Chinese militarists assert that not single Japanese tank or artillery piece larger than a. mountain gun was able to cross the Hsinchiang River in the Changsha offensive. Tt was obviously true, for gun carriages and tanks are not designed to travel fon such narrow paths. There were no other roads, As a result, the Chinese soldiers, equiped with machine guns, rifles and some mountain guns, "found themselves facing an enemy similarly equipped, Chinese divisions, trained for this type of mobile Mghting, were able to concentrate in. strategical positions despite constant Japanese surveillance from the air. Troops. were moved as far as fifty miles in one night (o escape detection, The Chinese soldier, carrying loss equipment than his Japanese adver= ary, able to exist for days on nothing bout rice, clad in felt shoes enabling him to dim mountains which defied the boot-cald Japanese, was able to execute rapidly tactical orders from the Chinese command. The Japanese army, lost in a maze of valleys and al lacked from every side, finally Ww: forced to seek comfort in a "strate-
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