After the reports of several battalion and company commanders, Chief of Staff Zhong Chenggong concluded.

"Regiment commander, I calculated, from the beginning of the war to the present, except for the cavalry battalion, we have suffered a total of 1,651 casualties, 1,219 direct casualties, and the rest are all lost their combat effectiveness due to minor and serious injuries!"

"Almost lost two battalions of troops!" Wang Ping replied with a calm face.

Seeing that Wang Ping frowned and didn't speak, Zhong Chenggong hurriedly added: "Although the casualties are a little bigger, the results are also very large!" ”

"The grain transported by the devils, except for 13 grain trucks that were bombed and some grain was lost, the rest were all intact. Now it is impossible for the devil plane to come, and it is no surprise that these grains have completely fallen into our pockets and become our trophies! ”

"According to preliminary estimates, three million catties of grain is only a lot more!"

"And ammunition, there are more than 1,500 ammunition boxes of all kinds scattered by devils on the five-kilometer road. Thirty percent of the ammunition boxes are ordinary infantry machine gun bullets, and the rest of the ammunition boxes are all shells and grenades. ”

"According to preliminary statistics, there are more than 1 million rounds of rifle machine gun bullets, more than 20,000 grenades, and more than 5,000 mountain artillery shells and mortar shells of various calibers!"

"In addition, the rifles captured in the entire battlefield, excluding the loss and replenishment, can be at least a thousand left, and the number of light and heavy machine guns is very small, which is not enough for the loss of troops, so there is no statistics."

"If it weren't for the bombing of the little devil planes, we would have nearly a thousand more rifles!"

"The power of the aerial bomb is too great, if a bomb is dropped, all living things within a few tens of meters around it will be blown up, and the weapon will be blown into a pile of scrap metal."

"More than eighty percent of the weapons lost on the battlefield were caused by the bombing of devil planes!"

Wang Ping frowned and replied: "Anyway, the price we paid in this battle is too great......"

At this moment, the deputy commander of the communications company suddenly rushed over.

"The head of the regiment, the chief of staff, the commissar urgently telegraphed ......"

Zhong Chenggong snatched the telegram and read it once, his face became solemn, and he frowned and reported.

"We are surrounded!"

"The intelligence department has just received information that the Japanese army has dispatched five infantry brigades to surround us, four of which surround us, one infantry brigade, one cavalry brigade, and one field artillery brigade to attack us under the cover of aircraft!"

Before Wang Ping could speak, Rong Jun's face was already showing a very excited smile.

"Captain, this is fat meat delivered to the door!"

"The three battalions I brought, plus the guard battalion, the air defense battalion, and the cavalry battalion, we have an absolute superiority in strength!"

"We are not bad in terms of firepower, nearly ten anti-aircraft machine guns, six mountain guns, six infantry guns, nine mortars, as long as we find an opportunity, we can completely kill them!"

"I suggest that the troops hide in place, and when the devils come over, find an opportunity to eat them!"

"Anyway, now there are four brigades of devils blocking around, and we have brought millions of catties of food, weapons and ammunition, and we will definitely not be able to return to the base area in a short time by road!"

Wang Ping frowned and scolded: "You are good at the scar and forget the pain~ No, the scar is not good yet!" ”

"Are you a fool to be a devil, take more than a thousand people into our encirclement and be eaten by us!"

"Aviation, the devil has a powerful aviation, and this advantage must not be forgotten by you as a commander at any time!"

The invalids immediately reacted and replied with an embarrassed expression: "Regiment commander, what do you mean is that the little devils of an infantry brigade have entered the encirclement to encircle us and encircle us......"

I don't know if it's a disguise, but one thing I'm sure of is: "The devils will definitely send a lot of planes against us!" ”

"This can be seen from the battle just now!"

"The three planes were just repelled by us, followed by three more planes, when did the little devil pay so much attention to our Eighth Route Army!"

"Nope!" Speaking of this, Wang Ping's face has become more and more serious.

Then he continued to analyze: "However, the little devil actually did it today. Send six planes to deal with us before and after an ambush battle! ”

"Look at the current layout of the devils, they just sent people to surround us and surround us here, and they didn't directly reinforce us here and attack us!"

"Don't you think it's an anomaly?"

Zhong Chenggong's brows also furrowed, and he replied thoughtfully: "The devil is scared by us...... We don't know about the devils in other places, the little devils in Linfen City must have been scared by us, and they didn't dare to send troops over rashly, for fear that the reinforcements they had finally drawn over would be swallowed up by us directly......"

"Not bad......" Wang Ping affirmed.

"The commander of the division who has just taken office as a devil is very smart, he doesn't fight hard with us, and tries to give full play to his advantages on the battlefield, aviation!"

"I'd rather send a large number of planes to reinforce the battlefield than send troops over to fight us!"

"If I'm not mistaken, the devil must want to use a large group of infantry and a large group of cavalry to enter the encirclement to search for us, and after finding us, send a large number of planes to attack us from the air!"

At this moment, another telegraph operator from the communications company rushed over.

"Regiment Commander, Chief of Staff, Reconnaissance Company Emergency Call!"

Wang Ping took the telegram directly, glanced at the contents of the telegram, and marked four points on the map!

Zhong Chenggong read the telegram and saw the four points marked by Wang Ping on the map, and immediately reacted.

"Commander, I'm sure your judgment just now is right!"

"There are a large number of imps stationed at these four points on the map, and each point has a large infantry brigade, and they are building fortifications. These four points are the only way for us to take the highway to leave here, and this trick of the little devil directly blocks us here! ”

"Now for us, there are only three options......"

"Either give up the food and take the troops back to the base area by small road. Either attack one of these four points with food, fight your way out, and bring food and ammunition back to the base area together! ”

"The last option is to stay here with food and wait for the opportunity to break out!"

"We have worked so hard to fight this battle for food, and it is definitely impossible to give up!"

"It's also unrealistic to attack the four points that the devil is heavily defended, if you guess correctly, this is what the devil wants to see the most."

"The terrain at these four points is dangerous, and there are seven or eight hundred little devils stationed there, and it is very difficult to break through in a short period of time. It is certain that the troops will suffer heavy casualties, and if they don't do it, they will be surrounded by devils and directly annihilated! ”

"So, only the third option suited us! However, there is also a big problem here! ”

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