Chapter 4 4. The Japanese army paid the heaviest price

After the fall of Changsha, the Japanese 11th Army took advantage of the situation and marched southward, heading towards Hengyang, the second largest city in Hunan Province at that time.Hengyang is located in the south-central part of Hunan Province. It is connected by the Guangdong-Han Railway and the Hunan-Guizhou Railway. Many roads from the hinterland of Hunan to the rear of the Southwest also pass through here. It is a transportation hub in the Southwest.In addition, it is also the intersection of Xiangjiang River, Zhengshui and Moshui. Relying on these rivers, a large amount of grain, minerals and other resources produced in Hunan can be transferred.Therefore, once Hengyang falls, it will bring huge and disastrous consequences no matter in terms of transportation, military affairs, or economy.Because of this series of reasons, Hengyang naturally became an important target of the Japanese army's "Operation No. 1".

In the conception of the second phase of "Operation No. 1", the Japanese base camp planned to take a defensive position in the area west of the Xiangjiang River, while the main force was deployed to the east of the Xiangjiang River.Hengyang must be captured as an important goal, and it is necessary to ensure the safety and smooth flow of this area.Lieutenant General Yokoyama Isamu of the 11th Army believed that a decisive battle with the Chinese army may not necessarily occur in Changsha, but when attacking Hengyang, there will inevitably be a confrontation between the main forces of the two sides. If this is the case, the main force of the ninth theater can be surrounded and wiped out in Hengyang.

In view of this kind of thinking, Lieutenant General Hengshan Yong used 1 division for the west of the Xiangjiang River, used 2 divisions to attack Hengyang, and then used 4 divisions for the mountainous areas in eastern Hunan.Judging from the distribution of troops, Yokoyama still has a tactical mind, and the distribution of troops is appropriate, which is very in line with the actual situation at the time. When the senior Japanese generals of the 11th Army were studying the tactics of attacking Hengyang, they brought Xue Yue's "Tianlu tactics" to the table.They believe that the Chinese army currently has no good tactics to deal with the Imperial Japanese Army. Some time ago, in the Changsha War, the "Tianlu Warfare" was smashed.However, judging from the geographical position of Hengyang and the current position of the Chinese army, it is very likely that they will still adopt the old style of "Tianlu warfare".Yokoyama agreed with the analysis of his staff, so he still adopted the method of two-wing attack and wave advance to ensure that the 68th Division and the 116th Division attacked Hengyang.

The Kuomintang military command did not have any new tactics. It still deployed according to the old method of "Tianlu Warfare", blocking the front in the middle and flanking the two wings of the corps, thus repelling the invading Japanese army.From the perspective of the entire Hengyang defense battle, there are two most important ones. One is that the 10th Army of the Kuomintang sticks to Hengyang, and the other is that the Li Yutang Corps carried out a campaign to rescue Hengyang in the southwest and northwest periphery. In order to further understand and understand the next step of the Xiangxi Defense War, or to say that it is closely related to the next Xiangxi Defense War, the author will not describe the peripheral rescue battle of Li Yutang Corps in detail here, and focus on the Hengyang Defense War.Because the two Japanese divisions that attacked Hengyang were also the two main divisions that later attacked Xiangxi and wanted to seize Zhijiang Airport.In addition, during the Hengyang Defense War, Chiang Kai-shek had conflicts with the United States, and he was in a period of extreme pain and difficulty.

Japan's battle against Hengyang began on June 20, 1944.In order to ensure the smooth attack of Hengyang, the 11th Army of the Japanese Army launched a powerful attack on the surrounding area of ​​Hengyang from the beginning, in order to break the most critical two-wing troops in the "Tianlu Warfare".The Japanese 11th Army is worthy of being Japan's first field army. They defeated the Kuomintang troops around Hengyang within a few days, forcing the main force of the Kuomintang army to retreat, turning Hengyang into an isolated city. Guarding Hengyang is the 10th Army of the Kuomintang. The commander of the army is Fang Xianjue, a native of Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province, and a graduate of the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.In the War of Resistance Against Japan, Lieutenant General Fang Xianjue was one of the most legendary figures in the Kuomintang army.He held on to Hengyang for 47 days, setting a record for the longest defense of the Chinese army during the Anti-Japanese War.In the battle of defending the city, he led 17,000 soldiers to resist the attack of 6 divisions before and after the Japanese army, and killed 48,000 Japanese troops on the basis of 10,000 deaths in his own troops.In order to protect the lives of more than 7,000 wounded soldiers in Hengyang City, he finally put down his arms and surrendered to the Japanese army.Soon after he escaped from Hengyang and returned to Chongqing, he was hailed by Chiang Kai-shek as "the model of Chinese soldiers", awarded the Medal of Blue Sky and White Sun, and promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 28th Army.Later, he died in Taiwan, and in the field of historians, it also sparked an academic debate about his behavior of surrendering to the Japanese army.Judging from the simple situation above, Lieutenant General Fang Xianjue is indeed legendary.

