The smoke of gunpowder is filled, yesterday was still intact Xinzhuang, Xinzhuang is already a ruin, thick black smoke rises above Xinzhuang, it is a fire caused by cannonballs igniting living materials, and Zhuangzi is full of ruins.

Most of the houses were smashed and damaged, and as soon as the battle ended, Zhang Wei stepped through the ruins and watched the soldiers of the preparation battalion around him clean up the battlefield.

The battle of Xinzhuang was really a vicious battle, and the preparation camp did not have the experience of this kind of large-scale village battle before, and suffered a lot of losses, but finally took Xinzhuang down, and now it is cleaning the battlefield and cleaning up the corpses of both sides.

The general battle damage, the company commanders have already reported it, the battalion participating in the battle casualties of more than 130 people, the preparation battalion after the use of the rout to make up for the less than 400 people, the battle of Xinzhuang, at once reimbursed more than 130 people, this is really a month of hard work, a battle back to the replenishment!

It was impossible to avoid a large number of casualties in the battle of the house-to-house battle in the village, and even the fierce battle with the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops were of high quality and fierce firepower, and the closer they got to them, the greater the casualties.

Casualties are not useless, blood and casualties are exchanged for valuable combat experience.

After this battle, Zhang Wei believed that in this kind of battle, it is best to blow up the target with artillery fire first, and the larger the damage to the buildings in the village, the better, because the buildings inside are the enemy's fortifications, and the more fierce the bombing, the more serious the enemy's fortifications will be destroyed, and then it will be more convenient for the infantry to attack.

His own firepower is too weak, or the first firepower is too weak, Zhang Wei can only use the tank gun to prepare for firepower, the tank gun is a direct shot gun, the effect of direct shooting at the target is good, for the invisible buildings in the village, the damage is basically equivalent to nothing, if Zhang Wei has a company of mountain artillery in his hand, then the effect of the battle just now will be very different, in the final analysis, or lack of firepower.

The lack of firepower is not only reflected in the supporting artillery, but also the battalion under his command is not even good at firepower, and there is no direct fire in the battalion, after all, there are no ** troops, but there is not even a mortar.

If the mortar platoon in the battalion can be matched, when attacking the courtyard wall, it can be directly bombarded with mortars, so why call the battle defense artillery.

Tactically, Zhang Wei found that these buildings and houses in the village were the most annoying, messy and disorderly, and you didn't know where there were Japanese troops and where there were no Japanese troops.

In the future, if you want to attack the village again, you must quickly attack after preparing strong firepower.

Firepower at the infantry detachment level was also lacking, and the Japanese infantry squadrons were equipped with light machine guns and grenadiers, while heavy grenadiers and light mortars were in the same class.

However, only one company of the reserve battalion had grenadiers, and the other two and three companies were equipped with rifle machine guns.

For example, when the last two houses were settled, the Japanese withstood the final assault of the preparatory battalion with strong fortifications and light machine guns and heavy machine guns.

It's still the same sentence, lack of firepower!

Zhang Wei thought to himself that if he settled down and had something to replenish, he could allocate some equipment to the battalion to strengthen the firepower.

When Zhang Wei asked the companies to clean up the battlefield, the tank company platoon sent someone to report that the tank platoon had intercepted and strafed the Japanese troops who broke through to the periphery of Xinzhuang, killing more than half of them.

Zhang Wei was not surprised to get the news, with the appetite of the prepared battalion, it was impossible to completely eat the Japanese troops in Xinzhuang, there was a platoon of chariots in his hand, so he just handed them over to the tanks to deal with, and the Japanese light infantry who broke through the siege was against the T26 tanks with 45 mm tank guns and parallel machine guns, and the result was obvious.

After the preparatory battalion cleaned up the battlefield and collected all the equipment left by the Japanese army, the whole team left Xinzhuang after the whole team was completed, and the task of recapturing Xinzhuang was completed.

Xinzhuang was handed over to the friendly forces of the 78th Division, and the preparatory battalion quickly broke away from the battlefield.

Back in the rear, Zhang Wei first received a call from Qiu Maniac, and the order to Zhang Wei was to retreat.

"Zhang Wei, I have recovered Longshan, and now the situation is very bad, the Japanese army and our army are attacking each other, although our army has recovered the lost territory, but the Japanese army has a situation of outflanking."

"I have discussed with Chief Du and friendly troops, except for the chariot battalion, the main force of the column will be built, and it will not be able to continue fighting in eastern Henan. I order, your preparation battalion, with the anti-aircraft artillery battalion and anti-aircraft machine gun platoon, withdraw along the Pinghan Railway to Xiangtan and return to the ship!"

Zhang Wei answered the phone, and less than a minute after reporting the battle situation, Qiu Madman told the above order.

This order came very suddenly, and Zhang Wei had no other way but to carry it out as planned.

The order to retreat came in a hurry, and the madman Qiu urged him even more urgently, and the retreat with the preparatory battalion was also the battle defense artillery battalion and the anti-aircraft machine gun platoon of the assault column.

The fact that the madman Qiu stayed to command the chariot was due to the fact that it was inconvenient for the chariot to retreat. At that time, the First Army and other troops also needed tanks to help in the war.

The battle situation on the front line of Luoshan in Xinyang was not optimistic, and the first army returned to Xinzhuang with the reinforcement of chariots, and achieved local tactical victories at several points.

However, rising to a higher level, the main force of the Japanese army has already raided southern Henan, and the main force has been launched one after another, and yesterday and today were small-scale surprise battles.

Madman Qiu said that he had contacted Chief Du, who was far away in Hunan, and asked the assault column to withdraw part of it first.

Zhang Wei thought that it should be the intention of Chief Du to call the assault column to withdraw part of it in such a hurry, and it was estimated that he wanted to retain some more strength for the troops of the 200th Division.

Zhang Wei informed the three company commanders of the news of the retreat, and the officers and men of the battalion seized the time to rest and eat.

In this retreat, there was also a whole battalion of anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns, which marched directly from the vicinity of Yongsan and joined up with the preparatory battalion.

The anti-aircraft artillery battalion and the anti-aircraft machine gun platoon are all technical equipment units, and their own combat capability is insufficient.

With the arrival of the accompanying troops, there was also a batch of ammunition and provisions, enough to supplement a base number of rifle machine gun shells and grenades, and all the ammunition was distributed by Zhang Wei.

The troops needed to walk from Xinyang to Zhengzhou, and when they arrived at Zhengzhou, they took a military train along the Pinghan Line and returned to Hunan.

There are about 300 kilometers from Xinyang to Zhengzhou, and the normal marching speed of the preparatory battalion is more than 4 kilometers per hour, and if it is forced to march according to the battle, it can walk more than 50 kilometers in a day, but the combat march is very large for the physical exertion of the troops, and if it is not an emergency, it will not be necessary to march in a hurry.

In a normal marching mode, the preparatory battalion could walk more than 40 kilometers in a day, but when he marched towards Zhengzhou, Zhang Wei not only had his own preparatory battalion, but also a combat anti-aircraft artillery battalion and an anti-aircraft machine gun platoon.

Their march was no better than that of infantry units, the artillery was to be carried by horses, the anti-aircraft machine guns were to be carried by horses, and the horses were to rest.

With them, Zhang Wei estimated that he would walk more than 30 kilometers in a day.