Although the Japanese army in Xuzhou had strong troops, in the face of such a painful loss, it was finally unable to support it, and was forced to agree to the request of the front-line troops, so that the Japanese army, which had been forced to the "Lincheng-Zaozhuang" line by the 15th Group Army, took the initiative to retreat south to the south bank (or west bank) of the canal to defend along the river, and at the same time constantly sent reports to the headquarters of the base camp for help.

If the casualties of the 71st Army (referring to the casualty data after being included in the establishment of the 15th Group Army) are also counted, the total casualties of the 15 th Group Army exceeded 100,000, of which the number of permanent attrition was no less than 50,000, considering that the total strength of the 15 th Group Army before the war was only more than 200,000, this loss was enough to make it lose the ability to attack in an all-round way. However, what caused Hu Weidong even more headache was that the artillery shells and aerial bombs in the Shandong base area were extremely depleted, and in addition, the brilliant victory of the new 38 th Division was also made by shells and bombs, and the ammunition reserves of the main force of the 15 th Group Army in Shandong had dropped to a very dangerous level

Bullets and other infantry light weapons are in good condition, basically between 2-5 bases, considering that they are relatively few in battles (because for large corps operations, at the same time, only a part of the infantry can participate in the battle. Even if you continue to play, you can support it for a while. And the shells that are more important for the fortification are even more scarce, with an average of only 1.5 bases, of which the mortar shells are in a slightly better situation, and the larger the caliber artillery shell reserves, the more insufficient. As for aerial bombs and rocket artillery shells, they were almost completely used. Among them, the 48 40-barreled 122 rocket launchers assigned to the new 38th division were only left by Sun Liren with the number needed for an artillery bombardment in case of emergency, if it weren't for their outstanding record, considering that "hitting the enemy is not a waste of ammunition", Hu Weidong really wanted to call Sun Liren, a "loser", to reprimand him, you must know that the rocket artillery itself is not valuable, but the shells of the rocket artillery are dead and expensive, and the rockets that Sun Liren and their division shot down within a few days are converted into money. It is more than the current annual tax revenue of some poor provinces in China, but fortunately, the Central Plains border area is still dominated by the Jihua economic model for the time being, and the largest part of the cost of labor is not money

Furthermore. There are still many artillery pieces in the 15th Army that have been damaged due to enemy attacks or the exhaustion of the barrel life, and need to be transported back to the arsenal for repair or even rebuilt, and the large ships of the navy are completely unable to come out to breathe, so they have to be overhauled. In this case, even if the devils did not fortify along the river, the 15th Group Army basically did not have Liliang to attack, and if it were not for the huge consumption of ammunition by the Japanese army, Hu Weidong would even be worried that the devils would suddenly counterattack at this time.

In the current situation where both sides are running low on ammunition, their respective logistical capabilities are the key to victory or defeat. And comparatively, although both in history and in this plane. The devil's logistical ability is not very good, but after all, Japan is already one of the great powers, and in terms of logistics organization, it is much stronger than the Red Party Army, which still relied on captured logistics supplies a few years ago

More importantly, the Japanese army also took a great advantage in the supply route, they could first use the sea to send the supply materials to Nanjing, which had long been fallen, and then transfer to the Tianjin-Pudong railway to Xuzhou, which was very convenient and fast. Not to mention the section of the railway that connects the Shandong base area and the western border area of Henan is separated by the national control area, and the section of railway that connects it is under Japanese control. Therefore, the 15 th Group Army had only two transportation routes to choose from, one was to transport it by car from Zhengzhou to the Shandong base area, and the other was to load ships down the Yellow River, go ashore in Jinan, transfer to the Tianjin-Pudong Railway and transport it south to the front line. Due to the limited number of cars in China, the former is not only expensive, but also significantly smaller. And the latter, even if the devil's North China Front Army is temporarily suppressed by the Eighth Route Army. It can still pose a threat to the river transportation in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, not to mention that the main force of the Eighth Route Army has begun to move south, and the Yellow River is about to freeze

Therefore, the conclusion is obvious, the Japanese army in Xuzhou will definitely be replenished before the 15th Group Army. For this reason, on the one hand, Hu Weidong sent Chen Xianrui and other guerrilla warfare experts to the south to consolidate and develop the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines on the Suzhou-Anhui border, which had already been initially established, and on the other hand, the devil prisoners of war sent by the New 38th Division to escort back to the Shandong base area were inspired and came up with a plan to delay the army.

Coupled with the results of the past ten days, the total number of devils captured by the 15th Group Army has exceeded 200,000, including 20,000 or 30,000 skilled workers and special talents urgently needed in the border areas, as well as more than 10,000 people who have not been workers, but at least have a high school graduation education, and can easily use the accelerated method to train them to become jishu workers, as well as more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in the Japanese column, there are still more than 100,000 prisoners of war who are still undergoing labor reform (in fact, 20,000 or 30,000 people have been reformed to the same extent, but the establishment of the Japanese column is so large, Therefore, it can only continue to be reformed through labor). Originally, Hu Weidong planned to reform his mind on the one hand, and on the other hand, let him build roads in the inconvenient Shandong base area to atone for his crimes, but now he suddenly remembered that no less than 300,000 ** prisoners of war were captured by the Japanese army after the defeat of the Fifth War Zone

A small number of these people who are timid and afraid of death have become puppet soldiers, and they will inevitably be judged and punished by the people in the future, but Hu Weidong has nothing to do with them now, but those who insist on refusing to fight for the tiger are at least worth rescuing, if not respectable. Hu Weidong, who was now worried about the serious attrition, thought that if these ** prisoners of war could be rescued, wouldn't the 15 th Group Army have at least 100,000 additional soldiers needed for battle damage and expansion? These are all veterans who have experienced bloody battles, and their military quality and combat experience are not comparable to even the semi-full-time backbone militia in the old base area of western Henan, let alone the Shandong militia with shorter training time.

However, it is not easy to rescue them, most of these prisoners of war have been transported to the prisoner of war camp in Jiangbei, even if the 15th Army captures Xuzhou, it is still beyond the reach of the whip, and with the usual stubbornness of the devils, the Japanese army will often kill all the prisoners before defeat, which is also fatal. But now that Hu Weidong saw so many devil prisoners of war, he suddenly had an idea, he had already exchanged the other party's captured pilots with the devils before, could he exchange those hundreds of thousands of ** prisoners of war back in a similar way? If you think about it carefully, maybe not only this batch of **prisoners of war, but also other armed personnel who were captured before and even other armed personnel, including the Red Party army, can also be replaced!

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