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Chapter 1584: Kwantung Army¡¯s Counterattack (4)

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    Since June 28, Hengyang has been surrounded by gunfire and steel roaring day and night, gunpowder smoke is thick, earth and rocks are flying, air planes are constantly attacking and bombing, and ground troops are rushing to kill one after another.  At night, the sky is lit by fire, and there are still sounds of killing everywhere.

    During the fierce 47-day battle, the defenders lived in the trenches day and night under the scorching sun and heavy rain, living a semi-cave life.

    At this time, most of the houses in the city collapsed or caught fire due to shelling and bombing, and almost all the forest trees in the mountains outside the city were cut off by bullets or fragments of artillery shells.

    After many ponds were hit by air raids and shelling, dead fish were found all over the water.

    In this battle, the defenders suffered tens of thousands of casualties due to illness and disease, and the Japanese army also lost nearly 50,000 people to combat capability due to injuries, deaths, and diseases, of which nearly 10,000 were buried near Hengyang.

    The Battle of Hengyang is over, but there is not much publicity about this battle in the country. The reason is very simple. First of all, although the national army fought very hard and bravely in this battle, Hengyang was still lost. This was a complete battle.  Defeat, a defeat obviously does not need and cannot be publicized.

    It is true that this was an out-and-out defeat. No matter how heroic the defeat was, it was just one of thousands of defeats in the entire Henan, Hunan and Guangxi defeat, not to mention the most despised by the Chinese.  Ended by surrender.

    Moreover, the entire battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi was a major rout in the late Anti-Japanese War in which the Kuomintang faced the almost exhausted Japanese army on the frontal battlefield. Most of China's rivers and mountains were lost, and it was completely a black spot. But when it comes to the defense of Hengyang, I don't know what to do.  To publicize, so the official propaganda just mentioned the defeat of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, and the incomplete black would not regard this battle as a very important part.

    Of course, what¡¯s more important is that the commander of the Tenth Army finally surrendered to the Japanese army. In Fang Xianjue¡¯s own words, this battle was neither successful nor benevolent, and he felt deeply ashamed!

    Due to the series of controversies caused by Fang Xianjue's surrender to the enemy, the Nationalist government was unable to vigorously publicize this battle, so that the series of tactical breakthroughs achieved by the National Army in the Battle of Hengyang were suppressed by Fang Xianjue's personal controversies.  .

    There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Nowadays, there is a lot of talk about Fang Xianjue's surrender to the enemy. Some people criticize him, some sigh with emotion, and some express regret.

    But in Li Guoyao's view, Fang Xianjue is somewhat similar to Li Ling in the Han Dynasty.  In the second year of Tianhan, Ling accompanied Li Guangli, the general of the Second Division, in the northern expedition to the Huns.  Guang led the main force of the Han army to capture the Xiongnu but failed, but one of Li Ling's partial troops ran into the Xiongnu's great Chanyu.  Eighty thousand Xiongnu elite cavalry besieged Li Ling's 5,000 foot soldiers and fought in dozens of formations. The Xiongnu lost more than 10,000 people.  In the end, the Han army was defeated with "all the targets". Only 400 people fled back to Han Dynasty, and Li Ling was also captured and surrendered.

    He led 5,000 Jingchu infantry to fight against 80,000 Huns cavalry. They fought thousands of miles and killed nearly 10,000 Huns. In the end, the army suffered all casualties and had no fighting capacity anymore, so it finally surrendered to the Huns.  As a result, many historical editors still call him a "traitor".

    As a general, he achieved extraordinary achievements on the battlefield. In times of adversity, he did not receive help from the state, but he tried his best and continued to fight to no avail, so he surrendered.

    Therefore, it can be seen that Li Ling may not really surrender to the enemy. In his letter to Su Wu, he said, "How can Ling be a man who steals his life and cherishes his death? Would he rather betray the emperor and donate his wife for profit?"  The mausoleum is immortal and has something to do, so I want to repay the kindness to the Lord as mentioned in the previous letter."

