Songhu: Never Give Up

Chapter 238: The End of the 65th Regiment

Colonel Ryokaku is no fool. Those who can be the commander of a permanent division are all smart. The more Ogisu Rikuei assured that reinforcements were on the way, the more it proved that the division headquarters was really under siege by the Chinese heavy troops.
Now the division headquarters needs them to contain the tens of thousands of elite Chinese troops around Qingxi Ridge to prevent them from joining the siege of the division headquarters.

Colonel Ryokaku was not afraid of death, but it was very uncomfortable to be abandoned and used as a cannon for others. He interrupted Major Oi and said:
“Oi-kun, go tell the Chinese that no Imperial Army soldier has surrendered since the war began, let alone a colonel!
The 65th Regiment is ready to serve the Emperor with all their heart. If they want to attack, just come on. The Imperial Army won't mind having their bodies spread all over the hillside."

The two colonels spoke in a stern voice, but their momentum lacked some confidence. They had given up hope of breaking out and now just wanted to take a few people with them.

The more anxious the Japanese were to have a decisive battle with a detachment, Zhu Chi refused to comply with their wishes. Instead, he constantly used officers and soldiers who could speak Japanese language to conduct psychological warfare against them.

Colonel Ryokaku was determined, but the other devils did not have such strong willpower. Zhu Chi even asked people to sing the traditional Japanese folk song "Sakura".

Private First Class Aoki Koji began to hum along unconsciously -

"Sa Ku LS Ku La Ai Yi Lu Yo Yi Ya Da Qi Mi You Yi Ma Su Gu Ai Yi
"I am not Mo Oh, I am a daddy, I am a deer ...

As he hummed, Aoki Koji's thoughts flew back to his distant hometown. When he left Sendai, his parents personally sent him out the door;
His father asked him to occupy the whole of China, so that they would have enough land to grow crops and the family would no longer have to go hungry...

As he hummed, his face became wet with tears, and then he was slapped twice. He was about to swear in Chinese when he found out that the person who hit him was the squad leader. He was immediately frightened and broke into a cold sweat, and quickly bowed to admit his mistake.

The squad leader, Iguchi, obviously wanted to use him as an example to warn the others, so he slapped him twice and cursed:
"Bakayalu, you have lost your conscience. This is disrupting the morale of the army. You're dead!"

When Aoki Yukiji heard that he was dead, he was so scared that he almost fell to his knees. The Japanese army had a strict hierarchy, and now they had something on him. If they really chopped him off, he would have no way to appeal. He quickly took out a gold tooth that he had stolen in Jinling City and handed it to Lieutenant Iguchi.

After Jingkou snatched the gold tooth, he kicked it and cursed:
"Bakayalu, how dare you hide the spoils!"

Aoki Yukiji quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying that he was blinded by greed and would never dare to do it again.

There were many people who hid the spoils of war. After Lieutenant Iguchi got a gold tooth, his anger subsided a lot. He broke his feet twice as a punishment and then let him go. Then he said viciously to others:

"Bakayaloo, this is a trick by the Chinese to shake the morale of the Imperial Army. If you dare to sing along again, you'll die!"

After saying a few harsh words, he left triumphantly. He was in a very good mood with a white gold tooth. The expression on the face of the little devil Aoki who was beaten up was as if his father had died;
His good friend Kuroda Masago whispered to him:
"It's good enough to save my life, so let's just consider it as losing money to avoid disaster!

Don’t follow the Chinese tricks in the future. If you anger your superiors, no one can save you.”

Aoki Koji said unconvinced:

"The Chinese have surrounded Qingxi Ridge. There will be no reinforcements. No one can get out alive. We will die together."

Kuroda Masayoshi blocked his mouth and said:
"Aoki-kun, if you want to die, don't drag me into this. The captain is full of spies here."

Private Aoki, whose gold tooth was stolen, seemed to have given it up. He had pried the gold tooth out of the mouth of a wealthy Chinese man after killing him, and hid it in a valley to avoid search. He was going to give it to his mother as a denture, but in the end it fell into the hands of the squad leader.

He said unhappily:
"What are you afraid of? We're all going to die anyway!"

"Bakayalu, what did you say?"

The sergeant glared at him fiercely, and Private Aoki immediately admitted his weakness. He was just a big talker. Fortunately, the sergeant did not argue with him, but just warned him fiercely. Private Aoki did not dare to talk nonsense again. If he angered the sergeant, he would be punished.

The political offensives at the foot of the mountain came one after another, making the Japanese soldiers upset. One squadron leader even raised a machine gun and fired at the foot of the mountain to provoke a team.

As a result, he was sent back home by a sniper's bullet, and the other Japanese soldiers were so scared that they retreated into the trenches.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

Rows of shells fell from the sky, and the artillerymen at the foot of the mountain once again launched a fierce bombardment on their positions. Hundreds of Japs were torn to pieces by the artillery fire;
Under the double blow of political and military attack, the morale of the 65th Regiment has dropped to the freezing point, and the outcome of the main battlefield is already clear, so there is no need to keep the remnants of the 65th Regiment.

Zhu Chi decisively issued an order for a general attack. He concentrated all the artillery and used the method of slowly advancing with a barrage of bullets to quickly push the battle line to the front of the Japanese positions.

By the time the Japanese reacted, the vanguard troops of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions had already rushed to their positions.

Private First Class Aoki rushed forward with his gun in hand and stabbed a Chinese soldier. The Chinese soldier raised his hand and shot his head off. Until his death, he never figured out why his bayonet was slower than a bullet in close combat.
"Brothers, charge! Kill all the devils!"

2 Battalion Commander Han Xianyuan rushed to the front again. The Whampoa Military Academy had a very bad habit. It was not easy to train a battalion commander.

Zhu Chi immediately cursed:
"This Han Mengzi is not listening again. I will definitely withdraw him after the battle."

The other staff officers pretended not to hear it. The detachment commander had said this countless times. Commander Han was still Commander Han - no, it should be the battalion commander, but everyone was demoted and they were willing to do so.

At the 65th Regiment Headquarters, Colonel Ryotaka had already ordered the destruction of the military flag and radio station. Prior to this, he had also sent a farewell message, which contained only one line of words:

"Ogisu-kun, I'm waiting for you in the Yasukuni ghost toilet, Bakayaloo!"

Finally, he cursed Ogisu Rippei before he died, and Colonel Ryokaku felt much better. He even took out a short knife and embroidered a cross on his belly.
He, who has obsessive-compulsive disorder, cut the cross very standardly, with straight horizontal and vertical lines. Chinese characters are beautiful.

Major Oi, who was in charge of helping him, chopped off his neck with one blow. Just when he was about to strike himself, he suddenly found that he couldn't do it.
He remembered that he seemed to have one-eighth Chinese blood. When Captain Han led his men into the field command post, he threw away the knife in his hand and said loudly in fluent Chinese:
"Don't kill me, my great grandfather is Chinese!"

Han Xianyuan sneered and said:

"This won't save your life!"

Major Oi did not want to die and continued to beg for mercy:
"I have the code book!"

A smile finally appeared on Han Xianyuan's face. The guerrilla column had finally captured a prisoner since the war began, and he was a major.

In order to keep the secret of the code book, Han Xianyuan naturally ordered the killing of all other devils.

Half an hour later, the sporadic fighting ended and the 65th Regiment was completely wiped out - one enemy was captured.

(End of this chapter)