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Xu Le also just realized that the lieutenant general who was killed as prompted by the system was actually done by Wang Yuji.

He didn't expect that the General Staff would promote Wang Yuqi's rank from major to colonel.

This is an Air Force colonel, and his weight is more important than that of an Army colonel.

But he was only surprised for a moment. There were too many things to do in the army, and he didn't want to interfere too much, otherwise he would be exhausted.

There were only these two people who won first-class merit. Then, Xu Le read out the names of more than 20 people who won second-class merit.

As for the third-class merit awards, there were even more of them, and their announcements were made by the commanders of each division, numbering hundreds.

After this commendation, the morale of the entire 88th Army soldiers was boosted, because not only could they kill the Japanese, but they could also settle down and bring honor to their ancestors.

There is also a special individual, or group, here.

That is the 1th Company, 3rd Battalion, 9st Tank Regiment.

Company commander Zhu Zhaolan once again received a second-class medal of merit, and the 9th Company also once again received a second-class collective merit, making them the individuals and collectives that received the most medals in the entire army.

The ranks of all soldiers were promoted one level, the lowest being sergeant, and Zhu Zhaolan even reached lieutenant colonel.

This is already the rank of regimental chief of staff or deputy regimental commander, a typical case of inequality between rank and position.

......

The inventory work for this battle has also been completed, and Xu Le looked at the report carefully.

太原收复战于942年1月28日开启，至2月4日宣布胜利。

A total of more than 3 Japanese and puppet troops were killed, more than 5 Japanese and puppet troops were wounded, more than 15 Japanese troops were captured, and more than 3000 puppet troops were captured.

More than 8 weapons of various types, more than 200 million rounds of bullets, more than 200 mortars and artillery pieces, and tens of thousands of artillery shells were seized from the Japanese.

88军牺牲战士800余人，受伤1000余人，牺牲的最高军官为664团上尉副营长，死伤战士主要集中在520团和664团的沁源县和北留镇战役。

In this battle, the 88th Army consumed nearly 80 million rounds of bullets and artillery shells of various calibers.

As the commander-in-chief of this battle, Xu Le naturally also received the battle damage information of the 5th Army and the 6th Army, whose casualties were much greater.

After all, their weapons and equipment were inferior to those of the Japanese. Fortunately, the main force of the 88th Army was supporting them in the front, so the casualties were not too great.

The two armies suffered more than 8000 casualties, including two regimental commanders.

......

The captured weapons in the report were all intact and usable, while the damaged ones were listed in another list, including destroyed Japanese trucks, artillery and tractors, armored vehicles, tanks, etc.

The good weapons are naturally reserved for reserve training, and the bad ones are of course recycled.

"System, recycle all this junk!"

Perhaps due to the huge number and complexity, the system paused for half a minute before responding.

"Ding, exchange successful, congratulations to the host for obtaining 783 million military merit points."

Xu Le couldn't help but smack his lips. This was almost enough to build an aircraft carrier.

However, compared with the output of the three major iron mines, he felt that it was a little too little. This was almost 3 trucks, more than 2000 tanks and armored vehicles, and more than 100 cannons.

The result was less than 800 million.

Of course, after recovering so much territory in Shanxi Province, although Xu Le ordered the troops to withdraw from southeastern Shanxi, he still controlled some large coal mines in his own hands. As for the iron mines, all of them, regardless of size, belonged to the 88th Army.

Like the previous iron mine, it was developed jointly by the Logistics Department’s trading company and local enterprises.

It was not until later that Xu Le discovered that the title of "millionaire" awarded by the system had finally played a role. If he had not seen the financial report of the logistics department, he would not have known that his people had earned so much by cooperating with local companies.

That was such a smart move, not only did it bring huge income to the troops, it also protected the interests of local businesses and people, leaving no one to complain.

The decision to control so many mineral resources was naturally discussed with Commander Yan. Otherwise, why would the 88th Army give up those occupied towns for nothing? This is an exchange of interests.

The mining rights of the minerals are naturally not permanent. They are for a period of 10 years. After 10 years, all shares owned by the 88th Army will be transferred to Commander Yan.

And within these 10 years, Commander Yan will have to send troops to protect the safety of various industries.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Le went to various iron mines to exchange the ores from December and January for military merit points, and once again obtained 12 million military merit points.

Adding the military rewards obtained from killing enemies in combat, the balance reached 2159 million.

Another thing was that Xu Le secretly ordered the troops to do it.

Why did the devils occupy Datang? To seize resources.

Xu Le clearly remembered that the devils in his previous life had robbed China of countless resources during the 14-year war, including:

2.1 tons of gold, 2.5 million oceans, 500 tons of diamonds, 10 billion tons of coal, 2 million tons of iron ore, 150 million tons of copper ore, 10 tons of aluminum, 5 tons of magnesium, 200 million cultural relics, and 8 million tons of grain.

Nearly half of these 8 million tons of grain were provided to the Japanese invaders and puppet troops who invaded China.

In addition, the Japanese also plundered countless rare minerals such as petroleum, oil shale, lead, zinc, nickel, iron sulfide, antimony, tin, mercury, graphite, asbestos, and saltpeter.

Xu Le thought about the iron ore that had been mined in the past two years. The iron in it only added up to tens of thousands of tons, which was nothing compared to the 2 million tons of iron that the Japanese had robbed.

Xu Le ordered his troops to secretly take into his command all the supplies that the Japanese had not yet been able to transfer away, under the pretext of searching for the remaining Japanese troops.

This included 8 tons of gold, 31 tons of silver, and 180 million dollars.

Faced with this, Xu Le generously collected them into the system. These will be the foundation for the future development of the troops and also the capital for the troops to go abroad in the future.

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"Young Marshal, Commander Yan has sent a message asking us to give an explanation to the commander of the 68th Division!"

Xu Le asked in confusion: "Which leader?"

Jiang Feng replied: "It was the commander of the 2th Division who was killed when I was leading the 68nd Reserve Regiment to Beiliu Town."

Xu Le smiled evilly. "He delayed the war and caused heavy losses to my frontline troops. I haven't even come to settle accounts with him yet, but now he's coming to me!"

Jiang Feng shook his head: "Commander Yan is a first-class general, commanding hundreds of thousands of troops in the Second Theater, with hundreds of regiment commanders under him. How could he care about a mere regiment commander? I think the battle is over, the big things have been discussed, and Commander Yan wants to find some friction over small things!"

"What do you think we should do?"

Jiang Feng thought for a moment and said, "Our 88th Army is a righteous army, so we naturally cannot distort the facts. I think we should hand over the evidence of the 68th Division's delay to Commander Yan and let him be responsible for our army's losses!"

Xu Le's eyes lit up: "Okay, you arrange for someone to handle this matter! If Commander Yan doesn't give us compensation, we will report it to the Military Commission and see what he does!"

Jiang Feng was the commander-in-chief of the front line ordered by Xu Le himself. Not to mention killing a regiment commander who delayed the battle, if it weren't for Commander Yan's face, it would be reasonable to shoot the commander of the 68th Division.

After this topic was discussed, Jiang Feng changed the subject and said, "After this battle, each division made some suggestions based on the actual combat situation, mainly focusing on tanks and armored vehicles."