"Yes, yes, including the captured Japanese weapons and equipment, it's exactly forty tons."
"Thanks a lot."
"After we go back, train the troops well and prepare for battle."
"Next time we fight, I plan to let your thirty-eighth regiment take the lead. Don't let anything slip by then."
On the way back from the brigade headquarters,
Recalling the brigade commander's last words, Wu Cheng, leader of the 38th Regiment, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Now you know.
The brigade commander must know it!
He intercepted a batch of weapons and ammunition.
"Captain, why don't we turn it in."
The second battalion commander of the 38th Regiment couldn’t help but said:
"Or hand over part of it?"
"Are we doing too many things now?"
The number of weapons and ammunition left by Commander Li actually exceeded forty tons, but the commander ordered that three 60-mm mortars, 600 rounds of artillery shells, six grenade launchers, and 600 rounds of grenade launchers be left behind. grenade.
Too much.
Too much!
"fine."
Wu Cheng forced himself to calm down.
Everyone has been living a hard life for a long time, and they are all accustomed to keeping things to themselves.
Even though the main regiments had supplies allocated by their superiors before the battle, the ammunition was simply not enough. Therefore, they would collect ammunition from the private sector on weekdays, sap the Japanese and puppet troops, etc., and accumulate their own ammunition.
Or, improve the food.
Among them, Li Yunlong is the most skilled and has the most tricks.
The brigade headquarters didn't care about this trivial matter, and each regiment did not report it uniformly, but kept it for themselves. It was also because of this that the exchange of weapons and ammunition for officers and cadres occurred in the army.
Only when preparations are made for battle, or when the brigade headquarters takes the initiative to count the weapons and ammunition of each regiment, will it be reported to the brigade headquarters.
He must have understood the last words of the brigade commander.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t even ask.
And it’s acquiesced.
Otherwise, when he leaves, tell him that the 38th Regiment will take the lead in the next battle.
Although this is the truth, there are too many weapons and ammunition intercepted this time.
Three 60mm mortars, 600 rounds of artillery shells, six grenade launchers, 600 rounds of grenade launchers, and some German-made hand grenades. Not to mention the large number, they are all very powerful.
Wu Cheng inevitably felt guilty.
In fact, he was planning to let the brigade commander explain a lot when he asked.
But unexpectedly, the brigade commander didn't say that to him at all: You didn't hide it for yourself, did you?
He actually let him go back directly.
"No, why are labor and management panicking?"
"This is Li Yunlong's reward for his labor. I sent troops to cover the independent regiment back to Yangcun and help Li Yunlong transport weapons and ammunition to the brigade headquarters. It is not a seizure. According to the regulations, there is no problem if it is not reported."
"No big deal, we'll report it next time the brigade headquarters counts the weapons and ammunition of each regiment."
Wu Cheng comforted himself.
Li Yunlong personally told him to give forty tons to the brigade headquarters, and he indeed transported forty tons of weapons and ammunition to the brigade headquarters.
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"Good guy."
"so much!"
That night, late at night.
The deputy boss led the security platoon and rushed to the brigade headquarters.
Seeing this batch of weapons and ammunition still left in the brigade headquarters yard, I couldn't help but be speechless.
Although the firepower was fierce during the Xingzigou battle, the Japanese formation was too dense and the process was devastating. The Hejin Squadron's several counterattacks were nothing more than a desperate struggle.
No threat.
So much so that the battle ended in just over an hour.
The most consumed mortar shells were only about one-third of the total number, with more than 5,400 remaining. Counting the 600 left by Wucheng, there were still 4,800 left.
This number is almost an astronomical figure for the Eighth Route Army.
Only 2,300 rounds of grenade grenades were used.
Counting the 600 rounds intercepted and stored in Wucheng, there are still 5,200 rounds left, which is not a small number for the army.
As for bullets, the cumulative consumption is only about 100,000 rounds.
This is because there are more than fifty Czech guns, hundreds of barge guns and a large number of automatic firearms, and the firepower is always maintained in the battle. Another factor is that these veterans were suddenly released under the constraints of long-term shooting discipline. Their vengeful consumption.
However, Captain Li actually applied for 1,000 rounds per capita, for a total of 600,000 rounds.
The balance is 500,000 hair.
"Fifty thousand rounds."
Seeing the number of bullets, the boss had a complicated tone.
Back then, for these 500,000 rounds of ammunition, he led tens of thousands of people to help Yan Laoxi for several months.
Now··
Several artillery groups were replaced.
Is it depreciating too quickly?
"Then I'll take them all away."
The boss waved his hand and left no money for the brigade commander.
"Hey, boss, even if it's robbery, you have to leave a way to survive. You can't take everything away."
The brigade commander jumped up immediately.
Even though he is the boss, he still has to resist to some extent?
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at the same time.
"How are the casualties?"
Li Yunlong, who returned to Yangcun, began to count casualties.
After the battle, the number of casualties actually came out. Five were sacrificed, one of whom was sacrificed when he and Monk Wei were chasing the Japanese sharp knife troops, and the other four were sacrificed in the battle of Xingzigou.
There were also five seriously injured people.
There are no detailed statistics on the number of lightly injured people, but they are probably around ten.
