Hebei Border Region. Village office. The conference room of the regimental headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment.

The company commanders and instructors of the companies who participated in and commanded the four-way battle in the morning, and the company commander Ma Fucai, who led the troops to the ambush in Shuihe Village, came to the conference room of the regiment headquarters one after another to report the results of their respective companies to Yu Genshan and other regiment leaders.

According to incomplete statistics, the morning blockade battle killed nearly 300 Japanese troops attacking from the four directions, wounded more than 300 Japanese soldiers, captured 84 Japanese soldiers, and captured a large number of weapons, ammunition, and materials. Detailed statistics are still in progress. The total number of soldiers killed in each company was 59, and 92 were lightly or seriously wounded. Two thirds of the ammunition was consumed, and only a third was replenished with captured ammunition, and a third was still missing. If the Japanese army launched another attack of the same scale, the supplementary regiment would probably not be able to support and achieve the results of today's battle, and if it fought with the Japanese with bayonets and hand-to-hand combat, more soldiers would have been killed and wounded. The 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion led by Company Commander Ma Fucai lost 12 men, 39 wounded, and almost ran out of ammunition in the guerrilla ambush battle. However, the Sixth Company played a decisive and crucial role in the victory of the battle. After the report, the company commanders asked Yu Genshan and Ma Fucai what kind of fierce battle was fought against the Japanese army at the farthest distance from Shuihe Village? Yu Genshan understood in his heart, but there was a blank and ignorant look on his face, no matter who asked him, he shook his head ignorantly. Ma Fucai's answer was simpler, he didn't see anything, he didn't know anything. The commissar judged that it could be local troops. One of the company commanders involved in the battle said that judging by the heavy and dense artillery fire he heard and the many automatic weapons used, it was unlikely that it was a local unit with a higher combat capacity than the replenishment regiment. Yu Genshan interrupted everyone's speculation and discussion, and announced the order of the troops to step up their efforts to recuperate their wounds, train hard, prepare for another battle, and strengthen vigilance and preparedness in Shuihe Village. The cooks of the regimental headquarters came in for the third time to urge lunch, and the meeting was over, and everyone left one after another, each going back to his own company.

Yu Genshan and Han Dagang walked out of the regiment headquarters and talked quietly and walked towards the thatched house.

"Da Gang, what do you think the supplementary group should do next?"

"Commander, that's what I think, right, it's not all for you to revise and add. First, wait for Francis to secretly send intelligence from the Japanese army and analyze and judge the next step. Second, they secretly dispatched plainclothes armed detachments in squads to seven or eight villages near Shuihe Village to mobilize the masses to raise military rations. At present, the villages where the supplementary regiment is stationed cannot support the food consumption of more than 1,000 people in the regiment, and the soldiers cannot afford to train and fight with a large amount of exercise every day. It should be ensured that the soldiers can eat the staple food for dinner, even if it is only a vegetable nest. Third, we should think of ways to get some medicines as soon as possible. Fourth, we must comprehensively analyze and profoundly study the real purpose and strategic intention of the Japanese army's offensive today, and conscientiously sum up the advantages and disadvantages of our army's resistance battle this morning. That's all I can think of right now, Commander. ”

"Good. Dagang, these four points you think of are all very important, and you should do this. However, it is also quite difficult to do. Alas, it would be nice to see Francis now. I really regret that I shouldn't have let him leave the supplementary group in the first place. ”

"Commander, it was very correct and necessary for you to let Fang Jiren leave the supplementary regiment in the first place. Can't you see it now? Francis' departure from the supplementary regiment was much more useful than his stay in Shuihe Village. He understands what the replenishment mission lacks and what is most needed. Then we can use the Fang family's deep financial strength and influence among the people in the western Hebei region to mobilize the Fang family and mobilize the strength of the broad anti-Japanese masses to help us. ”

"Well, you're right. However, Dagang, you must not forget that we are the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Communist Party and the people's soldiers, and we should not only rely on the Fang family of the big landlords and big capitalists to resist Japan and save the country, but should still rely closely on the broad masses of the people. ”

"Regiment commander, I am a member of the Communist Party and the commander of the Eighth Route Army, I have not forgotten and will never forget the purpose and responsibility of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army. From the first day I joined the army, I knew that our Eighth Route Army was a people's army under the leadership of the Communist Party, and it could not do without the support and help of the people at all times. It is true that the Fang family is a big landlord and a big capitalist, but the Fang family is also a member of the people and an anti-Japanese masses. In the past few years, the Fang family has not taken refuge in the Japanese, but is willing to take the great risk of being killed and wiped out to take the initiative to help the Eighth Route Army many times, which is very valuable. ”

"Yes. Da Gang, I also know what you said, it is indeed valuable and remarkable that the Fang family can persist in doing this for a few years. ”

"Huh? Commander, it's wrong, it's wrong. ”

"Huh? Am I not right? What's wrong again? "Yu Genshan is confused.

