Not long after the devil charged, a distinctive voice sounded on the surrounding mountain peaks.

Knock knock...

The sound was louder and louder, sounding low and powerful, and naturally, the fireworks from the muzzles of the guns were even louder.

"This is..."

Yamada, who was organizing the charge of his troops, suddenly opened his eyes wide, but before he could think about it, a series of explosions suddenly rose around him, and then a series of screams one after another.

There is one thing to say.

These explosions were not very powerful.

It was even inferior to the 60 mortars of the Separate Regiment.

The 60 mortar shell weighed 1.5 kg, was loaded with almost three hundred grams of Hesokin explosives, plus prefabricated fragments, low muzzle velocity, vertical ballistics, and a very good killing range.

The full weight of the 40 anti-aircraft artillery shells is only 1 kg, and the charge is not much, after all, the anti-aircraft guns mainly rely on fragments, and too high muzzle velocity will make the shells go straight into the soil, the explosion power is weakened, and the power and number of fragments are greatly reduced.

But.

The maximum rate of fire of the mortar is thirty rounds per minute.

And the 40 anti-aircraft guns had a maximum rate of fire of two hundred and forty rounds per minute.

Although the combat rate of fire is much lower than the maximum rate of fire, after all, the barrels have to be cooled, but the stacking of ten barrels is not a small number, and the total is nearly a thousand rounds of 40 anti-aircraft artillery shells per minute.

The caliber is not enough, the rate of fire comes to make up.

Moreover, the condescending field of view, straight ballistics, made the accuracy of the 40 anti-aircraft guns terrifying.

"Lie down, lie down."

Yamada quickly realized what was happening and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to hide again.

Under the field of vision of the flares, staring at the dense rain of bullets, plus the fire of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns to break through, he was afraid that the remaining 100 people would not all have to be reimbursed on the road.

In just one minute of the charge, he lost half of his squad.

However, what Yamada did not expect was that even if he lay down, the ten 40 anti-aircraft guns did not have any intention of stopping, and continued to shell, and the shells swept over the ground over and over again.

Seems.

in cultivated land.

"Are they crazy?"

Yamada cursed, his words full of disbelief.

As for it?

Don't you need money for shells?

Isn't there any loss of barrel?

Won't the logistics department commit suicide by cutting their stomachs like this?

But he only scolded for a while in his heart, after the 40 anti-aircraft artillery joined, the speed of his subordinates' jade crushing was significantly accelerated, and now there were less than a hundred people, gritting his teeth, Yamada gave the order to retreat:

"Retreat."

There are still at least five kilometers away from Gecun in front, and if you continue to advance against the anti-aircraft fire of this group of madmen of the Independent Regiment, you don't have to think about it, these 100 people will not be able to reach Gecun even if they are all reimbursed.

Although Yamada does not care about death, he thinks that he is proud of the empire and his loyalty to the emperor.

But as a captain with a little 'rationality', he still doesn't want to be broken in vain, at least he has to die to have a little effect.

With his order, the rest of the devils began to retreat backwards, moving backwards little by little in a prostrate manner.

It's just that.

The way to retreat was not easy to walk, the flares in the sky did not stop, the machine gun bullets were still falling like raindrops, by the way, there were explosions of 40 anti-aircraft artillery shells, and from time to time the screams of devils came.

On the distant position.

"Energetic..."

Zhang Dabiao yelled.

He was sitting on a single-barreled 40 anti-aircraft gun, his hands were holding the blaster, his eyes were staring at the hidden place of the devil in the distance, and the cannon fireworks in front of him did not stop.

There were also several 40 anti-aircraft guns, as well as 12.7 machine guns, and 20 anti-aircraft guns in the vicinity that were firing ferociously.

The ground was already covered with a thick layer of bullet casings, both large and small, as if a brass floor had been laid, and that's not all, there were neatly stacked mountains of bullet shells like small hills in the back.

Behind him.

It is a series of tactics responsible for transporting ammunition, densely packed like ants.

······

At the same time.

Heyuan County.

Fighting is also taking place here.

The reorganized and strengthened Yoshino Wing, which had come from Taiyuan, rushed over and launched an attack on Heyuan County.

Their mission this time was not to attack Heyuan County, but to contain the Eighth Route Army troops here and support Yamamoto Kazuki in Heian County.

Since it was just containment, coupled with the fact that he realized how fierce the firepower of this group of people was last time, Yoshino naturally would not attack directly with the head iron, but repeatedly pulled and contained, while preserving his strength, and consuming the enemy.

He thought it well.

It is said that the Independent Regiment is building a factory area here, and as long as he puts on a posture and bombards its factory buildings, he can force the Independent Regiment to launch an attack, not to mention containing its large number of troops, and he can still wait for work.

