Quartermasters can also fight the devils

Zhang Wenwu and Ouyang Heng stood at the starting position on the west side and watched the attack of the troops in front. Behind them were the 811 newly recruited wounded officers and soldiers brought by Cao Huaguo from Xuzhou City. Zhang Wenwu did not temporarily supplement these people to the 812th and th Regiments, but temporarily organized them into a regiment to use as his own reserve force.

After hearing the gunshots from the north, Zhang Wenwu and Ouyang Heng became nervous. They knew that the soldiers of the suicide squad had begun to attack as planned, but now they could only wait for news.

When the death squad's sharpshooter opened fire in the north, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei, who had not dared to sleep all night, jumped up from the ammunition box. He quickly asked a team leader to take people to the northern position to see what was going on.

The squad leader also hurriedly led a team of soldiers along the communication trench to the northern position. Although the Japanese soldiers were very tired now, they also knew that if they did not cheer up at this time, they would lose their lives here.

When this Japanese reinforcement team just turned the corner from the communication trench and was about to enter the trench of the northern position, suddenly more than 20 suicide squad officers and soldiers armed with submachine guns emerged from the anti-artillery hole they had just passed behind them. They fired at the Japanese troops from behind. In the narrow trench, the Japanese soldiers became sitting ducks. The squad leader in front hurriedly ordered the soldiers to turn around and shoot, but when they turned around, another dozen suicide squad officers and soldiers appeared behind them and fired at them.

The battle ended too quickly. This small team of Japanese soldiers was completely wiped out after barely firing seven or eight shots. Their only contribution was that Colonel Fukuei Shinpei judged from the gunfire that the Chinese troops had already attacked their defensive positions to the north.

After hearing the machine gun fire from the suicide squad, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei understood what was happening. He immediately led his only reserve team of 811 people to reinforce the northern position. What he didn't know was that the northern position had been completely occupied by the suicide squad and the officers and soldiers of the th Regiment who were following them. Now these officers and soldiers were continuing to attack the Japanese positions to the west and east along the trenches and communication trenches.

After the battle started at the northern position, the officers and soldiers of the 100th Brigade in the other three directions also crawled towards the Japanese positions in front of them. Before the Japanese discovered them, they did not need to actively fire and expose their positions. As long as they could crawl to ten meters away from the Japanese, they could reach the Japanese trenches with a single charge.

The reinforcement troops led by Colonel Fukuei Shinpei encountered the attacking suicide squad in the communication trench. The machine guns of the suicide squad officers and soldiers played a huge role in the trench. In the first encounter between the two sides, seven or eight Japanese soldiers were knocked down by the suicide squad. The remaining Japanese soldiers, under the command of Colonel Fukuei Shinpei, opened fire on the suicide squad officers and soldiers in the trench.

At this time, the sky had begun to brighten, and fierce gunfire suddenly broke out from the Japanese positions on the other three sides. The officers and soldiers of the 100th Brigade attacking on these three sides also launched a rapid charge on the Japanese positions in front of them before daybreak. No one shouted, and everyone held their breath and suddenly got up from the ground and rushed towards the Japanese positions.

The Japanese sentries on the three positions all fell down when the first round of gunfire sounded. They were the targets of special attention. When the Japanese officers and soldiers in the trenches and anti-artillery holes were about to stand up and shoot outside the trenches, they saw the officers and soldiers of the 100th Brigade rushing into the trenches with their rifles with fixed bayonets.

Looking from the air now, the trenches of the entire circular fortification of the Japanese army were filled with soldiers from both sides engaging in hand-to-hand combat. After learning that the Chinese army had fully attacked his position, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei led the remaining fifty or so Japanese soldiers and fought and retreated back to the regiment headquarters in the middle of the position. He planned to use the regiment headquarters as the last position and lead the remaining soldiers to fight to the end.

At the same time, he had a more important thing to do, which was to order the flag guard team to quickly burn the flag of his 63rd Regiment.

Colonel Shinpei Fukuei first ordered all the soldiers of the flag guard squad to participate in the battle in the trenches near the headquarters, and then he asked the captain of the flag guard squad to take down the flag of his 63rd Regiment from the flagpole.

"Sir, Captain, do you really want to burn our regiment's flag? If so, our 63rd Regiment will really be gone." Captain Takahashi Tsuyoshi of the flag guard team looked at the regiment flag he had just taken down with a reluctant look on his face and asked Colonel Fukuei Shinpei.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei looked at his young flag guard, patted Takahashi Tsuyoshi on the shoulder and said, "Takahashi, the situation is very critical now. We must not let this glorious flag fall into the hands of the Chinese army. If that happens, we will not be able to face Amaterasu and will be ashamed of the trust placed in us by the Emperor. We cannot bring shame to the army of the Empire of Japan. Do you understand?"

