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The expeditionary force had been attacking Tengchong since the beginning of May, but failed because of the city walls and complete fortifications.

The guerrillas once again showed their might, and they did not know how to enter Tengchong County and fight with the Japanese army in the streets. The guerrillas, not knowing how, occupied some of the courtyards and held back the Japanese troops in the streets. The first part of the guerrillas opened the city gates and received the expeditionary force into the city.

On July 20, Tengchong recovered. Tengchong, the county seat, was previously recovered by the guerrillas and lost by the expeditionary force. This time again.

On July 30, all units of the expeditionary force, with the coordination of artillery and air force, launched a general attack on the enemy defending Longling. On August 5, the army regained the whole county of Longling, and only a few Japanese troops held the county seat, intending to cover the large number of Japanese troops fleeing along the Yunnan-Burma Highway to Mangshi.

On August 4, Zheng Dongguo recaptured Myitkyina in Burma.

On August 5, Division Commander Lin secretly appeared in Kokang territory and issued an ultimatum to the Japanese forces in central and northern Burma in the name of local troops. On the same day, 50,000 guerrillas launched a general offensive in central and northern Burma.

At this time, the Battle of Myitkyina had just ended. On April 29, 1944, the Indian Expeditionary Force began a surprise attack on Myitkyina, but instead of occupying Myitkyina, it began a war of attrition. In the end, the overwhelmingly superior Sino-American mixed detachment lasted nearly 100 days, annihilating more than 3,000 Japanese troops at the cost of more than 6,000 casualties, and forcing the remaining 800 Japanese troops to withdraw.

Subsequently, the situation in western Yunnan and northern Myanmar developed completely unexpectedly. Because of the participation of the guerrillas, the war situation in Yunnan developed smoothly.

The guerrillas have flexible tactics, have the support of the people, and have good weapons, wherever the **** battle is unfavorable, there are guerrillas to help, and where there is no expeditionary force, the guerrillas occupy the countryside.

On 15 August, 30,000 guerrillas from Yunnan appeared in northern Burma and began a siege of several cities.

When the news came, the Japanese defenders in Longling County knew that there was no hope of escaping Burma and were determined to die in battle.

This time, the guerrillas sent more than a dozen Japanese to shout at Longling County and break its fighting spirit, and brought Li Xianglan's record to play it to the Japanese army day and night. This is a Japanese song that Li Xianglan produced after joining Yichun, saying that the lights are bright and the wine is green, and there is a life without tomorrow today.

Then, they sent some Japanese to recite Japanese articles, all of which were articles reflecting on the war. Soon, the guerrillas scattered tens of thousands of leaflets into the county town with hundreds of kites.

Because of the good cooperation in the Battle of Songshan, Song Xilian allowed the guerrillas to play. Sure enough, the psychological warfare was fought for ten days, and the Japanese army's fighting spirit was greatly reduced.

Since mid-July, the expeditionary force has changed its tactics and started tunnel operations, and at this time it has dug under the Japanese positions and dug into the county seat.

On August 25, the general offensive began, and five days later, Longling was recovered.

That's all for later.

August 7, 1944. Hengyang.

A group of people in blue cloth clothes walked on the mountains, and if they were not carrying guns and pulling pack horses, they would have thought that they were ordinary people.

There was a simple shed on the top of the mountain, and several people had spread out a map in it, and one person was standing outside, looking at the procession up and down the mountain with binoculars. This man is a dignified and military man, but he wears a merchant's coat and hat, and is very incongruous.

This person is Dong Zhentang, and it is his political commissar Chen Haisong who is looking at the map in the shed. Both of them were commander-level leaders of the Western Route Army, and they did not die because of Xiaolu's intervention. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, they did not join the Eighth Route Army, but led thousands of people to infiltrate the mountainous areas of Hubei and Hunan to secretly form guerrillas.

