Chapter 1221: Time to Trim!
Even after passing through the jungle, the remaining brethren commandos still did not have a car to pick them up, and the car and all the transport forces were used to transport wounded soldiers, ammunition, and food.
On both sides of the road leading to Xinpingyang, the tattered military uniforms are full of traces left after the fierce battle, these soldiers, to get new military uniforms, must wait until they return to the base, don't look at the US army's transportation capacity is very strong, but their road has not reached Yubang now, all the limited transportation capacity must ensure the ammunition and medical supplies that are most needed on the front line.
"Thank you, Colonel!"
Kinnison hurried a few steps, straddled the carbine over his shoulder, walked up to Feng Jie's side, and handed Feng a pack of open cigarettes.
"Thanks for what?"
Feng Yi didn't understand what this person meant, but he could tell from Kinnison's expression that since he walked out of the jungle, the American officer was in a much better mood.
"To be honest, I didn't expect us to actually come back alive; Whether it was the American army in that damn village, I am afraid that it would retreat on the eighth day, and then slowly be pursued and tortured by the Japanese army in the jungle until it lost its fighting spirit and surrendered. ”
As if he were speaking, Kinnison's expression was dull.
"Why?"
Feng Yi asked in surprise, in his opinion, as long as the ammunition and food are not exhausted, even if there is the last person left, the Chinese soldiers will continue to fight.
"If the casualties exceed fifty percent, the regulations of the US military stipulate that you can choose to surrender; Of course, none of the officers are willing to surrender, but the brothers around them keep falling, which will destroy the psychology of the remaining soldiers, and they will slowly collapse! ”
Kinnison said his opinion.
"Hmm!"
Feng Ye did not answer, this is the norm in the army, and it has nothing to do with the soldiers of that country.
"Colonel, your will to fight is admirable, and in the end, if I hadn't mixed the American soldiers with the Chinese soldiers, perhaps they would have refused to fight a long time ago, and it was your will to fight that infected them; Thank you, it was your heroic fighting that brought us back alive. ”
Kinnison's tone was very sincere, not a compliment at all, in fact, not only him, as long as the American soldiers were still alive, whether they were injured or not, their attitudes at this time had changed, perhaps from now on, they thought that the Chinese soldiers around them were a kind of dependence, and these Chinese soldiers deserved their respect.
"In fact, Chinese soldiers are also human beings, and we also have fear in our hearts; It's just that the war has forced us to abandon our fears, and from the day we put on our uniforms, we think we're dead; The heart of extravagant hope to be alive was already torn apart when the Japanese devils set foot on our homeland; So, we don't care how many companions we have around, as long as there are bullets in the chamber of the gun, as long as we have breath, we will always fight. ”
Feng Yi seemed to be reminiscing, he remembered the veteran, maybe it was those veterans on the Songhu battlefield that made him slowly get used to the cruel battlefield.
"Colonel, bullets? We won't be short of that, our planes are everywhere, you'll get the bullets you need, and the only thing we don't lack is bullets; I promise! ”
Kinnison was obviously stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that the Chinese soldiers' belief in fighting would be so strong.
Feng Ye was still on the way back to Xinpingyang, and at this time, the results of Yu Bang's battle had been reported back to the Xinpingyang Command.
"Great, after this battle, the combat effectiveness of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army has lost at least half, and the next battle will be easier."
Chief of Staff Paterno held in his hands the number of casualties of the Chinese army and the American army, as well as the number of Japanese corpses that had been counted.
As for the Burmese Defense Forces, no one cares how many dead they are, and like the Japanese army, the Allies have never treated the Myanmar Defense Forces as an adversary.
"The Chinese and American commandos suffered heavy casualties, and they had to repair for a long time; But their results are huge, look at it! ”
Paterno handed Stilwell the data of the Sino-American mixed commando, which was, after all, Stilwell's direct subordinate unit.
"Could it be a problem?"
Stilwell looked at it and felt that there was something wrong with this data; The battle around Nameless Village was indeed fierce, but the killing of such a fight still made him feel that this data had moisture.
"This is General Sun's inventory, and the biggest possibility is that he counted his own kills in it; Moreover, many corpses in the jungle have not yet been counted, and time is tight, so it is impossible to count every corpse. ”
Paterno shook his head, he had confirmed it over and over again.
"And our aerial fire is constantly bombing, and there will be a lot of corpses destroyed by aerial bombs, so I think it's true, Colonel Feng Ye and the Chinese troops he trained, they have very strong combat effectiveness, and we should give more support......"
The two men sat in Stilwell's office as they walked and talked, discussing how to restructure the force and how to make it more important.
"Actually, I hope that Mr. Kinnison has learned how to transform Unit 5307, so that this operation will not only kill and wound so many soldiers......"
Stilwell had a different view, he admired the fighting power of the Chinese commandos, but he preferred that Unit 5307 would become like that.
"General, the new 1st Army has wiped out more than a thousand Japanese troops in the Ubang Defense Line, and here they have captured more than two thousand prisoners, half of whom are Japanese troops, and are now transshipment to Xinpingyang."
At this time, the Chinese government, which had just suffered the defeat in the Battle of Changde, had begun to publicize that the expeditionary force had achieved this victory, and the Chinese military and people needed this victory to boost morale, so that the military and people of the whole country knew that the entire anti-*** war was moving towards victory, and let the military and people of the whole country know that the persistence of the country was meaningful.
At this time, an event affecting the expeditionary force occurred, the commander of the expeditionary force, Chen Cheng, resigned due to illness, and Wei Lihuang took over as the commander of the expeditionary force; At the same time, Zheng Dongguo, commander of the New First Army, concurrently served as deputy commander of the expeditionary force.
The Sino-American mixed commandos did not stay in Xinpingyang for long, they were given a shift break, and after the injuries of the wounded soldiers were initially stabilized, they were all transferred by plane to the Ramgar training base for further treatment.
"Regiment commander, there are no accidents, the remaining wounded soldiers can survive."
More than 600 new graves have been added to the cemetery near Ramgara, and it is the brothers who died in this expedition, Feng Ye held the roster in his hand, and felt very heavy.
"Tell the brethren that there will be no training assignments for the next three days, and let them rest."
In the past few days, Feng Jie, like the other brothers, woke up and ate, and after eating, he still had wine, until he was drunk with all kinds of drinks, and then fell asleep indiscriminately.