As the supreme commander of more than 60,000 soldiers and civilians in Hengyang, Fang Xianjue, who has a resolute face, knows that he should not be weak. However, after today's daytime battle, the iron-blooded general Tai Ming, who was sitting in the headquarters and received battle reports from all departments in Hengyang city, understood Hengyang City.
What a fierce battle we will encounter.
Before July 9th, the total battle losses of Hengyang's various garrison troops did not exceed 4,500, which was close to a quarter of Hengyang's 24,000 garrison.
Although this loss is not small, considering the length of the battle and the huge force of tens of thousands of Japanese troops attacking in turns, this loss is completely acceptable and even something to be proud of.
In particular, these losses were based on killing and injuring more than 20,000 Japanese troops.
But just on July 9th, before the moment when he and the generals gathered together, the battle report given to him by the staff showed that the 10th Division had suffered more than 1,300 casualties, the 3rd Division had suffered more than 1,400 casualties, and the 190th Division had suffered 300 casualties.
Among them, the Fourth Line Regiment suffered more than 160 casualties, the Hengyang Guard Regiment suffered more than 200 casualties, the reserve force suffered more than 800 casualties, and the remaining units suffered a total of more than 400 casualties.
In one day, the losses exceeded the total of the previous month.
The field hospital has long been overcrowded, and the number of hundreds of doctors and nurses is seriously insufficient. Smart people have to be selected from the reserve force to serve as temporary nurses in the field hospital, but this still cannot alleviate the dilemma of insufficient treatment.
Many wounded had to be temporarily bandaged and then placed in deep trenches outside the field hospital to wait until tomorrow or even the day after for treatment.
Although they knew that this would lead to a surge in wound infection and mortality, the doctors and nurses in the field hospital were too busy even if they had many heads and six arms. They could only prioritize and treat fatally injured soldiers first.
An extremely bad incident occurred in the evening. The captain of the 9th Company of the 28th Regiment of the Pre-10th Division stationed in Wuguiling was seriously injured by shrapnel in the abdomen during the battle. After repelling the Japanese army, the unit quickly asked an infantry squad to kill the captain's company.
He was sent to the field hospital in the city.
However, because all military doctors were performing emergency operations, the captain and company commander did not receive timely treatment. The sergeant squad leader who was responsible for carrying the army captain back to the city saw his company commander's breath getting weaker and weaker. His eyes turned red on the spot, and he actually pulled out his gun and pointed it at him.
Tantai Mingyue, director of the field hospital who was leading a team to check the severity of wounded soldiers and arrange treatment batches, requested immediate treatment for his company commander.
The Army sergeant who was greatly stimulated may not have thought about anything else. He just wanted to use his most trusted gun to force Tantai Mingyue, the top commander of the field hospital, to save his superior.
But he never thought that Tantai Mingyue had another very important identity. She was Tang Dao's wife, and even Fang Xianjue was usually polite to her.
After all, among the garrison in Hengyang City, the Si Xing Regiment is the most important support of the 10th Army.
Taking out this gun was a big deal. For Tantai Mingyue's personal safety, Tang Dao not only sent his guard squad leader Shi Dakuan and 14 guards to the field hospital, but also transferred four ace snipers like Yang Shoucheng to divide
Two shifts conduct security in the 200-meter area around Tantai Mingyue.
It was true that there were too many wounded in the field hospital just now, and the sniper on duty could not take care of them. However, a few seconds of negligence actually allowed a big-headed soldier to put his gun on Tantai Mingyue.
Not far away, Shi Dakuan went berserk on the spot and immediately led his guard squad to surround the entire infantry squad in a combat formation against the enemy. He also used a walkie-talkie to summon a guard platoon from the Fourth Line Regiment.
Naturally, the Pre-10th Division would not show weakness. When they saw this situation, at least more than 30 wounded soldiers and more than 40 soldiers who were sent to the wounded chose to stand with their comrades. The two sides were almost in the field hospital.
Firefight.
It was Tantai Mingyue who coldly ordered everyone not to use force, and softly comforted the sergeant squad leader who was a little confused after seeing the catastrophe. He promised that as soon as the operating table was freed up in the field hospital, the comatose army captain would be operated on immediately.