Fang Xianjue, who is brave and good at fighting, led his reserve 10th division and 10th army in the third Changsha battle in 1941 and the subsequent Changde battle. He performed very well and became famous for a while. Fang Xianjue, who had become an anti-Japanese hero, was naturally a little complacent, and even Xue Yue, the commander of the war zone, didn't pay attention to him, and some orders were obeyed and violated.Especially in the Battle of Changde, he was very dissatisfied with Xue Yue's leapfrog command and dispatched his 190th Division, which exposed the flanks of the 10th Army, and a dispute arose.Since then, the two have had a holiday.

Xue Yue also felt very troubled, so he began to assign his cronies to serve in the 10th Army, so as to control Fang Xianjue.Who knows that Fang Xianjue is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and often dismisses people appointed by Xue Yue with excuses, and even finds ways to execute them.As a result, the conflict between the two intensified, and in the end it was Xue Yue who prevailed. After all, he was the commander-in-chief of the war zone, and he persuaded the military command to remove Fang Xianjue from the post of commander and was transferred to the senior councilor of the military committee. Fang Xianjue hadn't left yet, and the newly appointed army commander hadn't arrived either.The Japanese army began the "Operation No. 1" campaign in Hunan and Guangxi, and the soldiers pointed directly at Hengyang.Chief of Staff He Yingqin personally inquired about this matter, the new army commander did not arrive, and the war was imminent, it would really be detrimental to the army to change generals just before the battle.He ordered Xue Yue to come to ask Fang Junchang to come out of the mountain.

Xue Yue had no choice but to shamelessly appoint Fang Xianjue as the commander of the 10th Army, responsible for commanding the defense of Hengyang. How could Fang Xianjue buy this account?Who do you think you are!Laozi is now a senior councilor appointed by the seat!He refused to accept Xue Yue's appointment.The feud between the two spread to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek was very angry, and the interests of the party and the country were destroyed in the hands of those who fought for power and profit.Therefore, the chairman of the committee personally called Fang Xianjue, scolding Fang Xianjue for being stupid, the Japanese army has approached Hengyang, and you are still angry with the commander of the war zone, disregarding the righteousness of the nation, what's the point?

Fang Xianjue calmed down when he heard Principal Jiang's reprimand, he knew that the principal would scold Xue Yue too.So he showed the generosity of a soldier, and immediately stated that he would actively deploy and stick to Hengyang, carry forward the fine traditions of the 10th Army, and resolutely resist the Japanese invasion.Chiang Kai-shek asked Fang Xianjue to guard Hengyang on the phone, and ensure that Hengyang will change for ten days or half a month, and the whole situation will change.He is waiting for his good news in Chongqing, I wish him success! Encouraged by Chairman Jiang, Fang Xianjue's confidence doubled, and he immediately rushed to Hengyang to deploy defensive tasks.

The 10th Army of the Kuomintang Army has the 3rd Division, the 190th Division and the Reserve 10th Division under its jurisdiction, as well as the 54th Division Division and its 1st Regiment stationed in Hengyang City.In order to strengthen Hengyang's defense force, the Ninth Theater assigned the Field Artillery Battalion of the 74th Army and a mountain artillery company of the 48th Division to the Tenth Army.In this way, the 10th Army has the designation of 4 divisions in name, but it is actually 8 regiments with a total strength of 17,000. In particular, after the Battle of Changde, the 10th Army did not receive a rest and supplement.For example, the 190th Division is a post-transfer division. The so-called post-transfer division refers to the transfer of all soldiers to neighboring troops, and only retains military cadres at all levels above the squad leader, and then transfers to the rear to receive and train recruits.But this post-dispatch did not succeed, and the Japanese army was approaching Hengyang, so they stayed to participate in the defense of Hengyang.

