Just as Han Yunhua expected, two days later, the news of the disastrous defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Changsha spread far and wide, and the Central News Agency of the Nationalist Government reported the battle in the form of front-page headlines, and then newspapers in Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union also reprinted the report one after another.

The results of the Third Battle of Changsha were soon sent to Chongqing, an outcome that Chiang Kai-shek and the top brass of the Nationalist government had not anticipated before the war. Changsha is the capital city of Hunan, which in turn is a famous barn in China. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Hunan Province became an important supply base for food, soldiers and industrial resources of the Nationalist Government. As a strategic town in Central China, Changsha is the key point of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway. After the battles of Wuhan and Nanchang, Changsha's strategic position has risen to a particularly prominent position, and it has become a strategic point on the gateway to China's strategic rear and southwest. In order to highlight the importance of Changsha, Chiang Kai-shek deliberately set up the headquarters of the commander of the 9th Theater here.

Although the Nationalist Government defeated the invading enemy in the Second Battle of Changsha, it also suffered heavy losses of its own, and the Japanese army even invaded the city of Changsha for a time. Therefore, although the Nationalist Government attached great importance to the Third Battle of Changsha, it did not have the confidence to win. Moreover, the Nationalist Government did not have an advantage in terms of troops, and the defenders commanded by Xue Yue only had about 170,000 people in 13 infantry divisions, but the Japanese army that came to attack had a full 100,000 people, as well as a large number of puppet troops and air forces.

Unlike Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin, General Xue Yue, who was the commander of the Ninth Theater and the commander of the Changsha garrison, was full of confidence in the victory of the Battle of Changsha. Xue Yue, 46, is in the prime of life, and he has ambitions that Chen Cheng, He Yingqin and others do not have.

In view of the extreme importance of Changsha, Xue Yue had long judged that the Japanese army would inevitably attack, and for this reason determined the basic policy of defending northern Hunan and northern Jiangxi. Xue Yue, the commander of the Ninth Theater, was deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek, and he constantly wrote to Chiang Kai-shek to request more troops in Hunan, and at the same time issued operational instructions to all units under the Ninth Theater. Before the Japanese army attacked Changsha, Xue Yue had already completed the corresponding deployment and also formulated a counterattack plan. In addition, Xue Yue had another bargaining chip in his heart, that is, on the basis of summing up the lessons and lessons of the previous two battles, he proposed a set of new tactics for using the complex terrain of northern Hunan to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army, that is, the "Heavenly Furnace Tactics".

Xue Yue knew very well that the terrain in the Changsha area was not conducive to defensive operations, and the northern part was flat and unsafe. Therefore, he summed up the lessons and lessons of the failures in the battles since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, changed the rigid tactics of attacking the Japanese army in a defensive battle with each other by fortifying at various levels and fighting defensive battles with the Japanese army one by one, and changed it to only using some troops to stick to the existing positions in the front, inflicting them on the enemy one by one, and then taking the initiative to move them to the enemy's flank, and then using various means such as ambushes, flanking attacks, and tail attacks to consume the enemy's forces one by one, and waiting for the enemy to enter the predetermined decisive battle area, and concentrating on using absolutely superior forces to encircle and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop. At the same time, they conscientiously drew lessons from the Battle of Nanchang and paid special attention to destroying all roads that could be used by the Japanese army, including railways, highways, and even country roads, so as to make it difficult for the Japanese mechanized units and heavy artillery to move. In addition, in the battle, Xue Yue carried out an extensive campaign mobilization in view of the extreme importance of Changsha. Xue Yue issued an order to the officers and soldiers of the department: "The Third Battle of Changsha is related to the survival of the country. Yue has the determination to die and the belief in victory. He demanded that "the commanders-in-chief of all group armies, corps, and division commanders must have a firm grasp of the troops, personally command the front, capture fighters at the right time, and annihilate the enemy forces." The officers and men of the unit showed an unprecedentedly high will to resist Japan and fought an unusually fierce battle with the Japanese army.

