Chapter 40: Heavy losses
The command side rejoiced, but after the joy, everyone couldn't help but feel worried.
Because although this turret has been pulled out, Fengxiang City is still as difficult to break down as an iron bucket at the moment.
"Sir, although all the turrets have been taken now, and Fengxiang City is also close at hand, it is still not easy to completely take Fengxiang City!"
Staff Officer Qin couldn't help but sigh as he spoke.
Hearing this, there was a silence in the house, indeed, if it had been taken earlier, why wait until now, there would not have been such a long siege.
Song Zhe also sighed and looked at General Zhang Wei, who had been relatively silent on the other side.
"Chu Yu~ You are the commander-in-chief of the Sixth Front Army, and you have always been involved in decision-making when I returned to Xi'an Mansion to manage affairs, can you tell me what to do next?"
Chu Yu is also Zhang Wei's character.
This is a middle-aged officer with a slightly thin body but a rather large face, and his eyes are a little small, but his eyes are extremely sharp.
He previously served as the overseer of Gansu, followed by the commander of the 13th Army of the Northwest Army, and last year he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the 13th Route of the Northwest Army.
Now he is now the commander-in-chief of the Sixth Front Army, he belongs to one of the thirteen Taibao under the command of Feng Dashuai, and Song Zhe is the Five Tigers, all of whom are deployed by the marshal's cronies and can fight well.
Hearing this, Zhang Wei groaned in a low voice, so he shook his head and said, "Old Song, don't hide it, this method is really there."
If you forcibly climb the wall and attack, this will definitely not work, not only will the casualties be too great, but also in vain, although it can really consume the opponent's vital strength.
But after the siege of the city, the consumption of our army will only be several times that of the enemy! I knew this very well when I attacked the continent last year.
Therefore, I decided to dig a tunnel to the corner of the city wall, bury thousands of kilograms of explosives, and simply blow up the city wall to his mother in one go!
Doesn't this kidnapper like to build iron walls? Then let's just keep doing it and blow it up! ”
Zhang Wei's method is simply simple and crude, although it takes a long time, but it is undeniable that it greatly reduces the casualty rate.
"If you want to use the method of digging a tunnel, Chu Yu, how long do you think it will take?" Song Zhe nodded and asked.
"Ten days! Originally, if these three turrets could not be taken, we could only start from the houses near the 'Xiyu Pavilion' in the northwest corner of the city.
It will definitely take us about half a month to dig from there, but we can complete this in ten days from the turret! ”
Zhang Wei laughed as he spoke, although there were a lot of sacrifices in this attack today, it was not completely without benefits.
Digging a tunnel, the longer the time drags on, the more likely the other party is to be suspicious, and once you are suspicious, it will be difficult to do.
Ten days is not too much for you.
"I think this matter is feasible, but the offensive in the past few days still cannot be stopped, and the sound of artillery fire cannot be stopped. In this way, it will be carried out with Chu Yu's opinion! ”
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At the same time, with the turret being taken, Zhao Ming and his party also successfully withdrew to the rear camp, and the front line has been completely taken over by the main battle troops.
In fact, even on the front line, there are not many important things to deal with now.
Running the building is those, you only need to send someone to guard it, and these have nothing to do with Zhao Ming and his party.
Back at the camp, everyone's mood was completely low.
After several rounds of attack, the exchange of fire finally stopped, and some of the brothers' bodies were successfully dragged back.
It's just that there are not many of these corpses intact, and most of them are stumps and broken arms.
There was constant artillery fire on both sides, and even if they were only killed by bullets, if they stopped in one place for a long time, the corpses would have to be blown to pieces.
There were people in the crowd who were holding the corpses and crying, here were their neighbors, some were their relatives, some were their brothers.
Many people have lived in Fengjiazhuang all their lives, and their ancestors also begged for food in Fengjiazhuang.
Many of the villagers in this township have some kinship, and many of them are relatives who are not in five suits.
Watching these people die at this moment, how can everyone not be sad.
