The 200,000 or so Chinese troops on the periphery did their best in many cases.
The 250,000 to 270,000 Chinese troops on the periphery included 100,000 people from five Sichuan armies, 60,000 people from one army each of Gui, Xiang and Yue***, and about 110,000 people from the Central Army.
The Sichuan army suffered the most casualties, more than 40 days of the defense of Hengyang down, the five armies of the Sichuan army almost at the beginning of the whole was scattered, initially once only 20,000 people collected, and then slowly collect troops, there are still 60,000 people left, casualties of more than 30,000 people, accounting for one-third of the casualties of the Chinese army.
The Central Army, with 110,000 men in seven armies, also suffered more than 20,000 casualties in more than 40 days.
The 73rd Hunan Army encountered the Japanese on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, crossing the river from west to east, and was blocked by the Japanese intensive firepower, with huge casualties, and almost collapsed within half a day. After the battle, the Hunan Army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, but those who escaped amounted to 6,000!
Guangdong army 62nd army at first reluctant to reinforce Hengyang, began a small fight into the Hengyang railway station immediately withdrew, and then the national government pro telegraph Huang Tao military commander, to the 62nd army three divisions of the military order, 62nd army, this is no life to charge, the 62nd army of the whole army in the Japanese line, the 62nd army within a day of the whole 62nd army in pieces, the 151st deputy commander of the general Yu Ziwu in the supervisory array Heroic martyrdom, within a day, the 62nd Army casualties up to 10,000 people, completely lost combat power, the battle is extremely tragic.
The 46th Gui Army was initially reluctant to reinforce Hengyang because of the national government's withholding of pay, but under strict orders, the army likewise swore to fight. On July 29, 1944, arrived at the periphery of Hengyang, immediately began to attack, soon to break through the Japanese 34th and 58th Division main defense line to occupy only a few miles away from Hengyang Ertang, which once caused the Japanese army appeared to be chaotic, to the August 8, the 46th Army attacked the two mother mountain, persimmon river bridge northeast of the line, see immediately to win and thus attacked the city of Hengyang and the Tenth Army to meet, but the day of the Hengyang immediately declared the loss of defense. In order to prevent the Japanese from moving westward, the main force of 46th Army was ordered to move, and once again defeated the Japanese and occupied the lines of Nanxiangpu, Wangpu and Xinqiao. However, at this time, the National Government transferred the 46th Army back to Guangxi in order to deploy the Xiang-Gui operation. The 46th Gui Army was also the one that fought closest to Hengyang. But the army, due to the direct attack on the frontal defense line of the main Japanese divisions, although the results of the battle were great and effective, but the casualties were also great, the whole army suffered more than 7000 casualties, and more than half of the officers below the regimental battalion and company commanders sacrificed their lives.
In fact, we can't say that all the troops on the periphery of Hengyang saw death, there is the phenomenon of seeing death, but most of the troops showed great bravery. However, the coordination of confusion, uneven combat effectiveness of the troops, equipment than the Japanese army is quite poor, especially heavy weapons, such as the Sichuan army an army is less than 3 mountain guns, although some of the troops said that the weapons are not worse than the Japanese army, but the amount of ammunition allotment is too small, the amount of ammunition allotment of a single soldier is less than one-fifth of the Japanese army, and the medical equipment is seriously insufficient. Chinese soldiers elite are in the Burma battlefield, stay in the domestic troops soldiers poor physical condition, insufficient training, and even many have serious night blindness and so on.
And, the periphery belongs to the field battle, unlike the street battle, the field battle, the Japanese firepower advantage is easier to play.
According to the Japanese side of the history of war "No. 1 combat - Hunan battle" records, the Japanese army in the periphery of the battle, the loss of more than 20,000 people, which is also from another point of view to illustrate the periphery of Hengyang, the Chinese army is still desperately, just due to a variety of subjective and objective reasons, can not break through only.
The tenth army for the central army direct line of troops, the establishment of the beginning of more than shandong soldiers, division management area is to 44 early by zhejiang jin yan division management area for guangxi hechi yishan, hengyang defense war is 44 years in june, between the distance time is too short, so hengyang defense war of the 10th army of guangxi soldiers of course certainly have, but should not be too much.
Several divisions of the 10th Army, the source of soldiers at the time of its establishment are as follows:
Preparatory 10th Division (Division Commander Ge Xiancai): This division suffered the greatest casualties after the battle of Hengyang, but also killed the most enemies, was established before the war, upgraded by the security forces of Zhejiang Province, and then supplemented with 2,000 recruits from Fujian Province, the division, although the word "preparatory", but is the "preparatory" division, the division is the "preparatory" division, but is the "preparatory" division. The Tenth Army is the most powerful brigade of the Tenth Army, even though it has the word "reserve".
Temporary 54th Division (Division Commander Rao Shaowei): This division's soldiers came mainly from Hunan Province, and were good at street fighting, although their equipment wasn't very good, but their morale was high.
3rd Division (Division Commander Zhou Qingxiang): this division's soldiers came from Guangxi, when the war broke out from Guangxi's Guilin, Danzhu and other places in the recruiting station recruited troops, basic training is relatively good, quite combat, as far as the results of the war, no less than the 10th Division of the reserve.
190th Division (Division Commander Rong Youliu): the source of this division's soldiers is more complicated, all provinces. The fighting strength of this division was a bit poorer compared to the other three divisions, and the division, in many cases, had some of its troops in reserve.
The above is the initial composition of the soldiers of the four divisions under the jurisdiction of the 10th Army. I can't say that there were no Hunanese or no Guangxi, but these were in 37 and 38 when the war of resistance had just broken out. As for the years 37 to 44, the source of recruits for the 10th Army was in the Jin Yan division area of Zhejiang, and in 44, it began to change