Chapter Seventy-Six: Post-War Reactions
After the battle was over, Wang Bin and some officers left first, leaving some soldiers to clean up the battlefield and let Ma Zikai take charge of the summary, which will be sent to his office tomorrow.
Early the next morning, not long after Wang Bin arrived at the office, Ma Zikai also came to the office to report to Wang Bin about yesterday's battle.
"My lord, the results of this report are out, and we have recaptured the arms that were stolen by Ge Da's bald head before."
In the first time after the war, Ma Zikai sent someone to summarize the losses and gains of this battle, and today he also came early to make a summary according to Wang Bin's instructions.
For these Wang Bin, what they want to know more is how the battle damage was this time, as for the gain, it is nothing more than the recapture of the arms that were stolen before and some of the money obtained in this battle.
The most important thing is that after this battle, he reopened the arms trade with the Russians, and at the same time let the Japanese know that they are not easy to mess with.
"Oh, the results are so fast! Tell me about it. ”
Although Wang Bin's words were a little surprised, they were only superficial, and he had already prepared for this report in his heart.
"My lord, after this statistics in the hands of the department, the ammunition consumption rate this time has decreased by 30 percent compared with the last time, but according to the department, although the ammunition consumption rate has decreased this time, there is still a waste phenomenon."
After saying this, Ma Zikai took a breath and continued to say to Wang Bin: "My lord, there is also the need for reference to the fortifications built by this group of bandits. ”
"Yes, this officer sees that this fortification is also well built, and it is necessary to learn from it, so that you can send some people to draw the general shape of this fortification into a map, and then hand it over to the officers of each battalion to discuss it when you go back, and when you carry out mountain operations in the future, you can completely defend according to this fortification template."
Wang Bin agreed with Ma Zikai's words, to be honest, the fortifications of this group of bandits are really good, but it is a pity that the people who use it are a group of local chickens and dogs, and they have advantages but do not know how to use them, in Wang Bin's opinion, this is the real sadness.
Immediately after Wang Bin's words, Ma Zikai said again: "The ministry will convey this, and my lordship and some of the captured departments this time have also been listed."
As he spoke, Ma Zikai took out a few pieces of paper from the report and handed them to Wang Bin.
Wang Bin took the paper handed over by Ma Zikai and looked at it, looking down, Wang Bin also had a general understanding of the harvest this time.
In addition to recapturing the arms that had been looted, the bandits also obtained a total of about 30,000 taels of silver, of which 10,000 taels were placed on the position, and in addition to this time, they also captured more than 500 standard rifles of the Japanese army and more than 30,000 rounds of bullets and ammunition.
The summary of the seizures handed over by Ma Zikai was accompanied by a report on the battle damage and casualties.
Wang Bin was a little surprised by Ma Zikai's move of attaching the battle damage report to the back, although he was going to read the battle damage report after reading the capture summary, what he didn't expect was that Ma Zikai put the battle damage summary directly behind the capture summary, but directly saved himself some of the effort.
So Wang Bin directly continued to read the battle damage and casualty report, and made a detailed statement on the battle damage and casualty report, in this battle, there were seventeen rifles on his side that were damaged and needed to be re-equipped.
In terms of casualty reports, there were no fatalities in the fighting, only some soldiers were slightly injured and nine soldiers were seriously wounded, and the injuries of the nine seriously wounded soldiers have been stabilized.
The reason why the casualties this time were so low, in Wang Bin's opinion, was mainly because the tactical use of mortars in this battle was very good, and the barrage Xu Jin made the bandits on the mountain think that the artillery of the Beiyang New Army was not stable at all, let alone hit themselves, so these bandits did not have enough vigilance against artillery.
In this way, when the barrage spread to the bandits' positions, the bandits were still smiling and were hit by the attack of this artillery.
So a group of unsuspecting bandits were immediately caught off guard by the attack from the artillery, and more than half of them were killed and wounded, and then the infantry rushed up after the artillery stopped, and slaughtered the frightened bandits.
"My lord, and this time, when Ge Da bald head tried to escape, he was killed by the people of the cavalry battalion, and you must not guess who killed this Ge Da bald head."
Ma Zikai suddenly said with some ostentatiousness on the side.
After listening to Ma Zikai's words, Wang Bin just looked at the report in his hand and forced a smile to point to the back of the report and said: "Well, this official didn't know before, but now I know that on the last line of this report, someone deliberately wrote on it with an ink pen to kill Ge Da's bald head, Sun Chuanfang." “
After finishing speaking, Wang Bin showed this line of words to Ma Zikai to look at, and after Ma Zikai saw this line of words, the whole person was immediately embarrassed, standing there and not knowing what to say.
Just when Wang Bin was joking about Ma Zikai, Ichiro Sato was being reprimanded at this time.
"Sato, what you did this time is really wrong, now is the critical moment of the war, and Wang Bin's attitude may be able to directly affect the outcome of the war, you must know that Wang Bin still has an army of 15,000 people in his hands, once such an army goes crazy, once the blame is blamed, I am afraid that we will all commit suicide to thank the emperor."
The person who reprimanded Ichiro Sato was his boss and Ichiro Sato's father, Kenjiro Sato, who expressed full dissatisfaction with what his son Ichiro Sato had done, and if this incident pushed Wang Bin to the side of the Russians and led to the defeat of this war, he would be the sinners of the empire.
And Sato Ichiro didn't fully consider this at the time, just because he was angry by Wang Bin's tone, and Sato Ichiro himself didn't think that after he came back, he proposed to cut off Wang Bin's arms trade with the Russian army just because he proposed to punish Wang Bin out of dissatisfaction, but he didn't expect this proposal to be approved. So this plan was out of control, and after knowing that Wang Bin's courage had sabotaged this plan, some people thought that doing so would push Wang Bin to the enemy, which would lead to the defeat of the war.
Just when the Japanese realized their mistake and were thinking about how to make up for this impasse, the Russians were celebrating that the Japanese had pushed Wang Bin to their side by digging their own graves, so the Russians were now thinking about how to further win over Wang Bin.
Only the Americans and the Krupp men overheard about this battle in which the balance of victory in the future Far Eastern theater was tilted, and the former considered that the Japanese had come up with a mediocre trick, and the former and the latter both realized that a new type of artillery had appeared in Wang Bin's hands.