The Army sergeant received Tantai Mingyue's guarantee and took the initiative to drop his gun and let the security squad of the Sixings Regiment rush up and push him down.
At that time, Chief of Staff Sun Mingyu and Director of the Political Department of the Sixth Regiment Ye Chenghuan arrived just in time to receive the news. The two issued military orders to the personnel of the two departments who were still in a confrontation. Only then did they completely resolve the situation caused by a
The sergeant squad leader of the 10th Infantry Division was in a crisis caused by anxiety and recklessness.
Originally, Sun Mingyu planned to execute the sergeant squad leader of the 10th Pre-10th Division on the spot for enforcing military law, but the person involved, Tantai Mingyue, blocked this military order and chose to forgive him.
"I am the director of a field hospital. I know best the mental state of soldiers who come off the battlefield. The blood and flesh of their dead comrades are still stained on their bodies. The living comrades will die before their eyes in the blink of an eye. I am not crazy.
I am a Chinese soldier who is tough enough. He has violated military law, and according to military law he should be punished on the spot. But as his colleague, I would rather he die on the battlefield than here, and I am willing to guarantee it with my military position.
"Tantai Mingyue's words made all the officers and soldiers present moved.
The Army sergeant who made the big mistake burst into tears on the spot. After watching his company commander being carried to the operating table, he gave a military salute to Tantai Mingyue and then returned with his infantry squad.
Return to the Wugui Ridge position.
Ge Youcai hurried from the 10th Preliminary Division headquarters to the city. Visiting the Baofeng rocket launcher was not the first priority, but apologizing to Tantai Mingyue and Tang Dao was the first priority.
Although this accident was not enough to shake the unity of the various departments in the city, it ultimately reflected the huge dilemma faced by the Hengyang defenders.
As the top commander in Hengyang City, how could Fang Xiangjue not be anxious?
However, the famous iron-blooded general who was only in his early forties didn't know that his temples had been quietly stained with a layer of hoarfrost.
No one, including his closest subordinate Ge Youcai, knew that the top commander of Hengyang, who stood in a high place overlooking the city of Hengyang and had been silent for a long time, looked at the bright moon on the Xiangjiang River. At this time, what was going on in his mind
, turned out to be all the faces of my wife.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Fang Xianjue remembered that when he first served as battalion commander more than ten years ago, he stationed the army in Yueyang, and his newlywed wife came to visit relatives.
Boating on Dongting Lake, holding a candle and visiting Yueyang Tower at night, the beautiful scenery is also the same. After all these years, it seems like yesterday!
Speaking of wives, Fang Xianjue once had a wife. When he was preparing to apply for the Jinling No. 1 Industrial School, his parents told him about a marriage. How could he accept a feudal arranged marriage after reading new books and accepting new ideas?
Woolen cloth?
Fang Xianjue asked for leave and went home and said to his father: "I want to study first and then get married. What's more, the country is in crisis and the Huns are not destroyed, so why do we have a family?" His father locked him up at home and made sure that he got married before he could return to school.
Fang Xianjue ran away from home and walked more than 90 miles back to school alone. Later he was admitted to Central University and then to Huangpu and became an officer. During this period, he rarely went home. He hoped to tell his father with the facts that he
How do you live up to your ideals?
It wasn't until 15 years ago in 1929 that he met Zhou Yunhua. The iron-blooded soldier finally understood what love at first sight meant. He was tenacious and restrained and even said affectionately while boating: "If you don't marry me, I will never marry again."
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However, after being married for so many years, the two of them still spend less time together and more time apart.
In the past, when he was a company commander, battalion commander, or regiment commander, the troops did not allow him to bring his family. Finally, a few years ago, he became a division commander and could bring his family. However, the war was urgent and he had to lead his men around to fight against the Japanese army.
It wasn't until he was promoted to army commander that his wife moved the family to Tanzhou, and then to Hengyang the year before last, so they had more time to reunite.
After serving in the army for so many years, Fang Xianjue devoted himself entirely to the army. He relied on his wife both at home and outside the house. She was really a good wife. Not only did she manage the family in an orderly manner, but even when he became an official, he did not save much money, and his wife never complained.
In the old army, a division commander had independent management rights. How many division commanders did not "eat empty pay and drink the blood of soldiers"?
