Quartermasters can also fight the devils

Secondly, the officers and soldiers of the 236th Regiment are now on the brink of extreme collapse. If they abandon the seriously injured at this time, the mentality of the officers and soldiers will change seriously. Among these seriously injured, there are many officers and soldiers of the 236th Regiment. How will the officers and soldiers feel about themselves?

Therefore, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, commander of the 236th Regiment, personally commanded the retreat operation. Whenever a troop withdrew from the defensive position, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa asked them to go to the field hospital to carry the seriously wounded soldiers lying on stretchers to ensure that every seriously wounded soldier could be evacuated smoothly with the troops.

It was not until the arrival of the last troop that the commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, breathed a sigh of relief. The seriously wounded in the field hospital finally began to evacuate with the help of the officers and soldiers. However, what made the commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, feel a little depressed was that, apart from transporting the wounded, only 236 officers and soldiers of the entire th Regiment were able to participate in the rearguard combat mission, including the commander of the regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa himself.

Therefore, the commander of the 236th Regiment, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, personally commanded another 236 officers and soldiers to be responsible for the rear guard mission of the retreating troops. However, this forced action of the commander, Colonel Yoshio Kamekawa, boosted the tired bodies and low morale of the officers and soldiers of the th Regiment. After all, the commander actually served as his own guard, which was very touching.

Finally, the remnants of the 236th Regiment, with the support of the 234th Regiment's night attack troops, broke out of the Chinese army's encirclement at the fastest speed.

However, for the officers and soldiers of the 236th Division of the Japanese Army, the nightmare battle was not over yet. When the 234th Regiment and the th Regiment joined together and retreated, the Chinese Army also gathered troops from several armies and launched a fierce attack on the th Division of the Japanese Army.

The 40th Division of the Japanese Army was also thrown into chaos by the attack of the Chinese Army. The commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, could only command his troops to retreat eastward. However, the 40th Division was now unable to stabilize the safety of the retreat route, and the Chinese Army had broken through several sections of its defense line.

Among them, an artillery squadron of the 40th Division was intercepted and surrounded by a battalion of the 95th Division that had broken through the defense line on its way of retreat. After a night of fierce fighting, this Japanese artillery squadron was completely wiped out by the troops of the 95th Division. Even the two Japanese soldiers who escaped were captured alive in a sweet potato cellar of a local resident by the troops cleaning the battlefield.

Although the situation on the 40th Division's side is a little bad, the danger is still within a controllable range. There should be no problem with retreat, but the losses will be greater.

What is giving the Japanese 11th Army Commander Lieutenant General Anami Korechika a headache right now is that the two main divisions of the 11th Army, the 3rd Division and the 6th Division, are in a very dangerous situation.

After the support troops organized by the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army were almost wiped out by the Chinese army at Yingzhu Mountain, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, was unable to keep his mind calm for a moment.

Thinking about the unfavorable start of the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade and the inability to continue to send troops to support the 3rd and 6th Divisions to continue their breakout, the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, became more and more upset. Finally, the angry commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, lost his temper in the front-line headquarters in Yueyang.

Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the 11th Japanese Army, placed all his anger and responsibility on the 6th Division of the Japanese Army. He believed that the 6th Division's slow retreat had led to the loss of military opportunities. However, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika seemed to have overlooked a more serious fact, which was that the 6th Division of the Japanese Army was following his orders to support the retreat of the 3rd Division, but was surrounded by tens of thousands of troops from the 9th War Zone of the Chinese government.

Starting from the night when the 236th Regiment of the th Division of the Japanese Army broke out, the headquarters of the th Division of the Japanese Army, along with the rd Regiment and a battalion directly under the division, were besieged in the Malin Temple area by the troops of the th War Zone of the Chinese government, and the th Regiment, which was responsible for the vanguard mission, was also surrounded by the th Army, rd Army and th Army of the th War Zone of the Chinese government.

Regarding the operation to support the retreat of the Japanese 3rd Division, Lieutenant General Kanda Masatane, commander of the Japanese 6th Division, had already had doubts when he received the order from Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the Japanese 11th Army.

Lieutenant General Kanda Masatane, commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army and commander of the troops who have been on the front line, is well aware that all the units of the 6th Division are suffering combat failures, with heavy casualties and insufficient ammunition. What is even more fatal is that after more than ten days of continuous fighting, the physical strength of the officers and soldiers in the unit has reached its limit. How can his troops face the Chinese army whose morale is high?

The battlefield where the entire Sixth Division is currently located is evolving in a way that confirms the judgment of Lieutenant General Kanda Masatane, commander of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army. Therefore, as soon as the Sixth Division's troops were surrounded by the Ninth War Zone troops of the Chinese government, Lieutenant General Kanda Masatane, commander of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army, immediately issued an order for the entire army to break out and retreat. However, the current situation on the battlefield is worse than he imagined.

At two o'clock in the morning of that night, the headquarters of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army was unexpectedly attacked by the Chinese army. For a moment, grenades, machine gun bullets, and mortar shells exploded all around the headquarters of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army.

Lieutenant General Masatane Kanda, commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, immediately ordered all personnel of the 6th Division, including civilian staff, to take up guns and join the battle. Lieutenant General Masatane Kanda sat in the division headquarters, listening to the sound of bullets hitting the wall. The command knife placed beside him was a constant reminder to Lieutenant General Masatane Kanda that the last moment might come at any time.

It can be said that Lieutenant General Kanda Masatane, commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, was lucky. The Chinese army that attacked at night failed to break into the division headquarters of the 6th Division under the desperate resistance of the Japanese army. In addition, as the sky gradually brightened, the commander of the Chinese army that attacked at night was concerned about the support of Japanese aircraft from Kitada, so he was not resolute enough in the attack and took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield at dawn. This allowed Lieutenant General Kanda Masatane, commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, to save his life.

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