Looking at the devastated ground, Zhang Tianhai also knew that the casualties of his troops would not be too small.
Sorting out the casualty figures is the most important thing before us.
"Both of you, although our regiment has achieved military victory at this stage, it still cannot make up for the established fact that our regiment has also suffered huge casualties. I will leave it to you to count the casualties of the troops and place the wounded and sick." Zhang Tianhai turned around, looked at Guo Qiliang and Li Yinglun and said.
"Yes! Regiment!" The two of them responded at the same time, but then Li Yinglun added: "Regiment, I think it's time to set up a field hospital. We can only rely on our regiment's medical team to deal with major emergencies." It is difficult to achieve a certain amount of casualties.”
"Hmm...that makes sense." Zhang Tianhai nodded and said, "Have you made preparations for expanding it into a field hospital?"
"We haven't reported the group members yet," Li Yinglun said honestly, "But we have done some preliminary work, and we are just waiting for the group members to submit their reports for approval."
"Oh? Do you still need me to apply for approval?" Zhang Tianhai frowned slightly, "Tell me! What kind of preparations are you? Don't tell me that you have recruited the nurses first, but you haven't paid the military salary to them."
"That's not true, but I have really recruited a group of people. As long as we recruit some more people from the field service group, we can barely have the size of a field hospital." Li Yinglun said with a smile.
"The scale is there, but what about the medicines?" Zhang Tianhai frowned and asked softly.
"As for medicines, there is no shortage for the time being. There is a batch of medicines among the airdrop items." Li Yinglun replied.
"Okay, let's implement it like this!" Zhang Tianhai nodded and agreed, "Let each battalion count the casualties! We must also keep up with the supplies, especially since our army has experienced this battle, the casualties will not be small. , when appropriate, the establishment may need to be compressed.”
Zhang Tianhai's words raised the alarm among everyone present: Why would the group leader say such a thing? Want to compress the compilation? It proves that there may be a big battle to be fought later.
Everyone knows that Captain Zhang has always had a very keen sense of war. If he had not been certain, he would not have said such a sentence.
It should be noted that the battle of Wanjialing may only be halfway through now.
"Yes! Regiment seat!" the adjutant Xu Xun next to him responded. He knew that it was the adjutant's task to pass the information down.
"The next battle may be even worse. Everyone, it's up to you." Zhang Tianhai patted Guo Qiliang and Li Yinglun on the shoulders and said.
"Okay, no problem." Guo Qiliang nodded and responded.
"Regiment leader, we don't have much artillery reserves this time. If we fight another battle, it will be very difficult for us, and the ammunition reserves of our entire regiment are also a big problem. In this battle, our consumption is really too great... ..." Li Yinglun let out a long sigh,
"This is indeed a big problem, but it's not a big problem." Zhang Tianhai said. In fact, he was not confident in his heart. "Anyway, we have already asked for guns, ammunition and food from the corps headquarters. Let's take a look. As much as they can give!”
"I believe that the General Headquarters of the Corps will not jam our guns, ammunition, and food because we are a unit of the Central Army. Even if they jam other units, they will not jam our heads. What's more, we also It’s not about not fighting, isn’t it?” Li Yinglun said something, and the words behind his words were not bad.
"That's okay, no matter what. We all have to show our results. Only if we win the battle, other people will not gossip, right?" Zhang Tianhai threw away the stick and burned it out without taking a few cigarettes. The cigarette in his mouth lit another one.
"Yes, what the leader said makes sense." Li Yinglun said seriously.
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Soon after, casualty reports from various units came in.
The heaviest casualties were caused by the main attacking battalion, which suffered more than half of its casualties, reaching an astonishing 356 casualties.
Why is it amazing? That's because the casualties of other troops were not that great at all.
The Second Battalion suffered two hundred and ninety-two casualties;
The third battalion suffered 212 casualties;
The fourth battalion suffered one hundred and five casualties;
The fifth battalion suffered one hundred and ninety-five casualties;
The Sixth Battalion suffered seventy-eight casualties;
The secret service company suffered twelve casualties.
The total casualties were 1,250 people. As far as this number is concerned, the casualties of the First Guard Regiment are really not large, especially when looking at the number of enemies wiped out.
A total of more than 3,000 enemy troops were wiped out, but their own casualties were only about one-third of the enemy's.
In fact, only Zhang Tianhai knew in his heart that if the battlefield were changed, it would be impossible to achieve this result - because the Japanese army came with the mentality of defending Nantianpu.
If not for this, it would have been impossible for his artillery troops to show off their power to such an extent and launch ferocious bombardment of Nantianpu without restraint.
But what made Zhang Tianhai very puzzled was why the Japanese commander knew that this place could not be defended and allowed his own artillery to carry out bombings unscrupulously. Wasn't this clearly seeking death?
Why did the Japanese commander do this? Could it be that one of his own shells destroyed their headquarters? Thinking about it, Zhang Tianhai smiled softly: This situation is not impossible.
Zhang Tianhai calculated carefully and found that the three outer highlands plus the 200 officers dropped by air would have annihilated more than 1,400 enemies in total. Nantianpu main village had annihilated at least 1,600 enemies.
"Xu Xun, report this situation to the Corps Headquarters!" Zhang Tianhai said directly.
"Yes! Group seat!" Xu Xun responded.
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It didn't take long for this battle report from Nantianpu to be reported to the headquarters of the 1st Corps of the Ninth Theater.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, urgent battle report from the First Regiment of Theater Guards!" A senior staff officer stood at attention at the door of Xue Yue's office and saluted.
"Come in!" Xue Yue slowly raised his head, as if he already knew the result.
The senior staff officer strode up to him, opened the report book with the "Blue Sky and White Sun" badge in his hand, and read aloud: "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, according to the latest battle report of the 1st Guard Regiment of the Ninth Theater Zone, they We have captured Nantianpu and achieved a brilliant record of wiping out more than 3,000 enemies while only suffering 1,250 casualties! Sir, please read this!"
Xue Yue was originally very calm, but when he heard about this achievement, he became excited. He stood up with surprise on his face: "What?! They actually wiped out three thousand enemies in total, and our side only paid One thousand two hundred and fifty casualties?!”
"Yes! Sir!" After saying that, Gao Shen handed the book in his hand to Xue Yue and reported: "According to the first regiment of guards, they have fired all the artillery shells, and the ammunition loss is very high. So big. The report also said that among the more than 3,000 people, the number of officers alone accounted for nearly 400 people!"
"More than four hundred officers? When did the little devil's officer staff become so high? There is almost one officer for every eight or nine people. This is incredible! This kid Zhang Yulin must have lied." He muttered. Then, Xue Yue took the report book from the senior staff officer's hand.
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