I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 420: "Heavy Casualties" Battle Report

Song Wenwan thought: That sounds good. Ding Wei is a smart man.

If Li Yunlong asked for battle here, other troops would have to go to fight for reinforcements.

He must take over the entire city of Taiyuan.

If he asked the leader for help in this way, he would be shot out by the deputy commander-in-chief.

But at this moment, Ding Wei didn't get any benefits from the leader.

The deputy commander-in-chief said, "Comrade Ding Wei, why are you still here?"

Division Commander: "You go out first and wait for the next order."

Deputy Chief of General Staff: "Comrade Ding Wei, you must pay attention to the principle of confidentiality. Don't discuss this battle with others for now."

Song Wenwan: "Old Ding... ahem, don't forget to close the door."

Ding Wei: Okay, you are all my superiors, I have to obey your orders.

This is really the case of a higher-ranking official crushing the lower-ranking official. Besides, you are higher than me, by who knows how many ranks...

After Ding Wei left, only Song Wenwan and three other leaders were left in the room.

Song Wenwan: "I'll be honest with you, leaders. Now is not the time for a major counterattack.

One is that we do not have the strength to do so, and a fight would only result in losses for both sides, or at best a pyrrhic victory.

There are still many powerful countries outside watching us, so we must have a backup plan.

Secondly, if we show that we are so powerful.

What would be the reaction of the man in the temporary capital? Maybe if the Japanese devils were not driven away, he would take the initiative to attack.

The third point is that the world is in chaos now, and Germany has already taken action in Europe.

One day, World War II might break out.

The Japanese have more powerful opponents who need to be dealt with by them. At that time, it will be our turn to rise up.

When the world war is over, the great powers will find that China is also a great power. "

Deputy Chief of General Staff: "We can't expose our strength for the time being? That's true.

A casualty ratio of one to twenty is indeed a bit too scary to tell others.

Not only the one in the temporary capital will take action against us immediately.

It's the Japanese who want to save their face.

They will also gather a large number of troops and fight a major battle with us in the Shanxi war zone.

But aren't we going to publicize today's big win?"

Song Wenwan said: "We still need to publicize it, but we can't let the truth out."

The deputy commander-in-chief and several others looked at each other, and suddenly their eyes brightened.

He quickly said to him, "Commander Xiao Song, since this is the case, how about you write a battle report for me?"

Song Wenwan's face turned red. Usually, when he needed to print out documents, it was the system sister who helped him print them out.

But now...

After all, he had studied in a private school for a few years, so he could write and read traditional Chinese characters.

People who use computers and mobile phones all year round know how embarrassing it is to forget how to write.

And his handwriting is not as elegant as a cat's, and is even worse than a dog's.

Now if he were to write in front of the leader, he wouldn’t be able to bear it no matter how thick-skinned he is.

The teacher was indeed amazing. As a Confucian scholar, he immediately saw through Song Wenwan's embarrassment.

"Commander Xiao Song, how about you just tell me and I'll write? How about that?"

Song Wenwan blushed and quickly nodded and agreed.

Of course, he couldn't let the division commander work for nothing, so he had to give him a reward.

He quickly took out three things from the backpack on the ground and presented them to him.

The gift given to the Deputy Chief of General Staff was a stack of exquisite notebooks, each half the size of an A4 paper.

The gift given to the division commander was a brand new Parker fountain pen of the latest model.

The deputy commander-in-chief was given a brand new Browning pistol.

Everyone likes Commander Song, who is particularly polite, more and more.

Now with the division commander writing on his behalf, Song Wenwan began to dictate the battle report.

“This morning, the elite Yamazaki Battalion of the Japanese Army, with more than 500 men.

They invaded the base of the Eighth Route Army and raided our field hospital.

After the Eighth Route Army's fierce resistance, the Yamazaki Battalion retreated to the Lijiaopo position, ready to fight to the end.

In order to destroy this stubborn enemy, all the troops of our Eighth Route Army are determined to fight to the death.

At all costs, we must completely eliminate them in the Lijiaopo area.

The battle of Lijiaopo lasted for eight hours, during which the Eighth Route Army dispatched a numbered regiment, the New 1st Regiment, and an independent regiment.

As well as the first to fifth regiments of my First Death Column, took turns to go into battle.

Despite heavy casualties, they launched several desperate charges at all costs.

We finally wiped out the Yamazaki Battalion half an hour ago.

The battle was extremely brutal, and the bones of more than 2,000 loyal soldiers were buried under the green pines and cypresses.

Although the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy casualties, as long as our determination to resist Japan is not extinguished, China will never perish. "

The division commander looked up and asked, "You inflicted 500 casualties on the enemy but lost 2,000 of your own. Are you trying to show weakness to the enemy?"

Song Wenwan: "This one to four casualty ratio is acceptable to all parties.

This also gave Yoshio Shinozuka of the First Army a reason not to launch a large-scale attack on the base.

It is better for the Japanese troops now to behave themselves and stay in their strongholds."

"But why was it mentioned that the field hospital was the only one that was attacked?"

"As for the field hospital, of course it moves with the main combat troops.

I think Yitiantian is in a good location. It would be a shame if the logistics units and the engineering factory were to withdraw.

Let the two regiments show up a hundred miles away and fight a battle.

The Japanese will think that we have moved and there is no need to keep a close eye on the Thin Line of Sky.

Another thing is to make the Japanese believe it.

The attack on the field hospital was the main reason why we mobilized our troops and fought desperately with the Yamazaki Battalion.

Of course, the reason we made this up is so that we can let the devils and their companions know about it.

An Eighth Route Army headquarters that easily loses its mind is what the Japanese and the temporary capital forces need to see."

The deputy commander said: “Two thousand comrades were killed, so there will be no fewer injured.

Send a telegram to the Second War Zone and the Temporary Capital, saying that we want a large amount of medicine, especially anti-inflammatory drugs."

After hearing this, Song Wenwan gave a thumbs up. He was indeed a modern military strategist, and he was able to draw inferences about other situations so quickly.

But in this way, the big victory turned into a tragic victory.

The people in the temporary capital can relax their vigilance against the Eighth Route Army a little.

It is true that the Central Army suffered heavy casualties every time it fought against Japan.

Why are the Eighth Route Army soldiers who come out of your mountain villages so good at fighting?

Now it seems that as long as the Eighth Route Army is worse off than the National Army, it will be enough. At the very least, it should be able to suppress northern Shaanxi.

As a result, Yoshio Shinozuka was no longer in a hurry to seek revenge on the Eighth Route Army.

This Yamazaki Jihei was originally a marginal figure.

Even if he doesn't die now, he will have to be demobilized and return to his hometown in August.

Although the entire army was destroyed this time, no one from the Shanxi First Army was lost.

Generally speaking, in this kind of battle, the casualties and wounded on the attacking side are roughly half and half.

In other words, eight hundred soldiers on their side were killed.

The Eighth Route Army suffered at least five to six thousand casualties.

And this number is just the beginning, those seriously injured people were rescued.

How many seriously injured soldiers could survive in the Eighth Route Army Hospital with a shortage of medical care and medicine?

Yoshio Shinozuka's ideas were very much in line with the trend of Japanese military thinking.

But what Yoshio Shinozuka didn't know was that it was fortunately Song Wenwan who revised the report.

Otherwise, this casualty ratio of 1 to 20 would definitely shock the Japanese government and the public.

This bizarre result was enough to cause all the high-ranking officers in the First Army Headquarters to commit suicide.