Songhu: Never Give Up

Yue Wanli's 1st Company was at the front line of the frontline. After being tempered by dozens of battles, large and small, he has grown into a qualified grassroots commander.

The company and platoon leaders of the Nationalist Army suffered the greatest casualties. Among the students who graduated with him, less than 40% survived the two major battles of Nanjing and Xuzhou, and many of them died in the first battle.

I have to say that he is quite tough, he has been commanding battles on the front line, and he rarely suffers serious injuries, even minor injuries. So this guy has no awareness when fighting and always rushes to the front.

A platoon leader protested while beating the opponent:
"Captain, why are you here again? It's dangerous here!"

Yue Wanli said disdainfully:

"Bullshit, where isn't dangerous?
I am just a small company commander. If I am not in the trenches with my brothers, where can I go? "

Yue Wanli had never lost in a verbal battle, so even a platoon leader could only give up. Since the company commander had arrived, he naturally had to hand over the command of the scene. This was a realization;

Yue Wanli said that he would not interfere with the command of the first platoon, but as the fight went on he started to give orders, asking for instructions such as "this machine gun should move a few meters to the left" and "which sniper should take out the Japanese's grenade launcher for me."

"Where's the Flying Thunder Cannon? Take out the Japs' machine guns!"

The platoon leader could only let him act as a communicator, which made him very angry.

The Japanese skirmish line had already advanced to the front of the 1st Company. The two sides compared their marksmanship at a distance of several dozen meters, and both sides suffered casualties.

This kind of short-range melee combat particularly tests the will of a unit. Only the company that dares to fight tough battles is the real elite. In this regard, the 1st Company is obviously stronger than the Japanese in Ito's Squadron.

The reserve Japanese were still no match for the active Japanese in the regular divisions. In Wanjialing in another time and space, the 106th Division was almost wiped out by Xue Lao Hu.

It became clear after the head-on clash between the two sides that the supplementary detachment was composed of veterans who had come out of the street fighting in Nanjing. They had even fought against the 6th Division, so how could they be afraid of the impostor 106th Division?
One company easily stopped Ito's squadron, suppressing them so that they couldn't move forward and couldn't even raise their heads, which made Captain Ito Yukihira very embarrassed;
His patience was soon worn out, and he began to drive his soldiers to attack the 1st Company's defense line, hoping to make a breakthrough from the front.

The Japanese charge made heavy machine gunner Ding Ruijie smell blood. He used the Type 92 heavy machine gun in his hand to crazily fire at the Japanese. In a short while, he killed more than a dozen of them. The rest of the Japanese could only lie on the ground obediently.

"Bagayalu, what a bunch of cowards!"

"waste!"

Captain Ito was so angry that his nose was crooked. He could only rely on the Type 92 infantry gun to deal with the heavy machine guns. The grenade launchers equipped by the squadron could not reach them at all.

No matter how much he was scolded, he still had to lie down and admit defeat when it was time. Now he could only suppress his anger and wait for the support of the infantry artillery squad. This was the support firepower at the battalion level, and the battalion commander would definitely support them.

As expected, Captain Komiya Masao called in the infantry artillery. Only the view from Zhaojialing was very wide, and the view from above was very clear.
Liao Tao put down the telescope and said loudly to the communicator:
"Quickly notify the mortar platoon to suppress the enemy's infantry artillery and protect the machine guns!"

"boom!"

A 70mm round flew straight to Ding Ruijie's heavy machine gun position and exploded a few meters behind them, startling Ding Ruijie. The heavy machine gun positions were all set up in simple tunnels, which were built on the mountain and were only a few meters deep, and could only hide four fighters from a machine gun group;

Due to the tight time schedule, they could only dig this kind of simple tunnel, which had a good protective effect. Grenade launchers, mortars and even howitzers could not defend against the direct fire of the Type 92 infantry gun.

Ding Ruijie has also seen big storms and waves. As long as the shells don't hit him, he will do what he should do;
His hands were never idle. As long as there were Japanese soldiers showing up from any direction, he would fire a volley of bullets at them. If he was lucky, he would send one or two Japanese soldiers back home.

Heavy machine guns often have a suppressive effect. Ding Ruijie's Type 92 heavy machine gun pinned half of the Japanese soldiers in the squadron to the ground, killing a few of them from time to time.

With the fire suppression of the heavy machine gun, the riflemen could easily carry out accurate shooting at the Japanese. Komiya Masao's face became very ugly.

After the first shot of the Japanese infantry artillery missed, they were preparing for the second shot, always wanting to save face for the captain, otherwise they would get slapped in the face;

Just when Ding Ruijie had used up another strip of ammunition, the Japanese infantry artillery fired the second shot, and this time the hit was only 1 meter away from the shooting port. If it weren't for the tunnel fortifications, this firepower point would have been destroyed by the Japanese.

Even so, Ding Ruijie was not happy. His ears were temporarily deafened and his head was buzzing.
His reactions also became slow, and the whole century became silent in an instant. He could only see a shit-yellow figure in the distance, and then he pulled the trigger mechanically, spraying rows of bullets.

He didn't know whether he had hit the enemy or not, he just kept shooting at the shit-yellow figure. When he ran out of bullets, he opened his mouth to beg for more, completely entering a closed world...

"boom!"

Another shell hit the firing position, shrapnel flew everywhere. Ding Ruijie and the assistant gunner blocked almost all the shrapnel with their bodies. The heavy machine gun was also blown away, and the tunnel was filled with a strong smell of blood.

The Japanese infantry artillery finally hit the heavy machine gun that posed the greatest threat to them, but their luck had come to an end;
Almost at the same time, two 90mm mortar shells flying from the top of the mountain hit their position. The infantry gun was blown into pieces, and almost all the Japanese in an artillery unit were killed, which could be regarded as revenge for Ding Ruijie.

Of the four soldiers in the No. 4 main tunnel, three died and one was injured. Only the ammunition carrier Zhou Dongdong was injured. He didn't care about the bleeding wound on his body at all, and struggled to pick up the overturned Type 3 heavy machine gun.
After checking, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the heavy machine gun was still usable, so he found another magazine, installed it, and continued firing at the Japanese, sending rows of revenge bullets at them.

"Bagaya road!"

Seeing the fire point that had been blown up before spewing out bullets again, Captain Ito was so angry that he cursed Amaterasu for being blind;
At this point in the battle, more than half of his squadron had suffered casualties, but the results achieved were minimal. The two squadrons on the left and right wings also failed to make any breakthroughs, so he had no choice but to order the demolition team to go up.

After failing to rely on the infantry artillery, he placed his hope on human lives and sent out two blasting teams to blow up the No. 1 firing point.

In order to cover the demolition team, he ordered the machine gunners to suppress the defenders with dense rain of bullets, and then several Japanese soldiers rushed out swiftly;
Because the Japanese blasting team had been in the blind spot of the main firepower point, ammunition man Fang Liang did not notice the approaching Japanese. His attention was attracted by several Japanese machine guns.

This scene fell into the eyes of Yue Wanli who was commanding the battle. He immediately ordered the riflemen to concentrate their firepower and fire at the Japanese. Soon the two groups of suicide squads were wiped out.

Captain Ito, unwilling to accept defeat, sent out two more groups and commanded several machine guns to suppress the riflemen of the 1st Company with intensive firepower. People were shot and fell from time to time, and both sides paid a heavy price.

(End of this chapter)