When he learned that it was Hengshan Yong's Eleventh Army that attacked Hengyang, Fang Xianjue secretly said that it was not good, Hengshan Yong, this old fox is not easy to get along, this old thing is not a good stubble, it belongs to that kind of poisonous snake creature, cunning and cunning by nature, Fang Xianjue has learned Hengshan Yong's methods during the battle of Changde, so that he still has palpitations. （)

In the early morning of April 15, the Japanese army launched the first round of attacks on Hengyang. Fang Xianjue commanded the 10th Army to fight bravely and repelled the Japanese offensive many times. In the first general attack of the Japanese army, the Waziping position was broken through by the enemy, and Li Guilu, the 3rd Battalion of the 7th Regiment of the 3rd Division, who was guarding the position, was corrected on the spot. The officers and men were solemn when they heard this, and none of them dared to retreat after that. However, the strength of the Japanese army was indeed strong, and the huge superiority in strength overwhelmed the 10th Army.

On the 16th, the Japanese army, which had already surrounded Hengyang, concentrated the main forces of the 68th Division and the 116th Division to launch a fierce attack on the peripheral fortifications of Hengyang again. The 10th Army, under the command of Army Commander Fang Xianjue, continued to resolutely resist the Japanese attack. After five days of fierce fighting, the attacking Japanese army paid a heavy price, even the commander of the 68th Division, Sakuma, was seriously wounded, and then only conquered the Zhangjiashan position, and there was no progress in the rest of the place, and Yokoyama had to order the suspension of the attack on Hengyang.

On the 22nd, the 3rd Air Force Command in Zhijiang forwarded a telegram from the Military Commission. In addition to the commendation order signed by Chiang Zhongzheng to the officers and men of the 10th Army, the text also asked the Tenth Army to hold out for another two weeks in order to cooperate with the friendly forces on the periphery to encircle and annihilate the attacking Japanese army. For this order to stick to for two weeks, Fang Xianjue is still sure. On the one hand, he ordered the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Division, which remained in Hengshan, to be rebuilt, in addition to increasing the defensive force. On the other hand, the deployment of the 10th Army has been readjusted in accordance with the current situation. In view of the fact that the focus of the Japanese attack was on the southwestern outskirts of the city, he ordered the main force of the 3rd Division to move south, except for the defense line of the 10th Division. The second-line positions were constructed on the Tianma Mountain, Yueping Mountain, Jielong Mountain, and Wuguiling Heights, and all the defense affairs left by the 3rd Division were transferred to the 190th Division to take over, except for one part of the 7th Regiment that remained, and the 54th and 190th Divisions were responsible for the vigilance on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River.

On the 26th, the 68th and 116th divisions of the Japanese army launched a second attack on Hengyang. The officers and men of the 10th held out until the 15th, and many fronts were broken through. Fang Xianjue then ordered Ge Xiancai, the commander of the 10th Division, to abandon the first-line position, retreat to the second-line position constructed by the 3rd Division, and coordinate with the 3rd Division to defend. Due to the shrinking of the defensive front of the 10th Army. On the contrary, the intensity of its defense and the density of its firepower were increased, so that the Japanese army was exhausted by the 18th, and many captains were killed. As a result, Isamu Yokoyama was forced to give the order to stop the offensive for the second time on the 19th.

The loss of Changsha, the crisis in Xuchang, and the crisis in Hengyang, although the Nationalist government also mobilized millions of troops to fight back. But it didn't work out well. Han Yunhua, who was far away in Zhangjiakou, was anxious, and it had been 22 days since the Japanese army launched the battle of the mainland communication line, but the Nationalist Government still had no intention of asking the CCP for help. It is really dangerous to hold on like this, but the central government strictly ordered Han Yunhua not to act privately. All aspects involved in entering the national control area to start a war are extremely complicated, and they are definitely not as simple as Han Yunhua imagined.

However, the central government did not fail to consider the battle in Jiangnan. After all, the reorganized 300th Army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is resting on the front line in Chongqing, and as long as the Nationalist Government makes a request, then the Chinese Communists will not die without help, after all, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party during this period is still relatively pleasant.

