In September 1939, the Japanese army gathered forces to prepare for the attack on Changsha. At first, Chiang Kai-shek did not intend to hold Changsha in order to preserve his strength. However, Xue Yue advocated sticking to Changsha, and for this reason he repeatedly called to advise Chiang Kai-shek.
On this day, Xue Yue called Chiang Kai-shek again, and it was Song Meiling who answered the phone at that time. Xue Yue talked straight to the point about fighting in Changsha: "I will fight in Changsha and defeat my suicide to thank the people of the country; if I win the battle, I will disobey, and you will shoot me!" ”
Song Meiling advised Xue Yue not to get excited, and she would tell Chiang Kai-shek about it. The next day, Chiang Kai-shek called Back Xue Yue and agreed to fight in Changsha. Xue Yue immediately mobilized 240,000 troops in the Ninth Theater to face the 100,000 Japanese troops gathered by Okamura Ningji.
In this battle, the Japanese army suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and the Chinese army suffered more than 40,000 casualties. After this battle, the Japanese army gradually retreated to the area north of the New Wall River, and the two sides basically resumed the pre-war posture. The Japanese then launched three successive battles of Changsha.
In a total of four battles of Changsha, the Chinese army won three victories. It dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army and played a national dignity. Xue Yue became famous because of the Battle of Changsha. The people of the country called him the "God of War", and even the Japanese commander Okamura Ningji was beaten to death, and he sighed, "It is easy to shake the mountain, it is difficult to shake General Xue." ”
Although in the Battle of Changsha, Xue Yue invented the "Heavenly Furnace Method" to annihilate more than 100,000 Japanese troops, becoming the general with the largest number of Japanese troops annihilated on the anti-Japanese battlefield, but he was not reused by Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1949, Xue Yue followed Chiang Kai-shek to the island. When he was a hundred years old, he was sued in court because he could not pay the rent, and a generation of anti-war heroes actually fell to this extent in his later years, which really made people sigh. In 1998, Xue Yue died, and before his death, he used eight words to evaluate Chiang Kai-shek, preferring to use slave talents rather than talents.