C419 Xuzhou Great Breakout

On the 25th of May, a comforting message came from Hua Bicheng. After struggling for more than a month in his sickbed, Kikuji, who had fled back to Jinan, died at Jinan Japanese Army Hospital. Hua Bicheng also had an explanation for the few thousand soldiers who had lost thirty-one divisions.

Just as the fifth battle zone was about to break out of the siege