But with the CCP's army. There were still divisions within the Kuomintang, and Chiang Kai-shek himself now developed a subconscious fear and resistance to the use of Communist forces. Although it was said that the integrated 300th Army, which was transferred south to Burma to fight, fought in Wuhan, it was because the veteran always thought that Wuhan was a meat grinder. Like the battlefield of the Somme River in World War I, on the one hand, the CCP's troops can reduce the casualties of the national army, on the other hand, Wuhan is different from other cities, even if the CCP army can enter Wuhan, it is absolutely untenable, because Wuhan's geographical location is too important, as long as the CCP leaders do not have water in their heads, they will never develop in the Wuhan area, because that will touch the bottom line of the national government. …,

However, Minister He Da of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Minister Chen Cheng and Minister Chen Da of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the little Zhuge of Gui Jun all strongly agreed with the transfer of the CCP army to the south, because Jiangnan has always been the territory of the Kuomintang, and the CCP is just a guest when it comes now, and if it wants to develop in Jiangnan, the CCP's strength is still somewhat weak, as can be seen by looking at the current communist army in Jiangnan. The Communist Party does not have no troops in Jiangnan, but it can be of great use to rely on Chen Fatzi's thousands of grass-headed soldiers, so in the eyes of these people, it is best for the CCP's troops to borrow and borrow, anyway, the Nationalist Government will not lose anything, the big deal is just some weapons and ammunition. Moreover, the current situation in Henan is not optimistic, except for Tang Enbo's 20th Corps, which still has the strength to fight, the other troops have been frightened by the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army that invaded Henan was only more than 100,000 people, the performance of the Nationalist government's heavy army group stationed in Henan was really depressing, and Tang Enbo only cared about letting those miscellaneous soldiers in front of him in order to preserve his strength, while his 20th Corps was hiding near Zhengzhou, which made a large number of local miscellaneous troops, including Pang Bingxun, extremely dissatisfied. On April 18, the Japanese 37th Division with the 7th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Army launched an attack on the river defense position of the 15th Army of the 28th Group Army from the east bank of the new Yellow River in Shangshui. On the 19th, the 110th and 62nd divisions of the Japanese army launched an attack from the southern end of the Yellow River Iron Bridge in Zhengzhou to the 28th Army's 85th Army's Bishantou position. After breaking through the position, by the 23rd, Shangqiu, Minquan, and Lankao were captured one after another. On the 25th, the Japanese 13th Group Army attacked Fuyang from Zhengyangguan and Fengtai in Anhui Province with two brigades, and made an offensive posture towards Luohe to contain the defenders in eastern Henan, and withdrew after opening the Pinghan Railway.

Chiang Kai-shek was a stubborn man, and what he identified was generally difficult for others to change. In the end, He Yingqin and others failed to persuade Chiang Kai-shek, but Lao Chiang still made a certain compromise and decided to transfer Han Yunhua's integrated 300th Army to reinforce Hengyang and go to meet Fang Xianjue's Tenth Army.

Receiving the order of the National Government forwarded by the central government, Han Yunhua did not say a word. directly ordered Ma Jiayuan to set off for Hengyang immediately, Han Yunhua knew that the current situation in Hengyang was not good. Although the defenders of Hengyang fought bravely and killed and wounded many Japanese puppet troops, the progress of friendly forces on the periphery of Hengyang was extremely slow. Even Fang Xianjue's old commander rescued Li Yutang and came to the 62nd Army to supervise the operation. Still to no avail. In addition, the supply of the 10th Army also became a big problem, at first it could be transported into the city through the periphery, but with the strengthening of the area controlled by the Japanese army and the suppression of heavy firepower, the supply line was cut off, and the airdrop of air force materials into the Japanese positions in large groups, making the situation of the defenders of Hengyang extremely difficult. The Air Force twice airdropped the warrants of Chairman Chiang Chung-cheng and promised the 10th Army that reinforcements would be delivered. When the Japanese launched the third attack, there were no reinforcements. At this time, half a month has passed since the Military Commission issued the order to hold on for two weeks.

On May 5, with the input of the 58th Division of the Japanese Army, the pressure on the 10th Army increased. At three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Fang Xianjue convened a military meeting at the central bank. The commander of the 3rd Division, Zhou Qingxiang, put forward the idea of breaking through the encirclement, but Sun Mingyu, the chief of staff of the army, considered that once the breakthrough was made, the wounded officers and soldiers would be cared for and would inevitably be slaughtered by the Japanese army. Moreover, the success rate of breaking through with the current strength is extremely low, and the other officers are silent when they see this, and the meeting ends in vain.

