Take Taobao to fight against Japan

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Hunan accelerated the construction of the transportation network on the one hand, and at the same time strengthened the development guarantee of strategic materials and the supply of troops, becoming an important strategic rear base in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

"If it is said that the country of China will perish, unless all the people in Hunan die."

In the face of national peril, the sons and daughters of Sanxiang shared the same hatred and went to the national calamity together.

During the 8-year Anti-Japanese War, Hunan recruited more than 210 million soldiers, making it the second largest exporter of troops in the country.

Before the Anti-Japanese War, the total population of Hunan was more than 2800 million, that is to say, on average, one out of 14 Hunanese went to the battlefield.

"Wife sends man to the front line, mother sends son to the battlefield, father and son brothers share the battlefield", this is a typical portrayal of Hunan people during the Anti-Japanese War.

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After he was re-appointed as the commander of the 10th Army, Li Yutang can be said to be conscientious and conscientious.I spend every day in various positions, checking the quality and supervising the progress.

Apart from making up his mind to avenge his shame, Li Yutang knew very well that the last dismissal was actually the lightest punishment, and he almost lost his head that time.

Because in 1927, the chairman shot and killed a commander of the 10th Army, and in the second Changsha battle not long ago, he shot and killed Liao Lingqi, the division commander of the 74th Army.

Speaking of this generation of famous generals, it is really unjust to die.

At that time, the second Xiangbei battle began, and Liao Lingqi was taking leave of absence to go to Ji'an to get married, and then transferred back to his hometown Qiyang to visit his relatives.

Zhang Lingfu, deputy division commander, led his troops to Changsha on foot from Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, but never thought that the Japanese invaders would forcefully cross the Xinqiang River in five places at this time, and the 58th Division would fall into an extremely unfavorable situation? .

Liao Lingqi heard the news that Qi Yang drove to catch up with the troops on the way, and retreated to Liling to wait for orders, while the troops originally stationed on the Xinqiang River line had already retreated to the southeast of Changsha according to the deployment of the theater commander Xue Boling.

Under the command of Liao Lingqi, although the 58th Division in the fierce battle of Laodaohe was besieged by the Japanese army, most of them were not surrounded and cut and were able to break out.

In such a harsh situation, the 58th Division can still guarantee the retreat of most of the encirclement, and safe return is already the limit.

After the troops withdrew, Liao Lingqi did not follow the order to withdraw to the Liuyang area, but pulled the troops to Zhuzhou for training.

However, after the troops arrived in Zhuzhou, for unknown reasons, Liao Lingqi did not stay in the army, but returned to his hometown in Qiyang to visit relatives.

This scene happened to be bumped into by a senior member of the national army on the train.

So just like that, because Liao Lingqi acted poorly, he pulled the troops to Zhuzhou on the cusp of the storm to give people an excuse, and for some reason, he returned to his hometown to visit relatives, which gave people a handle.

As you can imagine, the 74th Army suffered a disastrous defeat in the first battle of the Changsha Battle.

There is always someone to take responsibility for the fiasco of a war.

Liao Lingqi was soon arrested, and everyone was eager to excuse him, and because Liao was the chairman's direct descendant, they all wanted to see how the chairman would deal with him, so they all fell into trouble.

However, Commander Xiao of the 26th Army, who had escaped many times, was not arrested and questioned.

At the military meeting held that month, the performances of the 74st and 51th Divisions of the 57th Army in the early and late stages of the battle were affirmed.

Liao Lingqi, the commander of the 58th Division, was publicly announced that he was shot for fleeing.

Liao Lingqi was shot without a trial in this way. He was the only Whampoa officer who was shot without a trial.

After Liao Lingqi was executed, the four heads of the 58th Division resigned collectively in protest.

After Liao Lingqi was killed, three suicide notes were found in the cell where he was held: one was written to his mother, Liao Zhanglun, and asked her to handle family affairs and not worry about him.

One was written to the new wife Yang Shulan, asking her to remarry, don't wait for him;

The last letter was written to my cousin Chen Yaoting, asking him to calculate all the accounts and lists of the 58th Division and hand them over to the military department without missing a single cent.

These three letters were finally handed over to the chairman. After seeing it, the chairman felt mixed feelings, and immediately felt that he had killed Liao Lingqi by mistake.

