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Chapter 377 Battle Statistics (2)

Li Chong picked up a grenadier, looked at the small caliber of 50 mm, and instantly thought of those hundreds of [-] mm caliber gas bombs seized from the train, and now they matched perfectly.

If these weapons were allocated to the devils, for example, those devils who attacked their regiment headquarters through the cliff yesterday, the degree of danger faced by each battalion in the future would increase exponentially.

But from now on, it will be the turn of the devils in the bunker stronghold to be unlucky.

Thinking of this, Li Chong became more and more enlightened.

Further down, it is the capture of the Meiling main peak battlefield:
The gun stacks piled up one by one are like the rice stacks of the autumn harvest.

Five crooked sub-machine guns and three [-]-type light machine guns were polished and placed on the ground. These light machine guns were cleared out when cleaning the battlefield of the regiment headquarters at night.

There were more than [-] devils and puppet troops who originally arrived at the foot of the main peak of Meiling. According to the number of devils and puppet troops usually equipped with three to five machine guns, and a platoon of puppet troops with one machine gun to support the field, the battlefield There will be a considerable number of machine guns left behind, but the devils are not stupid. When they flee, they will not forget to take the machine guns with them to avoid infecting the enemy.

At the extreme point, when fleeing, the gun bolt will be pulled and thrown into the jungle, or it will be completely destroyed with a grenade, or the whole machine gun will be thrown into an unknown mountain corner. greatly reduced.

Next to the machine gun are two intact [-]-type mortars, and five boxes of shells are placed behind them.Originally, the devils had a mortar squad, but unfortunately they were destroyed by the devils when they retreated, and only two of them were found intact.

Below the mortar are two baskets, inside which are cantaloupe grenades picked from the devils, and both baskets are mostly filled.

In addition to the two baskets filled with grenades, there are three smaller baskets, but inside are the epaulets from the devils' uniforms and some military ranks on the collars.Collecting these is not to commemorate, but to leave something that can be checked when reporting the results to the brigade headquarters.

Finally, there are devil helmets and military shoes piled up like hills. The helmets are shining in the morning sun. These helmets will be reforged into the style of Sichuan army helmets in the future, which will surely give comfort to the soldiers who are still bald on the head of the whole regiment.

The only regret is that when the devils retreated, they did not forget to blow up the Type [-] heavy machine gun commonly known as the "pheasant neck", causing it to lose its practical value. This made Fan Xu, the platoon leader of the heavy machine gun platoon, look like his dead parents .But even so, Fan Xu disassembled the parts that could be used to replace the parts of the heavy machine gun in the future.

After walking back and forth, Li Chong felt full of harvest, but there was still a reality to face.

"Has the enemy and our casualties been counted?"

A civilian member of the regiment headquarters in charge of document management stepped forward and said, "Report to the regiment commander, our casualties have been counted. We have counted the devils and puppet troops around the regiment headquarters. As for the battles along the road, we have not counted yet."

Li Chong sat on the rattan chair, "How do you say?"

“从一营在南浔铁路梅岭段的战斗统计起，我团共计阵亡396人，共有伤员111人。其中团部阵亡182人、伤员26人；一营阵亡81人、伤员39人；二营阵亡27人、伤员17人；三营阵亡106人，伤员29人。团部战场共计统计了鬼子尸体471具，伪军尸体512具。”

The numbers were reported one by one, and Li Chong and the three battalion commanders who had experienced the bloody battle on Coffin Mountain felt that although the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign was to control casualties, the casualties were still huge.

Originally, it was planned to fight guerrilla warfare with the devils and hide and seek with the devils, but the plan could not keep up with the change, and the soldiers of the devils who went into the mountain to encircle and suppress the three routes pointed directly at the regiment headquarters, so that Li Chong had to defend on the main peak of Meiling. They fought a defensive battle, and the offensive and defensive battle that took place directly at the main peak of the regiment headquarters made casualties inevitable, which was directly reflected in the fact that the number of officers and soldiers killed in the regiment headquarters accounted for nearly half of the total number of casualties.

Among these casualties, the third battalion had the second most casualties. It was also because the headquarters of the third battalion was touched by the Anyi special operations detachment, and there was a fierce face-to-face exchange of fire between the two sides.

The second battalion had the least number of casualties. The second battalion was neither intercepted by the Japanese bombers like the first battalion, nor was it touched by the devils to its old nest. It is used together with poison gas to form a poison gas minefield, which minimizes their casualties.

As for the death toll of the devils and puppet troops, Li Chong believes that "471 dead bodies of devils and 512 corpses of puppet soldiers" will not be the final fixed-frame data. This is just the statistics from the regiment headquarters and surrounding areas, and does not include the devils who were chased and suppressed along the way. The puppet army can't count the corpses of the devils and puppet soldiers who were blown to ashes during the bombing.

What's more, there are the devils and puppet soldiers on Erlongzhai Mountain, although they are still alive at the moment.

The devils and puppet troops only had the number of deaths, not the number of prisoners, because in this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment did not want to take prisoners, as long as they were devils and traitors, they would all be shot to death.

Although there is no statistical data on the pursuit of the devils and routs, this figure accurately reflects the bloody and tragic battle that took place at the regiment headquarters. The two sides left a total of 1379 corpses.

Leaving Er Gouzi's head aside, 396 devils were annihilated at the cost of 471 deaths. Such a number, based on Li Chong's regiment alone, is definitely a big victory.

No matter how one regiment repelled more than one brigade of devils, or in terms of the ratio of losses in the battle between the two sides, Li Chong's entire regiment wiped out 1.2 devils per person on average, which can be regarded as a glorious victory for the whole regiment.

This kind of victory can be soul-stirring. Li Chong got up from the rattan chair, put his hands behind his back, and watched a thick smoke breaking through the continuous canopy in the distance.

The smoke burned from night to morning, and all the trees cut down by the devils and damaged in the battle were carried there by the officers and soldiers as wood for burning corpses, and all the corpses of the devils and puppet soldiers were thrown into the place one after another. In a big fire pit.

The officers and soldiers were not at all afraid that the thick smoke would attract the devil's bombers. Instead, they hoped that the devil's bombers would visit somewhere, and it would be best if they could help those corpses be blown to pieces and turned into ashes.

At this time, Tang Dayao talked about the situation in Lianglong Village:

"Commander, now there are only devils from Erlongzhai left in Meiling. Each of our three battalions dispatched more than 150 people, and together with the guerrillas from the Eighth Route, we will attack Erlongzhai from four directions: east, west, north, and south. The Ma'anshan where it is located is surrounded by water."

"Also, Erlian and the others ran into that unlucky Erlongzhai leader Zhang Heng last night. Under the guidance of this leader, we blocked all the roads going down the mountain. The bandits had enough food for the devils to survive without supplies. Under normal circumstances, it lasts about two to three days."

(End of this chapter)