Under the stubborn blows of the Chinese army, the Japanese offensive did not achieve satisfactory results. The Japanese 3rd Division, with the support of aircraft, launched an attack on the Chinese positions such as Amiling, southeast of Changsha, and the battle line was once approaching the outskirts of Changsha. Xue Yue ordered Li Yutang of the 10th Army to set up a street battle formation to defend the urban area of Changsha. The two sides fought fiercely in the southeastern suburbs of Changsha, desperately fighting, and almost all the strongholds changed hands repeatedly. The Japanese offensive was thwarted. In order to strengthen Changsha's defensive and counterattack forces, Xue Yue transferred the 77th Division to Changsha for preparatory operations. At the same time, he deployed the Chinese armies on the periphery to approach Changsha from a distance. When the Japanese army saw the danger of being surrounded by the Chinese Inner and Outer Front Corps and was ready to retreat, Xue Yue immediately ordered all units to encircle and pursue the Japanese army from different directions. The active offensive lasted less than two months, and in mid-May it abandoned the offensive and was forced to retreat. Xue Yue commanded the Chinese army to take advantage of the complex terrain of the hills and rivers in northern Hunan to continue to pursue in various ways, so that the Japanese army was beaten everywhere. The Third Battle of Changsha was a great victory. …,

During the campaign, the Japanese army headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army concentrated 100,000 troops and marched southward, but failed to achieve the operational goal of annihilating the main force of the 9th Theater. In the whole battle, more than 50,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and the arrogance of the Japanese invaders was dealt a heavy blow.

After the war, the Japanese army admitted that "this battle and the two battles of Nanchang and Xiangdong were quite decisive battles." On some battlefields, the intensity of some battles exceeded the Nomenkan. "In the early stage of the battle, the Japanese offensive was difficult, and in the later stage of the battle, they hurriedly retreated under the counterattack of the Chinese side, and their morale was greatly affected.

Although there were constant quarrels between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, after all, they had the same roots and the same origin, and both sides were united in resisting the Japanese invasion, so after receiving a telegram from the Nationalist Government, the Central Committee quickly sent a telegram of congratulations. In addition, the party Central Committee specially invited He Yingqin, minister of military affairs of the Nationalist Government, to attend the opening ceremony of the International Military Command College in Saibei.

Han Yunhua is extremely impressed by the efficiency of the Americans, and the fact that this country can become a world hegemon in later generations is inseparable from their rigorous, realistic, and efficient work style. On 26 June, Colonel Mesler forwarded to Han Yunhua a telegram from US President Roosevelt, in which President Roosevelt congratulated the Inner Mongolia Military Region on its achievements in the northeast region, and also told Han Yunhua that about $50 million in teaching facilities had been shipped from the western coast of the United States to China, and that it would take at most a month to reach Guisui. In addition, about 1,500 outstanding American soldiers have been assembled in India and will soon rush to Saibei to receive training from the Inner Mongolia Military Region; as for the tuition fees of these American soldiers, President Roosevelt did not mention the money, and he knew that the silver was almost useless to Han Yunhua's department, so he proposed to help build a large steel plant and a large arsenal in the Inner Mongolia Military Region as training funds.

How could Han Yunhua not agree to such conditions, he called Roosevelt back after asking the Central Committee for instructions, and was willing to accept the US Army's training in northern Cyprus, and at the same time expressed his gratitude to the United States for its help. In addition, Han Yunhua hoped that the arsenal built with the assistance of the US Government would preferably be mainly for the production of antiaircraft machine guns and submachine guns, because what the Inner Mongolia Military Region and even the whole of China lacked most was air defense weapons, and even the eight airfields in the Inner Mongolia Military Region were equipped with anti-aircraft firepower.

In addition, Han Yunhua also made a deal with the US Government in his private name, in exchange for half of the patent production rights of a complete and mature weapons patent technology in exchange for 200 new fighters that have not yet been put into production in the United States. This new weapon, called the bazooka, is a new type of infantry anti-tank weapon that has been patented for protection. The telegram was accompanied by some technical data on the bazooka and related design drawings, but none of them were complete.

