Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

After talking about the casualties, Zeng Jiwen began to look at the spoils of war.

In the Battle of Shijiazhuang, the entire military district was mobilized. Not only did they lose more than 20,000 people, but the entire military district's reserve ammunition was basically used up. If they could not replenish it with captured Japanese soldiers, then the weapons in the hands of his troops of tens of thousands would be nothing more than firewood.

In this battle, they seized the entire North China Japanese army's equipment, weapons, ammunition and other logistical supplies. According to Zeng Jiwen's idea, this time they should be able to make up for the losses.

Zeng Jiwen's expression improved a little when he saw the news of the seizure in the telegram.

The spoils this time can be divided into two parts. One part is the spoils captured during the battle with the Japanese army, and the other part is the logistical supplies of the Japanese army in North China seized from Shijiazhuang after the attack on Shijiazhuang.

In the south of Taiyuan, during the battle between the 1st Column and the 393rd Brigade and the two independent mixed brigades of the Japanese army that came to reinforce from the south, by recovering Qixian, Jiexiu and other places in the south and fighting with the Japanese and puppet troops, they seized a total of 1312 Type 38 rifles, 1431 Type 65 rifles made in Shanxi, 24 Type 96 light machine guns, 8 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 64 Thompson submachine guns made in Shanxi, 32 grenade launchers, 8 82mm mortars made in Shanxi, and two radio stations.

Also found were 9 intact trucks, 76 war horses, 123 Thomas horses, more than 60 horse-drawn carriages, 140,000 taels of silver, 32 gold bars, and some other miscellaneous items.

On the Zhengtai Line, a lot of spoils were captured. Except for some damaged weapons and equipment, most of the weapons and equipment of the 108th Division were captured by the 396th Brigade and the three regiments of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Fourth District. After leaving the weapons and equipment of two regiments with about 6,000 people, the 396th Brigade had the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Fourth District take the rest back.

As for other supplies in Yangquan and Shouyang City and the machinery and equipment in the newly established factories of the Japanese army, the 396th Brigade organized the militia guerrillas of the local regiment in the north to transport them back to the base.

In southern Hebei, although the three columns of southern Hebei fought fiercely with the 5th and 14th divisions for nearly a month, and the two divisions were exhausted, the battlefield was too fierce. Many weapons and equipment were destroyed by rocket launchers or artillery on the front line.

In addition to the spoils of war in the early stage, many weapons and equipment were damaged in the later stage. Zeng Jiwen took a look and found that about one brigade's equipment was still barely usable.

What surprised Zeng Jiwen was Xun Bai. After Xun Bai commanded the 4th, 5th and 6th columns to raid Handan and Xingtai, some of the supplies and equipment of the Japanese army that went south to support the Wuhan war were seized by Xun Bai. Because the Pinghan Railway was switched, the weapons and equipment supplies of about three divisions that went south were stopped in Handan and Xingtai. There were relatively few weapons, only one from a brigade, and the rest were all logistical supplies such as ammunition, food, and medicine.

As for the final battle of the 5th and 6th columns in blocking the 114th Division, the spoils they captured were basically negligible. After all, the Japanese army withdrew in an orderly manner, leaving no opportunity for the two columns to clean up the battlefield.

The most important one is the Japanese transit base in Shijiazhuang.

After retaking Shijiazhuang, all the militia guerrillas in the northeastern part of Tainan were transferred to Shijiazhuang to transport supplies, but there was still a shortage of manpower, so Liu Ming immediately sent a telegram to the military district, asking it to send other local armed forces to Shijiazhuang.

In the more than 10 days after the recapture of Shijiazhuang, militia and other local armed forces kept pushing carts and riding horse-drawn carriages and running back and forth between Shijiazhuang and the Tainan base.

Zeng Jiwen was a little surprised when he saw the statistical data. This was several times more than they had previously estimated.

Just looking at the equipment, there were six divisions with nearly 12 people equipped with standard equipment, as well as cold-resistant clothing, medicines, canned food and other supplies for hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in North China as winter was approaching.

In addition, there were an additional 72 75mm caliber artillery pieces, 18 Type 99 105mm mountain guns, 18 Type 91 105mm howitzers, as well as 32 light tanks, 12 medium tanks and more than 100 trucks, as well as a large amount of fuel.

However, before Zeng Jiwen could be happy, his face turned dark.

At the end of the document, the discovery of nearly a thousand gas and bacterial bombs, as well as more than five thousand sets of gas mask equipment, was reported.

After seeing this, Zeng Jiwen understood that if the Japanese army in North China was not severely damaged this time, these biological and chemical weapons would probably be directed towards their base.

Zeng Jiwen was very clear about the destructive power of this thing, and he also took this matter to heart.

It is estimated that this Japanese will never change his bad habits. If we take these things away from him this time, I am afraid that he will transport them again next time. I have to ask Weiguo to send people to find out the location of these troops in North China. Zeng Jiwen must not let Xiaozi use these biological and chemical weapons unscrupulously in North China like in the original time and space.

After everyone saw the overall situation of the seizure, the previously depressing atmosphere finally improved a little.

"This time's seizure is beyond our expectations!" Liu Ming said to everyone after reading it.

"Yes, with so many weapons and equipment, I'm afraid that based on the consumption of the Japanese army in North China before the war, they would not need so many. The only explanation is that the Japanese have increased their troops in North China!" Wu Lin took over Liu Ming's words and expressed his guess uncertainly.

"Then we accidentally stole the equipment of the Japanese reinforcements in North China this time." Wang Zhuo quickly reacted.

"Well, I'm afraid. After all, the Japanese army in North China doesn't need so much equipment."

"Look, in addition to the Japanese's regular light and heavy firepower equipment, there are also so many additional artillery pieces. The Japanese army is planning to deploy artillery units." Huang Hanjia said to Zeng Jiwen.

Zeng Jiwen saw Huang Hanjia looking at him with a worried expression, and immediately understood what Huang Hanjia was worried about.

"Old Huang, don't worry. The Japanese army won't be able to recover for another year."

"A year later, even if we can't drive the Japanese out of North China, at least we won't have to be afraid if they launch a large-scale attack." After saying that, he continued.

"Even without the Battle of Shijiazhuang, I think the Japanese army would have expanded its forces in China next year. But after this fight, we'll be thankful if the Japanese army can replenish its losses next year."

"After all, this reinforcement isn't just for North China. I'm afraid the Japanese army in Central China, South China, and Northeast China will also need to increase troops."

"We managed to catch up this time. We took advantage of the fact that the air force from North China hadn't arrived yet and his heavy artillery brigade was heading south. Otherwise, this time would have been very difficult."

After Zeng Jiwen finished speaking, Zhou Xi asked Zeng Jiwen.

"Then, Commander, how should we distribute the spoils this time?"

"With so much supplies, if you don't think carefully, the surrounding brother troops will call and urge you to move."