After the mortar platoon buried the remains of the sacrificed soldiers, they immediately reorganized the fortifications according to Zhang Wei's instructions, and when Zhang Wei returned to the position of the preparatory battalion, the casualties were also counted, and after this battle, the preparatory battalion suffered a total of nearly 50 casualties, including the troops reinforcing the position of the second battalion, on average, the casualties of each company were not large, within the scope of Zhang Wei's acceptance, the combat effectiveness of each company was not affected too much, according to the old rules, the lightly wounded soldiers dealt with themselves, and the seriously wounded soldiers were gathered together and waited for evacuation.

Things are almost the same in his own position, how the two battalions of the friendly army were damaged, Zhang Wei is not clear, judging from the battle just now, the loss of the second battalion of the friendly 276th regiment will not be small, and even the position was broken through by the Japanese army, along the trench, Zhang Wei walked to the position of the second battalion located on the left flank of the defensive line.

The three platoons led by He Kun have just withdrawn, and the position of the second battalion can now be said to be quite chaotic, the section of the defense line broken by the Japanese army, the trenches have almost been filled by the corpses of the two armies, and there are all kinds of complete or broken guns around, as well as all kinds of stumps and broken arms, and the soldiers of the second battalion are digging corpse pits and cleaning the trenches.

Zhang Wei walked through the mixed crowd, did not find the commander of the second battalion, and saw that a second lieutenant officer was directing people to carry the body, so he grabbed him.

"Brother, where is your battalion commander?"

When the second lieutenant saw a major coming, he hurriedly replied, "Sir, our battalion commander is at the heavy machine gun position, and you can go a little further to the left." ”

"Thank you."

According to the instructions of the second lieutenant, after Zhang Wei walked for a while, he found the commander of the second battalion, he was hula and shouted in the trench of the heavy machine gun position, it seemed that he was also organizing the recovery of the position, the heavy machine gun position of the second battalion was directly hit by the Japanese 92 infantry guns in the battle, and half of a heavy machine gun platoon was knocked out, and now there is only one heavy machine gun and a squad of troops left, the machine gun position was scattered by the infantry artillery, sandbags and broken machine gun parts were scattered near the firing position, and most of the non-standard breastwork was destroyed.

Seeing Zhang Wei coming, the second battalion commander put down his work and walked over: "Brother, thank you for the reinforcements just now, otherwise our battalion's position may collapse." ”

"You're welcome, your battalion is already very tenacious, and the little devils who attacked later put all their strength on you, it's not easy to carry."

The second battalion commander nodded: "Yes, look at this machine gun position, half of it was knocked out by the little devils, and there is only one gun left, and this machine gun platoon has also lost half of the soldiers." ”

"What is the total number of casualties?"

"Counting this machine gun platoon, the whole battalion suffered about 120 casualties, the platoon that was attacked was almost finished, the platoon commander surnamed Li was also killed, and half of that company was left, I can only reduce the rest of the people into a reinforced platoon, and the other two companies are okay, the losses are not big." The commander of the second battalion said sadly, this loss is indeed big enough, more than half of the casualties of an infantry company are basically broken bones.

"In fact, the casualties during the shelling were not large, and those who died were basically killed when fighting bayonets and shooting, and the bayonets were fought thanks to you, brother, otherwise such a big opening would not have been blocked at all."

Zhang Wei looked at the position of the second battalion: "Yes, after all, our combat quality is not as good as that of people, you have many recruits, and you don't have enough time for training. ”

After negotiating with the commander of the second battalion for a while, from the mouth of the commander of the second battalion, Zhang Wei also knew the casualties of the first battalion of friendly troops on the right flank of the reserve battalion, the casualties of the first battalion were more than those of the preparatory battalion, less than those of the second battalion, and the casualties were more than 70 people, which was considered decent, after all, the positions of the first battalion were not attacked by the Japanese army with all their might, and the positions of the reserve battalion and the second battalion were successively attacked by the main force of the Japanese army, and the intensity of the battle was not the same.

The position of the second battalion was almost breached, Zhang Wei believed that on the one hand, it was the combat quality, and on the other hand, it was a problem of firepower; at present, the heavy firepower on the entire defense line was only one 82 mortar platoon, and there was only one company of heavy machine guns, and it was scattered into the positions of the three infantry battalions; Zhang Wei originally thought that if the heavy machine gun companies of the three battalions were pulled up, the machine guns would be too densely arranged, but as far as the situation was concerned, the two heavy machine guns of each battalion could not form an effective cross-blockade fire in front of the position.

If, according to the normal establishment, each infantry battalion had six heavy machine guns in place, it would have been much more difficult for the Japanese army to break through the position of the second battalion, and considering that the fortifications of the defenders had been fought and constructed, and the excavation was relatively complete, Zhang Wei believed that he should take advantage of the opportunity to evacuate the wounded and apply for the three battalion battalion heavy machine gun companies to be pulled up.

Zhang Wei and the commander of the second battalion sent people to inform the commander of the first battalion to prepare to evacuate the wounded, and at the same time ordered the heavy machine guns assigned to the reserve battalion and the second battalion to be transferred to the position of the first battalion on the right flank, so that the battalion heavy machine gun company of the first battalion could truly return to its original structure.

After arranging and negotiating the changes in the position, and summarizing the casualty data of his three battalions, Zhang Wei returned to the position of the preparatory battalion first, and there were still a lot of messes that the commander of the second battalion had not cleaned up, and it was inconvenient for Zhang Wei to waste time on the position of the second battalion.

Zhang Wei returned to the position of the preparatory battalion, ordered Qiu Wei and himself to count the approximate losses of the Japanese army, the wounded can not be estimated, can only be calculated according to the remains of the Japanese army in front of the position, after counting, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in front of the preparatory battalion position are about more than 50 bodies, the main casualties of the Japanese are from the dense grenades thrown by the preparatory battalion, and the death from guns and bullets is not many, after eating the loss of grenades, the Japanese troops in front of the preparatory battalion position began to retreat, and shifted the focus of the attack to the position of the second battalion, The number of kills and casualties of the guns and shells of the prepared battalion was not very large.

"There are about forty corpses of devils in the second battalion, I have asked He Kun, and more than half of them were fought by the brothers in our battalion. The fighting on the side of the first battalion was not fierce at all, and they did not suffer any major losses at all, except for the fact that they were suddenly shelled and killed and injured a lot of men and horses at the end. It's good to be able to kill the thirty devil when it's full. Qiu Wei said in a low voice, it seemed that he had sent someone to the first battalion to inquire about the news.

If you add it up, the Japanese army killed about 110 people, this result is not small, more than 100 devils were killed, and the Japanese infantry brigade that organized the attack not to mention the vitality of the wound, it also had to hurt for a while.

The number of Japanese wounded is not clear, but Zhang Wei estimated that there were very few wounded soldiers, and according to the intensity of the battle just now, the Japanese were basically killed, and even if they were injured, they were minor injuries that had little impact, so the total casualties of the Japanese were estimated to be more than 110 people. The casualties of the reserve battalion and the first and second battalions of the friendly forces combined were about 270 men, of which the casualties of the second battalion were mostly killed in battle.

For three battalions of about 1,000 men, this casualty was acceptable, and the ratio of casualties between the defenders of the three battalions and the Japanese was nearly three to one.