Although President Roosevelt did not know much about this new weapon, the most important thing that the United States lacked was talent, and after the analysis of the professionals of the US military industry, a data and evaluation book on the estimated capabilities of the bazooka was sent to President Roosevelt's desk. According to the analysis of the US military industry, this new weapon will be the nemesis of all tanks and armored vehicles in the world, and any armored force will no longer be a meat grinder for infantry.

President Roosevelt's reply was very swift, and he agreed to Han Yunhua's request that the US Government give 400 of the latest fighters that are expected to roll off the assembly line in early July this year to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, but the Inner Mongolia Military Region must hand over all the production rights of this weapon and equipment to the United States, that is, no country other than the United States can produce this kind of weapons and equipment.

Roosevelt's conditions made it very difficult, in fact, the technical content of the bazooka is not high, the bazooka generally uses a steel launcher that is opened at both ends, and the thrust generated by the rocket engine in the bomb or the gunpowder gas pressure formed by the combustion in the steel launcher pushes the rocket to move, and the gunpowder gas discharged by the engine is sprayed out from behind the barrel, so that the weapon has no recoil. The Inner Mongolia Military Region was also designed three months ago with the help of Dr. John Rose, an expert in American weapons design, and has now produced nearly 50 samples, which have been tested to have an effective range of 200~350 meters, a vertical armor-piercing thickness of 180~280 mm, and a weapon system weighing 7~8 kg. That is, now all tanks in the world will become live targets as long as they enter the range of bazookas. Han Yunhua originally planned to drink this simple and easy anti-tank weapon to the Soviets for a business, but the Americans wanted to monopolize it from the beginning. Although Han Yunhua was very dissatisfied with the greed of the Americans, everyone knew that once this new anti-tank weapon came out, its market potential would be endless, but the Americans also invested enough money, and 400 fighters would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and they would still be priceless. …,

However, Han Yunhua also knew that the patented technology of the Americans exchanging hundreds of fighters for such a weapon and equipment with a not too high technical content would not take advantage of it in the first place, and the reason why they did this was entirely in the hope that it could strengthen the armed forces of the Chinese battlefield and contain more Japanese for them. In addition, the strategic deployment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region also impressed the Americans, and as long as there is nothing wrong with the head, Han Yunhua's next plan can be seen. The strategic deployment of attacking Northeast China was extremely beneficial to both the Americans and the Soviets. Needless to say, the Soviets said that the existence of the Kwantung Army was a sharp sword on the heads of the Soviets, and for the Americans, the Kwantung Army was a blood transfusion vehicle and a cow in the Southeast Asian battlefield, and as long as the war in the Southeast Asian battlefield did not go well, then the first thing that the Japanese army base camp thought of was to transfer troops from the Kwantung Army to the south. Therefore, after understanding the strategic deployment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the Soviets and Americans spared no effort to help the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Others can't see this and think that the Soviets and Americans have their heads in water, and hundreds of planes are sent to the ground, but in fact, people are not stupid, just a few hundred planes are a quarter's output for those countries with developed aviation industries, and they are still those fighters that are about to be eliminated. In exchange for the safety of the rear, these fighters can even completely solve the big trouble, and this deal is quite cost-effective.

Han Yunhua is not stupid, he calculated these things from the beginning, otherwise let him fight against the millions of elites of the Japanese army, with Han Yunhua's shrewdness, he would do such a stupid thing. It can be said that the Kwantung Army is not fighting against the Inner Mongolia Military Region now, but with the Chinese people, the Soviet Union's weapons and equipment, and the Americans' money, such a combination is almost invincible, otherwise the Kwantung Army might have been beaten in such a short period of time.

However, the Inner Mongolia Military Region is now no short of fighters, although Han Yunhua knows that the new planes that are about to be rolled off the production line by the United States are specially designed to deal with Japan's Zero fighters. However, on the battlefield in China, Japan did not have many Zero fighters, and the most were the Type 96 fighters and the 97 Heavy Bombardment, so although the price offered by the United States was very attractive, it was not enough to impress Han Yunhua. Therefore, Han Yunhua called back Roosevelt, 200 fighters in exchange for all markets except the Soviet Union and China, and Han Yunhua assured that as long as the Americans do not leak the design drawings, then at least within 5 years, this kind of weaponry will not be surpassed by any similar products, even if Germany and Japan can imitate it, but it is absolutely impossible to be on the same technical level as this.

