On September 14, 1939, I don't know if the inertia of history is too great, or if there is a certain number in the dark, even if Li Tie's arrival has changed a lot of people and things, but the first Battle of Changsha is still the same as in the previous life, and it started on time on September 14.

In accordance with the requirements of Commander-in-Chief Gangmura Ningji, a total of four divisions and two brigades of the Japanese army divided their troops into three routes and launched an all-out attack on Hunan from Hubei and Jiangxi respectively.

The Chinese army set up defensive positions along the border between Hunan and Hubei and Hunan and Jiangxi to snipe the Japanese army. This battle of Changsha was very different from previous battles.

First, the Chinese army has better weapons and sufficient ammunition. Second, the tactics of the Chinese army have become much more flexible, and they are no longer confined to the gains and losses of one place and one city, and often the Japanese army has just begun to encircle the Chinese army, and the Chinese army has already taken the initiative to withdraw from the area of engagement.

More importantly, these retreating Chinese troops did not retreat in confusion, and did not suffer as they had in the past.

Third, the heavy armament of the Chinese army has been greatly strengthened, although the large-caliber heavy artillery is not yet the opponent of the Japanese army, but all kinds of infantry artillery and mortars are extremely abundant, and even the shells are also sufficient, and the artillery of both sides can often be seen launching attacks in a small area.

Fourth, the soldiers of the Chinese army had an extremely strong desire to fight, which even the attacking Japanese army noticed the changes in the Chinese army.

When the news that the Chinese army was retreating but not chaotic, and at the same time the tactics were flexible and the soldiers had a strong desire to fight, it was brought back to Gangcun Ningci, the headquarters of the Eleventh Army.

Gangcun Ningji fell into deep contemplation, although the three-way army was still marching all the way, but Gangcun Ningji did have deep worries.

Because judging from the information fed back from the battlefield, the casualties of the Chinese army were not large, and in the same way, in several important places, although the Japanese army and the Chinese army fought to the death, the Japanese army did not take much advantage, and there were even several battles where the battle loss ratio reached one to one.

This is something that has never happened in a major battle since the war with the Chinese army.

Gangcun Ningji looked at the military map in front of him, and then looked at the Japanese arrows that were getting closer and closer to Changsha, "Could it be that the Chinese army wants to lure all the Japanese troops outside Changsha City and fight to the death again?" Even if Xue Yue had such great courage, Commander Jiang should not have such great determination.

Isn't he afraid that we will wipe out his 300,000 elite troops in one fell swoop? However, it would be good news if the Chinese army was really ready to fight to the death in Changsha, at least there would be no need to go all over Hunan to pursue the Chinese army. ”

Gangcun Ningji thought that if Xue Yue was ready to fight the Japanese army in Changsha City, it would be a good thing for Japan, because he did not think that tens of thousands of national central troops could hold Changsha City.

As long as they quickly occupy Changsha City, when the time comes, the offense and defense will be replaced, with the help of the complete defense system of Changsha City, maybe their Japanese army can really complete the battle in Changsha City, if so, the future attack on Sichuan will be much easier.

Gangcun Ningji thought that he had seen Xue Yue's true intentions clearly, and since Xue Yue was ready to fight to the death in Changsha, it would be good for him to fulfill his wishes.

Let's see if the Chinese army is strong in defense, or if they are the offensive of the Japanese Empire. So an order to speed up the advance of all the attacking Japanese troops and prepare to encircle Changsha in a few days was issued by Gangcun Ningci.

And after the Japanese attacking troops accelerated their advance according to the orders of Commander Gangmura Ninji, they found that the Chinese army's resistance seemed to be even stronger.

There will always be a variety of local troops who fight the Japanese to the last man, and the desperate resistance of these troops has caused huge casualties to the Japanese army.

It was also at this time that the attacking Japanese army did not seem to know the Chinese army on the other side, was this still the Chinese army that broke up after a fight and was defeated repeatedly?

Why did the marksmanship of the Chinese army on the opposite side become so accurate? Why is there so much artillery support from the Chinese army on the opposite side? Why are these Chinese troops getting harder and harder to fight?

In fact, it is no wonder that the Japanese army does not understand that after several years of attrition, the Japanese army has fewer and fewer veterans of a hundred battles, while the Chinese veterans are indeed fighting more and more, and now the Chinese army in Hunan has received strong support from Li Tie. In addition, in the past few years, the Chinese army has greatly adapted to the rigid tactics of the Japanese army.

In the past, the Chinese army did not have the support of air force and artillery fire, so the Japanese army could fight as much as it wanted, but this time it was different, after more than half a year of war preparations.

Hunan's entire war defense system has been perfected day by day, and although these fortifications may not be of much use against large-scale mechanized troops, they are much more useful against a small mechanized force like Japan.

Beginning with the Battle of Changsha on 14 September, after half a month of fighting, the vanguard of the Japanese Three-Route Army finally arrived at the periphery of Changsha. At the same time, Xue Yue received an urgent telegram from Commander Jiang, and if he could fight, he would fight, and if he couldn't, he would flee. We must save the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Xue Yue showed the style of an iron-blooded soldier at this time, that is, to fight to the death and swear to live and die with Changsha. Commander Chiang, who received Xue Yue's telegram, was so angry that he cursed, but seeing that the war had begun and he could not temporarily change generals, Commander Chiang could only pray that Xue Yueji had his own natural appearance and could defeat the siege of the Japanese army of nearly 100,000 troops.

