A week after Xue Yue returned to Changsha, on September 10, Bai Fengxiang and Xie Jinyuan led the Third Army of the Hainan Escort Army to the outside of Changsha. At the same time, a large number of arms sent by Li Tie to the defenders of Changsha also arrived.

Although the Hainan Guards were only recruits, the Guangxi wolf soldiers lived up to their reputation, and the 20,000 well-equipped Hainan Third Army entered Changsha City with neat steps.

When more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Changsha City heard that there was a strange team outside the city, they all curiously walked out of their homes and came to the gate of Changsha City to watch the Hainan Third Army that came to Changsha for reinforcements.

It turned out that compared with other national troops, the dress of the Hainan Third Army was very strange, every soldier of the Hainan Third Army wore the green camouflage uniform of later generations, carried a gift bag, wrapped a sapper shovel produced by Huaxing Military Industry, carried a spear on his shoulder, pinned an American-style grenade to his waist, and two bulging bullet bags crossed through the soldier's chest.

The most peculiar thing was that each soldier had a dagger tied to his left leg and a pistol stuck in his right leg. You must know that the current national army is not worthy of a pistol even if it is a company commander.

Look at the Third Army of Hainan, it's really rich, every soldier has a long gun and a short gun. Not to mention the bullet pouches and grenades that are jammed in the mix.

The soldiers and civilians in Changsha City are peculiar to the Third Army of Hainan, and have long heard that Hainan has such a special team that can fight, and now they know that the original Hainan Guards are so well-equipped, no wonder they can easily defeat the Japanese army, and now Changsha City has this strong army to enter, and the certainty of wanting to defend Changsha is greater.

The Third Army's march into the city was very long, with several hundred supply vehicles of all kinds alone. Some vehicles even have cannons pulled behind them.

Some people still pointed their fingers, this is heavy artillery, that is antiaircraft artillery, almost all the people have always been at the Hainan Third Army, which is strong and well-trained.

When Bai Fengxiang passed by the Changsha City Gate, more than a dozen defender generals of Changsha City came to greet the Third Army under the leadership of Xue Yue. Bai Fengxiang saw that Xue Yue came to pick him up in person, and immediately stepped forward to salute Xue Yue with a standard military salute.

Xue Yue and Bai Fengxiang have known each other for a long time, and both sides know that the other party is actually a tiger general. It's just that Bai Fengxiang's background is not good, and he joined the Northeast Army again, so after so many years, Xue Yue is already an acting commander of the Ninth War Zone, and Bai Fengxiang is just a military commander.

Although Xue Yue went to Commander Jiang to sue Diao, it was because he was not a qualified politician, and it was not Xue Yue's strength in political games, but in military affairs, Xue Yue's ability was definitely in the top five in the National Army.

Since he knew that this battle for the defense of Changsha was an opportunity for him Xue Yue to make a name for himself, and it was also a political weight for him to enter the political arena in the future, he sincerely welcomed all the forces that could help him successfully defend Changsha City.

In fact, when Xue Yue left Chongqing, because Commander Jiang learned the lessons of the battles of Nanchang and Wuhan, Commander Jiang did not order Xue Yue to keep Changsha City intended.

Because of the previous battles, the Nationalist Army paid too much attention to the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and as a result, a large number of living forces were wiped out by the Japanese army, thus losing people and land.

In Chongqing, Commander Chiang even told Xue Yue that once something happened, he took the initiative to abandon Changsha and rely on other cities and counties in Hunan to slowly deal with the Japanese army, as long as he did not lose the entire territory of Hunan.

Otherwise, it is said that this Commander Chiang is not a qualified commander, and his military talent is really limited. In the past, there was a big gap between them and the Japanese army, and they should not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, he just let all the troops fight to the last man, and as a result, they lost people and lost land.

Now it is different, after more than half a year of careful preparation, now all kinds of fortifications in Hunan Province are very complete, especially in the area centered on Changsha, which was overhauled by Xue Yue, and hundreds of permanent fortifications were built alone.

Not only have all the residential alleys in Changsha City been fortified, but almost all the streets have also been divided into several defense areas. Personally defended by the well-armed Central Army. Xue Yue had already thought very clearly, if the Battle of Changsha wanted to play his prestige, he had to defend it to the death.

Otherwise, due to the lack of coordination and training of the various branches of the Nationalist Army, the communication between the various armies is not smooth, and if a sudden order to retreat is given during the battle, it will be easy to be divided and surrounded by the Japanese army, which has developed communications, and eventually form a rout.

Moreover, Xue Yue knew that although the Japanese army claimed to have 180,000 people, the real Japanese army only had 110,000 people, and the other 70,000 puppet troops had low combat effectiveness, so they could almost ignore it.

He has 300,000 regular troops, including 100,000 in the Central Army and 200,000 in local elite troops.

More importantly, he was assisted by the air force from Chongqing, which had inflicted huge losses on the Chinese army in the previous Sino-Japanese war.

At present, the Japanese army on the opposite side has only more than 100 planes, but Chongqing has also come to help in the war.

