Under the wise command of Chairman Chiang and the decisive command of Commander-in-Chief Pei Ge of the Republic of Korea, the officers and men of the 23rd Route Army of our army surrounded and annihilated the Yamamoto Brigade, the elite unit of the Japanese invading army, and the 2nd integrated division of Yang Huabo, a puppet peacemaker of the founding army, on the front line of Xima River and Ma'anshan, resulting in a great victory. In this battle, more than 10,000 enemies were killed, 7,000 were captured, 26 heavy artillery pieces, dozens of mortars, more than 300 light and heavy machine guns, and countless guns and ammunition were captured. Commander-in-Chief Pei Ge, Lieutenant General of the Republic of Korea, said: The realization of the great victory depends on the implementation of our army's mobile and flexible combat strategy. At the beginning, I made the illusion of a decisive battle in Hexi, lured the enemy into the urn, and then took the initiative to abandon the provincial capital and Hucheng in Hexi, detoured to the front line of the Xima River, and cooperated with the 377th Division of Ximadong with the main force to form an iron wall encirclement, trapping the enemy in a Jedi, and winning a complete victory. General Han revealed that the new third regiment directly under the general headquarters of the 23rd Route Army made extraordinary sacrifices. The regiment was ordered to stop the enemy at the last moment, and the officers and men of the regiment fought bravely without fear of a strong enemy, writing the most glorious chapter in the history of the 23rd Route Army's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression......

[Kyodo News]

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Under the command of Lieutenant General Kanichi Oshima, the Imperial Chinese Dispatch Army, the Matsui Division, the Ikeda Division, the Koga Division, and the Akira Iguchi Brigade completed the Hexi operation as scheduled, and defeated the 23rd Route Army of Chongqing, which was entrenched in the area, conquered its provincial capital and military town of Hucheng, and connected 17 counties, pushing the jihadist front south of Shayang. In this battle, the imperial army made rapid progress and took the enemy by surprise. Within seven days, the 303rd, 324th, and 375th Divisions of the 23rd Route Army in Chongqing were eliminated one after another, and more than 40,000 enemies were killed and captured. The temporary 16th Army of the 23rd Route Army was well aware of the righteousness of the liberation jihad, and in the course of the battle, it was subordinated to Wang Jingwei**, and has now been incorporated into the sequence of the Peaceful Founding Army of the National Government. The officers and men of the Yamamoto Brigade under the Koga Division fought bloodily for His Majesty the Emperor under the fierce confrontation of the most elite units of the Chongqing Army, and then fell into a heavy encirclement of enemy troops ten times larger than ours, and still did not lose the spirit of Yamato Bushido, and fought to the last man. A few days ago, His Majesty the Emperor issued an edict to General Oshima Kanichi of the Chinese Dispatch Army Headquarters, commending the success of the battle and ordering that the commander of the Yamamoto Saburo Brigade, who had died heroically, be awarded the Order of the Golden Bird......

[Associated Press]

Good news from the Chinese battlefield

At a time when the officers and men of our US army were fighting hard and fiercely in the Japanese battle, the Chinese government troops and the broad masses of the people under the command of General Chiang Kai-shek continued to resist and contain the invading Japanese army, and recently annihilated the Japanese Yamamoto Brigade in the central China battlefield, setting the best victory in the Chinese battlefield since the beginning of this season. According to a spokesman for the Chongqing military, at the beginning of the encirclement and annihilation campaign, the Chinese government army only invested in a new regiment, which had been formed for less than a month, and its inferior weaponry and equipment were unimaginably inferior. However, the officers and men of the regiment fought bravely in a patriotic spirit that could be sung and wept, and relied on primitive spears and broadswords, earthen artillery muskets, and "old sleeves" ,—— a backward rifle produced in China in the 20s, and led the well-equipped Yamamoto Brigade with a heavy artillery wing in front of Ma'anshan in the central part of the Chinese theater until the last soldier was killed. Japan's Kyodo News Agency exclaimed that the Imperial Army had encountered the most elite units of the Chinese government army. Lieutenant General Kanichi Oshima, commander of the Japanese Central China Theater, also sighed helplessly: it is inconceivable that such a poorly equipped Chinese army could have fought such a successful and heroic battle......

Commentary:

Mr. Jackson, a senator from Texas, wrote to Congress, calling for further expansion of the scope of implementation of the "China Aid Act" and more effective military and economic assistance to the Chinese government and the Chinese military. Mr. Jackson said at a popular rally to raise funds for the anti-Japanese soldiers in the Chinese theater of war: "We are not only saving China and Asia, but also saving ourselves and the civilization of the human world. With sophisticated weapons, the Chinese army will eliminate one more Japanese bandit, and our fellow US soldiers in the Pacific theater will shed a drop of blood. Wars to destroy and defend civilizations have broken down national and racial boundaries. Now, there are only us and the enemy, and there are no more Americans and Chinese......"

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Han General Pei Ge personally came to Xijiadian to preside over the funeral of the dead officers and soldiers of the New Third Regiment, and Gao ** Hongtu and 12 provincial governors went to ......

The population of the county is less than 70,000, and the population of the county is only more than 20,000, but the people of the county are inspired by the spirit of the scorched earth war of resistance of Chairman Chiang, and the enthusiasm for resisting the enemy is extremely high. As soon as the battle began, the regiment was ordered to enter the Ma'anshan area, contain the enemy's superior forces, and fought a bloody battle for three days, ensuring the complete realization of the great victory in Ma'anshan. None of the officers and men of the regiment were cowardly in the face of the enemy, none of them flinched, and none of them fled and stole their lives.

At the solemn funeral, the martyrs of the New Third Regiment rested in peace, and the coffins, black gauze and filial piety clothes constructed a solemn and solemn world for them. The county town of Xiejiadian is crying, the land soaked in the blood of the warriors is crying, the relatives of the warriors are crying, and the country and the nation are also crying for them!

General Han took off his hat and saluted them.

Gao ** took off his hat and saluted them.

The guns in the hands of the soldiers rang out into the sky, and pale blue smoke rose above people's heads.

The flag that floated in the air for which they defended was lowered for them, inch by foot, inch by inch......

The martyrs of the new third regiment will be buried somewhere in the east of the city, Gao ** Hongtu announced that the provincial government will allocate special funds to build the martyrs' memorial cemetery at an appropriate time, and intends to ask the president to write a mausoleum inscription for him......

Commentary:

On his way back from the funeral, General Han said that the new Third Regiment would be returned to the formation to honor its heroes and traditions. General Han proposed to petition Chairman Chiang and General He to award the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun to the surviving comrades Duan Renyi, deputy Huo Jack, and Ouyang Guisan, commander of the second company of the third battalion, and to hold a solemn and enthusiastic ceremony to award the medals.