But.

The reality is far less rosy than he expected.

Because, compared with the last firefight, the strength of the Heyuan County garrison at this time is stronger.

Not to mention anything else, 18 105 howitzers alone made Yoshino suffer enough.

This kind of artillery has a long range, and the Yoshino Wing only has 75 mountain guns, which can only be bombed unilaterally, and the power is not bad, and in a hurry, he does not have time to build a strong cover, and there will be casualties if he hits.

Add to this the pre-constructed fortified positions, the calibration of light and heavy weapons to shoot at the elements, and mortars of all calibers, and finally the abundance of ammunition.

Before Yoshino could start attacking, he was beaten and confused.

······

The battle did not cease until five days later.

That is, it ended on December 22nd.

Subsequently, both sides died down, each went back to his own home, and each looked for his mother.

Separate regiments.

In the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie gathered together, and even Zhao Gang took the time to come over, of course, there was Sun Desheng.

Everyone was smiling and the atmosphere was cheerful.

Because just before, Li Yunlong received news from Boss Chen, and so far, the independent regiment has killed more than 20,000 devils, reaching as many as 22,000.

In this battle, the independent regiment killed nearly 7,000 Japanese soldiers in total.

That is, starting today, for every devil killed, the independent regiment will be able to get - twenty-one tons of reinforced concrete, twenty tons of fuel, one hundred tons of food, four medical kits.

Moreover, the previous 22,000 kills will also be made up at this price.

Harvest is always fun.

As the chief of staff, Zhang Dabiao has already counted the data and made a report:

"In this battle, we lost 77 tanks No. 4, of which 57 were blown up by devils, and the rest were non-combat losses, losing 233 armored vehicles."

"The losses were small, the armored battalion suffered two hundred and twenty casualties, and the attrition was only thirty."

First bad news, then good news, Zhang Dabiao habitually reported like this. As for attrition, it refers to the soldiers who were seriously injured and could not return to the team, as well as the fighters who died.

"The little devil seems to be quite obsessed with blowing up equipment."

During the period, Sun Desheng added.

According to later statistics, Sun Desheng found that as long as the devil found armored vehicles and tanks, his eyes were red, as if he saw that some important strategic target was dead, and rushed over desperately, regardless of blowing up the equipment.

It is precisely because of this stubble that the personnel losses of the armored battalion are so small.

"Not bad."

For this number, Li Yunlong is very satisfied.

It is impossible to fight without sacrifices, and it is unrealistic for a person to die in such a battle, but at the moment, this number is even far lower than expected in his heart.

As long as people are there, everything is easy to say.

As for the tank, it will be easily made up for all next month, and it will be doubled.

Times are different.

Now people are more important than equipment, even a hundred tanks are not as good as a tanker.

"The total consumption of ammunition is 8,500 tons."

Zhang Dabiao continued to report:

"At present, there are still 1,700 tons left, and if the devils do not attack in the near future, I plan to organize live-fire training at the end of the month, and let the new howitzers shell the devils' positions to consume the excess ammunition."

The ammunition reimbursement is settled at the end of the month, and it is now December, that is, the settlement on the first of January is doubled, so the ammunition must be consumed before then, of course, the army of devils is still in front of you, so you have to get stuck in time, so as not to affect the battle.

"Hey, hey, hey·····"

Li Yunlong smiled and nodded.

This battle, which lasted only five days, consumed 7,500 tons of ammunition by more than 30,000 people, and it has to be said that it was very exciting.

Zhao Gang asked:

"How many tons of copper have been collected?"

There is a shortage of copper in the base, and Zhao Jiayu does not even have a single copper mine within a radius of dozens of kilometers, and recently he and Sun Desheng are preparing to set up a bullet factory to produce bullets by themselves, which requires a large amount of copper.

Large-scale production, the use of reloaded cartridge shells is not realistic, and copper ingot stamping and stretching cartridge shells need to be reprocessed.

As a result, Political Commissar Zhao set his sights on the copper shells of bullets and shells.

Boss Chen's ammunition is all copper shells, whether it is a cannon cartridge or a sub-cartridge, it is pure copper, this thing is of high purity, and it can be used when it is processed, which is very convenient and trouble-free.

Take the 12.7mm machine gun bullet as an example, the total weight is 116 grams, according to different types, between 45 warheads and 52 grams, and the propellant is 15.3 grams.

There are also 20 anti-aircraft guns, as well as 40 anti-aircraft guns, 75 guns for tanks, and 105 howitzers are copper pharmaceutical canisters.

"One thousand hundred tons."

Zhang Dabiao replied:

"I've handed it over to the machine shop."