Although the Japanese army still has several hundred ships to help in the war, all the waterways in Hunan have long been blocked by sunken ships, and countless mines have been laid in many areas, so the so-called hundreds of ships of the Japanese army to help in the war this time are actually equal to nothing, and they will have no effect on changing the upcoming Battle of Changsha.

And now Changsha City has newly obtained 20,000 Hainan Third Army, although this army is only a new army, but their equipment is the best in the national army, and their generals are also famous in the national army.

In addition, they also brought a large number of heavy weapons with the army, and dozens of truckloads of gas masks. Xue Yue really couldn't understand that the Ninth War Zone, which had so many advantages, would not be able to defeat the 110,000 Japanese army?

The most important thing is that Xue Yue thinks that this defense strategy is different from the past, in the past, it was a battle for every inch of land with the Japanese army, but this time it is different, this time Xue Yue uses himself as bait and is ready to come to the center to blossom.

Before the battle began, Xue Yue had secretly ordered all the commanders of all armies in the Hunan defense area to try their best to kill and injure the living forces of the Japanese army, and not to care about the gains and losses of one city or one place.

On the premise of killing and wounding a large number of Japanese soldiers, he put all the Japanese troops into the Changsha area, and he personally led 50,000 central troops and 20,000 Hainan guards to defend Changsha City.

When he fought with the Japanese army to the point of defeat, all the local armies in Hunan surrounded the Japanese army outside Changsha. Strive to destroy the Japanese army in one fell swoop.

Xue Yue's plan is very bold, whether it succeeds or not, and whether Xue Yue's purpose is only to increase his political bargaining chips. But Xue Yue dared to use himself as bait, which was enough to prove that he deserved to be one of the most brave tiger generals in the national army.

On September 10, 1939, when Bai Fengxiang led the Third Army of Hainan to Changsha City, and when Xue Yue was still designing the final tactics of the Battle of Changsha, the headquarters of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army in Wuhan, Gangcun Ningci, was also organizing the last high-level meeting for the attack on Hunan.

At the meeting, the commanders of the 6th, 33rd, 101st, and 106th divisions of the Japanese army attacking Hunan, as well as the brigade commanders of the three brigades, as well as the responsible persons of the air force and navy, and the responsible persons of various puppet armies and special detachments came to attend the meeting.

Looking at the generals in front of him with frowns and sad faces, Gangcun Shouji knocked on the conference table in front of him and said loudly:

"Generals, for this campaign to attack Hunan, it is a battle that our empire must win, and it is also a battle that will definitely be won, please cheer up, the meeting has officially begun."

Seeing that all the generals were sitting upright at once and regaining a little spirit, Commander-in-Chief Gangcun Ningji said again: "As we all know, we have just been defeated in the Battle of Nomenhanshang on the Mongolian-Russian border.

I know that the morale of the whole army has been greatly affected as a result. Originally, our imperial strategy did not require an immediate attack on Hunan, because our forces were already seriously insufficient.

However, in order to boost morale, we urgently need a big victory, and in order to ensure that such a big victory is guaranteed without fail, only the Chinese army, which has the lowest combat effectiveness, can meet this requirement.

That's why the empire decided to organize a major attack on the Chinese government in such a short period of time, and Hunan was the best target.

Because Hunan is close to Sichuan and Chongqing, as long as we occupy Hunan, Sichuan will be just around the corner. Perhaps this victory will greatly damage the Chinese's determination to resist. If you can force the Chinese to surrender, it is naturally the best thing.

It is our honor that this important task of boosting the morale of the national army has fallen into the hands of our 11th Army, so you should be proud and not look like you are defeated before you fight. Okamura Moriji unconsciously raised his voice, as if he was reprimanding the Japanese generals in front of him.

And the generals at the conference table were reprimanded by Gangcun Ningji, and they really had some spirit and began to really think about the words of the commander-in-chief.

"Our attack on Hunan this time is not only to boost our morale, but also to vigorously kill and wound the main force of the national army, after several large-scale battles, although we have insufficient troops, but the national army has also reached the end of the crossbow.

As long as we work harder, the national army will definitely collapse and surrender. Think about how many Chinese armies we have defeated in the past two years.

Think about all the people in the house, which one did not defeat the Chinese army with one block and ten, and we fought with 50,000 against Russia and more than 200,000 people, if it weren't for the imperial bigwigs who finally pulled the back of the Kwantung Army, we would not necessarily lose the Normenhan War.

However, it is not possible for us to implement the strategy of going north, but we still have a broader strategy of going south.

Now that the empire has set a strategy of launching a southward movement in two years at most, we must completely defeat China within two years. Only in this way will we be able to have sufficient forces to occupy the whole of Southeast Asia and the whole of Asia. Only then can we realize our grand ambition of common prosperity in Greater East Asia.

In order for this day to come as soon as possible, shouldn't all of you here fight to the death and cheer up? For the future of the empire, for the sake of the generals' immortal exploits, let's take the battle of Changsha in front of us together! ”

As soon as Gangmura Ningji's words were finished, all the generals present remembered their respective brilliant achievements, and they also thought that the defeat of Nomenhan was just an accident, and in order to prove that the Japanese Imperial Army was invincible, the battle of Changsha in front of them was the place where they justified themselves.

So these generals stood up together and responded loudly to Gangcun Ningci: "Hey! ”