Chapter 459
Although the huge casualties of the attacking troops in Xiyang County's National Rescue Corps made everyone feel heartbroken, the results were very great.
Not only did they eliminate nearly two thousand Japanese and puppet troops, but they also seized eight mountain fields.
Although other results have not been counted, we can tell from the quantity that it is not much smaller.
As soon as the troops captured the railway station, the militia troops lurking beside the defense zone dragged hundreds of large vehicles across the defense line and entered the railway station to clean the battlefield.
Each big cart ran twice before transporting all the spoils back to the defense zone, and then transported them to Xiyang County like an ants moving.
At this moment, Tang Yufeng and Li Honghui were the two busiest people in the group, and they were counting the results in the battle.
After a hard night, a list of two pieces of paper finally appeared in front of Zhou Cheng.
"The regiment commander, among all the spoils seized, in addition to the four confirmed field cannons, four mountain cannons, three mortars and one infantry cannon." Tang Yufeng reported excitedly.
"The bombed artillery includes three mountain cannons, eleven mortars, and three infantry cannons. It is not clear whether the arsenal cannons can be repaired. Even if it cannot, the barrels of those infantry cannons and mountain cannons are excellent materials for making barrels, and they will definitely not be wasted."
"The army also brought back 864 large 38 covers, 296 79 caliber rifles, 19 crooked handles, 4 Czech-made, three 92 heavy machine guns, and 18 grenade launchers. They are all intact weapons and can be used by equipping the troops."
Zhou Cheng asked in response to Tang Yufeng's gaze: "This shouldn't be the big head!"
"If we only seized this little equipment at the train station, you would definitely not be so happy that you couldn't even close your mouth!"
Tang Yufeng nodded immediately: "This is indeed not a big head. The real big head is the supplies stored in the Japanese and puppet army warehouses in the railway station."
"Chengjia Railway Station is a relatively large train station. Because there are many troops stationed, the Japanese army built many warehouses at the railway station to store materials that need to be transferred."
"Not only does it store food, but also our scarce cotton cloth, cotton, canned foods that the Japanese plan to send to the front line, complete sets of quilts, military shoes..."
"The white flour was transported back forty trucks. According to a car of two thousand kilograms, a total of eighty thousand kilograms. The rice that Japanese like to eat was pulled in 85 trucks, almost 170,000 kilograms."
"There are also canned foods from a total of fifteen trucks, more than 5,000 sets of winter quilts, and can produce 3,000 sets of winter cotton coats and cotton cloth..."
"With these seizures, our national-savior army's food standards will definitely be further improved."
"When the soldiers eat well, they will have more physical strength to train and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops."
"The seized cloaks were prepared by the Japanese for their frontline field troops. They were not only warm, but also of very good quality. After each soldier has a set, everyone will definitely not be frozen this winter."
"Cotton and cotton can support the people in the defense zone and ensure that our defense zone will not freeze to death this winter."
"The railway station arsenal has also seized a large amount of supplies and ammunition."
"It has reserved more than 1,500 Japanese and puppet troops in one month's combat supplies, with 100,000 kilograms of food alone, and 500,000 bullets of various calibers, 8,000 grenades and grenades, 1,200 mortar shells, and 400 infantry artillery shells."
Seeing Zhou Cheng was so happy that he couldn't stop talking, Tang Yufeng continued to report: "There is still a big head!"
"In order to prevent us from breaking the railway again, the Japanese reserved a total of two hundred railway tracks at Chengjia Station. They were the best materials for making guns. We shipped them all back."
"In the words of Director Kong of the Arsenal, with these rails, the Arsenal will no longer be short of iron in the next year."
Zhou Cheng finally found an opportunity to speak: "Old Tang, this is just the harvest we brought back from the battlefield, and there is another harvest you haven't calculated."
"We killed nearly two thousand people in one battle of Honda United, and also lost a field artillery squadron and half a mountain artillery squadron. It is difficult for the remaining little force to protect the occupied area, let alone attack us."
"If the Japanese Brigade Commander Honda wants to eat us, he must ask the superiors for help. Among the entire Shanxi garrison, only Taiyuan City and the front line can transfer troops out."
"We just raided Taiyuan once. Now it's a time of panic. The Japanese army will definitely not dare to transfer troops out, so they can only transfer troops from the front line."
"According to our agreement with the war zone, the Japanese army drew a brigade from the front line to deal with us. The war zone had to give us a certain number of drills and broaches. So in the past few days we must strengthen our reconnaissance of the Japanese army, figure out how many troops the Japanese have drawn from the front line to deal with us, and then asked the war zone to have drills and broaches, and no one could be missing. This was what the soldiers fought back with their own lives!"
"No problem!" Tang Yufeng nodded, then turned his gaze to Zheng Yunshan next to him.
The intelligence network of the National Salvation Army is in his hands. Whether the regiment headquarters can obtain information on the Japanese army's dispatch of troops is all up to him.
Zheng Yunshan understood the gods and immediately promised: "Please rest assured by the regiment commander and deputy regiment commander. I have told the intelligence personnel to always pay attention to the movements of the Japanese army. He also contacted the Eighth Route Army underground transportation station to ask them to help us collect information on this aspect."
"If you receive information about the Japanese army's dispatch, you will definitely send it here as soon as possible."
