In the Hengyang Defense War, known as the "Defense Of Moscow in the East", our army officers and soldiers fought 100,000 Japanese troops with 17,000 troops.
Armed to the teeth with a simple equipment of the lone army and armed to the teeth, the number was 6 times greater than that of their own Japanese army in 47 days of bloody battle.
Although it ended in the defeat of our country, the war cost Japan 20,000 deaths and 60,000 wounds. Although the defense of Hengyang was defeated, it was still glorious. And The general Fang Xianjue, who led our soldiers and civilians to fight the Japanese for 47 days, was willing to bear the notoriety of surrendering in order to save the lives of his wounded soldiers after he died of bullets and food, and he was a general worthy of our respect.
The main force of the Battle of Yuxianggui collapsed, and Hengyang City was defended alone
In 1944, Japan was defeated in the Pacific Theater. Japan, showing its decadence, desperately wants to open up the mainland communication line, only in this way can it ensure that the Japanese mainland will not be bombed by US aircraft.
To this end, the Japanese high-level planned the "No. 1 Combat Plan." To this end, Japan mobilized 510,000 troops to launch the "Battle of Yuxianggui" in the three provinces of Henan, Guangxi and Hunan.
Due to the serious lack of preparation for this, the Japanese side was not aware of the ambitions of the Japanese, which led to the declaration of defeat at the beginning of the war. Since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the frontal battlefield has once again ushered in a major rout.
As the military throat of the southwest gateway, Hengyang City has become a major military town in our country to resist the Japanese and Kou and completely open up the mainland communication line. At this time, there was only one Tenth Army in Hengyang City that had just experienced a brutal battle and was not yet fully staffed, and there were only more than 17,000 people in the whole army.
Japan mobilized an elite 100,000 people and expected to capture Hengyang within 3 days. Hengyang is in danger.
The soldiers of the Tenth Army forged a long city with flesh and blood, and resisted the Japanese for 47 days without retreating
At that time, the order given by the top level to fang Xianjue, the commander of the Tenth Army, was to hold Hengyang for ten days, and after ten days, reinforcements would arrive. However, the battle of Yuxianggui was lost too quickly, and the collapse of the main force made it impossible for our army to gather elite troops to the rescue. Hengyang has been completely reduced to an isolated city.
The Absolute superiority of the Japanese in both weapons and equipment and numbers is why they boasted of occupying Hengyang within three days of Haikou. However, the strength of the Hengyang defenders surprised them.
Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese and Kosovo, the officers and men of our Fifteenth Army were not afraid at all. They forged a great wall of steel with their flesh and blood.
The Hengyang defenders had long put life and death on the line. They fought against the Japanese and Kosovo with the determination to die. In the war with the Japanese, neither the soldier nor the officer retreated, and when the officer died, the soldier was promoted. In just half a day, five people were promoted from soldier to battalion commander, and then killed in the war.
In the 47-day offensive and defensive battle, fifteen thousand of the seventeen thousand men of our tenth army were killed, and the remaining more than one thousand were wounded. The 100,000 attacking japanese troops were also crippled.
At this time, the defenders of the city had already run out of ammunition, and the Japanese army, which had suffered heavy casualties, did not want to continue fighting. They wanted the Hengyang defenders to surrender and promised not to harm them.
Fang Xianjue looked at the wounded comrades around him, with no food or ammunition. Hengyang has no way to defend, and they are worthy of the country. In order to save his officers and soldiers, he chose to surrender. Fang Xianjue's surrender was regrettable. However, he is worthy of the Chinese soldiers.
The 47-day defensive battle delayed the opening of the mainland communication line. Japan's defeat is already doomed.
The defense of Hengyang showed the integrity of the Chinese soldiers, and this battle caused the Japanese to suffer several times more casualties than themselves. Hengyang also became a memorial city for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
As a hero in the defense of Hengyang, General Fang Xianjue was successfully rescued and warmly cheered by the masses. But
Fang Xianjue's surrender of Hengyang also became his permanent pain.