Due to the lack of medical resources, the army's classification of light and serious injuries will seriously affect the ability to continue fighting. For example, if a person is shot in the leg and cannot move, if he is shot in the hand and only one hand can move, etc., they are all classified as serious injuries.
It takes a while to recover, and the injury may even leave a disability.
So there is also a first-level classification, critically injured.
Minor injuries refer to injuries that do not temporarily affect combat, or slightly affect combat effectiveness, but require treatment, otherwise they will worsen.
There were twenty casualties in total.
Five of them were sacrificed.
Killed two hundred and twenty-one Japs.
Thanks to sufficient firepower, pre-prepared positions, and the Japanese's carelessness in using dense formations, the Xingzigou ambush battle resulted in a death ratio of 40 to 1 between the enemy and ourselves, and a casualty ratio of 10 to 1.
"Five were killed, five were seriously injured, and thirteen soldiers were slightly injured."
Zhang Dabiao answered.
"Are there any critically injured people?"
Li Yunlong continued to ask.
According to the contract,
In the cooperation with Brother Lu, critically injured patients have the opportunity to be sent to him for treatment and training.
This was the main reason why he asked about casualties again.
Due to the limited medical level of the headquarters, many critically injured people during the battle would not be sent to the headquarters hospital.
"No."
Zhang Dabiao sounded excited:
"Our firepower was very strong this time, and we quickly killed all the little Japs, so there were no seriously injured people."
"Hey hey hey..."
Li Yunlong smiled proudly.
This battle, because of the stronger firepower, grenades, and mortars, made the battle even easier than the previous raid on the Liao County prisoner of war camp.
So the casualties are much smaller.
After Zhang Dabiao left, Li Yunlong took out a list of additional exchangeable supplies and said to himself:
"It seems that we need to strengthen the independent regiment's battlefield rescue capabilities."
Lu Laodi’s medical technology is at the top of the world.
Both Wang Chengzhu and Hu Zi can be saved.
However, according to the contract, there seems to be some restriction. Brother Lu cannot save people on the battlefield. He must be able to bring the seriously injured people back and hand them over to Brother Lu.
After careful consideration, Li Yunlong chose a material on the list that he had been jealous of for a long time.
Field first aid medical kit.
It contains one pack of sulfonamide, ten rolls of sterile gauze, ten pieces of degreasing sterile cotton, one bottle of 500 ml iodophor, one bottle of 500 ml glucose sodium chloride injection, and disposable simple debridement equipment.
Although this first aid kit contains no actual medicines except sulfonamides, it can solve the most serious problems in field first aid for the troops - lack of even the most basic medical supplies, lack of debridement and disinfection drugs, and even gauze needs to be reused repeatedly. , resulting in repeated infections among a large number of wounded.
With this first aid kit, infections among soldiers can be greatly reduced.
There are three new materials for the total annihilation of the Hejin Squadron. After choosing the first aid kit, Li Yunlong chose the ordinary military mules and horses from the list for the second one without hesitation.
Ordinary military mules and horses:
Three-year-old mules and horses weighing 320 kilograms, healthy and disease-free ordinary breed mules and horses are specially selected. After certain military training, they can adapt to the battlefield environment and are easy to use.
Can serve for twenty years.
Camels can carry 50 kilograms of goods on mountain trails below an altitude of 3,000 meters, 65 kilograms of goods on mountain horse roads, and 85 kilograms of goods on flat roads. The mountain horse track can tow 350 kilograms, and the flat road can tow 450 kilograms.
Under standard load, it can travel forty kilometers per day.
Looking at the information on ordinary military mules and horses in the supplies list, Li Yunlong drooled.
Don't look at this Xingzigou ambush of the Guizi Hejin Squadron. The independent regiment's military horses and mules all carried fifty kilograms of cargo, but in fact, he led the 1st and 2nd Battalions on roads and mountain horse trails.
The ordinary mules and horses in Brother Lu's list can carry from 65 kilograms to 85 kilograms on this route, which is an increase of about half.
And it can continuously travel 40 kilometers a day, which means that the camel can carry 65 kilograms of cargo every day and can walk 40 kilometers every day without any repairs.
Their transport capacity and endurance are far superior to the existing mules and horses of the independent regiment.
If during the ambush battle in Xingzigou, the independent regiments were all mules and horses, then the first and second battalions and the artillery company could arrive three hours earlier and pick up ten tons more supplies.
As for the last material, Li Yunlong thought about it and hesitated for a while before choosing a submachine gun.
It uses Mauser pistol bullets, that is, shell bullets, folding stock, 35-round magazine, the empty gun weighs 3.3 kilograms, and the 35-round magazine weighs 3.9 kilograms, with an effective range of 200 meters. .
During the battle of Xingzigou, the shell guns could no longer keep up with the needs of the independent regiment.
Although with the wooden stock, Lu Laodi's twenty-shot shell gun can have a maximum effective range of 150 meters, but it is limited by the length of the barrel. This distance requires a good hand to hit accurately, and the accuracy is not as good as that of a submachine gun.
And the distance of 150 meters is not enough.
So Li Yunlong chose a submachine gun.
As for replacing the 38mm cap with Mauser 98K to achieve unified bullets for the entire regiment, we will talk about it later.
It’s not like the Sanba Daigai can’t be used.
