With a determination and bravery, which Japanese officers said, was worthy of admiration, the Chinese launched repeated—counter-attacks against the Japanese wings in an apparent effort to break through. Numerous reports of fighting at close quarters, in which the Chinese retreated only after they found themselves virtually wiped out by Japanese machine-gun and rifle fire, were being received at Japanese headquarters, Domei dispatches said.
This Chinese force, apparently intended fo force the Japanese into a decisive encounter west of Yehkiatsl, on the Anhwei-Honan border. The plan of the Chinese high command was foiled as another Japanese column evaded the Chinese concentration to attack Kushih.
Meantime, the Japanese column advancing from Yehkiatsi battled with this numerically superior force, which th 80 field and mountain artillery pieces, was well equipped according to Chinese standards.
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