When Sun Yumin received a call from Chongqing saying that Lu Man, Chen Lai, and Xiao Chujiu had arrived safely, he was discussing with several division and brigade commanders the tactics of attacking Hengyang City to join Fang Xianjue and Zhang Xiaohu.

He was very emotional, Lu Man was definitely true love for Chu Jiu, but he didn't know if he had a place in her heart.

He didn't have time to think deeply about these things, there was only one thing, that is, Chu Jiu was now by Lu Man's side, and he didn't have to worry and worry about it himself, he could put all his thoughts on this bloody battle.

Sun Yumin's memories of the war in front of him all come from an article about the defense of Hengyang that he had read in his previous life, and he later learned what the situation of this war, which was known as the "glorious battle" in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was in the end, that is, because he knew many factors outside the battlefield, he would be so cautious.

Hengyang is located in the southernmost part of Hunan, since the end of 39, the Japanese army launched three battles of Changsha, all failed to succeed in the intention of capturing Changsha, so over the years, the Japanese army has not set foot in Hengyang. Hengyang, which has not been war-torn and unwarned, has also become the economic and cultural center of the entire southern Hunan region because of this rare stability, and even the US Air Force has established a base in Hengyang. While most cities in the country were still surviving under the iron hooves of the invaders, Hengyang gradually built into a modern city that began to take shape: the road conditions were good, the vehicles were flowing endlessly, and restaurants, Western restaurants, cafes, hotels, dance halls, etc. were lined up one after another, and foreigners and American GIs could be seen everywhere in Hengyang.

When Changsha was about to show signs of falling, Lao Jiang had already ordered Xue Yue to deploy the defense of Hengyang City. Lao Jiang attached so much importance to it, Xue Yue did not dare to be careless, on the one hand, he strictly ordered the Tenth Army to defend Hengyang, and on the other hand, he was also mobilizing troops from all walks of life, ready to reinforce Hengyang City at any time.

However, the intrigue and internal friction within the national army were vividly manifested in this battle, and the various armies did not agree with each other, and perfunctory actions and delays in departure emerged one after another. Like Huang Tao, the commander of the 62nd Army, and Wang Jiaben, the commander of the 79th Army, who had always been arrogant, they thought that if they won this battle, the credit would all be Fang Xianjue's, and they would lose their troops and lose their generals, and they would not be able to make half of the good. Therefore, although the national army around Hengyang had nearly 20 troops in 7 armies, Xianxianjue held Hengyang for 47 days, and not even a single company of reinforcements arrived. Wang Jiaben's 79th Army has already entered the West Bus Station, as long as a little more force, you can enter the city of Hengyang, but in the end Wang Jiaben still ordered to retreat, because he received the situation, the Japanese army mobilized two divisions to participate in the attack on Hengyang, he was afraid at that time, for fear that his troops would be annihilated in Hengyang, and finally chose to retreat less than two kilometers away from the defenders of Hengyang.

In fact, Wang Jiaben and Huang Tao can't be blamed for having this kind of thinking, the Tenth Army achieved outstanding results in the Third Battle of Changsha, the army commander Li Yutang was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of the 27th Group Army, and Fang Xianjue was promoted from the position of commander of the 10th Division to the commander of the army; In the Battle of Changde in 43, Fang Xianjue led his troops to defeat the Japanese invaders and dealt a heavy blow to the invaders, so for a time the scenery was infinite, and the light overshadowed all the troops of the national army.

In the Battle of Changde, the Tenth Army suffered heavy casualties, but the Ministry of Military Affairs did not replenish them when it had a source of more than 100,000 new trainees, but had no choice but to reorganize them under the jealousy and conspiracy of some people.

This also led to the fact that before the war, Fang Xianjue's Tenth Army was actually fighting in a state of dissatisfaction, with a total of only more than 17,000 people, and in the previous life, it was less than 20,000 people, but it fought the most glorious battle of the national army in the history of the Anti-Japanese War.

Sun Yumin remembers a lot of comments on the defense of Hengyang, and the deepest memory is the editorial published by the National Salvation Daily: In the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, at least hundreds of thousands of heroes and martyrs died in the battlefield; And there are not a few who defend the land and die unyieldingly; However, its great contribution to the country and its decisive role in the overall victory or defeat should be the defenders of Hengyang.

Since Fang Xianjue can get such a high evaluation from later generations with 20,000 people in a 10th military region, then now that he has his own 12th Army and a full 40,000 more fresh troops, can't he change the outcome of the entire Hengyang Defense Battle?

