Reinforcing the Tenth Army and rescuing Fang Zishan were actually considered by Kong Jie long before Li Yunlong spoke. Even after the Fourth Battle of Changsha broke out in advance, Kong Jie was the first to consider this aspect.
Kong Jie admired Fang Zishan from the bottom of his heart for the most powerful general in Huangpu, the eternal famous general who defended the city, and the iron-blooded warrior Fang Zishan.
With the strength of the dissatisfied remnant army, they resisted the crazy attack of the Japanese army, which was more than six times larger. In the face of shortage of logistics, limited resources, and ineffective reinforcements, they withstood the attacks of Japanese aircraft, artillery, tanks and chariots in turn.
But unexpectedly, under the initial "order to hold on for two weeks", he finally defended Hengyang City for a full 47 days.
After the war, the Tenth Army suffered 6,000 casualties and 7,000 wounded.
However, the Japanese army killed 20,000 people and injured 30,000 people!
The war continued until the founding of New China. The Japanese officers who participated in the battle retired and came to China to lay incense in front of Fang Zishan's grave. They all expressed their admiration and shock, claiming that this was the history of Japanese military operations on the Chinese battlefield since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War.
An unprecedented defeat.
You know how ruthless such a fierce man can be!
Of course, with the rapid rise of elite combat units represented by Kong Jie's team in the Eighth Route Army, the elite Eighth Route Army also achieved such dazzling results on the battlefield behind enemy lines.
Not long ago, the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army was almost destroyed, and the Iron Triangle Army became famous in China. How heroic it was!
Heroes have cherished each other since ancient times, and the Eighth Route Army and Chiang Kai-shek's troops are fundamentally different in nature. Kong Jie just imagined that if he were replaced by Fang Zishan, he would never be able to fight better than them.
The famous general who defended the city through the ages is not just bragging.
..."Of course, as long as it is a team that is serious about fighting the Japanese and is really capable of fighting the Japanese, we, the Eighth Route Army, cannot stand idly by."
Faced with Li Yunlong's proposal, Kong Jie agreed.
As for how to reinforce the Tenth Army, the three people quickly started discussing.
Li Yunlong's idea is very straightforward: "The Hengyang area is too far away from our base area, and it is too late for conventional troops to rush over. I think we can send a mobile force to quickly advance over in cars and armored vehicles.
Take the opportunity to launch a stranglehold on the Japanese army from outside the Hengyang area!"
Kong Jie didn't say anything, so Ding Wei took the lead in rejecting it.
"Lao Li, your proposal is simply unrealistic. We really want to help, but the Japanese army is marching southward, and we can no longer involve ourselves.
Besides, this defense battle in the Hengyang area is a matter of Jiang’s army. If we intervene so blatantly, we may have helped when the time comes, and if others don’t appreciate it, we will still be blamed!”
Li Yunlong said: "Damn it, after all, Chiang Kai-shek doesn't trust our Eighth Route Army. If we can unite and fight together, how can this little devil be so arrogant?"
The united front sounds good, but the result is not that everyone fights his own way.
So what do you think we should do?"
Ding Wei smiled and said: "It's easy to handle. We can't send out people, but we can send out supplies."
The situation in the Jiang army is far worse than we thought. Although Fang Zishan's 10th Army is considered a direct descendant, the logistics in the army are probably not much better.
Let's send reinforcements with guns, ammunition and supplies. This is a timely help.
Lao Kong, what do you mean?"
Kong Jie nodded, "Old Ding is right. This is the most direct and fastest way. We can use transport planes to airdrop some supplies, but we have to plan the route in advance. It is best to contact the Tenth Army in advance and then
Deliver the supplies at night.
As for military operations, we can send a few intersecting troops from outside the Hengyang area to try to cut off the Japs' transportation lines and provide indirect reinforcements!
Oh, by the way, one more thing, since we are helping and doing good things, if we don’t let others know about the good deeds, what kind of good things would it be?
Promote this matter well, at least let Fang Zishan accept our favor!"
These words made Li Yunlong and Ding Wei a little stunned. Although Ding Wei had a long-term vision and strong insight, he could not understand the unintended meaning of Kong Jie's words.
Kong Jie didn't explain much.
After the discussion meeting, Kong Jie secretly found Duan Peng, who was now a training instructor of the Eighth Route Army Assault Corps.
"Old leader!" Duan Peng, who came secretly, saluted respectfully.
Kong Jie patted Duan Peng on the shoulder, helped him adjust his clothes, and said with a smile: "Good boy, you are getting more and more energetic. During this time, you have been serving as the chief instructor to train the special operations troops belonging to our Eighth Route Army. On this battlefield
Have you not forgotten your ability to kill enemies and perform missions?"