So after investigation, the case was determined to be an unjust case, and Liao Lingqi was buried in the "Nanyue Martyr's Shrine" according to his death, and his family was issued a certificate of honor and mourning and a one-time pension.

The great enemy is at present, and when the nation lives and dies, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even their division commanders, army commanders and senior generals are also hovering on the edge of life and death, and if they are not careful, they will be lost forever!

Whenever he thought of their ending, Li Yutang shuddered and felt really stressed.

Li Yutang knew very well that he had already "signed up" with the Chairman and had lost his favor. He could no longer afford any defeat on the battlefield.

Therefore, after accepting the task of defending the city, Li Yutang did not dare to slack off in the slightest. As soon as he took office, he began to use the expertise of industrial school graduates to concentrate on personally supervising and urging all combat units to pay close attention to the construction of city defense fortifications.

For Li Yutang now, only by fighting with his back can he survive to death!

Li Yutang built three lines of defense around the octagonal pavilion.

The first line of defense starts from Mayuan Ridge at the north gate of Changsha and ends at Houzishi near the Xiangjiang River, forming an arc-shaped copper wall and iron wall surrounding Changsha, which is the outermost layer of Changsha city defense.

The second line of defense was set up at Yibei on Zhongshan Road, east of Xiaowu Gate, and north of South Gate. With the help of the old city of Changsha, a fortified barrier made entirely of steel and cement was built that was stronger than the first line.

The third line of defense is the triangle core formed by Bajiao Pavilion, Tianxin Pavilion and Nanzheng Street.

There are heavy troops gathered in groups of bunkers, which is an indestructible core, and it is also the last position where the 10th Army and Changsha City will live and die together!

The three lines of defense are composed of bright forts, dark forts, barbed wire fences, horse refusal, barricades, roadblocks, underground passages, etc., and are composed of well-arranged shooting points to form a dense cross-fire network, blocking the east, south, and north sides of Changsha. main traffic.

The firepower configuration is also very luxurious, with light and heavy machine guns, anti-tank rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft guns. There are even dozens of heavy equipment such as armored vehicles and Sherman tanks.

In addition, Hunan has also dispatched a large number of combat aircraft to coordinate operations.

And these newly supplemented sophisticated American weapons and equipment are all aid materials brought back to the country from Myanmar's industry, and have now been transformed into a source of strength and confidence for the Chinese army.

Chapter 1388

At the beginning of the creek and clouds, the sun sinks into the pavilion, and the mountain rain is about to come, and the wind fills the building

What should come will always come.

In the early morning of January 1, just after dawn, the Japanese bomber fleet flew over Lujiao Town, Xinqiang Town, and Yanglin Town, and launched a large-scale bombing of the Xinqiang River defense line of the 22th Army.

The artillery units of the Japanese army were not idle either. Taking advantage of the time when the air force was raging wildly on the national army positions, they also set up their positions and carried out high-intensity shelling on the south bank.

At the same time, the Japanese army on the north bank of the Xinqiang River is taking the 3rd Division as the vanguard, following the order of the 4th Division, the 13th Division, and the independent 14th Brigade. The situation of fully attacking the Xinqianghe defense line is ready.

The weather suddenly started to change last night. In the middle of the night, light rain began to fall in the sky, and then it turned into sleet. In the early morning, the temperature suddenly dropped below zero.

However, the long-planned Japanese army would not change its battle plan because of the weather, so on such an extremely cold winter morning, the third battle of Changsha started at the Xinqiang River.

The Xinqiang River belongs to the water system of Dongting Lake. It was called "Wei Shui" in ancient times. It was later named after Xinqiang Town on the lower reaches of the south bank. It passes through Pingjiang, Linxiang and Yueyang, with a total length of 108 kilometers. Along this rushing river, plants that feed life Rice grain, which breeds the endless dream of the soul, is the mother river in northern Hunan.

Because during the Anti-Japanese War, as the frontier battlefield of the four Changsha battles, it was well-known both at home and abroad, and it was called the "Oriental Maginot Line of Defense".

The same is true in current time and space. In the first two Changsha battles, the Japanese army attacked Xinqianghe intensively, and finally retreated from here to the occupied area. The third ongoing Changsha battle also started from Xinqianghe.

However, the current third Changsha battle is very different from the previous two Changsha battles.

In the previous two battles in Changsha, Japan's No.11 Army was limited to insufficient troops, and its ultimate strategic intention was to eliminate the vital forces in the 9th Theater and occupy Changsha City.