Han Yunhua knew that Fang Xianjue's troops had reached the most critical juncture, although the historical Tenth Army finally held out in Hengyang for 47 days. It can be called the defense of Stalin in the East, and tens of thousands of troops were killed in the battle. However, it still inflicted at least 50,000 casualties on the Japanese army. But now history has changed a lot, especially the Japanese army on the Hengyang front has far more troops than in history. Compared with the Japanese army, Fang Xianjue's Tenth Army has not changed in terms of strength, and it is really unknown whether it can hold out for 47 days. …,

However, Han Yunhua learned that Fang Xianjue had sent 18 telegrams to the Military Commission in Chongqing asking for help in one day on May 5, asking the Military Commission to immediately assign reinforcements to the Tenth Army, otherwise the Tenth Army would really be finished. In this regard, Han Yunhua judged that the Tenth Army was already at the end of the crossbow, and if he didn't find a way to rescue it, the fate of Fang Xianjue and the Tenth Army might still be as unchangeable as in history.

Whenever I think of the final fate of Fang Xianjue, a famous anti-Japanese general, Han Yunhua sighs, you must know that after the 10th Army held on for 47 days in history, finally on August 6, the position of the 190th Division, which was attacked by the 58th Division, was broken through by the Japanese army. Day and night, the officers and men of the 10th held out for more than 40 days, but there was still not a trace of reinforcements, and the officers and men went from hope to disappointment, from disappointment to despair, and from despair to resentment against the Military Commission. The Japanese launched a general offensive in the early hours of August 7 after two hours of heavy bombardment. Most of the defenders' positions were destroyed, and the positions of Wugui Mountain and Jielong Mountain were lost one after another. At noon, the Japanese finally broke into the city, and the officers and men of the 10th were still fighting in the ruins. At this time, Zeng Jing, the commander of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Pre-Division, ran to the military headquarters with some soldiers, wanting to protect Fang Xianjue to break through, but was refused. After Fang ordered Zeng Jing to return to his position and continue the battle, he felt that the situation of the battle was irreversible, so he had the intention of committing suicide. After he ordered the disbandment of the military department, he pulled out the revolver **** behind his right waist and pulled the trigger on his temple. At this moment, Fang's actions caught the attention of Adjutant Wang Zehong, who immediately flew forward and shot him in the arm, and finally the bullet went diagonally upwards through the roof. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Qingxiang, who was also in the military department, walked up to Fang Xianjue's side and asked him to think about the three or four thousand wounded in the department, and not to commit suicide, which finally made Fang dispel his intention of committing suicide.

In the end, for the sake of the thousands of wounded of the Tenth Army, Fang Xianjue sent Sun Mingyu, chief of staff, and Zhang Guangkuan, chief of adjutant division, as representatives to the direction of Tianma Mountain to find the Japanese commander to contact the armistice. In the early morning of August 8, the Japanese 11th Army Headquarters sent intelligence staff officer Minoru Takeuchi to the 10th Army headquarters to negotiate an armistice. It is proposed to "ensure the safety of the officers and soldiers who survive, and let them rest; shelter the wounded soldiers, and solemnly bury the fallen officers and soldiers". Staff Officer Takeuchi expressed the Japanese army's respect for the 10th officers and men and agreed to Fang's request. Subsequently, Fang Xianjue, Zhou Qingxiang, Rong Youluo, Ge Xiancai, Rao Shaowei and others were sent to the headquarters of the 68th Division in Wuguishan by the soldiers of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army.

Moreover, Fang Xianjue's own fate has also been turned upside down by this war. has become a stain that he will never forget in his life, and it is really a success and a failure. After the Battle of Hengyang, Fang Xianjue and other high-ranking generals were detained by the Japanese army in a Catholic church outside the city, and the Japanese army immediately forced Fang Xianjue and others to form the "Xianhe Army" and appointed Fang as the army commander. Zhou Qingxiang, Ge Xiancai, Rong Youluo, and Rao Shaowei served as commanders of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Divisions respectively. On November 19, Fang Xianjue, who had been imprisoned for three months, finally escaped from the Japanese army's sphere of influence with the help of Wang Weineng, the puppet commander of Hengyang County's self-defense, and others, and then arrived in Chongqing smoothly under the escort of the 19th Division.