"Commander, let's patronize and talk, the thatched house has already walked by."

Yu Genshan laughed out loud in his senses, and Han Dagang turned around and walked back.

The west gate of the county seat of Lin'an County. It was noon, and the sky was gray, as if it was going to rain.

After a morning of fierce fighting, the defeated Japanese soldiers, all with their faces and bodies covered with smoke and blood, walked into the city gate in groups of three or five, disheveled, embarrassed, and exhausted, and some Japanese soldiers carried wounded soldiers who were wailing and screaming on their backs, or a few people staggered into the city gate carrying a dying seriously wounded soldier.

The county seat of Lin'an County. National Model High School conference room.

Eiichi Nakagawa was extremely depressed after reading the telegram, and his eyes were glazed over.

"Wing Commander, the withdrawn commanders are waiting at the headquarters, please go back and give instructions." The combat staff officer standing beside Eiichi Nakagawa said remindedly.

"Report!" Takagi Hirochi walked into the conference room, walked up to Nakagawa Eiichi and said, "Co-captain, Teacher Tian and her daughter have been sent back to the school dormitory. ”

When Nakagawa Eiichi heard Tian Yuanxiu, he came back to his senses, raised his head and asked Takagi Hirochi:

"Oh. Teacher Tian is back, okay. Are the injuries on Niu Niu's arms and legs serious? ”

"Report to the co-captain, the injuries on Niu Niu's arms and legs are only extracutaneous abrasions, not serious. The dean personally examined the treatment, applied the medicine and bandaged it, and all of them were disposed of, and he could be cured in a few days. Wing Commander, it's time to go back to headquarters for lunch. ”

"Hmm. Zong Han-kun, Kawatani-kun, Ono-kun, Oda-kun, you come back to the headquarters with me, and the meeting will start as soon as we have lunch. ”

Everyone walked out of the conference room and left the school in two separate cars.

President Chu Shiyao's office. The size of the room is not large, about twelve square meters. The walls are gray and upturned, desks and chairs are exposed with white stubble, and the ground is uneven. The bookshelves on the east and north walls are filled with various books.

Zhu Shiyao sat on the chair behind the desk, picked up the enamel jar with a handle and drank it coldly. Fang Daxian walked around with an anxious and worried face.

"Mr. Fang, don't hang around with me, hurry up and go home for dinner."

Fang Da first walked to the desk and stopped, looked at Zhu Shiyao with an indifferent face and whispered:

"Principal Zhu, how can you talk like that to the Japanese during a meeting? Yes? Aren't you looking for your own death? ”

"Mr. Fang, Brother Daxian, if you don't leave, can you please sit down?" Zhu Shiyao put down the enamel jar, looked at Fang Daxian and smiled lightly, and said disappreciably: "Then you say, how should I talk to the Japanese?" You're welcome? Like the third grandson? I can't do that. ”

"Who made you look like your third grandson? Principal Zhu, Brother Shi Yao, you can talk less, and you can not say some things, why do you have to say them directly? ”

"Why should I say less? Don't say? Why can't you just say it bluntly? Hum! Friendly talks? Cultural exchange? Shit fart, stinky shit. Brother Daxian, you don't know how poisonous the intentions and purposes of the Japanese meeting are, right? I, Zhu Shiyao, am a cloth cloth teacher, and I will not shoot and fight bayonets with little devils, and I have no enthusiasm for serving the country. I can only use my mouth to use Chinese culture as a weapon to defeat the Japanese, so that they will not be able to bargain with me. As a Chinese who is unwilling to become a slave to the country, in the face of fierce and vicious invaders, this is all I can do. ”

"Well said, Brother Shi Yao's words make me admire, and your integrity and character make me admire even more. However, you can speak tactfully and subtly, so that you can express your meaning clearly and completely without obviously irritating the Japanese. ”

"Brother Daxian, how can you be tactful and subtle? There are some things and some things that can't be said tactfully and implicitly, but what I'm saying is the truth. I can't be a shrunken turtle. ”

"Who told you to be a turtle? Taoguang is obscure, pretending to be stupid, don't you understand, won't you? You have to protect yourself and your family first, and then you want to do it with the Japanese, and it would be a bit unjust to die before your ambition is rewarded. You see, if I don't say a word at the meeting, and I don't even let out a fart to the Japanese, they won't say that I am a communist and anti-Japanese. ”

"Brother Daxian, I can't do it if you can do it. I have to say what I have to say, it's worse to hold it in my heart than to die, I can't change my temperament. ”

"You? You! Brother Shi Yao, the Japanese are all tigers and wolves, snakes and scorpions, don't you know, you are talking and carrying the Japanese face to face with the ox will lead to death, and it may also harm your family. As far as you say at the meeting, the Japanese will never let you go easily. Fang Da said as he patted his desk.

"Huh? Killed? Trouble to your family? Zhu Shiyao stood up in panic and asked.