Chapter 580: The Iron Lion

The Iron Lion

"Well, I've written it all down. Commander, don't worry, our Eighth Route Army will definitely not let these heroes chill. When the time comes, we will definitely let everyone feel the warmth and respect that our party treats their comrades..."Deputy Commander Yang nodded with a heavy face and replied affirmatively...

"Well, Lao Zhou, keep reading, what about the casualties of the other main regiments, can the troops continue to fight..."Liu Hua nodded, turned around and continued to ask...

"Our Fifth Field Column attacked the three main regiments of the county seat, and because of the restrictions of various terrain in the county, the casualties of the troops were relatively large. Among them, 1189 fighters died, including two battalion commanders, three instructors, and one commissar. In addition, 2,365 people were wounded, including those who were seriously wounded and hors de combat, a total of 679 ... Suffice it to say, the three main regiments each paid the price of more than half of the casualties. If you don't rest and recuperate, it's hard to form combat effectiveness ...."

Seeing the commander Liu Hua in front of him nodded, Zhou Baozhong continued...

"As for the three main regiments outside the city that are responsible for the attack, because of the support of artillery fire, plus the terrain favorable to our army. The casualties of the troops were not particularly large. The three main regiments, with a total of 693 killed, 1987 wounded, and only 238 seriously wounded, were fully capable of continuing the operation ... As for the various brigades of the advance detachment, a total of 549 people were killed, 1189 were wounded, of which 243 were seriously wounded ...."

"What else...."Liu Hua continued to ask...

"The rest is the capture of the troops.......However, because of the large-scale use of artillery by our army, there are not too many weapons captured, and the specific data is being counted. As for the various bullets captured by the troops, they can be described as only a handful..."Speaking of the capture of the troops, Commander Zhou Baozhong said helplessly...

"As long as there are weapons, what we have is the bullets that the devils have hoarded in Baishan County, which is enough for tens of thousands of us to spend more than half a year. Therefore, in a short period of time, we don't need to worry about the impeachment..."Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu, who has not spoken, said....

"Lao Yang is right, as long as there are weapons. In addition, there is a lions that, like today, after a bloody battle, are left. Even if we don't have the bullet, we can snatch it from the hands of the Xiao devil, or we can make it ourselves...."Liu Hua thought for a while and continued...

"Lao Yang, Lao Zhou, although in this battle, we have paid the price of thousands of soldiers. At the same time, there were still a large number of soldiers who were wounded and could not return to the troops in a short period of time But, to tell the truth, after this battle, those soldiers who survived, whether they were former fighters of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, or soldiers of the Manchurian Army who had just joined our army, or even those anti-Japanese forces. At this moment, they have transformed from a recruit to a veteran of a hundred battles. Especially those wounded, as long as they recover their health and return to the troops, they are the absolute fighting backbone of our army..."

"The total strength of the troops, after this battle, although much less. However, I believe that the combat effectiveness of our troops has not only not decreased in any way, but has been greatly improved... This is the so-called, only the real battlefield is the best place to train troops... What I want to say now is that we have in our hands such a hundred warriors, the Iron Army. Are you still worried about the lack of bullets? ”

"Commander, I understand, next, what are the tasks?" Zhou Baozhong nodded suspiciously and continued to ask.

"What's next... Hehe, now the whole campaign is over. After several days of continuous fighting, the morale of the troops was very high. However, everyone was already very tired and urgently needed to make corrections in order to meet the next encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army. So, now I order: all combat units, speed up the cleaning of the battlefield. Before dark, the whole army must withdraw to the base area for rest and recuperation. At the same time, send a telegram to the Party Central Committee to report the success..."

"Yes, Commander, I'll go and deliver the order right away..."Zhou Baozhong turned around and rushed out of the headquarters....

More than 1,000 kilometers away from Baishan County, in Taiyuan City, in the war room of the office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The chairman, Vice Chairman Zhou, and the commander-in-chief were frowning around a huge map of the Northeast, and they were silent on the military map in front of them...

On this huge combat map, Baishan County, this inconspicuous county seat, I don't know how many imprints were drawn by three people with their own pencils... However, in the face of the battle map that has been drawn at this moment, the three of them still haven't discussed any good results...., seeing the scene in front of them, needless to say, they know that the three bigwigs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China are discussing a huge battle around the county seat of Baixian County more than a thousand kilometers away... Although, facing the map in front of them, the three of them have been discussing for two days. However, for the results of the discussion, the three of them were disappointed, still disappointed...

In their eyes: in Baishan County, a full 40,000 Jingrui troops of the Japanese army were gathered....while their own troops, less than 10,000 troops, because they had been on the battlefield for a long time, could fight hard-to-hard with the Japanese army. The remaining more than 10,000 people are either Manchurian soldiers who have just surrendered and are not loyal to each other, or they have only completed the anti-Japanese armed forces of all walks of life who have not undergone any systematic training....

