Anti-Japanese War: When I get promoted, the system will explode with soldiers

Chapter 1066 Just give up when you’re ready

"Head count."

After seeing that most people had boarded the vehicles, Tian Qing immediately ordered his men to count the number of people. There should have been no casualties in the battle just now.

"A complete team."

"Team Two is complete."

"Team Three..."

Upon hearing his subordinate's report, Tian Qing nodded in satisfaction. "In that surprise attack, we must have killed at least forty Japanese soldiers."

If we continue like this, we might kill even more people, but our casualties will also increase.

As the commander-in-chief told us, if we were to increase our casualties in exchange for the enemy's heads, then we should simply abandon such a battle. The proper requirement for everyone is to inflict appropriate casualties on the enemy while remaining intact.

While zero casualties is always a desirable goal on any battlefield, maintaining this level of performance for as long as possible would bring some relief to everyone, especially the newly recruited Central Army personnel. They had never experienced such a battle before, and what they had just witnessed felt like a dream—something they certainly wouldn't dare to do even in their wildest dreams.

At this moment, these guys were all quite excited. On their battlefield, even though they were the most elite training corps in China, they could only manage a one-for-one exchange with the Japanese. And that was just pure infantry combat. If they encountered enemy planes and artillery, it would probably be even more difficult for them.

But the situation was different now. More than forty men set off without even getting a scratch. Instead, they killed thirty or forty Japanese soldiers. As for the wounded, we simply didn't count them. We had never achieved such a victory before.

"The Japanese are chasing us, from the nine o'clock direction."

Just as Tian Qing was about to give the order for the brothers to retreat to a safe area, about a dozen Japanese soldiers approached from the direction of nine o'clock. They were not the Japanese soldiers we had attacked earlier, but rather those who had been searching for supplies nearby. They came to see what was going on after hearing the gunfire.

"Tear them to pieces."

Tian Qing's face revealed a ferocious smile. "Your appearance under these circumstances is like delivering food to us. We were just separated from the battle between the armored vehicles and jeeps. Now everyone is still in the vehicles, and you don't even look at the situation on the ground before rushing out with your Type 38 rifles."

You deserve to die today!

The 40mm twin-mounted rapid-fire cannons opened fire immediately. To conserve ammunition, the heavy machine guns on the other vehicles did not fire; the soldiers simply fired freely from their firing ports. Even so, the seventeen or eighteen Japanese soldiers were wiped out in an instant, without even a chance to catch their breath. The difference in strength between the two sides was too great.

"Captain, these Japanese soldiers seem to have come out to search the north side of that dilapidated building..."

One of his Nationalist soldiers pointed into the distance and said, "There should still be some Japanese soldiers to the north of that dilapidated building. Let's go over and take them out..."

"We've already taken a chunk out of the Japanese troops on both the north and south sides. If we stay here any longer, we'll easily get surrounded. We need to hurry and retreat."

Tian Qing was not blinded by the victory before her eyes, and of course knew what she should do at this moment.

Five minutes after their retreat, the Japanese troops on the north and south sides met up on this path. Apart from the tire tracks on the ground, they found nothing. However, both Japanese companies had lost a lot of men, totaling nearly seventy.

The whole process took a total of one hour and fifteen minutes, after which they returned to their starting point.

"Take a break while you can. Replenish your ammunition when you need to, sleep when you want, and eat when you want. Our reconnaissance teams are all on rotation. If it's your turn to be on rotation next time, you'll have to conduct battlefield reconnaissance during your rest time as well."

Tian Qing'er took off her helmet and told everyone to rest. We won't launch an attack until we find the next target.

Some people led small teams into the Japanese-occupied territory, and then they rampaged through the area for a whole day, attacking several Japanese army units. However, in the end, they were all wiped out. Although they killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers, only a few of them managed to break through.

Tian Qing'er didn't say anything about this small team. She couldn't control them, but she could control herself. She tried her best to keep everyone alive and kill Japanese soldiers under these circumstances.

Li Shaoyi was also at the command post, looking at the number of enemies killed reported by each squad. Tian Qing's squad was indeed different from the others. They had been operating for a day, and their results were still based on the morning, totaling about seventy men.

The other squads have now killed over two hundred enemies each. Of course, three squads were completely wiped out; they weren't so lucky. They were surrounded by the Japanese army while they were fighting, but even so, they managed to take an army ten times their size with them on their way to their deaths.

However, just as Tian Qing thought, this was not the kind of small team that Li Shaoyi wanted. We were there to kill and wound their manpower, not to make them perish together. The gap between us and Japan was too great, especially in terms of personnel losses. We could not fight a war of attrition with them; we had to fight a war of skill.

"Reporting to the commander, Captain Tian's latest feedback is back. At six o'clock in the evening, they launched another attack, targeting a transport company in Zhabei. They burned about five thousand catties of grain and killed more than thirty Japanese soldiers. They only had two soldiers with minor injuries."

Guo Shaoqiu knew that Li Shaoyi had been paying attention to this unit that morning, so when Tian Qing's battle damage report came in, he immediately came to report to Li Shaoyi.

"It seems that conducting experiments first and then promoting it throughout the army is a perfectly sound strategy. Look at these small teams that have been wiped out. I'm not saying they're wrong. In many people's minds, sacrificing oneself for one's country is a way of serving the country. But we are far behind Japan. They need to kill more Japanese to make up for that gap. What I need is not small teams like these, but small teams like Tian Qing's."

Li Shaoyi said somewhat excitedly, his words becoming somewhat incoherent. Some people around him didn't understand, but Guo Shaoqiu understood.

While the number of enemies killed is important, we must also pay attention to our own casualties. If our casualties are relatively low, and the number of enemies killed is temporarily lower, that is acceptable. Moreover, Captain Tian's kill count may not be low in the next few days of the event...