"Report to the commander of the Ibaraki Division and the commander of the Changdu Division, after we captured the last position of the Dingbei Army outside the mouth of the Eagle Gorge, we captured 147 prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army alive, but most of them were wounded, of which 82 were seriously wounded." 1 Japanese Nakasa reported to the commander of the 6th Division, Yuaki Ibaraki, and the commander of the 8th Division, Akio Watanabe, at the forward headquarters of the Japanese army.

When Ibaraki Yuki Akira and Watanabe Akio heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, and saw the surprise in each other's eyes, you must know that in the war between Japan and the Qing Dynasty a few years ago, the Japanese army and the Dingbei Army fought without a victory, so that the Japanese never caught the prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army, and this time the war broke out with Lin Daxin again, and only captured less than 30 prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army or the Northeast Navy in the Battle of Sakhalin Island, and most of them were seriously wounded and captured.

The Japanese base camp wanted to hold a ceremony for the emperor in Tokyo to boost the morale of the Japanese people for this war, so there were less than 30 prisoners of war at Bokou, and they were transported back to Japan with the retreat of the Japanese army, but a large number of prisoners of war were seriously injured and died, and now there are only 12 prisoners of war in Japan, which is a bit too reluctant to hold a prisoner sacrifice ceremony, but if this batch of prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army is transported back to the Japanese mainland, some of them died because of their injuries, and there are dozens of prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army, Coupled with the 12 prisoners of war who were still alive before, the ceremony of presenting the prisoners was not so ugly.

Ibaraki Yuaki immediately said to the Nakasa: "Send some of our medical soldiers to try to rescue the wounded prisoners of war, we need to transport them back to the homeland and sacrifice them in front of His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Akio Watanabe, who was next to him, also nodded and said: "These prisoners of war are very important, they must be strictly guarded, and there must be no mistakes!" ”

The Nakasa stood on his legs and shouted, "Hey! Then he turned and left the forward command.

At this time, two more Nakasa handed Ibaraki Yukiaki and Watanabe Akio a piece of paper respectively, which was a battle damage report of the two divisions.

Ibaraki Yuaki glanced at the losses of his division and asked Watanabe Akio, "Watanabe-kun, how about the losses of your division?" ”

Akio Watanabe handed the battle damage report in his hand to Nakasa next to him, and then said: "The casualties are not big, 1,558 people were killed and more than 200 people were seriously injured, but the tanks lost a lot, 9 were scrapped, and now there are only 14 tanks left in my eighth division, Ibaraki-kun, how is your sixth division?" ”

Ibaraki Yuaki also handed the battle damage report in his hand to another Nakazo next to him, "My Sixth Division lost 1,236 people and nearly 200 people were seriously wounded, and 9 tanks were also lost, and now only 16 are left." ”

Watanabe Akio then asked, "Ibaraki-kun, our two divisions have not suffered much losses, and do we continue to attack the interior of Eagle Gorge?" ”

Ibaraki Weizhao glanced at the Eagle Gorge in the distance and said: "To attack the Eagle Gorge inside, the hills on both sides of the Eagle Gorge must also be captured, it is more difficult to attack than the position of the Dingbei Army outside the gorge, the task given to us by the commander is to capture the last position of the Dingbei Army outside the gorge, and now we have completed the task, as for how to fight next, let the commander arrange it!" ”

Watanabe Akio listened to Ibaraki's words, nodded, and then he also looked in the direction of Eagle Gorge, he knew that Ibaraki Yuaki had some things to say yet, their two divisions were the ace divisions of the Great Japanese Army, and they should play a decisive role on the battlefield, just like now their two divisions have captured the last position outside the mouth of the Dingbei Army.

And now the two divisions are attacking the Eagle Gorge, which can only play a role in attrition, and cannot play the role of an ace division at all.

At a distance of about 7 or 8 kilometers east of the mouth of the Eagle Gorge in the Sikhote Mountains, in the headquarters of the commander of the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army in China, Dashan Yan saw through the telescope that the Sixth Division and the Eighth Division had captured the last position of the Dingbei Army outside the mouth of the Eagle Gorge, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

In these 9 days of attack, not counting the losses of the 6th Division and the 8th Division today, the other 16 divisions and artillery of their own Japanese Northern Dispatch Army have lost more than 105,000 casualties, and this number will increase, there are still more than 5,000 seriously wounded in the Japanese army's field hospital, the Japanese do not have as complete medicine as the Dingbei Army, and these more than 5,000 seriously wounded people die of infection every moment.

Lin Daxin got the formula and production equipment of dozens of drugs such as sulfonamides and penicillin from the future time and space, and the drugs produced every year are not only for the army and the common people under Lin Daxin's own command, but also many of them are exported to the United States, Britain, Germany, France and other economically developed countries, with an export volume of more than 180 million pounds in 1897 and an export volume of 220 million pounds last year, which is one of Lin Daxin's main sources of income.