An infantry division has an establishment of more than 10,000 people, and after fighting a few battles, there will be only a few thousand left. The higher the number, the higher the number, and the military pay will be based on that number. The extra military pay can easily exceed 100,000 silver dollars. This is an army
It is a well-known secret and an unspoken rule that is not surprising.
But Fang Xianjue had never done this. He was admitted to Huangpu at the age of 19. There was a quartermaster in the military academy who embezzled food expenses. He and several classmates beat the quartermaster severely. From then on
, the young soldier established an iron rule for himself to stick to for the rest of his life: do not be greedy for military pay, and do not drink the blood of soldiers!
Over the years, the 10th Army has fought in various places and fought many big and bad battles. The number of soldiers has been reduced a lot, and there is a large amount of military pay. However, Fang Xianjue used this money to either subsidize the officers and soldiers who died bravely in battle, or use it to
Come and make new military uniforms for everyone, so the 10th Army is extremely united and its military appearance is neat.
From the soldier to the division commander of the 10th Army, he is called the military commander and the commander in front of others, but he is called the "head of the family" behind others. He is the well-deserved patriarch of the 30,000 people in the 10th Army.
However, at this moment, the supreme commander of Hengyang, who was unable to protect his family and country, looked at the bright moon reflecting each other in the sky and the river, and his eyes were filled with crystal clear light.
This may be the last time in his life that he misses her so clearly.
He is worthy of his soldiers, worthy of his country and nation, but he is worthy of her!
It's night!
Several generals in Hengyang City ate a dried chicken and a few dishes of side dishes, drank a jar of "beard wine", and joked about the strategy to fight the enemy tomorrow. No one even mentioned the "Mr. Committee" who sent it again during the day.
Reinforcements will arrive within a few days' message.
It is better to rely on oneself than to ask for help. Several Chinese soldiers who had put life and death behind them since entering Hengyang City finally gave up their unrealistic hopes.
After unifying their thoughts, Hengyang City has completely entered the desperate mode. The Japanese 11th Army will truly enter a hellish battlefield facing the 60,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians who are about to fight hard.
Guilin!
Since the fall of Tanzhou, many people in Guilin heard the news and fled westward. However, more people fled from Xiang Province in the east. In the blink of an eye, Guilin became a large military camp with a sea of people and chaos every day.
People were squeezing around in the streets where military music was playing, and planes from the Chinese and American air forces kept flying over the sky. Guilin was like a balloon that was suddenly blown up, and its population surged from 100,000 to more than 500,000 in an instant.
Most of the poor people set up camp around the train station, while the rich people crowded the small Guilin city to the limit.
In the past month, newspapers in Guilin have published endless articles promoting the news of the victory at Hengyang, promoting Fang Xianjue and the three division commanders and chief of staff of the 10th Army Sun Mingyu as the "Five Tiger Generals". Telegrams and letters of condolences from Zhu Jie were circulated everywhere.
People set off firecrackers on the street, played military songs, and posted photos of Fang Xianjue and others everywhere on the street.
The personal reputations of Tai Shanjun and Fang Xianjue have reached their peak. In the future, they will be the top among the top.
But the woman standing in an apartment looking at her husband's photo on the street never had a smile on her face.
They all said that her husband was a famous anti-Japanese general and a national hero, but she just wanted her husband to have dinner with her, even if it was just porridge and steamed buns.
That night, the woman dreamed of her husband.
He has an unshaven beard, long hair, and looks like a wild man. There is no color on his face. His moon-like face has become a little thin. His voice is hoarse and low. There are dust and blood stains everywhere on his military uniform. It looks like he has eaten a lot.
The look of suffering.
She dreamed that he was looking at her, his eyes were red and bloodshot, his lips were tightly closed, as if he had a lot to say, but could not speak.
The woman held her husband's hand tightly but could not utter a word. After a long, long time, she said out of nowhere: "Thank you for your hard work!" After saying this, the woman wanted to laugh, but she was even more worried.
Most of the time I want to cry.
The husband, who once had a very heavy military appearance but was a bit slovenly in the dream, grinned, hugged the woman fiercely, kissed the ends of her hair, touched her face, and whispered: "You have lost weight!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The woman burst into tears instantly!
I woke up suddenly, only to find that it was just a dream, but the pillow towel had already been soaked with tears, and the bright moon outside the window was bright.