Such a disparity in power made all three of them feel the trickiness of this battle... After two days of discussion, not only did they not come up with any way to break the game... On the contrary, in many exercises, their own troops, under the counterattack of the superior forces of the Japanese army, suffered heavy losses, and even the entire army was wiped out....

“。 It seems that the situation in Baishan County, no matter from any aspect, is very unfavorable to our army... According to the current situation, if Liu Hua can't solve the battle within three more days. Then, after a few days of bloody fighting, the exhausted division will immediately fall into the heavy encirclement of Japanese reinforcements. At that time, in the face of the reinforcements of the Japanese Jing Rui troops, as well as the internal and external attacks of the Xiao devils in the encirclement. We will definitely pay a heavy price, even the end of the total annihilation...."After careful analysis and reflection, the commander-in-chief broke the solemn atmosphere in the war room and spoke...

"Chairman, I also agree with the boss's suggestion, this battle, our army has almost no chance of winning. Therefore, I suggest that a telegram be sent to Comrade Liu Hua immediately, asking him not to fight hard with the 40,000 Japanese troops in the county. At the same time, be prepared for the camera to retreat. Once the situation is unfavorable to our army, the troops must immediately withdraw from the battlefield and return to the area of Changbai Mountain to rest and recuperate, so as to avoid He Rijun from engaging in a frontal battle...."Vice Chairman Zhou also said with a worried face...

"Let's wait... We have to believe in Comrade Liu Hua... Think about Comrade Liu Hua, since the Battle of Xiangjiang, which battle was not unexpected by us. However, at the last moment, he won the final victory of the whole battle. Therefore, for this battle, I also believe in Comrade Liu Hua and have confidence in Comrade Liu Hua. Since Comrade Liu Hua has decided to fight this battle, then, according to his character, he must be sure enough to be able to fight this battle well...."The chairman shook his head and said with an affirmative expression...

"Okay, since you've spoken, I've agreed to wait. It just so happened that I, the commander-in-chief, was also very curious about how our Comrade Liu Hua commanded his troops and won the victory of the entire battle under the condition of absolute weakness...."The commander-in-chief nodded approvingly, and said with a smile...

In an instant, the war room, which was still unusually dignified just now, immediately came alive with the hearty laughter of the commander-in-chief. Even Vice Chairman Zhou, who has never liked to joke much, said with a smile...

"Both of you agreed, and I don't have any opinions, let's take a look first, and let Comrade Liu Hua solve this trouble by himself. We three old guys have been busy for two days and two nights, and it's time to take a good rest......."

And just when the three of them had just formed a unified opinion on the current battle situation. The sound of hurried footsteps reached the ears of the three people in the war room. Immediately after, Ye Jianying, the chief of staff, took a telegram and rushed into the most soldier with an anxious face, standing in front of the three people. Before he had time to salute, Ye Jianying spoke...

"Chairman, boss, Vice Chairman Zhou, Commander Liu Hua just sent an urgent telegram from Baishan County...."

"It's really Cao cao cao cao is here... Jianying, what did Liu Hua's telegram say, is it that the army has won another big victory and reported victory to us...."After hearing the word emergency, the eyes of the three people, at the first time, converged on Ye Jianying's body... Then, the chairman said with a smile on his face, breaking the tense atmosphere that had just condensed in the headquarters again...

"Chairman, you're still amazing, you can guess... After two days and two nights of fighting, the 5th Column of our Northeast Field Army, the advance detachment, and various anti-Japanese forces, totaling more than 27,000 people, surrounded 40,000 Japanese troops in Baishan County. At one o'clock in the afternoon today, it was completely wiped out by our army... The commander of the Japanese division, Lieutenant General Sato, together with a dozen commanders of Major General Osa, all died in our shelling ... More importantly, in this battle, we captured more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers of the Kwantung Army in one shot, including a captain of the Ozuo Wing... This number set a record for the largest number of Japanese soldiers captured by the squadron since the Anti-Japanese War, and it also captured the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, the most combat-effective soldiers of the Japanese Army...."Seeing the expectant eyes of the three people, Ye Jianying hurriedly replied simply with the content of the telegram..., "Okay, good fight, I want to personally record the merit to Comrade Liu Hua, and I want to remember the great merit... Quick, Comrade Jianying, tell us how this Liu Hua commanded this battle... I really didn't expect that he would achieve the final victory in the battle under the condition of absolute disadvantage, win more with less, and create a miracle again, which is really unexpected...."The commander-in-chief slammed the table in front of him and said excitedly....

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, Chairman, Vice Chairman Zhou, the specific battle process is like this... First of all, the special operations brigade of the advance detachment, under Liu Hua's order, used a large number of mines captured by the Japanese army in Baishan County, and followed closely behind the main force of the Japanese army...... While speaking, Ye Jianying, chief of staff, according to the content of the telegram in his hand. Facing the combat map in front of him, he explained almost word for word all the battles that had taken place around Baishan County in the past few days....

