Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1518

Chapter 1518 is a torment! (At the end of the month, please give me a monthly ticket!)

As the supreme commander of more than 60,000 soldiers and civilians in Hengyang, Fang Xianjue, who has a resolute face, knows that he should not be weak. But after today's battle during the day, the iron-blooded general Tai Ming, who was sitting in the headquarters and received battle reports from all departments in Hengyang city, understood Hengyang City. What a fierce battle we will encounter.

Before July 9, the total battle losses of Hengyang's garrison did not exceed 4,500, which was close to a quarter of Hengyang's 24,000 garrison.

Although this loss is not small, considering the length of the battle and the huge number of tens of thousands of Japanese troops who attacked in turns, this loss is completely acceptable and even something to be proud of.

Especially, these losses were based on killing and wounding more than 20,000 Japanese troops.

But just on July 9th, before the moment when he and the generals gathered together, the battle report given to him by the staff showed that the 10th Division suffered more than 1,300 casualties, the 3rd Division suffered more than 1,400 casualties, and the 190th Division suffered 300 casualties. There were more than 160 soldiers in the Fourth Army Regiment, more than 200 soldiers in the Hengyang Guard Regiment, more than 800 soldiers in the reserves, and a total of more than 400 soldiers in the remaining units.

At the end of one day, the losses actually exceeded the total of the previous month.

· Field hospitals have long been overcrowded, and the number of hundreds of doctors and nurses is seriously insufficient. Smart people have to be selected from the reserve force to serve as temporary nurses in the field hospitals, but this still cannot alleviate the dilemma of insufficient treatment.

Many wounded had to be temporarily bandaged and then placed in deep trenches outside the field hospital to wait until tomorrow or even the day after for treatment.

Even though they knew that this would lead to a surge in wound infection and mortality, the doctors and nurses in the field hospital were too busy even if they had three heads and six arms. They could only prioritize and treat fatally injured soldiers first.

An extremely bad incident occurred in the evening. The captain of the 9th Company of the 28th Regiment of the Pre-10th Division stationed at Wuguiling was seriously injured by shrapnel in the abdomen during the battle. After repelling the Japanese army, the unit quickly asked an infantry squad to kill the captain's company. He was sent to the field hospital in the city.

However, because all the military doctors were performing emergency operations, the captain and company commander did not receive timely treatment. The sergeant squad leader who was responsible for carrying the army captain back to the city saw his company commander's breath getting weaker and weaker. His eyes turned red on the spot, and he actually pulled out his gun and pointed it at him. Tantai Mingyue, the director of the field hospital who was leading the team to check the injury levels of the wounded soldiers and arrange the treatment batches, requested that his company commander be treated immediately.

The Army sergeant who was greatly stimulated may not have thought about anything else. He just wanted to use his most trusted gun to force Tantai Mingyue, the top commander of the field hospital, to save his commander.

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

After all, among the defenders in Hengyang City, the Si Xing Regiment is the most important support of the 10th Army.

Taking out this gun was a big deal. For Tantai Mingyue's personal safety, Tang Dao not only sent his guard squad leader Shi Dakuan and 14 guards to the field hospital, but also transferred four ace snipers like Yang Shoucheng to divide Two shifts carried out security in the 200-meter area around Tantai Mingyue.

At that time, there were indeed too many wounded in the field hospital, and the snipers on duty could not take care of them. However, a few seconds of negligence actually allowed a big-headed soldier to put his gun on Tantai Mingyue.

Not far away, Shi Dakuan went berserk on the spot and immediately led a guard squad to surround the entire infantry squad in a battle formation against the enemy. He even used a walkie-talkie to summon a guard platoon from the Fourth Row Regiment.

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

It was Tantai Mingyue who coldly ordered everyone not to use force, and softly comforted the sergeant squad leader who was a little confused after seeing the catastrophe. He promised that as long as the operating table was available in the field hospital, the comatose army captain would be operated on immediately.

