On the night of December 31, the army attacked the outskirts of Changsha, and the city of Changsha fell into the siege of the army, and the situation was precarious.

On December 3, 1941, it was stated that in the Mainland Order No. 575 issued by the Central China Army, the headquarters stipulated that the task of the Central China Army was to "ensure the transportation from Yuezhou to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and use the three towns of Wuhan and Jiujiang as bases to try to destroy the enemy's ability to resist the war, and its combat area was roughly between Anqing, Xinxin, Yichang, Yuezhou, and Nanchang."

At the meeting of army commanders of the Chinese Dispatch Army on November 27, the commander of the 11th Army, Anan Yuiki, also clearly believed that the purpose of the army was to destroy the main force of the [***] team in central China.

However, this policy of the army has not been adhered to. At a meeting of the operational staff of the various corps convened by the 11th Army on 10 December, Anan Yuki made the following instruction: "Since the beginning of the southern war, there is a feeling in the minds of the people that the Chinese side has become a secondary battlefield, and this should be taken as a warning. At this moment, it is necessary to adopt active measures from beginning to end to exert pressure on Yucheng, at least not to slacken, prepare the offensive posture, and concentrate on strengthening the training of the troops. ”

On 7 December, the day after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Yucheng Military Committee finally ordered all theaters to launch an all-out guerrilla war to contain and attack the Japanese army. Accordingly, Yu Hanmou's 7th Theater of Operations attacked Guangzhou; The 5th, 6th, and 60th armies concentrated in the provinces of Guichuan and Guizhou in Yunnan, preparing to enter Burma; The 9th Army and the 2nd Provisional Army of the 4th Theater were transferred to Guangdong, and the 74th Army was transferred to Guangxi.

Under these circumstances, on December 13, Major General Isamu Kinoshita, chief of staff of the 11th Army, considered it necessary to contain the southward movement of the Central [***] team.

On December 8, Chief of Staff Kinoshita immediately summoned the chief of staff of operations, conveyed the relevant ideas, such as the surname and essentials necessary for the battle, and made a report to the army commander, which was approved by Anan Yuki on the spot.

On the 15th, the 11th Army formulated a battle guidance plan, the purpose of which was to "first defeat the 20th Army on the left bank of the Xinqiang River with the 6th Division and the 40th Division, and capture it near the Guanwang Bridge." Then, with the arrival of the 3rd Division, it was thrown to the right of the 6th Division and routed the 37th Army in the area on the left bank of the Mishui. "The battle began on December 22 and ended in about two weeks.

On the 23rd, Anan Yuki was at the command post in Yueyang and immediately issued an order for battle.

The 3rd Division of the Army attacked all the way forward, and finally reached the city of Changsha on the 31st.

At 31 o'clock in 19, the 3rd Division issued an order to attack Changsha on New Year's Day 1942!

Now, the Yue army has reached the bottom of the pocket arranged in the 9th war zone, and [***] is also advancing to the side of the Yue army. In view of the fact that the time was ripe for the implementation of the "Tensky Road Warfare Method," the 9th Theater Commander's Headquarters ordered all units to begin attacking and advancing at 0:00 on 1 January, to counter-encircle the enemy on the outskirts of Changsha, and to limit the night of 4 January to the line of arrival of the first attack. At this time, both sides wanted to end the fighting in the Changsha direction as soon as possible. The army hopes to get a handful and leave, and besides, the logistics and heavy weapons of the army cannot support long-term operations, and the squadron is worried that the bottom of the bag they have prepared will be chiseled through.

1. Shortly after the Japanese army launched the attack, Kinoshita, chief of staff of the 11th Army, and the reporters accompanying the army flew to Changsha by plane to inspect the battlefield. In order to occupy Changsha as soon as possible, the 3rd Division issued a new order at 18:30 on the same day.

That night, the attack of the Japanese army was really not smooth, and [***] reacted quickly. The 190th Division counterattacked Zuojiatang in the direction of the North Gate, and the 10th Division counterattacked the army storage depot in the south, and at the same time, the 10th Division encircled and annihilated the enemy at Baishaling, and the two positions were recovered at 22 o'clock. The Kato Brigade, which had rushed to Baishaling, encountered [***] at around 2 o'clock, and Kato Shaozo was immediately shot through the abdomen and died soon after. The rest of the officers were killed in battle, and only Captain Ikeda fought his way to death. The army then launched several charges to try to rescue Kato, but under the fierce resistance of the defenders, several attacks by the army were in vain. The battle lasted until the night of the 2nd, and the surrounded Kato Brigade was completely wiped out.

From Kato's corpse, the squadron obtained various plans and orders and other documents since the dispatch of the army, and learned about the situation of the enemy in front of them. More importantly, [***] learned that the army lacked ammunition for this important information.

The documents captured by the Pre-10 Division were quickly sent to the headquarters of the commander of the 9 theater. Xue Yue saw that on the one hand, he informed the various departments of the situation, and on the other hand, ordered the group armies to quickly close to the periphery of Changsha and encircle and annihilate the enemy army according to the predetermined plan; At the same time, the 10th Army was ordered to counterattack.

And the military side has also reached the last moment. Due to logistical supply problems, the 3rd Division was almost running out of ammunition. The division had to fight with all its forces. On the same day, the 9th Brigade of Reading Force reached Guanwang Bridge and engaged [***] on the Hongyuandong side of the area and the southern area of Sanjiangkou. The staff of the 11th Army was already overshadowed by apprehension. In order to capture Changsha as soon as possible, the 11th Army ordered the 6th Division to go into the offensive on the night of 2nd.

