Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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Once these movements took hold, Yichang itself would be enclosed and then crushed.
Li Jinyan's 94th Army, Li Yanyan's 2nd Army, and Song Kentang's 32nd Army and other formations advance according to the plan.
On paper, the arrangement was pretty clear.
On the ground, it had a bit of resistance.
The Japanese defended from some strong fieldworks, and progress was quite slow.
Earthworks, wire, trenches, and mutually supporting positions transformed every apparent advance into some pretty hard labor.
The Chinese pushed forward, but not with much speed, at least not what Chen Chong had wanted.
Even a favorable comparison of troop numbers could not cancel the fact that entrenched Japanese forces, once determined to hold said positions, could impose quite a terrible price on any assault.
By the first of October, Japanese troops outside Yichang began withdrawing into the city proper.
Jiancheng responded by ordering all troops to complete the encirclement.
At last, the operation seemed to be reaching the decisive stage.
The city was tightening under pressure.
The ring was nearly closed.
Yet at that very moment, time began pressing harder on both sides.
On October 2nd, both Chen Cheng outside the city and Uchiyama inside received telegrams that sharpened the crisis.
The message sent from the Japanese Lameth Army Headquarters in Wuhan informed Uchiyama that the famous Tokyo Asakusa Art Troop was coming to Yichang to comfort the frontline troops.
The Expeditionary Army Headquarters in Nanjing had decided that for political reasons, the troop could not be turned back merely because combat situations were pretty dangerous.
Their purpose was moral.
That such a message could arrive at such a time reveals much more about the Japanese wartime culture.
Appearances, spirit, ritual, reassurances, and emotional theater of endurance still had to be maintained even when military reality was worsening by the hour.
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