After listening to the words of the regiment commander, Takahashi Tsuyoshi silently began to prepare for the sacred flag-burning ceremony. Colonel Fukuei Shinpei walked to the only radio operator in the headquarters who had not yet participated in the battle and ordered: "Send a message to the brigade commander and the division commander: Dear Division Commander Lianjie Isogai and Brigade Commander Kei Seya, all officers and soldiers of the 63rd Regiment were besieged by tens of thousands of elite Chinese troops. At : this morning, the Chinese army rushed into the position of the ring fortification under the cover of a large number of artillery and heavy artillery bombardments. I am leading the remaining warriors of the Great Japanese Empire to fight hard, but the number of attackers on the opposite side of the Chinese army is too large. I have ordered the burning of the regiment flag as a final desperate resistance. Long live the Great Japanese Empire, long live His Majesty the Emperor!"

Colonel Shinpei Fukuei ordered the signalman to destroy the radio and code book after sending the telegram, and then go to reinforce the battle in the trenches. He walked out of the command center with his samurai sword without looking back. He wanted to die bravely like a samurai.

After the troops rushed into the trenches of the Japanese circular position, Zhang Wenwu and Ouyang Heng also rushed up with more than a thousand officers and soldiers as reserve, holding rifles with bayonets. This was a good opportunity to take advantage of their numbers. Since they could not beat the Japanese soldiers in a one-on-one bayonet fight, they could use five or six of them to fight one of you. This way, the battle could be ended quickly and casualties of officers and soldiers could be reduced.

The Japanese troops on the circular fortifications were originally put together in a temporary manner, and most of them were the original baggage soldiers and wounded soldiers. When facing the attacking force of the 100th Brigade which had an absolute numerical advantage, these exhausted Japanese troops were beaten back step by step in the hand-to-hand combat. Because the number of officers and soldiers of the 100th Brigade that attacked the position was too large, the Japanese army could not even concentrate the officers and soldiers to organize effective defense and bayonet fighting. They all gathered in twos and threes, desperately resisting the groups of Chinese soldiers.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei is now commanding more than 100 soldiers who have gathered in the trenches near the headquarters, struggling to resist the attack of a large number of officers and soldiers from the th Brigade coming from the north. However, as the number of soldiers around him continues to decrease, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei and the remaining soldiers are almost retreating into the headquarters.

Li Zhengying just shot down a Japanese soldier who was loading bullets with a submachine gun. He looked at the team members behind him and said, "Call a few people who are good at throwing grenades and give them all the grenades. The trench is too narrow and we can't rush in like this. Use grenades to blow them up."

Soon, several soldiers who were good at throwing grenades accurately came to Li Zhengying from behind along the trench. As soon as they arrived, Li Zhengying asked them to throw grenades to the other side of the trench. After the grenade attack, he led five team members forward to check whether the Japanese army had been completely eliminated. After encountering Japanese shooting, he continued to let the people behind him throw grenades to clear the way. In this way, they slowly eroded the already very small section of the Japanese position.

After an hour's fighting, the Japanese troops in the circular fortification had been basically wiped out by the officers and soldiers of the 100th Brigade. Now only Colonel Fukuei Shinpei and more than Japanese officers and soldiers were making the final resistance near the command post in the center of the position.

When Zhang Wenwu saw that there were only a few Japanese troops left, he ordered the attacking troops not to charge forward any further. He asked all the officers and soldiers in the front to prepare grenades. After he fired into the sky, everyone threw grenades at the remaining Japanese troops from all directions, and then launched a collective charge to eliminate this group of Japanese troops as quickly as possible.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei looked at the rising sun in the morning. He knew that this was the last time he would see such a beautiful scenery in his life. At this moment, he suddenly thought of his wife and children in Nagasaki. He would never be able to go back and reunite with them. As an outstanding officer of the Empire of Japan, he must die decently on the battlefield.

Suddenly, a gunshot interrupted Colonel Fukuei Shinpei's thoughts of his hometown and family. Before he could look to the front of the position, he was suddenly surprised to find many black objects flying in the air.

"Damn it, Chinese grenades." These were Colonel Fukuei Shinpei's last words. After a burst of explosions, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei was blown to pieces by the grenade and fell in the trench outside the command center.

When the grenade exploded, all the officers and soldiers of the 100th Brigade launched a brave charge towards the Japanese army. When the officers and soldiers in front rushed into the trenches in front of the Japanese headquarters, they found that only a very small number of lucky Japanese soldiers were still alive. However, these Japanese soldiers were also shaken by the explosion of the grenade and could not even hold their guns steadily.

Li Zhengying led the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad and were the first to rush into the Japanese army's last trench position. They used all kinds of firearms in their hands to fire at the surviving Japanese soldiers. Only when there was no longer a living Japanese soldier in the trench did Li Zhengying lead his men into the Japanese army's headquarters.

There was no Japanese soldier left in the command center. Li Zhengying saw a pile of burning things, so he quickly called on the suicide squad to put out the flames on the pile of items. He felt that the things burned by the Japanese must be very critical, so he had to put out the fire quickly to see if he could find something useful. This would also be a military achievement.

The officers and soldiers attached guns and bayonets to all the Japanese corpses in the trenches to prevent some of them from faking their deaths. After all the security issues were basically resolved, Zhang Wenwu and Ouyang Heng led a team of soldiers to the command center.