Chapter 254: Battle Damage Report II

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"The General Staff has made a general briefing based on the reports of the various units, Commander, please take a look!" Yuan Fang took the report and asked Chen Jingyun to read it, and after Chen Jingyun took it, he opened it and looked at it casually. At this time www.biquge.info Yuan Fang also explained in a low voice: "Our army has a total of six divisions, three local garrison regiments, a 1005-mm howitzer regiment, an aviation wing, and the Fuzhou fleet in the naval wind in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu.

Among them, the Sixth Division deployed in the Jinhua area was mainly used to guard the western direction of northern Zhejiang and did not participate in the war, and the three local garrison regiments were mainly responsible for the garrison tasks of Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places, and did not participate in the war. Participating in the war in southern Jiangsu were the guard division, the first, second, fourth, and seventh divisions of our army, as well as the aviation wing, howitzer regiments, and naval units of our army. ”

"According to the report, the cumulative casualties of the various units are considered to be as follows: the 1st Division suffered 2,600 killed and 4,000 wounded; The 2nd Division suffered 900 killed and 2,300 wounded; The 4th Division suffered 1,500 killed and 2,500 wounded; The 7th Division suffered 900 killed and 1,000 wounded; The Guards Division suffered 3,500 killed and 2,500 wounded; Fifty were killed and 100 wounded. Ten people were killed and three wounded in the aviation wing. The total number of killed was 9,600 and 13,000 wounded. When Yuan Fang read the casualty report, his voice was also trembling, and these fluttering words already represented the passage of tens of thousands of lives, the disability of tens of thousands of people, and the destruction of tens of thousands of families.

Chen Jingyun looked at the report in his hand, and felt a lot in his heart, for the so-called reunification of China, for the so-called rejuvenation of China, many young people either took the initiative to meet the bullets in enthusiasm, or were threatened by the machine guns of the supervision team trembling with guns rushed to the position, and then fell under the bullets fired by their compatriots without exception. Chen Jingyun can't tell whether all this is right or wrong, and the only thing Chen Jingyun knows now is that if you want to be a politician and a warlord, you must be as hard as a stone, treat all those living lives as a number, treat the enemy cold-blooded, and treat your own people even more cold-blooded.

If the generals are cold-blooded executioners, counting the enemy or their own soldiers, then the politicians who wage war are the devils.

The emotion in his heart naturally would not be revealed at this time, Chen Jingyun asked: "Why is the proportion of killed in battle so large?" ”

Chen Jingyun also has some understanding of the general number of casualties of the Nationalist Army, and knows that in the past two months of fighting, the front-line troops have suffered almost 20,000 casualties, not to mention the casualties, after all, the number of new recruits has exceeded 10,000, and the number of casualties is not small. But he didn't expect that the proportion of killed would be so large, almost reaching nearly 10,000 people, which made Chen Jingyun a little incomprehensible.

Yuan Fang explained: "This number is still an estimate for the time being, and the proportion of killed is large because the first division of our army could not take the wounded when it retreated in the early stage of the war, and the guard division could not take away the seriously wounded when it retreated from Nanjing, so the General Staff judged this part of the people to be killed. In addition, due to the poor medical conditions, many seriously injured people could not be treated, and a large number of wounded died. ”

The current medical system of the national army is still extremely weak, and when fighting on the front line, it is simply impossible to effectively provide battlefield treatment for the wounded soldiers, many soldiers can only wait for death in pain after being injured, and even some low-level injured officers sometimes die because they cannot get effective treatment, and when they are in mobile combat, there is no difference between being injured and killed, at least when the guard division retreats from Taishan Town, Nanjing, it has not been able to take away most of the wounded, and those who remain are either killed or captured. Even if the wounded soldiers are fortunate enough to receive temporary treatment on the battlefield, or even be transferred to the rear field hospital, some of them will be infected, once infected, amputation is a trivial matter, and some of them will not survive and die, and there are only a handful of seriously wounded people who can really get back out of the wounded barracks safe and sound.

In fact, the backwardness of the medical system is not limited to the Nationalist army, most of the other armies in China are like this, and even the armies of foreign powers are no better off there, and there is no difference between serious injuries and deaths. This is not about the level of training, but limited by the development of medicine, as long as antibiotics have not been invented, and the battlefield is infected and cannot be treated, then the proportion of casualties and amputations will not be reduced, which is the same for both the Chinese [***] team and the armies of foreign powers.

In addition, this is also related to the way the national army calculates the dead and wounded, and now the national army's judgment of the death is very simple, that is, death, whether it is killed on the spot or died after being injured or died because of an accident, etc., and even illness is counted, and the current national army does not have so much effort to make those detailed judgments, so as long as it is dead, it is counted as killed. As for the wounded, they are generally counted only after they have been registered in the field hospital, and those lightly injured soldiers who have only suffered minor injuries in front-line battles and continue to fight after being simply bandaged are not counted. Unlike the later U.S. military, the limit of casualties is extremely strict, as long as it is not killed on the spot, it is not considered a death, even if there is a breath left after being shot, it is injured, and even if it is carried off the ground and hung up immediately, it is not considered a death.