Fortunately, the victims also died thirty or forty people, but the rest of them were not touched much.
It's just a little sad, everyone used to be a cropper in the field to eat, and a major drought forced them to leave their hometown.
They have long been surprised by life and death, and after such a war, they can't go back to the past at all.
Zhao Ming was also not in a good mood, so he took out the cigarette he had come from Brigade Commander Liu and smoked it.
Obviously, it hasn't been a few days since I learned to smoke in this world, but I was forced to become an old smoking gun.
looked at the swordsman brothers in the monkey mountain, and everyone's expressions were not much better.
There were more than 30 old brothers they brought out this time, but now there are only about 20 people left, and about 10 people have died.
Zhao Ming heard Lao Chang say that when they first joined Fengjiazhuang, there were eighty of them.
That night, the knife bandits attacked, and in order to defend the gate, more than 20 people died there, and some were later killed by several renegade guards.
Thirty brothers died in the attack of the knife bandits alone, and then several brothers died after looting military rations, and then they came here and stayed in Fengjiazhuang with seven or eight people.
In total, there were more than 30 people, and now 10 people have died, and these old brothers may not be able to make up 30 people now.
It's just that they didn't lie on the corpse and cry like the farmer, but just silently rummaged for the corpse.
Because many of the bodies were unrecognizable, some of the heads had been blown off in half, and the mud and blood were mixed with it to make it completely unrecognizable.
Scattered and found some of them, someone smoked half of Zhao Ming's cigarettes, and put the other half on these corpses, as if they were practicing for these brothers.
The goodbye is very short, and soon these corpses will be transported by the logistics personnel, and the corpses cannot be left here for too long.
These logisticians then bury them in situ.
However, after waiting for a long time, no one from the logistics staff came, and when I inquired, I learned that there were not enough people over there and could not handle it at all.
Zhang Kai also piled up a large number of corpses of his colleagues, so he had no choice but to beckon everyone to go to a farther place and bury them on the spot.
Everyone started digging a pit together, and everyone was busy with a huge dirt pit.
just threw the corpse in it like a cargo, and the sadness and sigh in everyone's hearts became even stronger.
They simply take a token from their companion before burying it, and it will be handed over to their family when they return.
Two waves of charges, more than 130 people died before and after!
A large number of people are caused by timidity and fear, and the more afraid they are, the faster they die.
The first wave is actually a big wave of sand, which clears up a large number of people who are afraid of death and fear.
The second wave was cleaned up again, and now the remaining 70 or so brothers, if you look carefully, most of them are the swordsman brothers, and the disaster victims, as well as the farmers who have lost more than half of them.
Rushing over has to give an account to many people, and returning has to give an account to many brothers.
The last trip to the battlefield is like a trip to the ghost gate, this is true.
Back at the camp, it was already noon time for dinner.
But everyone didn't move.
Bang!
Suddenly, the bed was slammed, and everyone was surprised, and their eyes followed.
I saw Zhao Ming stand up with a cold face.
"It's all to shake Lao Tzu's face, right? Give Lao Tzu to eat, Lao Tzu doesn't matter if you can eat or not, you must give Lao Tzu food!
If you can't eat it, you can stuff it into my stomach!
This is the barracks! If you don't eat it, the meal will be gone, and people won't keep it for you!
Won't a few people die? If the war continues, you will die and Lao Tzu will also die, since you will all die, Lao Tzu would rather be a full ghost! ”
As soon as the words fell, Zhao Ming had already stepped out.
Seeing this, everyone looked at each other, but those swordsman brothers reacted quickly, and they also followed one after another to eat.
Those victims are also sloppy, they are actually the most indifferent, but they are embarrassed if everyone doesn't move just now.
It doesn't matter how many fucking people die, in the eyes of them, they will die if they can eat enough.
Soon there were only those farmers left in the house, and everyone was a little hesitant, they really had no appetite.
But at this moment, seeing that everyone was gone, he still hesitated to walk out.