But this time, it is not just a simple battle for Changsha.

This time, the Japanese army mobilized heavy troops. There were two main offensive routes, and they used the technique of two-armed attack to attack Hunan.

The main direction of the Japanese attack is still from Yueyang, and Bingfeng points directly to Changsha, Hunan.

The offensive strategy of this road is to gather heavy troops to forcibly break through the Xinqiang River defense line, annihilate the national army troops stationed in Lujiao, Xinqiang, Yanglin and other places, and send a detour to attack Gomen, Laixichang, and Zhajin. , Surrounded and annihilated the heavily armed defense group of the national army south of Yueyang from the side.

The other route starts from Nanchang, Jiangxi, passes through Xinyu, Yichun and other places, and launches an attack on Pingxiang, Liling and other places, with the goal directed at Zhuzhou and Xiangtan in Hunan.

The intention of this road is very obvious, which is to form a strategic encirclement of the main force of the 9th Theater, and give the 9th Theater a devastating blow while conquering Changsha, thus opening the eastern gateway to attack Guizhou and Sichuan!

Relying on the strength and bargaining chips in his hand, Anan Weiji's strategic concept is indeed good, and it is also very threatening and executable. Therefore, the 9th theater is also facing unprecedented pressure to survive.

However, there is a saying that goes well, good luck comes with misfortune, and misfortune comes with good fortune. For the 9th war zone, although there is a huge threat of catastrophe, it also has an excellent opportunity to create a miracle of war in one fell swoop. .

Because the Chinese army participating in the battle of Changsha this time, in addition to the more than 9 troops in the 30th theater that has been supplemented with a large amount of American equipment, there are also 10 Chinese Tigers and Cardinals that are rushing to the rescue at full speed, and they have withdrawn from Burma and have entered Hunan. There are more than 20 expeditionary troops in the territory.

Compared with the second echelon of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the combat effectiveness of these 30 strong reinforcements can be said to be even worse.

The real time-honored and elite troops of the Kwantung Army have long been eaten up by Yang Fan in the Myanmar theater, and the relatively elite part is mainly concentrated in Hebei to confront the Huben Army.

This time, the Kwantung Army troops transferred to reinforce the 11th Army, the smallest designation also starts from 57, and most of them are the second echelon troops with designation numbers between 60-80!

Therefore, as long as it is operated well, Xue Boling's "Heavenly Furnace Warfare" can exert unimaginable power, and thus stage an epic victory.

The former enemy headquarters of the 27th Group Army at Guanwangqiao.

Standing at the door, facing the cold wind, Yang Hanyu subconsciously tightened his military uniform, then raised his head to look at the distant sky, and saw a group of small black spots raging wildly over his own camp.

Hearing the roar of the motor above his head and the howl of the aerial bombs, Yang Hanyu looked very ugly, and turned to complain to Yang Zihui, the deputy commander of the Ninth War Zone:

"What joke is Xue Boling talking about? Asking our army to stand on the front line for 10 days, it is better to drag our army to attack Wuhan, so maybe we can make great contributions!"

Yang Hanyu, a native of Guang'an, Sichuan, has been serving in the Sichuan Army. In 1938, he served as the commander of the 20th Army.

At this time, the position of the Xinqianghe National Army attacked by the Japanese army was the Xinqianghe defense line from Lujiao Town to Xinqiang Town where the 20th Army was stationed.

Although the 20th Army had replenished a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition before this, the entire army had only two divisions, and the quality of weapons, equipment and soldiers could not be compared with the elite main force of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army.

However, the task of the army was very arduous. Xue Boling asked their army to hold the line of defense for 10 days before they could move their positions.

Judging from the large number of troops assembled by the Japanese army on the north bank of the river, Yang Hanyu knew that it was basically impossible to persist for 10 days with only the two divisions in his hands.

Now, the 11th Army of the Japanese Army has concentrated its main elite forces to attack the 20th Army first. It would be strange if Yang Hanyu didn't complain.

In addition, Yang Zihuichuan, commander of the 27th Army Group, was his uncle, so Yang Hanyu had no scruples in speaking.

Hearing this, Yang Zihui waved his hands and said: "Okay, don't talk nonsense to me, when a country is in crisis, soldiers should be generous to go to the country, and Chief Xue's orders must be resolutely carried out, and there must be no sloppy!