    But before he could do anything, Emperor Wu believed the rumors and exterminated his three clans.  Li Ling was disheartened and lived in depression until his death in the north.

    In fact, the surrender of Fang Xianjue and Li Ling can be said to be forced by their own people to some extent. Fang's Tenth Army, with one-seventh of the strength of the Japanese army and absolutely inferior equipment, fought bloody battles for forty-seven days without reinforcements arriving.

    Under such circumstances, anyone would feel resentful. Before surrendering, Fang once said, "It's not that we're sorry for the country, it's the country that's sorry for us. It's not that we don't want the country, it's the country that doesn't want us."

    Li Ling also wrote a poem and sung sadly, "I have traveled thousands of miles to cross the sand curtain, and I am fighting for the Huns as a general for the king. The road is exhausted, and the arrows are driving me, and the soldiers are destroyed, and my name has been defeated. My mother is dead, although I want to repay my kindness, will I return home in peace?"  .

    And after all, Li Ling and Fang Xianjue did not do anything truly sorry to the country - Li Ling never led troops to invade Han territory, and Fang Xianjue fled back to Chongqing shortly after surrendering.

    A man who wants to repay his country's kindness will die a good death on the battlefield.

    It seems that only living warriors or dead heroes are worthy of our long-lasting praise. In the eyes of Eastern peoples, being captured is the most humiliating thing for a soldier.  Even if Japanese soldiers were captured and returned to the army, they were basically tortured/killed by their fellow soldiers.

    Is it true that only death can prove a soldier¡¯s courage?

      Even if this death is meaningless?

    Fighting to the last bullet is not considered brave?

    Do you have to use your own chest to waste a bullet from the enemy?

    This kind of bastard logic is very similar to Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism's "Starving to death is a small matter, but losing one's integrity is a big matter." In the eyes of those Taoists, if a woman loses her virginity, she can only make up for her sin by hanging herself in a well, even if the 'sin' is  Forced upon her by others.  What they want is for a woman to act decisively after being humiliated and die.

    Then they set up an archway, performed rituals, and sang loudly.

    From this, we can think about the outcome of the Chinese generals in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-Navy Admiral Ding Ruchang committed suicide, the commander of the Zhenyuan, Lin Taizeng, committed suicide, the commander of the Dingyuan, Liu Buchan, committed suicide, the commander of the Zhiyuan, Deng Shichang, committed suicide, and the commander of the Jingyuan committed suicide.  Lin Yongsheng died in battle, the deputy commander of Zhenyuan led Yang Yonglin to commit suicide, the commander of Chaoyong led Huang Jianxun to commit suicide, the commander of Yangwei led Lin Lvzhong to commit suicide Emperor

    The elite generation of the Chinese Navy all fell into disgrace after the Sino-Japanese War.

    "Fighting hard and serving the country with death should be admired by all generations."  But have they ever thought that if they die in vain, who will take care of them?

    A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find.  After the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty could no longer find a few worthy generals, and lost the guards of Beiyang. When the group of short bandits came from the east again, only bayonets were left waiting for the Chinese people.

    During the eight years of the War of Resistance, there was probably no general on either side of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party whose record was as impressive as Fang Xianjue's.  If these generals really die seeking fame, it will be a real misfortune for the country and the nation.

    Do unto others, do not impose on others.  When Li Hongzhang signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the world regarded him as a traitor. But in the crisis of the apocalypse, who dared to pat his chest and say that he could do better than him?  I don¡¯t think I can be as good as Li Hongzhang, so in my opinion, Li has merit but no fault.

    ??Similarly, when Fang Xianjue is in a desperate situation, if it were someone else, there might not be anyone who can do better than him.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out of the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers and how many families behind them did not have to bear the grief of losing their loved ones? Compared with this, is it just a false reputation?  Which is more important?