At the beginning, they acted in secret, and the guerrillas developed under the name of militias. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the team still developed in a low-key manner and did not join the New Fourth Army. After the Southern Anhui Incident, it became one of the few Jiangnan troops that did not join the New Fourth Army. In recent years, taking advantage of the Japanese invasion of the Yangtze River Valley, they actively resisted Japan and developed into a force of 50,000 or 60,000 people, distributed in Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi provinces.

Most of their forces were local, distributed over a wide area, developed in the name of guerrillas and militias, and the main force that followed them was less than 5,000.

A year ago, their men in southern Hunan and Guangxi met with each other, and the other side brought them some advanced weapons, and the combat effectiveness of the entire unit was suddenly strengthened, although no large-scale battles were launched, and small battles were fought one after another. The force has rapidly expanded to 100,000 people, and dozens of troops are distributed over a vast area.

At the beginning of the year, they received an order from Yan'an to strike at the Japanese logistical supply when Japan was implementing the No. 1 operation plan.

The tide of the battle in the spring has changed dramatically. Hebei Province suddenly changed color of mountains and rivers, followed by Rehe, Suiyuan, and even Shanxi also won victories. At this time, the Japanese army's No. 1 operational plan had already begun. The Japanese No. 1 operation could not be stopped, and it was difficult to carry out, which was very different from history.

The Japanese army's No. 1 battle plan was to open up the communication line in Chinese mainland, that is, to open the communication line from Tianjin to Guangzhou and even Vietnam. The purpose of the Japanese is very clear, because the military strength is insufficient, all occupied areas must be garrisoned, only by opening the communication arteries, it is possible to speed up the movement of the army, can draw more troops from Chinese mainland, and even accelerate the occupation of the southwest.

Before the implementation of the battle plan began, there was a great deal of controversy in Japan, because Manchuria and even the Soviet Far East were lost, and the opening of communication lines was no longer as significant as before. However, the army insisted on fighting, believing that only by opening up the lines of communication could it concentrate its forces and recover North China and Manchuria.

Operation No. 1 was carried out in Henan, and Hunan was carried out very smoothly.

Today, except for the crazy Japanese, almost everyone can see that the demise of the Japanese is a matter of time and a foregone conclusion, and no one is willing to fight with the Japanese and consume their own troops. In this way, of course, the Japanese were cheaper, and the battle of Henan-Zhong, by the beginning of June, the Japanese army occupied Luoyang.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army in Shandong began to attack, and the Japanese army was very angry at the Eighth Route Army's practice of sticking knives in the back, but there was nothing they could do, so they had to stop the attack. The Japanese army in Henan and the Eighth Route in Shandong entered a confrontational situation.

The Japanese army continued to launch an offensive in Hunan, this time, Xue Yue, chairman of Hunan Province, was chased and beaten by the Japanese army, in addition to Changsha fell again, some small and medium-sized cities were also lost one after another, and the army retreated to Hengyang to resist the Japanese army.

This is the only highlight in this battle, the Battle of Hengyang. In the city is the 10th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the army commander Fang Xianjue is the third phase of Huangpu, the descendant of President Jiang.

The chief of staff of the 10th Army is Sun Mingyu, under the jurisdiction of the 3rd Division, division commander Zhou Qingxiang, the 190th Division, division commander Rong Youluo, and the reserve of the 10th Division, division commander Ge Xiancai. The actual strength of this army is only seven regiments, plus one regiment of the provisional 54th Division, the total strength is only eight regiments and 17,000 people.

The Japanese army successively invested four divisions of the 11th Army under Isamu Yokoyama, namely the 68th Division, the 116th Division, the 58th Division, and the 13th Division, with about 90,000 people, and the Air Force had the full cooperation of the Fifth Air Force. It is also said that the Japanese army had a total of 140,000 men.

Hengyang City is on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, there is a river in the north of the city, called the Grass River, the west of the city is a swamp fish pond, and only the south of the city is suitable for combat attack. The main direction of the Japanese attack was the south of the city.

