Chapter 70: Tragic casualties
Liu Hua came to the battlefield, looked at the corpses all over the ground, looked at the tired soldiers, and looked at the bodies of the martyrs who died in battle, Liu Hua left his own tears.
"Commissar, the fighters are too hard, too tired, they should take a break, what do you think?" Liu Hua looked at Guan Xiangying, the political commissar behind him.
"Well, Legion Commander, what to do, you give the order!" Political Commissar Guan Xiangying also nodded tearfully.
"Communicator, order the commanders of the regiments, let the soldiers hurry up and rest on the spot, clean up the battlefield in the afternoon, and order the guard units and artillery units of the regiments, divisions, regiments to take up the task of vigilance. Immediately placed. ”
"Yes, Legionnaire."
The General Headquarters of the Red Second Front Army, "Mr. He, Mr. He, the Seventh Army Corps has a great victory, the Seventh Army Corps has a great victory!" Excited shouts slowly spread to the command. Looking at the communications staff officer who hurriedly ran in front of him, Mr. He hurriedly handed over a glass of water.
"Quick, show me." Without waiting for the staff officer to react, Mr. He snatched the telegram in his hand.
"Haha, Liu Hua, this kid is revitalized, he always surprises us, completely annihilating the enemy's five brigades, my mother, and killed Chen Quzhen himself, this time Xiangxi has made our Red Army." Mr. He said with a smile.
"Quick, how are the casualties of the Seventh Legion?" Although he completely annihilated so many enemy troops, when he thought of the loss of two enemy battalions ambushed by one of his divisions, Mr. He immediately began to worry.
"Yes, Mr. He." The staff officer quickly ran to the radio.
The headquarters of the enemy Shimen County. "Brigade commander, brigade commander, no, our contact with the commander-in-chief has all been cut off." The communications staff officer ran in breathlessly.
"What, how is that possible? "Hurry up and continue to contact, and, send me a signal corps" The brigade commander was shocked when he heard this, and sat on the ground.
By noon, the communications staff officer ran in again. "Brigade commander, something happened, and the commander-in-chief still couldn't be contacted, all the signal corps were dispatched, but no one came back."
"What? How can it be? Cold sweat began to break out on the brigade commander's forehead.
"Let the three regiment commanders come to the headquarters for a meeting." The brigade commander said weakly.
Soon, the three regiment commanders came to the command headquarters, and they all looked at their brigade commander with puzzled expressions. "Brigadier, what's wrong?" Looking at the pale face of the brigade commander, a regiment commander couldn't help but ask.
"Brothers, I got the news in the morning that we had lost radio contact with the commander-in-chief, and in the morning all the signal corps were dispatched, but none of them came back, and now I have called you over to discuss with you, what is the situation with us now?" When the brigade commander had finished speaking, he stopped talking
Soon, after a fierce debate, several regiment commanders reached an agreement that it was important to save their lives, and let's save their lives first! Soon, the brigade commander gave the final order: all troops should be assembled within two hours, and all the baggage and supplies that could be taken with them should be evacuated from Shimen County and headed for Changsha.
When Liu Hua's Seventh Army was preparing to clean up the battlefield, Shimen County had become an empty city, and soon, this information was transmitted to Liu Hua through the reconnaissance battalion.
"Order: The political commissar will lead the first regiment and the second regiment as the vanguard to occupy Shimen County immediately, and the remaining troops will be led by me to clean up the battlefield here, and we must clean up the battlefield thoroughly and cleanly, and take away everything that can be used, we will basically have no big tents in the future, so we must collect materials as much as possible."
Its legion immediately became like a machine.
In the evening, at the original headquarters of Chen Quzhen, the Seventh Army of the Red Army held an operational summary of the 100,000 Ping ambush battle, although the battle was won, but every commander and fighter who came to the meeting had a gloomy face, without a trace of smile, and everything was caused by the casualty report.
Liu Hua picked up the report that was placed on the table again:
The first regiment suffered 280 killed, 84 seriously wounded, and more than 400 lightly wounded, which was equivalent to the loss of a battalion......
The second regiment suffered 240 killed, 110 seriously wounded, and more than 350 lightly wounded...... The largest casualties were the two regiments of the 3rd Division, which were basically more than half of the casualties......
A total of 3,254 people were killed, 1,100 were seriously wounded, and more than 4,500 were slightly wounded.
"Fortunately, there haven't been any major battles recently, otherwise we wouldn't have had time to recover!" Liu Hua not only sighed.
Political commissar, the casualties are already clear to everyone, there are still more than 12,000 people left in the whole regiment, excluding the logistics personnel, the average number of people in each division is about 3,000 people, and there are probably less than 1,000 people left in each regiment. Hehe, the sad things have been said, now let's talk about the happy things, political commissar, to the comrades to remember our results in this battle. Liu Hua stood up and said.
"Yes! Comrades, although our Seventh Army Corps suffered heavy losses with more than half of the casualties this time, we have also achieved great results, comrades. Therefore, comrades should not be discouraged and should cheer up. Now I will reflect on the great results we have achieved this time.
In this battle, we annihilated a total of five brigades of the enemy, of which more than 11,000 enemies were killed, more than 1,000 were seriously wounded, and about 3,000 were captured.
Captured: We captured a total of 42 heavy machine guns, 124 light machine guns, about 4,000 rifles, a total of 800,000 rounds of ammunition, a total of 25 mortars, 2,000 shells, and the rest of the weapons and ammunition were all blown up by shells, and nearly 1 million catties of grain and a part of silver dollars were seized in Shimen County.
That's all. After the commissar finished speaking, he sat down.
"Comrades, this battle is the first time that our Seventh Army has suffered such heavy casualties since its formation, and I know that you are heartbroken, and I am heartbroken. However, we must not be discouraged, because there are even more serious battles waiting for us in the future. So we have to pick ourselves up and take the troops.
After the meeting was dismissed, the regiments immediately went back to count the strength of each battalion and company, and tomorrow, we will prepare for the unified reorganization of the whole army. The next meeting will be announced. Meeting. ”