Seeing that the head of the regiment looked satisfied, Chen Wei asked with a puzzled face.

"Didn't those artillery, cars, and ammunition all be blown up before the little devils retreated, I really see this, are those guns that were blown up into scrap metal also useful?"

"Of course it works, and it's all treasures." Li Hao affirmed without hesitation.

Then he explained: "Our arsenal has long had the ability to produce rifle machine guns and mortars, but it has not been produced, and only repairs are carried out on damaged weapons in the troops, do you know why?" ”

Seeing that everyone shook their heads and didn't speak, Li Hao didn't hide it, and replied to himself.

"We don't have raw materials!"

"In particular, the raw materials for the production of barrels and barrels."

"We can use ordinary steel to make other parts, and we can get it by making our own steel and cutting rails, but not gun barrels and barrels."

"They have to use special steel, and our base doesn't have the capacity to produce special steel."

"These heavy guns and field guns blown up by the little devils are all made of special steel, especially the barrels with higher strength, which are all good steel among good steels."

"With them, we have the raw materials for the barrel and barrel production."

"Don't underestimate these eight blown up field guns and heavy artillery, minus the spare parts that can still be used, we can collect at least 10,000 catties of special steel we want."

"If it takes five pounds of steel to produce one barrel, this steel is enough for the arsenal to produce two thousand barrels and two thousand guns."

"There is another catch that you don't know: the Japanese army blew up all the artillery and cars before leaving, but did not blow up the ammunition."

"They hid the ammunition in a nearby ravine, and one of our fighters who searched the mountain happened to fall into the ravine and found the ammunition."

Chen Wei suddenly realized and shouted: "No wonder I didn't hear the sound of ammunition exploding when the Japanese bombed the artillery. ”

"I thought the little devils ran out of shells when they attacked us."

"It turned out that they used explosives to cover and hide the unused ammunition."

"They're so calculating, the artillery and cars are too big to hide, and they can't hide from our surveillance,"

"Cannonballs are different, you can hide them in a ravine."

"Commander, how many shells are there?"

"The puppet army of the little devils who rebelled on the battlefield told me that in order to deal with us, the devil artillery that came over this morning brought several truckloads of shells, and if they were not destroyed, there would definitely be a lot left."

Li Hao replied with a smile: "There are quite a few." ”

"Two hundred and forty rounds of heavy artillery shells, three hundred and fifty rounds of field artillery shells, three hundred rounds of mountain artillery shells, nine hundred rounds of mortar shells, and forty-five boxes of bullets and grenades."

It was only at this time that the expression of self-blame on Chen Wei's face eased a lot.

"Regiment commander, the telegraph ...... of the second battalion" Zhou Liang, the commander of the communications platoon, suddenly stood up and interrupted, the radio in front of him was still flashing a red light.

"All the Japanese puppet troops within their range of activities returned to Datong City and asked for withdrawal."

Li Hao thought for a moment and replied: "Agree with their retreat." ”

"Contact the three battalions and let them retreat together."

"After a day's fighting, even if the commander of the Japanese division is a fool, he knows about the existence of our garrison regiment, and he will definitely not be fooled again."

At the headquarters of the Japanese division in Datong City, the chief of staff stood in front of the division, lowered his head, and did not say a word.

As a defeated man, in the face of the anger of the division commander, he couldn't say a word of rebuttal, so he could only endure it.

It took a long time for the division commander's anger to slowly subside, and he replied with a long sigh.

"That's it, it's not just one unit under your command that lost the battle during the day today, and now I'm pretty sure that the troops that are active outside the city during the day belong to the Eighth Route Army garrison, that is, our old opponent."

"They are too cunning, all kinds of means are invincible, and they are not wronged at all if they are defeated in their hands."

The chief of staff was stunned for a moment before he reacted, and quickly asked, "Sir, are there other troops attacked today?" Is the loss big? ”

"Kumamoto-kun, you can introduce the situation to the chief of staff." The division commander looked at the deputy chief of staff and ordered.

"Hey!"

Kumamoto Nakasa took out a counted list and replied: "Report to the chief, in addition to the sortie troops under your command being attacked by the garrison outside the city, the sortie troops in the west and north of the city were also attacked by the cavalry and infantry of the garrison regiment on the way back to Datong Castle. ”

"They wore the uniforms of the imperial army, avoided the reconnaissance of the imperial planes, and with the cooperation of the cavalry troops, they succeeded several times, completely annihilating our four attacking troops and inflicting heavy losses on three."

"After statistics: we lost a total of 1,453 imperial troops in the west and north of the city, 1,586 imperial allegiated troops, more than 3,000 prisoners were captured by the rescued Jin Sui army, and a large number of heavy weapons were also lost, and the losses were very heavy......

"Hiss ......"

The chief of staff gasped and exclaimed: "So many people have been lost. ”

Then his face became solemn, and he looked at the division commander and asked, "Sir, if you subtract these losses, and then subtract the losses on the lowly side, there will definitely be a large shortage of troops in Datong City." ”

The division commander did not deny it.

"Yes, in order to make up for the defense loopholes in Datong City and prevent the Chinese army from taking advantage of the fire to loot."

"I have ordered all the imperial troops in the city, the imperial army, to enter the position and strengthen the guard."

"The police, the gendarmerie, the secret service, all patrol the streets to prevent the enemy's intelligence agents lurking in the city from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble."

"At the same time, the Japanese in the city and the mine group outside the city were ordered to send samurai and escorts to the division and regiment headquarters, and two temporary mixed squadrons were formed as the reserve of the division and regiment headquarters, which could be put into the battlefield at any time."

"Now that you're back, the defense of Datong City will be handed over to you from now on."

"Kumamoto-kun, you are responsible for the prisoners of the Jin Sui army brought back by the attacking troops, and use them to form the Imperial Cooperative Army, build at least one regiment, and cooperate with the Imperial Army to defend Datong City."

"I was in charge of drafting telegrams, reporting the results of the battle to the military headquarters, and requesting support."

"Datong City is too important to the imperial army, and there must be no accidents."

Because the losses of the troops were too large, the Japanese army transferred all the troops outside the city and concentrated all their forces to ensure the safety of Datong City.

This situation cheapened the garrison regiment, resulting in the second and third battalions not encountering a single soldier of the devils on the retreat road, and finally retreated directly by road all the way to the Caoziling position.

Li Hao took the Hunyuan Independent Battalion to retreat here first, and then stayed on the road, looking forward to it.

"Regiment commander, the second battalion is back......" Seeing that a torch appeared at the end of the road, Hong Linfeng shouted excitedly.

Soon, several torches were connected into a fire dragon, and there was no end in sight.

Li Hao also showed a smile on his face, and immediately replied: "Let's go, let's go and meet our heroes together!" ”

"Judging by the length of the fire dragon, they brought back at least fifteen hundred people."

The fire dragon set off from Cao Ziling and the fire dragon composed of the second battalion quickly converged on the road, and Liu Yutian, the commander of the second battalion, took the lead.

When he saw Li Hao, he immediately quickened his pace and trotted all the way over.

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