Just as Sakamoto led his troops to march in the wind and snow, Li Qinglin held a meeting in a warm big house. This meeting was to summarize the successes and failures of this battle and study what the troops should do next.

Li Qinglin first made a self-examination for this battle. He thought that he was too confident this time, so he preset the battlefield of the Ambush Inoue team in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. He did not take into account the actual situation of the enemy. They were not stupid pigs. They also had ideas and strategies. Li Qinglin believed that his idea was a good starting point, but it was too wishful thinking and it was too difficult to implement the tactics, so that the enemy retreated in time after reacting, and his troops almost did not even get any results.

Li Qinglin praised Zhang Ergou, Dong Zhao and others because they would never fight to the death like the last time. They would only fight with the enemy with positions to the end, but had a basis for advance and retreat. If Sakamoto had not slipped fast, Sakamoto's large army would not have received any good results this time.

Regarding what to do next, Li Qinglin proposed that first, we should continue to monitor the Japanese and puppet troops in the water to guard against sudden enemy attacks; second, we should contact Sun Dianying's troops in the northern part of Lin County. After all, the other party is his own friendly army, and perhaps we can ask them for help at critical moments; third, the militia organized by preliminary organizations exerted great energy in this battle, and they gave the third brigade great help. In the future, Han and Jizhong will continue to strengthen the construction of militia, and ultimately build the militia into a semi-militarized force.

This time, Li Qinglin's self-blame is indeed reasonable, but everyone is the one who leads troops to fight. The situation on the battlefield has always changed rapidly. Sometimes it will affect the ending even for inexplicable reasons, let alone the opponent is a cunning and cruel Japanese soldier. Besides, even if you are the one who commands this battle, you may not be able to achieve greater results than Li Qinglin's command. Therefore, everyone expressed their understanding in their speeches to give Li Qinglin peace of mind. As for Li Qinglin's arrangement of future work, everyone of course expressed their determination to ensure that they will do their future work well.

The meeting on Li Qinglin's side had just ended, and there were sounds of gongs and drums outside. It turned out that the people of Sangyu Town were carrying the killed pigs and sheep, carrying vegetables, rice and flour, and they came to comfort this team that was sincere in fighting against Japan.

The third brigade naturally had to warmly welcome the people who came to work hard. Officers at all levels came forward to get close to family matters with the gentry and the people who came to the barracks.

The most exciting and proudest person here is Wang Leshan. The newly established People's Anti-Japanese Security Group performed well in this battle. They not only provided help to the third brigade, but some militia members also participated in the battle directly and performed very well. As the highest commander of the militia, Wang Leshan naturally had a bright face. Not only did he stand tall, but his voice even spoke much louder than usual.

After sending off the people who were working hard, Li Qinglin called Wang Leshan and asked, "How is the casualties of the militia this time?"

Wang Leshan said: "Seven or eight injured this time, but we have basically arranged it."

"How did you arrange it?" Li Qinglin asked.

"The militias are all from each village, and if they are injured, their boss will pay for treatment." Wang Leshan replied.

Li Qinglin immediately said to Wang Leshan: "This is not possible, we must make a correction. These regiments are not injured by a certain leader, but are injured by all the people, and let their leaders pay for healing. This method is unreasonable. In this way, all the injured regiments are treated as wounded soldiers in the third brigade, and all the expenses are paid by the third brigade."

Wang Leshan thought for a while and said, "The militia is a militia. I think I'd better think of a solution first. I still have some money and food in my hand, so I'll spend some from there. Tomorrow I'll raise some of the gentry and try to spread these expenses to them. This war is also for them. Our third brigade has already produced bullets. If the third brigade covers all the medical expenses for the first time, it will be difficult to ask them for money in the future."

Li Qinglin thought about it and felt that this should be done, so he nodded and agreed to Wang Leshan's idea.

Although the soldiers of the third brigade and the militia did not drink Laba porridge, the dinner was very rich in the evening because the people sent a lot of things. The quality of the meal that night was higher than the next level, and naturally the variety was rich and the oil was abundant.

Just as the officers and soldiers were having a happy dinner, Dong Zhao's cavalry brought in a group of puppet troops. These puppet troops were the puppet soldiers who escaped from the Sakamoto crusade team. Li Qinglin asked someone to point the points, and there were more than fifty people.

After asking about the basic situation, Li Qinglin immediately decided to keep the soldiers and instructed the kitchen to prepare the meals quickly, and then directed the soldiers to install a large pot of hot water in the yard. He wanted these puppet soldiers to eat hot rice and then use hot water.

Zhang Ergou was a little worried about these puppet soldiers. He quietly said to Li Qinglin: "Boss, these puppet soldiers have just fought with us. You have also seen them on the battlefield. These people have not only been traitors, but also were particularly afraid of death when fighting. Why did you leave a word?"

