This was scared by Li Yunlong.

Planning to take the opportunity to leave the combat unit and find an idle retirement?

In the Provisional Headquarters of the First Army, Kazuki Yamamoto looked haggard, pale, and old, but his expression was relaxed and leisurely, his mouth moved, and he still didn't speak.

He recalled the experience of fighting Li Yunlong in the past two years······

Starting with the killing of his friend Ikeda Kuichi Nakasa, the Taiyuan gold robbery incident, the military train incident, the Miyano General incident, and the observation group incident······ One by one, flashing in Yamamoto's heart...

Fighting against Li Yunlong, whether it is the imperial army that strikes first, or Li Yunlong makes the first move, it seems that they have never won?

Even if he thought that he had made a small profit at the beginning of the bombing of the special forces of the Independent Regiment, now it seems that Zhu Ziming may have been exposed at that time, it was not the imperial army that bombed the special forces base of the Independent Regiment, but the independent regiment set up an ambush to shoot down the bombers of the imperial army with the help of spies, and those bombed bases must be fake, just a disguised target.

For more than two years, an imperial front army and an ordinary regiment of the Eighth Route Army clashed openly and secretly dozens of times, and the First Army did not win a single victory, and each time it suffered heavy losses······

The offensive was even more costly.

The jade shattering of the 4,000 imperial army, the loss of a 240-heavy artillery piece, and the destruction of Taiyuan Airport by artillery bombardment can be called the most failed and most loss-making battle of the Imperial North China Front, and Li Yunlong also escaped, although the independent regiment under his command also suffered heavy losses, but those who fled back were the backbone, and it would not take long to recover.

After thinking about it like this, Yamamoto suddenly felt that his general's reaction seemed to be normal······

"General, I will often visit you in Beiping."

Yamamoto bowed his head and said.

As a lieutenant general, even if he is no longer on the front line, he has a lot of connections and influence, as a special squad commander who lacks a backstage, with the rank of Osa, Yamamoto still intends to hold Shinozuka Yoshio's thigh.

"Hmm."

Yoshio Shinozuka naturally knew Yamamoto's thoughts, and he nodded indifferently.

After leaving the headquarters, Kazuki Yamamoto suddenly sighed deeply.

When will we see hope for this great cause of promoting special operations·····

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Zhao Jiayu.

After Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang came here, all the companies of the independent regiment scattered and broke through also arrived here one after another, and finally five days later, all the companies were established, and Zhang Dabiao immediately began to carry out statistical work on the troops.

"What about troop casualties?"

At the regiment headquarters, Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong asked Zhang Dabiao.

"The soldiers from Shou County, including two artillery companies, transport companies, and reserve battalions, a total of two thousand five hundred and seven people arrived around Zhao Jiayu." Zhang Dabiao replied.

In the past, Zhao Gang did all this, but since Zhang Dabiao's academic performance came up, the general statistical work in the regiment was handed over to Zhang Dabiao, and Zhao Gang allocated part of his energy to be responsible for the cultural education in the regiment.

"Two thousand five hundred?"

Zhao Gang was stunned when he heard it, and then sighed deeply:

"There is just half a regiment left, and more than half of the personnel have been reduced."

Before the start of the war in Shou County, including the auxiliary troops, the whole regiment had a total of 5,000 people, and during the battle in Shou County, about 200 new recruits were replenished, even when the retreat from the Shou County breakout, not counting the transport company and the artillery company that went to shell Taiyuan, the independent regiment also had more than 3,000 combat troops.

The total number of the transport company and the first artillery company bound for Taiyuan exceeded 600 people, that is, more than 1,200 soldiers fell on the way to retreat.

Although there are still some fighters who have not returned, and there will definitely be fighters who have fallen behind or lost their way in such a long-distance retreat, but the number will not be large, at most one or two platoons.

"How's the situation with the second artillery company?"

Li Yunlong didn't have too much expression on his face, and he continued to ask.

"The second artillery company was in good condition, it lost a third of its personnel, only one gunner was lost, and when the pillar retreated, the remaining 82 mortars were buried near Yang Village, and there was no loss of equipment on the way to retreat."

"What about the cavalry battalion and the infantry company?"

"The losses of the cavalry battalion were relatively serious, and when they retreated from Shou County, there were 330 men and 330 horses, and only 195 soldiers and 120 military horses arrived in Zhao Jiayu."

"The motorcycle was completely lost, but the people came back, but three soldiers were seriously injured, and people have been sent to the headquarters hospital."

"Yes, it's good for people to come back, and military horses and equipment can be worked on in the future."

Li Yunlong was very satisfied that the cavalry company had not lost more than half of its personnel, especially the Jibu Company, which had not left a single one, which made him extremely satisfied-he counted the days with his fingers in his heart, and when the seriously wounded returned from the headquarters hospital, Brother Chen's tank should almost arrive.

"What about the platoon-level cadres?"

Zhao Gang asked.

Zhang Dabiao paused, and then continued:

"Three infantry battalions, as well as cavalry battalions, only a little more than a third of the company's platoon-level cadres have returned, and the second battalion commander Shen Quan has also been injured a little and needs to recuperate for about a month. The rest of the troops arrived okay. ”

"Hey·····"

Zhao Gang sighed deeply again.

There were heavy casualties among the platoon-level cadres, which he had long expected.

Cadres at the platoon level led the troops to charge, and the casualties were always very large, and under Li Yunlong's example, the officers and cadres at the grassroots level were all charging ahead, and the casualty rate was even greater than that of other troops.

But two-thirds of the casualties were still too much for him to expect.

