Quartermasters can also fight the devils

After receiving the telegram from Commander Luo of the 19th Army Group, Zhang Yanchuan, deputy commander of the 70th Army of the Chinese government and commander of the 9th Reserve Division, had no choice but to gather the withdrawn 9th Reserve Division and the 19th Division and attack the junction of the 33rd and 34th Divisions of the Japanese Army.

The commander of the 33rd Division, Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, did not expect that the Chinese army that had already withdrawn would turn back and attack the gap in the encirclement again. This caught the Japanese troops at the breakthrough point of the encirclement off guard. In addition, the division commander, Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, no longer had any combat troops at his disposal. As a result, the two divisions of the 70th Army of the Chinese government actually blocked the gap in the encirclement again.

Moreover, since the commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Ogamo, saw that the gap in the encirclement had been opened, he consciously ordered the surrounding troops that were defending against the attack of the 9th War Zone to begin to shrink and concentrate, preparing to break out of the encirclement through the gap together with the regiment of the 33rd Division that rushed into the encirclement.

As a result, what the commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Ogamo, did not expect was that the gap in the encirclement that was opened with great difficulty was actually blocked again by the Chinese army. The defensive forces of the 34th Division had already shrunk and concentrated according to his own orders. As a result, the entire 34th Division was surrounded by the Chinese army in a small area with a radius of less than five kilometers from north to south. This made the commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Ogamo, almost crazy.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Ohgamo, commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, could only order all defensive forces not to retreat any further and to hold the current defense line no matter what the cost. At the same time, he sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Isamu Kinoshita, Chief of Staff of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, who was in unified command in Hongcheng, to report the urgent and dangerous situation faced by the 34th Division.

The commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Ohgamo, hoped that the Chief of Staff of the 11th Army, Lieutenant General Isamu Kinoshita, would quickly order the 33rd Division outside the encirclement to launch another attack on the encirclement of the Chinese army surrounding him. Otherwise, the 34th Division would most likely be completely wiped out by the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government in this narrow encirclement.

Also going crazy was Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, the commander of the 33rd Division who was outside the encirclement. His 33rd Division had only three infantry regiments, and now one of the regiment's officers and soldiers were surrounded by the Chinese army along with the 34th Division. He came to rescue them, so how come one of his own divisions was sent into the encirclement while they were fighting?

After receiving the order from Lieutenant General Isamu Kinoshita, Chief of Staff of the 11th Army, the commander of the 33rd Division, Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, was ordered to continue attacking the encirclement of the Chinese army, he was extremely anxious. He really wanted to break the encirclement of the Chinese army as soon as possible, because there was an infantry regiment of his own inside the encirclement.

What made the commander of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, even more anxious was that he no longer had the extra troops to launch an attack on the encirclement of the Chinese army. The other two regiments of the 33rd Division were fighting fiercely with two divisions of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government, and they could not withdraw for a while.

Even if these two regiments were withdrawn, if the two divisions of the Chinese government's new 22nd Army sent troops to pursue and attack, they would have even less energy and manpower to attack the encirclement of the Chinese army.

"Your Excellency the division commander, we now only have the division headquarters' guard squadron that can be sent out for the attack. However, the strength of only one squadron is not enough to break a gap in the Chinese army's encirclement." The 33rd Division's Chief of Staff, Major General Murata Takashi, rushed into the division headquarters and gave a detailed report to the division commander, Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, on the situation of the combat troops that had just been assembled.

When the division commander, Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, heard that there was only one division guard squadron that could be mobilized, he became even more annoyed. Without enough troops, how could they attack the encirclement of the Chinese army? How could they create a gap in the tight encirclement of the Chinese army?

"Murata, we must create a gap in the Chinese army's encirclement, otherwise, the 213th Division and the th Regiment of our division will be finished. I think we should gather all the people in the division headquarters and then launch an attack on the Chinese army's encirclement. At the same time, let the th Division in the encirclement concentrate all its forces to attack with us from both inside and outside. I hope a miracle will happen." Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, commander of the rd Division of the Japanese Army, had no choice but to make a desperate attempt to gather all the active men to launch an attack together. But he also knew that with this kind of attack force, only a miracle would allow the th Division to break out.

The division chief of staff, Major General Murata Takashi, also knew that they could only follow the division commander's order and gather all the people to launch an attack. This attack mainly depended on the 34th Division's own offensive force to break out of the encirclement, because even if all the mobile people of the 33rd Division were counted, there were only more than 700 people in the attack force this time, not even enough for a battalion. There was no way they could open a gap in the encirclement of the Chinese army with this amount of troops.

"I understand, Your Excellency the Division Commander. I will gather all the active personnel in the division headquarters right away. Even if our attack is not very effective, we must scare the Chinese army and create favorable conditions as much as possible for the 34th Division to break out of the encirclement." The division chief of staff, Major General Murata Takashi, also bowed solemnly to the division commander, Lieutenant General Sakurai Shozo.

After hearing the tragic words of the division chief of staff, Major General Murata Takashi, Lieutenant General Sakurai Shozo, the commander of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, suddenly had an idea in his mind, and then he shouted excitedly: "Murata-kun, what did you just say? Scare the Chinese army? Yes, scare, scare, yes, we can scare the Chinese army, Murata-kun, your idea is really creative."

Just as the division chief of staff, Major General Takashi Murata, was about to turn around to gather the troops, he saw the division commander, Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, praising him excitedly. This made the chief of staff, Major General Takashi Murata, a little confused. What was the division commander saying? He couldn't understand.