Li Yunlong noticed that Zhao Gang's expression was strange and asked, "Old Zhao, what's wrong with you?"

"Oh, nothing." Zhao Gang stacked the two lists together as if nothing had happened. The war is not over yet, and it is not time to talk about this.

"No, you must be in trouble."

However, Li Yunlong already knows Zhao Gang very well.

Zhao Gang said helplessly: "That's right, the Chenzhuang Battle that just ended this morning has suffered a lot of casualties in our Northwest Column of Shanxi."

The brigade commander asked, "How many people were injured or killed?"

"More than three thousand." Zhao Gang said with a heavy expression, "There were more than 1,200 people killed in battle, and more than 700 seriously injured people were being sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. I don't know how many people could be rescued in the end."

"So many soldiers were killed or killed?" The brigade commander also looked depressed when he heard this.

The atmosphere in the war room suddenly became solemn, and everyone stopped talking.

Only Zhao Gang continued: "It was mainly the first wave of bombing of the Japanese aviation army, which caused considerable casualties to the various troops participating in the attack. After the two sides were mixed up later, the situation was actually fine."

The brigade commander nodded and asked again: "How many people have been injured and killed since the start of the Northwest Jin Dynasty?"

Zhao Gang replied: "The casualties have exceeded 6,000, of which more than 1,900 have been killed. More than 1,600 soldiers are seriously injured and are being rescued in the hospital."

"So much?" Li Yunlong was shocked when he heard this.

More than 6,000 casualties, doesn’t this mean that one and a half brigade have been reduced?

You should know that in 1937, the 386th Brigade had only more than 4,000 people when they first arrived in Shanxi.

The brigade commander sighed and said, "It seems that our soldiers and grassroots cadres are still not familiar with such large-scale offensive operations, otherwise the number of casualties would definitely be smaller than now."

"It takes time." Wang Ye said, "It will be fine next time."

The brigade commander nodded and said, "Now Ping'an County and Dongxian County have been liberated, and only Anhua County is an isolated city. However, the troops are fighting continuously, and the soldiers are already tired. Do you think it is time to rest for two days? Or do you strike while the iron is hot and take down Anhua County and wipe out the 69th Division?"

Xing Zhiguodao: "That's all right, I must have taken down Anhua County in one go."

Wang Ye said: "Brig Commander, I think we should develop a tenacious style of continuous combat."

It's just a tough battle now? It's just a tough battle with two or three battles, and there's no question of continuous combat.

When the civil war breaks out, it will be a real test of tolerance. At that time, marching for a month in a row, and fighting between marching gaps and wars will become the norm!

But such a tenacious style is not inherent.

But it is trained through battles again and again.

The three detachments of the Northwest Shanxi Column have absolutely no mention of their style on the battlefield, they are definitely fierce enough, they are definitely a group of screaming wild wolves. No matter how powerful the enemy they encounter, they dare to bare their fangs and bite them hard, even if they know they are defeated, they will tear off a piece of bloody flesh from the enemy.

However, this army has a very strong guerrilla habit.

What is guerrilla habit? In a nutshell, you can beat it if you can beat it, and you can run away if you can't beat it.

To put it bluntly, Li Yunlong often talks about it, only allows him to take advantage of it, and never suffer any losses. Anyone who loses money will scold him.

This is a typical guerrilla habit.

Forces with too strong guerrilla habits cannot fight tough battles.

It’s okay to fight hard battles once or twice occasionally, but it’s not okay to fight hard battles for a long time.

When I was in the Taihang Military Region, the New First Regiment and Independent Regiment were all acting with the large army, and their guerrilla habits were not heavy, so I could beat 40,000 Japanese devils in Shuiyao Mountain for a whole month!

But since we arrived in northwest Shanxi, the three regiments began to attack each other.

In the spirit of "only taking advantage but not losing", although the troops have developed rapidly and have improved weapons and equipment, their guerrilla habits are getting heavier and heavier.

But such troops cannot fight tough battles.

At least it is impossible to fight tough battles for a long time.

This showed signs when we last fought against Taiyuan.

So Wang Ye thinks that now is a very good opportunity.

We can take this opportunity to change the guerrilla habits of the Northwest Shanxi Column, so that the Northwest Shanxi Column can truly become a heroic force that cannot be defeated or dragged down!

The independent troupe of the original drama is just an elite force.

But Wang Ye hopes that the Northwest Column of Jin can become a heroic force.

After a pause, Wang Ye said again: "This is of great benefit to the civil war after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan."

"Civil War?" the brigade commander nodded and thoughtfully said, "Xiao Wang, I didn't expect you to think so far. Well, let the soldiers work hard to overcome difficulties and continue to launch the Battle of Anhua!"

After a pause, the brigade commander said to Zhao Gang again: "Xiao Zhao, your political department must do a good job in ideological work."

"Yes!" Zhao Gang said solemnly, "Our Political Department will mobilize all forces to eliminate the negative psychology of the soldiers."

The brigade commander turned his attention to Xing Zhiguo again and said, "Your Logistics Department must also do a good job in logistics."

"But brigade commander, our logistics department will never drag the back of the front." Xing Zhiguo also said with a serious face, "Considering that the soldiers' physical energy consumed a lot of continuous combat, our logistics department has managed to acquire a thousand pigs from the home of his fellow villagers and is preparing to make a meal of pork, cabbage stewed vermicelli for the soldiers of the entire column."