Duan Peng immediately realized something, his eyes widened, and he immediately replied: "Don't worry, old captain, I won't dare to lose any of the skills you taught me!
As long as you give the order, even if you ask me to pick off the head of that old devil, Shunroku Hata, I won't hesitate!"
Kong Jie said: "Good boy, let me tell you the truth. This time there is indeed a difficult task. I don't feel comfortable leaving it to others, so after much thought, I still want you to lead the team in person."
"Please give the order, old commander!" Duan Peng straightened his chest and said.
Kong Jie nodded, and then secretly issued an action order to Duan Peng. Before leaving, he handed Duan Peng some secret intelligence documents, including a photo of Fang Zishan, commander of the Tenth Army.
Before Duan Peng left, Kong Jie gave his final instructions: "Remember what I told you, be smart when you get to the place, don't have any conflicts or misunderstandings with the Tenth Army, and you must save people for me!"
In short, be polite first and then fight. If I can’t knock someone unconscious, I have to kidnap him back!”
"Yes, please rest assured, old leader, I promise to complete the mission!"
It turned out that Kong Jie, who had an insight into the future situation, knew very well that although the Tenth Army fought a bloody battle in Hengyang City and caused heavy casualties to the Japanese army, in the end, due to the delay in the arrival of reinforcements from the Chiang Army, the fighter plane was delayed, and Hengyang City finally
Still lost.
At that time, more than half of the Tenth Army stationed in Hengyang City had been sacrificed, and most of them were wounded. By the time the defense of Hengyang City persisted until the 47th day, it was already at the end of its rope.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But the reinforcements promised by Shangfeng are still nowhere to be seen.
Fang Zishan, who was commanding the battle, had already overfulfilled his mission by reaching this point. With this single battle, he could be said to have become famous in one battle. He would surely shock China and become a famous general throughout the ages.
This is a supreme honor for a soldier. He can secretly break out of the city under the protection of the guard troops.
Anyway, it has long been an old tradition for generals and officers to abandon their soldiers and run away early.
But General Fang Zishan considered the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers in the city.
In the end, he would rather not have this reputation, he would rather bear the infamy for a lifetime, and he had no choice but to choose to surrender to the Japanese army in exchange for the survival of the wounded soldiers in the city.
How can one not be admired with such broad-mindedness and pride?
Therefore, what Kong Jie had to do was not only to reinforce the Tenth Army with supplies, but also to send Duan Peng and other special forces members to prepare to secretly surrender Fang Zishan to the Japanese army and rescue him on the way to escort.
Wouldn't it be a pity if such a powerful general fell into the hands of the Japanese army?
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Outside Hengyang City.
The sun was setting in the west, reflecting the blood, dyeing half of the sky red.
Looking at the Japanese troops who were also exhausted and retreating like the tide, Fang Zishan stood on the gate tower of Hengyang City like a sculpture, with the afterglow of the setting sun making his shadow grow longer.
"...I hope you can hold on to Hengyang for two weeks, but the longer the better, try your best to consume the enemy's troops. I will give you a two-word password. If you really can't hold on, just send these two words.
Give it to me and I will send someone to rescue you within two days, are you confident?"
Shangfeng's words seemed to still be echoing in his ears.
Two weeks?
On the fifteenth day of the bloody battle in Hengyang City, the Tenth Army was already overwhelmed. The entire army suffered heavy casualties. Almost every soldier who fought the Japanese army to the death was injured.
Even if Fang Zishan didn't want his own life and was a madman, he couldn't ignore the lives of these more than ten thousand soldiers. In his eyes, these soldiers were all his robes and his brothers.
So on the evening of the 15th, Fang Zishan followed Shangfeng's order and sent the two-word password up via telegram.
It's a pity that what arrived as expected was not the reinforcements, nor the relief from the siege within two days as promised by Shangfeng, but a light sentence:
I hope you stick with it for another two weeks!
This made Fang Zishan almost collapse, and she stood on the top of the tower in silence for a long time.
But another voice was very familiar to Fang Zishan. The voice she had heard for decades seemed to be echoing in her ears:
"Our army will not hesitate to make any sacrifices, and will fight until we are hoarse and die!"
This was Fang Zishan's resounding oath after receiving the order from Shangfeng to defend Hengyang City.
It’s just that all of this seems so helpless and mocking now.
Desperation is never about fighting, but about meaningless sacrifices and the sadness of being isolated and helpless.
