The opening of the bright sword leads a battalion

Chapter 80 Shinozuka's Revenge

In the evening, the Japanese retreated.

The soldiers seized the short respite time, constantly repairing the positions damaged by the shells, and rescuing the wounded who were too late to be treated.

And Chu Qi took advantage of this time to also walk out of the tunnel, looking around to see how the casualties of the troops were.

The reason why he has been hiding in the tunnel before... is that his current identity is no longer an ordinary battalion commander, but the temporary commander of the entire regiment.

The combat command of the whole regiment is now counting on him alone. Naturally, he can't run around on the ground, lest accidents happen and the command of the whole regiment becomes a mess.

And Chu Qi is also very compelled, he is not Li Yunlong after all.

Every time Lao Li fights, he likes to follow the front-line troops. Logically speaking, this is actually against the regulations of the troops.

Commander, you shouldn't risk yourself.

As is the practice in other troops, the deputy cadres are in command at the front, while the full-time cadres are in the rear to coordinate the overall situation.Avoid troop command from becoming a mess due to casualties of regular cadres.

Lao Li is obviously an exception.

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When Chu Qi walked out of the tunnel.

In sight, it was bombed to the damaged position, and the position was still burning with unextinguished flames and a large number of corpses.

There are soldiers, and there are devils.Of course, more are left by the devils.

With the advantage of the position, the independent regiment of the military division finally blocked the enemy's attack wave after wave, causing huge casualties to the enemy.

But... on the side of the soldiers, the casualties were not low.

Along the way, Chu Qi turned over the corpse of a soldier with a solemn expression. The soldier's face was scorched black, but there seemed to be something under his body.

After tearing apart the soldier's hand, Chu Qi saw clearly that it was a machine gun.

This soldier should have known that he would be killed by the shell, so before he sacrificed, he desperately protected the machine gun under his body, trying to protect the machine gun.

And obviously, he did.But again, he also sacrificed.

Seeing Chu Qi's solemn expression, the deputy battalion commander who followed him stepped forward and said:
"The devil's grenadiers are rampant recently."

"Because of the grenadiers, we lost a total of eight machine guns today, thirteen machine gunners, and eighteen machine gunners were injured."

"The members of the front-line machine gun squad have basically lost their combat effectiveness. Now those who operate the machine guns are basically the reserve members who were previously trained."

A grenadier, in other words, is a crude mortar.

But in operation, grenades are much more difficult than mortars, and the operator's proficiency and operating experience are very fancy.Therefore, devil soldiers who can manipulate grenades are also very precious.

Chu Qi knew this. He looked at the sacrificed soldier and asked:

"Then you, didn't you organize fighters to target the grenadiers?"

Hearing this, the deputy battalion commander replied:

"Have."

"But the devils obviously knew our purpose. In the afternoon, they desperately protected their grenadiers. It was difficult for us to kill those nasty guys..."

"It was at that time that our machine gunners suffered the most casualties, and the soldiers were constantly consumed by the grenadiers."

After hearing this, Chu Qi shook his head helplessly and stood up.

Asking the soldiers on the side to take the sacrificed machine gunner to bury him, Chu Qi glanced at the corpse of the devil lying outside, took out his binoculars and said while looking at it:
"Then organize sharpshooters, machine guns, grenades."

"No matter what method you use, in short, organize a group of people and let them focus on the devil's grenadiers and beat them to death."

"Only when the grenadiers are dealt with can our machine gunners have a relatively safe output space. Otherwise, without the suppression of the firepower of the machine guns, this position will not be able to hold for a few days."

Hearing this, the deputy battalion commander nodded. He also thought so, and launched a sniper attack on the grenadiers.

However, as if thinking of something, the deputy battalion commander went on to say:

"By the way, there is one more thing. Battalion Commander, we seem to be out of ammunition..."

Chu Qi listened, stunned for a moment, and asked:

"Not enough? Today, how many bullets did you use?"

"There were more than 2 rounds, and four to five hundred devils should have been killed. The main reason is that we are equipped with more machine guns now. There are more than 30 light machine guns in the regiment, and the consumption of ammunition will naturally go up."

The deputy battalion commander immediately explained.

Hearing this, Chu Qi nodded and killed four or five hundred devils... that's okay.

