Bright Sword: I took Li Yunlong to work in military industry

Chapter 282 Counting the Losses

It was already twelve o'clock in the afternoon when Yu Ye led the convoy back to the independent regiment. His face was ashen.

When he was near the independent regiment's base, he had already seen the tragic scene of the village being washed away after the dam collapsed. Fully one-third of the houses were collapsed by the flood.

This is because it is already late autumn. If it were the flood season in summer, more than half of the houses in the village would probably be affected.

"Captain Zhang, Captain Shen, you two should arrange for some people to settle the affected people first. We cannot leave the villagers without a place to stay in such cold weather."

Yu Ye took a look at the disaster situation and arranged this matter first.

"Yes!"

Now Yu Ye is the highest authority here, and everything is subject to Yu Ye's arrangements. The two battalion commanders have no objections.

"Captain Zhang took over the security work and kept in touch with the regiment commander at all times to ensure that the news here was synchronized with Lao Li's, so that Lao Li would not worry.

In addition, we will do a good job in connecting with the returning personnel from the first and third battalions."

As Yu Ye walked, he began to arrange the important tasks at hand, one by one in an orderly manner.

Zhang Dabiao and Shen Quan listened to Yu Ye's deployment and nodded continuously. They used to think that Minister Yu was extremely outstanding in technology, but they didn't expect that he also had such a high level of management.

In fact, most scientists or top military experts have strong management capabilities, because most scientific research projects require in-depth team participation and are definitely not something that can be accomplished by one person alone.

Take the "two bombs" as an example. The actual number of people involved in any one project was a large-scale battle of more than 100,000 people.

In fact, many big names have emerged from the aerospace industry in later generations.

Many of them even became provincial governors.

"Shen Quan, please stay for a moment and tell me in detail what happened yesterday. I need to have a clear understanding of the whole process."

Yu Ye's voice became serious. Although he was very dissatisfied with the performance of Shen Quan and the Second Battalion in the conflict last night, he had to know the situation from Shen Quan.

"Yes!"

Shen Quan spoke in a low voice, not daring to look directly at Minister Yu.

"Shen Quan, before reporting yesterday's battle, please tell me about the damage, especially the situation of the Liaoyuan Arsenal and the Regimental Light Factory."

Yu Ye's voice was emotionless.

"Yes, Minister. In the conflict last night, the entrance to the Liaoyuan Arsenal was blown down. The damage to various machines has not yet been confirmed. None of our technical backbones and workers received serious injuries. Only three or five people sprained their ankles or broke bones during the evacuation."

Shen Quan reported carefully.

"Hmm? Are you sure there aren't any casualties?"

This news was beyond Yu Ye's expectations. He was shocked when he received the telegram last night. He had even made preparations for the worst, that the Liaoyuan Arsenal would be completely destroyed and all the staff would be wiped out.

Unexpectedly, none of the personnel in the Liaoyuan Arsenal were killed or even seriously injured.

"Yes, Minister. After defeating the enemy special forces, the first thing our Second Battalion did was to go to the back mountain to gather our comrades from the arsenal who had retreated. They have all been resettled.

This time, thanks to the political commissar, he immediately made the decision to let all the staff of the arsenal evacuate through the secret passage you left behind, and then he personally blew up the entrance to the passage, so everyone was able to survive."

Shen Quan reported with admiration in his eyes.

"Go on."

After hearing this, Yu Ye's tone softened a little.

"As for the light industry factory you are concerned about, our factory buildings were basically blown up by the Japanese, the looms were also blown up, and the coarse cotton yarn was basically burned by the Japanese. The loss is quite heavy.

Four female workers in the textile factory were also hit by bullets when the Japanese rushed in and died on the spot. "

"According to the factory's policy, we should provide subsidies to these employees. How is my sister-in-law?"

"Minister, Sister Xiuqin is fine. When the Japanese invaders came in, Sister Xiuqin confronted them head-on with a gun in hand. She killed two of them on the spot, preventing them from continuing their attack."

Yu Ye was slightly relieved when he heard that Sister Xiuqin was fine, but when he saw the broken walls and ruins on the ground, his heart became heavy again.

"Were the casualties among the soldiers heavy?"

Yu Ye let out a heavy breath and finally asked the most heartbreaking question.

"Minister, our Second Battalion has more than 207 people. After the expansion of the Fifth Company, there are 29 people in total. Now there are 43 people left. The rest of the companies have lost a total of people.

There were also 18 seriously injured and 37 slightly injured.

And 12 villagers died in this Japanese attack. "

Shen Quan had been suppressing his emotions and spoke in a low voice.

"231 soldiers died. How the hell did you manage to be a battalion commander?"

Yu Ye was instantly furious, and extremely furious.

"Even if I took all the rocket launchers away to save Lao Li, you guys wouldn't have fought like this, right?

Even if we use our Type 56 submachine guns to shoot against the Japanese MP38 submachine guns, we will never lose to them!

Also, are your individual fuel-air bombs for show?

Why not?

I don't see any signs of these heavy weapons being used on the battlefield.

What kind of battle are you fighting?"

Yu Ye turned around and started cursing at Shen Quan.

With the current equipment level of the independent regiment, it is a great shame and humiliation to be beaten like this by the Japanese special forces!

And so many comrades were sacrificed. This is simply an unforgivable mistake.

"Minister, we were also caught off guard. Who could have thought that the Japanese would come at this time? Moreover, their goal was very clear, which was to target our arsenal. The soldiers were suppressed and had no chance to fight back.

The Japs also blew up our dam, and the village was submerged. We never expected such a thing to happen.

Most of our recruits are new recruits..."

Shen Quan was the most meticulous and prudent of the three battalion commanders, so he was left behind by Yu Ye to be responsible for the security of the Liaoyuan Arsenal. However, he did not expect that the situation would turn out like this.

"Get lost! When have you ever seen the Japanese wait until we are ready before fighting? Most of them are new recruits? That's because you, the battalion commander, didn't teach and lead them well!"

Yu Ye was so angry that his liver hurt.

"Minister, please punish me. I know that I deserve to be shot for the mistakes I made this time. I just beg you to spare my life. I must keep it to fight the Japanese and avenge these 231 comrades."

Shen Quan, who has always been introverted, couldn't control his emotions, and there was a hint of tears in his voice. It was not that he was worried about being punished, but that he felt guilty for the 231 comrades under his command.

"Damn it." Yu Ye cursed for the first time.

Yu Ye actually knew clearly where the problem lay through Shen Quan's report just now. Everything had been going smoothly for a while, and the entire independent regiment had developed an attitude of contempt for the Japanese devils. In addition, all the heavy weapons were taken away by Yu Ye himself, and the defeat was not unfair as the unprepared recruits faced the sneak attack of the Japanese devils' elite special forces.

Yu Ye just took a glance and saw that 32 Japanese soldiers were killed on the spot. The 7:1 casualty ratio has returned to the level when Yu Ye did not appear at the beginning.

This battle taught the entire independent regiment a lesson.