On July 11, a huge convoy of 1,200 vehicles from the Japanese side set off from Yueyang and transited through Xingcheng, which took a lot of effort.
After a lot of hard work, we finally officially arrived outside Hengyang City at noon on this day.
At the same time, a large number of Japanese troops in the Hunan Province were assembled, and in the past few days, they conducted a round of emergency security operations in the newly occupied areas.
Therefore, starting from July 11th, a stable supply line was established for the siege troops.
Therefore, the devils were replenished. In addition to such a huge batch of supplies totaling 1,200 vehicles, they were able to replenish at least 30 tons of weapons and ammunition every day.
The above news is not the worst for the Hengyang City defenders. Thanks to the hard work of Hengshan Yong, more troops also arrived one after another on this day.
These include the 2nd Artillery Regiment, the 15th and 16th Mortar Battalions, and these artillery support units.
The Japs outside Hengyang City are becoming stronger day by day in terms of military strength and the amount of equipment they have on hand...
On July 14, Hu Biao sighed with complicated emotions when he looked at the patient meals provided by the hospital in the rice bowl with a corner missing in his hand.
What the heck! Their food standard nowadays is just a bowl of brown rice no more than three taels.
There are no vegetables at all. A few days ago, there were just a few pickles on top of the brown rice.
Or there are wild vegetables such as mustard greens, purslane, wormwood, mugwort, and Houttuynia cordata, which are more or less like eating a bowl of bare rice.
And now? These brown rice have a slight salty taste, showing that they just have a little salt water added to them.
What makes people even more speechless is that all the cans that Hu Biao and the others carried were eaten five days ago; now, there is not even one can of beef from the little Japanese that they have always despised.
Damn it! Now that I think about it, that thing isn't actually that bad.
The problem is that he was thinking in vain. Thinking of the current situation in Hengyang City, it is said that even the bark of the trees has been peeled off so little, Hu Biao can only turn his grief into food.
After closing his eyes, he shoveled the brown rice into his mouth and swallowed it with difficulty.
After looking around and seeing no one paying attention to him, he took out a chocolate bar from his arms and popped it into his mouth bit by bit.
After finishing chewing, he quietly took out a few vitamin tablets and swallowed them.
The members of the Zhongzhou team around him also did the same thing.
There is nothing that can be done about Hu Biao's behavior of eating alone; the main reason is that the chocolate bars they have now were all redeemed by Hu Biao in the system mall with great pains.
And if he wanted to take care of the entire army and civilians of Hengyang City, even consuming all his system points would not be enough.
As of today, the situation of the military and civilians in the city has become increasingly worse.
The bald man Zeng Jin made a wonderful promise that as long as the 10th Army held on for 10 days, it was a big joke. The reinforcements he promised were intercepted by the Japanese one by one on the way.
As of today, no reinforcements have been able to successfully come in.
Therefore, the city was basically in ruins after being repeatedly bombarded.
The only good thing is that because Hu Biao and the others stayed at Hengyang Airport for three more days, they had three to four hundred tons more ammunition and other combat materials than on the historical line.
Therefore, the defenders are now quite short of weapons, ammunition, and most importantly, artillery shells.
As for the space of a day or two, some airdrops of supplies may appear in the sky; but for the needs of the entire city, such a small amount of airdrops can be a drop in the bucket.
So what Hu Biao didn't know was that starting from tonight, General Fang insisted on sending telegrams to Bald Hair every night because of the huge pressure.
The content of the message only contains two words: "Secret message~"
This was something Baldhead had promised General Fang before the war, saying that as soon as such a signal was received, reinforcements would arrive within 48 hours and the siege of Hengyang City would be immediately disbanded.
However, it turned out that such an agreement was just a joke...
On July 18, the situation in Hengyang City became worse and worse.
That was only two days later than the historical line. The Huxingshan and Fangjiashan positions, which were important city defense areas, were completely captured by the Japanese during their second five-day attack.
In desperation, General Fang could only shrink his troops and defense lines.
At this point, he had only a little over 2,000 combatants and almost 8,000 wounded.
It can be said that the entire Hengyang City today is a huge wounded soldier camp.
Especially in the hospital where Hu Biao lived, the situation was particularly serious. Many injured people had wounds that could not be treated due to lack of medicines and could only be covered with some rags and paper.
This approach, in the current midsummer weather, quickly caused crawling maggots to appear on the wound.
Who knows that in all the airlifts and airdrops, there were no medicines at all. No matter how good An Tusheng and those doctors were, they could not heal the wounds with a scalpel.
And the medicines shipped over the Camelback route and aided by Uncle Sam don't seem to exist at all.
In addition to the shortage of medicines, the defenders in the city are currently facing another big trouble.
That is a situation where the body is severely malnourished, resulting in a decline in physical fitness and severe physical weakness.
But what can Hu Biao and the others do? The cans they carried were completely used up a week ago.
Now I can only use some vitamin tablets and a small amount of canned food exchanged to ensure that my body will not become weak.
The number of medicines, vitamin tablets, and canned food they have on hand is actually limited.
When it is impossible to guarantee itself, a large amount of supply is provided to others.
So the only thing Hu Biao and the others could do was to reach some agreements with some relatively lightly injured veterans in the hospital.
Medications and vitamin tablets were secretly administered to them, and a small amount of extra food was provided.
The reason is very helpless, because they have already agreed privately that these people will be drawn into the supplementary group to face the battle that is expected to come soon.
This approach is quite ruthless, even cruel.
The problem is that this is already the most reasonable solution that Hu Biao and the others can think of...
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On July 19th, a piece of news suddenly broke into the city, causing all the hard-working old and young men in Hengyang City to have a temporary carnival and forget about the current difficult environment.
It was a cabinet composed of the Japs' number one war criminal, Tojo's superior soldier.
Because of a series of defeats in the Pacific naval battle, and more importantly, the Battle of Hengyang City, which attracted great attention from the Japanese, the attack was seriously unfavorable, and it completely collapsed.
Although the Japanese cabinet that was replaced later was of the same style.
But thinking about this damn war and the possibility of the Japanese siege outside the city that they might be able to retreat because of this, many people in the city became ecstatic.
Unfortunately, the Japanese artillery shelling, bombing, and infantry attacks came as promised the next day, which woke everyone up.
On July 22, an even greater good news spread in Hengyang City.
The defenders on many positions saw with their own eyes that the Japanese actually built two pontoon bridges on the Leishui River.
Then the two Japanese artillery units outside the city disappeared in everyone's sight after crossing the river; in addition, the attacking infantry also disappeared in large numbers.
It seemed that the Japanese were finally leaving after suffering heavy losses under Hengyang City.
However, soon after, General Fang issued a strict order: Therefore, the troops should not leave the city to pursue, and they should stick to the defense line and take precautions to avoid a conspiracy by the Japanese.
In fact, this was also the case. Seeing that the defenders were not fooled, the Japanese launched another attack the next day.
With the support of artillery fire, the Japanese infantry who were hiding once again launched a new round of fierce attacks.
But now, after many days of continuous attacks, the Japanese's 68th and 116th Divisions and the 5th Independent Brigade have also been severely damaged.
For a while, the attack was powerless and there was no way to enter the city.
Therefore, such a thrilling conspiracy prepared by the Japanese had no effect at all.
On the one hand, it was General Fang who saw through the Japanese conspiracy.
On the other hand, those reinforcements came from around Hengyang City, but for one reason or another, they simply did not react.
Before they could be fooled, the Japanese couldn't help themselves and started fighting.
And after such a late July, Hu Biao and the supplementary regiment, who had been silent for a long time, were finally about to face their battle.