Quartermasters can also fight the devils

"Mr. Tangchuan, it seems that we can only rely on the Kojune Brigade now. As long as they can hold on for two days, the reinforcements we send will surely arrive there. Now, apart from sending planes to support the defensive operations of the brigade commander, Major General Kojune Kunio, we can't do anything else." Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, said helplessly to the chief of staff, Major General Yasuo Tangchuan.

Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, is now feeling rather remorseful. He originally thought that after the failure of the counterattack in the Shangrao direction of the Third War Zone of the Chinese Government, they would not have the strength to launch a counterattack again. However, he did not expect that Commander Gu of the Third War Zone of the Chinese Government actually set a trap for him in Wenzhou.

Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, suddenly thought that the Xiaojunjiang Brigade's desperate situation was a bad episode in his command career. He was already blind, and after the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, the headquarters would definitely let him return to his homeland to recuperate, and he would never have the opportunity to command troops in combat again.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Japanese Army, felt that he must fight the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign more beautifully to make the victory more perfect. He could not let the Xiaojunjiang Brigade be wiped out by the Chinese army at the end of this battle that had already been basically victorious.

Moreover, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, felt that this was a provocation by Commander Gu of the Third War Zone of the Chinese Government. This could not be tolerated, and failure was absolutely not an option.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, gave instructions to the Chief of Staff, Major General Yasuo Karakawa, and ordered all reinforcements to reach the current location of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade within two days, no matter what kind of obstruction and harassment they encountered from the Chinese Army, and break the encirclement of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade by the Chinese Army.

When Major General Kunio Kojune, commander of the Kojune Brigade of the Japanese Army, received a telegram from Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army, he felt very upset. The people around him were the New 22nd Army, which was the direct force of the Chinese government. This was really a big trouble.

Even Major General Kojunjiang Kunio, commander of the Kojunjiang Brigade, had heard of the New 22nd Army, a direct descendant of the Chinese government, when he was in North China. If the Japanese army was surrounded by this force of the Chinese government, no Japanese army would have a good ending.

Now his own brigade has suffered more than half of its casualties under the attack of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government. The Xiaojunjiang Brigade was originally composed of troops drawn from the 37th Division of the Japanese North China Front stationed in Yuncheng and the 26th Division stationed in Datong. In particular, the infantry battalion drawn from the 37th Division that had been collectively poisoned before was now in an extremely miserable state.

This infantry battalion, as the left column in the previous battle in Lishui, accidentally ingested tung oil in the mountainous area, which caused a ridiculous incident of collective poisoning. During the Wenzhou attack, the brigade commander, Major General Xiao Junjiang Bangxiong, took into account that the officers and soldiers of this battalion had just recovered, so he arranged for two squadrons of this battalion to stay on the rear defense line, and the other two squadrons went at the end of the entire brigade's attack force. It can be said that the brigade commander, Major General Xiao Junjiang Bangxiong, did his utmost to protect the officers and soldiers of this battalion.

In the heart of Major General Kojune Kunio, commander of the Kojune Brigade, this infantry battalion transferred from the 37th Division cannot cause any unexpected trouble to his brigade. His little heart cannot bear those troubles anymore. In recent times, he has been numbed by the ridicule of other Japanese army commanders.

However, the good intentions of Major General Kojune Kunio, commander of the Kojune Brigade, did not lead to the direct destruction of the infantry battalion drawn from the 37th Division.

First, the Chinese army launched a surprise attack on the defensive positions in the rear of its own brigade. As a result, the two squadrons of the infantry battalion that had originally stayed in the rear defense line were wiped out by the troops of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government. Later, the entire brigade was ambushed on three sides by the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government outside the city of Wenzhou. The brigade commander, Major General Xiaojun Jiang Bangxiong, had no choice but to order the entire army to turn around. The vanguard troops became the rear guard troops, and the infantry battalion that was originally at the end of the entire brigade suddenly became the vanguard troops in the retreating march.

Finally, the officers and soldiers of the two squadrons of this battalion were transformed from rear guard troops to vanguard troops. In front of their original defense line, they were suddenly and fiercely attacked by the troops of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government. One of the two squadrons was directly wiped out, and the officers and soldiers of the other squadron were also more than half lost. It can be said that this infantry battalion drawn from the 37th Division was almost completely wiped out.

This made the commander of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade, Major General Xiaojunjiang Kunio, feel emotional. This infantry battalion drawn from the 37th Division was extremely unlucky. This was also the fate of this infantry battalion. The last tung oil poisoning did not take the lives of these officers and soldiers, but they eventually lost their lives under the attack of the Chinese army.

To use the words of Major General Kojune Kunio, commander of the Kojune Brigade, this is fate, you can't escape or hide from it, he had already left all the places he thought were the safest for this battalion, but fate was still so cruel, it turned the safest place into the most dangerous place, and then ruthlessly took away this infantry battalion transferred from the 37th Division.

Regarding the tragic fate of this infantry battalion transferred from the 37th Division, the commander of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade, Major General Xiaojunjiang Kunio, felt that he had a clear conscience. What lay before him now was the safety of the entire Xiaojunjiang Brigade, rather than constantly lamenting the tragic fate of this infantry battalion.

The commander of the Kojunjiang Brigade, Major General Kojunjiang Kunio, also urgently ordered all troops to begin building defensive fortifications on the spot, and the rear guard troops to withdraw to the main force as soon as possible. The brigade commander, Major General Kojunjiang Kunio, decided to hold on to the spot and see if he could hold out until the arrival of other reinforcements from the Japanese 13th Army.

However, today's bad news made the brigade commander, Major General Xiaojun Jiang Bangxiong, feel that his hope would be difficult to realize, because just fifteen minutes after the brigade commander, Major General Xiaojun Jiang Bangxiong, issued the order to build fortifications on the spot and defend on the spot, he received very bad news that the battalion responsible for the rear guard mission was surrounded by the attack force of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government.