"Haha, tell me, there is no such store after this village!"
Zhao Gang smiled and shook his head. This is really a tough talk.
"Why should my defense division carry the equipment? My defense division is not weak, either!"
Li Xiping finally broke out. It turned out that he encountered Zhao Gang who was evacuating before the battle, which made him feel very disappointed.
Carrying equipment is just an excuse, wanting to fight is the real thing!
And Li Xiping was right. The combat effectiveness of the garrison division was indeed not weak, because the predecessor of this unit was Li Qiufan's guard regiment.
"So that's what happened. You can't blame us for this. When we get to the assembly point, go ask Qiu Fan!"
Zhao Gang did not expect that the reason was that he had not fought in the war, so he immediately threw the blame to Li Qiufan.
Hearing that Zhao Gang asked him to ask Li Qiufan, Li Xiping immediately shrank. He did not dare to mess with Li Qiufan.
If Zhao Gang knew about this idea, he would have to ask Li Xiping whether Zhao Gang is easy to bully!
The three divisions of the Jinsui Army did not pursue Zhao Gang after he withdrew because the opponent had already gone far.
In addition, their military strength is not inferior to mine, and they have such strong artillery support. It's hard to say whether they can defeat them.
I had no choice but to continue rushing to the support location, but I didn't expect that everything would be over by the time they arrived.
At this time, Li Qiufan had almost arrived at Datian County, and on the way he encountered the evacuating heavy artillery brigade.
Because the heavy artillery brigade has cars, the speed is much faster than that of Zhao Gang.
"Commander, we don't have many artillery shells. Can you think of a way to get some?"
As soon as they met, Lao Ma came to Li Qiufan and cried, his expression was pitiful.
"There's not much left? You're such a fool that you can't save some!"
Hearing Lao Ma's words, Li Qiufan's eyes widened instantly.
"Commander, you have to speak according to your conscience. My old horse still obeys your orders wherever he goes."
"We started firing from both ends. Now that we're running out of shells, you blame me!"
Lao Ma burst out immediately after hearing Li Qiufan's words. This battle was to support Li Qiufan and Zhao Gang, and almost exhausted his heavy artillery brigade to death.
Unexpectedly, Li Qiufan would put the blame for the cannonball on his head. At this moment, Lao Ma directly transformed into a young daughter-in-law.
"Uh, what about that? I'll ask the leader when I get back."
Hearing Lao Ma's complaint, Li Qiufan looked somewhat embarrassed.
The busiest part of this battle must be the heavy artillery brigade, because they had to run in both directions and build positions, which really exhausted the soldiers.
Hearing Li Qiufan say to go back and ask the leader, Lao Ma put away the tears that were about to burst out of his eyes and put on his honest smile again.
Seeing Lao Ma's change of expression, Li Qiufan couldn't help but sigh that there were a bunch of things under his hands, all of them looked like special movie stars, and the tears would come out as soon as they were squeezed out.
Soon everyone arrived at Datian County. After waiting for a while, Zhao Gang arrived with his troops.
"Qiu Fan, how was the battle?"
As soon as they met, Zhao Gang asked Li Qiufan about the battle.
"A great victory! We annihilated the entire 10th Corps of Japs, as well as the 16th Army of the Jinsui Army!"
Li Qiufan smiled and nodded, and told Zhao Gang about the results of this victory.
"Well done!"
Upon hearing such a significant gain, Zhao Gang raised his right hand and punched Li Qiufan in the chest.
"However, the Second Division suffered heavy casualties this time. It was only thanks to them that they blocked the enemy's retreat. Only more than 3,000 people were left in the entire division."
After feeling happy, Li Qiufan thought of the casualties of the Second Division again, and let out a long sigh.
"What? So many casualties?"
Zhao Gang did not expect that only more than 3,000 people were left in the Second Division, which was a force of more than 10,000 people.
"The Second Division held back 30,000 people from the other side. We didn't bring any heavy artillery. We relied on the soldiers of the Second Division to gain victory with their lives."
Li Qiufan was also a little moved by the casualties of the Second Division. Almost the entire division was lost.
"You can imagine how brutal this battle was!"
Zhao Gang nodded heavily and couldn't help but sigh.
"The reconstruction of the Second Division will be left to you. We must fill up the Second Division with soldiers as soon as possible!"
Li Qiufan patted Zhao Gang on the shoulder and said to him.
"Don't worry, leave this to me!"
This time Zhao Gang did not complain like before, but nodded heavily and agreed.
After the two chatted briefly, Chao led his troops and set off towards the station.
There was no rush on the way back, so the troops did not march in a hurry. It took them nearly two days to get back to the station.
Li Qiufan was called away as soon as he returned to the station. The leader arranged for guards to wait here early in the morning. When Li Qiufan came back, he was notified directly.
Although I gave a report to the leader on the way, it was difficult to explain the process clearly, so the leader wanted to know more about it in detail. After all, this was an enemy army and a Japanese army of 10,000 people that were annihilated.
After arriving at the headquarters, Li Qiufan was taken directly to the headquarters. At this time, the leader was talking and laughing with a group of combat staff.
"Report! Li Qiufan of the Independent First Column is here to report!"
As soon as he entered the door, Li Qiufan saluted and said hello in a formal manner, attracting everyone's attention.
"I said, what are you pretending to be? Why don't you get over here quickly!"
Seeing that it was Li Qiufan, the leader cursed angrily.
"Haha, boss, what are you doing to me? I just came back and I haven't even had a sip of water yet!"
Li Qiufan didn't care about the leader's words and came to the leader with a smile.
"Is this brat picking on me? Here is the tea I just made. Let's drink it!"
The leader said helplessly to everyone present, and then handed his big teapot to Li Qiufan.
Li Qiufan was not polite, took the teapot and started drinking. After a few sips, only tea leaves were left in the teapot.
"I said that your boy has drank this water and his throat has been moistened. Now, will you tell us about the battle?"
The leader saw Li Qiufan finishing his tea and said to Li Qiufan with a smile.
"Haha, it should be!"
Li Qiufan put down the teapot in embarrassment. It turned out that it was for him to soothe his throat.
Later in the headquarters, Li Qiufan told the leaders and everyone about the battle.
After finishing speaking, it was already past dinner time, but everyone was still discussing the battle.
"Boss, I'm almost fainting from hunger. Does the headquarters care about food?"
Li Qiufan was really hungry and couldn't bear it, so he quietly came to the leader and whispered something in his ear.
"Go find Lao Wang yourself. Don't you see that we are all busy?"
When he heard that Li Qiufan was looking for food, the leader kicked him angrily and then asked him to go to the cooking class to find Lao Wang to solve the problem.
Li Qiufan was also so happy. He couldn't stay any longer. If he hadn't asked the leader for something else, he would have slipped back to the station.
