"According to preliminary statistics, our army has so far killed and wounded at least 1,000 enemy troops, and the detailed number is not known at present, but our army has suffered heavy casualties due to the surprise attack on the second battalion yesterday, and so far the whole army has lost 250 people killed, more than 300 people have been seriously wounded, and the lightly wounded have not been included in the statistics for the time being! Most of the above casualties were caused by yesterday's surprise attack by the enemy, and the casualties of our troops were not large after stabilizing the battle line. As Lin Zhaomin continued to ask, the operational staff officer also continued to answer.

According to this figure, Lin Zhaomin slightly calculated, this exchange ratio should be about 10:7, that is, the enemy army suffered 10 casualties, and his own army suffered about 7 casualties; considering that yesterday's incident was urgent and this was the first large-scale war experienced by the Nationalist Army, this exchange ratio is acceptable, and it is also in line with the previous assessment of the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist Army by most people in the army.

It's just that there were five or six hundred casualties in just one day, and it was almost a battalion knocked out, and if the high-intensity fighting continued, the loss of numbers would probably be too large, and if five hundred people a day were calculated, it would be about four thousand in seven or eight days, and it was estimated that the first division would be completely finished by then. Of course, this situation is basically unlikely, because while the first division suffered such heavy casualties, Zhu Rui's second division was not having a good time, and if Zhu Rui's second division still maintained the current high-intensity offensive posture, it would not take seven or eight days for the second division to collapse on its own.

Besides, as long as the 1st Division can hold back the first few days, then it can wait for reinforcements from the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Division of the Guards Division. When the time comes, it will be impossible to say who will attack and who will defend.

After the introduction of the battle situation, Yuan Fang said: "Brother Lin, now the casualties of the troops are not small, I don't know when we will be able to transfer additional troops?" ”

When the brigade was reorganized into a division, Chen Jingyun explicitly ordered that all units should be forbidden to recruit troops on their own, and that any new recruits must be recruited by the various recruitment offices under the headquarters, and then handed over to the general staff for training and then supplemented by the troops. Moreover, the soldier's salary will be directly distributed by the logistics department to each soldier's account in the Fuzhou bank, so as to completely eliminate the possibility of the officer's military salary being touched, and at the same time, because the military salary is directly issued by the logistics department, if the officer wants to privately fund the soldier, the soldier will not get the military salary of the logistics department, that is, it cannot be counted.

Except for those officers who have different intentions, basically the commander-in-chief of the unit is still satisfied with this, one is that there is no need to directly train recruits, and the additional recruits are all trained by the General Staff, and the second is that the commander-in-chief does not have to worry about military salaries himself, like the generals under other warlords, he has to make noise every three days and two ends. As for those who want to expand their military power and try to stand on their own, it is not very good, but what can be done? Chen Jingyun didn't know who in the army had this kind of thought, but if anyone dared to say it, Chen Jingyun would remove him from his post as soon as possible.

So now that the 1st Division has combat losses, it has to be replenished from above to replenish new troops.

Lin Zhaomin said: "The Sixth Division is already heading north, and when it arrives, it will be able to transfer soldiers from the Sixth Division to supplement the First Division!" ”

The Sixth Division and the Fifth Division were originally garrison troops, and the most important accusation was that they were used to supplement the personnel losses of the main division, Lin Zhaomin also continued: "At present, the governor has instructed the General Staff to increase the recruitment efforts, and at the same time, a group of recruits in the recruit camps in Fuzhou and Wenzhou have completed their initial training and will also be replenished to northern Zhejiang!" ”

After Yuan Fang heard this, the original worry in his heart was put down. In fact, Yuan Fang and some other officers were a little worried about Chen Jingyun's practice of prohibiting the troops from recruiting troops privately, and the most feared thing was that Chen Jingyun did not supplement his troops after they were pulled up and wiped out, but instead transferred and dismantled the troops.

Subsequently, the officers discussed the next step of the battle plan, logistics supply, and even the morale of the army, and then made a decision.

While the headquarters of the 1st Division was discussing, high-intensity fierce fighting broke out again on Heights 8 on the Eastern Front. Since Xu Jingqing organized the relevant forces of the 13th Regiment in the early hours of the morning, and finally assembled a battalion of troops near the No. 8 Heights, and captured the No. 8 Heights through fierce fighting with the reinforced support of several mortars and related light and heavy machine guns, the Nationalist Army quickly organized the defense of the No. 8 Heights, and Xu Jingqing specially equipped 4 60 mm mortars, 8 machine guns and three infantry companies for this defense line. It's almost the size of a battalion.

The No. 8 Heights are the internal terms of the First Division, and the operational staff officers of the First Division have marked the hills near the battle line, from one to more than 100, and many of them have become the focus of the struggle between the two sides because of the dangerous terrain or important positions, and the No. 8 Heights is one of them.

Generally speaking, the No. 8 Heights is just a small hill, and it will not be noticeable at all in normal times, but because the geography of the No. 8 Heights is extremely special, not only can it condescendingly block the nearby four or five hills, but also if the artillery is erected here, it will be able to directly cover most of the eastern front, before this, Zhu Rui's 2nd Division deployed an artillery company here 4 mountain guns, these 4 guns made the 13th Regiment suffer a lot, and after the 13th Regiment captured the No. 8 Heights, Naturally, the National Army also deployed an artillery battery here.

