Quartermasters can also fight the devils

After receiving the order from the division commander, Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, gathered the remaining troops and occupied the high ground around Dashantang by midnight, preparing to cover the transfer of the main force of the th Division.

The 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army was left near Dashantang along with a large number of wounded soldiers. Because they had not received any supplies, the remaining ammunition was only 10% of the normal state of the troops. Each person had no more than 15 to 1 rifle bullets, and each squad had only 2 to grenades. It could be said that they were almost out of ammunition and food.

After the Japanese 236th Regiment took control of the high ground on the north and south sides of Dashantang, the Japanese th Division Headquarters and other troops began to move towards the designated area under the cover of darkness at three o'clock in the morning.

The commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commanded his troops to stay in the Dashantang area after covering the transfer of the th Division Headquarters and other troops. He was responsible for the defensive mission of covering the left flank of the Japanese th Army's attack on Changsha City.

Because the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army and the 236th Army of the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese Government had been engaged in fierce fighting continuously for the past few days, the officers and soldiers of the th Regiment of the Japanese Army not only suffered heavy casualties, but were also exhausted.

Moreover, after the main force of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army moved in, the 236th Regiment was completely isolated and helpless. What worried the commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, was that the ammunition and food in the th Regiment were almost exhausted. Under such circumstances, he still had to take care of so many wounded left behind by the th Division. It was really a headache just thinking about it.

Dashantang, where the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army was located, is located in the center of the Jinjing and Fulinpu flat lands, and is located at the southern end of a hill that is one to two kilometers wide and about one hundred meters high and extends from the north, forming a mountain range between the Jinjing and Fulinpu roads. The surrounding area is a large hilly area where large troops can maneuver freely, so the location of the 236th Regiment is very critical.

After covering the evacuation of the 236th Division Headquarters, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment, estimated that the 236th Army of the Chinese government's 236th War Zone might launch an attack on his positions in the morning. Therefore, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the th Regiment, hurriedly studied the defensive deployment and redeployed the defense line of the th Regiment. However, to his surprise, the battlefield was unexpectedly calm after dawn, and the expected Chinese army's attack did not begin in the morning.

Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, personally went to the front line of his regiment's defense position, holding a telescope and carefully looking at a high ground called Xiangudian, about meters south of the defense position. Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa was very hesitant about whether he should send troops to occupy the high ground.

The Xiangu Temple and the Shuanghua Peak to its north are parallel commanding heights. Standing on these two commanding heights, one can overlook the entire defensive positions of the 236th Regiment. The location is very critical.

But what made the commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, hesitant was that if his 236th Regiment expanded its position to the Xiangudian high ground, the front defense line of the 236th Regiment would be too wide. Now the troops of his 236th Regiment were seriously insufficient and there was no way to maintain such a wide front defense line.

However, looking at such an important high ground, the commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, really couldn't bear to give up. Finally, after torturing himself for almost a hundred days, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa made up his mind in the evening to occupy the two important high grounds of Xiangudian and Shuanghuajian.

Therefore, Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, ordered Lieutenant Muguruma Hideji, commander of the rd Squadron, to lead the officers and soldiers of the rd Squadron to capture the Xiangu Temple alone, and ordered Lieutenant Miyake Yoshichi, commander of the th Squadron, to lead the officers and soldiers of the th Squadron to occupy Shuanghuajian.

After receiving the order from the regiment commander, Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, the captain of the 3rd Squadron, Lieutenant Muguruma Hideji, quickly gathered all the officers and soldiers of his 3rd Squadron. After more than an hour's night march, they arrived at the top of the Xiangudian Hill. On the top of the Xiangudian Hill is a flat land with a diameter of only more than 30 square meters, and there is a small temple at the west end.

After the troops of the 60th Division of the 37th Army of the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government discovered that the Japanese army had occupied the Xiangudian Heights, they immediately organized their troops to launch an attack on the Xiangudian Heights.

Second Lieutenant Tetsuo Hirota, leader of the second squad of the third company of the Japanese army, was leaning against the newly built position to rest. He took out his diary and wanted to write something, but after thinking for a long time, he still didn't write a single word, because there was really nothing to write. Every day he recorded how many people his squad had lost, who was killed, whose legs were blown off, etc. It was really annoying to record such things.

Lieutenant Hirota Tetsuo looked at the slightly bright sky in the east and thought of his relatives far away in his homeland in that direction. This battle made Lieutenant Hirota Tetsuo feel very bad. Now his team is less than half of its full strength. But even so, his team still has to hold the forefront of defense. It is conceivable that the losses of other teams will be even greater than his own.

Second Lieutenant Tetsuo Hirota put the diary back into his uniform pocket, then began to patrol his team's guard posts along the defense line. Second Lieutenant Tetsuo Hirota was in the front-line combat unit, and he knew very well how tired the soldiers were. It was easiest to doze off at the guard observation posts, so he had to patrol more often. Moreover, there was thick fog on the mountain, so he had to be even more careful.

Second Lieutenant Hirota Tetsuo, the squad leader of the second squad of the third company of the Japanese army, came to his squad's guard post with his command knife in his hand, hunched over. Sure enough, the soldier who was supposed to be on guard duty had fallen asleep at the edge of the position. The squad leader, Second Lieutenant Hirota Tetsuo, did not get angry at the soldier who fell asleep while on duty, but instead stuck his head out of the guard post and looked down the mountain.

The squad leader, Lieutenant Hirota Tetsuo, felt his scalp tingling when he saw the Chinese troops attacking quietly. So, the squad leader, Lieutenant Hirota Tetsuo, immediately shouted, "Enemy! The enemy is coming!"

Following the loud shouts of the squad leader, Lieutenant Tetsuo Hirota, fierce gunfire and grenade explosions followed, and the battle between the two sides officially began.