Songhu: Never Give Up

Deng Zhuxiu glanced at Liao Tao with dissatisfaction, and then said lightly:
"Liao Tao, can you be calmer? You should trust your comrades and don't forget his last name is Yue!"

Liao Tao was just about to ask what was wrong with the surname Yue, but then he smiled awkwardly. In the guerrilla column, the surname Yue was a golden signboard.

Deng Zhuxiu, like Liao Jianping, was an old buddy of Yue Qianli. When he was the battalion commander of the 527th Regiment, Yue Qianli tricked him into sending reinforcements many times.
At first he thought he had gained an advantage, but later even his third battalion changed its name to Yue!

So from then on he came to a conclusion that people with the surname Yue were very cunning, while Yue Wanli and Lao Yue were like melons grown on the same vine and were not much different.

Liao Tao wisely shut his mouth. He didn't dare to let the deputy captain make fun of Commander Yue. Commander Yue was an old brother, so he only dared to order Xiao Yue around.

A few hundred meters away, the slippery Yue Wanli mentioned by Deng Zhuxiu had already led the Japanese soldiers over, but the Japanese soldiers were in a rather embarrassed state, looking like a group of defeated soldiers. Liao Tao shook his head repeatedly when he saw this. This was too embarrassing for Commander Yue.

Seeing that the fish had been hooked, Deng Zhuxiu immediately ordered his men to prepare for battle.

Their ambush formation was the guerrilla column's signature inverted eight-character formation. The characteristic of this ambush formation was that the entrance was relatively large, and the ambushers on both wings were hidden several hundred meters away, making it difficult for the Japanese to detect them when they were in motion.
The deeper you go inside, the narrower the space becomes. By the time you realize something is wrong, the ambushers outside have already closed the gap.

"Bagayalu, this is dangerous work!"

The Japanese vanguard captain, Masao Komiya, had a keen sense of smell. After realizing that they might have been tricked, he immediately ordered to stop the pursuit and then ordered the troops to advance to both wings to seize the commanding heights.

Unfortunately, his reaction was still a few beats too slow. After entering the cemetery that Deng Zhuxiu had carefully selected for them, their lives began to count down...

"Fire—damn it!"

Deng Zhuxiu's orders were so simple and crude, he learned them from Yue Qianli, there was no depth, but they just sounded powerful.

Following Deng Zhuxiu's order, dozens of light and heavy machine guns ambushed on both wings opened fire on the Japanese at almost the same time, spraying tens of thousands of bullets, killing no less than 200 Japanese like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves;
The other Japanese soldiers were stunned by the sudden attack and charged to both wings out of inertia, trying to break through the deadly firepower network.

This was like using one's life to block bullets, and the consequence was that one's life was also blocked, and the rain of bullets from both wings did not weaken at all;
In the face of absolute firepower, the Japanese's fearlessness and courage would amount to suicide, so the ambushers naturally wouldn't mind giving them a ride.

"Bagayalu, the enemy is attacking, kill the chicken!"

Major Masao Komiya also has a lot of combat experience. He is obviously an old man. Coming from Kumamoto, he is very talented in combat.
Although the firepower from both wings was very strong, there was almost no movement in front of him and he could retreat at any time behind him, he still chose to break out from the right wing with all his strength. This should be the best answer.

The Komiya Battalion belonged to the 106th Regiment, which was a special division and the first division to be deployed to the Xuzhou battlefield. It was under the command of the 10th Division.

This division was formed with the reserve core of the 6th Division. Many officers came from the garrison regiment of the 6th Division, and the soldiers all came from the Kumamoto area, so their combat effectiveness was very strong.

Here we have to talk about Japan's military service system in detail, because the complete and advanced military service system is the guarantee for the Japanese to arm millions of land forces in just a few years;
Currently, mainstream countries all implement the conscription system, which is what we often call professional soldiers.

Everyone knows that the Japanese had 17 permanent divisions and more than 30 professional army before the war. In fact, they had 21 first-class divisions before, numbered 1 to 20, plus the Guards Division. In 24, due to financial constraints caused by the dispatch of troops to Siberia, four divisions were cut in the Ugaki disarmament in 25, forming 4 permanent divisions.

If it weren't for the "September 17th" occupation of the areas outside the Great Wall, they would not even be able to support these divisions, let alone launch a full-scale war against China.

In order to train and reserve enough troops with limited military funds, they introduced the reserve system.
After serving a certain number of years, soldiers will be forced to retire from active service and transfer to the reserve force.

The headquarters has a special department to manage these reserve forces. They are divided into several levels according to the years since retirement and training is organized regularly. Over time, a huge reserve corps will be reserved, with a number of up to one million people. These are all old devils.

全面开战后，光靠17个常设师团肯定是不够的，于是鬼子就以第1至6师团的第一预备役兵组建了6个特设师团，编号是101、104、106、108、109、114。

These six divisions are also composed of four units, each with about 6 people, which expands to an army of 2.6 in one go.

These divisions were just enough to deal with the war in North China. After the battle of Shanghai began, the Japanese urgently restored the four Class A divisions that had been disbanded before, including the 4th and 13th divisions. Within a few days, they expanded their army to 18.
China could not match such a speed of mobilization. After the Battle of Xuzhou began, the Japanese troops were insufficient and a new round of mobilization was being planned.

As the vanguard brigade, the Komiya Brigade had always suffered heavy casualties, and the slow-moving infantry artillery squadron and heavy machine gun squadron did not catch up, so only more than 700 people chased after them;

After the losses in the first round of fire attack, they now only have about 500 people left, and their firepower is insufficient, so they can only choose to break out from one direction.

The 1st Battalion, which had only about 500 men, blocked the right wing. The two sides had equal strength and used Japanese weapons. There were six Type 6 heavy machine guns alone, and each squad had a Type light machine gun.

The artillery company was equipped with 6 thunder cannons, 2 mortars and 2 infantry guns. Such firepower intensity was not something that half of the Japanese infantry battalion could withstand.

The position they chose had a certain slope, so the Japanese had to attack from above. In order to avoid being annihilated, they could only charge forward under the hail of bullets from the 1st Battalion, and every step forward would cost them heavy casualties.

When the Japanese soldiers fearlessly rushed down the slope, the artillery company's six flying thunder cannons fired the first round of explosive packs, and the huge explosion instantly engulfed dozens of Japanese soldiers.

The flying explosion fragments sprayed towards the Japanese without any blind spots. Anyone hit by them would either die or be disabled. There was no such thing as a light injury.

Although the old Japanese soldiers who came to Kumamoto were "barbaric" and fearless of life and death, the horrific killing of the "heartless cannon" still frightened the Japanese soldiers, and they retreated like a tide;
As they were retreating in a hurry, several heavy machine guns were not idle, constantly spraying bullets at their backs.

If you are hit by a 7.7mm fully charged machine gun bullet, there is no need for rescue.

"Bakayaro, is this still the Kumamoto Division?

A bunch of cowards, die!"

Komiya Masao knew that if they did not break through the right wing blocking formation in a short period of time, they would be completely annihilated.
So they could only use machine guns to drive them to continue attacking the right wing position. This was their last chance. Either they rushed out, or they would all die here! (End of this chapter)