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Chapter 278: Big fight

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    The day after the battle, Li Guoyao was ordered to return to Bengbu from the Dingyuan front line for a meeting, mainly to report to the headquarters the situation of the battle, such as casualties, number of enemies killed, and items seized.

    Li Guoyao was well prepared for this, and returned to Bengbu with the following statistical data under the protection of the special forces.

    After receiving a heroic welcome ceremony, Li Guoyao accompanied Commander Zhang and others to the former enemy headquarters in Bengbu, and then held a meeting.

    At the meeting, the Guangxi Army, the Northwest Army, and Li Guoyao's 7th Division all made battle damage reports. Among them, the 38th Division of the 59th Army suffered more than 4,000 casualties. The 31st Army suffered the most casualties, with three divisions suffering one full casualty.  If there were 1,000 people, the casualties of the 7th Division were also not small, with more than 5,300 people.

    According to such statistics, the Bengbu defending Warring States Army suffered more than 21,000 casualties, including more than 9,600 killed and more than 11,000 wounded.

    Although the casualties were similar to the 23,000 Japanese troops, all the Japanese troops were killed, while half of the Chinese troops were killed and wounded. It was clear at a glance which one was stronger!

    In addition to casualties, Commander-in-Chief Zhang also asked each unit to report lost firearms and seized trophies. However, everyone was stunned when they heard the number of firearms seized by Li Guoyao's troops.

    It's not that there are too many, but too few. It stands to reason that Li Guoyao's troops not only wiped out the main force of the 101st Division, but also captured Quanjiao. There should be a lot of weapons and equipment seized, but Li Guoyao reported only rifles seized.  Five thousand, 30 light and heavy machine guns, 18 artillery pieces, some ammunition, but a lot of food supplies, which is far from what everyone imagined.

    ¡° Then Commander-in-Chief Zhang asked the questions in his heart, and Li Guoyao also gave a reasonable answer.

    According to Li Guoyao¡¯s explanation, after their two main brigades wiped out the main force of the 101st Division in Baima Gang, they did not clean the battlefield carefully because they were worried about the crisis on the Bengbu front line. Then the whole army went north and rushed to Bengbu to continue fighting.

    Thinking about cleaning up the battlefield and collecting those weapons and equipment after the battle is over!

    But what they didn't expect was that when the troops returned to Baima Gang after wiping out the 104th Regiment in Hechi Town, they found that the battlefield had been cleaned up. All the weapons, equipment, ammunition, and even the clothes on the little devil were gone.  They were stripped off, leaving only tens of thousands of smooth, stripped corpses on the entire battlefield.

    Of course, this is not the case, but Li Guoyao personally ordered Xie Baojun and others to evacuate Baima Gang, and at the same time asked Lu Wenlong's troops to rush to Baima Gang to clean up the battlefield.

    Li Guoyao knew very well that they had lost a lot of people in this battle. They were already outnumbered and had more guns. If they suddenly captured the weapons and equipment of a second-class Japanese division, it would definitely arouse the jealousy of others.

    Not only the 59th Army and the 31st Army, but also the Third Theater Command Headquarters in Hefei wanted to get a share of the pie. After all, it was the Japanese weapons and equipment of an entire field division. If divided, it could arm two elite reorganized units.  Master, no one can endure such temptation.

    "But Li Guoyao is not a virgin bitch. These weapons and equipment were captured with great effort by the soldiers of the 7th Division. Of course, Li Guoyao was not willing to share them with others, so he thought of letting Lu Wenlong's guerrillas be the pickers.

    ¡° Anyway, not many people know that the Jiangnan guerrillas belong to the 7th Division. Even if the superiors want to investigate, they can¡¯t find out why. After all, the weapons and equipment are not in the 7th Division.

    Regarding Li Guoyao's explanation, Commander Zhang and others were a little confused, but they did not delve into it. After all, everyone knew that yesterday's battle was very tense, and the 7th Division could appear a few hours after encircling and annihilating the 101st Division.  In Hechi Town, this shows that they did not stay in Baima Gang for too long.

    However, Commander-in-Chief Zhang and others were still very indignant about the fact that someone dared to snatch the trophies of the 7th Division, and immediately said that they would be investigated carefully.

    After completing the statistics of troop casualties and achievements, Commander-in-Chief Zhang conveyed the Military Committee¡¯s promise that no matter how much each unit lost in this battle, the theater commander¡¯s department would make up for it completely.