The moonlight shines on the face of the two-year-old girl. The sleeping little girl wonders if she has also dreamed of her father whom she has not seen for a long time. There is a smile on her lips.
With tears in her eyes, the woman put her head close to her daughter. Feeling her mother's gentle breath, the little girl put her little hands on her mother's face and fell into a deeper sleep.
The battle on July 9 was a torment for both China and Japan, both on and off the battlefield.
The Chinese lost nearly 5,000 people in one day, and the number of wounded soldiers alone was as high as 2,800. Most of them were shell shock and shrapnel injuries, which were difficult to heal.
As for the Japanese 11th Army, the losses were even more terrible, reaching nearly 10,000 people. Just from the four-round volley of Storm rockets, more than 3,000 people suffered terrible battle losses. Not only the dead, but the wounded who survived.
That's a big trouble.
Seventy percent of the wounded suffered burns. The phosphorus-aluminum incendiary bombs fired by the Storm Rocket Launcher were so overbearing. Even if they survived, they would still have extensive burns all over their bodies, and their skin and flesh would be burned apart. The pain was simply excruciating.
As ordinary people can endure.
Throughout the night, the countryside echoed with the wails of wounded Japanese soldiers. Even war-hardened veterans couldn't help but feel their scalp numb when they heard this sound, let alone the new recruits who had just been recruited by the supplementary divisions.
Already.
The 116th Division was already on the verge of collapse, but this time it was good. After spending 20 days of rest and recovering some morale, it was once again trampled into the dust by a wave of Chinese troops. Even the newly arrived 27th Division was stunned.
I bet this is Hengyang. If I had known this, it would be better to stay on the periphery and fight the main Chinese force, at least that's what Lieutenant General Ochiai Jinkuro thought.
After seeing the power of the Storm Rocket Launcher, this old opponent of the Four Elements Group was completely convinced. After not seeing each other for a few years, the Four Elements Group was even more powerful than before. He even wondered if the Four Elements Group had any new equipment.
Take it out.
The angry roar of Isamu Hengshan, who refused to move forward after receiving the sacrifice of ten thousand people from the four frontline masters, continued to echo in Yuelu Mountain.
But this was only a setback for the Japanese Army on July 9, and greater setbacks were still waiting for them.
Kyoto, Japan!
Inuki Tojo, who is also Prime Minister, Minister of War and Chief of Staff, is sitting in his office with a haggard face and dull eyes.
At this moment, Tojo, like the one in the mountain city of China, urgently needs a hearty victory to alleviate the crisis in his political and military career.
In the past few months, in the vast Pacific Ocean, the Japanese army has been retreating steadily, the Japanese Navy has been in a state of decline, and American B-29 long-range bombers have frequently taken off from southern China. The gaps in the Japanese mainland have made the entire Japanese people panic.
On the battlefield in Southeast Asia, the Japanese army was completely defeated by the Imperial people in the Battle of Imphal.
On the Chinese battlefield where Japan was most confident, a Chinese army of no more than 30,000 people actually defeated the 11th Army, the most powerful Japanese field army in China, with heavy casualties. Even the walls of that small town were destroyed in 40 days.
Haven't seen it yet.
Continuous heavy hammers made the man who constantly encouraged the whole of Japan to start a war already realize that the building would collapse.
Three days ago, the Japanese Army finally decided to stop the Battle of Imphal, admit defeat, and fully retreat to Burma. However, they still had to face hundreds of thousands of Allied troops.
Two days ago, Saipan, a strategic location of the Japanese Navy in the Pacific, was occupied by the Americans.
Today, under the city of Hengyang, China, the second round of the 11th Army's general offensive failed again, completely becoming the straw that broke the camel's back.
On the morning of July 10, Tojo, who had combined Japan's military and political power, felt powerless in the face of embarrassment from all sides and had to announce his resignation and dissolve the cabinet.
Tojo's resignation was a huge blow to both the Japanese navy and army, but on this day, the Japanese headquarters issued a military order for the "Decisive Battle of Hengyang" to the Chinese Dispatch Forces Headquarters.
Tian Junliu, commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces, will personally fly to Tanzhou on the morning of the 10th to supervise the battle in Hengyang!
