"Hi ......" the chief of staff immediately arranged for his deputy to give the order.

Then he went on to report: "Also, our casualties and losses from last night have all been counted! ”

"Say, I'll listen!" Lieutenant General Ito's brow furrowed even deeper.

Although I had already guessed in my heart that the losses of the troops last night would be great, it was another matter to really face them.

Every number that the chief of staff said next was bloody for him.

"Division commander, let's talk about the two mobile brigades first!"

"The two brigades are reinforced brigades, with a full strength of 1,100 people before the war, a total of 2,200 people, and in the end, only two reinforced squadrons carrying radio stations came back intact, and the remaining six reinforced squadrons were all attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and the whole army was wiped out, a total of more than 1,500 imperial troops!"

"Ten infantry brigades on the front line, ten battalions of the Imperial Cooperative Army, the fifth infantry brigade and one battalion of the Imperial Cooperative Army assigned to them were all wiped out!"

"Nine other infantry brigades also suffered heavy losses. After statistics, the first brigade lost 321 people of the imperial army and 86 people of the imperial army......"

"The Second Infantry Brigade lost 351 people from the Imperial Army and 105 from the Imperial Army~"

"The 3rd Infantry Brigade lost 294 people from the Imperial Army and 128 from the Imperial Army~"

"These numbers are too detailed, I don't listen, I just need the final casualty figures, and the current situation of the various infantry brigades!" Lieutenant General Ito interrupted with a calm face.

The chief of staff can be described as frightened today, as the old partner of the division commander, he is very aware of the anger of the division commander at this moment.

It's like a powder keg or a pile of dry wood, as long as there is a little spark, it can explode in an instant, or burn brightly!

After taking a deep breath, he replied: "Last night, the imperial army lost a total of 4,958 people, and this loss only refers to the battle death, and another 329 people were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness!" The Imperial Allied Army lost a total of 1,586 men, and 153 were seriously wounded and lost their combat effectiveness......"

"How many troops are left on the front line to continue fighting!" Lieutenant General Ito stared at the chief of staff and continued to ask.

"There are 4,591 people left in the Imperial Army, and 1,953 people left in the Imperial Army!" The chief of staff lowered his head and replied in a whisper like a mosquito.

"Why are there only these people, I remember that for this sweep, we mobilized 12,000 imperial troops and more than 4,000 imperial troops!" Lieutenant General Ito's eyes widened and he exclaimed in disbelief.

The chief of staff lowered his head and replied: "In the nearly ten days of fighting in the front, we have suffered a lot of casualties every day, and all the ten sweeping troops add up to two or three thousand people!" ”

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, there are only a few thousand people left, how can the sweep continue!" Lieutenant General Ito scolded unceremoniously.

When it was over, he stared at the combat sand table without saying a word.

After looking at it for a long time, he asked the chief of staff: "Have the garrisons of these counties begun to attack the base of the Eighth Route Army!" ”

The chief of staff breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately replied: "They have already begun to attack, and the effect is very good, the situation in the hinterland of the new regiment base is the same as you judged by the division commander, there are almost no main forces!" ”

"There have been several attacking troops that have been blocked by the Eighth Route Army, but the Eighth Route Army that blocked them are all local garrison troops, and they have no combat effectiveness at all!"

"A total of five sweeping troops, only three hours of attack, has already achieved a lot of results, at least the local troops of the 1,000th Route Army!"

"Not bad!" Lieutenant General Ito's tense face finally relaxed a lot.

"From where they were stationed to the location of the headquarters of the new 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, it was less than 30 kilometers. The Rapid March will be able to kill before dark today! ”

"Order, don't hesitate to kill the five-way sweeping troops directly at their command headquarters from different directions, and strive to destroy their command system!"

"The air force, under the guidance of ground intelligence officers, will immediately bomb all the new regiment of important targets in the hinterland of the base area."

"When the main forces of the new regiment on the front line learn that the hinterland of their base area has been attacked, they will definitely send troops back to help. The air force will send additional reconnaissance planes to conduct aerial reconnaissance in this area, and as long as they find the main force of the Eighth Route Army returning to the hinterland of their base area, do not hesitate to directly dispatch fighters to bomb them! ”

"From now on, the five-way sweeping force here is a killer weapon in our hands. As long as you use this killer feature well, the effect will definitely not be too bad! ”

"And our troops on the front line?" The adjutant asked subconsciously.

"We don't move ~ The order to continue sweeping this morning is canceled!" Lieutenant General Ito replied in surprise.

"The strength of more than a dozen battalions of the new regiment is staring at our more than 4,000 imperial troops, it's good that we don't move, if we continue to sweep, we will find an opportunity to kill one or two of our infantry brigades. After all, they now have a force advantage that we don't have! ”

"Buzz~"

A loud roar of engines rang out over the hinterland of the base area.

The roar grew louder and louder, and three black dots slowly appeared at the edge of the sky, and immediately after, the three black dots turned into three silver-white planes.

"Little Devil Plane...... Evacuate the folks and leave the village! The leaders of the guerrillas in the villages and the cadres of the garrison shouted loudly.

Then the villages the plane passed along the way fell into chaos.

Fortunately, the devil plane just flew over their heads and did not lay eggs.

When everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, a series of earth-shaking explosions reached their ears.

"It's not good, Dongzhuang was bombed by a devil's plane~ There is a branch of our field hospital there, and there are seventy or eighty seriously wounded people in it!" Several garrison battalion cadres shouted in shock.

"Gather immediately and run with me to Dongzhuang ~ The guerrillas stay and protect the people!" The commander of a company in the garrison battalion ordered with a solemn face.

When I hurried to the station, the explosion in Dongzhuang had stopped.

Dozens of houses were set on fire in the explosion and are on fire. At a glance, there were black plumes of smoke rising into the air, huge craters, corpses everywhere and screaming wounded. Some of the wounded and doctors and nurses in field hospitals, and more often than not, ordinary people.

"What are you doing? Save people first, then put out the fire. The company commander shouted.

"First move all the wounded and corpses out of the village~ There must be doctors and nurses alive in the field hospital, let them save people! The squad leader went to look for medicines, and found all the medicines that were not destroyed in the field hospital and sent them over, and those were all life-saving medicines......"

The bombardment by the devils continued, and a village less than 20 kilometers away from the headquarters of the new regiment was also in chaos.

The difference is that they were not bombed by little devil planes, but seven or eight hundred devils were killing them with great momentum.

"Boom...... Dadada......"

Suddenly, the sound of a dense exchange of fire came from the road less than five miles from the village.

The already chaotic village was even more chaotic at this time, and the commander of the garrison battalion who was standing at the entrance of the village to command the retreat, the original commander of the main company, frowned suddenly.

Blocking the devil is a garrison company under his command, with only a hundred people in full strength, although each man has a rifle. However, the machine-gun fire was pitifully small!

The company had only three light machine guns, one of which was reinforced from the guard platoon by itself.

The result of such a force facing seven or eight hundred well-equipped devils can be imagined.

The battalion commander was sure that in half an hour at most, the company would be eaten to the ground.

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