Songhu: Never Give Up

The guerrilla column artillery positions, 12 105mm rocket launchers, 24 mountain guns, and 24 mortars were ready;

The muzzles of the guns are pointing straight at the sky, like rows of soldiers!
The commander of the artillery battalion, He Qizheng, was so excited that he didn't sleep all night. He thought he was far behind Lao Yue in this aspect, but he was not upset.
Not everyone has a big heart like Lao Yue, and not everyone has an opportunity like Lao He.

When he thought of the Japanese who were about to be ravaged by the artillery fire, his mood became surprisingly good. This life was worth it, and he had to turn a new page in his family tree!
After checking the time again, He Qizheng calmed down and shouted:

"Artillery Battalion—Fire!"

Colonel Kawanami's face turned ashen in an instant. After a while, he saw the "fireworks" that made him terrified again.

Instantly he understood what was going on and felt so wronged that he wanted to cry - why was he always the one who got hurt?
The last time he saw fireworks, he only managed to save one regiment headquarters. Just a few days after the reinforcements, he saw "fireworks flying all over the sky" again!

"Baga - that's too much of a bully!"

“Boom boom boom boom…”

The answer he got was a devastating barrage of artillery fire. Hundreds of shells shattered all his fantasies of breaking through the Chinese positions.

When the artillery shells annihilated the Sixth Regiment's attack group, he finally realized that Yue Qianli had been playing him like a monkey...

"Bakayalu, a warrior can be killed but not humiliated!"

Colonel Kawanami pulled out his ancestral sword and was ready to end his own life. He no longer had the face to live.

Colonel Tsuchiya snatched Colonel Kawanami's sword and shouted:
"As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood! Hurry and move in."

"Boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom..."

The shells fell in rows, not only covering the 6th Regiment, but also the 34th Regiment;
He and Colonel Tagami have always been good brothers, and even their plan to commit seppuku was the same, but he was stopped before he even pulled out the knife.

Colonel Kawanami did not want to give up at this point. He should at least cut three times and persuade three times, which was in accordance with the rules.

Unfortunately, Major Tsuchiya was uneducated and simply ordered people to help him up and leave. This was too embarrassing, so he had to shout some harsh words!

"Twenty years later, I will still be a good man!"

——No, this is too unlucky.

"Yue Qianli - I will come back!"

Domineering!

Unfortunately, no one was watching his performance. The unlucky ones were already lying on the ground, and those who had escaped by chance were running away, and it was unclear whether they could survive.

They had already heard the charge that was known as the death warrant for China. The Chinese had indeed fought back...

At the same time, the positions of the 65th and 58th Regiments on the right wing were also heavily bombarded, but there were no rocket launchers. The two artillery battalions of the rd and Supplementary Detachments opened fire at full capacity, with dozens of large and small artillery pieces bombarding the positions that the Japanese had just occupied for one night;

The shells rained down, making the Japs scream in agony. Their performance was far better than that of the two regiments of the Third Division.

The 58th Regiment was composed of veteran Japanese soldiers, whose fighting spirit was obviously much stronger than those of the 6th Regiment's replacement soldiers. In addition to the difference in firepower, the Japanese soldiers on the right wing did not collapse, but struggled hard, trying to hold on and wait for help.
Thousands of soldiers from the supplementary detachment took the lead in launching an attack from the flank. The 65th Regiment that was confronting them performed a little worse, but they were also barely holding on.

Although the 65th Regiment was composed entirely of replacement soldiers, they were transferred as a whole from the old Japanese mixed brigade, which made their fighting will and combat effectiveness higher than that of the rd Division.

If they were other weaker attacking units of the National Army, they could really hold out, but their opponents this time were Yue Qianli's starting unit, the Third Detachment, and Wang Jianfei's supplementary detachment;

They were all veterans who had emerged from the pile of dead bodies in Jinling Lane. They had twice as many troops and firepower as theirs, and their morale was high. The difference in strength between the two sides was huge.

The formation of the Japanese was disrupted from the beginning. The battalions and regiments had lost unified command and each fought independently from the beginning.
After the charge was sounded, the three battalions of the supplementary detachment attacked the Japanese positions in a V-formation. The Japanese fought desperately and blocked the 1st Battalion of the first echelon.

The 2nd and 3rd Battalions that followed did not hesitate to move forward, but went around the 1st Battalion's two wings and outflanked the 65th Regiment's two wings.
Soon they attacked the Japanese positions from both wings, like two huge pliers, wedged into the waist of the Japanese defense zone, and then cut it in half, dividing it into two large pieces.

2营、3营完成切割任务后就一分以二，2营继续攻击后面一块，3营和1营合围前面的一块。

At this time, the Japanese soldiers could no longer hold on and began to collapse. The more than 3 soldiers from the 1rd and 3st Battalions surrounded the hundreds of Japanese soldiers they had cut off, and attacked them from both sides, and soon wiped them out.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the remaining 1-odd Japanese soldiers fought and retreated under the sole attack of the 2nd Battalion, moving closer to the 58th Regiment in the middle.

At this time, the remaining enemy troops of the 58th Regiment were broken through in the middle by the 1st Battalion of the 2rd Detachment and split into two groups of different sizes. There were about people left in total, and they were still resisting stubbornly.

It has to be said that the fighting will of these old devils is strong. The Third Detachment and the Supplementary Detachment also suffered a lot of casualties when they encircled and annihilated them, but this did not affect the overall situation.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the remnants of the two Japanese regiments on the right wing had been divided and surrounded in three small areas. Their destruction was only a matter of time.

The incident on the north bank of the river quickly alerted Tanaka Seiichi, who, after a moment of panic, ordered the field artillery regiment to support the two regiments on the opposite bank.

The indiscriminate bombardment from dozens of artillery pieces caused a lot of casualties to the Third Detachment and the Supplementary Detachment, but they still fought to the death and continued to encircle and annihilate the remaining Japanese enemies under the Japanese artillery fire.

At this time, the problem facing Tanaka Shizuka was whether to reinforce or retreat. If he wanted to reinforce, he still had two infantry regiments, but there were not enough ferries because half of the boats were left on the other side of the river, which was the retreat route for the 58th and 65th regiments.
If they retreat, they will definitely be hunted down and only one in ten will be able to retreat back to the south bank alive, and they will not cause many casualties to the Chinese.

He already knew what was happening over there in the Third Division. They were all in a difficult situation and couldn't even protect themselves, so he couldn't rely on them.

It is definitely not possible to send reinforcements. There are too few ferries, and it is easy to use the tactic of adding fuel to the fire. If things go wrong, we may have to sacrifice the other two regiments.

The battle of Huaibei had already been lost, and Tanaka Shizukazu decided to cut losses in time. He immediately ordered the 65th and 58th Regiments to destroy their military flags, and then go on the defensive on the spot to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese.

Tanaka Shizuka is indeed a ruthless man. He wants to make use of the waste and force the devils of the 65th and 58th Regiments into a desperate situation, and he will kill as many Chinese as he can.

Then he ordered the field artillery regiment to launch indiscriminate bombardment on the north bank of the Huai River, using the remaining Japanese soldiers as bait to kill as many Chinese as possible. (End of this chapter)