Zhou Cheng nodded and looked at Tang Yufeng and continued to ask: "This attack, the direct losses of the participating troops exceeded 800 people. Old Tang, you must fill the gaps of the relevant troops as soon as possible to restore their combat effectiveness."
"I have a premonition: the Japanese army will definitely launch an unprecedented sweep against us next, and the troops must always be prepared for combat."
Tang Yufeng was very confident: "Don't worry, the regiment commander, in addition to the more than 2,000 recruits we recruited in Xiyang and the surrounding enemy-occupied areas, there are more than 500 other recruits who have joined us in absenteeism."
"I plan to replenish all the remaining absenteeism and select three hundred best-trained recruits to replenish the troops."
"As long as there is no accident in training, the participating troops should be able to recover their combat effectiveness within ten days."
Zhou Cheng continued to order: "Reduce the recruits and absenteeism of the troops who are about to replenish the troops, and the remaining recruits should also strengthen training so that they can prepare to replenish the troops at any time."
"After the war starts, casualties of the soldiers will definitely be inevitable. Our National Salvation Army has only this little force, and will definitely take turns to fight and continue to participate in the battle."
"The role of the new recruits will be great at that time. I ask the main force to lose one company and the new recruit battalion to add another company to ensure that the main force is always in full force, so that we can continue to get entangled with the Japanese, slowly consume their strength, and finally turn defeat into victory and defeat them."
The smile on Tang Yufeng's face disappeared.
In his eyes, the battle that can be treated so carefully by the regiment commander must be less than small. Maybe this battle will be related to the life and death of the National Salvation Army, and he has no choice but to ignore it.
Looking at Zhou Cheng, he replied very seriously: "I'll finish the affairs of the regiment headquarters in the past two days. Deputy Chief of Staff Li and I went to the recruits battalion to stare at it."
"There are more than 2,000 new recruits gathered there. The dozens of cadres and soldiers from the recruit battalion were really unable to keep an eye on them for training at all times!"
Zhou Cheng shook his head: "Just Chief of Staff Li will take people to watch. Lao Tang, you should stay in the regiment headquarters and take charge of the overall situation."
"Deputy Commander Zheng is responsible for collecting intelligence, and the Chief of Staff is responsible for training the troops, so that all main forces can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible."
"I'm in charge of the arsenal to see if I can get some new equipment to fight the Japanese."
"Report..." Deng Jinghua's voice suddenly rang at the door of the war room.
Then I saw him walking in in a hurry, his face very serious: "Captain, the division headquarters urgently sends a message. It seems that our attack on Chengjia Railway Station is in big trouble!"
"Big trouble?" Zhou Cheng frowned and he was puzzled and took the telegram.
What puzzled Deng Jinghua was that after he sent his worried telegram to the group leader, it seemed that the content had changed. Not only was he not worried, but he breathed a sigh of relief and looked very happy.
"Captain, the Japanese transferred six or seven thousand people from the front line to deal with us at a time, and there were two artillery brigades, one cavalry brigade and one chariot squadron. No matter how I think you don't seem to be worried at all!"
After Deng Jinghua finished speaking, Tang Yufeng also read the telegram, and then stared at Deng Jinghua and explained: "Deputy Platoon Leader Deng, the regiment commander is not worried, but he had expected that this would be taken over."
"The reason why we have drawn heavy troops to attack Chengjiazhan is to force the Japanese to mobilize troops from the front line.
"The Japanese army transferred six or seven thousand people at a time. Although the troops exceeded our estimates, our purpose of attacking the railway station was achieved."
Zhou Cheng agreed with Tang Yufeng's words just now: "Old Tang, you are right. The more troops the Japanese army transferred from the front line, the more drills and broaches we can change from the war zone. From this perspective, I still think that the few troops the Japanese have transferred from them."
"As for the next anti-sweep, we still have time to prepare."
"The transfer of six or seven thousand people cannot be completed in one or two days. With the supporting artillery, cavalry, chariots, and logistics supplies, it will definitely not be pacified in less than half a month, so we still have at least half a month to prepare. At that time, the soldiers will come to block the water and cover the soil, and there is nothing to be afraid of."
"You call back to the division headquarters immediately and say that we are confident in defending the defense zone, but hope that the Eighth Route Army in the surrounding area can cooperate with us in the anti-sweeping."
"In addition, I hope the division headquarters can help us get the number of troops transferred from the front line to pacified by the Japanese army. The more detailed the better, so that we can reconcile with the war zone and ask for drill bits and broaches according to the number, so that they will not cheat and refuse to admit it."
That night, the Master Department got the information Zhou Cheng wanted.
In order to avenge revenge and wash away the shame, the Japanese commander made a lot of money.
In addition to a field infantry corps, he also dispatched a mixed brigade and a cavalry brigade to participate in the operation. A total of 6,800 Japanese devils gathered on the front line and prepared to take the train to pacify!
"Old Tang, the evidence of the Japanese army's re-establishment from the front line is conclusive. I think we can send telegrams to the war zone and retaliate them, and let them deliver the drills and broaches we need within five days." With the information sent by the division headquarters, Zhou Cheng was confident in order.
Tang Yufeng was both worried and excited. As long as the war zone sent the broach and drill to the National Salvation Military Defense Zone as agreed, the drill and broaches stored in the arsenal would be fine for seven or eight years.
Immediately receive the order: "I will draft the telegram now!"
Chapter completed!