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...make these gains, Japan used a small force-probably no more than 50,000 men. But fleets of trucks, mobile cannon, some 600 whippet tanks and armored cars gave this army its winning asset: mobility on the vast Honan plain (in three weeks the Japanese covered some 300 miles...
...hungry General Shunroku Hata had used this and other assets, like superior firepower, with seeming skill and a full appreciation of the weakness of his foe. He split his forces into small columns (the two which crossed the Yellow River numbered only 5,000 men), sent them streaking across Honan's ripening wheat fields. Once his wedges had pierced the outer defense belts, he sent them into mushroom patterns. Result: encirclement of Chinese front-line troops. The advance went...
Tragedy's Lessons. Defeat in Honan bore lessons: wars cannot be fought without weapons; a long stalemate poisons an army's morale and strength. Honan's defenders were ill-armed, lulled into apathy by six years of relative inaction...
...great as the Army's tragedy was that of Honan's tall, patient peasants. After years of famine, this year's crop was rich and fat, all but ready for the harvest. Just before the Japanese struck, plans had been completed to move 1,000,000 Ib. of poison spray into Honan to check the inroads of locusts. Now the plans lost meaning: what the locust spares, the Japanese will take...
...vast plain , of Honan, gaunt Chinese farmers watched the enemy tanks crush their fat grain, watched the enemy horsemen feed their mounts on ripe wheat...