"According to our estimates, the casualty ratio of our army and the Beiyang Army is about two to three. However, there is a large gap between the losses of artillery and other weapons and equipment between the enemy and us, and the heavy weapons losses of our army are mainly concentrated in the troops of the first division and the guard division, and the losses of the rest of the troops are not large, but on the other hand, the Beiyang Army, the three divisions of the three divisions that crossed the river have almost lost all their heavy weapons and equipment, and all units of our army have captured more than 50 artillery pieces of various types, some of which have been damaged, but the equipment department has organized technical personnel to repair them, because the artillery models are not much different from the artillery models of our army. At present, the General Staff Department has planned to replenish this batch of artillery to various units according to their models to make up for the combat losses in the early stage. ”

Yuan Fang continued: "In addition, the Navy has also reported that so far, a total of six warships, including the Hairong and Haichou, have been injured, and one gunboat has run aground and sunk. ”

Chen Jingyun listened and said, "What about the aviation unit, is the loss of the aircraft big?" ”

Yuan Fangdao: "The losses of the aviation forces so far, a total of one reconnaissance aircraft has been shot down, and three reconnaissance planes have crashed because of the rest of the failures. Four bombers were shot down, two crashed due to mechanical problems. No fighter losses have been reported! ”

Chen Jingyun also closed the report at this time, the losses of the Nationalist Army were still within his expectations, and the result of 20,000 casualties was not unexpected by him, in fact, it was able to even defeat the Beiyang Army in the battle loss ratio, which made Chen Jingyun extremely pleased.

As a unit that has been established for less than a year, the old foundation of the national army is only the tenth town, and after the emergency expansion of this year, it has been fighting with the Beiyang Army, which has been known as the first army in China for many years, and was able to draw with the Beiyang Army, and even occupied an advantage to a certain extent, which made Chen Jingyun himself feel a little surprised. From the anxiety before the war to the slow calming down later, such a process has made Chen Jingyun feel extremely smooth, in fact, the performance of the national army has exceeded Chen Jingyun's expectations.

And Chen Jingyun also understands that the reason why the Nationalist Army was able to draw with the Beiyang Army was not only because of the factors of weapons training, but also because of the implementation of the Kuomintang in the Nationalist Army and the Fuzhou Military Academy. Those grassroots young officers who joined the Kuomintang were proud of their status as members of the Kuomintang and regarded Chen Jingyun, chairman of the Kuomintang Socialist Party, as their spiritual leader, who led the troops in the most enthusiastic way. At the same time, the Fuzhou Military Academy has provided a large number of grass-roots officers for the Nationalist Army in just one year, and the previous one-month crash course and the March-one regular class have provided the Nationalist Army with a large number of qualified grass-roots officers, and perhaps their military quality is not as good as that of those middle and high-ranking officers of the Nationalist Army, but after a year of war, a large number of talented people have emerged among these young officers, and there are even more graduates of the Fuzhou Military Academy who have been promoted to school officers. At present, the Fuzhou Military Academy has stopped running crash courses and replaced them with a full-scale three-month regular class, and at the same time has set up a half-year advanced class, which is mainly used for the further training of middle-level officers. The Fuzhou Military Academy and the Kuomintang formed each other, because almost all the graduates of the Fuzhou Military Academy were members of the Kuomintang Socialist Party.

Chen Jingyun felt as if he had seen an army with faith slowly growing, no matter what the belief of this army was, it no longer mattered, even if it believed in Satan and the devil, as long as it could provide the combat effectiveness of the army, Chen Jingyun would not hesitate to use it, not to mention the nationalism that was regarded as a beast by later generations.

In view of the positive role of the Kuomintang in the National Army, the Party Department needs to intensify its efforts to recruit more officers and outstanding soldiers to join the National Socialist Party! This was a new round of instructions from Chen Jingyun to Qian Hanlang, secretary general of the Kuomintang Socialist Party Committee.

The Nationalist Army suffered great losses in the war in southern Jiangsu, but the replenishment of personnel and weapons has been carried out, so at present, all divisions on the southern Jiangsu front still retain their main combat effectiveness, which is very different from the Beiyang Army. Yuan Shikai in the Beiyang Army would not add recruits to the divisions after training for two or three months, Cao Kun and Jin Yunpeng could only recruit troops by themselves if they wanted to restore the strength of the troops, and Yuan Shikai only gave the establishment and part of the funds and equipment, and the personnel and equipment funds owed were solved by the subordinate generals themselves.

And this also caused the war in southern Jiangsu, the Beiyang Army suffered heavy losses, but could not be supplemented by new recruits, so it could only pull some strong men, and if Yuan Shikai wanted reinforcements, he could only send the main force to come. As for the national army, it has always been continuously supplemented by new recruits, although these trained recruits cannot be compared with veterans in combat effectiveness, but if they do not die after a few battles, then they will become veterans.

Such an addition and subtraction was also an important reason for the defeat of Cao Kun's 3rd and 5th Divisions of the Beiyang Army and Zhang Xun's troops in Nanjing. Because their Beiyang Army is fighting less and less, and the number of the national army facing them has not changed, the strength of the troops can always be replenished, and the gap between the two sides will be big in the long run.

But no matter what, the war in southern Jiangsu, which caused heavy losses on both sides, has come to an end, the battle of Nanjing has ended, and the war in southern Jiangsu between the Beiyang Army and the National Army around Nanjing has ended the main battle, although there is still a war in Yangzhou, but it has not affected the overall situation.

Under such circumstances, the peace plan proposed by the British consul in Shanghai, Sir Faleigh, was also sent to Chen Jingyun.