Check in from the bright sword

"Anti-cannon, time is up, anti-cannon!"

With a sound of reminders, the commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army entered the designated area one after another.

A few minutes later, rows of artillery shells fell overwhelmingly on the Eighth Route Army position outside the west gate.

Looking at the clusters of red light blooming under the night, Li Yunlong smashed his mouth and said: "Damn, Chu Yunfei is not a ghost, he is Chairman Jiang's favorite student."

"American howitzers are given priority to equip the 358 regiment."

"Damn it, if only our independent regiment had a few American howitzers."

Wang Yan said with a smile: "Regimental Commander, it will be a matter of time. Sooner or later, the American howitzer of the 358th Regiment will belong to our independent regiment. If Generalissimo Jiang is the captain of the transport team, then Chu Yunfei is the captain of the transport team, ha ha."

"Haha, I like to hear that." Li Yunlong said, "Chu Yunfei is still a man, but his 358 regiment is a piece of meat in my eyes."

Zhao Gang said: "Old Li, I don't think we can underestimate the enemy."

Xing Zhiguo also echoed: "Yes, from the fighting spirit and technical and tactical qualities demonstrated in this exercise, the 358th Regiment is obviously much stronger than other Jinsui Army troops."

Zhao Gang said: "And during the exercise, our independent regiment didn't take advantage at all."

Xing Zhiguo: "Both sides have been injured. Although the Jinsui Army has more wounded than us, it is because their artillery has not been able to play a role. If this is an actual battle, the two artillery battalions of the 358th Regiment can really fight. , the number of casualties of our independent regiment will definitely be much higher, so it cannot be underestimated."

Li Yunlong smiled, and said, "Fortunately, this is just a drill. If this is an actual combat, the two artillery battalions of the 358th regiment will not even have the chance to fire!"

Wang Yan said: "The leader is right, thanks to this is just an exercise, if this is an actual combat, hehehe, Chu Yunfei doesn't even have the chance to command the battle, our Spike team will destroy his regiment immediately department!"

"All bragging." Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo didn't believe it.

Wang Yan didn't say much either.

……

Its daybreak.

The Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army suspended the exchange of fire.

Both sides sent "corpse collection teams" busy collecting corpses on the battlefield.

Kazuo Okamoto hid on the top of a small hill five miles away from the east gate. With the help of an [-]x military telescope, he could clearly see this scene.

As an intelligence officer, Kazuo Okamoto is very sensitive to numbers.

Even if he didn't count carefully, Kazuo Okamoto can roughly judge that there are at least two hundred "corpses" brought back from the battlefield by the Eighth Route Army!

There are slightly fewer Jinsui Army, but there must be at least more than 100 corpses.

There are even mutilated corpses, which shows how tragic the battle was!

After observing for about 10 minutes, Kazuo Okamoto put down the binoculars, then began to draft a telegram, then translated it into dots and dashes, and finally sent it out through the radio.

……

Ping'an County, Headquarters of the 69th Division.

Ryoichi Yamamoto walked quickly into the war room.

"Division Commander, Okamoto-kun has sent another telegram." Ryo Yamamoto said, "At dawn, the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army and the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army suspended the exchange of fire, and each collected the wounded and corpses."

"It was just a battlefield outside the east gate, and the independent regiment brought back more than 200 corpses."

"This is just a battlefield outside the east gate. The Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army has surrounded the entire Heyuan City, attacking from four directions at the same time, so the total casualties of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army last night should be around 1000!"

"In just one night, the Eighth Route Army Independence Regiment suffered thousands of casualties!"

"The situation on the side of the Jinsui Army may be slightly better, but there are at least 500 casualties."

"Yoxi." Inoue Zhenwei nodded happily, and said again, "Has the main force of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army arrived yet? It's been one night, and the Jinsui Army's actions are too slow."

Ryoichi Yamamoto said: "Accordingly, the main force of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army should have arrived, but Okamoto-kun can only observe outside the west gate of Heyuan County, and can't take care of other directions, so I don't know yet."

As soon as he finished speaking, a communications staff officer hurried in: "Chief of Staff, the headquarters replied that a long-range attack aircraft from the 16th Attack Aircraft Squadron stationed in Taiyuan has arrived."

"Yoshi!" Inoue Zhenwei said happily, "Long-range attack aircraft is good, not only has a long cruise time, but also has an on-board radio that can communicate directly!"

Speaking of this, he said to Yamamoto Ryoichi: "Yamamoto-kun, quickly establish communication with this long-range attack aircraft of the 16th attack aircraft squadron, so as to receive information as soon as possible!"

"Hai!" Ryoichi Yamamoto suddenly nodded, then turned and left in a hurry.

Less than half an hour later, Ryoichi Yamamoto returned in a hurry.

"Division Commander, communication with long-range attack aircraft No. 1603 has been established." Ryo Yamamoto said, "And No. 1603 has sent back the first piece of information about Heyuan County."

"The main force of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army has already arrived."

"It's just that they were blocked ten kilometers west of the city by the main force of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army."

"Furthermore, according to No. 1603's observation, the fighting situation in the blocking position in the west of the city is even more tragic than that in the four city gates!"

"Now the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army are fighting on two battlefields at the same time, and it has become a mess."

"The situation has developed to the present, not to mention whether the high-level officials of the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army know about it, even if the high-level officials of both sides know about it and are willing to come forward to stop this vicious battle, I'm afraid it will be impossible."

"Yoxi!" Inoue Zhenwei was overjoyed when he heard the words, God help me.

Chapter 459

A day passed quickly.

If you count last night, the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army have been fighting around Heyuan County for a whole day and night.

After a fierce battle day and night, both sides suffered heavy casualties.

So after nightfall today, the two sides unanimously chose a temporary truce, taking care of the wounded while cremating the remains of the fallen officers and soldiers.

Through the field of vision of the telescope, Kazuo Okamoto could clearly see that the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment carried the corpses one after another onto the pile of dry firewood neatly stacked.

Kazuo Okamoto counted carefully this time.

There were more than 1000 corpses carried to the dry pyre by the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army!

This is only one direction of the east gate. If the other three gates and the blocking positions of the independent regiment are counted, then the number of deaths of the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army will definitely exceed 5000!

This is only the number of deaths, and the number of injuries is only a lot more!

This also means that the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army has lost at least half of its combat effectiveness!

At that moment, Kazuo Okamoto turned on the radio again, and sent out the telegram that had been translated into dot-and-dash characters.