The Supreme Commander of China is still thinking about it. When he is undecided, the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Yokoyama Yong, also had a difficult life, and he was in a dilemma.

In the original strategic plan, Hengyang was used as bait to invite the main force of China's 9th War Zone. As a commander at the battle level, his consideration naturally makes sense. This is also the reason why he violated the strategic purpose and original intention of the "Operation No. 1" launched by the Japanese Army Base Camp was still approved.

As a result, the "Hengyang enemy's resistance was tenacious and tenacious" surprised Yokoyama Yong and Shimakuraki. The battle in Hengyang started for more than half a month, which proved that Hengyang was not a soft persimmon but a hard walnut. If you want to chew them, you will have to collapse at least half of your teeth. Now the big teeth have broken two.

The unprecedented solid fortifications in the south of Hengyang City are simply disgusting. Almost all positions have artificial cliffs before. The Japanese infantry attacked for more than ten days but did not come up with any good solutions. Unless the 150-caliber heavy artillery was transferred, the cliff collapsed, and the hilltop was flattened, the gap could be opened.

At the same time, the advanced fighter jets and bombers of the China-Macau Air Force posed a fatal threat to the Japanese ground forces, and the land aviation side seemed to be already scared after losing dozens of fighter jets in succession, which means that the ground forces will be in a passive state of being completely suppressed by the China-Macau Air Force for a long time.

Of course, there is still a solution to these two points. No matter how strong the Hengyang Fortification is, it is just that it will continue to invest troops and mobilize heavy artillery. Anyway, the main Chinese forces in the imagination are not seen; and the air threat, the ground forces will dig deep trenches and dig more holes, hide during the day, and use the night to fight! There are always more ways than difficulties.

At this point, Easterners are more optimistic than Westerners and always give themselves psychological hints that can comfort themselves.

The biggest headache for Yokoyama now is the 11th Army’s biggest weakness - logistics supply!

In the first phase of the Tanzhou battle in Hunan and Guangxi, Hengshan Yong adopted the tactic of "taking steady steps and building as you advance". After conquering Tanzhou, the military gui speed changed to the "fast advance" policy.

When the Japanese soldiers set off, they only carried rations for 10 days, and did not carry supplies ammunition and food with them. In principle, they ordered the departments to "requisition on the spot for grain". As a result, after the fall of Tanzhou, the Chinese people either fled to the mountains or fled further south, and brought almost all the food they could take away.

The Japanese troops were going to advance to Hengyang again, so they still had to collect food for birds? They were originally counting on the logistics forces to follow closely to replenish the army, but they did not expect that the Chinese and American fighter jets were also good at harassing them. Whenever they found a convoy and a train, they would basically dive down without caring.

Especially the Flying Tigers headquartered in Kuncheng, the cunning ones, they did not appear frequently over Hengyang, but they had been hovering in Dongting Lake for a long time, which was the most important logistics transfer point for the Japanese army after the road was interrupted.

The Japanese army transported huge logistics supplies from the Yangtze River to Dongting Lake through ships, then entered the Xiang River from Dongting Lake, and finally arrived around Hengyang. As a result, the cunning flying tiger team smelled this breath and specifically attacked the large transport ships on Dongting Lake.

Ships in inland rivers generally lack air defense weapons, and the depth of the Xiangjiang River is not enough to allow light destroyers to enter. Faced with the planes flying up and down, relying on those limited 20mm or 25mm anti-aircraft guns, it is like Cao Pi's wife entering the vegetable garden---Zhen Ji pulling vegetables!

The casualties of the logistics troops were once even more tragic than those of Hengyang's frontline.

When people die and ships overturn, the food is naturally less transported.

The 11th Army has a force of more than 70,000 troops to encircle Hengyang. In addition, more than 130,000 main forces have been deployed over a hundred miles outside Hengyang. The 200,000 army will consume at least 100,000 kilograms of rice a day, not counting other salt, sugar, tea and other supplies.

'Man is iron and rice, and he is hungry if he doesn't eat for a meal!' The words of the Chinese ancestors are so correct. Whenever he receives a telegram of food from various divisions and divisions, a layer of oil sweat can't help but bleed out from Hengshanyong's forehead that has already been bald.

Fortunately, troops like the 116th Division and 68th Division that fought fiercely on the front line would have at least 3 days of stockpiling food, otherwise Yokoyama Yong would have no shame to meet Lieutenant General Iwai Eiwang, the highest commander outside Hengyang City.

Faced with this situation, the Japanese Chinese Expeditionary Force Command had no choice but to transfer a railway division from the Kwantung Army 10 days ago to speed up the maintenance of the Changheng Railway and set up air defense forts along the way.

But this obviously cannot immediately alleviate the logistical crisis currently facing the 11th Army. At this point, the commander named Xue predicted before the war: In the absence of air supremacy, the Japanese army's logistics became extremely fragile and difficult. If they encountered tenacious resistance again in Hengyang, they would never persist for too long.

