As the highest commander of more than 60,000 military and civilians in Hengyang, Fang Xianjue, with a strong face, knew that he should not be fragile. But after today's daytime battle, the iron-blooded general who was in charge of the command center received reports from various departments in Hengyang City, knew very well how fierce the battle would be in Hengyang City.

Before July 9, the total number of defenders in Hengyang's troops suffered no more than 4,500 combat losses, which was close to one-quarter of the 24,000 defenders in Hengyang.

Although this loss is not small, considering the length of the battle and the huge force of tens of thousands of Japanese troops attacking in turn, such losses are completely acceptable and even worthy of pride.

In particular, these losses are based on killing more than 20,000 Japanese troops.

But on the 7th, just before he and the generals gathered, the battle report handed over to him by the General Staff showed that the 10th Division suffered more than 1,300 people in combat, the 3rd Division suffered more than 1,400 people in combat, the 190th Division suffered more than 300 people in combat, the Sixing regiment battle suffered more than 160 people in combat, the Hengyang Security regiment battle suffered more than 200 people in combat, the reserve battle suffered more than 800 people in combat, and the remaining units suffered a total of more than 400 people.

After one day, the loss actually exceeded the sum of the previous month.

Field hospitals have long been overcrowded, and hundreds of medical staff are seriously insufficient. They have to select smart people from the reserves to enter field hospitals to serve as temporary nurses, but this still cannot alleviate the dilemma of insufficient treatment.

Many wounded people had to temporarily bandage and then put them in deep trenches outside the field hospital to wait until tomorrow or even the next day.

Although this will cause a surge in wound infection and mortality, doctors and nurses in field hospitals are too busy even if they have three heads and six arms. They can only prioritize and give priority to the treatment of fatal soldiers.

An extremely serious incident occurred in the evening. The company commander of the 9th Company of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Preparatory Division stationed in Wuguiling was seriously injured during the battle. After repelling the Japanese army, the unit quickly asked an infantry squad to send his captain company commander to the field hospital in the city.

However, because all the military doctors were undergoing emergency surgery, the captain's company commander did not receive timely treatment. He was responsible for carrying the army captain back to the city. Seeing that his company commander's breath became weaker and weaker, the squad leader red eyes on the spot. He actually pulled out his gun and pointed at the field hospital director Dan Tai Mingyue, who was leading the team to check the level of wounded soldiers and scheduled treatment batches, demanding that his company commander be treated immediately.

The army sergeant, who was greatly stimulated, may not have considered anything else. He just wanted to use his most trusted gun to force Dan Tai Mingyue, the highest commander of the field hospital.

But he never thought that Dan Tai Mingyue had another very important identity. She was Tang Dao's wife, and even Fang Xianjue was usually polite to her.

After all, among the defenders in Hengyang City, the Four Army Regiment is the most important support for the 10th Army, no doubt about it.

The gun was extremely impressive as soon as Dan Tai Mingyue's personal safety, Tang Dao not only placed his guard squad leader Shi Dakuan and 14 guards in the field hospital, but also transferred four ace snipers like Yang Shoucheng into two shifts to guard the 200-meter area next to Dan Tai Mingyue.

At that time, there were indeed too many wounded people in the field hospital. The snipers on duty could not take care of it. After a few seconds of negligence, a big-headed soldier actually pushed the gun on Dan Tai Mingyue.

Shi Dakuan, not far away, ran away on the spot and immediately led the guard squad to surround the infantry squad with a combat formation against the enemy. He even used a walkie-talkie to attract a guard platoon in the Four-Squad Regiment.

The 10th Division naturally would not show weakness. When they saw this situation, at least more than 30 wounded soldiers and more than 40 soldiers who sent the wounded soldiers chose to stand with their comrades, and the two sides almost exchanged fire in the field hospital.

Still, Dan Tai Mingyue ordered everyone not to use force, and comforted the sergeant squad leader who had already suffered a great disaster, and promised that as long as the field hospital had no operation table, the army captain who had fallen into a coma immediately performed surgery on the field hospital.

