"Haha! Old Liu, you're right. It's indeed not just to give you good news.”
Deng Xihou laughed before looking at Liu Xiang and saying seriously,"In the three months since the war, our Sichuan Army has sent out a total of three hundred thousand troops. Up until now, our greatest casualties have been in the Battle of Songhu, which is now nearing its end. Our 20th and 40th armies, nearly 40,000 men, were fighting on the Songhu battlefield.
Yang Sen's 20th Army fought very well in the battlefield. They resisted the Japanese attack in the middle of the war and fought for five days and nights. The chairman personally ordered them to prioritize the replenishment of weapons and equipment. This matter finally comforted the hearts of our Sichuan soldiers. At least it didn't make us feel disappointed…"
"Alright, Old Deng, what are you trying to say?”
Liu Xiang stopped Deng Xihou's words and looked at him. Both of them were old foxes. Liu Xiang knew that Deng Xihou would never say such things if he had nothing to say.
"Troops. The soldiers of our Sichuan Army are all trained by us and supplemented by the troops below. Right now, the 133rd Division had suffered heavy losses. Of the three regiments under Yang Hanyu, one of them had lost more than half of their men. The three regiments still had more than 600 men left. In addition, there were more than 200 injured. They were considered to have suffered the least losses.
The second group suffered the most losses. Currently, the entire group, including their leader, only had a little over 300 people. Should we think of a way to replenish their troops?”
"Deng Jinkang, that Second Regiment Leader should be from your side!”
"En, not bad. The leader of the second regiment was called Yan Wenbin. In 2003, when I was the commander of the 28th army, I was stationed in Western Sichuan. One day, when I was out on patrol, I found a child fighting with a wild dog. At that time, the child's eyes were filled with ferocity. When I saw his eyes, I thought," If this child grew up, he would definitely become a fierce general in the future, so I asked my adjutant to bring him back and raise him.
When he was twelve, this child came to me and told me that he wanted to join the army and fight. At that time, this child was too young, so I didn't agree. In the end, he told me that if I didn't let him go to the battlefield, he would die in front of me. I asked him why he wanted to be a soldier. He said that if he didn't fight in the army or make contributions, he would be an ordinary person for the rest of his life.
So I took him in and started as my orderly. It had been twelve years. In these twelve years, he followed me to the east and west, and was injured several times. The scars on his back also increased countless times, and his military position also changed from an orderly to a mixed brigade commander. Before the war, our Sichuan army was reorganized. He was demoted and became a regiment commander.
I wasn't wrong about him. He fought well on the Songhu battlefield, but he also suffered great losses. Now, he only had this few people left.”
"En! I understand now. Sure, there are still our Sichuan troops in southern Anhui. I'll give him a regiment to use. Moreover, his military merits this time are not small. We'll remember it for the time being. When he makes military merits next time, we'll reward him. What do you think?"
Liu Xiang understood what Deng Xihou meant, but he also understood Deng Xihou's feelings. To put it bluntly, Yan Wenbin, this regiment commander, actually came from Deng Xihou's hands.
"Good!"
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Dianshan Lake, Second Regiment Camp, past five in the afternoon.
Yan Wenbin and the others had recovered from their rest. They had not slept the entire night and had been fighting the entire time. They had finally recovered a little.
"Regiment Commander, the sentries told me that they discovered that many troops were beginning to retreat this afternoon. They seem to be retreating in a hurry. Do you think something happened at the front line?”
He Jie walked to Yan Wenbin's side with a military lunch box and whispered. At this moment, Yan Wenbin was also eating with a lunch box.
"Very urgent? Haha! Needless to say, they were definitely retreating. If my guess is correct, the Japanese should have landed from the Golden Mountain Guards of Hangzhou.”
Yan Wenbin said after thinking for a moment. At the same time, he swallowed the rice in big mouthfuls.
"Landing at Hangzhou's Golden Mountain Guard? I'm afraid that's impossible!"
He Jie's ability was limited, so he still couldn't understand.
"Impossible? What was impossible? Landing from the Golden Mountain Guards and cutting off the retreat of the Shanghai army, if it were me, I would do the same. And where are we? We are at Dianshan Lake, at the rear. If they were a single unit that wanted to escape, they shouldn't have escaped from here. They should have gone to Hu Province.
Where are you going if you're running towards us? That was on the way to Nanjing. Did they go to Nanjing to go to the military court? So the only explanation was that they knew that the Chinese army in Shanghai would soon begin to retreat. They're not afraid of being court-martialed."
When Yan Wenbin said this, he was also thinking about his next move. Now that he only had this little military force, he had to expand his troops. If he did not expand his troops, how could he fight against the Japanese?
After a while, Yan Wenbin finished eating. After eating, he began to count his belongings.
Now, the entire regiment, including him, only had three hundred and six people. There were only three hundred people, and the organization had all been messed up. Therefore, Yan Wenbin's first step was to reorganize the troops. He sat alone in the tent and began to make the reorganization plan.
When it was about eight o'clock in the evening, he had already made the reorganization plan, including the expansion plan of the troops.
After all, his next plan was to gather the scattered soldiers and fight the Japanese in the Jiangnan area. If he didn't fight, if he didn't think of a way to fight the Japanese, then the tragedy of hundreds of thousands of people dying would happen again in Nanjing.
"Uncle Ho, what are you doing?"
Yan Wenbin cut out the part that he needed to use for his own reorganization and put it in his pocket. When he walked out of the tent, he saw He Jie sitting on the ground and looking at the sky.
"Guild Leader, you're here. You said that we brought these brothers out of Sichuan, but in the end, we couldn't bring them back. Sigh, I don't even know how to answer to my fellow villagers when I go back!”
He Jie sighed.
"It's an honor for soldiers to wrap their bodies on the battlefield. Don't let your tears taint their glory. I came to talk to you about something tonight. Now our troops are all messed up. We don't have a complete organization and we don't have many people. There are only about 300 people in the entire regiment, so I'm preparing to reorganize them.”
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