Quartermasters can also fight the devils

Afterwards, in order to defend this high ground, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, reinforced it with the th Squadron of the reserve. In the end, although they barely managed to hold a corner of the position, all kinds of ammunition in the troops had been almost exhausted.

The next day, the troops of the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government increased their attack intensity on the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army. This put a lot of pressure on the commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, and the 236th Regiment was also caught in a tough battle.

At this time, the 235th Regiment of the th Division was carrying out guard missions along the high ground on the east side of the Putang to Jinjing road, and the commander of the th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, did not have any extra troops to provide reinforcements.

Subsequently, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, received an order from Lieutenant General Korechika Anami, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, requiring the 40th Division to send part of its troops to occupy the narrow pass north of Jinjing to cover the flanks of the 3rd and 6th Divisions attacking Changsha, and at the same time, to prepare for future operations.

After receiving the order, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, decided to wait until sunset and gather the troops at Daguling, four kilometers west of Jinjing.

When the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army received the order to move from Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, the commander of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, it was under a fierce attack by the Chinese army. Since there were many wounded in the th Regiment, it was impossible to evacuate during the day.

Therefore, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, ordered Lieutenant Hisamizu Hisamoto, commander of the 236th Squadron, to lead the troops to take on the task of evacuating the enemy, while Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the th Regiment of the Japanese Army, took the remaining officers and soldiers to evacuate the original position under the cover of night.

When the 40th Division of the Japanese Army was gathering at Daguling, the 95th Division and the 60th Division of the 37th Army of the 9th War Zone of the Chinese government took the opportunity to attack the troops of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army from the mountains in the northwest and east.

Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 234th Division of the Japanese Army, was leading his division's troops and gathering in the area around Daguling under the cover of the th Regiment. The division command post where Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the th Division of the Japanese Army, was located was in a spacious stone house.

At midnight that day, a loud noise suddenly came from the roof of the 40th Division Headquarters, which seemed to be the explosion of a mortar shell. Then a large number of officers and soldiers of the Chinese troops rushed to the side of the 40th Division Headquarters.

The 235th Squadron of the th Regiment was responsible for the security of the th Division's headquarters. When a large number of Chinese troops attacked, the squadron leader, Lieutenant Soekawa, immediately rushed out of the tent, waving his command knife and shouting loudly, ordering the officers and soldiers of his troops to quickly join the battle with the Chinese troops that had already rushed over. Even some of the Japanese defensive forces had already engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the officers and soldiers of the Chinese army that had rushed over.

Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, and Major General Mitsuo Nagakubo, chief of staff, were extremely frightened when they heard the sound of grenades exploding outside the division headquarters. However, in order to maintain their dignity, they could only sit opposite each other in a civilian house pretending to be calm. However, the command knives placed beside them truly expressed their real plans.

When it was bright, Japanese planes flew over the battlefield. The officers and soldiers of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army immediately displayed anti-aircraft boards on the ground. The Japanese planes then dropped the report they had just detected in the air. However, the content of the report shocked the commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, and the division chief of staff, Major General Mitsuo Nagakubo.

The content of the report dropped by the Japanese plane was that the Chinese army had assembled a large number of troops on the top of the mountain on the west side. At the same time, along with the report, the plane also dropped a brief map of the battle lines of both sides hand-drawn by the reconnaissance personnel on the plane. From this simple drawing, the commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, and the division chief of staff, Major General Mitsuo Nagakubo, saw that their 40th Division had been completely surrounded by the Chinese army.

At this time, the 95th Division of the th Army of the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government attacked eastward from Huamenlou in the northwest and had occupied the high ground on the west side of the main force of the th Division of the Japanese Army. The th Army sent another part of its forces to attack the northeast of the th Division of the Japanese Army, causing fierce fighting in various units of the th Division of the Japanese Army.

However, under the continuous command of the commander of the 40th Division, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, and the division chief of staff, Major General Mitsuo Nagakubo, the various units of the Japanese 40th Division were able to provide flank protection for the 3rd and 6th Divisions attacking Changsha.

However, as the Japanese 3rd and 6th Divisions failed to make progress in their attack on Changsha, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the Japanese 11th Army, decided to stop the attack on Changsha and withdraw all the participating units back to their original bases. In order to cover the retreat of the units.

Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the Japanese 11th Army, ordered Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, to stay near Jinjing with part of his troops to cover the flanks of the Japanese 3rd Division and 6th Division that were attacking Changsha. The main force of the 40th Division immediately advanced to Chunhua Mountain to ensure that the main force of the Japanese 11th Army's offensive force could be smoothly transferred.

When Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, received orders from Lieutenant General Korechika Anami, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, the various units of the 40th Division had actually fallen into chaos.

The 235th Regiment of the Japanese Army in the north was trapped in the encirclement of the Chinese army around Zhulin City. The 234th Regiment operating in the southern region was also fighting fiercely with the Chinese army near Dashantang. As for the 236th Regiment, it was being pinned to the ground by the Chinese army.

After seeing the order from Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, was also overwhelmed. Given the current chaotic situation of his 40th Division, how could he be capable of completing the combat mission assigned by Commander Lieutenant General Anami Korechika?

In view of the current situation of the troops, the division staff officer Major General Mitsuo Hisabo proposed a solution of his own to the division commander Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, which was to order the 234th Regiment to break through the enemy's defense line north and south of Dashantang after sunset, and then the 234th Division's direct troops and the 235th and 236th Regiments would move to Chunhua Mountain. At the same time, he would order the th Regiment, including the field hospital that had accommodated a large number of wounded, to stay where they were.

After hearing the operational proposal from his chief of staff, Major General Mitsuo Nagakubo, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, thought about it for a moment and agreed to carry out the operational plan. In the view of Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, and his chief of staff, Major General Mitsuo Nagakubo, the 40th Division was now in a situation where it needed to cut off its arm to survive.