Quartermasters can also fight the devils

However, as soon as the squadron leader, Lieutenant Liu Che Xiu Zhi, walked out of the temple gate, he saw three black grenades flying into the sky and landing beside him. Three consecutive explosions blew Lieutenant Liu Che Xiu Zhi's right back and chest into a bloody mess. When he was carried back to the temple by the soldiers, Lieutenant Liu Che Xiu Zhi, the squadron leader of the third squadron, was already dying.

Not long after, Lieutenant Hitoshi Kurioka, the captain of the engineering squadron, led the officers and soldiers of the engineering squadron to reinforce the Xiangudian high ground. Seeing the miserable condition of Lieutenant Hideshi Mukuguruma, the captain of the third squadron, Lieutenant Hitoshi Kurioka took over the command of the troops and began to shoot fiercely at the attacking Chinese army.

Under the attack of two divisions of the 236th Army of the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government, Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, commander of the th Regiment of the Japanese Army, also reported the battle situation to Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the th Division of the Japanese Army.

In the telegram, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment, judged that about two divisions of Chinese troops had launched a full-scale attack on their defense line. The focus of the fighting between the two sides was on the two heights of Shuanghuajian and Xiangudian. The positions on these two heights had changed hands several times. Now the 236th Regiment suffered heavy casualties. The commander of the nd Battalion, Major Hideo Mizusawa, died in battle, as did the squadron leader and officers at all levels. The casualties of the soldiers were even more severe.

In addition, the commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, also emphasized in the telegram that the troops were now extremely short of ammunition. The regiment's artillery had only three shells left, each heavy machine gun had only three to five rows of bullets, and each person had only about ten rifle bullets. The grenades had basically been used up, and now they urgently hoped that ammunition could be airlifted to the 236th Regiment.

When Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, saw the tragic battle report, he immediately sent a telegram requesting Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the 236th Army of the Japanese Army, to quickly send Army Aviation planes to airdrop supplies to his th Regiment. If ammunition was not airdropped, his th Regiment would be gone.

The Japanese 236th Army Commander Lieutenant General Anami Korechika acted very quickly. At noon that day, two Japanese light transport planes flew over Dashantang and dropped a certain amount of military supplies. However, the effect of the airdrop was mixed. Among them, the airdropped rifles, grenades, bean paste powder and other military supplies happened to fall on the defensive positions of the th Regiment, but most of the airdropped ammunition happened to fall into the surrounding ponds.

Faced with such an airdrop result, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment, was in tears. What else could he do? He had to endure it and use what ammunition he had. At the same time, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa also sent people to collect ammunition from the large number of wounded. Even a small amount of ammunition still counts.

After watching this annoying video, the commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, lowered his head and walked towards the regiment headquarters. Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa had to think carefully about how to defend against the fierce attack of the Chinese army next.

After staying in the command center for an entire afternoon, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, came up with a crazy plan. He decided to lead all the troops of the 236th Regiment to attack the headquarters of the Chinese army at night.

With this decision in mind, Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the th Division of the Japanese Army, asking for approval of his combat plan.

Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, stated in a telegram that although the attacks of the Chinese army were intermittent, their fierce attacks on the two heights of Shuanghuajian and Xiangudian had never abated. Now the 236th Regiment had suffered very serious losses in manpower and its ammunition was almost exhausted. The results of the airdrop were not very ideal.

Only by concentrating all the troops of the regiment tonight and launching a night attack on Lishanping, which may be the headquarters of the Chinese army, can we crush the offensive of the Chinese army.

Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, finally said that the communication of the 236th Regiment might be interrupted during the night attack, but the 236th Regiment was determined to defend Dashantang to the last man.

However, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, was also shocked when he saw the crazy combat plan telegram from Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the th Regiment of the Japanese Army.

Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, was relatively familiar with the current situation of the 236th Regiment. Given the current miserable condition of the th Regiment, launching a night attack on the Chinese Army's headquarters would be tantamount to seeking death.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, did not agree with the combat plan of proactive night attack formulated by Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment, and sent a telegram ordering Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the th Regiment, to lead his troops to hold their ground and wait for the main force of the th Division to complete its mission and come to the rescue.

Colonel Kamekawa Yoshio, commander of the 236th Regiment of the Japanese Army, had originally prepared himself for death, but when he saw the division commander say that the main force of the division would come to rescue him soon, he gave up the crazy idea of ​​attacking the Chinese Army Headquarters at night and prepared to lead his troops to continue holding on and wait for rescue from the main force of the division.

Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, who was waiting for the arrival of the rd Division of the Japanese Army in the northern area of ​​Chunhua Mountain, was also anxious now. According to the order of Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the th Army of the Japanese Army, he needed to lead the troops of the th Division to carry out the flank defense mission here and wait for the retreating troops of the rd Division to arrive. Only then could he command the troops of the th Division to turn around again and go back to rescue his th Regiment.

Therefore, the commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, is now most concerned about where the retreating 3rd Division has gone.

Finally, the Japanese planes that had been continuously conducting aerial reconnaissance brought the news that Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, wanted to hear the most: the retreat of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army was progressing smoothly, and the vanguard troops had reached Gaoxitang, eight kilometers west of Chunhua Mountain.

Therefore, upon receiving the news that the 234rd Division was about to arrive, Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi, the commander of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, immediately ordered all troops of the th Division to start turning around, and ordered the th Regiment to advance quickly and rush to Dashantang as quickly as possible to rescue the th Regiment that had been surrounded by the Chinese army.

After receiving the order from the division commander, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, the 234th Regiment immediately assembled its troops and headed towards Dashantang. When the Japanese 234th Regiment set out, it was time to prepare for dinner. The officers and soldiers could only hold their lunch boxes in their hands and eat their meals in the dark while continuing their forced march.