The Army sergeant received the promise of Dan Tai Mingyue and took the initiative to drop the gun and let the guard squad of the Four Army Regiment rush up to press himself down.

At that time, Chief of Staff Sun Mingyu and Ye Chenghuan, director of the Political Department of the Four Army Regiment, arrived just in time. The two issued military orders to the two personnel who were still in a confrontation, which completely resolved the crisis caused by the anxiety and recklessness of a sergeant sergeant leader of the 10th Division.

Originally, Sun Mingyu planned to shoot the squad leader of the 10th Division, who was impulsive and almost made a big mistake, to use the military law, but the person involved, Dan Tai Mingyue, stopped the military order and chose to understand.

"I am the director of a field hospital. I know the mental state of the soldiers who came down from the battlefield. The blood and flesh of the comrades who died in battle were still stuck on their bodies. The living comrades will die in front of him in a blink of an eye. It is not crazy. It is already my Chinese soldier who is tenacious enough. He has violated the military law and should be rectified on the spot according to the military law. But as his comrades, I would rather die on the battlefield than here. I am willing to use my military position to guarantee it." Dan Tai Mingyue's words moved all the officers and soldiers present.

The Army sergeant who made a big mistake burst into tears on the spot. After watching his company commander being carried onto the operating table, he saluted Dan Tai Mingyue, and then took his infantry squad back to Wuguiling position.

Ge Youcai hurried to the city from the command center of the 10th Division. He was not the first to visit the Storm Rocket Launch. The priority is to apologize to Dan Tai Mingyue and Tang Dao and his wife.

Although this accident was not enough to shake the unity of all the troops in the city, what was finally reflected was the huge dilemma faced by the Hengyang defenders.

As the highest commander in Hengyang City, how can Fang Xianjue not be anxious?

However, the iron-blooded general who was only in his early forties didn't know that his temples had been quietly stained with white frost.

No one knew that, including his closest subordinate Ge Youcai, the highest commander of Hengyang who stood at a high place overlooking the whole city of Hengyang for a long time, looked at the bright moon on the Xiangjiang River. At this moment, his mind was full of his wife's face.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fang Xianjue remembered that when he was the battalion commander more than ten years ago, he stationed in Yueyang. His newly married wife came to visit relatives. The two of them sailed under the moon and visited Dongting Lake. They walked on Yueyang Tower at night with candles. The beautiful scenery is the same. After years of this, it seems like yesterday!

Speaking of his wife, Fang Xianjue once had a wife. When he was preparing to apply for the Jinling First Industrial School, his parents told him a marriage. How could he accept a feudal arranged marriage after reading a new book and accepting new ideas?

Fang Xianjue asked for leave and went home and said to his father: "I want to study first and then get married. Moreover, the country is in a critical moment and the Huns have not yet been destroyed. Why should we do our family?" His father locked him up at home and he must get married before he can return to school.

Fang Xianjue ran away from home and walked alone for more than 90 miles to return to school. Later, he was admitted to Central University and later entered Huangpu and became an officer. During this period, he rarely went home. He hoped to use facts to tell his father how he fulfilled his ideal.

It was not until 15 years ago in 1929 that he met Zhou Yunhua, and the iron-blooded soldier finally understood what love at first sight. He was tenacious and restrained and even said affectionately while rafting: "If you don't marry me, I will never marry you!"

However, after so many years of marriage, the two of them are still far apart.

In the past, he was a company commander, battalion commander, and the troops did not allow him to take his family. Finally, he became a division commander a few years ago and could take his family. However, the war was urgent, so he wanted to take his subordinates around and fight against the Japanese army.

It was not until he was promoted to the commander that his wife moved to Tanzhou with her family and moved to Hengyang the next year before, and then she had more time to reunite.

After so many years in the army, Fang Xianjue was devoted to the army. He relied on his wife at home and outside. His wife was really a virtuous wife. Not only was the family well managed, but he became an official and had not saved much money, but his wife never complained.