Fang Xianjue came to Hengyang at the end of May. He first led the division commander, regiment commander and chief of staff to reconnoite the terrain of Hengyang and determine the defensive deployment.The Hengyang defense area is only 3.9 square kilometers, about 1.5 kilometers wide from east to west, and about 2.6 kilometers long from north to south. The 190th Division is located in the east of the city, and each battalion is equipped with a field artillery company, stationed on the west bank of Moshui.As the most outpost position, the main force of the division built the main position along the lines of Wumaguicao, Rubber Pond, and Lianhua Pond. The 10th Preparatory Division is located in the west of the city, and the main force of the division is to build the main positions on the front lines of the West Bus Station, Tiger Nest, Zhangjiashan, and Jiangxi Guild Hall.On the flanks of the West Bus Station are the 7th and 9th Regiments of the 3rd Division. A regiment of the 54th Division is located in the northeast of the city, and the main force is at Fengjiachong to build the main position along the west bank of Moshui. The artillery occupied positions in Yanfeng Temple, the county government, Zhengyang Road, and Jixiang Street.The headquarters of the 10th Army is located in the bank compound, and the forward command post is on the reserve 10th Division position in Wuguiling. The deployment of the defensive troops must be done, and the construction of fortifications began immediately.Hengyang had originally built a reinforced concrete defense fortification, which was quite strong.However, the 10th Army has been fighting the Japanese Army for many years and is particularly good at defense. From the generals to the soldiers, they can see the shortcomings of these fortifications at a glance and find that there are many problems.One is that the fortification system is huge, and the current more than 10,000 soldiers can't use it up, so it seems empty, and some places are not used at all; the second is that the perforation is large and the concealment is poor, which is extremely unfavorable to the defenders; the third is that these fortifications Independent of each other, it is difficult to take care of each other. Fang Xianjue ordered to improve and strengthen all the fortifications, abandon some peripheral fortifications to reduce the frontal defense, and destroy all abandoned fortifications.The east and north of the city were fortified by relying on the Xiangjiang River and Zhengshui, and the swamp and paddy fields in the northwest of the city were all filled with water, and blockhouses and bunkers were built on the main roads.In the hilly area southwest of the city, countless defense lines were built.All the strongholds are connected by traffic trenches.The most creative thing is that the side of the hill facing the enemy is all cut into a cliff, so that the enemy cannot climb, and a ditch for throwing grenades is built on the top of the cliff.In the depression between the hills, build an outer trench, and build two or three layers of fences with thick logs.Barbed wire fences are laid between the cliff and the outer trench.For the hills where the cliffs could not be dug out, trenches 5 meters deep and wide were dug, and bunkers were built at the bottom of the trenches to prevent the Japanese army from using them.All positions in the city are connected to each other by traffic trenches.In the relatively open and flat area in the northwest of the city, there are minefields and multi-layer barbed wire fences, and four trenches have been dug. The 10th Army used the terrain on the outskirts of Hengyang to skillfully build strong fortifications and form a complete solid defense system.Communication is the key. They buried all the telephone lines underground, set up a telephone line repair team, divided the area of ​​responsibility, and conducted several exercises.Fortifications were built at every intersection in the urban area of ​​Hengyang, and important materials such as ammunition, food, clothing, medicine, etc. were scattered and stored in the underground caves of Tibetan soldiers. These huge fortification systems were not only built by soldiers of the whole army, but also received strong support from local anti-Japanese organizations and trade unions. The Hengyang trade union alone organized 3,000 workers and requisitioned 1.2 million logs.Hengyang is an important town in Hunan, and the Military Commission has several military supplies warehouses here.Yu Pengfei, Minister of Logistics of the Ministry of National Defense, arrived in Hengyang in person and allocated two weeks of food, 5.3 million rounds of rifle and machine gun ammunition, and 3,200 rounds of mortar shells to the 10th Army.The warehouse director also took the initiative to send 30,000 grenades to the 10th Army. These grenades played a great role. Everything is ready.Fang Xianjue led the field commanders to make an inspection, and everything was quite satisfactory.American military adviser Ho Ke gave a thumbs up to Commander Fang and repeatedly praised him.Fang Xianjue wanted to test this American consultant, so he asked him where the enemy's main attack direction was?He Ke said that the northwest of the city was flat, making