Li Qinglin said: "They have seen the cruelty of the Japanese, so they have given up on the Japanese. In such a strong wind and snowy day, they risked their lives to escape from the traitor army and ran so many times to come to us. That doesn't prove that they have changed their minds and are devoted to fighting the Japanese? As for the problem of fear of death in war, it is that your squadron leader and squad leader have solved it. Do you want me to train them in person?"

"How could you let you do such a small thing? If we can't do such a small thing, then don't mess with you anymore. If they are assigned to my squadron in the future, I will definitely train them into elite soldiers and powerful generals." Zhang Ergou was originally the squad leader of Li Qinglin and others in the recruit company. Li Qinglin and others have always respected him very much, but for some reason, Zhang Ergou is becoming more and more afraid of Li Qinglin now, especially when Li Qinglin's question just now, Zhang Ergou immediately convinced Zhang Ergou, so he patted his chest and promised.

The heavy snow fell for several days. Li Qinglin treated the wounded, buried the dead, and accepted the people's labor force. They worked for several days. The Japanese army in Mizuma also worked for several days. They were not busy with anything else, but Sasaki summoned Sakamoto and the others to a meeting. The meeting discussed the reasons for the defeat in this attack and how to deal with the funeral.

Sasaki brought much more troops this time, and the tactics he used were much more clever than the last time, but he suffered huge losses. This must be found, or the person responsible for the failure this time must be found.

The first person to speak was of course the captain of Sakamoto, because he was the commander of this siege. Sakamoto even proposed that according to his analysis of the combat process, the intelligence had been leaked before the siege, otherwise how could the other party have made such careful arrangements?

Regarding intelligence leakage, this involves Sasaki's old career. If military intelligence is really leaked in advance, it means that the confidentiality work is not done well, and Sasaki and Kondo will have little responsibility.

Sakamoto's speech just ended, and Matsui also spoke. He took the example of his security team being harassed and attracted by the opponent's small team, and also believed that the possibility of intelligence leakage was extremely high. Otherwise, how could the opponent's troops be so concentrated and the tactics were implemented so exquisitely?

Both frontline commanders raised the issue of intelligence, and Sasaki had to pay attention to it. Before the attack, only a few Japanese and one Chinese were here who knew the specific time of the operation. This Chinese was Liang Dagong, the commander of the First Army. Of course, the Japanese would not betray their action plan. The only suspicious object was Liang Dagong, so Liang Dagong was "invited" to the meeting site by Sasaki.

Sasaki has always been polite on the surface and looks down on these traitors in his heart. As soon as Liang Dagong entered the venue, Sasaki asked him why he sent the information of the Imperial Army to the National Army in Sangyu Town.

When the Japanese were defeated, Liang Dagong knew that they would not be in a good mood. Before coming, he was mentally prepared and prepared to serve as a punching bag for Japan. But now Sasaki said that he provided information to the national army, which made him really not mentally prepared. Liang Dagong was stunned for a moment.

If his Imperial Army troops are not strong in combat and have insufficient fighting will, Liang Dagong can also find reasons such as poor equipment, poor military resources, poor treatment, insufficient training, etc. to defend them, anyway, the Japanese also know and agree with these reasons, and Liang Dagong is not too afraid. But now Sasaki did not talk about his subordinates' problems, but directly suspected that he had leaked intelligence. That was the crime of collusion with the enemy and was to be beheaded by the Japanese. Liang Dagong's first reaction was: Are the Japanese going to use themselves as scapegoats and find fig leafs for their failure?

Liang Dagong was able to get into this position, not just because of the Japanese's trust in him. He also came through many storms. After a brief shock, Liang Dagong only made one reason: "Taijun, if I provided information to Sangyu Town, would I still let my wife and brother act with the Imperial Army? Would I let my wife and brother die?"

Liang Dagong liked the concubine he brought very much and was very protective of his wife and brother-in-law. Sasaki and Kondo were both very clear about this situation. Although Liang Dagong did not directly defend himself, his reason was already convincing enough.

In fact, from the first moment Liang Dagong entered the room, Sasaki's eyes did not leave Liang Dagong. When Liang Dagong came in, his eyes were very calm. His sudden attack made Liang Dagong so shocked that he couldn't speak. Then he began to calm down and defend himself. A series of reactions were very natural and in line with the normal reactions of ordinary people. In addition, the reasons raised by Liang Dagong were very convincing, Sasaki had already dispelled Liang Dagong's suspicion of leaking information from the bottom of his heart.

Sasaki waved his hand and asked Liang Dagong to go out. Liang Dagong bowed to all the great masters and then withdrew.

The leaker was not found, but the reason for the failure must be found. Sasaki and others are very worried now. What reason should they use to report the reason for the failure to the superior?...
Chapter completed!