After being silent for almost a minute, Zeng Quan replied in a heavy tone: "Regiment commander, you are right, the casualties of the troops are indeed very large!" ”

"Especially the first battalion that treats the devil as the Imperial Cooperative Army, as well as the three battalions and one company that blocked the Japanese army head-on, more than half of the casualties are more than half!"

"I want specific data!" Wang Ping asked with a calm face.

"The first battalion lost 159 people, 47 people were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and 206 people were directly reduced, including two deputy company commanders and two deputy instructors! The second battalion lost 81 people, 15 people were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and 96 people were directly reduced! The third battalion lost 153 people, 71 people were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and 224 people were directly reduced! The troops directly under the regimental headquarters suffered 52 casualties, 17 were seriously wounded, and 69 were directly reduced. The total number of people in the regiment was reduced by 595 people, and this does not include the nearly 400 lightly wounded! ”

"And the consumption of troops is also very large: the infantry brought out 50 rounds of ammunition and three grenades per capita are basically used up, and the mortar shells and grenades brought out are also about the same. What's more, we also lost nine grenadiers, a heavy machine gun, 7 crooked handles, more than two hundred rifles! ”

"If it weren't for the capture of more in this battle, the combat effectiveness of our independent regiment would have decreased a lot."

The already heavy and oppressive atmosphere became even more oppressive at this time.

Wang Ping opened his mouth at this time: "Kill a thousand enemies, and lose eight hundred!" This is still the result of our preparation, careful arrangement, many devil recruits, and concentrating superior forces to fight them. If you are not prepared, and the devil encounters on the battlefield, fight hard against hard, even if our independent regiment is not completely annihilated by the devil, it will lose almost the same! ”

"But we're not in nothing." Wang Ping changed his words and continued.

"The results of the battle and the capture, the chief of staff has just said, so I won't say more. In addition to this, our independent regiment has another harvest, that is, more than a thousand veterans! Once and captive soldiers and recruits, as long as they survived on the battlefield, now they are all veterans! ”

"As long as we make up for the equipment and ammunition lost on the battlefield, and add some new recruits to each battalion and company, it won't take too long, and the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment will be different from what it used to be, far exceeding that of the independent regiment before the battle!"

"As battalion and company commanders, you must do the following things after returning to the station: First, and most importantly, gather the troops for a summing up meeting, in which every living soldier must participate, analyze the various problems that have arisen in the battle, and put forward suggestions for improvement, and how to fight, so as to minimize the casualties of the troops."

"When the time comes, each platoon will produce a battle summary, summarize it in the hands of the battalion commander, and concentrate on learning! After it is finished, each company will also have to give a copy, and hand it over directly to the regiment headquarters, and I, the political commissar, and the chief of staff will see it! ”

"The second thing is training, to train the troops well in all kinds of problems that they show on the battlefield."

"The third thing is to train the recruits, and when you return to the station, I will ask the chief of staff to give you the recruits and equipment as soon as possible, and you must train the troops for us. Now that we have eaten the two brigades of devils, the Japanese army in Laiyuan City will definitely not give up! ”

At the headquarters of the Japanese army in Laiyuan City, the two brigades were attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and Major General Ono still knew.

But because the Eighth Route Army blocked the entire battlefield, those intelligence networks did not know the news of the annihilation of the two brigades.

It was not until the independent regiment withdrew from the battlefield that the intelligence officers belonging to the Japanese had the courage to enter the battlefield and see the corpses of the Japanese puppet army that had been stripped clean everywhere.

"Baga, how did the Eighth Route Army do it, more than a thousand elite imperial troops, including hundreds of cavalry, were eaten by them in just one day~ Can any of you tell me how many people there are in the Eighth Route Army, what is the combat effectiveness, and how many troops we need to send to destroy them!" Ono, who got the news, didn't believe the news at first, and was silent for five minutes before scolding loudly, like an angry lion.

All the staff officers of the headquarters lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.

This battle was planned and personally commanded by Commander Ono, and now not only was it defeated, but even the attacking troops were completely wiped out. This can definitely be said to be a resounding slap in the face for Ono.

Therefore, everyone did not dare to talk to Ono at this time, for fear that Ono would vent his anger on him.

Others can be dull, but the brigade chief of staff can't.

He frowned and reminded: "General, the strength of the Eighth Route Army in Laiyuan is far beyond our imagination, and we still know too little about the Eighth Route Army!" ”

"Intelligence, what does the intelligence department do!" Ono reacted immediately, stared at the intelligence staff officer not far away and asked!

The intelligence staff officer hurriedly replied: "Please calm the general's anger, the intelligence network of the special high class has just been extended to Laiyuan City, and as for the villages and towns around Laiyuan City, they have not been affected at all, let alone the area controlled by the Eighth Route Army." Now we have only one source of information outside the city, provided by the people of the Imperial Army! ”

"But there is a problem with this, they are not professional intelligence officers after all, and a lot of the information sent to the command not only has no effect, but also has some misleading effects!"

"Then you can't form your own intelligence network! You're from an intelligence background, and if I'm not mistaken, you've spent time in a special high school, so can't you train a few intelligence officers yourself? Everything depends on the special high class, what does the empire raise you for! Ono scolded directly.

Speaking of which, Ono seemed to have found a way to a solution and ordered directly.

"I'm giving the intelligence department a chance, half a month, no matter what method is used, I must find out the real strength of the Eighth Route Army outside the city, how many troops there are, what kind of equipment, and how to supply ammunition!"

"Chief of Staff, during this time, the intelligence department will give money if they want it, and you will give it to people if they want it, and they will meet any requirements. Half a month later, if I still can't figure out what I want, all the officers above the junior assistant of the intelligence department will go to the military court! ”

Ono's calmness made the chief of staff breathe a sigh of relief, and then asked, "General, what is the next step for the troops?" Do you want to keep going out of town! ”

"All operations are stopped, unless we have accurate information about the Eighth Route Army, otherwise, all the troops will remain in the city."

Nakamura Nakasa, the deputy chief of staff in charge of intelligence, was aggrieved, and as a veteran intelligence officer, he knew better than anyone the embarrassing position of the intelligence department in the military.

When useful, those officers can lift the intelligence services to the sky.

When it is useless, they can forget about the intelligence services and even let the intelligence services carry the blame.

In the Japanese army, which advocates the spirit of bushido, almost everyone thinks that the warriors who engage in intelligence are acting in secret, and there is no way to be open, so they are looked down upon by everyone.

Although there was a lot of pain in his heart, in the face of Ono's questioning gaze at him, Nakamura could only choose to carry the black pot and then compromise with the brigade commander.

But he knew better than anyone that the difficulty of this task was very great!

After consulting with the chief of staff for half an hour, a method that was not one of the methods was finally worked out by the two of them.

Two days later, a squad of devils and a company of Imperial Allies suddenly left the city.

Isn't it death to send this little force out of the city when the independent regiment has just eaten their two brigades? This was the first thought of reconnaissance platoon commander Xu Hu.