Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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When the flags had burned and places for seppuku had been chosen, the farewell message remained.
It declared that all officers and soldiers had done their utmost for the empire in the final desperate struggle, that military flags, confidential documents, and imperial edicts had been burned, and that it was deeply regrettable that overseas Chinese and the delegation in Yichang had also suffered this fate.
Uchiyama then added one final sentence in red pencil.
The soldiers of the Empire had fulfilled their duty and died for their country amidst the heroic cries of long-lived the Grand Marshal.
At 8.50, the clerk began encoding the telegram.
Then Uchiyama said quietly to the officers waiting to die, Please wait a little while longer.
The words postponed death by mere minutes.
There was still the narrow possibility that communication mattered, or that the battle had not yet reached its absolute end.
Chief of Staff Akinaga summoned his adjutant, Sakata Uyashiro, and ordered that if the division commander and chief of staff died before the telegram was sent, Sakata was to form a suicide squad, break out by any means possible, and report the division's fate to the 11th Army Headquarters.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese 39th Division, attacking from Jingmen, launched a new assault under Anami strict orders against Li Yanyan's 2nd Army.
One regiment used poison gas to break through part of the Chinese line and reach the outskirts of Yichang.
Zhan Cheng personally directed the Chinese response, using elements of the attacking force and the Second Army to surround and beat back the thrust.
By two in the afternoon, only the Dangshan-Tampo line remained intact amongst the different sectors of the Japanese city defenses.
Chinese troops had penetrated the city, and they were fighting bitterly within its streets, moving steadily towards the divisional headquarters.
At four in the afternoon, more than 2,000 Japanese rapid deployment troops from northern Hunan reached the northeastern approaches of Yichang and at once joined the relief effort.
Chancheng threw reserves in to block them, and both sides locked in combat six kilometers outside of the city.
As dusk fell, the Chinese assault units in the city had also suffered terrible losses.
Chancheng ordered them to regroup, replenish, and launch a final attack after dark.
Then at 7 p.m., almost as the order was issued, a violent gale rose and torrential rain began to fall.
Such heavy rain was unusual in the Yuchang area in October, and to the men who had been living for days under the pressure of siege, death, and deadline, it must have seemed uncanny.
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