Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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The Chinese attacked through the downpour, but progress was painfully slow.
At the same time, more than 10,000 Japanese troops were arriving from northern Hunan, reaching the outskirts, fighting over two hours in the rain.
They finally broke into the city, linking up with what remained of the 13th Division.
At 11 p.m., Chiang Kai-shek ordered the attack on Yichang halted and instructed the Chinese troops to return to their original defensive positions.
The battle ended not in a clear verdict, but in exhaustion.
One elderly resident of Yicheng, Huang Jiepu, later left a memory of the aftermath more vivid than any headquarters summary.
He recalled that the heavy rain began at nightfall on the 20th day of the 8th lunar month, October 10th, in the Gregorian calendar, and continued into the next afternoon.
Rainwater soaked the corpses lying in the streets until the water became a deep brownish-red pool more than two feet deep before it drained into the Yangtze and changed the river's color.
The next day, he said, both sides sent corpse collection teams into the streets under the Red Cross flags.
They pushed carts and worked separately, avoiding conflict, though sometimes they spoke to one another when trying to identify bodies.
The Japanese recovery party included Chinese helpers and local residents.
They turned corpses over, looked at the clothing and the weapons, and they tried to determine nationality.
Some bodies were naked, perhaps stripped wounded, which made identification a little bit harder.
Since Chinese and Japanese could resemble one another, neither side wanted to take the wrong dead, fearing that a mistake would disturb the heroic souls to whom each army believed had been owed a proper burial.
In the end, Huang remembered it was the people of Yicheng who pooled their money to bury many of the dead north of the city.
Later, an unmarked stone was raised there, with a bowl of rice and a stick of incense set before it.
That image does something military history often fails to do.
It restores weight to the end of the battle.
Armies issued attack orders, counterattack orders, pursuit orders, and retreat orders.
Staff officers marked arrows on maps.
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