Fang Xianjue was the only Whampoa general to surrender in the Anti-Japanese War, although for various reasons, and finally absconded a few months later under the response of the military commander Hengyang Station, although Lao Jiang did not kill him, but he could no longer be reused. Only transferred to the commander of the 207th Division of the Youth Army. Even after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the situation did not change much after the Chiang government fled to Taiwan. In Taiwan in the 60s, General Fang was also repeatedly clicked on for throwing himself into the enemy. You can hide from anywhere, but you can't argue. After retiring in 68. hugged his knees in front of the principal and cried bitterly, and became a monk in a long sigh from Jiang Gong, and his bitterness can be seen. …,

Han Yunhua, who is also a general, understands Fang Xianjue that for the sake of tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of people in Hengyang City, Han Yunhua must take action. Moreover, in terms of the current situation, the Japanese army's determination to capture Hengyang has never been as urgent as this time, and the kind of inevitable posture made Han Yunhua also feel frightened, and the more Han Yunhua felt that it was necessary to block it.

Han Yunhua was not idle while he was anxious in Zhangjiakou. The 1.5 million troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region have all been secretly transferred to southern Hebei and the Taihang Mountains, and all units are reorganized field troops. There are 23 field armies, as long as Han Yunhua thinks it is necessary. Then the large army will quickly move south and launch an attack on the Japanese army in Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places.

In addition, all the fighters of the joint air force command were sent out by Han Yunhua, except for a part of the battlefields that went south to reinforce the Nationalist Government, and all the rest were transferred to the northeast to carry out the strategic plan of bombing the Japanese mainland.

In the battle to defend Hengyang, on April 20, the Chinese Air Force twice threw Chiang Kai-shek's warrants into Hengyang City, ordering Fang Xianjue's army to hold on to Hengyang City and wait for reinforcements. However, the Japanese army tried their best to intercept and support the Chinese army in Hengyang, and the defenders of Hengyang stubbornly defended it. After nearly a month of hard fighting, the 10th Army suffered heavy casualties, and even the miscellaneous soldiers were also transferred to the front line of battle, which was extremely tragic.

The 6th Japanese attack had just ended, and the front of the position was full of corpses of the dead on both sides, and the nearby hills were all scorched black, and there was hardly a complete ground in sight.

"Pay attention to concealment, the Japanese fighters are here again!" Li Yuanjiang reminded loudly.

The Yanlaifeng position is the position of the Zhou Qingxiang Division of the Tenth Army, and Li Yuanjiang is the commander of the second battalion of the first regiment of the third division, and he is also the eighth battalion commander in the defense of Hengyang. And he, a hairy boy, was also singled out from all the surviving lieutenant-level officers to serve as the eighth commander of the first battalion.

Before he could finish speaking, a soldier beside Li Yuanjiang quickly threw him to the ground, and then four Japanese planes flew over their heads almost simultaneously. After a burst of machine-gun fire, Li Yuanjiang instinctively felt a chill on his head, and it turned out that the steel helmet on his head flew away. Then there were several loud bangs, and the earth that was visibly shaken splashed with a large amount of earth.

Li Yuanjiang propped himself up with his hands, shook it, shook off the dirt on his body, and then grabbed the steel helmet next to him and looked at it, although this guy is a little stupid and a little tired, but he may be able to save his life at a critical time. The top of the steel helmet had been punched with a big hole by the plane's machine gun, but fortunately he and the soldier next to him were fine, patted the soil on the steel helmet, put it on, and straightened it.

"Little Liuzi, okay, you kid okay, you saved Lao Tzu's life, this love Lao Tzu will accept you."

"Battalion commander, I don't have much knowledge, but I also know that you can't die, none of us can get out alive if you die, and I don't know when our reinforcements will arrive." Xiao Liuzi said in a low mood.

"It's okay, the principal and General Li won't ignore us, isn't the military seat also in the city, I'm afraid of a ball." Speaking of which, Li Yuanjiang did not know the bottom of his heart, the 3rd Division of the 10th Army of the Kuomintang to which he belonged was responsible for the frontal defense line of the Hengyang battlefield, and not only had to withstand the ground attack of the Ishino Wing of the Japanese elite 3rd Division, but also often suffered from strafing and bombing by Japanese aircraft, and the battle was very fierce. In the fierce battle, almost all the grassroots commanders of the first battalion were killed, and the battalion commanders of the first battalion were changed by seven, the regiment commanders were also replaced by two, and the regimental deputy was replaced by as many as four. But after only one day of fighting, the first battalion was almost finished. (To be continued......)

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