In recent years, Sun Yumin has a lot of regrets, when the Nanjing Defense War, he also knew the end, but he still resolutely chose to fight to the end, at that time even he was determined to die, but in the end, he was lucky to escape from the world, but nearly 10,000 heroes and martyrs of the Second Regiment of the Teaching Corps and two gendarmerie regiments were all killed in Guanghuamen, what if he chose to break through instead of defending at that time? Will the more than 10,000 soldiers who died in battle die a lot?

The same is true of the first battle of Lanfeng, knowing that Shang Zhen and Sun Tongxuan will escape, but he still took the entire 20th Division and Tufeiyuan Division to be tough, and the same ending was staged again, he escaped with serious injuries, and the 20th Division left the lives of nearly 20,000 soldiers on that hot land. If he had made the same choice as Sun Tongxuan and Shang Zhen at that time, would not all the 20,000 soldiers be sacrificed?

There are also the things about Head Yang Kezhi, the things about General Gao Jingting, and countless more examples.

Sun Yumin suddenly discovered a fact, that is, he never thought about the past to try to change the fact that it is done, although he has felt the powerful self-healing ability of the wheel of history, but this does not just show that history can be changed?

Thinking of this, Sun Yumin's heart suddenly rose with a thousand pride, he wanted to break the long-cherished life of this battle, and he wanted to completely block the Japanese invaders' intention to open up the Guangdong-Han line and the Hunan and Guizhou lines, and connect South Asia and China battlefields.

Hengyang City has fought hard Wenri, although he can get in touch with Zhang Xiaohu, and he also knows that the vitality of the defenders in the city has not been too damaged, but at the same time, the Japanese army attacking the city has not lost too much, which is why Sun Yumin has not ordered the attack, he wants to look for an opportunity to strike a fatal blow, but in the past six days, the Japanese have not shown their flaws, but found from the scouts and spies he scattered everywhere that not far from the east and north of Hengyang City, there are two large Japanese troops, They can obviously be quickly engaged in siege warfare, but they are motionless at that point, and the garrison is blocked to death, so that there is no way to find out how many troops there are, and this is not counting, Aoki Cheng's 1st and 40th Divisions, which were beaten by Dai Cunxiang and Dong Wenbin, also showed signs of being ready to move.

These movements of the Japanese invaders are very unusual, Sun Yumin immediately thought that there might be fraud in this, but he couldn't think of what it was for a while.

Regardless of what the intentions of the Japanese army are, Hengyang City will definitely go in, otherwise Sun Yumin is really worried that they will lead their troops to surrender to the Japanese army like in their previous life, when they have been helpless for a long time and run out of ammunition and food. Although Fang Xianjue was forced to do this because he was helpless, and there were many wounded, he did something that made him humiliated for the rest of his life. However, this is in Sun Yumin's cognition, is the twelfth army can not do, when he made up his mind to defend Hengyang, he had not let the Tenth Army of the Fang Department embark on this road of no return, you must know that under the strong attack of the four divisions of the army, can hold Hengyang for 47 days, which national army general dares to pat this chest, I am afraid Sun Yumin does not have this certainty, but Fang Xianjue did it, according to the comments of later generations: General Fang Xianjue guarded Hengyang, everything was perfect, but the final surrender of the troops, Smash all perfection to smithereens. Although the defense of Hengyang ended in failure, no one could erase the exploits of the Tenth Army, and Fang Xianjue was only about to be martyred, otherwise no one in the national army could compare with his exploits and influence.

The world is like this, you should keep it, and everyone won't blame you if you don't keep it, but you just can't surrender, although you didn't defect to the enemy in the end, but this stain will always follow you, even if you die, you can't get rid of it. But if you are going to die on the battlefield, there will be nothing else except that there will be mourning and remembrance at that time, and the history books will record you.

Sun Yumin knew this too well, so under no circumstances would he choose to take this path, and it was impossible for his troops to go down the road of surrendering to the invaders. Not only does he not choose, but he also wants to influence and influence the thoughts of the swaying and swaying senses, telling him, you are not fighting alone, and I am still there!

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Early morning on July 2.

On the main position of the 20th Division on the front line from Zhangjiashan to Jiangxi Guild Hall, the soldiers of the newly replaced 117th and 118th regiments stared intently at the devil soldiers who were in a straggler formation in the distance and were ready to start attacking, and the black muzzles of their guns were waiting for the owner of the gun to pull the trigger.

Before the sky was fully dawn, the Japanese army began to bombard, and I don't know where they got so many shells, even if you compare it with the 20th Division, the devils have fired more shells in the past few days than the 20th Division has fired more shells in a year.