    ¡°Subsequently, under the personal auspices of Commander-in-Chief Zhang, the three armies made detailed statistics of their respective losses, and then reported them to the Military Commission and the Third Theater District Commander¡¯s Department.

    And when the Bengbu frontline submitted the detailed battle report of this battle to the theater commander's department and the Military Commission, it once again aroused the surprise of those big bosses.

    Before this battle report was sent, almost everyone believed that the losses of the troops on the Bengbu front line should be more than 80%, which means that the three divisions of the Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, and the Guangxi Army would lose at least 35,000 people.  The above is considered normal.

    However, I didn¡¯t expect the result.Only more than 25,000 people were lost, and less than 10,000 people were actually killed in the battle. This result was really beyond everyone's expectations.

    But they were surprised, but no one thought that these miscellaneous divisions were lying about their military exploits or hiding their casualties. The reason was very simple. In the face of the great victory of annihilating the 101st Division, even if all the more than 40,000 troops on the Bengbu front line were killed.  It makes sense that even if all five divisions were defeated, it would still be a great victory.

    ¡°Especially under the premise that the Military Commission has promised to make up for all losses, no one will be stupid enough to lie about the casualties. A truly smart person will not only not under-report the casualties, but will take the opportunity to over-report the losses.

    In fact, Li Guoyao and others did this. After the three giants discussed together, the three armies directly overreported the number of casualties by more than 4,000. Among them, the 31st Army suffered the most losses this time and decided to overreport the number of casualties by 2,000.  people, while the 38th Division and the 7th Division suffered relatively few casualties, each reporting an excess of 1,000 people.

    Of course, there are reasons for over-reporting casualties. It is not only because the 7th Division and other troops want more supplements, but more importantly, it is to prevent the theater commander from giving them a discount.

    Despite the order of the Military Commission, how to actually supplement it depends on the face of the commander of the Third War Zone. Judging from the actual unit ownership, the 7th Division is temporarily affiliated with the 67th Army, while the 67th Army is now assigned to the 67th Army.  The Ninth Theater Command is under the command of the Ninth Theater, so strictly speaking, the 7th Division is a combat sequence affiliated with the Ninth Theater.

    The 59th Army and the 31st Army belong to the Fifth Theater and do not belong to the order of battle of the Third Theater. Therefore, it is normal for the Third Theater to give them a discount when the time comes. They have seen this kind of thing too many times.  , so some more casualties were reported.

    Even so, the end result is surprising.

    After reading the detailed battle report from the Bengbu front line, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of Wuhan, Long Xin Dayue, immediately ordered the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense, the Central News Agency and other departments to take this opportunity to publicize it.

    On March 1, with the direct intervention of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, an article titled "The Great Victory in Bengbu Recorded the Destruction of the Japanese 101st Division" appeared in the Central News Agency's newspaper, and was subsequently reported to Ta Kung Pao, Xinhua News Agency and other media.  reports on relevant topics.

    At the same time, news related to the Bengbu victory was also reported by various media, and it spread all over the country amid a wave of doubts.

    It is normal to doubt, because the Chinese army fought so beautifully in this battle. With five miscellaneous divisions, they defeated the two main divisions of the Japanese army, wiped out one of them, and severely damaged the other.  The Japanese troops on the Bengbu front line lost their ability to attack.

    Emotionally speaking, the people still support the national army and know that many soldiers are indeed fighting with their lives. However, from a rational perspective, this data is a bit exaggerated.

    The annihilation of 28,000 enemies (the result of the Nationalist Government's water injection) was in sharp contrast to the 25,000 casualties it suffered. Anyone who knows the past achievements of the national army knows how brilliant this receipt is.

    In the past, if the Chinese army wanted to fight the Japanese army face to face, it would have to prepare at least three to five times the number of troops. In the end, the ratio of casualties between the enemy and ourselves was often around five to one, 5 for the Chinese army and 1 for the Japanese army.

    But now it is almost one to one, but compared with the previous record, it naturally makes people question it.

    At the same time, the Japanese Central China Front Army Command also refuted the reports of the Nationalist Army and firmly refused to recognize the casualty data reported by the Nationalist Government. They insisted that the casualties in this battle were around 8,000, not the reported 28,000.  .

    At the same time, the Japanese army also believed that the casualties of the national army should be more than 40,000, not the reported 25,000, and also revealed part of the so-called "evidence". The two sides launched a war of words in the newspapers surrounding this battle.  It can be said to be extremely lively.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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