Seeing that everyone had arrived, Hu Tianming did not make a fool of himself, he went straight to the point and said: "Comrades, the brigade commander sent a telegram, ordering our regiment to fight the devils first and drag the main force of the devils to stop, so that the main force of the brigade can complete the encirclement of the devils, so as to annihilate all the devils in one fell swoop." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Now, let me ask you, how should our regiment fight this battle in order to complete the task assigned by the brigade commander at the minimum cost?"

Zhang Fengnian, the commander of the third battalion, can be said to be the initiator of the battle of Guancheng, and now the battle situation has really expanded as he wished, and he was extremely belligerent and took the lead in speaking: "Regiment commander, the so-called one trick is eaten all over the world, it is better for us to repeat the old tricks, and our three battalions are still responsible for luring the enemy troops, introducing the devils into the battlefield we have arranged in advance, and then eliminating the devils." Maybe we don't need reinforcements from the main brigade to destroy the invading devils by ourselves! ”

"Good, good! Battalion Commander Zhang's opinion is very good, I have fought so many battles with devils, I found that the little devils are stupid donkeys, every time we teach us to dig a pit and bury it, it still falls for us every time, and jumps into the pit we dig! Wang Jianxi, the commander of the first battalion, shouted loudly.

"That's right, although I didn't believe that the little devil was so stupid at first, but in fact the little devil is so stupid." Liu Huasheng, the commander of the second battalion, echoed.

As the comrades spoke enthusiastically, Hu Tianming's heart was full of joy and sorrow, and the joy was that the comrades had no fear of the Japanese army at all for other Chinese troops, and regarded the Japanese army as a chicken and a dog; The worry is that with the successive victories in the battles, the comrades' morale seems to have swelled sharply, and they despise the Japanese army extremely much.

There is nothing wrong with self-confidence, but too much self-confidence can turn into arrogance. In Hu Tianming's opinion, this arrogant attitude of the comrades and the attitude of underestimating the enemy is very similar to that of the Japanese officers.

This mentality is very dangerous on the battlefield, and if these battalion commanders and commanders and fighters keep treating the little devils as fools, and when the little devils understand the operational characteristics of the troops, they will one day become fools in the eyes of the Japanese army.

Thinking of this, Hu Tianming felt that he needed to put a stop to this atmosphere of underestimating the enemy, he coughed twice in a row, and after stopping the clamor of his comrades, he said in an extremely serious tone: "Comrades, I appreciate your self-confidence very much, but I can't stand your arrogance. Look at all of you, you are about to reduce the Japanese army to a chicken. You can do this, why can't you go to heaven! ”

Except for a few comrades who bowed their heads and reflected, most of the comrades were obviously not convinced, and they were baffled by Hu Tianming's accusation, and they all stared at Hu Tianming angrily, as if they wanted him to give a reasonable explanation.

Hu Tianming smiled coldly and said, "Hey, you are still not convinced when you say that you are arrogant!" I want to ask you, if the little devils are so easy to deal with, will we even occupy the capital Nanjing for them? If the little devil is so easy to deal with, on the frontal battlefield, will our Chinese army be crushed for thousands of miles and lose ground again and again? ”

Under Hu Tianming's repeated questioning, most of the comrades lowered their arrogant heads and reflected on themselves, and found that they were indeed a little arrogant. However, some comrades were not convinced, believing that the loss of the capital and the loss of thousands of miles of land were fought by the Kuomintang army and had nothing to do with them.

Hu Tianming then shouted: "Maybe you think that these defeats are all fought by the Kuomintang army, and they have nothing to do with you, right? But why do you look down on the Kuomintang army that you look down on when we of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army drove our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army from the southern Jiangxi Soviet region to the northwest to eat sand? It was such a Kuomintang army, and when facing the Japanese army, a division or even an army could not help a wing of the Japanese army, and was beaten by the Japanese army to lose its armor.

Okay, let's not talk about the Kuomintang army, let's talk about the battle we fought before to annihilate the Japanese wing, and everyone will report the battle losses of each unit. Zhang Fengnian, you shouted the loudest just now, let's talk about the battle losses of your three battalions first. ”

Zhang Fengnian thought of the soldiers who had died and been injured in the previous battle, and his arrogance suddenly fell, and he said dejectedly: "Regiment commander, before our three battalions served as the task of luring the enemy, a total of more than 300 soldiers were sacrificed, and more than 800 were wounded. ”

Hu Tianming looked at the second battalion commander again, and the second battalion commander Liu Huasheng said in a low voice: "Regiment commander, our second battalion has sacrificed more than 400 good comrades and injured 800. ”

Wang Jianxi, commander of the first battalion, reported: "Regiment commander, our first battalion has lost more than 300 casualties and 700 wounded. ”

Finally, there were the casualties of the militia troops, who entered the battlefield late, but even so, the casualties of the militia troops reached more than 800 people.

Everyone was stunned when they heard the casualty figures reported by the commanders of each department, they only knew that their troops had completely annihilated an entire wing of the Japanese army, but they did not expect that the casualties of their troops would be so large.

To be honest, the casualties of the troops were so large that Hu Tianming was unexpected, thinking of those young faces who were still alive the day before, but now they were covered with white canvas and waiting to be burned to ashes, Hu Tianming's mood was also extremely heavy.

He said earnestly; "Comrades, I really don't want to criticize you, after all, you have just won a brilliant victory. But you don't need a hammer to sound the drum, and when you see the cold casualty figures, don't you feel heavy!

In the previous war, our regiment ambushed 3,800 Japanese soldiers with a total strength of 10,000 troops, and the 2,000 puppet troops were not counted, they were just a joke. With 10,000 to 3,800, a ratio close to three to one, plus our firepower is also stronger than that of the Japanese army, we are still prepared for an ambush battle.

But in such a battle, our troops suffered more than four thousand casualties, more than the little devils we eliminated ourselves. Do you still have the face to defy the Japanese army? Yes?! ”

In the face of the cold casualty comparison, everyone couldn't help but bow their heads, feeling ashamed of their previous arrogance, Zhang Fengnian said bitterly: "Regiment leader, don't say it anymore, I know it's wrong, I will fight hard in the next battle, and I will never be arrogant." ”

Wang Jianxi, commander of the first battalion, and Liu Huasheng, commander of the second battalion, also admitted their mistakes to Hu Tianming, saying that in the future, they must change their minds and never make the mistake of underestimating the enemy again.

Hu Tianming saw that the purpose of beating the comrades had been achieved, and he did not criticize the comrades too much, so as not to knock them off, and finally said: "Then the next battle will be fought according to Zhang Fengnian's opinion, the third battalion will lure the enemy, the first battalion, the second battalion, and the militia troops will ambush, this time we will not leave a reserve, because the main force of the brigade will come soon." ”

The comrades were surprised when they heard Hu Tianming's arrangement, and Zhang Fengnian asked: "Regiment leader, since you fought according to our opinions, why did you criticize us before?" ”

Hu Tianming said with a smile: "This is all self-inflicted, make suggestions, just make suggestions, who told you to devalue the Japanese army to worthless." If the Japanese army is worthless, then we who defeated the Japanese army will not be much better, think about it, is this fair to the martyrs who died in the War of Resistance? ”

Hearing Hu Tianming's rhetorical question, the comrades were silent for a while, and they all felt that what the regiment commander said was reasonable, isn't belittling the Japanese army just belittling himself as an opponent, and he is really stupid enough to get a bad scolding for nothing.