Changsha is an ancient city with a long history, according to the "Historical Records" record, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Emperor Yan, the Yellow Emperor have been to Changsha, the Yellow Emperor had "the passage of the mountain, the south to the river, Dengxiong, Hunan", and later the land of Changsha was sealed to his son Shaohao. Shao Hao became the clan leader of ancient Changsha and can be called the first person to develop Changsha. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the forces of the Chu State entered Changsha, making it a fortress in the southeastern border of the Chu State. In 222 BC, the Qin state destroyed Chu and made Changsha and some surrounding counties Changsha County. Since then, Changsha began to build city walls, and gradually became a battleground for all generations of soldiers. For its important position, Changsha local chronicles once described it as follows: "Yiju is the capital of the province, controls the upper reaches of Jingxiang, spits on Dongting, attaches to Hengyue, Jingyu lips and teeth, Guizhou and Guangdong throats, protects the southeast, and is known as Chongzhen in ancient times." ”

Since the fall of Wuhan in 1938, Changsha, Hunan Province has become a strategic point in the southwest rear of Gongwei. Hunan has fertile land, abundant products and abundant rice, and is an important supply base for Chongqing's rear. The Japanese army wanted to open the passage to Guangzhou in the south, connect the occupied areas, and then cut off the rear supply to Chongqing, and force the Nationalist government to submit, so it was bound to attack Changsha. At that time, Hunan became the most important frontal battlefield of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and a barrier to defend the southwestern provinces, and its strategic position was very prominent. Changsha, as an important military town that "chokes the throat of the two Guangxi and controls the gateway of Sichuan", has become the focus of contention between China and Japan. The Chongqing Military Commission has allocated more than 50 divisions to the 9th Theater in Changsha, accounting for nearly a quarter of the country's military strength. On the other hand, the Japanese army deployed more than one-third of its invading forces in Wuhan and Guangdong, forming a north-south flank attack on the 9th Theater in an attempt to defeat and destroy the main force of the Chinese army by attacking Changsha, forcing the Nationalist Government to submit, and achieving the goal of settling the Chinese incident at an early date.

"I was going to fight in Changsha, and I killed myself to thank the countrymen; If you win, I will disobey my orders, and you will shoot me! Xue Yue's determination moved Chiang Kai-shek, who was ready to abandon Changsha, and immediately agreed to Xue Yue's battle plan.

At the beginning of September 1941, the Japanese army, unwilling to be defeated, launched another attack on Changsha. The commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Anan Weiki, commanded four divisions, two detachments and an air force, one navy each, about 120,000 men, to occupy Yueyang and Linxiang in an attempt to defeat the main force of the Ninth Theater in the northern Hunan area.

In order to strike at the main force of China's 9th Theater of Operations and destroy the will of the Chinese military and civilians to resist the war, the 11th Army assembled the 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 40th divisions and 4 brigades in the area south of Yueyang in northern Hunan Province, equipped with the 13th Wing of Combat Vehicles, the 14th Wing of Field Heavy Artillery, the 1st Brigade of the 15th Wing of Independent Field Heavy Artillery, and some engineer, air force, and naval units, with 45 infantry brigades and 26 artillery brigades, with a total strength of more than 120,000 people; It is equipped with more than 20 warships, more than 200 motorboats and more than 100 aircraft. Under the command of Commander Anan Yuki, the strategy of placing the main forces side by side on a narrow front and breaking through in depth was adopted to attack Changsha.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from advancing to Changsha, the 9th Theater telegraphed the 37th and 99th armies to hold on to the south bank of the Miluo River to block the Japanese army; The 20th Army, in coordination with the 58th and 4th Armies, flanked the Japanese at dawn on the 19th; The 26th Army advanced sharply from Jinjing to the north of the Laodao River; The 74th Army rushed to the vicinity of the Liuyang River; Prepare to carry out a counterattack on the line of Sanjie Bridge and Jinjing north of Changsha. At this time, the Japanese army deciphered the telegram of the 9th Theater of Operations Order, decided to abandon the original battle plan, and ordered all divisions and regiments to advance eastward, and encircle and annihilate the Chinese troops flanking the Japanese army from the east in the area north of the Laodao River.

