Many heroes emerged on the anti-Japanese battlefield, some heroes were well known for sacrificing themselves to open the way for their comrades-in-arms, and some heroes were well known for creating miracles in military history. For example, Fang Xianjue, he mistakenly listened to 7 days of holding out into 47 days, facing tens of thousands of Japanese troops, and beat the devils to "doubt life".
Strategic deployment of the Japanese army
This miracle in military history is the Defense of Hengyang. It was already 1944, and the Japanese army was already in decline on the battlefield of World War II. But experienced hunters know that dying beasts are the most ferocious. Seeing that they were about to fall into an all-out disadvantage on the battlefield of World War II, the Japanese army launched a rather frantic counterattack, intending to open up the northeast-southwest communication line of China, in order to hold on to the Chinese mainland and engage in a long-term confrontation with the Allies.
In 1944, in order to open up the communication lines in northeast and southwest China, the Japanese army began to march towards Hunan, Henan, and Guangxi. In the military field, a line of communication means sufficient logistics and troops, and in the Chinese battlefield, where the air and sea force is relatively weak, where there is a line of communication means that it is almost impossible to be breached. What's more, southwest China to Burma can lead to the sea, so once the Japanese army opens this line of communication, the anti-Japanese situation in our country will be more difficult.
Hengyang, which is about to fall
In order to open up the communication line, the Japanese army mobilized 500,000 troops and occupied important cities such as Luoyang and Zhengzhou in just two months. The frenzied attack of the Japanese army made the Nationalist army in chaos, and in order to slow down and gather a large army to resist the Japanese attack, Chiang Kai-shek personally issued an order to Fang Xianjue, who was guarding the town in Hengyang, and asked him to hold out for 7 days, waiting for support, and buying time for the large troops of the Nationalist army.
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek did not have confidence in Fang Xianjue's insistence on Hengyang, because at that time, of the 500,000 troops of the Japanese army going south, 100,000 went to Hengyang, and Fang Xianjue only had 17,000 people, and the difference in strength was 6 to 1. In addition, at that time, Fang Xianjue's Tenth Army had just finished a fierce battle and had not yet completed the repairs, and it was an army with insufficient materials and ammunition and extremely tired soldiers.
The opponent they faced was the elite of the Japanese army, the Japanese 11th Army. It was a large field army with tanks, aircraft, and armored vehicles, and a crushing advantage over the Tenth Army, which had few heavy machine guns.
We must know that Chiang Kai-shek did not have hope in the other side, which can be seen from the tone of Chiang Kai-shek's tone when he gave the order. At that time, when Chiang Kai-shek issued the order, he directly called Fang Xianjue "brother". People who know Chiang Kai-shek know that if Chiang Kai-shek suddenly calls himself a brother, it basically means that whoever he wants to carry the pot.
Defense of Hengyang
In the face of the order and the careful thinking of the upper echelons, Fang Xianjue did not shirk. What is even more surprising is that Fang Xianjue also listened to the order to hold on for 7 days as 47 days, so the whole world saw a "defense war of Moscow in the East". In the face of the Japanese attack, Fang Xianjue fully mobilized the people in Hengyang City, letting them destroy streets, build fortifications, and transport equipment. Workers, clerks, and doctors were all actively mobilized, and there was even a situation in which ordinary people in Hengyang Yanwuping were armed with weapons and well-equipped and well-trained Japanese troops were fighting in the streets.
The whole battle for the defense of Hengyang was extremely fierce, taking the Battle of Wuguiling as an example, the battalion commander died on the deputy battalion commander, and the deputy battalion commander died on the company commander. In half a day, the troops who insisted on staying at Wuguiling were promoted to five battalion commanders in a company, and then all of them died and were martyred. After 47 days of holding out, the Tenth Army, of its 17,000 men, only more than 1,200 survived. In this fierce battle, the devils were beaten to doubt their lives, because they could not imagine that they actually surrounded the enemy with six times the strength of the enemy with aircraft and tanks, and finally took a month and a half to occupy Hengyang.