Songhu: Never Give Up

Chapter 68: Pig-rush Tactics (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

Hebian Shichiro looked around guiltily and found that everyone was in the same mess as him. Some of them had run farther than him. He couldn't help but curse:
"Bakayaro, you coward, you have brought shame upon the samurai!"

Before this, he had never thought that he would be beaten by the Chinese and flee in embarrassment. This was too humiliating;

And others even ran faster than him. Is this still the Zentsuji Division known for its bravery?
"That's right. These people are too shameless and unworthy of your majesty's trust."

Kawabe Shichiro's friend Inoue Koji stuck his head over and said that because they were worried about being blamed by the squad leader, they got together to find excuses for their cowardice. It was a very shameful thing to run away from the Japanese army.

Kawabe Shichiro was still in a state of shock. He glanced around with his triangular eyes and said:

"The captain was blown to pieces. I didn't expect the Chinese to have heavy artillery. It seems that it will be difficult to occupy Shanghai in one month. It will take at least one and a half months."

Inoue Koji agreed deeply. Before coming to China, the team leader vowed to tell them that China could be destroyed in three months at most, and there would be no problem returning home for New Year's Day. Now it seems that it may be delayed, so he frowned and said:
"I promised Yizi that once I conquer China, I will go back to marry him and take her to see the cherry blossoms."

When Sakai Yoko was mentioned, Kawabe Shichiro's mood became extremely bad. He glanced at Inoue Koji with disgust, thinking that this kid was quite lucky. More than half of Duanmu's team died, but this kid was not even injured. It was too unfair.

Sakai Yoriko is the daughter of their teacher. She has been in close contact with Kawabe Shichiro since she was a child. She has crawled under the cherry blossom trees countless times and even thought of a name for her child: Shuxia Taro.
Unexpectedly, Koji Inoue appeared out of nowhere. Sakai's father coveted the Inoue family's property, so he betrothed Yoriko to him, breaking up the couple. From then on, their dates had to go underground. Fortunately, Koji Inoue didn't notice it.

Hebian patted Inoue's shoulder in a pretentious manner and said:
"Mr. Inoue, the Chinese are as poor as beggars. They don't have many heavy artillery shells, so we still have a great chance.

There will definitely be a new attack soon. When the time comes, you just need to rush to the front and you will definitely win merit. If you give it to Yizi, she will definitely be very happy."

It seemed that Koji Inoue was a little horny. When he was tricked by Kawabe Shichiro, he felt his blood boiling and wanted to rush to the river bank immediately.

"Gentlemen, the commander is very disappointed with your performance. The Chinese defenders only have a few hundred people. As long as we rush to the river bank, they will escape. It's time to establish eternal merit for the empire!
Those who rush to the riverbank will be rewarded greatly, and those who dare to retreat will be killed. "

After the squadron leader finished speaking viciously, he began to reorganize the troops. Many organizational structures had been disrupted, so they had to be reorganized;

Hebian and Inoue were lucky to be assigned to a group, and the first echelon, which is called the first to die in China.

The 11th Division, which had been badly beaten, began to become pragmatic. The 12th Regiment was responsible for the feint attack on the Lion Grove Fort from the front, and another regiment was sent to attack the right wing position of the Lion Grove.

This was a preparation for using roundabout tactics to deal with the Lion Grove defenders, but when the order was passed to the 12th Regiment, Ando Twenty-three was very dissatisfied. His 12th Regiment had always been the main attacking force, and it was impossible for him to cooperate with other regiments in combat.

So he ordered all the squadrons to fight to the death. In order to prevent being killed by heavy artillery, Anda 23 adopted the tactic of wave attack.
A wave of 300 people, with the entire regiment forming 8 waves, launched continuous attacks on the Lion Grove position. The scientific name was the Pig Charge Tactics, which was the god-like tactic of Nogi Maresuke, the first commander of the 11th Division. Ando Nijusan decided to follow suit.

"The prosperity of our emperor lasts for thousands of years; gravel becomes rock, covered with moss; peace and stability lasts for a long time, the country is rich and the people are happy."

Before launching the Itazai charge, the Japanese first sounded the mourning cry with a full sense of ritual. The commander of the first echelon, Major Suzuki, even took out a sanitary napkin and tied it on his head. The blood-red spot in the center was very disgusting to look at.

"Deputy Battalion Commander, what the devils are up to? Hurry up and reincarnate."

Bugler Ma Dahu asked Liao Jianping curiously. Liao Jianping knew a little about the Japanese language, but he couldn't understand it. He couldn't lose face in front of Ma Dahu, so he pretended to understand it and said:
"This is the funeral song of the devils' hometown. Because they know they are about to die, they perform the ritual in advance."

Ma Dahu suddenly realized and said:

"So it's a funeral. I'll light some firecrackers for them. It's important to be more formal when sending someone to a funeral."

"Da Hu, I didn't expect you to be such a decent and generous person!"

"Use the bugle to play our Whampoa military song for the Japs to boost their morale!" Liao Jianping sensed a strong murderous aura from the Japs' bugle calls. This was a fight to the death, and the Second Battalion naturally could not lose. So he had an idea and asked Dahu to play the Whampoa school song.

When the melodious military bugle sounded, the unique melody of the Huangpu school song made the Huangpu athletes spontaneously sing along:
"The tide of anger is surging, the party flag is flying, this is the Huangpu of the revolution!
The doctrine must be implemented, discipline must not be relaxed, and be prepared to be the vanguard of the struggle!

Fight a bloody road and guide the oppressed people..."

The majestic battle song of the Whampoa military officers instantly suppressed the momentum of the Japanese funeral song, and Anda Twenty-three was so angry that he shouted:

"Fire! Kill them all!"

"Boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom..."

The Japs were very ungraceful and began to prepare for artillery fire. They tried to use artillery to suppress the Chinese people's war songs, but unfortunately they were disappointed. The war songs became more majestic amid the roar of artillery fire, as if they were the accompaniment.

"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"

Major Suzuki rushed out first with his command sword raised high, followed closely by Inoue Koji who was eager to establish merit. However, Kawabe Shichiro shrank his body, allowing Inoue Koji to stand in front of him.

The Japanese's pig-rush tactics were very sophisticated. They were not sent to death. They formed a standard skirmish line and launched an attack on the river beach with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

In order to save energy, they didn't move very fast at first, and Major Suzuki even had time to pose.

They had all calculated the range of the machine guns. The one in front was jogging with his head held high. When he was about to enter the effective range of the rifles, Major Suzuki took the initiative to slow down his pace to let the other devils overtake him;

He can pretend to be cool and rush to the front facing the hail of bullets from the defenders, but he is not that stupid. He would leave such glory to a fool like Koji Inoue.

"Yiko, I will definitely come back with the medal to marry you, wait for me!"

"DaDaDa..."

“Tattattatt…”

The heavy machine gun in the bunker opened fire first, and a long string of 7.7mm heavy machine gun bullets fired by Yang Shiyuan went straight to the Japanese;

Inoue Koji's eyes were filled with fear, and he fell to the riverbank reflexively. A hot bullet flew past his scalp and hit Kawabe Shichiro who was hiding behind him.

The bullet hit his left thigh, but Kawabe Shichiro didn't even feel the pain. He only realized he was missing a leg when he continued to rush forward.

Inoue Koji also saw it and exclaimed:
"Kawabe-kun, your legs are gone!"

"day!"

Infuriated and humiliated, Kawabe Shichiro blurted out a Chinese swear word, "Bakayaluo" was no longer enough to greet Inoue Koji.

(End of this chapter)