Originally, the Military Commission wanted to abandon Changsha, but the Wenxi fire at that time illustrated this, and it was ready to clear the wilderness at any time and withdraw at any time.

However, since General Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater, succeeded General Zhang Zhizhong and concurrently served as chairman of Hunan Province, the situation was immediately different.

General Xue's style is obviously different from that of General Zhang, he is aggressive and dares to fight, and the small man's body bursts out with powerful energy, and the little tiger is now about to fight with the Japanese army's Okamura Ningji.

Just don't give up Changsha, love what's the matter.

Besides, people have careers, and General Xue, who has just become the chairman of Hunan Province, naturally does not want to give up Changsha, the provincial capital, otherwise what would it mean to be the chairman of this province.

If you don't even have a provincial capital, then you still have to be the provincial chairman, you don't have any face at all, it's better to be inappropriate. Therefore, General Xue had to defend Changsha in both public and private affairs.

Originally, the Military Commission was ready to abandon Changsha, but it was not the first time that General Xue had disobeyed the order.

In the face of the little tiger's stubbornness, the Military Commission had to agree for the time being, let's defend Changsha first, if it can be done, it will be done, if it can't be done, it will still be withdrawn, and it is ready to do both.

However, General Xue was a tendon, mobilized the troops of the Ninth War Zone, and fought this battle with the determination to fight against the water.

In fact, by this time in the second half of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), although after the Battle of Wuhan, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression entered a stage of stalemate, but the international and domestic situation was getting worse and worse.

From June to August 1939, the Japanese army fought a modern war with the Soviet Union in the Nomenkhan region of Mongolia in northeastern China, and the two sides dispatched a large number of planes and tanks to fight on the steppe.

This is not known, a fight is frightened, both sides suffered heavy losses in this battle, not the overwhelming victory of the Soviet army in later legends.

Even if the Soviet army wins, it will be a miserable victory, and if it continues to fight, it will not be able to bear it, let alone hold on, and it is very likely that it will lose the final war.

The Soviet army consumed 310,000 tons of ammunition in the Battle of Nomenkan, and you must know that in the later counteroffensive of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet army only consumed 80,000 tons of ammunition.

A Japanese garrison division (the 3rd Division) had already received nearly half of the shelling of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, but how many German troops were there in Stalingrad? There were only a few Japanese troops at Nomenkan.

In the Battle of Nomenkan, the Soviets also lost 07 fighters, and almost half of the 500 fighters invested by the Soviets lost almost half of them in the first battle.

Historical facts show that the 1 Panzer Army of the Soviet Army, which had almost 1 thousand tanks and armored vehicles, was under the personal command of Zhukov, the god of war.

It took almost half of the ammunition of the Stalingrad counteroffensive to barely defeat a third-rate border garrison division of the Japanese army with only 5 base ammunition.

In the end, the Soviet army's personnel losses were still greater than those of the Japanese army, and the Soviet army also lost nearly 400 tanks and armored vehicles, and the ammunition consumption of the Soviet army in the Battle of Nomenkan was almost equivalent to the total consumption of China's eight-year war of resistance.

At Nomenkan, the Soviet army's logistical capabilities were actually stretched to the limit, and the attrition on the Nomenkan battlefield was so staggering that the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Borchia-Sambes Railway ran at full capacity for months to sustain the battle.

Of course, the Japanese army also lost enough, and nearly half of the divisions and regiments equipped with armored vehicles with high hopes were reduced to powder under the high-density fire of the Soviet army.

At the same time, it also shattered the strength and glory of the Japanese army, which seemed to be strong but was actually fragile, and even more shattered the dream of the Japanese army to advance westward and join forces with Germany in Moscow, the Soviet Union.

This epoch-making and shocking war in which Mars collided with the Earth directly led to a turning point in the entire world history and led to the trend after World War II.

At the end of August 1939, the Soviet Union, fearing that the German and Japanese armies would join forces to attack their backyard, had to hastily sign a non-aggression pact with Germany.

The reason why Germany was willing to sign this treaty with the Soviet Union was that it was not ready for a large-scale invasion of the Soviet Union, and that it had to settle Poland in the buffer zone in front of the Soviet Union first.

Therefore, as soon as the Soviet-German non-aggression pact was signed, on September 1, 1939, the German army took Poland in a lightning lightning, and Poland became a victim of the game of several great powers.

This is the date in world history when World War II began, and the Sino-Japanese War, which began in 1931, was characterized as a war between China and Japan.

At the same time, the birth of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact further determined that the Japanese army would no longer unilaterally attack the Soviet Union, but develop southward, attack Chinese mainland, and coastal sea routes, and open up the lifeline of war resources such as oil and rubber.

As a result, China's fate was even more bitter, and it had pinned its hopes on the Soviet Union, hoping that they would send troops to the northeast to defeat the Japanese army.

But now that everyone is not fighting, they are still privately negotiating amicably, exchanging prisoners, drawing lines, and not fighting in the future, which makes the Chinese government very disappointed.

This is a situation that is not favorable to the Chinese government in the international community, and the situation at home is also very difficult, and the big traitor Wang Zhaoming has now openly begun to organize a traitor puppet government, which is just waiting to be announced in Nanjing.

Japan now officially refers to the Chinese government as the "Chongqing government" and the Chinese government as the "Chongqing Army."

At present, the Japanese army has concentrated its mobile forces, and more than a dozen field divisions and regiments have gathered the 11th Army, mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, and began to attack Changsha, Hunan.

It is ready to take Changsha and Changde in one fell swoop, open the door to Chongqing in the west, conquer Chongqing, and completely solve the Chinese incident.

This made the Chinese government and China completely nervous, and it felt that the danger of China's demise had once again come.

Middle- and low-level officers like Sangou also felt that there was some pessimism and despair emanating from the troops.

Of course, most of the people outside are not aware of these situations, they don't know how difficult it is in China now, and they still have confidence in the war of resistance under the propaganda of the national government.

Just like the old Jiangxi cousins in Fengxin, Gao'an, and Shanggao, although they are usually a bit fierce about being soldiers, they have to complain to the officers for damage to a little property, and even be brutal.

But when the critical time came, the devils came, and these "barbaric" old cousins helped the ** lead the way, purge the traitors, and even went into battle in person, being porters, carrying stretchers, delivering meals and vegetables.

That is to say, the current army policy is strict, like the three dogs, every time they go to a place, they can't compete for the slightest bit of the people, if they are sued by the villagers, it will be miserable, and the military law will punish them strictly and quickly.

Therefore, every time the troops arrived, they mingled with the villagers, and this time at the end of August and early September to help harvest and grab seeds, the people were happy, people's hearts are made of meat, who does not love such troops.

At night, the people called the passing troops into the houses to sleep, but the soldiers could not go to the beds of the villagers, so they found some straw and hay to spread on the ground and slept for the night.

It's just that the villagers' homes are all muddy and damp, so some of them remove the door panels to make bed boards, and early the next morning, they have to be installed back as they are.

The company commander and platoon commander will go door-to-door and ask the fellow countrymen, have you lost anything? Have you ever been bullied? Yes, I immediately took someone to find it, and after finding it, gathered the troops and beat it to the villagers in person.

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