In the face of the loss of the No. 8 Heights, the commanders on the opposite side were not stupid, and they had an important surname on the No. 8 Heights, so they began to send troops to test them one after another in the morning, and the artillery continued to bombard the place intermittently. At noon, at least 1,000 men were organized to charge in an attempt to recapture Heights 8.

"Grandma, don't run away if you bastards have the ability, see if Lao Tzu doesn't beat you into a hornet's nest one by one!" Heavy machine gun shooter Liu Liu's face was red, and he intermittently triggered the trigger while scolding loudly, and then strafed according to the instructions of the heavy machine gun commander Shi Fengjun. With each pull of the trigger, the heavy machine gun would rattle, and in the distance, an enemy soldier would be shot and fell to the ground.

Shi Fengjun watched the enemy slowly retreat again, stretched out his hand and pressed to signal the machine gun shooter to stop shooting, as a qualified heavy machine gun commander, Shi Fengjun received a complete heavy machine gun command training, and studied in the regiment headquarters for as many as two months, after learning he was promoted from an ordinary corporal to a sergeant, and his salary rose a lot, and a few months later he was appreciated by the company commander of the heavy machine gun company, and recommended him to go to the crash course of the Fuzhou Military Academy, and after a month of study, he came out with the rank of second lieutenant. But before he could leave for Fuzhou, the Zhejiang army came over.

Heavy machine gun shooter Liu Liu did not stop shooting for the first time, but stopped after several moments, and then gave Shi Fengjun an apologetic expression: "Head, I didn't pay attention just now, I must correct it next time!" ”

Liu Liu knew that the heavy machine gun bullets were too fast, so he couldn't just keep fighting.

Shi Fengjun didn't speak, just nodded. In Shi Fengjun's eyes, Liu Liu was already a dying person, and there was no need to accuse him. The danger of heavy machine gun shooters is far higher than that of ordinary soldiers, in battle, heavy machine guns are always the priority targets of the enemy, and heavy machine gun shooters are the focus of those enemy troops with good marksmanship, only one day after the war, the heavy machine gun under the command of Shi Fengjun has been replaced by three heavy machine gun shooters, two dead and one seriously injured, and Liu Liu is the fourth.

In fact, he was also unlucky with this heavy machine gun team, because he was at the forefront of the battle line, it can be said that they were the first to shoot, and they were the last to stop the gunfire, and in the several charging attacks of the enemy in the morning, he was given priority to hitting his heavy machine gun fire point, and even suffered seven or eight shells, one of which happened to fall next to him, and the members of the heavy machine gun team were reimbursed at one time, and Shi Fengjun happened to be spared because he went to listen to the combat order, and Shi Fengjun was still the commander of this heavy machine gun after the shelling. But the other members of the heavy machine gun team had been replaced by others, and Shi Fengjun didn't even know their names.

Lying on the position, Shi Fengjun took out a telescope and observed the front, the first thing that appeared in the telescope was a large number of corpses of the Zhejiang army, these corpses were basically left because of the strafing of heavy machine guns, a few of them were still alive and shouted, for these broken corpses and shouted that parents don't want to die and other wounded soldiers, at the beginning Shi Fengjun was still disgusted, and even wanted to vomit for a while, but after a long time, he became numb, and he didn't even look at the other party's or even his own comrades-in-arms as people, and now in Shi Fengjun's eyes, whether it is a comrade-in-arms or an enemy army, are all animals that can move, and then both sides pick up various weapons to kill each other. And I'm one of them.

Seeing that the enemy army had indeed retreated, although the enemy army could still be seen vaguely, Shi Fengjun had already determined that this time the large-scale raid of the Zhejiang army had come to an end, and the next large-scale attack of the Zhejiang army would be at least half an hour later. Then he squatted in the trench and carefully put away the binoculars, as a sergeant, he did not get the same telescopes as those officers, and the telescope in his hand was still the trophy he had obtained from the corpse of an officer of the Zhejiang army during the attack on Heights No. 8 this morning, and it was also the first trophy since he joined the army.

After putting away the binoculars, he squatted in the trenches, and then took out a pack of flattened cigarettes from his pocket, the cigarettes did not have a common brand name, but printed with the national army special supply of five words, this is the national army specially purchased military cigarettes, for which the Chen family even acquired a small cigarette factory, and then invested in expanding the scale of production, cigarettes are currently only for officers to be attached, ordinary soldiers even non-commissioned officers are not attached, in fact, this year's boxed cigarettes are still consumer goods above the middle class, If ordinary people smoke, they mostly smoke dry tobacco, which is why the National Army only allocates cigarettes to officers. The pack of cigarettes in Shi Fengjun's hand was given by the commander of the heavy machine gun company, and if Shi Fengjun wanted to smoke it, he had to spend money to buy it at the store of the logistics department, although the price was cheaper than the ordinary cigarettes on the market, but the price was not low.