"Regiment leader, tell me, have we fought too hard in this battle?" Liu Houming, who was sitting next to Zhang Tianhai, said. As before, he was Zhang Yulin's confidant.
"Every victory will lead to defeat, so be more calm. It's just that I still underestimated our enemy..." Zhang Tianhai sighed, and then lit a cigarette.
In his previous life, Zhang Tianhai never smoked, whether out of concern for his own health or military discipline.
But it won't work in this era. Zhang Tianhai doesn't want to think about anything else, he just wants his mind to be clearer - in this era, and it is a frontline battlefield, there are not so many things to refresh him on this frontline battlefield. The only thing I have in mind is cigarettes.
Before he knew it, he had developed a craving for cigarettes.
"Underestimated? Where did you say that?" Liu Houming asked. This was the first time he heard such words coming from the mouth of the regiment leader. Regarding his impression of the regiment leader, in addition to "military expert" and "god of war" "" and other words, based on his poor cultural foundation, there are no better words to describe Zhang Tianhai.
"Yes, I just underestimated..." Zhang Tianhai did not shy away and blew out a breath of smoke, "I still underestimated the people of the world, thinking that a third battalion can defend the city of Lanfeng. It's a pity that our people, It's still too few. If our troops could be as strong as a division, then this kind of situation probably wouldn't happen."
"That's also because our army has a small number of people. What's wrong with underestimating the enemy's army?" Liu Houming asked in confusion.
Zhang Tianhai gave a bitter smile, and then said: "I just underestimated it. If I hadn't underestimated the strength of the Japanese army, I shouldn't have put the most capable third battalion of our regiment in Lanfeng. Now it's okay, the third battalion can directly It’s gone, and we ourselves have suffered heavy casualties.”
"It's not your fault. If the troops of the 88th Division had not withdrawn from Lanfeng, the Third Battalion would not have been wiped out." Liu Houming said a word of conscience.
"If one more battalion is put in, plus your special agent company and cavalry battalion, it will be enough. Unfortunately, in order to prevent the superiors from discovering it, I only left one battalion as a defensive force, otherwise there would be no bamboo basket. It's all in vain." Zhang Tianhai said with a wry smile. Regarding the outcome of this battle, he seemed very calm and calm, but he would not tell others about the self-blame in his heart.
The lives of more than 600 elites were not lost because the entire army failed to perform the rear mission, but because there were not enough troops and because the commander did not think clearly.
This alone is enough for Zhang Tianhai to blame himself to the end.
"Leader, please don't say that. If the entire third battalion is martyred, Lao Wang and I are also responsible. If our troops can come faster, maybe Lanfeng City will not fall. It happened so fast." As he spoke, Liu Houming lowered his head slightly, also full of self-blame.
"Even if you go faster, you won't be able to change the situation of the battle. The third battalion lacks city defense troops, not support troops. Their troops are not even enough to guard every city gate. The existence of your rapid support troops , just to help them contain the enemy's offensive momentum outside the city. Once the city is broken, everything will be of no use." Zhang Tianhai said with a very calm mind.
But what Zhang Yulin never expected was that just because of his ordering the third battalion to enter the city and defend it, someone would actually start thinking about it.
Of course, Zhang Tianhai was still waiting for the counterattack order to be issued at this time.
As for the replenishment of weapons and personnel, it will definitely not come so quickly. The rest will have to be found by themselves.
For unknown reasons, Zhang Tianhai actually ordered all the student soldiers from the teaching platoon to be transferred to the combat troops, and together with the remaining troops of the gendarmerie and the three main infantry battalions, they formed a temporary combat formation.
As for the commander of this formation, the commander of the first battalion, Li Chunfei, was appointed as the commander, and the deputy commander was the commander of the fourth battalion, Han Xinglei.
There is no way, now that one of the four battalion commanders of the main infantry battalion is dead and one is injured, they are the only two who can sustain the overall situation.
In other aspects, we can only take it slow for a while. After all, many things are uncertain now, and everything is changing, changing, changing!
Whether the next battle will be a battlefield or a brutal battle is still a huge question mark.
Everything made Zhang Tianhai really feel the sentence - people are in the world, and they can't help themselves!
Since he has been deeply integrated into this era, he can only follow the trend of this era. He is neither a big shot nor anything particularly powerful. The only useful things are those in his mind about commanding operations. and theoretical knowledge of special operations.
Theoretically speaking, given his familiarity with firearms, as long as he has sufficient conditions, he can draw drawings of AK-47, Type 81 rifle, and even Type 95 assault rifle and Type 88 sniper rifle.
However, in this era of extreme scarcity of materials, in this impoverished war-torn country, are there so many good things for him to "design" and manufacture these things?
Even at this time, the German army and the MP40 submachine gun had just begun to popularize, let alone the poor and weak China.
Many things are not applicable in every era and every period - even a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice!
Therefore, Zhang Tianhai must conform to the trends and rules of this era. Otherwise, he and the first regiment directly under his third theater will be the ones who have to pay a huge price!
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While Zhang Tianhai was still planning for the formation of the troops and the next battle, a storm began to unfold within the national army about the responsibility for the loss of Lan Feng.
Yes, the Operations Department of the National Army Military Command has begun planning how to counterattack Lanfeng in order to achieve the military purpose of annihilating the Japanese troops there and blocking the Japanese brigade from attacking Kaifeng and Zhengzhou along the Longhai Road.
But don't forget that the Military Command Department is not only the Operations Hall (i.e. the first hall), it also has the second and third halls!
The division of labor within these departments is very clear - some are responsible for spying on the enemy, some are responsible for the internal affairs of the national army, as well as figuring out which military officers have the intention to defect to Japan, etc.
However, the Second Department of the Military Command Department of the National Military Commission (responsible for internal and external intelligence matters of the national army, especially the enemy) has begun to investigate the reasons for the loss of Lanfeng.
At the same time, Cheng Qian, commander of the First Theater Zone of the National Military Commission, who was already very angry, ordered an investigation into the cause of Lanfeng's fall after receiving instructions from Chiang Kai-shek.
What Zhang Tianhai never expected was that the spearhead for the loss of Lanfeng was pointed directly at him, as well as Long Muhan, who led his troops to withdraw from Lanfeng...
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PS: The second update is here!
The third update will not be updated until two o'clock. I will wait for me to figure out my thoughts and how to write the next plot.
Thanks to book friend Qianqian for the reward of 300 book coins...
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