At this moment, as the chairman, the commander-in-chief and Vice Chairman Zhou are three people in the audience. Under the explanation of Ye Jianying, Chief of General Staff, it is as if they are in the real battlefield, and the brows of the three people, with the detailed explanation of Chief of Staff Ye Jianying, are sometimes locked, sometimes stretched... Just after the Chief of the General Staff explained the entire battle, all of which ... The three of them didn't seem to have regained their memories from the battle, and their eyes were still staring at the combat map in front of them without blinking, and they were in a state of thought....

"Okay, good, Liu Hua really deserves to be an excellent commanding genius of our party... The whole battle, from the siege, to the lack of food, to the consumption of the Japanese army's ammunition and physical strength, the Japanese army was taken out of the county....It can be said that one ring after another, interlocking... Among them, as long as there is a problem with one joint, the entire campaign plan will also have a big problem... However, our Liu Hua did it... Boss, it seems that we didn't choose the wrong candidate for the commander of the Northeast Field Army...."After a short period of thought... The chairman, who reacted from the shock, slapped his thigh with a smile on his face, and said excitedly to several people in front of him....

"Yes, this battle can be called a classic battle... To tell the truth, if I had been the commander at the time, I would never have thought of such a method, as the chairman said, to let the Japanese army get into my trap one after another. Then, with the method of cutting off food and water, bi forced them to go out of the city, they were completely annihilated..., I suggest that this battle, which can be called a classic, be summed up and put in our class to explain it. Let them also learn the essence of this classic battle...."The commander-in-chief nodded approvingly, and said with a look of approval....

"Chairman, boss, although I don't know much about various military theories. However, I know that Comrade Liu Hua has once again created a miracle, winning more with less in the face of absolute disadvantage. Only paid the price of more than 10,000 casualties and almost 5,000 sacrifices, and achieved a huge result of annihilating more than 40,000 people of the Japanese Kwantung Army... If I'm not mistaken, this is a great victory that our squadron has never achieved since the Anti-Japanese War...."After the two of them finished speaking, Vice Chairman Zhou continued with a smile on his face....

"The boss's suggestion, I completely agree, this matter, Jiao to Comrade Jianying to complete, this classic battle, written into our anti-university textbook... However, for the results achieved by Comrade Liu Hua. There is one more thing that makes people even more happy..."After carefully reading the telegram in his hand, the chairman spoke...

"Huh? , what else is more pleasing than the elimination of the 40,000 Xiao devils Kwantung Army? Come and talk to me and Eun, let's be happy and happy...", to the chairman's appetite. The faces of the commander-in-chief and Vice Chairman Zhou showed puzzled eyes at the same time, and they asked rhetorically....

"Boss, Enlai, from today onwards, among the various armed forces controlled by our party, there is another division of steel... According to Liu Hua's report, after the end of the battle, among all the troops participating in the battle, 20,000 commanders and fighters survived. After the test of the battlefield, he has become a real soldier of the Eighth Route Army... At the same time, the troops also captured almost 30,000 Manchurian soldiers in the area around Mengshan ... If it is handled well, Liu Hua can at least develop a steel division with a scale of 40,000 people and a combat strength no less than the original independent division in a short period of time..."The chairman pointed to the content of the telegram in his hand, and said with a look of relief..., "The 40,000 steel division, plus the 100,000 troops who are about to go north... In the hands of Comrade Liu Hua, he directly controlled the 150,000 most sharp army of our army... I believe that with 150,000 troops in our hands, Comrade Liu Hua will definitely be able to give us more surprises and achieve greater victories in the northeast region...."The commander-in-chief said....

Comrade Jianying, immediately sent a congratulatory message to Liu Hua to congratulate Comrade Liu Hua and his various units on such tremendous achievements, and the Party Central Committee will definitely remember everyone's merits. At the same time, according to Liu Hua's request, the news of Baishan's victory was broadcast as soon as possible by broadcasting and various publicity methods. Let the world know that our Northeast Field Army, under absolutely weak circumstances, defeated the Kwantung Army, which the Japanese army thought was invincible and the first in the world, and expanded the influence of our army in the world..."Facing Ye Jianying, the chief of staff in front of him, the chairman said confidently...

"Comrade Jianying, I would like to add a word, I wish Comrade Liu Hua and all the troops under him can achieve better results in the future combat life, and the Party Central Committee is waiting for your next good news..."Vice Chairman Zhou said with a smile on his face...

As Chief of Staff Ye Jianying left quickly, the three people in the war room breathed a long sigh of relief at the same time. Then, almost at the same time, a hearty smile was issued... In an instant, for two days, the tension that had been suppressed in the hearts of the three people was completely vented at once...