On the 24th, the Japanese army forcibly crossed the Miluo River in an attempt to encircle and annihilate the defenders on the right flank. From the 21st to the 23rd, the 58th Army was at Hongqiao, the 20th Army was at Guanwangqiao, the 4th Army was south of Hongyuandong, and the Japanese army fought fiercely, and the 37th Army and the 10th Army fought fiercely with the 4th and 3rd divisions of the Japanese army in the area of Shending Mountain, Miyan Mountain, and Banzhao Temple; The 2nd Army and the 6th and 40th Divisions of the Japanese Army fought fiercely in the Wengjiang and Putang areas, breaking through the positions of the 37th Army. The 37th Army was forced to retreat to the Ansa area, and the 26th Army was surrounded by Japanese troops in the Potang area. On the night of the 25th, the army was ordered to break through in the direction of Gengutai and Shiwan; On the morning of the 24th, he came to reinforce the 10th Army, but was attacked by the Japanese army, fought hard until noon, fell into confusion, and on the 26th, was forced to break through and move to the line of Shiguniu and Tianlei Mountain. The 74th Army rushed from Jiangxi to reinforce it, encountered the Japanese army in the vicinity of Chunhua Mountain and Yongan City, engaged in fierce battles, and was attacked by Japanese planes, suffered heavy losses, and was forced to retreat south. The Japanese 4th Division crossed the Laodao River on the 26th. On the afternoon of the 27th, the division crossed the Liuyang River, rushed into the city from the southeast corner of Changsha City in the evening, and occupied Changsha on the 28th. On the 29th, the Japanese 3rd Division reached the vicinity of Zhuzhou.

On the 27th, China's 9th Theater of Operations was telegraphed by the Supreme Command, diverted the offensive, mobilized reinforcements from all sides, rushed to the battlefield one after another, and surrounded the Japanese army between the Laodao River and the Liuyang River. At the same time, the troops of the 3rd, 5th, and 6th theaters launched offensives against the Japanese troops in front of them. The besieged Japanese army in Changsha had been cut off from the rear, and it was very difficult to resupply, so they retreated north on the evening of October 1.

On the 2nd, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government ordered the troops of the 9th Theater of Operations to pursue; The 79th Army pursued in the direction of Changle Street and Xinshi, and the 58th Army and the 72nd Army pursued in the direction of Guanwangqiao and Yanglin Street; The main forces of the 4th, 20th, and 99th armies intercepted the Japanese in the areas of Ma'anpu, Qingshan City, and Jinjing; The 26th and 74th armies and the provisional 2nd army cleaned up the battlefields between the Liuyang River and the Laodao River. On the 5th, the Chinese interception force engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese army in the area south of the Miluo River, forcing them to cross the Mishui River north and retreat north of the Xinqiang River. On the 6th, the pursuing troops crossed the Miluo River; On the 8th, they crossed the Xinqiang River and continued to attack the Japanese army. On the 11th, the Chinese army resumed its original position and confronted the Japanese army at the Xinqiang River, and the Second Battle of Changsha ended.

In the middle of December 1941, in order to cooperate with its operations in Hong Kong, Anan Weigi commanded four divisions, three brigades (detachments), about 100,000 people, with three divisions to occupy Xinkaitang and Xitang in northern Hunan Province, and invaded Changsha along the Yueyang-Changsha railway.

Xue Yue commanded 13 armies with about 170,000 men, 10 armies in the Xinqiang and Changsha areas of northern Hunan Province, and three armies organized defenses in the Wuning and Shanggao areas of northern Jiangxi.

On the 19th, the Japanese army in northern Hunan captured the southeast section of Yueyang. On the 24th, the 3rd, 6th, and 40th divisions successively broke through the Xinqiang River, the Miluo River defense line moved south, the defenders maintained contact with the Japanese army with a force, and the main forces of the 37th and 99th armies moved to the east of Jinjing and the west of the railway.