It is really not easy to replenish the cadres of the troops.

"Two-thirds of the cadres are lost..."

"The number of fighters has also been attrition by more than half."

Li Yunlong sighed with fierceness in his tone:

"Our independent regiment has never suffered such a big loss!"

Even though the headquarters vigorously supports the independent regiment and trains a lot of cadres, the independent regiment has a large shelf, and the demand for grassroots officers and cadres is several times that of other units.

suffered such a big loss, this account, he has to settle this account with the devil.

It's not over.

"How's the morale?"

Zhao Gang asked suddenly.

Although he was very confident in the independent regiment, under the leadership of Li Yunlong, this unit was also infected with this guy's temper, and the more desperate he was, the more ruthless his heart became, but he was still a little worried about more than half of the casualties.

"Okay."

"It's a little bit of an impact, but it's not big."

Zhang Dabiao replied: "However, the loss of equipment is more serious, and the soldiers are more worried about this, all of our 92 infantry guns have been lost, and 7 82 mortars have also been lost." ”

No matter how powerful the troops are, after such a battle and such heavy losses, it is impossible to have no impact on morale.

"The main problem now is food, at present, the total strength of our regiment is about 3,200 people, and it is still increasing rapidly, Zhao Jiayu has also come to the village of many people who have been driven out by devils, the daily food consumption is not small, according to the current consumption, we can only last half a month."

"Three thousand two hundred?"

The monk behind Li Yunlong paused.

Didn't you say that the staff was reduced by half? Why are there more than 3,200 people?

"In the past few days, a large number of people who have been rescued by us have asked to join the army, so I selected some sturdy ones and formed a new battalion, which currently has 700 people, and I asked the soldiers of the first company to go over to organize training."

Zhang Dabiao explained.

"The morale problem is easy to solve."

"As for the food ······"

Before Li Yunlong could finish speaking, the iron communicator on his waist rang.

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In five days, Yamamoto also returned to Taiyuan and gathered more information about the independent regiment.

"In the past few days, I have counted the combat information of all the units and picked out the battles in which each of them fought with the independent regiment."

"The independent regiment is generally better equipped, and it is equipped with submachine guns, which is easy to distinguish."

In Yamamoto's small headquarters, a member of the team was reporting the situation, and after saying this, the team member paused for a while before continuing in a tone of horror:

"After capturing Shou County, the various brigades fought a total of fifty-seven battles with the independent regiment, all of which occurred when chasing the common people, and it is estimated that more than 1,000 of them were annihilated, but we failed to capture a single person from the independent regiment."

Yamamoto fell silent for a moment.

Zhu Ziming is useless, he originally wanted to re-develop a spy out, the independent regiment is scattered and retreated, and it must also be scattered and returned, at such a long distance, there must be many people left behind, which is very suitable for planting spies.

It's just...

More than 70 battles, more than 1,000 people were annihilated, and not a single person was captured·····

This kind of iron-blooded army can only be done by some elite divisions in the empire.

But the empire has the spirit of bushido, a soldier from the beginning of enlistment training, repeatedly undergo bushido baptism, and even the national education is constantly instilled in the spirit of bushido, instilling loyalty to the empire for decades.

And what about the Eighth Route Army?

What about the Independent Regiment?

He was sure that most of Li Yunlong's independent regiment were still illiterate peasant names three years ago, and many of them had no concept of the country at all, but were just living indifferently······

How did he do it?

And it is even more difficult to maintain the morale of a force in a situation where the situation is at a disadvantage.

"Let's go down."

If there are no prisoners, there will be no chance to plant the spy plan, Yamamoto waved his hand and motioned for the Shaozo team to leave.

After the team left, he looked at the statistics alone, but he was slightly relieved.

Materials are not a problem, soldiers are not a problem, Li Yunlong's troops will definitely recover, this Yamamoto is very sure in his heart.

However, during the retreat, more than 1,000 soldiers were reduced, plus the loss of Shou County (the devil estimated 2,000 people), the total loss was not less than 3,000 people, and the total loss was two-thirds, such a big loss could not be made up for in a short time, no matter how abundant the human resources of the other party were, but there was no reserve system, it was not so easy to recruit qualified soldiers, and it took a lot of time to train.

In addition, no matter how resilient the troops are, facing two-thirds of the casualties, it will inevitably greatly affect the morale and post-war recovery of the troops, which has also been verified from the Empire's A divisions.

According to his estimates, it will take at least a year for Li Yunlong's troops to recover their previous size and combat effectiveness, if not more.

"Is there a way to influence or even undermine the recovery of the Independent Regiment?"

Yamamoto looked at the map of the mountainous areas northwest of Jinxi that the independent regiment had entered, and fell into deep thought.

Yoshimoto had taken office the day before yesterday, and Yamamoto was again appointed as one of the heads of intelligence in the First Army, mainly and only responsible for investigating the intelligence work of the independent regiment.

After thinking for a while, Yamamoto Kazuki, who had no results, slowly shifted his gaze and turned to a place near Li Yunlong's station, in the map, there was a mark here, the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army was stationed, and the regiment commander Chu Yunfei.

"Yamamoto Daisa."

Suddenly, a staff officer walked in and handed Yamamoto a letter:

"A handwritten letter from General Tohi Yuan, specially for you, General Yoshimoto asked me to hand it over to you."

After receiving the secret letter and looking at the seal that had not yet been opened, Yamamoto was stunned for a while.

Secret letters are generally extremely confidential information, and the secret letters from General Tu Feiyuan are ultra-high classified information in terms of intelligence. But why give it to yourself? Even General Yoshimoto didn't even look at it?