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The results and losses of the Liaodong Army in Gaizhou and Donggang were finally counted.

"Commander, a great victory. Although we lost nearly 20,000 people, only more than 8,000 people were actually killed in the battle, and almost all of the remaining 12,000 people could be reinstated! ”

Yang Xingguo had a rare smile on his face, and said to Sun Liechen: "Just in terms of casualty ratio, it is indeed a big victory, comparable to the anti-encirclement and suppression a few months ago. However, the results of the battle were much smaller, after all, we took a logistics base of the Japanese army last time against encirclement and suppression. ”

"It's quite a lot, Commander, be content. There were 43 heavy artillery pieces and 59 field artillery pieces, which alone were enough to allow us to form nearly three artillery regiments, not to mention that we also captured a large number of shells and light replenishment weapons. Sun Liechen said with great satisfaction.

Yang Xingguo smiled and no longer refuted. For Yang Xingguo, except for those that can be used by the Liaodong Army, these weapons and ammunition will be exchanged for silver. And now the price of weapons, especially rifles, is not high, tens of thousands of rifles, the sky brings itself an income of one million taels of silver, and it cannot make up for the huge losses paid by the Liaodong Army in this battle.

As far as weapons are concerned, Yang Xingguo is clearly more interested in captives.

When he saw that there were more than 9,000 Japanese soldiers captured in this war, his eyes narrowed into a slit directly because of joy.

Sun Liechen obviously attached more importance to weapons that could be directly exchanged for silver or equipped with troops, and asked Yang Xingguo with a look of incomprehension: "Commander, what's so good about captives." Although we formed a regiment with Japanese prisoners, after such a long time, this regiment hardly participated in a single battle. It is useless not to say, in order to feed them, the headquarters has to spend one or two thousand taels of silver on them every month. ”

Yang Xingguo replied with an affirmative face: "Just because it's useless now doesn't mean it's useless in the future, no accident, it won't be long before we will use this infantry regiment formed by Japanese prisoners." ”

"In addition, Chief of Staff, you can also relax, it is enough for such a unit to have a regiment. As for the 9,000 Japanese troops who had just been captured, they didn't have such a good life...... And I, Yang Xingguo, will not feed them in vain. ”

Sun Liechen directly showed a puzzled expression on his face, and asked Yang Xingguo: "Commander, are you planning to exchange them for silver?" ”

"I want to exchange not only for silver, but also for our scarce food. Maybe you don't believe it, it seems to me that these captives are not only more expensive than the weapons we captured, but also much more expensive! ”

"Impossible, impossible! If I were the commander of the Japanese army, I would never spend money to redeem these prisoners who lost the battle! Sun Liechen retorted with great certainty.

Yang Xingguo shook his head and replied: "That's your idea, not the Japanese army's idea." If I had told the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchurian Army, Oyama Yan, that as long as he paid the money, I would have returned to him the more than 9,000 Japanese soldiers who had been captured. I'm sure Dashan Yan will definitely send someone to negotiate with us right away! ”

At this time, Sun Liechen still had an expression of disbelief, and asked Yang Xingguo, "Why?" ”

Yang Xingguo did not hide it, and replied directly: "Because they are all veterans of the Russo-Japanese War." On the surface, these veterans are not much different from ordinary soldiers. But in fact, these veterans who have experienced the Great War can at least guarantee the combat effectiveness of a unit for more than ten years. ”

Sun Liechen immediately heard the hidden meaning of Yang Xingguo's words, and just now he still had a disbelieving expression, but at this time he had already revealed a thoughtful expression, waiting for Yang Xingguo to follow.

After nodding approvingly to the chief of staff's reaction, Yang Xingguo explained: "No one knows whether the Japanese army will have a chance to fight in the next five years, or even ten years. If not, for the Japanese army, the future soldiers will be a group of recruits who have not seen blood. You are the chief of staff, and you should know that no matter how long a recruit has been trained, his combat effectiveness is not as good as that of a veteran who has experienced bloody battles and seen life and death. If an army is composed entirely of new recruits, then this army will slowly lose its sharpness and murderous spirit, and if it goes to the battlefield in the future, it will definitely suffer a big loss. ”

"However, as long as there are veterans who have seen blood and experienced life and death in a unit. No matter how many rounds of recruits this unit goes through, as long as these veterans exist, the army can maintain its murderous spirit and combat effectiveness. ”

"After the Russo-Japanese War and the encirclement and suppression battles against us, a large number of veterans of the Japanese army were consumed on the battlefield. In order to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army does not decline in the future, every veteran and officer who has experienced the battle is very important. ”

"For example, the 9,000 prisoners we have in our hands are about 2,000 Japanese officers. If the Japanese army can redeem these people and supplement them with some new recruits as the backbone of the army, they can casually form four divisions. ”

"Because these four divisions have a large number of veterans, as long as they have a certain amount of time of training, these four divisions will become four elites under the influence of these veterans."

"If it weren't for these veterans and officers who had seen blood, relying only on a group of cadets who had graduated from military schools to form four divisions and conduct training, Chief of Staff, what do you think would be the difference between the two units in three years, five years, or even ten years."

Sun Liechen already showed a sudden realization on his face, and affirmed to Yang Xingguo: "If we meet on the battlefield, the four divisions with veterans will definitely defeat the four divisions without veterans." ”

Yang Xingguo nodded in acquiescence, and after thinking about it, he continued: "Next, I will tell you about the cost of training a veteran. ”

"From joining the army to participating in battle, it takes as little as half a year to train, and as much as a year. We calculate the training cost of ten taels of silver per month, and training alone costs a veteran a hundred taels of silver! ”

Seeing Sun Liechen nodding in affirmativeness, Yang Xingguo continued to analyze: "After completing all the training, they can only be called well-trained recruits. If you want to become veterans, they have to go through war, and the battlefield is a mortal situation, two recruits go to the battlefield, and in the end, one of them is very lucky. ”

"And this surviving recruit is what we call a veteran."

"This means that a veteran needs at least two recruits for the training cost, plus the pension of the recruits who died in battle, we need at least two hundred and fifty taels of silver if we want to train a real veteran."

"And that's just the average veteran, and those officers who have been through the war, the cost is even better. Because, many of them went through a more brutal elimination, and finally survived, and with rich combat experience, they were finally promoted to officers. ”

"The training cost of a veteran is at least two hundred and fifty taels of silver, and it is not expensive for me to ask Dashanyan for two hundred taels of silver!"

"The lowest officer at the first level of the military cao, I want four hundred taels of silver, which is not expensive, it is equivalent to two veterans who finally grow into a military cao."

"Officers at the level of squad leader are doubled on the basis of military cao, officers at the rank of squadron leader are doubled on the basis of squad leader, and captain is doubled on the basis of squadron leader...... I believe that as long as Dashanyan still has a little brain, he will agree to the conditions we put forward. ”

The old book "Reborn Iron and Blood General", a military novel of the Anti-Japanese War, more than 4 million words, was re-put on the shelves after being blocked, Tencent Reading and Mobile Reading have been released, interested readers can take a look! (To be continued.) )