The Army sergeant received Tantai Mingyue's guarantee and took the initiative to drop his gun and let the security squad of the Sixings Regiment rush up and push him down.

At that time, Chief of Staff Sun Mingyu and Director of the Political Department of the Sixth Regiment Ye Chenghuan arrived just in time to receive the news. The two issued military orders to the personnel of the two departments who were still in a confrontation. Only then did they completely resolve the situation caused by a The sergeant squad leader of the 10th Preparatory Division was in a crisis caused by anxiety and recklessness.

Originally, Sun Mingyu planned to shoot the sergeant squad leader of the 10th Pre-10th Division on the spot for enforcing military law, but the person involved, Tantai Mingyue, blocked this military order and chose to forgive him.

"I am the director of a field hospital. I know best the mental state of soldiers who come off the battlefield. The blood and flesh of their dead comrades are still stained on their bodies. The living comrades will die in front of them in the blink of an eye. I am not crazy. I am a Chinese soldier who is tough enough. He has violated military law and should be punished on the spot according to military law. But as his colleague, I would rather he die on the battlefield than here, and I am willing to guarantee it with my military position. "Tantai Mingyue's words made all the officers and soldiers present moved.

The Army sergeant who made the big mistake burst into tears on the spot. After watching his company commander being carried to the operating table, he gave a military salute to Tantai Mingyue and then returned with his infantry squad. Return to the Wugui Ridge position.

Ge Youcai hurried to the city from the 10th Preliminary Division headquarters. Visiting the Baofeng rocket launcher was not the first priority. Apologizing to Tantai Mingyue and Tang Dao was the first priority.

Although this accident was not enough to shake the unity of the various departments in the city, it ultimately reflected the huge dilemma faced by the Hengyang defenders.

As the highest commander in Hengyang City, how could Fang Xiangjue not be anxious?

With the iron-blooded general in his early forties, he didn't even know that his temples were already covered in a layer of hoarfrost.

No one, including his closest subordinate Ge Youcai, knew that the top commander of Hengyang, who stood in silence overlooking the city of Hengyang for a long time, looked at the bright moon on the Xiangjiang River. At this time, what was going on in his mind , turned out to be all the faces of my wife.

Fang Xianjue remembered that when he first served as the battalion commander more than ten years ago, he was stationed in Yueyang. His newlywed wife came to visit relatives. The two of them went boating on Dongting Lake under the moon and visited Yueyang Tower at night with candles. The beautiful scenery was also the same. Years have passed and it seems like yesterday!

Speaking of wives, Fang Xianjue once had a wife. When he was preparing to apply for Jinling No. 1 Industrial School, his parents told him about a marriage. How could he accept a feudal arranged marriage after reading new books and accepting new ideas? Woolen cloth?

Fang Xianjue asked for leave and went home and said to his father: "I want to study first and then get married. What's more, the country is in crisis and the Huns are not destroyed, so why do we have a family?" His father kept him at home and made sure that he got married before he could go back to school.

Fang Xianjue ran away from home and walked more than 90 miles back to school alone. Later he was admitted to the Central University, and later to Huangpu and became an officer. During this period, he rarely went home. He hoped to tell his father the truth. How to live up to your ideals.

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

However, after being married for so many years, the two of them still spend less time together and more time apart.

In the past, when he was a company commander, battalion commander, or regiment commander, the troops did not allow him to bring his family. Finally, a few years ago, he became a division commander and he could bring his family. However, the war was urgent and he had to lead his men around to fight against the Japanese army.

　　It wasn't until he was promoted to army commander that his wife moved the family to Tanzhou and then to Hengyang the year before last, giving them more time to reunite.

Fang Xianjue has been in the army for so many years, and he relies on his wife both at home and abroad. She is really a good wife. Not only does the family run well, but he has not saved much money since he became an official, and his wife never complains.

In the old army, division commanders had independent management rights. How many division commanders did not "eat empty pay and drink the blood of soldiers"?