Han Yunhua didn't say much, in fact, the bazooka thing should have appeared this year when it was locked, maybe the two petty officers in the United States are testing this thing now. But Han Yunhua is not the kind of primitive guy who made it, the world's first generation of bazooka was indeed born during World War II. At that time, there were two types, one was the "Bazooka" pure rocket type rocket developed by the United States in 1942, which resembled a trombone (musical instrument) called "Bazooka", hence the name. The "Bazooka" uses steel launch canisters that open at both ends, and relies on the thrust generated by the rocket engine inside the missile to propel the rocket, and the gunpowder gas discharged by the engine is ejected from behind the barrel, making the weapon recoilless. The other is the "Iron Fist" recoilless gun-type bazooka equipped by Germany in 1943. It fires 150 mm super-caliber armor-piercing projectiles, which rely on the gunpowder gas pressure formed by the combustion of the firing charge in the steel launch canister opened at both ends to promote the movement of the projectile body, and use the reaction force generated by the gunpowder gas ejected from the back of the barrel to eliminate the recoil of the canister. These two early rocket launchers were equipped with mechanical optical sights, with an effective range of 100~250 meters, a vertical armor-piercing thickness of 120~200 mm, and a weapon system weighing 7~82 kg.

But Han Yunhua did not design this kind of original goods at the beginning, he designed a bazooka between the second and third generations, because he is only familiar with the bazooka still in use in the 21st century, although the military technology of this era is not yet able to produce the third generation of bazookas, but after overcoming certain difficulties, it can produce the second generation of bazookas, that is, according to the principle of balanced projectile, the closed launch technology is adopted, and a plastic sheet is thrown from behind the barrel as a balancing material to offset the recoil of the weapon. There is no rear spitfire, and it can be fired in tight spaces such as trenches. Neither the Germans nor the Japanese will be able to do this in a short period of time, because this is at least 20 years ahead of the world. …,

For Han Yunhua's insistence, President Roosevelt could only compromise, he knew very well what Han Yunhua could do, but it was precisely because of the behemoth of the Soviet Union that the Americans did not dare to bargain with Han Yunhua excessively, after all, it is now a seller's market, there is only one bazooka, but there are two buyers, and if you suffer a loss, you will suffer a loss, and finally President Roosevelt and Han Yunhua reached an agreement to exchange 200 of the latest fighters for the patented technology of the bazooka, but Han Yunhua could not be restricted from selling the patented technology to the Soviets.

After making a deal with Roosevelt, Han Yunhua quickly contacted Stalin, and Han Yunhua still had a little good impression of the Soviets, no matter what, the Soviets and his beliefs in Han Yunhua were the same, although Han Yunhua was a nationalist, but this did not prevent Han Yunhua from being disgusted with those Soviets.

Negotiations with Stalin were much simpler, because during this time, according to the strategic plan formulated by Han Yunhua, the Soviets achieved major victories, a large number of lost territories were recovered, even Leningrad, which had been besieged for 900 days, was liberated, and the Germans were beaten back and forth. Stalin was in a good mood and was extremely grateful to Han Yunhua, a Chinese comrade, for his help, and unlike the Americans, Han Yunhua directly asked General Bayanruf to send 20 bazookas to the battlefield for use this time.

As soon as this infantry anti-tank weapon, which has a small mass, simple structure, low price, and easy to use, appeared on the battlefield, the Germans suffered heavy damage to valuable targets such as tanks, armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel transporters, and military equipment. On the first day of fighting, 20 rocket launchers destroyed 87 German tanks.

The power of the bazooka was soon confirmed, and it was conceivable that in the Soviet Union, a country where artilleryism was rampant, the bazooka was taken seriously. Stalin's call back soon came, and like Roosevelt, he knew that Han Yunhua definitely didn't want money, because now it is better to have money than strength, and no amount of money can buy tanks and fighters.

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