In addition to ordering the 6th Division to attack Changsha, the 11th Army also ordered the 40th Division to quickly move south to the area around Chunhua Mountain and guard the Liuyang Mountains in the east to protect the rear of the remaining two divisions.

At 9 o'clock, the 3rd Division, which was unfavorably attacking, issued an order to retreat to all units participating in the attack on Changsha in accordance with the orders of the 11th Army headquarters.

After the engagement of the 9th Brigade on the 2nd, the 65th Brigade of the Reading Infantry was left to protect the flank of the army, and the main force turned to Mafengzui through Changle, and had an encounter with the 58th Army south of the Yangtze River on the morning of the 4th. Having routed its opponents, the brigade moved on. The 95th Infantry Brigade arrived at Yuezhou on the same day, and together with the 1st Brigade of the 218th Wing of the 34th Division, attacked and advanced in the direction of Tuanluoshan to ensure the retreat of the 11th Army.

The 3rd Wing of the 68th Division, having received the order to retreat at 15:25, ordered the troops to begin the retreat at 18:30.

The retreat of the 6th Division was relatively much smoother. The main force of the division lagged behind on the 4th, and the covering forces began to retreat at 22 o'clock, and they did not chase after them, and by dawn on the 5th, the division had been assembled through the Langli Army Bridge and formed in the area on the right bank of the Liuyang River.

The 40th Division began to move along the road of Elephant Trunk Bridge - Xiangtu Bridge - Wenjiayuan - Chunhua Mountain at 5 to 3 o'clock.

On the night of the 4th, Xue Yue issued an order to pursue the whole line, and by 7 o'clock on the 5th, there was no trace of the enemy near Changsha. At this time, the 4th Army and the 73rd Army together began the pursuit.

The 6th Division of the Army retreated to Langli City in the early morning of the 5th. At 2 o'clock in the morning of the 5th, the 3rd Division was blocked by the 79th Army when it reached Dongshan. In the early morning of the 6th, they retreated to the north bank of the Liuyang River and joined the 6th Division. The two divisions of the army retreated north side by side, and the [***] squadron pursued closely. In the early morning of the 7th, the two armies retreated to the north bank of the Laodao River and the Fenglin Port area.

When the 40th Division of the Chinese Army advanced from Jinjing to Chunhua Mountain, it was repeatedly blocked and flanked by the 37th Army along the way, and suffered heavy casualties, and the 2nd Squadron Leader Mizusawa Teruo, the 5th Squadron Leader Miyake Yoshitoki, and the 6th Squadron Leader Sekida Ikuyoshi were all killed.

On January 8, the 3rd and 6th Divisions of the Yue Army continued to retreat north from the north bank of the Laodao River, and were constantly intercepted and flanked by the [***] team along the way.

On January 10, the 1st Flying Regiment dispatched all aircraft to support, and the 6th Division continued to break through to the north, but was soon surrounded by the [***] team.

After receiving the report that the 6th Division was divided and surrounded, Anan Weiki immediately ordered the 3rd Division, the 40th Division, and the 9th Brigade to advance to Fulinpu and the area north of Yingzhu Mountain from the east of Malin City, Xiangbiqiao, and Yingzhu Mountain, respectively, to relieve the siege of the 6th Division and concentrate their forces to break through and retreat to the north.

On 11 January, the 6th and 3rd Divisions of the Chinese Army successively broke through the interception line, and the 40th Division also withdrew north from the eastern side of Chunhua Mountain. It was not until the 12th that the army retreated to the north bank of the Miluo River before it could be contained and rectified.

On January 15, the army retreated to the original defensive position in the north of the new wall.

By the 16th, the situation before the start of the battle had basically been restored. Anami Yuki also withdrew the command post of the 11th Army to Hankow.

A thrilling third battle of Changsha ended with the final victory of the [***] team.

In this battle, the Ninth War Zone not only kept Changsha City intact, but also inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. Originally, the army wanted to delay the pace of our army's southward movement and support the devil's military action against Hong Kong, but the devil's 11th army suffered losses because of this, and the number of casualties was 2.5 times that of the attack on Hong Kong. The commander of the 11th Army of the devil, Anan Yui, is really "a dumb man who eats Coptis chinensis, and there are words of suffering".

At the headquarters of the Einsatzgruppen in Caijiazhou, Xiao Xiong and his comrades-in-arms cheered after hearing the news of our army's victory. During the entire battle, Xiao Xiong led a small but very capable unit to carry out guerrilla warfare in accordance with the orders of the Supreme Military Council conveyed by the Theater Command, and successively launched a series of offensive and harassment operations against some important targets of the devils in Jiujiang.

Although they did not carry out large-scale military operations like in the previous wars, they also actively cooperated with the military operations in Changsha in the theater of operations, causing a lot of difficulties in the supply of logistics and transportation materials from northern Jiangxi to northern Hunan and indirectly supporting the fighting on the front line.

During the Third Battle of Changsha, Li Ran and Bai Yu led all the members of the intelligence group to not be idle, but also carried out a series of activities, actively cooperated with Xiao Xiong and their battles, and also provided strong intelligence support for our army during the battle.