After all, the commander named Xue is one of the most famous generals in the entire Chinese theater. Otherwise, even if he suffered a defeat in Tanzhou, the official of the Military Commission who had not stopped him would not even be determined because of his stubbornness.

Then there are still two brushes.

However, this famous general ignored the difficulties his opponent was facing in his military career. The commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Army, Toshiro Tan, is about to leave his post. In the entire Chinese theater, there are only three or four people who can be qualified to replace him. The commander of the Japanese North China Front Army, General Okamura Koji, Chief of Staff of the Expedition Army, Lieutenant General Matsui Tohoku, Commander of the 13th Army, Lieutenant General Fujita, is the three major competitors of Yokoyama.

In Yokoyama's calculations, Okamura Koji was already an army general, so the ranking was naturally before him. The possibility of taking over as the commander of the dispatched army was higher than 90%. However, Okamura Koji was promoted, and the position of the commander of the North China Front Army was vacant?

The commander of the front army is half a square meter higher than the commander of the direct army like him. Only when he becomes the commander of the front army, he, as an old lieutenant general, can be promoted to the general of the army, otherwise he will probably have to be stuck in the position of the lieutenant general in his life.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! And he wants to sit on the throne of the commander of the front army, and the battle of Xianggui is his last chance. If he wins the victory and achieves the strategic goal of the base camp, the position of the front army-level commander is definitely true. If he fails, he will return to the island to retire.

Therefore, the Battle of Hengyang can be regarded as the most important battle in Hengshanyong's military career. How could Hengshanyong, who was full of dreams of an army general, give up easily?

But not giving up is one thing, and the difficulty of logistics supply at this time is another. At this time, Yokoyama Yong, who was in a dilemma, had to weigh the consequences of continuing to attack. He had to ask the commander of the Chinese dispatched army Tian Junliu to suspend the full attack on Hengyang, and wait for the Japanese army to repair the logistics line, and the heavy artillery troops were mobilized, and the land aviation side would accumulate strength again, and then restart the full attack on Hengyang City.

At this time, the main force of China was still stationed in place and did not gather in Hengyang on a large scale, which gave the Japanese army, which had huge logistical pressure, a breather. While the Japanese army continued to siege Hengyang, they mobilized troops to restore highways and railways to restore traffic. Two divisions were used only to open up roads that could be accessed by cars.

A rare opportunity for China to solve the Hengyang trap was the stubbornness of the commander Xue and the undecisive person, which made the Hengyang defense war destined to leave a brilliant mark in the history of Sino-foreign wars.

But the ink and color used are all red and scarlet!

Starting from June 19, the Battle of Hengyang entered a stalemate with the Japanese army's active suspension, but this does not mean that the Chinese and Japanese armies are looking at each other, eating your meal and I will catch my fish.

Nowadays, no one is rich. The Japanese army, which is short of food, has set its sights on fish in ponds and rivers. Although there is no shortage of food in Hengyang City for the time being, Fang Xianjue has realized that it is better to rely on himself than to ask for others. For a long time, life has to start to be stingy. The Chinese officers and soldiers who have reduced supply naturally also like fish.

As a result, the two sides continued to have small-scale conflicts between the war, but the tactical purpose was only to compete for fish in the pond.

Both sides sent a large number of lookout posts. If they find that the other party dares to sneak fish in a pond within their eyes, it is easy to say that the Japanese army uses grenade launchers to shoot long-range cold guns to attack Chinese soldiers who want to eat meat, while the Chinese side uses mortars and light machine guns to hunt the "fish thieves".

In the future, those guys who secretly fished during the fishing ban period will be found and detained, and if they know that their Japanese thieves are basically greeted by fire in this era, don’t you feel glad that they lived in a peaceful era?

Don’t underestimate this kind of small-scale conflict. Sometimes you only lose two or three soldiers, but you can’t stop this position from having a long defense line!

On the most exaggerated day, the Japanese army invested 20 infantry squads, not counting the injuries, 109 infantrymen were killed; China used 16 infantry platoons, consumed more than 900 mortar shells and more than 14,000 bullets, 68 soldiers were killed in battle, and dozens of seriously injured.

Zhou Qingxiang, the commander of the 3rd Division who was responsible for defending the west of the city, looked at the ten fresh fish transported to the division headquarters and a series of ammunition consumption and casualties, and was furious on the spot, scolding the two main commanders under his command to the point of being terrified.

In the eyes of this lieutenant general, there were fish there, and it was clearly the corpses of his brothers. Who could eat it?

But he also understood that this was not a voluntary act, it was a war. Both sides of the war should make use of everything available to prevent the other party from obtaining resources, weakening the opponent and strengthening themselves. Even if it is a heartbreaking consumption, they must take the opponent to consume it together.

Sacrifice is everyday!

However, knowing that it was one thing, I still couldn't hide my grief. The more than 100 kilograms of fish that I snatched back from dozens of lives were sent to the command center by Zhou Qingxiang, the commander of the 3rd Division.