it easy for Japanese tanks and armored mechanized troops to attack.Commander Fang laughed loudly. He waved his hands and said, you are wrong, in the southwest.The flat terrain in the northwest is certainly conducive to maneuvering, but the Chinese and American air forces have air supremacy, and Chen Bing northwest will undoubtedly become a living target for air strikes.I think the Japanese army must have come from the mountains in the southwest, so that not only can Hengyang be cut off from the traffic connection with the rear, but also take down Hengyang City from high to low.If you attack from the northwest, after taking Hengyang City, you have to capture the southwest mountains. He Ke disagreed with General Fang, and had a debate about it.Practice has proved that Fang Xianjue's judgment is correct. Therefore, the 10th Army took the southwest mountainous area as the focus of defense and carefully deployed and designed it.From the deployment of troops, to the construction of fortifications, to the arrangement of guns and ammunition, food, medicine and the wounded, to the hiding of Japanese artillery fire, the construction of Tibetan military caves, etc., Fang Xianjue is indeed not an ordinary person. In order to boost the morale of officers and soldiers, Fang Xianjue also specially stipulated the bounty for wounded in battle. The wounded at the colonel or above will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan for the ocean, 5,000 yuan for the lieutenant major, 4,000 yuan for the lieutenant, and 1,000 yuan for the soldier. , promotion.Encouraged by high morale, the people of Hengyang carried forward the glorious traditions of the Hunan people, actively participated in the destruction of roads and bridges, and organized ambulance teams, stretcher teams, ammunition food transportation teams, and migrant workers' emergency repair teams. Before the war was approaching, Commander Fang, considering the life and property of the people in Hengyang, personally dispatched the army to implement the "Hengyang Empty City" plan to evacuate more than 300,000 citizens.He also promised to the citizens of Hengyang that, except for the destruction of houses and property by planes and artillery, if any property is lost, the Tenth Army will be responsible for compensation.The 10th Army has strict military discipline and is deeply supported by the people of Hengyang. On the day they entered the city, more than 100,000 people lined the road to welcome them, offering tea and food. The scene was very touching. On June 21, 1944, the 68th Division and the 116th Division of the Japanese Army arrived at Shiwan and Baiguo near Hengyang respectively.The next day, Japanese aircraft began to bombard the urban area indiscriminately, and many places in the urban area were burned.The Japanese army marched south from Changsha without encountering resistance from the Chinese army, so they were very arrogant.They forcefully crossed the Mo River without even organizing fire cover. They just started to cross the river in motorboats, rubber boats and wooden boats in a grandiose manner, without paying any attention to the Chinese army on the other side. Guarding the west bank of the Mo River is a battalion of the 190th Division. Their mission is to guard the outposts, and they can retreat to the position of Wumaguicao without resistance.But they couldn't understand the arrogance of the Japanese devils. The battalion commander Yang Jihe decisively ordered the whole battalion to enter the position. When the Japanese army crossed the middle of the river, more than 20 light and heavy machine guns and 4 anti-aircraft guns opened fire at the same time, and immediately beat the Japanese army to death. The boat capsized and more than 300 people were killed or injured.The Japanese army didn't expect to be hit like this here, and they were stunned. The surviving Japanese soldiers hurriedly turned around and fled back. They didn't dare to act rashly, but just fired at the opposite bank with machine guns and artillery. Then the main division of the Japanese army crossed the Mohe River, and launched a general attack on the front line of Wumaguicao on the 25th.The Kuomintang Military Committee judged that the Hengyang 10th Army could only hold out for three days.Because this force is far weaker than the 4th Army that held on to Changsha, and the 4th Army only held on to Changsha for four days.Chiang Kai-shek's order to Fang Xianjue was ten days or two weeks. The focus of the Japanese attack was to return the five horses to the trough, and the two sides fought extremely fiercely at the beginning of the war.The Japanese artillery fire was very fierce, and the artillery of the defenders in Hengyang City also fired support.Tens of miles away, the air forces of both sides also rushed to help in the battle. For a while, the guns were booming, the flames were soaring into the sky, and the sky was filled with gunpowder smoke and the clouds covered the sun.The 570th Regiment of the 190th Division hid in the fortifications. When the Japanese infantry charged, they hit hard with machine guns, rifles and grenades. The fierce fighting continued until the afternoon.The Artillery Battalion of the 10th Army, which had just been rebuilt, used