RPAGF Chapter 155 Put yourself to death and survive
Chapter 155 Put yourself to death and survive
155 The End of the World
He is more than just the commander of the Japanese brigade.
After the war, Zhou Pingkou himself looked at the battle damage reports submitted by his officers.
My eyes are also red.
Zhou Pingkou stood on the ruined street, looking at the wounded soldiers everywhere.
Teams of militiamen were carrying stretchers and taking the wounded soldiers of the National Army to the hospital in the back for treatment.
The veterans after the war sat on the steps, looking somewhat dazed, smoking cigarettes with indifferent expressions.
They have seen this scene too many times.
After this battle, another batch of comrades around me left.
Zhou Pingkou and others also realized what Ye Qingshan had told them before, the cruelty of street fighting.
After a moment, Zhou Pingkou walked back to his command center with a serious expression, picked up the phone and called Ye Qingshan.
"Old Ye, we have driven the devils out of the Shen Ce Sect."
Ye Qingshan heard Zhou Pingkou's low voice from the phone.
It also surprised him.
"So fast?"
Ye Qingshan looked at his watch and only eight hours had passed.
The Japanese Sixth Mixed Brigade was driven out of the northwestern urban area?
Zhou Pingkou and his men were faster than Ye Qingshan had expected.
After a while, Zhou Pingkou continued to report: "In this battle, we killed more than 700 Japanese soldiers, and at least 1,000 were injured.
But we also suffered nearly a thousand casualties.
Among them, 487 soldiers were killed and more than 600 were injured.
Old Ye, it’s only been half a day and the casualties are so heavy.
In the past, you always told us that street fighting was brutal and not much better than positional warfare.
Now I finally experienced it myself.
This is all thanks to your foresight in conducting street fighting training and firepower optimization for the soldiers in advance.
Otherwise, our casualties would be even greater.”
Zhou Pingkou felt distressed as he spoke.
After only half a day of fighting, he lost one-third of the entire regiment's troops. It was simply terrifying.
Even before in the Battle of Shanghai, as long as the front-line troops of the National Army did not encounter bombing by the Japanese bomber groups, or attacks by heavy artillery and naval guns.
It is rare that such a high casualty rate would occur within half a day.
Fortunately, the Japanese casualty rate this time was even higher than theirs.
This finally made Zhou Pingkou feel a little better.
"Old Ye, I need soldiers, otherwise,
Soon my entire group will be wiped out."
Zhou Pingkou finally asked Ye Qingshan for additional troops.
"Don't worry, I have already ordered the five militia battalions in the northwest city to each send 300 people to support your regiment.
These 1,500 people have all undergone two days of intensive training by the veterans.
Although I know how to shoot and simple combat formations.
But he can only be considered a rookie.
After sending them to your regiment, you will break them up and let the veterans lead them.
After a few battles with the Japanese, the survivors of this group of fledglings should be able to stand on their own."
Ye Qingshan said it casually.
But he knew that this was indeed cruel for the militiamen sent over.
Ye Qingshan didn't have time to give them more training.
We can only let them follow the veterans and grow quickly through actual combat on the battlefield.
But doing so would inevitably result in heavy casualties among these recruits.
You can understand the situation by looking at the casualty rate of Zhou Pingkou and his men in the battle with the Japanese Sixth Mixed Brigade over the past half day.
Even these veterans suffered such high casualty rates in street fighting.
Not to mention these new recruits.
But Ye Qingshan had no choice. He had already done his best by equipping each of these new recruits with a broken gun.
Every inch of mountains and rivers, every inch of blood!
At this time, everyone who remained in Jinling City had no choice.
The only solution is to fight to the death.
"Lao Zhou, when we engage in street fighting with the Japanese, don't fight so hard.
There is no rush for revenge.
After these new recruits arrive, you have to let the veterans lead them and use the devils to train them.
Let the devils be your whetstone.
Let these new recruits be trained as soon as possible.
If necessary, it doesn't matter if we give up part of the city.
We don’t know how long this battle will last, and these new recruits are our real trump card to defeat the Japanese. "
Ye Qingshan did not forget to persuade Zhou Pingkou in this way later.
"Yes, Old Ye.
I know I won’t act impulsively.”
After hanging up the phone, Ye Qingshan sighed.
Zhou Pingkou and his men fought really well in this battle.
They suffered heavy casualties, but the Japanese suffered even greater casualties.
However, this is the only battle we can fight for now, otherwise all the veterans will die.
Ye Qingshan had finally recruited tens of thousands of new recruits from the young and strong men in the city, but who would train them?
In Ye Qingshan's opinion, it would be impossible to win the Battle of Nanjing with the veterans of the National Army in their hands at the moment.
The tens of thousands of newly organized militiamen in the city are Ye Qingshan’s real trump card to win this battle.
Just before Zhou Pingkou called, Ye Qingshan also found some Kuomintang intelligence information that had not been destroyed by Tang Shengzhi.
Only then did Ye Qingshan realize that according to pre-war statistics, the various national army units involved in the Battle of Nanjing should have numbered 150,000 to 160,000 people.
At least, this is the number on the surface, and it should be this number if all the troops are fully staffed.
However, after Ye Qingshan finished reading this confidential document, he realized that the real situation was not so.
The various National Army units that participated in the Battle of Nanjing were basically not fully staffed.
After all, many troops had just withdrawn from the Battle of Shanghai.
The lost troops were not replaced.
In addition, due to the old tradition of the National Army, many troops have the problem of drawing empty salaries.
There were a thousand people who reported it, but maybe only six or seven hundred were involved.
So, in the end, Ye Qingshan realized that the actual strength of all the national troops in the Battle of Nanjing was about 80,000.
Among them, 50,000 were veterans from the Battle of Songhu, and 30,000 were new recruits.
After half a month of fighting with the Japanese, more than one-third of the 80,000 national army troops had been lost.
With such a high attrition rate, many Nationalist troops on the front line had actually already been defeated.
Otherwise, Ye Qingshan would not have gathered tens of thousands of defeated soldiers at Taiping Gate.
Not every army can fight to the last man standing.
For most armies, if the combat casualties exceed 20% to 30%, it is enough to cause defeat.
In fact, most of the ragtag troops on the National Army's side are like this.
At this point, Ye Qingshan finally understood why Tang Shengzhi suddenly chose to escape.
Because only he knew the true situation of the Chinese army in the Battle of Nanjing.
These data made him despair.
It was understandable that he chose to escape in the end.
"The only way to deal with the current situation in Jinling is the method our ancestors used thousands of years ago.
Burn your boats and fight to the death!
When everyone was besieged by the Japanese in Jinling City with no way to escape.
They won’t flee, they will just fight to the death.”
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