The Japanese retaliatory shelling lasted for more than half an hour, and the shelling stopped until it was completely dark.

After the shelling stopped, the Japanese unexpectedly made another request, allowing their corpse collecting team to enter the battlefield to pull their bodies away.

In exchange, the Coast Defense Corps can also transport its own bodies.

When transporting the corpse, neither party is allowed to shoot at each other.

Zhong Yi agreed to the Japanese's request because it was late summer and the weather was still very hot. If the corpse was left on the battlefield without being collected, it would soon rot.

Allowing the bodies of fallen soldiers to rot is not only a blasphemy against the heroic spirit, but also a fever epidemic.

So the two sides agreed on a time and sent a team of officers and soldiers to the battlefield to collect the remains.

Late at night, the bodies of the dead Japanese army were transported back to Zhangqi Town and placed outside the ancestral hall.

Surrounded by Takeshi Sakurada and several team leaders, Sakata Shun walked out of the ancestral hall of Chun-hai Command and saw the Japanese corpses lying on the door of the ancestral hall at a glance.

Tatsuno took a step forward and said, "Captain, today's battle, the 1st Infantry Battalion had 489 imperial soldiers broken, and another 16 were seriously injured."

A look of regret immediately appeared on Sakata Shun's cheek.

There are 489 imperial soldiers, these are nearly three squadrons!

Strictly speaking, it took only one day, and in less than half a day, nearly three infantry squadrons were lost! This made Sakata Shun secretly feel shocked while regretting it.

Zhong Yi’s coastal defense corps is so powerful!

This is because the Coast Defense Corps lacks solid fortifications. If it were replaced by another battlefield, if the Coast Defense Corps had solid fortifications as a support, wouldn’t the loss of their Bantian Detachment be greater?

It was not until this moment that Sakata Shun truly realized that the Coast Defense Corps might be a tricky opponent!

At that moment, Sakata Shun asked with a dark face: "Kano, please tell me how this battle was fought?"

Takeshi Sakurada and several other team captains also fell on Katano's face. They were all wondering how the Katano team fought in this battle?

How bad is Kano's command so much that so many people die?

"Hayi." Kanano Tatsumi bowed deeply and said, "Captain, this is the thing."

Speaking of this, Katano Tatsumi told Sakata that this afternoon was the battle that happened at the western foot of Kowloon Mountain. The old Japanese were still tough and had no intention of expelling him.

After listening to the story of Deaki Nori, Sakata's face finally looked a little better.

Sakata Shun nodded and said in a deep voice: "So, the first infantry squadron that lost was entirely due to insufficient preparation, while the second and third squadrons were also due to insufficient firepower?"

"Yes." Tadashi Kano said, "During the first attack, I didn't know much about the firepower intensity of the Chinese army, so I suffered a great loss. The two infantry squadrons that were invested in the attack for the second time were also because the Chinese army had the advantageous light firepower. Before the two sides launched hand-to-hand combat, the Imperial Army lost more than half of its troops."

"But even so, there are still seventy or eighty imperial soldiers breaking into the defense positions of the Chinese army, right?" Sakamoto said, "The seventy or eighty imperial soldiers face less than 100 Chinese army, and they can't take advantage of the hand-to-hand combat?"

"Yes." Tatsuya Kanano said with a dark face, "Although he is reluctant to admit it, in fact, at least eighty imperial soldiers were indeed defeated in hand-to-hand combat against less than 100 Chinese soldiers."

"Baga." Sakamoto stopped, "It seems that it is necessary for us to re-estimate the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang East China Sea Defense Corps, and the subsequent battle will be more difficult than expected!"

...

The Sakamoto Detachment suffered heavy losses, while the Coast Defense Corps suffered heavy losses.

The 1st Company and 1st Platoon of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Regiment, the Second Detachment of the Coast Defense Corps, belonged to the 125th Regiment, all 125 people. Only two people survived, namely Yu Qi and Qin Jiu, and the only two left were injured to varying degrees.

At this moment, 123 bodies from the first row have been transported back to Xuejia Village.

Looking at the more than 100 bodies scattered in the entrance of the village, Zhong Yi couldn't help but feel sad.

Cao Guolin even stood behind Zhong Yi and shed tears secretly. As a patrolman, Cao Guolin usually saw one or two dead people while pursuing fugitives. When did he see so many dead people put together?

More than a hundred corpses were placed together, which looked really scary.

At this moment, a female and child transport team suddenly passed by the entrance of the village.

To this day, the battle to defend Yinjiang has been fully launched, and the manpower and material resources of the entire Yinjiang have been mobilized.

Especially the manpower, the whole Yinjiang family, even the women and children, took action to support the front line, men formed civilian ladies to help the army build fortifications, while women and children took over the work left by the men and organized transportation teams to transport food, weapons and ammunition to the front line.

It was really a coincidence that the transportation team passing by the entrance of Xuejia Village happened to be from Luotuo Town.

This is amazing, because the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Regiment was composed of the militia in Luotuo Town as the foundation.

Seeing so many corpses at the entrance of the village, the young wife of the transportation team panicked. After asking again, dozens of people burst into tears in the team immediately burst into tears.

Looking at the women and children crying, Zhong Yi felt even more heartbroken.

Especially one of the aunts, who looked over seventy years old, walked unsteadily and tremblingly, as if they might fall down in the next second. At this moment, the aunt was lying on a remains, crying in tears.

Cao Guolin wiped his tears and said to Zhong Yi: "Shen, this old man's husband's surname is Fang."

Speaking of this, Cao Guolin said with a sad expression: "Almost all Luotuo Town has a surname of Qin, and only a dozen families have surnames Fang, and Aunt Fang's family is one of them."

Zhong Yi said in a deep voice: "How do you recognize her?"

Cao Guolin said: "Because Aunt Fang has seven sons."

"Seven sons?" Zhong Yi suddenly felt a stern when he heard this.

"Well, Aunt Fang has given birth to seven sons in total." Cao Guolin nodded and said, "But now there are only three sons left, oh no, there are only two left now."

Zhong Yi said sternly: "Now there are only two left? What's going on?"
Chapter completed!