the new American-made mountain artillery to support the five horses.He Guangyao was seriously injured in the abdomen, and Feng Zhengzhi, the deputy head of the regiment, took over the command. Commander Fang Xianjue saw that the defenders at Wuma Guicao suffered heavy casualties, and this area was only the periphery, and they should try their best to preserve their vitality and compete with the enemy in the urban area, so he ordered to retreat.Rao Shaowei of the 54th Division received the order and thought that since the airport was not secured, his mission would be completed.So he ordered a regiment leader to take the 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion and the wounded across the Mo River and return to Jian.He led the 3rd Battalion to stay and join the war.In this way, the 54th Division left more than 1,000 people.Fang Xianjue didn't say anything about it, he was a guest army after all. After the Japanese occupied the Wumaguicao position, they immediately advanced to Hengyang Airport.In the middle of the night, the Songshan detachment of the Japanese army invaded the airport. Fang Xianjue heard that the airport had not been destroyed in time, and ordered the 190th Division to take back the airport at all costs and destroy it. The division commander Rong Youlue personally led the 569th Regiment to take advantage of the cover of night and the Japanese army's unstable foothold, and suddenly rushed into the airport.The Japanese army never expected that the Chinese army would come back so soon, and they were caught off guard.After 5 hours of desperate fighting, paying the price of 200 casualties, the airport was finally recaptured, and immediately organized sabotage operations against the airport.Before they left the airport, the Japanese independent brigade surrounded them. After two days of fierce fighting, the 190th Division plus a battalion of the 54th Division had only 1,800 people left. The Battle of Hengyang was actually just a battle in the Battle of Hunan and Guangxi. It was divided into three stages: the first stage was from June 22 to July 2; the second stage was from July 11 to July 19; the third stage was From July 27th to August 7th.Every stage has changed dramatically. In the first stage, there are three things that are most worth mentioning.First, let’s talk about the 3rd Battalion and 7th Company of the 30th Regiment of the 10th Division.The company commander is called Zhang Deshan. He is brave and good at fighting, and he is addicted to alcohol, so he is called "Meng Zhang Fei" in the army. The 7th company is the most elite company in the division, with strong combat power.They stick to the south side of the Zhangjiashan position, right where they are rushing.In order to fight for this position, the Japanese devils spared no expense. A brigade of troops charged repeatedly, but were all repelled. The battle lasted for a day, half of the 7th company suffered casualties, and the Japanese army left more than 500 corpses in front of the position. On June 28, the Japanese army sent the 117th Brigade to charge the 7th Company's position.The head of the 30th regiment ordered Company Commander Zhang to try to break through on the phone.Zhang Deshan laughed loudly on the phone. He said when Zhang Deshan's company retreated.He put down the phone and led the remnants to fight to the death against the devils.Except for one cook, all the whole company died heroically on the battlefield.The 117th Battalion of the Japanese Army also suffered more than half of the casualties.The heroic 7th company added a glorious page to the defense of Hengyang.Seven or eight hundred Japanese soldiers were wiped out, setting a record for the most enemies wiped out by a company. Both sides were red-eyed. Ge Xiancai, the commander of the 10th Division, learned that the two battalions of the 30th Regiment had all suffered casualties, so he personally led the division's direct company to support the counterattack.He went into battle shirtless, and the officers and soldiers of the division were greatly excited. For a while, the trumpets were loudly blared, and the officers and soldiers shouted at the same time, fighting with the enemy for an hour, and finally wiped out all the devil soldiers in front of him. Zhou Qingxiang, the commander of the 3rd Division, did not show weakness, and almost all of his 7th regiment was wiped out.When the Japanese army released poison gas bombs, Li Guilu, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, led the remaining dozens of people in the battalion to retreat.Master Zhou Qingxiang was furious, and executed the battalion commander Li Guilu on the spot, dismissed the regiment leader Fang Renjie from his post, and personally organized the remnants to launch a counterattack. War is also accidental. On July and January, Commander Tianlin Lin of the mortar company searched for the target with a 10-power telescope, and accidentally discovered that on a small high ground 800 meters due south, there were more than a dozen people peeping at the Chinese army's position and talking gesticulating. wearing something.Based on years of combat experience, Company Commander Bai Lin judged that these little devils must be at least commanders of the regiment captain