An infantry division has an establishment of more than 10,000 people, and after fighting a few battles, there will be only a few thousand left. The higher the number, the higher the number, and the military pay will be based on that number. The extra military pay can easily exceed 100,000 silver dollars. This is an army It is a well-known secret and an unspoken rule that is not surprising.

But Fang Xiangjue had never done this. He was admitted to Huangpu at the age of 19. There was a quartermaster in the military academy who embezzled food expenses. He and several classmates beat the quartermaster severely. From then on , the young soldier established an iron rule for himself to stick to for the rest of his life: do not be greedy for military pay, and do not drink the blood of soldiers!

Over the years, the 10th Army has fought in various places and fought many big and bad battles. The number of soldiers has been reduced a lot, and there is a large amount of military pay. However, Fang Xianjue used this money to either subsidize those officers and soldiers who died bravely in battle, or use it as Come and make new military uniforms for everyone. The 10th Army is therefore extremely united and its military appearance is neat.

From a soldier to a division commander in the 10th Army, he is called a military officer and a commander in front of others, but he is called the "head of the family" behind others. He is the well-deserved patriarch of the 30,000 people in the 10th Army.

However, at this moment, the supreme commander of Hengyang, who was unable to protect his family and country, looked at the bright moon reflecting each other in the sky and the river, and his eyes were filled with crystal clear light.

Perhaps this was the last time in his life that he thought of her so clearly.

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

It's night!

Several generals in Hengyang City ate a dried chicken and a few dishes of side dishes, drank a jar of "beard wine", and joked about the strategy to fight the enemy tomorrow. No one even mentioned the "Mr. Commission" who sent it again during the day. Reinforcements arriving within days' message. It is better to rely on oneself than to rely on others. Several Chinese soldiers who had put life and death behind them since entering Hengyang City finally gave up their unrealistic hopes.

After unifying their thoughts, Hengyang City has completely entered the desperate mode. Facing the 60,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians who are about to fight hard, the Japanese 11th Army will truly enter a hellish battlefield.

Guilin!

Since the fall of Tanzhou, many people in Guilin have heard the news and fled westward. However, more people have fled from Xiang Province in the east. In the blink of an eye, Guilin has become a large military camp with a sea of people and chaos every day.

People were crowding on the streets with military music playing, and planes of the Chinese and American Air Forces were constantly flying in the sky. Guilin was like a balloon that was suddenly blown up, and the population in Guilin instantly surged from 100,000 to more than 500,000.

Most of the poor people set up camp around the train station, while the rich people crowded the small Guilin city to the limit.

In the past month, newspapers in Guilin have published endless articles promoting the news of the victory in Hengyang, promoting Fang Xianjue and the three division commanders and chief of staff of the 10th Army Sun Mingyu as the "Five Tiger Generals". Telegrams and letters of condolences from Zhu Jie were circulated everywhere. People set off firecrackers on the street, played military songs, and posted photos of Fang Xianjue and others everywhere on the street.

Tai Shanjun and Fang Xianjue's personal reputations have reached their peak. In the future, they will be the top among 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 it was just porridge and steamed buns.

　That night, the woman dreamed of her husband.

He has an unshaven beard, long hair, and looks like a wild man. There is no color on his face. His moon-like face has become a little thin. His voice is hoarse and low. There are dust and blood stains everywhere on his military uniform. It looks like he has eaten a lot. A miserable look.

She dreamed that he was looking at her, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and his lips were tightly closed, as if he had a lot to say but could not speak.

The woman held her husband's hand tightly but could not utter a word. After a long, long time, she said out of nowhere: "Thank you for your hard work!" After saying this, the woman wanted to laugh, but she was even more worried. Most of them want to cry.

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

The woman burst into tears instantly!

I woke up suddenly, only to find that it was just a dream, but the pillow towel had already been soaked with tears, and the bright moon outside the window was bright.

