As we all know, marching combat is not only based on sufficient soldiers and horses and sophisticated equipment, but also a good strategy is also very important. In history, those battles in which less is won more are inseparable from various far-sighted plans. For some terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is impossible to break through, but to outwit. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, there was a city in China that turned the tide of the war with complex terrain, and the Japanese army could not break through for 3 years, leaving 110,000 white bones.
It is Changsha, the most difficult city to fight. Changsha borders Chongqing, Guizhou and other places and is an extremely important central area. Moreover, Changsha also served as a granary for grain supply during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It can be said that if Changsha falls, Chongqing, as the command center, will not only be in a dilemma, but the southwest region will also become very dangerous; and the food supply of troops in various places will also be interrupted, and the consequences will be unimaginable. For this reason, our army vowed to defend Changsha to the death.
At that time, the Japanese army attacked Changsha for three years, but in the end we won the victory, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Japanese army. The success of the Battle of Changsha was not only due to the backwater battle of our soldiers, but also related to Changsha itself. First of all, Changsha's terrain is complex, belonging to the type of easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Japanese army only saw the benefits of capturing Changsha, and did not realize the steepness of Changsha itself.
Secondly, it was because Changsha was very important to us, and at that time, in order to defend Changsha, almost half of the Chinese army was concentrated. Not only the Xiang Army, but also the Sichuan Army joined the battlefield, and it was the desperate resistance of the generals from all walks of life that successfully defended Changsha. At that time, the people around Changsha were not idle, and with their uninterrupted food supply, our army was able to stabilize morale and retain strength, and resist the crazy attack of the Japanese army.
Finally, tactics are cleverly used. In the Battle of Changsha, the general Xue Yue was indispensable. It was precisely under his excellent command and the application of his self-created "Heavenly Furnace Tactics" that the Japanese army had so many casualties. The essence of the Heavenly Furnace Tactic is to lure the enemy deeper; disperse the soldiers into a network of lurking points at the front of the war zone, and then consume the strength of the Japanese army little by little through various ambush and luring methods.
After experiencing the continuous ambushes of our army, the Morale of the Japanese Army has long been greatly reduced, and patience has gradually been worn out, and after being led by our army to the core decisive battle area, they realized that it was too late and could only be boiled in a pot. Xue Yue cleverly exploited the complex terrain of Changsha, saying that the lurking soldiers were scattered in various river basins and near the mountains and forests.
The Battle of Changsha dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army's plan to invade China; and the death of 110,000 Japanese troops also greatly encouraged the anti-fascist alliance and accelerated the end of World War II. Nowadays, tourists who come to Changsha can still feel the heroic brilliance of their predecessors when they walk into various red tourism sites.