According to the ratio of the Eighth Route Army killing an enemy every thirty rounds of bullets, this number is still healthy.After all, the statistics of the Eighth Route Army also include puppet troops.

However, what the military sub-independence regiment is facing now is not a single puppet army, and the Sakata Regiment is even known as the elite devils.

In the face of devils, the ammunition consumed to kill the enemy is naturally higher than the normal ratio.

Thinking of this, Chu Qi glanced at the system.

Before, when he taught the Xinyi Regiment, the Independent Regiment and other regiments to fight hand-to-hand, he was given a system task, and he saved more than 2 rounds of ammunition, but did not take it out.

But now, he naturally wouldn't take out these bullets in person, but said:

"I asked the head of the regiment to hide a batch of ammunition in the tunnel. I will look for it later. There should be [-] rounds."

500 rounds of ammunition are probably enough to last a day. The whole regiment originally had nearly 300 people, but now they are fighting the devils, and there are casualties, and the casualties are about [-] people.

But on average, this is probably the level of nearly twenty bullets per person.

Anyway... that's enough for a while.

Thinking of this, the deputy battalion commander nodded, indicating that he understood.

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……

While Chu Qi was inspecting the battle situation.

On the other side, the headquarters of Sakata United.

After Sakata was bombarded by Li Yunlong, Yamada, who was given the temporary command of the wing, was feeling restless.

After all, he was very dissatisfied with the results of the whole day.

At this time, the person in charge of reporting the battle situation had changed from the previous lieutenant to another second lieutenant, and the second lieutenant kept saying:

"According to the observations of the soldiers, the enemy has dug defensive facilities such as cat's ear holes in the position, so our army's artillery fire cannot cause effective damage to the enemy."

"In addition... the enemy's trenches seem to be very carefully constructed, with reasonable firepower allocation. It is suspected that some positional warfare experts will come to the front to command in person, and our army will suffer a lot."

"also……"

The second lieutenant kept reading, but Yamada waved his hand and said:

"Okay, let's read the battle damage directly. I don't want to hear these battle summaries."

Hearing this, the second lieutenant stood at attention, let out a "hurt", and then said:

"In terms of casualties, in addition to the 670 jade fragments that our army suffered from a night attack last night, our army suffered a total of 150 casualties during the day today, of which [-] were injured."

"Most of the wounded... were caused during the charge, so they were not rescued, and many of them lost blood and died."

After finishing speaking, the second lieutenant lowered his head and looked at Yamada tremblingly, not daring to say anything.

But unexpectedly, this time, Yamada didn't lose his temper.

Instead, he calmly looked outside. At this time, it was April, and the temperature outside was not high.

But the second lieutenant didn't know that Yamada was thinking of quitting.

——Speaking of which, he and Chu Qi have no enmity, and there is no grievance that must be revenged.

He even had to thank Chu Qi, it was Chu Qi who made him survive, instead of being bombed to death with Sakata.

And to attack Chu Qi, to pay such huge casualties, this made Yamada feel that it was not worth it.

If the Sakata Alliance turned around at this time and went to fight the other Eighth Route troops, they would be able to gain a lot of military exploits anyway.

"But... Commander Xiaozuka seems to hold a grudge, and is not going to let Chu Qi go."

Yamada muttered again.

And during the time when Yamada was distracted...

A telegraph operator walked into the tent, opened the telegram in his hand, and said:

"Commander, Commander Shinozuka is calling."

Hearing this, Yamada didn't turn his head back, and said directly:

"read."

Hearing this, the telegraph operator glanced at the telegram in his hand, and could only obediently stand at attention, and said helplessly:
"Order, the chief of staff of the regiment, Yamada, will keep an eye on the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army's sub-district, and attack with all its strength, and must not retreat within three days."

Hearing this, Yamada was stunned for a moment, Commander Shinozuka sent a special telegram to order?

It seems that the commander really holds grudges very much, this Chu Qi, he must gnaw at it.

That being the case, Yamada stood up, bowed in the direction of the telegram, and shouted:
"Harmful!"

There was helplessness in the words.

but……

Since the commander ordered me to kill Chu Qi, Commander Shinozuka can't care about the casualties I caused before, right?

Thinking of this, Yamada was also relieved a lot.

Fortunately, fighting Chu Qi is still beneficial.

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