Before the war, the 300,000 inhabitants of the city had withdrawn, and it is said that the retreat was so clean that there was not a single mouse left.

Then came the hard battle.

The 10th Army fought against the Japanese army, which was several times its size, and fought a bloody battle for 46 days.

Dong Zhentang looked at the Xiangjiang River at the foot of the mountain, looked at the battlefield on the other side of the river, and said: "Now, the Japanese attack is not very fierce, and the defending Tenth Army is not good. Are they really going to surrender? ”

Chen Haisong: "According to the information from North China, the Tenth Army fought bravely, but after more than 40 days of fighting, it ran out of ammunition and food, and there were only a few thousand wounded soldiers in the city. The slow progress of reinforcements caused officers and soldiers to lose the will to resist, and many were privately negotiating with the Japanese about surrendering. ”

Dong Zhentang: "Where are the reinforcements?" ”

Chen Haisong: "Here, here, and here, all outside the city. A week earlier, all the reinforcements had withdrawn. This time, the Japanese army could not attack the city and adopted the tactics of encircling the point to send reinforcements, and the reinforcements suffered heavy losses. Otherwise, relying on the Tenth Army alone, it would have been finished long ago. ”

Dong Zhentang: "The reinforcements are a miscellaneous army, they have each other's heart problems, and the enthusiasm to rescue Lao Jiang's descendants is not high. Otherwise, the reinforcements will actively fight, and the inside and outside should be combined, and the fight will not be like this. ”

Chen Haisong: "The 79th Army of the reinforcement army is the Yunnan Army, a standard miscellaneous army, and the commander is Wang Jiaben. Intelligence said that the losses of his troops were significant. The 62nd Army of the reinforcement army was the Guangdong Army, which was also a local army, and the army commander was Huang Tao. He also had losses. The 74th Army is a descendant of Lao Chiang. On the 27th, the 58th Division of the 74th Army had occupied Jiwo Mountain on the outskirts of Hengyang, and as long as it went one step further, it was possible to get in touch with the defenders. But at this time, Qiu Yaodong, deputy chief of staff of the 74th Army, ordered them to retreat. Lao Jiang wanted to consume all the miscellaneous troops this time, and Xue Yue wanted to directly incorporate one of the divisions, which made Huang Tao wary. ”

Dong Zhentang: "It's interesting, the miscellaneous army still fights a dozen anyway, but the Central Army is half-hearted." What was the situation with the Japanese army? ”

Chen Haisong: "According to the intelligence, there are about 30,000 people lost, and there are still 50,000 people left. Other Japanese troops wanted to reinforce them, but they were afraid that it would be difficult. ”

Dong Zhentang: "The Japanese army is a tired division, I think I can mess with him." The combat strength of 50,000 people is much smaller than it was forty days ago. ”

At this time, a staff officer ran over and said: "A call from Chongqing, the commander of the 10th Army sent a farewell telegram, saying: After the enemy broke through the north gate this morning, he will start a street battle in the city. Our officers and men have suffered all casualties, and there are no soldiers to block the attack, so they vow to repay the party and the state with their deaths and fulfill their duties as soldiers. This electricity is probably the last one, see you in the next life! ”

Dong Zhentang: "He may die in battle, he may surrender, it is certain that some of his subordinates have surrendered." ”

Chen Haisong: "Let's beat him, if he surrenders, take the wounded soldiers away, and if he doesn't, save their lives." In the future, even if there is a civil war, it will be regarded as an ambush. ”

Dong Zhentang: "Now is the critical moment, and the time for us to act has come. Actively prepare, cross the river at night, and launch an attack early tomorrow morning. After all, there are still ordinary soldiers in the city. No matter how you say it, you can't ignore them. ”

Chen Haisong: "If we fight this battle, we can't keep a low profile in the future, I'm afraid that Lao Jiang will find trouble." This is my battle plan, let's have a meeting to discuss it. ”

Dong Zhentang: "Yan'an's idea is to rescue the 10th Army and strive for soldiers to join our army." ”