During the defense of Hengyang, the superior called the commander of the 10th Army, Fang Xianjue, demanding that he must hold for 7 days, but Fang Xianjue listened to the 47 days of defense, 17,000 national troops against 100,000 well-equipped Japanese troops, the result is obvious, but let the Japanese army pay a heavy price.
In 1944, the U.S. military began to counterattack in the Pacific War, resulting in the Japanese sea lines of communication, almost all paralyzed, in order to open up China's land transportation to Southeast Asia, the Japanese army launched a war code-named No. 1, that is, the historical Yuxianggui War, the war began to break out, the Japanese army invaded Chinese territory step by step, after taking Henan, the Japanese army began to force Hengyang, the National Government required the military commander fang to hold out for 7 days, but he listened to 47 days.
The military order was like a mountain, Fang Xianjue did not have the slightest doubt, and then ordered 17,000 brothers to immediately build fortifications and fight with the Japanese army to the death, but in the face of the Japanese army that was 6 or 7 times their own, the probability of survival was almost zero, not to mention that it was the elite 11th Army of the Japanese army that was responsible for attacking Hengyang, and the commander Yokoyama Yong even boasted about Haikou and could take Hengyang in 5 days.
However, after 4 days of bitter fighting at first, the Japanese army barely cleared the periphery, and then cooperated with tanks and aircraft, launched 3 general attacks, even used poison gas bombs, but was still repelled by the 10th Army, and finally because the 10th Army ran out of ammunition, faced with the pressure of the Japanese army, in order to avoid the slaughter of the living soldiers, Fang Xianjue surrendered to the Japanese army.
The defense of Hengyang was really as Fang Xianjue said, held for a full 47 days, after the war statistics, the 10th Army 7400 people were killed, and the number of Japanese casualties between 50,000 and 70,000, hit the Japanese army doubt life, created a miracle in the world military history, also known as the Moscow defense war in the East.