"The troops stopped advancing and rested on the spot...... Chief of Staff, you have arranged a guard post, and you must strengthen the vigilance! As soon as the dark sky brightened, Lieutenant General Ito, who was sitting in the armored car, ordered with a calm face.

Got out of the armored car, tightened the military coat on his body, and finally relaxed the nerves that had been tense for several hours.

Seeing the chief of staff coming over again, Lieutenant General Ito immediately ordered: "All radio stations are turned on...... Contact divisions are able to contact all units on the radio. I want to know the specific losses of our division in the battle last night! ”

"Also, contact the aviation forces immediately and ask them to go out now and send planes over to reinforce us. There must still be troops that are being attacked by the Eighth Route Army, as soon as the plane arrives, they will be saved! ”

After half an hour of waiting, the chief of staff came over with several telegrams in his hand and a very unsightly face.

Lieutenant General Ito's heart thumped, and he realized a very bad premonition. But he still took a deep breath and asked: "Chief of Staff, you say, I listen!" ”

"No matter what the result, I can bear it!"

"Hey!" The chief of staff nodded in reply.

"The 136th Wing called back, and their casualties were not beaten, and only two hundred and fifty-three imperial troops were lost in one night. We are currently sorting out equipment and supplies, and we will be able to start retreating in half an hour......"

"The 135th Wing lost contact, and the radio stations of the three subordinate infantry brigades, the field artillery brigade, and the heavy artillery brigade all lost contact!"

"If the judgment of the humble position is correct, they must have been wiped out under the siege of the Eighth Route Army!"

"However, it is also possible that the radio station was destroyed during the battle, and I have contacted the aviation units that are coming over and asked them to first conduct an aerial reconnaissance of the 135th Wing station. The specific situation will be clear to us when the aviation arrives! ”

"The tank detachment of the 135th Wing reinforced by the Tank Brigade has lost contact, and both radios cannot be contacted!"

"The cavalry wing has been contacted, but they were also heavily damaged by the Eighth Route Army on the reinforcement road, and there are less than three hundred cavalry left in the entire wing, and they are now on the way back to Linfen!"

"They also reported that the tank detachment under the tank brigade was probably killed by the Eighth Route Army due to lack of fuel!"

"The rest is the division headquarters!"

"There are less than eight hundred people left in the two infantry brigades of the 137th Wing...... There are less than 500 people left in the guard brigade directly under the division and regiment, 600 people in the units directly under the baggage wing, and less than 500 people in the two artillery brigades, making a total of more than 2,300 people. ”

"However, in addition to 14 armored vehicles, all our heavy artillery, field artillery, all were lost, and there were only nine mortars left, and a little more heavy machine guns, 16 left!"

Lieutenant General Ito calmly faced for two minutes before asking, "In other words, in one night, we not only lost more than half, but also lost more than sixty percent of all the heavy equipment!" ”

"Hey!" The chief of staff replied with his head bowed.

Lieutenant General Ito forced himself to calm down and decided very decisively: "The losses of the troops are too great, and we can't afford to have any more losses in the future, otherwise the entire division will be destroyed in our hands!" ”

"Send a telegram to the 136th Wing, and I will take someone to join him and retreat to Linfen together!"

"The aviation is divided into two, one part covers our withdrawal from the base area of the Eighth Route Army, and the other part conducts reconnaissance and strikes on all the battlering battlefields last night ~ If you find that there are still imperial troops, immediately cover their retreat. Don't be polite when you find the troops of the Eighth Route Army, and launch an attack directly! ”

"Also, try to find the heavy equipment we have been robbed of by the Eighth Route Army, and then destroy them all!"

"The power of those heavy weapons is too great to be used by the Eighth Route Army. Otherwise, it will definitely cause very huge losses to the imperial army! ”

The former enemy headquarters of the new regiment outside Xiangfen City.

The battle was over, and the tense nerves of everyone in the command relaxed.

In addition, the troops won the battle, and everyone spoke with smiles on their faces.

"Commander, the results of Xiangfen City have been counted...... The victory is definitely an unprecedented victory! Before the commissar could rush into the headquarters, the voice of excitement came in.

Then everyone's eyes were all focused on him! ”

"The results of all the participating units have been summed up...... According to statistics, yesterday afternoon and evening, we eliminated more than 3,000 devils here, and found more than 2,800 corpses of devils. Although at least 1,000 of the more than 3,000 devils are the so-called technical arms of the devils, they have no combat effectiveness. But, in any case, they are devils armed to the teeth and killed us Chinese! ”

"In addition, we also captured 12 heavy artillery pieces, 12 field guns, and 16 mortars, all of which were set up in artillery positions intact, and shells were also piled up on the positions one by one. In order to prevent the little devil dog from jumping over the wall to destroy these heavy weapons, as soon as the devil retreated last night, I arranged for the troops to transfer them out of the battlefield, and I will definitely be able to avoid the retaliatory bombing of the little devil's plane! ”

"The rest is light weapons, more than 2,000 long and short guns of all kinds, more than 60 light machine guns, the only regret is that there is less ammunition, except for the ammunition that the infantry is equipped with, the ammunition carried by their logistics baggage is blown up at the last moment. But bullets and grenades are different from explosives, even though the devils blew up, there are still a lot of them scattered around, but the troops need to clean them out! ”

"Yes, as long as we can defeat the heavy encirclement and suppression of the devils and hold the base area, it doesn't matter to us whether we have captured ammunition or not. With so many heavy weapons in my hands, I'm not worried about ammunition at all! Wang Ping was very satisfied with this result, and at the same time, a mysterious smile suddenly flashed from Wang Ping's face.

Huang Yuanqiang was most worried about the ammunition of the troops, and he didn't know about the other troops, the troops who participated in the battle last night had all used up the 150 rounds of ammunition that they had prepared for each soldier before the battle, and if they hadn't replenished it while fighting, the troops would definitely lose their attack power because they had no ammunition in the end.

In the first few major battles of the new regiment, especially the interception of the devil's army, a large amount of ammunition was captured. However, a series of tough battles, and the expansion of the army was too fast. Even if all the ammunition in the new regiment is counted, and the ammunition for the light and heavy machine guns is removed, the remaining bullets will average less than three hundred rounds per soldier.

Half of it was used up in front of a big battle, and it has not been captured and replenished.

At this rate, it will not be long before the ammunition in the army's inventory will be completely depleted.

Seeing Wang Ping's confident expression, he immediately asked, "Regiment commander, do you have a solution to the ammunition!" ”

"Don't worry, before I go to Yan'an, I will definitely solve the problem of ammunition!" Wang Ping replied confidently.

At this moment, the communications platoon commander rushed in with excitement on his face.

"The regiment commander, political commissar, and chief of staff telegraphed, it was good news~ The devil's 135th wing was killed by us, and the wing captain was also killed, the only regret is that the little devil's wing flag was not captured......"

"Send me a telegram!" Huang Yuanqiang snatched the telegram.

If the 135th Wing was really killed by the Chief of Staff, then last night, there would have been more than 6,000 devils wiped out by the new regiment, and it is possible that even 7,000 people.

When the time comes, the new regiment will definitely be able to make a name for itself in the entire Eighth Route Army......

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