level.So he decisively ordered that the 8 mortars of Jiquan Company should shoot intensively.The first round of shells went down and all hit, and more than a dozen little devils were seen rolling and falling to the ground under the shellfire.Immediately afterwards, there were two more rounds of rapid fire, and all the shells hit the target again.They didn't know that this unexpected harvest, more than 20 shells, actually destroyed the entire command system of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army.The commander of the division, Sakuma, was seriously injured. The chief of staff, the captains of the subordinate regiments, and the chief of staff of the division were killed. On July 2, the Japanese army stopped attacking.Fang Xianjue felt baffled. The temporary ceasefire of the Japanese army was due to three reasons: first, the front-line attacking troops consumed too much ammunition and were in a hurry; second, the command system of the 68th Division was paralyzed; I never expected that the 10th Army, which was sticking to Hengyang, had a strong combat effectiveness, and there was almost no mistake in the battle defense. So after the arrival of military supplies, Yokoyama readjusted his deployment and launched a second general offensive.The entire command of the attack on Hengyang was handed over to the head of the 116th Division Iwan Yongwang.Lieutenant General Yan Yongwang has combat experience. He used the 68th Division to attack the south of Hengyang, the 116th Division to attack the southwest, and the 58th Brigade and the 218th Wing to attack the Xiaoximen of Hengyang.The whole fight started on July 11th. The most intense fighting was at the Zhangjiashan position southwest of Hengyang.In charge of the attack is the 133rd Wing, the bravest and bravest of the 116th Division.Their first large-scale attack was repelled by the 30th Regiment of the 10th Division who stood firm on the position, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese regiment.This elite Japanese army lost face in front of the friendly army.After they got supplementary troops, the division commander assigned them an artillery brigade of the 122nd Regiment.The commander of the regiment, Kurose Heira, unfurled the flag of the regiment, and told all the officers and soldiers that as long as there is one person alive in the 133rd regiment, the flag must be planted in Zhangjiashan. The 133rd Wing's crazy attack for three consecutive days and nights failed to make a step forward in Zhangjiashan.The captain of the first regiment of Kurosehei organized the remnants into an echelon of one hundred people, and under the cover of the air force and artillery fire, he launched another wave of charges.The 30th Regiment standing at Zhangjiashan now has only one company of soldiers, but they faced the enemy's 12 charges and 10 fierce battle scenes, and they used grenades and bayonets to repel the enemy without fear.When some positions were lost, the regiment leader Chen Demi led only a hundred soldiers to launch a counterattack and regained the positions. The Chief of Staff of the Pre-10th Division led two companies to reinforce Zhangjiashan. In less than a day of fighting, all the soldiers of the two companies were killed, and the position was lost again.That night, the two companies of the engineering battalion of the military department went to reinforce, launched a counter charge, regained the position for the third time, and piled up trenches with corpses, covered them with sand, and used them as the position wall. When the enemy fought back frantically, almost all of the two engineering companies were sacrificed. Fang Xianjue urgently ordered two companies from the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Division to support them.Ge Xiancai, commander of the Pre-10th Division, personally led the two companies to resist the Japanese army tenaciously, repelling three large-scale Japanese attacks in a row.Fighting until July 13th, almost all of the 6 newly added companies were killed.Fang Xianjue ordered the remaining personnel who were sticking to Zhangjiashan to retreat and abandon Zhangjiashan. For nine consecutive days and nights of fierce fighting, the Japanese army, at the cost of 8,000 casualties, only captured the first-line positions with the core of Zhangjiashan and Tiger Nest. They were still rejected by the Chinese army outside Hengyang City. On July 20, Yokoyama had to accept the ruthless reality, ordered the siege to stop again, ordered the 116th Division and the 68th Division to rest in place, replenish troops and supplies again, and prepare for another battle. The Japanese army attacked the two divisions in Hengyang. Since the start of the war, more than 10,000 people have been killed or injured.The casualties of the Chinese army were also heavy, with only a few hundred people able to participate in the battle, and as many as seven or eight thousand wounded.It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek wanted Fang Xianjue to stick to Hengyang for ten days or two weeks, but now he has defended the city for more than a month, so the Chinese army is in a very difficult time for ammunition, food, and medicine.But they are still fighting in the isolated city of Hengyang.