However, Commander Jiang did not know that the news that he scolded Xue Yue for coexisting and dying with Changsha soon reached the ears of Gangcun Ningci. After receiving information from Commander Jiang that Xue Yue was only stubbornly resisting, Gangcun Ningji finally put his mind at ease.

"It seems that the Chinese army is still playing the game of defending the territory and resisting the enemy, in this case, he doesn't have to be afraid, and the 70,000 puppet army is also pressing with all his might, and all the three-way troops that are still on the road immediately move closer to Changsha and prepare to annihilate the Chinese defenders in Changsha." This is Gangmura Ningji's final judgment on the Chinese army.

He didn't know that in Changsha City at this time, in the secret meeting room of the Ninth Group Army, Xue Yue was discussing the real plan of defending the city with Bai Fengxiang and several generals of the Central Army.

"Commander-in-chief, you deliberately reported our false plan to Commander Jiang, if something goes wrong, our Ninth Army will have no place to be buried." This was stated by a commander of the Central Army.

"There is no way to do this, we have several big battles, and the Japanese army always seems to be able to prejudge Pu, so I have to guard against Chongqing, where there are senior Japanese detectives.

In addition, there are many people in Chongqing, and any secret is not a secret when it arrives in Chongqing, so for the sake of this battle of Changsha, we must take dangerous moves.

As long as we can finally defeat the Japanese army, I will personally go to the principal to ask for the guilt. I believe that the principal can understand our good intentions. After Xue Yue finished speaking, he looked at Bai Fengxiang in front of him.

Since Bai Fengxiang's 20,000 troops entered Changsha, he has not told Bai Fengxiang the real strategy, but now that the decisive battle is imminent, he must tell Bai Fengxiang his true intentions.

When Xue Yue said his true intentions, Bai Fengxiang was also shocked: "It turns out that Commander Xue not only wants to hold Changsha City, but also wants to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army outside Changsha City. ”

It turned out that according to Xue Yue's original plan, he led 50,000 national troops to defend Changsha City, and then when the Japanese army besieged Changsha City with all its might, various Chinese troops in Hunan began to merge the Japanese troops in Changsha from the periphery.

Then Xue Yue flanked the 200,000 Nationalist troops on the periphery inside and outside, and jointly attacked the Japanese army attacking Changsha, and finally formed a center to blossom, killing and injuring a large number of Japanese living forces, and defeating the Japanese army.

But when Bai Fengxiang led 20,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers to Changsha and brought a large number of weapons and ammunition, Xue Yue's ambition also grew.

He didn't just want to defeat the Japanese army besieging Changsha. In the past few days, in more than a dozen air defense battles, the well-trained and powerful side of the Guangxi soldiers has deeply entered Xue Yue's eyes.

Therefore, Xue Yue suddenly had a bolder idea, that is, to leave a force to defend the city, attract the firepower of the Japanese army, and then withdraw the excess troops outside the city to hide.

When the encirclement of the army is formed, it will take advantage of the situation to kill and inflict the greatest damage on the Japanese army. To achieve these two points, the first requirement is that the troops defending the city must be able to fight well, and Bai Fengxiang's 20,000 wolf soldiers are the best candidates.

Another requirement is that the more troops pursuing the Japanese army, the better, only in this way can the results of the battle be expanded greater, and Xue Yue's 50,000 Central Army is much stronger than Bai Fengxiang's Hainan Third Army in terms of numbers and terrain.

So in the end, Xue Yue handed over the task of defending Changsha to Bai Fengxiang, and he led 50,000 central troops to go out of the city at night and hide in the surrounding areas outside Changsha City, waiting for the opportunity to attack again.

Two days later, most of the Japanese army's three-way army had arrived outside Changsha, so a vigorous urban attack and defense battle began in Changsha.

Although most of Bai Fengxiang's Hainan Third Army were recruits, the Hainan Third Army focused on street fighting when it was training in Vietnam.

Therefore, when the Japanese troops easily entered the city of Changsha, thinking that the defenders of Changsha were nothing more than that, they were immediately killed and wounded by a large number of Guangxi soldiers.

For the first time, the Japanese army discovered that the marksmanship was no less than that of Japanese veterans, and the combat effectiveness was even stronger than that of Japanese veterans. Although the soldiers of the Third Army of Hainan were only new recruits, these soldiers were all children of Guangxi, and all the soldiers came to Guangxi.

More importantly, in order to unite the combat effectiveness of these soldiers, Li Tie specially told Yang Hucheng and Bai Fengxiang that at the beginning of the founding of the army, the army was built in villages, towns, counties, and villages of ethnic minorities.

Young men from the same village form a platoon or a company. The young Zhuang from the same town formed a company or a battalion, and the Guangxi young Zhuang from the same county formed a battalion or a regiment.

Hundreds of county towns and dozens of ethnic minority villages in Guangxi have formed hundreds of battalions of different sizes. This also makes the combat cohesion of the soldiers of the Third Army in Hainan extremely strong, and often the death of a soldier will cause the whole squad, the whole platoon, and even the whole company to retaliate.

Soon the Japanese troops who attacked the city found that the Chinese army on the opposite side was very strong in combat, and often one person was injured, causing the whole squad and platoon to launch a decisive charge without fear of death.

A large number of Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded by Chinese soldiers who rushed out of the rubble and from the side of the street, mixed with cluster grenades, in a way that killed them all.

On the first day of the offensive alone, the Japanese troops in charge of the attack suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and they had just occupied three streets during the day, and they had to retreat outside the city again at night, because they had made the Hainan Third Army afraid of this lifeless way of fighting.