It was a battle that shocked the world, as it was the first Allied victory since the outbreak of the Pacific War. How did the Third and Sixth Divisions, which claimed to be the most effective of the Japanese army, be beaten by the Chinese army and abandoned their armor? The Japanese army's good night attack and decapitation of the Kato Su brigade, is the ace of the ace of the ace, why has it become a fatal gap in the Japanese army?
On December 28, 1941, the clouds in northern Hunan suddenly changed, and after a heavy rain, heavy snow fell like goose feathers, and the temperature plummeted below zero. At this time, although the Japanese army successfully repelled the Twentieth Army of the Nationalist Army, the cold weather made the Japanese army miserable, and the Chinese defenders had already distributed cold cotton clothes before this, plus the defenders could rely on the fortifications to keep cold, while the attacking Japanese army could only be exposed to the bone-chilling cold wind. But even so, the elite of the Japanese army, relying on sophisticated methods, still approached the outskirts of Changsha City on December 30, 1941.
On January 1, 1942, the Third Society of the Japanese Army secretly infiltrated the outskirts of changsha's south gate and stormed the south gate under the cover of bombers. In the face of frenzied Japanese bombardment by the Chinese defenders, a regiment of the leading positions on the outskirts of the South Gate collapsed in less than half a day, with more than half of the 1,800 casualties. So how exactly is this battle fought?
The Japanese army advanced step by step, as if the Chinese defenders could not come up with the slightest solution. In fact, although the Chinese army has been defeated and retreated, all this is also in the plan. Xue Yue's plan was to fight and retreat, shrink the front, and let the Chinese defenders' Tenth Army drag the two ace divisions of the Japanese army in Changsha for only four days, and the reinforcements on the periphery would encircle the Japanese army and carry out total annihilation. All the previous defeats and retreats, it is true that the firepower has no advantage in defense, but it can also be called a performance. The real purpose of the Chinese army was to introduce the elite units of the Japanese army into changsha city step by step and carry out street battles.
As the Japanese army was introduced into Changsha by the Tenth Army, a real battle began, and the true colors of the Taishan Army of the Tenth Army began to be revealed. The city's various firepower intersections and the contraction of various traps and defensive lines have reached a peak in the intensity of the Chinese defenders' firepower, and the Japanese army can only struggle in Changsha, while time is slowly passing, and the stubborn Japanese commander Anan has not realized the seriousness of the problem at this time, and he ordered the Japanese army to capture Changsha at all costs.
The Japanese even played with human bombs, which they bundled up on their bodies, rushed into the pile of the Nationalist Tenth Division, and then detonated. The Huangpu students of the Chinese defenders also rushed to the Japanese army one by one with grenades tied up and lined up, and more than eighty people were sacrificed in the last regiment, and the scene was really extremely magnificent.
The Tenth Army once again carried the death charge of the Japanese army, the Japanese army had to change the direction of the attack, they set their sights on the north gate of Changsha, but what awaited them here was a cannon that had long been measured, the dense shock wave was one after another, and the accurate artillery fire made the Japanese army fall in pieces, suppressing the charge of tens of thousands of Japanese troops in one day.
At this time, the Japanese army was already panicked and had to use their killer skills, which were the aforementioned Kato Su brigade. Suichi Kato personally led the brigade to infiltrate changsha city, and their purpose was very clear, that is, to carry out the decapitation operation. However, when Kato Suichi entered Changsha City, a password made him reveal the fox's tail. The sentry asked him for the password, and he said he was from the command. Then the sentry raised his hand and fired a shot, right in the heart of Kato, because at this time there was no headquarters in Changsha city, and the headquarters were all located in camps outside the city.
Suichi Kato, the so-called Japanese killer, died violently in Changsha, and the remaining latent Japanese troops were quickly encircled and suppressed by the Tenth Army, and an important telegram was intercepted on Kato's body, the important content of which was that the Japanese army was already in a state of ammunition scarcity at this time, hoping to receive support. The telegram was sent to xue yue, the god of war, and Xue Yue was ecstatic.
On January 4, 1942, reinforcements from the Chinese defenders arrived, and as the Tenth Army successfully resisted the Japanese offensive, the Japanese army was already surrounded by Chinese troops, and after 5.69 million casualties, retreated to the north bank of the New Wall River.
The Third Battle of Changsha ended in the victory of the Chinese army, and the Commander of the Japanese Army, Anan, was suspended from the Japanese base camp for investigation. Afterwards, depressed and committing suicide by cutting his abdomen, Xue Yue became a national hero.