Quartermasters can also fight the devils

The night attack force of the 40th Independent Infantry Battalion of the Japanese Army was completely wiped out by the 58th Army overnight, which shocked the commander of the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Kenkichi Ikegami, and the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Korechika Anami.

After receiving the news that the 40th Battalion's night attack force was completely wiped out, the commander of the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Kenkichi Ikegami, quickly ordered the 38th Battalion to rush to support the 40th Battalion that was being attacked by the Chinese army and withdraw. Now the problem was not how to complete the task of supporting the breakout of the 3rd and 6th Divisions as instructed by the commander, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, but how to withdraw his own 40th Battalion.

You have to know that the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade is only a brigade-level combat unit, and an infantry battalion is a very important combat unit. If an infantry battalion is destroyed by the Chinese army, the loss to the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade will be very great.

After receiving the telegram from Major General Kenkichi Ikegami, commander of the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade, Colonel Saburo Aono, commander of the 38th Independent Infantry Battalion of the Japanese Army, was greatly shocked, so he quickly led the officers and soldiers of the 38th Battalion to attack the 40th Battalion which was being besieged by the Chinese army at the foot of Yingzhu Mountain.

Colonel Saburo Aono, commander of the 38th Independent Infantry Battalion of the Japanese Army, had already judged the danger of this operation from the previous battle situation of the 40th Battalion. During the rapid march of the troops, Colonel Saburo Aono, commander of the 38th Battalion, gathered all the officers and held a simple pre-war mobilization meeting. Colonel Saburo Aono even told officers at all levels in the pre-war meeting that they should be prepared for the possibility that more than half of the officers and soldiers in each squadron might be killed in battle.

These words from Colonel Saburo Aono, commander of the 38th Battalion, also surprised all the officers in the 38th Battalion. This had never happened before previous battles, which showed how pessimistic Colonel Saburo Aono was about his judgment of future operations.

As soon as the commander of the 38th Battalion, Colonel Saburo Aono, and his troops arrived near Yingzhu Mountain, he immediately organized the entire battalion to launch a fierce attack, hoping to rescue the 40th Battalion as soon as possible.

In the encirclement of the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government, the 40th Division of the Japanese Army was in the worst condition. Compared with the 3rd Division and the 6th Division, which were the ace divisions of the Japanese Army, the combat effectiveness of the 40th Division was obviously inferior to these ace divisions.

The 1939th Division of the Japanese Army was formed on June 6, 30 in Zentsuji, Japan. It was a three-unit garrison division assigned to the Chinese battlefield. It was composed of the 234th, 235th and 236th Infantry Regiments, the th Search Regiment, the th Field Artillery Regiment, the th Engineer Regiment, the th Quartermaster Regiment, as well as the division's communications team, weapons service team, medical team, and the st and nd field hospitals. It was a Type B division of the Japanese Army.

As early as when the troops of the 236rd Division attacked Changsha City, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the th Division of the Japanese Army, led the th Division Headquarters and the th Regiment into the Dashantang area near Jinjing to carry out the combat mission ordered by Lieutenant General Korechika Anami, commander of the th Army of the Japanese Army, to cover the east side of the attacking force of the rd Division in attacking Changsha City.

As a result, as soon as they arrived at Dashantang, they were surrounded by the 95th Division of the 9th War Zone of the Chinese government. After several days of fierce fighting, all the surrounding Chinese troops surrounded them. Under the siege of the Chinese army, the 40th Division suffered heavy casualties.

The commander of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, led the th Division Headquarters and the th Regiment into the Dashantang area near Jinjing. This action gave the th Army of the th War Zone of the Chinese government a good opportunity to attack the th Division from the flank.

The 95th and 60th Divisions of the 37th Army had already occupied advantageous terrain and could have inflicted heavy damage on the 40th Division of the Japanese Army from the advantageous position.

In this way, before the 236th Division of the Japanese Army launched an offensive, the th Army of the th War Zone of the Chinese Government took the lead in launching an attack on the th Division of the Japanese Army. Under the cover of firepower, the attack force of the th Army broke into the position guarded by Lieutenant Kyoichi Changshan, the captain of the th Squadron of the th Regiment on the Dashanpo High Ground. After a brutal hand-to-hand combat, the attack force of the th Army of the Chinese Government captured the high ground.

Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 234th Division of the Japanese Army, looked at the smoke-filled hillside high ground occupied by the offensive forces of the th Army of the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government from the combat command post of the division headquarters. He immediately ordered the th Regiment, which had just arrived at this time, to join the battle. Under the cover of the division's artillery unit, they recaptured the high ground and occupied Jiangjunchong.

The commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, led the troops led by Major Satake Nakayama, commander of the st Battalion, as the vanguard and attacked towards Putang. On the way, they encountered the troops of the th Army of the Chinese government advancing southward on the north side of Guanjia Bridge.

Therefore, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment, immediately ordered Major Teruo Mizusawa, commander of the nd Battalion, to lead his troops into Itamaoda to join the front-line combat and occupy the high ground on both sides of the road.

After the commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, led his troops into the designated location, he discovered that there were a large number of troops from the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government in the mountain ridge four kilometers northeast of the 236th Regiment. However, due to the lack of artillery shells by the Japanese troops, the 236th Regiment was attacked and oppressed by the Chinese army at every turn in subsequent combat operations, and was frequently caught in bitter battles with the Chinese army.

In particular, Lieutenant Terumasa Manabe, the captain of the 7th Squadron who occupied the so-called Three Lump Hills about one kilometer northeast of Banmaotian, looked down from his position and discovered the mortar positions of the Chinese army. So Lieutenant Terumasa Manabe, the captain of the 7th Squadron, requested the artillery unit to provide artillery support, but due to the shortage of artillery shells, the artillery unit was unable to provide artillery support in time.

So, just as the captain of the 7th Squadron, Lieutenant Terumasa Manabe, was arguing with the artillery unit, the Chinese army's mortar fire opened first. Under the rapid bombardment of the Chinese army's mortars and artillery, the captain of the 7th Squadron of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant Terumasa Manabe, and officers at all levels of the squadron were killed and wounded one after another, and the position was also occupied by the Chinese army's offensive forces.

Lieutenant Akihabara Yoshinori, captain of the 236nd Machine Gun Squadron of the th Regiment of the Japanese Army, immediately organized the remaining forces to launch a counterattack. Taking advantage of the fact that the Chinese attacking forces were not yet firmly established, they temporarily regained the position. However, during the attack, Lieutenant Akihabara Yoshinori, captain of the nd Machine Gun Squadron, was killed.

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