With Luo Jiang taking part in the Battle of Taierzhuang, the speed at which the two Japanese divisions were encircled and wiped out was accelerated by several days. This was mainly because Luo Jiang had sabotaged more than one hundred kilometers of the Japanese supply lines and hijacked a trainload of military supplies.
Without the rails on the railway, the trains could no longer run, forcing the Japanese to round up forced laborers everywhere to repair the railway, and to ship steel rails over from steel mills to relay them.
Going back and forth, it would take at least half a year for the railway to reopen to traffic, but the 5th and 10th Divisions could not wait that long. With their supplies unable to be delivered, and lacking both clothing and food, how could they possibly fight?
Chapter 22