Every country will have one or two elite armies, and these elite troops will be very powerful on the battlefield with one enemy and ten. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, China had several elite troops, and after the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, they put their heavy troops in Hubei, and they wanted to attack Hunan through Hubei and Guangdong, and then conquer Hunan.
At that time, in order to protect Hunan, the Nationalist government mobilized 1/4 of the country's army to fight there. There were 53 infantry divisions in Hunan that resisted the Japanese attack, where the Chinese army attacked again and again, defending the safety of Chongqing. During this period, there was a Chinese infantry battalion, which was very powerful, and they used an infantry battalion to block the attack of a Japanese division for 7 days and 7 nights, creating a miracle.
1. Resist the Japanese attack
This infantry battalion, which resisted the attack of a Japanese division for seven days and seven nights, was a U.S. ordnance infantry battalion, which belonged to the 74th Army at that time, and the history of the 74th Army was not very long, this unit was a new type of unit formed at the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu in 1937, which was formed by the merger of the 51st Division and the 58th Division, and the ordinary army had three divisions.
However, this military program had only two divisions, and later joined the 57th Division, which completed the establishment of three divisions. At that time, his first military commander was named Yu Jishi, who was a close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek also gave this Yu Jishi a very favorable treatment, whether it was soldiers or equipment, he gave 10 points.
Yu Jishi was only the first commander of the 74th Army, but he did not bring the 74th Army to the peak, and it was wang Yaowu, the second commander, who really brought the 74th Army to the peak. Wang Yaowu was a person from the Whampoa Phase III, very intelligent and capable, so his promotion speed was 10 points faster, faster than some Whampoa Phase I people, and he got chiang Kai-shek's weight.
Second, Wang Yaowu was very good at human feelings, and although he was in a high position later, he had great respect for his former teachers and seniors, and he would send them gifts every New Year's Day. Therefore, everyone is also very convinced of him, and in terms of command, Wang Yaowu is also a strong general. He was called one of the few people in the Kuomintang who understood him by our army, and Chiang Kai-shek also liked this student very much, saying that he was good at leading troops.
At the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Yaowu led his 74th Army to participate in many battles, such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Wuhan, etc., and the later Battle of Wugang broke out in western Hunan Province.
By 1945, when Japanese imperialism was running out of stamina, they had been beaten several times by the U.S. army in the Pacific Theater and fled, and it was already the end of the crossbow. Therefore, in order to save the defeat, the Japanese army decided to launch an attack on xiangxi, trying to destroy xiangxi in one fell swoop, and then attack Chongqing.
This place in western Hunan is very important, it is a strategic place to lead to many provinces in the southwest, if this place is captured, then the door of our country is open, so this place has a very large number of Kuomintang troops stationed all year round.
After the Kuomintang inquired about the intentions of the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek transferred back some of the elite units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, including the Sixth Army, and Chiang Kai-shek was transferred back to the domestic battlefield and became the reserve for this campaign. At that time, Wugang was an important town in western Hunan Province, so it was also the main position of the Japanese attack, and the geographical location of this place was very important.
Stationed in Wugang was a battalion of the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Division of the 74th Army, and the battalion commander had understood the importance of this battle before the battle, and before the battle began, his unit was all equipped with American equipment and added a lot of submachine guns and flamethrowers, so this battalion was an elite infantry battalion.
3. The Battle of Wugang broke out
After the outbreak of the Battle of Wugang, this infantry battalion used their strength to resist the attack of a Japanese division, and before the outbreak of the battle, the Japanese thought that there was only one battalion opposite them, and they could take it down in a few hours, but when the war broke out, the Japanese understood that they were completely delusional.
At that time, the Japanese army concentrated hundreds of cannons and 10 tanks of the entire division to bomb the place, but at that time, the Japanese army had insufficient stamina in the later stage, so the Japanese army could not defeat this place. Because at that time, this unit was already equipped with American armaments, logistics and ammunition were not a problem.
Many U.S. generals know that if the Chinese army has enough ammunition to supply, it will not lose to the Japanese army at all. At that time, some people evaluated Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, saying that the Kuomintang was a first-class soldier, a second-rate general, and a commander for three years, so the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang soldiers was very strong. Moreover, at that time, it was a big war between countries, and the Kuomintang soldiers dared to die, so this battalion withstood the attack of a Japanese division.
A battalion of the 74th Army in the Battle of Wugang withstood the attack of a division of the Japanese army, which already indicated the defeat of the Japanese army, the Japanese army in the early stage of their combat effectiveness is very strong, the Japanese team leader has received military school education. However, at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the combat effectiveness of our army was very weak, and many commanders of our army did not go to school
Therefore, it cannot be compared with the Japanese army, and it can be seen that in the later stages of the war, the shortcomings of the japanese army's comprehensive national strength were finally revealed. At that time, it can be seen from the dry food captured by our army that most of the dry food in Japan in the early period was meat, but in the later period, most of it was all soybeans and other things.
Therefore, from these things, the far-sighted Chinese generals can see that the Japanese army has insufficient staying power in combat, and China's practice of exchanging space for time is very correct. Later in the war, Japan had entered the stage of full defense, and throughout the Battle of Western Hunan, the Chinese army had been crushing the Japanese, causing very large casualties to the Japanese army.