The moonlight shines on the face of the two-year-old girl. The sleeping little girl wonders if she has also dreamed of her father whom she has not seen for a long time. There is a smile on her lips.

With tears in her eyes, the woman put her head close to her daughter. Feeling her mother's gentle breath, the little girl put her little hands on her mother's face and fell into a deeper sleep.

The battle on July 9 was a torment for both China and Japan on and off the battlefield.

The Chinese lost nearly 5,000 people in one day, and the number of wounded soldiers alone was as high as 2,800. Most of them were shell shock and shrapnel injuries, which were difficult to heal.

As for the Japanese 11th Army, the losses were even more terrible, up to nearly 10,000 people. Just from the four-round volley of Storm rockets, more than 3,000 people suffered terrible battle losses. Not only the dead, but also the wounded who survived. That's a big trouble.

Seventy percent of the wounded suffered burns. The phosphorus-aluminum incendiary bombs fired by the Storm Rocket Launchers were so overbearing. Even if they survived, they would still have extensive burns all over their bodies, and their skin and flesh would be burned apart. The pain was simply excruciating. Ordinary people can tolerate it.

Throughout the night, the countryside echoed with the wails of wounded Japanese soldiers. Even war-hardened veterans couldn't help but feel their scalp numb when they heard this sound, let alone the new recruits who had just been recruited by the supplementary divisions. .

The 116th Division was already on the verge of collapse, but this time it was good. After spending 20 days of rest, the morale that had just been restored was once again trampled into the dust by a wave of Chinese troops. Even the newly arrived 27th Division was stunned.

Honestly, this is Hengyang. If I had known this, it would be better to stay on the periphery and fight the main Chinese force, at least that's what Lieutenant General Ochiai Shinkuro thought.

After seeing the power of the Storm Rocket Launcher, this old opponent of the Four Elements Group was completely convinced. After not seeing each other for several years, the Four Elements Group was even more powerful than before. He even wondered if the Four Elements Group had any new equipment. Take it out.

Yong Hengshan's angry roar echoed in Yuelu Mountain after receiving the sacrifice of tens of thousands of people from the four frontline masters but refusing to move forward.

But this was only a setback for the Japanese Army on July 9, and even greater setbacks were still waiting for them.

Kyoto, Japan!

　　Tojo Inuki, who is also Prime Minister, Minister of War and Chief of Staff, is sitting in his office, with a haggard face and dull eyes.

At this moment, Tojo, like the one in the mountain city of China, is in urgent need of a hearty victory to alleviate the crisis in his political and military career.

In the past few months, in the vast Pacific Ocean, the Japanese army has been retreating steadily, and the Japanese navy has been in a state of decline. American B-29 long-range bombers have frequently taken off from southern China, and have had gaps in the Japanese mainland. The entire Japanese people are panicked.

On the battlefield in Southeast Asia, the Japanese Army was completely defeated by the Sun Never Sets Empire in the Battle of Imphal.

On the Chinese battlefield, where Japan was most confident, a Chinese army of no more than 30,000 people actually defeated the 11th Army, the most powerful Japanese field army in China, with heavy casualties. Even the walls of that small town were destroyed in 40 days. Haven't seen it yet.

Continuous heavy hammers made the man who constantly encouraged Japan as a whole to start war realize that the building was about to collapse.

Three days ago, the Japanese Army finally decided to stop the Battle of Imphal, admit defeat, and fully retreat to Myanmar. However, they still had to face hundreds of thousands of Allied troops.

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

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

On the morning of July 10, Tojo, who had combined Japan's military and political power, felt powerless in the face of embarrassment from all sides and had to announce his resignation and dissolve the cabinet.

Tojo's resignation was a huge blow to both the Japanese navy and army. However, on this day, the Japanese headquarters issued a military order for the "Decisive Battle of Hengyang" to the Chinese Dispatch Forces Headquarters.

Tian Junliu, commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces, will personally fly to Tanzhou on the morning of the 10th to supervise the battle in Hengyang!

Chapter end

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