There were seven dead altogether and about a dozen wounded the platoon sergeant was gone and the assistant platoon sergeant was nowhere in sight it seemed that all was left of third platoon. The enemy appeared to be leaderless they were certainly in a state of shock and we cleaned them up with ease using rifles and bayonets. I lunged forward with the bayonet at on guard shouting tao zong the enemy threw up their hands the Chinese word for surrender was probably the only one I knewI'd filed it away in my brain when we were up north.