Officer Xue is playing a big game of chess, and every chess piece must play its full role! "

The 20th Army was his starting unit, so why would Yang Zihui want the 20th Army to fight like this.

Under the all-out attack of the Devil's 11th Army, which lasted for 10 days, Yang Zihui knew even with his feet that the 20th Army would definitely suffer heavy losses, or even be wiped out.

But so what?

In the face of an attacking force of 50 devils, what must be fought to the end is not only their 27th Army at the forefront?

"I know!"

Yang Hanyu nodded sullenly, the complaints belong to the complaints, and the order must be carried out. He can only do it knowing that it cannot be done, and do it with all his strength, just to be ashamed of his heart!

After the bombing of the aircraft and artillery, the Japanese army began to send a small group of troops to conduct a tentative attack.

Chapter 1389

On the north bank of Xinqiang River, on a slope.

Ananwei stood on a high ground holding a telescope, and was observing the situation on the battlefield ahead. From his frowning, it could be seen that Ananwei was very dissatisfied at the moment.

After the winter in northern Hunan, the climate has become very dry, and the rivers have entered the lowest water level and have even dried up.

At this moment, the 3rd Division of the Japanese army chose to attack north of the oil port in the upper reaches of the Xinqiang River. The surface of the Xinqiang River here was almost dry, and the deepest part was only 30 centimeters, so it was easy to wade on foot.

Such geographical conditions naturally provided convenience for the Japanese army to attack.

However, since the first two Changsha battles started from the Xinqiang River, and each time they went through extremely fierce battles, the vegetation and landforms on both sides of the Xinqiang River were severely damaged, and a large amount of sediment on both sides entered the river, making the Xinqiang riverbed The silt is very thick.

The house leak coincided with continuous night rain, and it began to rain lightly last night. Although the rain was not heavy, it made the river bed more muddy and difficult to walk. People who stepped on the deep mud would have to sink half of their body.

Therefore, although the river was dry, it was not an easy task for the Japanese infantry to quickly pass through the muddy riverbed area tens of meters wide.

As for the armored tank units of the Japanese army, it goes without saying!

Coupled with the fact that the sky is covered with clouds and fog, and visibility is very low, it is difficult for the Japanese Air Force to exert sufficient air superiority.

Under various comprehensive factors, the current objective conditions are extremely unfavorable for the Japanese army on the offensive side.

Of course, the Japanese army was not stupid. Seeing that the silt was too deep and difficult to wade through directly, they began to build wooden planks on a large scale.

But it is a pity that the artillery of the 20th Army on the other side of the river is not a decoration, and there is no shortage of heavy artillery, field artillery, infantry artillery, mortars and other heavy firepower.

Under the uninterrupted firepower of the Huaxia artillery, these wooden boards were no different from those made of paper, and they were blown to pieces in two or three blows.

The infantry on the shore will not be idle either. All kinds of guns are constantly spewing out flames, forming an impenetrable cross-fire network, constantly shooting and killing Japanese soldiers who dare to step forward, giving the attacking Japanese troops time and time again. heavy blow.

As a result, such a dry river less than [-] meters wide became an insurmountable moat for the Japanese army for a while. It is no longer known that the Japanese soldiers died on the charge road, lying in the mud, and even turned into a pile of shredded meat Mixed in the soil can not be distinguished.

"Bagaya Road!"

Seeing that the front-line offensive troops were repelled again, Ananwei grinned his teeth in anger, put down the binoculars, and said to Takahashi Takaji of the 3rd Division:

"This time in the Changsha battle, the Great Japanese Empire has concentrated all the powerful combat groups that have never been seen before, but at the same time, the Chinese army is also coming for reinforcements, including at least 30 American troops!

Therefore, we must not have any slack and underestimate the enemy. We must step up our offensive and eat up the elite Chinese army in the 9th theater of China as quickly as possible, and then wait for work to annihilate the elite Chinese army that came for reinforcements! "

"Hay!"

Takahashi Takaji quickly paused and said: "Your Excellency, please rest assured that the Empire of Japan could easily cross this small river in the past two times, and it is even more impossible for it to block the attacking pace of the Imperial Japanese Army this time!"

"What I want is not weak words, but the effect of actual actions!"

Ananwei waved his hand a few times, and asked seriously: "I want to ask how long it will take you to completely break through the New Wall River defense line?"