From June to October 1938, on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, the Japanese army and the Nationalist army gathered millions of troops, and all of them fought the "Battle of Wuhan" with the momentum of not fearing death. At the cost of more than 400,000 casualties. It greatly consumed nearly 260,000 living forces of the Japanese army, which bought time for The Jiang Gong government to move the capital to Chongqing, and also bought time for a large number of arsenals, industrial and mining enterprises to move west.
But Wuhan is still lost, and Guangzhou has been lost before this. Blocking the three major towns on the back of the Japanese army, the two rooms have been lost. At this time, the attack on Changsha became an important battle for the Japanese army to control south-central China. Because between Guangzhou and Hubei, there is only one Changsha left.
By taking Changsha, the Japanese army could open up two railway lines in the north and south, and then control the entire central part of China, pointing to Chongqing. Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, where China's rear areas are located, were also defended by Changsha as a defensive line. At this time, whether Changsha can be defended and how long Changsha can be held is directly related to the protractability of China's entire War of Resistance Against Japan.
Changsha also lived up to expectations, and since the average daily capture of the first important town of Yueyang in 1939, the defense of Changsha has begun. Until June 1944, Changsha resisted for three years. The Japanese army used 400,000 elites to assemble outside and took Changsha at the cost of 110,000 casualties.
Before the Battle of Changsha. Our army is losing ground one after another, as long as the Japanese army wants to capture which city it can definitely take, and Changsha has defended the city three times, making Changsha already have a special symbolic significance among the Chinese military and people. This greatly encouraged the momentum of the Chinese military and people, and also proved the limit of the Japanese army's attack.
At the same time, it also played a good role in the situation of the entire World War II battlefield, and the Allied armies were encouraged by this. And all this is thanks to General Xue Yue, the god of war who insisted on changsha and created the original "Heavenly Furnace Combat Method". After Xue Yue sat in Changsha, he combined the unique terrain of Hunan's many mountains and rivers to design a special "retreat decisive battle" tactic, that is, the "Heavenly Furnace Combat Method".
He used the mountain forest and water network north of Changsha to disperse the troops and deploy them inside, one section of the road and one section of the road. Subsequently, the japanese invaders were lured, ambushed, flanked, and consumed layer by layer, and then the Japanese troops who were inexplicably hit were "dragged, forced, and lured" to the decisive battle area set up in advance, and the main force was concentrated to defeat them in one fell swoop.
After the implementation of such tactics, three consecutive large-scale Japanese attacks were repelled. In particular, during the Third Battle of Changsha, all the troops implemented an anti-encirclement policy against the Japanese troops under Changsha City, and successfully cut off the supply line of the Japanese army. After the Japanese were forced to retreat due to the cut off of supplies, they counterattacked on all fronts. In the end, it achieved a brilliant record of killing 50,000 Japanese troops.
For this reason, Xue Yue was awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun by Jiang Gong, and even the United States made an exception to award him an independence medal. Then, in 1944, the Japanese concentrated their forces for the fourth time and began a fierce attack on Changsha. The Japanese army more than doubled its strength than before, and a large number of troops in the central battlefield were transferred here.
Xue Yue's Heavenly Furnace Tactics were invalid. On June 16 of the same year, Yuelu Mountain lost its hand, and Zhang De, the commander in charge of the garrison of Changsha, suddenly led the crowd to escape, although he was eventually shot by Xue Yue, but in the end Changsha was still lost. But privately believing that the war was still a great power for China, he made Stalin abandon his idea of denying China.
China, the four founding countries of the United Nations, signed on New Year's Day in 1942, was able to have a place because of the bloody struggle of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Changsha. The abolition of a series of unequal treaties also had the role of the glorious achievements of the Battle of Changsha. Of course, the other soldiers and civilians who bravely resisted Japan on the battlefield of China are also the reason why China can rise!