He himself rushed to the front line and decided to take advantage of the Japanese negligence to attack the Japanese at night.

The so-called "it's not polite to come but not come." During this period, the Japanese army used the night to launch raids on the Chinese defenders' defense lines.

The most dangerous time was three days ago, at the Yilai Miaoqian Street position where the Japanese army had launched the fire cattle formation, in the early morning, more than 70 Japanese troops from the Shima Detachment came over and broke into the houses of Yilai Miaoqian Street without knowing it.

It turned out that the guards had not had a rest for a week. After days of fierce fighting, the officers and soldiers had been exhausted and fell asleep unknowingly.

The Japanese may not have expected this situation to happen. They even thought that the Chinese themselves suffered heavy casualties and had long given up on this position that they had attacked for more than 13 days, so they built fortifications in the houses they entered, first stabilizing the defense and then further expanding the position.

As a result, a defender soldier who got up in the early morning to change defense happened to meet a Japanese infantry creeping forward. Because the sky was dark, the two sides discovered each other almost at a distance of less than two meters.

The two soldiers were almost scared. Judging from the situation where both sides instinctively raised their guns and shot before they could hit each other, it was a psychological state of excessive fright.

However, the "bang bang" gunshot alarmed the soldiers on both sides, and a tragic close-range offensive and defensive battle was staged on this position.

Because the distance is too close, neither China nor Japan can use mortars and grenade launchers. It basically relies on the firing of rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, and throwing grenades and grenades and flesh and blood flying across each other is not inferior to the large-scale battle between the two armies using large-caliber artillery.

The battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Regiment of the 3rd Division immediately brought an infantry company to reinforce the site, and led his subordinates to fight with the Japanese army to fight houses. Finally, at 11 a.m. that day, the 70 Japanese troops who broke into the position were wiped out and killed more than half of the more than 130 Japanese troops who were subsequently supported.

Unfortunately, the major battalion commander was discovered by a Japanese sharpshooter hiding in the paddy field because he was following two guards. A shot shot was shot from his ribs, and the bullet passed through the major artery and was killed on the spot.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Replacing a capable major battalion commander with more than 130 Japanese devils is not worth it at all. The mature and steadfast Zhongjiang has always kept this account in his heart, and it finally broke out at this moment.

On the night when the battle for water fish broke out fiercely, the army lieutenant general was personally in charge. Lieutenant Deng Xingming, the second lieutenant platoon leader of the 1st platoon of the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Regiment, took the initiative to ask for the 25 people who actively signed up for the sharp knife platoon formed an suicide squad. Each of them carried a submachine gun and 6 magazines with 8 grenades. At the slogan of sacrificing the battalion commander to take revenge, he also entered the Japanese position at about 2 a.m.

While the Japanese army was sleeping soundly, they pulled the grenade and threw it over, and then took a submachine gun and thrust it.

It was also a dark night and the wind was not high. Although the moon was bright and the stars were bright, the vision was still unclear. The Japanese army was unable to shoot flares in a hurry. Both sides shot at each other when you couldn't see me and I couldn't see you.

The Chinese side has few personnel and strong short-range firepower, so it is of course more beneficial in such a chaotic moment.

Moreover, their purpose of this trip was to reap lives, and they did not have the ambition to attack the Japanese army to occupy the position. They turned around and slipped away after a "kill" and then turned around.

As a result, only 6 of the 25 people were miraculously injured. With the help of their comrades, they all returned successfully, and none of them were killed.

The Japanese army almost made Major General Shimo die of anger. After beating for a long time, no body of a Chinese soldier was left on the position, but the imperial infantry was lying on it.

26 people died on the spot, and more than 40 people were injured by shrapnel and bullets, and the whole one was completely defeated.

The highest commander on this position, a Japanese Army lieutenant was ordered to abdicate by an angry Japanese Army Major General.

One more person on the death list!

During the period when the war broke out outside Hengyang City, it was naturally not just a competition for fish, but more from the competition for materials dropped from the air.

However, this time, it was not because the Four Corps tried every means to compete for the Japanese airdrop supplies, but because the Japanese competed for the materials dropped by the Chinese Air Force.

It turned out that after half a month of continuous battle with the Japanese army, the man who asked Fang Xianjue to lead the army to hold on for another 10 days would naturally not want the horse to run away and let the horse not eat grass, so he asked Fang Xianjue what his request was.

Fang Xianjue is not stupid this time. After half a month of fierce battle, 40% of the grenades in the city were used up and 30% of the bullets were used up. The shortest was food. Since the 50,000 reserve service was used up, 60% had been used up, so he asked for support for all kinds of food.

At this time, the Japanese army had surrounded Hengyang 20 miles like iron barrels. Not to mention transporting food in, it would be difficult for a few people to lurk in. The only way was to airdrop it in the air.

Since that person had already said it, although it was a little difficult, he could not break his promise. Therefore, from June 23, the first large-scale airdrop in Chinese military history was launched.
Chapter completed!