In the old army, as a division commander, he had independent management rights. How many division commanders did not "eat empty salary and drink soldiers' blood"?

An infantry division has more than 10,000 people, and after a few battles, only a few thousand people are left. Go up and report the number of troops and receive military pay according to the number of troops. The extra military pay can easily exceed 100,000 silver dollars. This is a well-known secret in the army and a common unspoken rule.

But Fang Xianjue had never done this. He was admitted to Huangpu at the age of 19. A military officer in the military academy embezzled food expenses. He brought several classmates to beat the military officer. Since then, the young soldier has set a iron rule for himself to keep his whole life: not be greedy for military pay, not drink military blood!

In recent years, the 10th Army has fought many big battles and bad battles, with a lot of fewer troops and a lot of military pay. Fang Xianjue used this money to subsidize the officers and soldiers who died bravely or used it to make new military uniforms for everyone. The 10th Army was extremely united and had a neat military appearance.

From soldiers to division commanders, the 10th Army called him the military captain, commander, and behind the people, he called him the "master" and the 10th Army's 30,000 people.

However, at this moment, the Supreme Commander of Hengyang, who was unable to achieve both family and country, looked at the bright moon shining in the river in the sky, and his eyes were finally full of crystal clearness.

This may be the last time he missed her so clearly in his life.

He is worthy of his soldiers and his country and nation, but he is not worthy of her!

It's night!

Several generals and schoolmen in Hengyang City drank a jar of "bearded wine" with a dried chicken and a few dishes, laughing at the strategy of going against the enemy tomorrow. No one mentioned the telegram sent by the Military Commission again during the day that "reinforcements arrived within a few days."

It is better to rely on yourself than to ask for others. Since entering Hengyang City, several Chinese soldiers who have already forgotten their lives and death have finally abandoned unrealistic hopes.

After unifying his thoughts, Hengyang City has completely entered a hell-level battlefield since then. The 11th Army of Japan will also truly enter the hell-level battlefield in the face of the 60,000 Chinese military and civilians who are about to fight hard.

Guilin!

Since the fall of Tanzhou, many Guilin people have been moved and fled westward. However, more people have escaped from Hunan Province in the east. Guilin has become a large military camp with crowds in a blink of an eye, and every day it is in chaos.

People were crowding around the streets of military music, and the planes of the China-Macau Air Force continued to fly over the sky. Guilin thought of a balloon that was blown up suddenly, and its population instantly surged from 100,000 to more than 500,000.

Most of the poor camped around the railway station, while the rich crowded the narrow Guilin City and were filled with water.

Over the past month, Guilin newspapers have been promoting the news of the Hengyang victory, proclaiming Fang Xianjue and the three division commanders and chief of staff of the 10th Army Sun Mingyu as the "Five Tiger Generals". Zhu Jie's telegrams and letters of condolences were spread everywhere. The people set off firecrackers and military songs on the streets, and posted photos of Fang Xianjue and others everywhere on the streets.

Taishan Jun and Fang Xianxiu's personal reputation reached its peak. In the future, it will be the top of the top.

But the woman standing in an apartment looking at her husband's photo on the street never had a smile on her face.

They all said that her husband was a famous anti-Japanese general and a national hero, but she just wanted her husband to have dinner with her, even if there was only porridge and steamed buns.

That night, the woman dreamed of her husband.

He had a shaved beard and long hair, like a savage, with no blood on his face, and his face as a full moon had become a little thin, his voice was hoarse and low, and his military uniform was covered with dust and blood. It seemed that he had suffered a lot.

She dreamed that he looked at him, his eyes were red and covered with bloodshots, his lips were tightly closed, as if he had a lot to say, but he couldn't speak.

The woman held her husband's hand tightly and couldn't say a word. After a long time, she inexplicably said: "Thank you for your hard work!" After saying this, the woman wanted to laugh a little, but she wanted to cry more.

The husband, who was once a very heavy military dream, grinned and hugged the woman hard, kissed the ends of her hair, touched her face, and said softly: "You have lost weight!"

The woman burst into tears in an instant!