Some veterans may have heard that today's artillery bombardment is different from the past, but there will never be many of them, because these are the two artillery wings newly transferred by the Japanese army, a 100mm diameter cannon wing, and a 150mm caliber heavy howitzer wing, these two artillery wings are heavy artillery wings, and they can't be seen at all on the ordinary battlefield, but now they appear outside Hengyang City, originally guarding the position, and the 115th Regiment and 116th Regiment of the 58th Brigade are numb by the 125mm howitzer bombardment every day. This time he didn't retreat, and when he found that the situation was not right, he wanted to retreat to the Tibetan cave, the position was completely covered by these heavy artillery, and if he retreated forcibly, the losses would be even greater, so he had to squat in the trenches and let the cannon shells and heavy grenades bloom on the hillside.

Heavy artillery is heavy artillery, far from the Japanese army's usual 80 mortars and grenadiers compared, the 115th and 116th regiments also because of this carelessness, paid a high price, a morning time, the loss of troops, more than the devil attacked for five days in a row, fortunately, the establishment was not completely disabled, this is also a blessing in misfortune.

Zhang Xiaohu didn't bother to reprimand the two regiment commanders, as soon as the cannon stopped, he ordered the 117th Regiment and the 118th Regiment of the 58th Brigade to replace the 115th Regiment and the 116th Regiment that had been guarding for five days and nights.

The open land in front of the hillside that was cut into a cliff and the open ground in the middle of the two hillsides, there were countless corpses of devil soldiers, Zhang Xiaohu had fought for so many years, even when he fought the Japanese army Tufeiyuan Division on the battlefield of Lanfeng, he had never seen so many devil corpses, he was both excited and worried. What was excited was that the officers and men of the 20th Division played the prestige of the 20th Division and the prestige of the 12th Army, and made the attacking Japanese army pay a heavy price; The sad thing is that it is dog days now, as long as the corpse is not cleaned up for a day, it will emit a foul smell, this kind of corpse smell emitted by many corpses together is simply like a poison gas bomb, almost unbearable, but the devil does not dare to come to collect the corpse, and he can't risk being captured to dispose of the corpses of these damn devil soldiers. However, if you don't dispose of the corpses, wait until maggots and flies grow, I'm afraid the next step will be the plague, once the epidemic breaks out, then how can you talk about defending the city?

After considering many considerations, Zhang Xiaohu came up with a solution: incineration. This is the method he suddenly came up with when he remembered that under the Guanghua Gate, the Japanese army's medical soldiers and monks burned the corpses. He asked the new regiment that served as the division reserve to go to the underground combat readiness warehouse in Hengyang City, and pulled out a few barrels of aviation kerosene, which was pulled back from the US Air Force Base in Hengyang City and put into the warehouse, which happened to be used at this time, although aviation kerosene is expensive, but for now, it can no longer be measured by money, as long as it can help hold the position, even if it is ten more barrels, Zhang Xiaohu's eyes will not blink.

Before the oil reached the position, the devils began to bombard, and now the infantry attack has begun, and the matter of disposing of the corpses can only be put aside, compared to the position and life, this stench has to be endured no matter how bad it is.

From the telescope, Zhang Xiaohu felt a little wrong, why the Japanese attack speed was so slow this time, people who have been on the battlefield know that running slowly is equivalent to the live target of the defenders, it is impossible for these devils known as the "Imperial Army" not to know this, there must be something wrong with this.

Zhang Xiaohu would not have been as alert as he is now, but after following Sun Yumin for a long time, he has indeed learned a lot of things, as he said now.

Although he can't say what's wrong with it, it's already a great thing to be able to find this anomaly.

"Pick up the artillery regiment for me right away."

He lowered his binoculars and spoke to an operations staff officer.

Without even asking, the combat staff officer shook the phone, said "artillery regiment" to the operator, and handed him the receiver.

"Commander Gu, the devils have been shelling for so long in the morning, have you locked their shelling position?"

It was already the sixth day of the war, and Zhang Xiaohu had not used the artillery regiment, even if Fang Xianjue personally called to ask for artillery support, he politely refused, because he knew that in Hengyang City, the artillery regiment could play a decisive role only once, and as long as it was activated, it would definitely be devastated, so it was impossible for him to use it until the critical moment.

Now, Zhang Xiaohu feels that this critical moment has come, and the friction of the devil infantry is to lure and confuse the defenders on the position, contain the defenders and dare not leave the position, and then carry out a round of heavy artillery bombardment, the effect will definitely be good and amazing, maybe without the infantry charge, the defenders will be bombarded into pieces by heavy artillery.

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