The Battle of Hengyang (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Shifen Fox | knygos.lt

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In April 1944, Imperial Japan launched operation Ichi-Go, an attempt to secure a transcontinental transport route through China and eliminate the supporting U.S. air forces. The Japanese army quickly overran Chinese resistance, and pushed fast toward Hengyang, a key railway junction in south-central China and the site of a major U.S. air base. The Battle of Hengyang began on June 23. With just 17,000 troops and besieged in an area of less than ten square miles, the Chinese 10th Army held off a Japanese force totaling more than 110,000 men for forty-seven days. The fighting was among the most savage of the entire war with Japan. Hengyang fell on August 8, but the Chinese defenders killed 20,000 Japanese invaders and wounded tens of thousands more, frustrating Ichi-Go's momentum. The Japanese military's failure to quickly conquer such a small city led to the fall of Japanese Prime Minister Tojo's cabinet in July 1944. The Battle of Hengyang was compared to Stalingrad at the time and to the Battle of Suiyang, the most famous siege in ancient Chinese history. This is the first English language history of this key battle of World War II.