I woke up suddenly, but found that it was just a dream in Nan Ke, but the pillowcase had been soaked in tears, and the bright moon outside the window was bright.

The moonlight shone on the face of a young girl who was only two years old. I don’t know if the sleeping little girl also dreamed of her father whom she hadn’t seen for a long time, and the corners of her mouth were full of smiles.

The woman's eyes were filled with tears, but she put her head close to her daughter. The little girl who felt her mother's gentle breath put her little hands on her mother's face and fell asleep deeper.

This battle on July 9 is a torment for both China and Japan both inside and outside the battlefield.

China lost nearly 5,000 people in one day, with more than 2,800 wounded soldiers alone, most of which were shell injuries and shrapnel injuries, which were difficult to heal.

However, the losses of the 11th Army of Japan were even more terrifying, with nearly 10,000 people. Just by being fired by four rounds of Storm Rocket Launch, there were more than 3,000 people terrible war damage. It was fine if the dead were the ones, but the wounded survived was a big problem.

Seventy percent of the wounded were burned. The phospho-aluminum incendiary bombs fired by the Storm Rocket Launch were so domineering. Even if they could survive, their bodies were burned on a large scale, and their skin and flesh were burned to separate. The pain was so unbearable that people could tolerate.

Throughout the night, the wails of Japanese wounded soldiers echoed in the countryside. Even veterans who had been in war for a long time could not help but feel numb when they heard this sound, let alone those recruits who had just been replenished by the supplementary division.

The 116th Division was about to collapse, but now it took 20 days to rest and recover some morale, and the Chinese were once again trampled into dust by the Chinese, and even the 27th Division that had just arrived was stunned.

It turns out that this is Hengyang. If I had known this, it would be better to stay on the periphery and fight the main force of the Chinese side. At least that's what General Luohe Shinjiu thought.

After seeing the power of the Storm Rocket Launch, the old opponent of the Four Lines Group was completely convinced. After not seeing each other for a few years, the Four Lines Group was even more awesome than before. He even doubted whether the Four Lines Group had any new equipment not taken out.

Hengshan Yong's angry roar, who had paid ten thousand people for the front line, kept echoing in Yuelu Mountain.

But this is just a setback for the Japanese Army on July 9th, and even greater setbacks are still waiting for them.

Kyoto, Japan!

As the Prime Minister, Army Minister and Chief of Staff, Tojo, who was a few of them, sat in his office with a haggard face and eyes blank.

At this moment, Tojo, like the one from China's Yama Castle, urgently needs a hearty victory to alleviate the crisis of his political and military career.

In the past few months, the Japanese army has retreated step by step in the vast Pacific Ocean, and the Japanese navy has been in a slump. The American B-29 long-range bombers frequently take off from southern China, and the entire Japanese are panic about the gaps in Japan.

On the battlefield in Southeast Asia, the Japanese Army completely lost to the people of the Sun-Battle Empire in the Battle of Impal.

On the most confident Chinese battlefield in Japan, a Chinese army that would never exceed 30,000 people actually defeated the 11th Army of the Japanese army, the most powerful field army in China, to death and wounded. It had not even seen the walls of that small city for 40 days.

The continuous heavy hammer made the man who kept inspiring the entire Japan to start a war realize that the building would collapse.

Three days ago, the Japanese Army finally decided to stop the Battle of Impal, admitted its failure, and retreated to Myanmar in full, but they still had to face hundreds of thousands of troops of allied countries.

Two days ago, Saipan, a strategic location in the Pacific Ocean, was occupied by the Americans.

Today, under the city of Hengyang, China, the second round of the 11th Army's general attack failed again, completely becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back.

On the morning of July 10, Tojo, who had the power of Japan's military and political power, felt deeply powerless in the face of enemies and had to announce his resignation and disband the cabinet.

Tojo's resignation was a huge blow to the Japanese navy and army, but on this day, the Japanese base issued a military order to the Chinese Expeditionary Army headquarters for the "Hengyang Decisive Battle".
Chapter completed!