    Of course, Fang Xianjue¡¯s surrender is a fact, so it is understandable that Chongqing has not conducted large-scale publicity from the end of the Hengyang Battle to the present.

    Although the Japanese army won the Battle of Hengyang, they were restrained by the Chinese army for 47 days. At this time, the defeat of the Japanese army in the entire Pacific battlefield had become more and more obvious.

    Since the beginning of summer, the Japanese army has suffered successive defeats in the Pacific and South Asian battlefields due to attacks by the U.S. Army, the Australian Army, the British-Indian Army, and our country¡¯s expeditionary force in Burma, and has successively transferred troops from my country¡¯s battlefields inside and outside the Pass to the above-mentioned areas. , in an attempt to reverse the decline.

    At this time, the morale of the Japanese army was very low. Both its soldiers and officers knew that Japan had no hope of victory and that a catastrophe was imminent soon.

    The newly organized Kuomintang troops have been training for several years. The troops in the front have also been transferred to the rear for training in turns. There is no shortage of light weapons rifles and light and heavy machine guns. The artillery, mainly mortars, has formed the backbone of firepower. The air force has exceeded  The Japanese army.

    But at this time, a considerable number of troops in the national army lacked an overall concept and a tenacious will to fight.  In the Battle of Xuchang, the Battle of Luoyang, the Battle of Changsha, the Battle of Hengyang and later the Battle of Guilin in 1944, the defending troops all performed defensive tasks. However, almost none of the peripheral troops completed their planned tasks of stopping the enemy and providing reinforcements.  Due to their mission, some of them conserved their strength, retreated at will, refused to save the enemy, and ignored the defending troops, and were annihilated by the enemy one by one.

    As a result, Lu Gongliang's new 29th Division defended Xuchang, Wu Tinglin's 15th Army defended Luoyang, Fang Xianjue's 10th Army defended Hengyang, and He Weizhen's 31st Army later defended Guilin. They all became isolated and helpless due to their persistence, and in the end they had to rely on themselves.  The remaining forces organized a breakout or were exhausted and annihilated.

    So the situation in the Battle of Hengyang was expected, but it also taught a lot of lessons.

    For example, the Ninth War Zone has been unable to repel the enemy's additional troops on both sides of the Xiangjiang River that continue to deploy to Hengyang. This has gradually put the troops stationed in Hengyang into trouble.

    Furthermore, when the Japanese army had clearly gathered towards Hengyang and was unable to stop it, and Hengyang's defense system was divided by the enemy, if the Hengyang defenders were used as mobile troops to conduct mobile operations with the peripheral armies, the consequences would be different.

    The mechanized troops transferred from Guangxi were delayed, and the enemy situation in Hengyang was indeed serious. They changed the original plan and arranged a new battlefield. This is also a common thing in battles.  On the contrary, if we do not take new countermeasures in time, we will naturally fall into passivity and lead to failure.

    There is nothing wrong with preparing to inspire the Chinese people and allied countries with military victory, but military itself has its own particularity. It is the result of a final between tangible and intangible forces.  If the conditions are not met and the strength is insufficient, it will often be counterproductive.  If the outcome of a major battle is contrary to the intended purpose, it will directly affect the future war situation.

    Due to the deployment of troops, combat areas, combat preparations, combat methods, etc., the fixed missions of the entrenched troops naturally formed fixed tasks. However, some of the coordinated and coordinated mobile troops were actually executed as mobile missions. The reinforcement troops to the west of Hengyang were not implemented as planned.  , causing the defenders to remain isolated and helpless.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)?The result, if it is contrary to the expected purpose, will directly affect the future war situation.

    Due to the deployment of troops, combat areas, combat preparations, combat methods, etc., the fixed missions of the entrenched troops naturally formed fixed tasks. However, some of the coordinated and coordinated mobile troops were actually executed as mobile missions. The reinforcement troops to the west of Hengyang were not implemented as planned.  , causing the defenders to remain isolated and helpless.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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