In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the last century, in the face of the powerful Japanese army, many people at first did not have the confidence to defeat Japan. There are even many people who have become traitors and have sided with the enemy to help the enemy kill their compatriots. Unlike these traitors, they are heroes who defend their families and defend their country, and these heroes have a firm determination to resist the war, even if the Japanese army is strong, they have not given up defending their country. For example, Xue Yue, who is going to talk about this article, when Old Jiang ordered him to retreat, he resolutely fought with the Japanese army to the end.
Born in Guangdong Province in 1896, Xue Yue entered a military academy as a teenager, joined the anti-Japanese army after graduation, and later became a member of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary team and began the anti-Japanese cause. Xue Yue's outstanding performance in the National Revolution was fully affirmed by Chiang Kai-shek. He participated in the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and made significant contributions to the War of Resistance.
In 1939, many of our places had been occupied by the Japanese army, and the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, Okamura Ningji, ordered the army to attack Changsha, when the old Chiang knew that it was the battle personally commanded by Okamura Ningji, coupled with the huge disparity in strength between the two armies, he thought that Xue Yue could not deal with it, so he ordered him to quickly withdraw and preserve his strength. However, Xue Yue did not obey the order and was determined to fight the Japanese army to the end, so there was the Later Battle of Changsha, which was divided into four times and fought for a total of five years, which was of great significance.
In the four Battles of Changsha, Xue Yue's troops won three battles, the first three. The soldiers were very brave and full of combat on the battlefield, repelling the Japanese army again and again, including 110,000 Japanese devils, and the national army also paid heavy sacrifices, with 90,000 casualties. But this is also a relatively good result, because many times in the war between the Nationalist army and the Japanese army, the Nationalist army often needs to pay more casualties than the Japanese army to annihilate it.
In the Fourth Battle of Changsha, the Japanese army received reinforcements from a large force, so it won and occupied Changsha. If the Japanese army did not have the support of reinforcements, this last battle may not be able to win, and the Nationalist army did not expect that the Japanese army would mobilize troops to help, so it did not strengthen the defense, so the Japanese army waited for the arrival of reinforcements. Although Changsha was lost, the soldiers annihilated hundreds of thousands of Japanese devils, which also made the Chinese people see the hope of victory and gave the soldiers more confidence to resist the war.
The first three victories of the Nationalist army were inseparable from the command of General Xue Yue, who invented the "Heavenly Furnace Tactics", which lured the enemy deeper on the battlefield and then annihilated them in one fell swoop. At that time, when he received the order to retreat, he insisted on holding in Changsha, leading the army to resist the Japanese attack, defeating the Japanese army three times and giving the Japanese army a heavy blow.
Let the Japanese people know that the Japanese army can be defeated, and we have a good hope of driving the Japanese out of the country and ushering in the final victory. In the end, China also won the victory, and with the efforts of countless people, it finally drove away all the Japanese troops invading China.