"Not bad."

Zhao Gang also smiled.

A thousand tons of copper, enough for a long time to be consumed in the base.

And there's more to come.

Is it possible to collect copper with shells?······ Ding Wei and Kong Jie encountered this kind of thing for the first time, although it sounded okay and fine, but the two always felt weird.

"Including Heyuan County, the total number of casualties among all troops is 1,530, 190 are seriously wounded, and 527 are dead or missing."

Zhang Dabiao continued to report.

Faced with this number, everyone in the regiment headquarters looked relaxed.

In this battle, together with the Yoshino Wing attacking Heyuan County, the devils mobilized nearly 40,000 troops, and the independent regiment was also fully dispatched, with a total of 30,000 people participating in the battle, and the scale of the battle reached an unprecedented 70,000.

In a battle of nearly 70,000 people, 1,500 casualties were already very good, not to mention only more than 500 casualties, after all, there were still many inexperienced recruits in the troops participating in the battle.

Subsequently, Zhang Dabiao continued to report in detail.

At the end of the meeting, Ding Wei and Kong Jie left, and the two had something to do.

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang left Sun Desheng, who was about to leave, behind.

······

Ping'an County.

Inside the headquarters.

In contrast to the cheerful atmosphere of the Independent Regiment, the atmosphere here is heavy.

After months of preparing for the decisive battle, the final result did not seem to be as good as expected, and even far from what was expected.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, the independent regiment actually had a large number of tank units, and it was precisely because of the blocking of these tank units that the interspersed infiltration tactics almost completely failed.

None of the warehouse areas and machine factories in the base area of the Independent Regiment were damaged, the attacking troops were blocked by the enemy's tank units and suffered heavy losses, and thousands of elite troops infiltrated and interspersed with only about 2,000 people came back in the end.

In particular, the brigade that attacked Katsumura has so far escaped with only more than 30 people.

Light infantry, lacking anti-armor weapons, faced with tanks, could only fight with courage, and it was already a miracle that two thousand people could come back.

The losses of the troops attacking on the front line were not small, and the overall casualties of the troops in Ping'an County were close to one-third, and the jade fragments and missing were more than one-fifth.

"General."

The leader of the first combat team of the Yamamoto Special Forces, who finally survived this time, Sadao Tanaka Nakasa, took out a battle report and persuaded him:

"In this battle, although the intended goal was not achieved, and the offensive troops suffered large losses, the losses of the independent regiment were not small."

"Our attacking troops not only destroyed a large number of buildings, farmland, and blew up a lot of bridges, but also destroyed a total of nearly 60 tanks and nearly 200 armored vehicles, and this is still a conservative estimate."

The statistics of the results are always full of water, so Sadao Tanaka added the latter sentence.

In the headquarters, hearing Sadao Tanaka's words, everyone's faces improved a lot.

Sixty tanks, two hundred armored vehicles, these are all heavy equipment, if the empire loses so much, the people in the logistics department can commit suicide by disembowelment.

Even the United States has lost a lot.

Even if Li Yunlong has Chen Fan to add, it is not so easy, tanks and armored vehicles are no better than cars, they are difficult to manufacture and take a long time.

Just then, a staff officer ran in:

"General, Yamada Nakasa is back."

"Let him come."

Yamamoto said immediately.

Yamada, the former captain of the Xiyang Brigade, has rich experience in confrontation with Li Yunlong, after coming to Ping'an County, this person showed a very high talent for special operations, so Yamamoto personally taught and gave him a heavy responsibility in this battle, let him lead the team to cut off the supply line of the independent regiment.

It's a pity that it seems to have failed.

After a while, Yamada walked in, his tone full of frustration:

"General Yamamoto."

"Yamada-kun."

Looking at Yamada, who was dirty but still healthy, Yamamoto put his mind at ease and asked directly:

"What's going on?"

For this Yamada, Yamamoto Kazuki attaches great importance to it, and originally he planned to let this serve as the leader of the first combat team of his special team if this time, Sadao Tanaka died.

Because every time the special team and Li Yunlong directly fight, the leader of the first combat team will die.

However, this time, Sadao Tanaka, the current leader of the first team of the special forces, did not die, which was somewhat unexpected by Yamamoto.

Yamada finished his situation in a trembling tone.

Yamada focused on what the Independent Regiment had done to him that night, gritting his teeth and being full of jealousy to describe the unheard-of, unseen, terrifying, and even absurd firepower.

After listening to Yamada's words, Qi Qi fell into a long silence in the headquarters.

Everyone couldn't help but start thinking about one thing-

Is a separate regiment capable of such a thing, sixty tanks, two hundred armored vehicles really a significant loss?