The father of the sword is Kong Jie

At this time...

Xue Boling, who was in charge of the Changsha City Defense Headquarters, received the news that the Japanese army was massing troops and advancing towards Changde. Changde was in a hurry and was besieged from all sides. The Japanese army continued to launch offensives.

Changde and Changsha compete with each other in terms of defensive positions. The defense of Changde can also be considered an important part of the defense of Changsha.

Xue Boling did not dare to delay after receiving the news. He knew that this was the Japanese army preparing the ground for the fourth attack on Changsha!
As Xue Laohu, who defeated the Japanese invaders, Xue Boling was obviously more courageous and courageous than ordinary Chiang Kai-shek officers. Faced with Changde being besieged by the Japanese army, he dared to take the initiative to send troops to reinforce Changde.

As expected, the reinforcements to Changde were blocked by the Japanese army halfway. They seemed to be the Japanese reinforcements, in order to prevent the Chinese troops from Changsha from approaching Changde.

All this further demonstrated the Japanese army's determination to capture Changde.

Seeing that the reinforcements could not advance, Xue Huhu was naturally unwilling to fail and continued to send reinforcements from multiple directions to quickly reinforce Changde.

The cunning Japanese army also planned to attack Changde near dusk. As the two sides fought fiercely, the sky quickly became dark.

Throughout the night, there was an endless stream of gunfire and artillery fire from both sides, and the dim sky was dyed bright and dark with gorgeous flames.

The battle raged all night long.

At dawn the next day, when it was still dark, Xue Boling of the combat headquarters received news that although the reinforcements sent to Changde failed to completely break through the Japanese defense line, the Japanese troops originally attacking Changde continued to attack Changsha in order to block the reinforcements from Changsha. Under the redeployment, the number of troops attacking Changde was significantly reduced.

The Changde defenders successfully withstood the Japanese offensive pressure.The city defenses were defended.

This made Xue Boling breathe a sigh of relief. Changde was finally saved. As long as Changde was worry-free, Changsha City would naturally be worry-free in his opinion.

But the result was so sudden. As soon as it got light the next day, a large number of Japanese troops appeared out of thin air and suddenly launched a fierce attack on various fortifications in the direction of Changsha.

It was not until this time that the Japanese army's intention to pretend to attack Changde and actually take Changsha came to light.

Xue Boling was also taken aback by the sudden Japanese offensive.

At this time, the considerable garrison originally stationed in Changsha had already left the city in order to provide reinforcements to Changde. Now they were completely entangled by the Japanese reinforcements and were not allowed to withdraw to the city defenses immediately.

At the same time, elite troops led by the 11th Army under the Japanese Sixth Southern Front bypassed Changde and the open battlefields where the Japanese and Chinese sides fought along the way, and launched surprise attacks on various city defenses in Changsha.

The commander of the Japanese 11th Army this time is none other than the famous Japanese general and the newly appointed former Kwantung Army commander Isamu Yokoyama.

This guy has a reputation, and this time he and Okamura are joining forces to make progress in Changsha.

The 11th Army of the Japanese Army is, at this moment, the last large-scale mobile combat force at the military level in the Japanese Army's order of battle.

The mobility far exceeding that of conventional infantry is the greatest advantage of the Japanese 11th Army.

When such a large-scale mobile Japanese army bypassed Changde and launched an attack in the direction of Changsha, it caught the Changsha defenders off guard.

According to the intelligence of the Central Army, the so-called Kwantung Army Holy War Army, which was moving towards Chongqing, did not know when it used a golden cicada to escape from its shell, leaving only some bluffing empty shells clamoring outside Chongqing, while the main force was Taking the opportunity to advance to the southwest, they formed a pincer offensive with the Japanese 11th Army, which attacked Changsha, and worked together to strangle the Changsha defenders.

Under this sudden change of situation, Xue Boling, who had underestimated the enemy and failed to accurately understand the situation, was really in a hurry at first. Fortunately, with the help of the absolute advantage of troops, he gradually gained a firm foothold.

Then, Xue Laohu, who regained his confidence, repeated his old tricks, and he was quite confident that he had one trick that was popular all over the world - he decided to use the increasingly sophisticated Tianlu tactics to completely eliminate the invading Japanese troops.

The so-called Tianlu strategy was created by Xue Boling. To put it bluntly, it means using the absolute advantage of troops to first use the frontal defense line to weaken the momentum of the Japanese attack, use the fortifications along the way to resist step by step, and then use the bottom core fortification group to withstand the main spearhead of the Japanese attack. , and at the same time strengthen the defense on both wings, and use the mobile outflanking troops to start outflanking the main retreat of the Japanese from both wings when the Japanese reach the core fortification group at the bottom.