"Okay!" The brigade commander nodded happily.

...

The Eighth Route Army sharpens its swords, and of course the Japanese will not be idle.

After the Tanimura corps (a brigade missing) was completely wiped out, Sadae Inoue suddenly panicked.

Because before the Tanimura corps were completely annihilated, the Utada corps stationed in Heian County and the Tokuta corps (a brigade missing) that rushed to the rescue of Heian County were completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army.

This means that the combat units of the 69th Division were only one infantry brigade left.

The 69th Division has three infantry regiments and nine infantry brigades, and now there is only one infantry brigade left.

The remaining troops are a baggage team, an engineer team and two mountain artillery brigades, and then the direct troops and medical personnel of the division headquarters.

Although there are a large number of people, there are more than 6,000 people, they are all technical troops.

Although these technical troops receive the same rigorous training as infantry, they are not real infantry after all, and they cannot compare with infantry in infantry units in both combat experience and tactical qualities. What's more troublesome is that the equipment of these technical troops is far from comparable to that of infantry units.

Because the infantry troops have complete firepower, from rifles to light machine guns to heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and infantry artillery, there is a complete set of powerful firepower, but the technical troops are only equipped with a small number of rifles and pistols, and the firepower intensity is completely impossible to compare with that of real infantry troops.

You talk about those two artillery brigades?

Without the coordination of infantry, the artillery troops are just a dish.

So Sadashi Inoue sent three telegrams to the First Army Command for help.

After receiving the telegram from Inoue Sadashi, Yoshimoto Sadaichi also realized the seriousness of the situation, but the 36th Division and the 37th Division were dragged down by the Eighth Route Army in Taihang District and Taiyue District, and the Fourth Brigade did not dare to act rashly because Yoshimoto Sadaichi was worried about repeating the mistakes of Iwamatsu Yoshimoto.

If the Fourth Brigade went north and the Eighth Route Army sent them a direct attack on Huanglong and ran to fight Taiyuan again, it would be troublesome.

So this time, Shin-Yoshimoto learned his lesson, and the Fourth Brigade did not dare to move when he died. Instead, he shamelessly sent a telegram to the North China Front Army Command, asking for support from the front army.

...

When he received the telegram, Okamura Yanji was still on the Hebei-Central front.

After reading the telegram, Okamura Yasuoyu said: "I expected that the Eighth Route Army in northwest Shanxi would definitely not be at peace and would definitely take action this year, but I still didn't expect this battle to come so quickly."

You Mo Jingsan put down the telegram and said, "It is mainly because the batch of American equipment provided by Chu Yunfei to the Eighth Route Army and the five base ammunition greatly accelerated the Eighth Route Army's combat readiness. Otherwise, at least in the first half of this year, the Eighth Route Army in northwest Shanxi would not be able to launch such a large-scale offensive."

"Weapons and ammunition are only one reason." Okamura Yasuji waved his hand and said, "The key is still concept."

After pausing, Okamura Yasuji said again: "From defensive warfare and guerrilla warfare to offensive warfare, we need to undergo a complete change from the inside out from the concept. I originally thought that the Eighth Route Army was used to guerrilla warfare and needed at least two to three small-scale offensive operations to evolve to this stage, but... I still underestimate them after all."

Youmo Jingsan was silent for a few seconds and asked, "Your Excellency General, what should I do now?"

When Okamura Yasuji heard this, he fell into a long silence, frowned and didn't know what he was thinking.

After waiting for a few seconds, Aoshizuo didn't wait for Okamura's answer, he asked tentatively: "Your General, why don't you stop the storm of the Hebei bandit area first?"

"Because after nearly a month of repeated sweeps,"

"The Eighth Route Army in the bandit area in the Jizhong Bandit Area was already seriously injured. Even if there were still fish that leaked the net, it would not be possible to recover to its previous momentum in a short period of time."

"The difficulty will be greatly reduced when we come to sweep the ball in the future."

He paused and said, "However, if the main force of the North China Front Army is transferred to the battlefield in northwestern Shanxi at this time, he will definitely be able to kill the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. Maybe he can end the battle in a short time."

"What if it can't be done in a short time?" Okamura Yasuji asked quietly, "What should I do?"

"This..." There was a three-pointed spirit that was speechless. If it couldn't end in a short period of time, it would be a big trouble.

Because the Eighth Route Army in the Hebei Central Military Region is still very powerful, it caused great trouble to the Japanese army participating in the mobilization.

Therefore, after nearly a month of continuous combat, the Japanese army involved in the sweep were extremely exhausted both mentally and physically, and more importantly, there was not much combat material left.

Okamura Yasuji prepared four divisions and combat supplies for this mobilization.

Until now, there are very few materials left for these four divisions.

The remaining combat materials are more than enough to continue to sweep the Hebei Central Military Region, but if you want to use them to deal with the main force of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army entrenched in northwest Shanxi, it will be too short of it.

After a while, the Ma Jing San said, "So, what do you think, General?"

"The storm of the bandit area in the middle of Hebei Province continues." Okamura Yasuoyu said, "For this May Day sweep, we have prepared for such a long time and paid such a great price. How can we give up halfway?"

"After all, the central Hebei region is the most fertile grain-producing area in the entire North China Plain."

"So, it is absolutely not allowed to withdraw troops if the Eighth Route Army Hebei bandit area is completely crushed."
To be continued...