Does Heng Yang battle have much more miserable sacrificing oneself for a just cause? What the Japanese army launchs attack at the beginning is the 68th division is mixed the 116th division. These 2 division are public security division 1, 1 is field operations division, heng Yang is famous fastness weighs war of resistance against aggression, have very picked the 10th army guard.
Heng Yang of if it were not for one battle is too miserable intense, bring about the 10th army be completely annihilated, otherwise afterwar, be 6 large main force. Because the 10th army all campaign that join in whole war of resistance against aggression, of expression very outstanding, very conspicuous. Heng Yang sets lay mines area, multilayer the defence region that defence works of 4 abatis, perverse form is linked together with depth. These defence works group depth is 300 to 400 meters.
The defence works that defending troops uses upland country region to build pattern of channel of reticulate, communication group, and make the much place that has coping and to earth up station troops with reinforcing steel bar, cement dot, lookout and battle defence works, in defence works group outside installed abatis and setting along small part lay mines area, to defended hill and big upland bottom, cause the scar with about 4 tall meters with artificial expurgation gentle slope, make enemy dogface and chariot army, cannot ascend an upland directly.
Artillerist army surrounds the upland, country of the area, dorp, crossing, road and crossing to wait for a target to Heng Yangzhou, had made gunshot measure with preparation, so that cooperate dogface,strike back. Inside Heng Yang city each street road junction especially of the north inside city street, all build fortification; To stand fast for a long time, will important goods and materials if divide into equal parts of weapon, ammo, commissariat, dress, articles for daily use, medicine comes loose save at underground.
Does Heng Yang battle have many intense? Will fight from the morning on July 1 for instance afternoon at 4 o'clock, the 116th division of Japanese army main attack the 133rd wing, 4 squadron of the 1st group are long, casualties 3 people, great team leader also is died by scamper. Group of the 2nd group grows the Japanese army to be hurt by scamper.
Same day is in Home Zhang hill position, mere 200 meters of distances, battle 2 hours, 3 squadron grow Japanese army casualties. Subsequently the Japanese army increased independent fieldpiece the 2nd wing, still group of cannon of field operations of a 105 millimeter and group of 2 trench mortar attend a war. Subsequently the fierce fight via 10 days of 10 night, 116 division are whole and ongoing about 400 meters, 68 division are whole and ongoing only 200 meters.
Among them the Japanese army 116 division 3 groups of 133 wing, the war after classics is compensatory comes on July 30, produced very big casualties again, each squadron only 20 people control surplus, already lost squadron to fight duely ability. Adding the 13rd division, the 58th division, still have the Japanese army the 11st army after army of directly under heavy artillery, on August 4, the Japanese army launched general attack the 3rd times.
The Japanese army cannot open Heng Yang as before, the Japanese army that attends a war among them the 234th wing the 3rd group remnant of the 9th squadron 17 people, remnant of the 10th squadron 24 people, remnant of the 11st squadron 11 people, the 12nd squadron only remnant 2 people, this group of 4 squadron, left 54 people.
On August 7, the Japanese army dispatched all army directly under artillerist, division artillerist, undertake 2 hours bombard, the 5th boat of Japanese air force turns out in full strength with group of battle of 3 opportunity for combat, group of 2 bomber battle and group of an attack plane battle launch general attack again. That day 11:30, the Japanese army is already strong go into town inside bank, after the course fights, the Japanese army heard a bank collective singing came out inside the building, subsequently collective of the defending troops inside the building commits suicide.
Heng Yang from June 28 since, rumble of sound of artillery piece of day and night, confusing of smoke of gunpowder is overflowed, earthy stone flies upwards, the plane in sky atttacks bomb ceaselessly, ground armed forces in succession charge. Nightly it is blaze candle day, still killing acoustical rise from all directions everywhere. 47 intense days fight, defending troops falls in burning sun, in rainstorm, day and night is inside entrenchment, live life of half live in caves. Right now the building inside the city collapses because of bombard, bomb for the most part or on fire, suburban the silvan tree of country is almost complete by cartridge or artillery shell splintery cut off. Defending troops 4 division, the rest 13600 people, it is serious wounded person and heavy patient for the most part, had been completely annihilated actually. Later, dig remains of Heng Yang defending troops, caboodle became a tremendous skeleton skull hill.
