Looking at the dilapidated position, Zhang Wei confirmed his judgment even more, the Japanese defenders in the position were at least the main force of a brigade, and now it seems that it is indeed yes, in order to take this position, his own preparation battalion is indeed bleeding, Zhang Wei did not order statistics, but he can also imagine how much it will cost to attack the position of the main force of a Japanese brigade, and begin to advance against the Japanese army's machine gun fire.

His plan was largely achieved, the only deviation was that he finally had to let the whole battalion group charge, the Japanese army's resistance in the final stage was beyond his expectations, Zhang Wei felt that the Japanese commander reacted quickly, and he was just about to gather his troops, the commander of the Japanese army pulled the main force and reserves all to the ballade, this reaction speed and judgment have to be said to be extremely fast, if it were not for the high combat quality of the preparation battalion, Zhang Wei's quick response, the Japanese army's position may not be lost.

Taking a step back, if Zhang Wei did not carry out a group charge of the whole battalion and attacked with a platoon of units, most of the final stage would have failed; Zhang Wei had always extremely rejected the group charge before, feeling that the group charge was a tactic only used by miscellaneous troops and untrained troops.

Today, I feel that a large-scale group charge is still useful, and in the stalemate stage of the battle, or in the face of an enemy army inferior in firepower and strength, it is not a good way to carry out a large-scale group charge and use more manpower and firepower to break through the enemy's defensive line.

After the battle, Zhang Wei first ordered to clean up the battlefield in 20 minutes, clean up the fortifications, and then let the troops quickly enter the position to arm, as soon as it gets dark, the Japanese army is very likely to counterattack, the company commanders led the troops into the foxholes and standing firing trenches left by the Japanese army, and the reverse arming, the fortifications that could not be used were used to pile up the corpses.

The casualties of each company will be counted only after the troops have stabilized, and as soon as they have taken their positions, they will be deployed first, and then other problems will be studied.

"Battalion commander, why don't you let the brothers clean up the battlefield together, this has just ended!" After occupying the position, the whole battalion cleaned the battlefield for twenty minutes, during which time it took up most of the time to clear the fortifications and carry the wounded and corpses, but did not search for many weapons left on the position. After the troops entered the trench and set up defenses, Zhang Wei had just sat in the trench, and He Kun came over.

Zhang Wei understood the meaning of He Kun's words, he thought that he hadn't cleaned much in the twenty minutes just now, and of course Zhang Wei would not be stupid enough to send all the troops out to clean up the battlefield.

"Battalion commander, look, the friendly troops carried the cannon away!" He Kun pointed to the first battalion of friendly troops, where a group of friendly soldiers were pushing a 92nd infantry gun dropped by the Japanese army and walking backwards, still carrying the dropped shells and cannon sticks.

"Don't worry, they also have a lot of casualties, and they should let the family seize some loot." In the final stage, the two battalions of the friendly army cooperated with the preparatory battalion to attack the position, and fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, they had many new soldiers, and they suffered a lot from fighting face-to-face with the Japanese, and the casualties were not a small number, and it was appropriate to give people a little capture.

"The cannon has been carried away, and the position is broken by us!" He Kun said a little angrily.

"Can you sell or use that cannon with you? What do we want that thing for? There aren't many shells, you can't use them yourself, and you can't sell them! ”

The Japanese dropped the infantry cannon and a batch of shells, this thing is not ready to be used by the battalion, and it will not be used for a long time, now the assault column has battle defense guns and combat vehicles, what do you want this infantry cannon for, it is still conspicuous to take it away, Zhang Wei does not intend to keep it in his hands, it is better to go and capture more rifles and bullets if there is space and time to carry the artillery.

"You take a platoon, go to clean up the battlefield, don't fight, pick up machine guns and bullets, and find more grenades for grenades." The rifles and bullets of the Japanese army are the most useful, which is not only a proof of annihilation of the enemy army, but also a convenient way to use when you need to hand over the spoils of war, and it is also convenient to secretly "dispose of" them when you are short of money to subsidize the living of the troops.

Weapons and equipment flow to the black market, the most sought-after is the infantry light weapons, this thing can be started after practice, He Kun looked at the infantry cannon with red eyes, in Zhang Wei's opinion, it was completely nonsense, this cannon Zhang Wei They can't use it for their own use, and no one wants to sell it, this cannon is far worse than the starting machine gun on the black market.

He Kun got the order, led a platoon out of the position, and began to clean up the battlefield, according to Zhang Wei's order, mainly rifles and machine guns, the Japanese army's light and heavy machine guns were mostly arranged in the pillbox, so most of them were damaged, and the main target was transferred to the rifle, and the Japanese army lost a lot of 38 guns.

The soldiers who cleaned the battlefield first touched the armed belt on the corpse of the Japanese soldier, opened the bullet box, checked the bullets inside, and then put the bayonet cover and belt together, checked whether the rifle was in good condition, removed the remaining bullets in the chamber, reloaded the withdrawn bullet into the cowhide bullet box, and the bayonet was also lowered into the bayonet sheath.

The friendly army was also cleaning the battlefield, He Kun and Zhang Wei had a good idea after talking, and told the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield to try to avoid scrambling, fortunately, the officers of the friendly army were also reasonable, and they were also extremely conceited to the preparation battalion when cleaning the battlefield, after all, the position was taken down by the preparation battalion, and the preparation battalion grabbed things, which was unreasonable and moral.

The sky was already dark, the cleaning of the battlefield and the reinforcement of the fortifications were carried out quickly, He Kun took the results and numbers of the cleaning, found Zhang Wei, and finally cleared a total of fifty-four intact 38 rifles on the position, and a large number of 65 caliber bullets, two crooked light machine guns, a batch of grenades, grenades and five ** grenadiers.

After Zhang Wei learned about it, he ordered He Kun to replenish the grenade and Type 91 grenade to the grenadier group of the first company to supplement the combat attrition, and the remaining rifle machine gun grenadier and ammunition were uniformly sorted out and prepared to be evacuated.

In addition to the captured figures, the casualties of each company also came out, Qiu Wei, Mu Chao, Zheng Yiqun personally reported the losses to Zhang Wei, there were more than 100 people before the battle, the number and structure were the most complete, this battle company is the absolute pillar, the battle pillar will inevitably bring tragic casualties.

More than 60 people were killed and wounded in the whole company, 30 casualties were suffered in the second company, and although the third company was the latest to enter the battle, it also had the most new recruits, resulting in more casualties than the second company, and the whole company suffered more than 40 casualties, and the entire battalion suffered more than 160 casualties in pure combat, and the casualties were quite heavy.

This was the fiercest battle fought by the preparatory battalion since it joined the war in eastern Henan, and it was also the battle with the most tragic casualties; due to the large casualties, many of the infantry platoons and infantry squads under the three companies had already been beaten and lacked formations, and some squads had a few or even one person left, and some platoons added up to less than 20 people.

Zhang Wei ordered each company to be temporarily reduced to two infantry platoons, and the stragglers were enriched to units with a larger number of people, and each company was restored from three platoons to two fully staffed infantry platoons, which was the best way to maintain combat effectiveness when each company had less than 100 men.