Japan has also imported some special drugs such as sulfonamides and penicillin, but Lin Daxin, a black-hearted businessman, has a great bad conscience, and the price of those drugs is quite expensive, even if the Japanese army is equipped with some, it is only a drop in the bucket, like the special anti-inflammatory drugs of the Japanese army sent to the north of China, which are only enough for some officers to use, as for the ordinary Japanese soldiers, they can only pray for their Amaterasu blessing.

The losses of the Japanese artillery were also very large, and the losses of the three separate heavy artillery brigades were particularly heavy, and now there is less than one independent heavy artillery brigade left, and more than 600 field and mountain guns with a caliber of 75 mm caliber have been lost. The light tanks equipped by the divisions also lost 43 units, and the heavy equipment losses of the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army were very large.

Seeing that the Sixth Division and the Eighth Division did not continue to attack the interior of Eagle Gorge, Da Shanyan nodded approvingly, he also thought that ace divisions like the Sixth Division and the Eighth Division should leave their strength to key places, and now let the two ace divisions launch an attack on Eagle Gorge It is worth the loss.

Oyama Iwa ordered the people in the command to notify the division commanders of all divisions to come to him for a meeting, including the division commander of the 6th Division, Ibaraki Yuaki, and the division commander of the 8th Division, Watanabe Akio.

Soon after, the 18 division commanders who are currently subordinate to the Northern Dispatch Army of Japanese China came to the headquarters and sat on both sides of the conference table that were put together, while Dashan Yan sat at the front of the conference table and said with a smile: "With your efforts, our Northern Dispatch Army has captured all the positions of the Dingbei Army outside the mouth of the eastern gorge of Eagle Gorge, and our goal in the next step is to continue to attack the inner passage of Eagle Gorge until this passage in the Sikhote Mountains is opened." ”

At this time, the commander of the 6th Division, Ibaraki Yuaki, who was at the head of the left hand side of Dashan Yan, interjected and said: "Commander, there is also good news, our 6th Division and 8th Division captured 147 prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army in today's battle!" ”

When Dashan Yan heard this, he immediately stood up excitedly, "What? There were 147 prisoners of war from the Dingbei Army? ”

Watanabe Akio, the commander of the Eighth Division, who was sitting at the head of the right hand side of Oyamayan, said with certainty: "Commander, you heard me right, we captured 147 prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army, but most of them were seriously wounded. ”

Da Shanyan couldn't help but clapped his hands a few times and said, "Okay! Good! Good! It's so good that Tokyo is preparing for a prisoner sacrifice ceremony, and these prisoners of war are being captured! Even those seriously wounded prisoners of war must be rescued as much as possible, and we must let these prisoners of war arrive in Tokyo alive to participate in the prisoner sacrifice ceremony! ”

Ibaraki immediately said, "Commander, I have ordered some of our medical soldiers to be transferred to treat the wounded prisoners of war as much as possible. ”

Dashan Yan nodded, and then felt that this was still a little insufficient, and waved his hand to one of the big ones in the command and said, "Yoshikawa Dasa, you immediately take someone to take over those prisoners of war, and ...... In addition, let Kawamura Daisa, who was in charge of the field hospital, take out a part of the special anti-inflammatory drugs and use them for these prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army. ”

The man in the headquarters, Yoshikawa Daisa, was then ordered to leave the headquarters.

After Dashanyan's order was finished, the 18 division commanders present looked at each other and did not speak, although the current special anti-inflammatory drugs cannot even be used by ordinary soldiers of the Japanese army, but these captured prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army are related to the emperor's sacrifice ceremony, and they can only be cheapened by the prisoners of the Dingbei Army.

Oyama Yan continued: "Before continuing the attack on the inner passage of the Eagle Gap, there is good news for you, the mainland has given us the reinforcements and new divisions of the Japanese Dispatch Army in the north of Japan, as well as the supply of weapons, ammunition and materials, under the protection of the combined fleet of the Great Japanese Navy and the escort fleet of the British Navy, it should have already set off today, and in two days it will be able to reach the sea area of the Wild Boar River Wharf. ”

Between the Far Eastern Province and the Japanese mainland, the Japanese used several small transport ships with slightly faster speeds to maintain communication between the Japanese troops from northern China that landed in the Far Eastern Province and the mainland.

As soon as Dashanyan's voice fell, the 18 divisions couldn't help cheering excitedly, 9 days of hard fighting, so that most of the divisions and regiments suffered heavy losses, at this time they can send additional troops, can replenish the lost divisions, so that these division commanders are more confident in the next attack on the internal passage of Eagle Gorge.

The commander of the Sixth Division, Ibaraki Yuaki, asked with excitement on his face: "Commander, how many reinforcements have been sent to our Japanese northern China Army this time, and how many new divisions have been transported?" ”

Dashan Yan said with a smile: "This time, the mainland has sent 100,000 reinforcements to our northern Japanese branch army, and there are two new divisions, the 33rd Division and the 34th Division, which will also land in the Far East Province on a transport ship together and join the ranks of our Japanese northern China dispatch army." ”R1152