Specific methods: You can first send troops to lure the enemy deep, and then use the troops that have been ambushed in advance to ambush, attack the enemy's flanks, and consume the enemy's strength in stages, while the main artillery is deployed on Yuelu Mountain, taking advantage of the condescending terrain of Yuelu Mountain to attack the enemy. The Japanese troops in the entire Changsha area formed a situation of fire suppression, striving to severely damage or even annihilate the Japanese troops who fell into the encirclement.

This method of warfare indeed showed unparalleled power in the first three battles of Changsha, easily destroying tens of thousands of elite Japanese invaders.

This courage and vision are indeed unique.

After three battles in Changsha, the Japanese army paid a heavy price in casualties. Xue Boling also became famous in the first battle and became a famous anti-Japanese general at home and abroad.

So this time, faced with the cunning Japanese attack and the encirclement of two elites, Xue Laohu, who was stationed in Changsha, was panicked but not confused.

At the quickly convened military meeting, Xue Laohu even more domineeringly proposed:
"Changsha, Changsha, collapsed in the sand. The Japanese army dared to invade Changsha again. This will eventually become their burial place.

Everyone, over the past few years, I have heard that the Eighth Route Army has fought many victorious battles behind enemy lines, and has even almost wiped out the reputation of our Central Army.

Although we were somewhat unexpected when the Japanese invaded this time, the situation is still under control. Let us use this stage to defeat the Japanese invaders and reshape the reputation of our Central Army in resisting the Japanese and killing the enemy! "

After the war broke out between the two sides, Xue Boling once again used his trump card - the Tianlu strategy.

The first move is to lure the enemy deeper.

And the old devil Yokoyama Isamu who led the 11th Army to attack was indeed fooled.

The Japanese army that took the lead in advancing was lured deeper by Xue Boling's troops, and then was ambushed by an ambush arranged by Xue Boling in advance.

But just when Xue Boling confidently believed that the ambush would be successful, the elite mechanized combat troops arranged by Yokoyama Isamu, as the second echelon of combat troops, quickly attacked in a roundabout way, and in turn surrounded the ambushing Japanese troops. The national army ambushed the army.

At the same time, Yokoyama also arranged for the third and fourth armies to be placed on both wings of the national army to attack the flanking troops of the national army.

Not only that, the Japanese army also used a considerable amount of air fire reinforcements. While Yokoyama led the army to advance, they constantly searched for the national army artillery positions in Yuelu Mountain and destroyed them in time, so that the national army lost the advantage of fire suppression. .

In addition, the Japanese mechanized troops avoided the main transportation lines and areas blocking the defense lines along the way, and unexpectedly penetrated into the core positions at the bottom of the National Army. This left the National Army with a large number of troops, but they were unable to fill the defense lines along the way in time before they were blocked. Inside the home.

At the same time, the connection between Changsha City and the defense lines on both wings was cut off. These defense forces on both wings lost their rear support. Facing the Jihadi Army, the joint encirclement and suppression by the Armored Corps and the main force of the Sixth Front Army simply could not last long.

At this time, the Tianlu tactics were completely ineffective, and the original strategy of luring the enemy into encirclement and annihilation turned into a trap set by the Japanese army.

Xue Boling, who underestimated the enemy, was stunned for a while. Only then did he realize that the Japanese army had already made countermeasures to his Tianlu tactics.

By the time he came to his senses, since the Tianlu tactics that took the initiative were not working, and he could only shrink his troops to defend the city, he had already lost the original advantage of defending the city - the attacking troops who left the city in multiple ways were entangled by the Japanese army, and Yamashita Fengwen also led [-] jihadist troops to take advantage of the situation and rob them.Just like that, although it was a bit dramatic, after more than [-] days, under the helplessness of retreating, the Changsha defenders were defeated. After all, they still failed to defend the city. Changsha was captured by the Japanese army and completely fell.

In the end, the Changsha garrison's Fourth Army was almost completely destroyed.

With the fall of Changsha, it was no longer realistic to fight the Japanese army between Changsha and Hengyang. Xue Yue could only lead the remaining troops to retreat to the Guangxi area in despair, and then fight the enemy again in the Guiliu area.

...Japanese Sixth Front Army Headquarters.

In the subsequent military meeting, Hengshan Yong returned with a great victory. The Fourth Battle of Changsha was finally won and the national army was severely damaged. The Japanese officers who participated in the meeting all felt elated, which was completely opposite to the dejection in the past. This time they all felt Hold your head high and your chest full of pride.

"General!"

Looking at Okamura sitting in the first place, even though Isamu Yokoyama, who was the commander of the 11th Army that captured Changsha this time, was still extremely impressed.

It turned out that before the start of the attack on Changsha, Okamura found Isamu Yokoyama in advance and led a group of staff to discuss how to break Xue Boling's Tianlu tactics.

In this meeting, Okamura proposed: "Although Xue Boling is talented, he is arrogant and arrogant. This is also his character flaw.

