Quartermasters can also fight the devils

"Mr. Tangchuan, the radio station still hasn't called Brigade Commander Kojune Kunio? Could it be that the Chinese army has completely broken through Brigade Commander Kojune Kunio's defensive position so quickly?" Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, asked the chief of staff, Major General Yasuo Tangchuan, with a puzzled look on his face.

Faced with the questions from Commander Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, Chief of Staff Major General Yasuo Karakawa was also in a dilemma. Ever since he received a telegram from Major General Kunio Kojune, commander of the Kojune Brigade, stating that the defensive positions had been built, he has not received any telegrams from the brigade commander Major General Kunio Kojune.

The entire Xiaojunjiang Brigade lost contact with the 13th Army Headquarters again, just like in the morning. It would be unreasonable to say that the Chinese army launched a large-scale night attack at night and wiped out all the remaining troops of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade.

No matter how strong the Chinese army's combat effectiveness is, and no matter how large the scale of the troops launching the night attack is, it is impossible that the brigade commander, Major General Xiaojun Jiang Bangxiong, would not even have time to send a telegram. At least the brigade commander, Major General Xiaojun Jiang Bangxiong, would have sent a message to let him know that the Chinese army had launched a night attack.

In the worst case scenario, the commander of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade, Major General Xiaojunjiang Bangxiong, should have sent a suicide telegram, ready to die in battle. But the current situation is that the commander of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade, Major General Xiaojunjiang Bangxiong, and the more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of his brigade have lost contact again.

Even if the commander of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade, Major General Xiaojunjiang Bangxiong, was killed by the Chinese army, the other officers in the brigade would take over the command of the brigade commander, Major General Xiaojunjiang Bangxiong, in accordance with wartime rules, and send a telegram to the 13th Army Headquarters to report the situation.

Besides, how could the Chinese army have the strength to suddenly eliminate more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Empire of Japan? If the Chinese army had such terrifying strength, how could the Empire of Japan occupy almost half of China's territory like it does now.

Moreover, in every previous battle, the Chinese army had to concentrate at least half of the strength of the Imperial Japanese Army in order to withstand the offensive of the Imperial Japanese Army. If the Chinese army wanted to attack, it would need to gather at least twice as many elite troops as the Japanese Army in order to put pressure on the defending Japanese Army.

Even if it could bring pressure to the Japanese Army, there was no possibility that the Chinese Army could completely wipe out the remaining troops of a brigade of the Japanese Army, which only had half of its troops left, in such a short period of time. That was completely impossible, and it did not conform to the actual situation of the combat power of both sides.

"Commander, analyzing the current situation, I think it is very likely that there was a malfunction in the radio station at the Xiaojunjiang Brigade, which has led to the loss of contact with the headquarters. After dawn, the Air Force will send reconnaissance planes to the location of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade for reconnaissance. Then we will know what happened." Chief of Staff Major General Yasuo Karakawa was unable to give an accurate answer, but placed his hopes on aerial reconnaissance after dawn.

The meaning of the Chief of Staff, Major General Yasuo Karakawa, was also very clear. There was no information at all now, so he could not make any reasonable analysis and judgment. Pure guessing was not what he would do as a military chief of staff.

Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, also knew what the Chief of Staff Major General Yasuo Karakawa said. Although he still had many doubts in his heart, he could only helplessly continue to wait in the headquarters, hoping that the commander of the Kojune Brigade, Major General Kunio Kojune, had really lost contact with the headquarters because of the damage of the radio, as the Chief of Staff Major General Yasuo Karakawa had just expected.

When it got light, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, who had not rested all night, ordered the Air Force to quickly send out reconnaissance planes to see what the current situation of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade in Wenzhou was.

If the officers and soldiers of the Kojune Brigade are still on the defensive position, it means that the Chief of Staff, Major General Yasuo Karakawa, is right. It is very likely that the radio station of the commander of the Kojune Brigade, Major General Kunio Kojune, is damaged for some reason.

If the Chinese army appeared on the defensive position of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade or if the officers and soldiers of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade were not discovered, then the problem would be serious. However, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, felt that the worst case scenario was that the Chinese army's attack force rushed into the defensive position of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade.

As for the fantastic story that the Xiaojunjiang Brigade was completely wiped out by the Chinese Army's offensive forces in one night, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, would never believe it even if he was beaten to death. Not only would Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, not believe it, but if he told this conjecture to any other Japanese general, he would be called an idiot.

However, an hour and a half later, an aerial reconnaissance aircraft used its onboard radio to send a telegram that shocked the Japanese 13th Army Commander Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru and Chief of Staff Major General Karakawa Yasuo. The defensive positions of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade were already filled with Chinese troops, which meant that the Xiaojunjiang Brigade was completely wiped out by the Chinese army overnight.

This is such a joke! How did the Chinese army break through the defense positions of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade in just one night, and basically wiped out all of the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade? Who would believe this if I told others?

"Mr. Tangchuan, send a telegram to the Air Force reconnaissance plane and ask the pilot to fly at the lowest altitude to clearly see the situation on the Xiaojunjiang Brigade's defensive position. Don't mistake our officers and soldiers on the position for the Chinese army. Ask the plane to circle a few more times." Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the Japanese 13th Army, anxiously ordered Chief of Staff Major General Yasuo Tangchuan.

The Chief of Staff, Major General Yasuo Karakawa, also lost his usual composure. He walked quickly to the telecommunications room of the headquarters and asked the signalman to quickly convey the commander's orders to the reconnaissance plane pilots in the air.

However, twenty minutes later, a telegram sent by the observation telegraph operator of the Air Force reconnaissance aircraft completely shattered the hopes of Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the Japanese 13th Army, and Major General Yasuo Karakawa, chief of staff.

After the reconnaissance aircraft flew over the Xiaojunjiang Brigade's defensive positions three times at ultra-low altitudes, the observers and pilots could clearly see that the soldiers who were now active on the defensive positions that originally belonged to the Xiaojunjiang Brigade were actually the soldiers of the Chinese army. As for the officers and soldiers of the Xiaojunjiang Brigade, it seemed that there were only two very small positions where Japanese officers and soldiers were active.