"Report to the Army Commander that the Ministry of Communications has contacted the planned reinforcements from many parties, but the reinforcements all said they were intercepted by the Japanese army on the way and could not arrive in Hengyang as planned!"
The latest news brought by the correspondent made Fang Zishan fall into deep silence. Any excuses for being intercepted by the Japanese army were all excuses.
These reinforcements were ineffective, stubborn and pedantic, clinging to their own factions, and completely turned into cowards in front of the Japanese.
Can such friendly forces really be expected?
But Hengyang City still has to hold on. If you don't hold it yourself, who else will defend it? At least it can buy more time for the rest and deployment of the rear troops.
Just when Fang Zishan let out a long sigh, feeling overwhelmed.
Another communications soldier arrived with a look of surprise on his face: "Report to the commander, we just received a communication from the Eighth Route Army... They used our army's password for encryption!"
"A communication from the Eighth Route Army, and it's not a telegram on the surface?"
Fang Zishan was stunned for a moment, and the Eighth Route Army used the password of his Tenth Army to encrypt. What does this mean? It means that the Eighth Route Army deciphered all the communication codes used by his Tenth Army.
But he couldn't care less about these things at the moment, and immediately asked: "What is the content?"
The Communications Corps said: "The Eighth Route Army stated that in order to support our Tenth Army's operations, the Iron Triangle Group Army Headquarters will, at 12 o'clock tonight, on behalf of the entire Eighth Route Army, drop a batch of supplies by airlift to the eastern area of Hengyang, hoping to help us.
!”
Hearing this, Fang Zishan raised her head, very surprised, but her expression was more questioning.
Until 12 o'clock that night.
The night transportation force arranged by Kong Jie used several transport planes to successfully airdrop a batch of supplies, including a considerable amount of ammunition, to the eastern part of Hengyang City.
Soon after, Fang Zishan arrived and stared blankly at the mountains of various materials piled up in front of her, including a large number of military cans, energy bars, some guns and ammunition, and the most urgently needed medical supplies for the Tenth Army, etc.
"Commander, this... the Eighth Route Army has actually given us reinforcements!"
Until the words of the officer on the side brought his thoughts back to reality, Fang Zishan suddenly laughed at himself, "Our team's reinforcements have been delayed. Before rushing to Hengyang to fight, I asked the Military Supplies Department for some supplies, but I was pushed around.
, sarcastically, and finally gave less than half.
In the end, they are nominally friendly forces, but they are often tit-for-tat in private. The Eighth Route Army troops sent us such a large batch of supplies regardless of their previous grudges.
What a travesty!”
"Commander, what should we do about this matter? Do we want to report it to the top?"
Fang Zishan laughed helplessly and shook her head: "No, once the news is reported, people may think that now that we have supplies, we should hold on for a little longer!
No matter what the Eighth Route Army’s intention was, Fang Mou remembered this favor!”
After sighing, Fang Zishan turned to the chief of staff and ordered: "Go and make arrangements, have officers above the company come over to see this batch of supplies, and then ask everyone to go back and tell the brothers, hold on, our material reinforcements have arrived.
Reinforcements will arrive soon. All the cooking team will have extra meals tonight so that the brothers can have a good meal. I will continue to beat up the little devils tomorrow!"
"yes!"
"Oh, by the way, after dinner in the evening, let the brothers work hard again to dig the trenches that the little devils blew up, and make sure that the main direction of the Japanese attack is still the trenches we dug specially."
"yes!"
What exactly is the special trench that Fang Zishan is talking about?
At this time, in the Eighth Route Army Special Test Zone Headquarters, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei were also interested in recreating the subtleties of Fang Zishan's battle.
"In a trench 15 meters deep and 15 meters wide, lay barbed wire on the ground and half of the bottom of the pit, and scatter some barbs.
All highlands facing the enemy were cut into unclimbable cliffs. A grenade-throwing trench was set up above the cliffs. Between the highlands on both sides, in front of the saddle, a dense cross-fire network was formed. Solid and complex obstacles were arranged in front of the fire network.
Hehe, damn, this battle fortification is really amazing. It is equivalent to artificially digging cliff barriers for the devils. No matter how many troops the devil has, he can only withstand this offensive that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The refueling tactic keeps trying to advance.
Coupled with the magical effect of this grenade, it will not be easy for the Japs to break through such a defense line using conventional means.
The Tenth Army was able to hold on for so many days under the fierce offensive of the Japanese army that was several times our own. This is not without support!"
Li Yunlong was full of praise.
Kong Jie on the side was also amazed, but he knew that the Fang Zishan trench was later included in Western military textbooks as an excellent example of Chinese warfare.