Since the three battles in Changsha, this person has used Tianlu tactics with great proficiency. I think he will definitely use the same tactics again after this battle breaks out. As long as this tactic can be broken, Xue Boling is just a paper tiger and is not enough. fear. "

In the end, Okamura and Yokoyama Isamu formulated tactics to crack the Tenra tactics.

Okamura, who returned to the Sino-Japanese stage from Guadalcanal, also relied on the prestige of defeating the US military in the Guadalcanal area and obtained a batch of special-type internal fire boats from the navy. It's really useless, but fighting in the southern water network area is like walking on flat ground.

There is no other reason. There are many rivers in the south, which provides great convenience for the national army to deploy defenses. The national army can control the tidal flat defense line with a small number of troops, but this is exactly where Okamura takes advantage. These internal fireboats choose these seemingly dangerous ones that the Japanese will not know. Show up where you came from.

Moreover, Okamura also used the Masuko Air Close Team, which had experienced several actual combat operations, to coordinate the advance of the troops.

Although these Masuko advancing troops were severely beaten by the Eighth Route Army, they performed amazingly in this battle. After successfully destroying the national army's communication facilities, they also cooperated internally and externally to assist Okamura's large forces to break through.

In addition, this time they attacked the Eighth Route Army base area and launched the Western Hubei Campaign. Inoue Armored Division and Yamashita Fengwen's Jihadi Army were still attracting the attention of the Japanese army from all sides. They also feigned an attack on Changde and attracted a large number of reinforcements from the Changsha garrison. .

The right time and place, Lioka Village is almost completely occupied.

Xue Boling was indeed careless because of his character flaws.

In the words of Li Yunlong, who spoke of the failure of the Battle of Changsha in a meeting after the war and cursed in anger: "No matter how powerful the swordsman in ancient times is, even if he is the best swordsman in the world, he can't just use one move! This move can be used multiple times. He won't work anymore!
It's his grandma's, and he was the one to fight this battle.

The little Japanese mobilized the Kwantung Army to go south, and during this period they continued to expand the army. With so much information, Chiang Kai-shek did not receive any information at all?

We also sent a special telegram to the Ninth War Zone to express the Japanese army's possible intention to attack Changsha, but did all this turn a deaf ear?

The little devil is constantly improving and learning, but this ninth war zone has been standing still. It's a damn thing if we can win this battle! "

What else can Kong Jie say about this?Also very sad.

This time, in order to respond to the Changsha Defense War, the Eighth Route Army also contributed a lot and took the initiative to launch a multi-directional offensive to contain the Japanese army.

As the head of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Command, Kong Jie also sent aerial firepower to cover the retreat of Xue Boling's troops in the Ninth Theater.

And mobilized two bombing squadrons, successfully blowing up the Japanese ships parked by the Japanese army.

Otherwise, Xue Boling might not be able to retain the main force and withdraw!

But in the end it was still defeated.

Kong Jie sighed helplessly: "Old Li, Old Ding, the Chiang Kai-shek army has been defeated, and it will be our turn next. With the help of the little devils' power of capturing Changsha, and the blessing of a large amount of looted military resources, we The pressure suddenly increased a lot.”

But when it comes to everything, there are always pros and cons.

With the fall of Changsha, countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union, which originally considered that if Chiang Kai-shek could defeat the Japanese army in the Changsha defense battle, would continue to choose to mainly support Chiang Kai-shek in order to hold back the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield, their investment could be said to be completely bankrupt.

The Battle of Western Hubei lasted for more than a month. Although the Chiang Kai-shek troops blocked the final Japanese offensive due to the brave fighting of the officers and soldiers, they also lost a large amount of strategic resources.

The Japanese army took this opportunity to feed war with war, and continued to expand its army, making its combat power even stronger.

What else could be done? Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union could only turn around and provide military assistance to the Eighth Route Army, hoping that the Eighth Route Army could withstand the pressure and hold back the Japanese army.

As for the Eighth Route Army, represented by Kong Jie, he used practical actions to tell the Allied countries what "sit on the ground and raise prices."

Didn’t we still hope that Jiang Jun could defeat the Japs before and were unwilling to provide military assistance to our Eighth Route Army?Why are you coming back to beg us now?

Well, if you want our Eighth Route Army to help deal with the Japanese, you can.

——I have to pay more!

Kong Jie is also a lion, asking for whatever he can get from advanced technology, various military production lines, artillery, chariots, aircraft and tanks.

In addition, the Allied countries have to deal with the Japanese, so you need this information too!

Information about some Japanese tanks, fighter aircraft data, analysis and understanding of Japanese tactics, and other aspects of intelligence.

Do you want it?
Okay, you have to pay more!

Later, I heard Doolittle say that Kong Jie also had an international nickname among Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, called "Kong Jia Qian."

The leaders in Yan'an who learned about this also smiled and said that it was a pity that Kong Jie was leading troops on the front line to fight. With his talents, he would definitely shine in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the future.

(End of this chapter)