On the 31st, the Japanese army crossed the Laodao River and the Liuyang River, surrounded Changsha from the south and northeast on three sides, and launched an attack the next day, and the 10th Army defending the city resisted bravely, and the Japanese army was frustrated. On January 4, 1942, the defenders' 4th and 79th armies counter-encircled the enemy and counterattacked, and the Japanese army was forced to retreat to the northeast. On the 16th, the Japanese army withdrew to the area north of the Xinqiang River, and the 34th Division, which had advanced westward from northern Jiangxi, was also repulsed, and the battle ended. In December 1941 ~ January 1942, the Chinese army resisted the Japanese invasion of Changsha for the third time.

"Leading a lonely army to defend a lonely city, Xiangshui is ruthless, and the waves are not full of heroic tears;

Destroying the enemy's edge and chilling the enemy's courage, Chu Xinjiang is now victorious, and it will remain a martyr's name for eternity. ”

A literati who signed the island owner from all over the world wrote poems and praised Xue Yue, an anti-Japanese hero, and attached a long article to introduce Xue Yue's experience in the three battles of Changsha and the brilliant results of annihilating more than 100,000 enemies, which smashed Japan's goal of quickly getting rid of the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield, defeated the Japanese army's conspiracy to draw troops to launch the Pacific War, and laid a certain foundation for China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to enter the counteroffensive stage. In the article, he called Xue Yue the "God of Southern War", and soon the reputation of Xue Yue, the "God of Southern War", spread throughout the country.

On January 1, 1942, while the Third Battle of Changsha was still underway, 26 anti-fascist countries in the world gathered in Washington, D.C., to issue a joint declaration. China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, as the four major powers, took the lead in signing the declaration. On January 3, the Allies established the Allied Command in the China Theater, and Chiang Kai-shek was nominated by Roosevelt to serve as the supreme commander of the Allied Command, commanding the US troops in China and the armies of Vietnam and Thailand in Southeast Asia to fight against Japan.

Roosevelt sent a warm congratulatory telegram to Chiang Kai-shek on the 22nd day after the Third Changsha Victory, announcing another $500 million loan to China. Subsequently, in the name of his wife, he invited Chiang Kai-shek's wife, Soong Meiling, to visit the United States and deliver a speech at the US Congress. He also conferred an American medal on Xue Yue, commander of the 9th Theater and specific organizer and commander of the Third Battle of Changsha, through his representative, Stilwell, commander of the US forces stationed in China and chief of staff of the Chinese Theater. In addition, shortly after the victory of the Third Battle of Changsha, the US and British governments took the initiative to propose to China to abolish a series of unequal treaties signed between the Western powers and successive Chinese governments, return the public concessions in Shanghai, Xiamen, and other places, and abolish consular jurisdiction.

A country and a nation must be self-respecting and self-reliant in order to win the respect and equal treatment of other countries and nations in the world. The victory in the Third Battle of Changsha and the various honors and equal treatment brought to China once again proved this truth.

After learning of Xue Yue's victory in the Third Battle of Changsha, the Party Central Committee instructed organizations at all levels to publicize Xue Yue's heroic achievements and encourage the people of the whole country to stand up and fight a decisive battle against the invaders to the end. Although the anti-Japanese armed forces led by the Communist Party did not launch many major battles against the Japanese invaders on the frontal battlefield, their containment of the Japanese army effectively supported the frontal battlefield of the Kuomintang army, and the number of countless small victories that annihilated the Japanese army was no less than that of some major battles of the Kuomintang, and thousands of containments also made it impossible for the Japanese army to put all its forces into the frontal battlefield.

The Kuomintang tried its best to erase the role played by the Communist Party in the War of Resistance Against Japan, but our Party only silently organized battles against Japan again and again, not speechless, but out of the national righteousness of reunification to resist Japan, the Kuomintang gained public opinion, and the Communist Party gained the hearts of the people.