Phi-Fic Chapter 880 Costs Him 2
Chapter 880 Costs Him 2
"Commander, it's not that we brothers don't fight for our lives. There are simply too many devils. We can't kill them all. The barrels of our machine guns are red, but we brothers refused to retreat a single step..."
On the phone, a regimental commander cried to Li Shaoyi and said that there were 2,395 people in the regiment, but only more than 1,300 were left, and more than 1,000 people had died in the battle.
"I know you're in a very difficult situation, but we don't have any extra support right now. Just hold on for another five hours. After that, someone will definitely take over."
Li Shaoyi was talking while looking at the list beside him. Four hours and twenty minutes later, two infantry companies would land at the airport. It wasn't that no one was landing at the airport now, but that all the people landing at the airport already had a destination.
Since the start of Japanese conscription, the intensity of the war in various battlefields in Tianjin has increased several times more than when the fighting just started. The Japanese armies are using human wave tactics against us. No matter how many people die, they have only one goal, which is to occupy Tianjin.
Take the infantry regiment that just reported to Li Shaoyi for example. The entire regiment had been fighting for no more than forty-eight hours, and the casualties had exceeded one thousand people. The Japanese had left behind more than seven thousand four hundred corpses on their regiment's position, and there were also a large number of injured personnel who had withdrawn from the battle. However, the Japanese attack continued, as if they knew no fatigue.
The 31st Division!
Li Shaoyi frowned as he watched his combat staff change the new number on the map. You know, if nothing went wrong, the 31st Division should have been formed in a few months, but it has already been sent to the battlefield.
Perhaps because of this little butterfly, many things in Japan have changed.
At present, the regular strength of the Japanese army has reached one million ahead of schedule, and more than 600,000 troops are undergoing training. We have to say that our mobilization capabilities are still far behind those of the Japanese.
Of course, this is also very normal. Li Shaoyi occupied a lot of territory, but there were really not many people in the territory. If compared with the Japanese, it is really far behind. Besides, we are not a central government, but just a local government. The whole country of Japan obeys his orders.
"Have the statistics been released? How many people did the Japanese army lose in total during the Battle of Jincheng?"
Li Shaoyi thought for a while on the sofa, and suddenly remembered that there was a statistical data today.
"Reporting to the commander-in-chief, there are a total of over 112,000 people. The statistical figures may be somewhat inaccurate, but the fluctuation will not exceed 3%."
When we were fighting the Japanese in the north before, we could achieve a casualty ratio of 1 to 15. However, after arriving in Tianjin, many heavy armored units could not be deployed, so the casualty ratio was only about 1 to 8, and even in some battlefields it had dropped to 1 to 5.
In some places in the urban area of Tianjin, the heavy armored forces could not be deployed, and we could only fight the Japanese with infantry. At this time, our individual soldier advantage was not that strong.
It's different on the northern battlefield. There are vast grasslands everywhere. The Japanese want to drag us into the mountains. At worst, we just don't go and wait for them to come out before fighting.
But it’s different here in Tianjin. We have to fight for every inch of land. This is because we are on the defensive. If we were on the offensive, it would probably be even more difficult.
"Continue to increase air transport efforts and tell all troops to hold their respective lines. No one is allowed to retreat a single step without my order."
When Li Shaoyi was fighting here before, he was ready to turn this place into a meat grinder. Now we have only killed about 100,000 devils, and it is far from time to retreat. We have to kill 200,000 of them before we can talk about retreating.
In Li Shaoyi's mind, there was a big goal, which was to kill 200,000 of them on the battlefield in Tianjin, and to kill another 100,000 of them on the way from Tianjin to Beijing.
As for the Pujiang area, more than 300,000 of them had to be killed. In this way, the Japanese would have lost 600,000 regular troops at the beginning of the war, and they were still relatively strong in combat. In the next period of time, perhaps the Japanese offensive would have weakened, and they would not have to wait until after the Battle of Wuhan to start to switch to a strategic defensive position.
Dagukou
When the Japanese Navy rushed over a few days ago, the 16th Regiment of the 72nd Army stationed locally had already retreated completely. Now the people of the 16th Regiment have rested for a day near the airport and are preparing to launch a surprise attack on Dagukou under the leadership of the regiment commander Wang Zhifu.
"Captain, why am I a little confused about what our commander-in-chief means?"
Chief of Staff Liu looked at the telegram sent from headquarters and felt a little confused.
"What's so unclear about this? Didn't the Marshal say it at the beginning? Our mission is to kill their effective forces. We don't care about the gains and losses of territory now. Besides, we can't care. After we take back Dagukou, we have to retreat. We are within the range of enemy naval guns. We have no chance of winning. But in today's surprise attack, our mission is to kill 2,000 of them. If you can kill 2,000 of them, then our combat mission today is accomplished."
Captain Wang said cheerfully that this kind of task was too easy for the people of the 72nd Army. Currently, the number of Japanese troops was higher than ours. Looking around, there were Japanese troops almost everywhere.
If we defend a certain area, the Japanese army may surround us at any time. Once we are surrounded, unless you have heavy armored troops to clear the way, your regiment's tank company alone will not be able to rescue people.
Now the combat mission is relatively simple, which is to kill 2,000 of them before sunset. So, with our strong flexibility, can't we even do this?
"The entire regiment is divided into two parts. You will lead the tank company and attack from the left. Remember not to rush in. Kill some of them on the periphery. If you can kill 400 to 500 people, then retreat. I will lead the second and third battalions, concentrate the armored vehicles and some more mobile troops, and attack from the right. Our goal is the same as yours: kill 400 to 500 people and then escape."
Captain Wang drew two arrows on the map. This hit-and-run strategy was difficult for many in the 72nd Army to accept. What was the difference between them and those bandits? We were regular troops.