Chapter 19
"Our army has lost 521 men, and more than 300 have been injured. More than 800 casualties."
Yamaki Nishiko held a document and told Okano Chiri about the casualties from tonight's night raid. Her face couldn't help but darken. The battle hadn't even officially started, and there were already more than 800 casualties. This was a humiliation that Okano Chiri couldn't erase.
"These damn Chinese people! When dawn comes, I'll definitely kill all of them!”
After Okano Chili finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the county town of Jidong County with hatred.
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The sky gradually brightened. Zhao Wenbin, who had slept for a few hours after returning, got up and washed up briefly before coming to the city gate tower.
"Haha! It seemed that the Japanese would start attacking soon!”
Zhao Wenbin put down his binoculars. When he saw the smoke floating above the Japanese camp, he knew that the Japanese were about to eat breakfast. After breakfast, the Japanese would definitely attack.
The sneak attack this morning did not cause any fatal damage to the Japanese, but it did cause a lot of casualties. With the Japanese's pride, they would definitely rush to attack.
After watching for a while more, Zhao Wenbin walked down the city gate tower and left the city to head to the camp.
When they arrived at the camp, the soldiers were eating breakfast. Many of the soldiers seemed to still have some fear in their eyes. Zhao Wenbin sighed helplessly. He knew that these soldiers were still afraid of the corpses of the Japanese soldiers they saw last night.
These new recruits who were participating in such a battle for the first time had to be a test for them. But at the same time, he felt regretful that he didn't have any large-caliber cannons or real cannons.
Moreover, the combat skills of his soldiers still needed to be improved. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to only cause a few hundred casualties to the Japanese last night. If it was an elite troop, they would have been able to take down the Japanese in the middle of a night raid.
It was a pity that they did not manage to eat them. They only caused a few hundred casualties.
"Sir, why are you here?"
When the second company commander, Wang Tiedan, saw Zhao Wenbin coming to the camp, he immediately put down the military lunch box in his hand and stood up to salute.
"Haha! I'm definitely coming. Today, the angry Japanese were going to attack. How could I not come? How are the casualties in your company this morning?”
Zhao Wenbin chuckled and asked Wang Tiedan.
"Sir, our company is fine. We just lost a few people. Then, there were a few injured ones. The casualties were not high and were all within a controllable range.”
Wang Tiedan grinned.
"En! Let's continue eating! The Japanese were about to attack!”
After Zhao Wenbin finished speaking, he continued to patrol the position. When the soldiers saw Zhao Wenbin, they all stood up and saluted. Zhao Wenbin smiled and asked them to sit down and continue eating.
At some point, snowflakes began to fall from the sky again. Zhao Wenbin, who had found a place to eat, looked at the drifting snowflakes and took a deep breath.
"I hope this snow will be more intense!”
Zhao Wenbin muttered to himself.
Zhao Wenbin had just finished his breakfast when a squadron of Japanese appeared about 600 to 700 meters in front of the camp.
This squadron of Japanese soldiers pulled the line of soldiers and slowly advanced towards the position of the Japanese soldiers.
Zhao Wenbin looked around and did not seem to see many Japanese. Zhao Wenbin frowned and slowly shook his head in his heart.
He couldn't help but think of the anti-Japanese dramas in the future. The Japanese lined up and charged forward as if they were here to die. But in reality, that was not the case. Look at this place. You couldn't see many Japanese soldiers. They were all attacking with scattered soldiers.
This was their probing attack. When they were in the military academy, Zhao Wenbin didn't think much of his instructor's lecture. But now that he saw it with his own eyes, he finally understood what the Japanese troops were like.
"This is indeed an era that relies heavily on individual equipment!”
Zhao Wenbin thought slowly in his heart.
"Messenger, pass down the order to the First Company and Second Company at the first line of defense. Tell them to hide half of their light and heavy firepower. Let the Japanese get closer before we attack."
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A row of big men was holding a Leenfield rifle and climbing up the trench. They were aiming at a Japanese soldier with a sun flag on his bayonet. He was waiting for orders.
Slowly, they got closer and closer. At this moment, the squadron that the Japanese had sent out to scout was less than 150 meters away from the frontline. However, Li Ergou still did not give the order to attack at this distance.
Very soon, the Japanese were about a hundred meters away. At this time, Doggy Li took out a Leenfield rifle and aimed it at a Japanese officer who was carrying a commanding knife.
In his opinion, this was definitely a Japanese officer.
"Bang ~"
The gunshot was the signal. A Japanese officer with a commanding knife fell to the ground, and the first line of defense was instantly filled with gunfire.
The seven Bren light machine guns and four Browning M2 heavy machine guns began to roar.
At the same time, dozens of Leenfield rifles began to pour bullets at the Japanese.
At the same time, the grenade launchers fired rounds at the Japanese soldiers.
This sudden attack stunned the Japanese's fire reconnaissance squadron, but soon, the Japanese squadron began to counterattack.
After the two sides exchanged fire for a while, the Japanese squadron quickly retreated because more than half of them had died.
Zhao Wenbin saw that the Japanese had retreated and ordered them to stop shooting. There was no need to waste ammunition on this.
"What powerful firepower! He did not expect the Chinese army to have such powerful firepower. It was comparable to the firepower of the Empire!”
Okano Chiri stood behind him, squinting as he spoke softly.
"Okano-kun, I could tell from the gunshots of the Chinese army that they are a new army. There was no pattern to their gunshots, and there was even a period of chaos.
Moreover, after fighting for such a long time, the firepower reconnaissance squadron had only lost half of their forces. Why don't we just use the main force and crush them!”
Chief of Staff Yamaki Nishiko said softly as she stood beside Okano Chili.
"En! What Yamaki-kun said made sense. This was just a new army, although the firepower was not bad. However, their individual combat skills were much worse than the Empire's army. He ordered the First Brigade to prepare to attack the Chinese Army and crush them in one fell swoop.”
Okano Chiri placed his sword on the snow as if victory was in his grasp.
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