With the outbreak of World War II, Japan quickly invaded our country and made unrealistic strategic plans to fight from the northeast of our country to the southwest, although the military strength at that time was very different, but our country was not a land of bullets to bully. At the beginning of the war, due to the inaction of the superior leaders, many unnecessary sacrifices were made, and the northeast region was completely fallen.
At the time of the real confrontation with the Japanese army, 350,000 nationalist troops and 150,000 Japanese troops were on the verge of attacking, but because the weapons and equipment were too backward, the Kuomintang quickly fled, allowing the Japanese army to quickly invade the Henan region of our country. Later, in order to save the situation, the Kuomintang issued an order to guard Hengyang for seven days, and Chiang Kai-shek wanted to rely on Hengyang to fight a war of attrition with the Japanese army. Unexpectedly, the order was mistransmitted, and eventually it became a forty-seven days of holding Hengyang, causing heavy losses to the Japanese army.
At that time, the speed of order transmission and delivery was not very fast, communication was inconvenient, so that the Japanese army had the opportunity to take advantage of it and quickly marched into Hengyang, and when the order was delivered, Hengyang had become isolated and helpless, and because it was too urgent, the order conveyed was misheard, and it was heard as forty-seven days, which caused heavy losses to the Japanese army. This warrior was the commander of the front, giving the Japanese army a head-on attack, so that the Japanese army lost 20,000 people and seriously wounded 60,000 people, and this battle was also a battle that was strong in the weak and strong, and let it lose the most. Because there was too much difference in numbers and no support from other armies, it was the best outcome to be able to hold out for forty-seven days and finally die in battle.
On the first day of the attack, the Hengyang guards launched a fierce counterattack, and it is reasonable to say that the first day was a feint attack, and the two sides tried the depth of the other side, but because Fang Xianjue received the task of the superior, it was necessary to consume the other party's living strength as quickly as possible and delay the time for the defense of the city. Fang Xianjue's actions obviously blinded the other side, and he did not know whether to attack at all, because Fang Xianjue gave the other side an illusion, so that the other side mistakenly thought that our side was very numerous, the artillery fire was very fierce, and did not dare to continue to advance, for fear of being attacked by our army's army, resulting in the total annihilation of the army. This style of play is very conservative, but it is also the best way to deal with it. After that, he pretended to attack several times to calculate the strength of our army's remaining troops.
In the next few days, the Japanese army found that our army's counterattack strength was significantly weakened, knowing that our army was already at the end of the crossbow, so it launched a large army, the whole attack, originally thought that a collective attack, can make our army collapse into an army, successfully occupied Hengyang City, but did not expect to make the Japanese army lose more. This time, the Japanese army did not expect that our army would desperately resist, and it was really sticking to Hengyang City. After that, several successive attacks were made, but they were unsuccessful and were successfully defeated by our army. At this time, our army was already exhausted, after all, the gap between the two sides was extremely large, and at this time Fang Xianjue was also thinking about whether to continue to hold on, because he had been defending for a long time, and had already won a lot of precious time for the Kuomintang, and continuing to hold on to it could only increase casualties in vain and reduce the effective strength of the Kuomintang.
Later, Fang Xianjue surrendered to the Japanese army and made three demands, and these three demands were not agreed to by the Japanese army, because at this time the Japanese army had already seen that our army was tired. At this time, the Japanese army continued to attack and took Hengyang City in one fell swoop, while our army resisted hundreds of attacks by the other side, three large-scale attacks, countless small-scale attacks, and finally all of them were killed. Although this battle was lost, it was also won in a certain aspect, dragging on the Japanese army for forty-seven days, buying precious time for the Kuomintang to have enough time to gather troops and prepare for a counteroffensive. Moreover, this battle, with a very small number of people, killed and destroyed an army ten times more than himself, and his record was also very brilliant.
epilogue
In addition, some people said that Fang Xian felt that the surrender seemed very spineless, that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and that the person who said this was standing and talking without waist pain. Fang Xianjue resisted the Japanese army for forty-seven days, had completed the task given to him by his superiors, and at that time he was already powerless to fight, could not give the Japanese army any blow, if he continued to resist, everyone would die in vain, and in this situation, it was not right to retain the living force? No matter how Fang Xianjue looked at it, he was a veritable anti-Japanese hero, and every decision he made was for China and to bring victory to the anti-Japanese resistance. Keeping the life that is lingering, to give the enemy a fatal blow at a critical moment, even if it is a name for shame, this is the real hero, the great righteousness of the country.