The city burned to ruins, and the field hospital was placed in a temple on the outskirts of Changsha, where there were not enough houses, and a large number of tents were set up in the green pine forest to house the wounded.

The devil's planes came and went every now and then, throwing bombs everywhere, and when the city of Changsha had burned down, they threw bombs at nearby villages and towns.

Many rice paddies were blown up in huge craters of mud turned out, and many villages and towns were destroyed and razed to the ground by bombs.

Fortunately, however, the Chinese military and civilians have already paid great attention to air defense, and air defense posts have been set up in various places, and the devil's plane is still far away, and the air defense sirens have sounded violently.

The people working in the fields and the officers and men who were training heard the air raid sirens and hid in the woods or burrowed into the ground, and the casualties caused by the devil's planes became less and less.

After the devil plane left, people did whatever they wanted, and they became accustomed to the bombing of the devil plane.

Due to the good concealment of the field hospital, although the devil's plane flew over the vicinity of Changsha from time to time, the location of the field hospital was not discovered.

Although he was recuperating from his injuries, Yang Ling, as a regimental-level official, also enjoyed good treatment and had a separate room to live in.

Thousands of wounded soldiers were stinking in the hospital, covered in blood, and their bodies were hard to carry out, and the brothers with missing arms and legs were also wailing in pain, and the doctors were so busy that they were exhausted all day.

Although Yang Ling said that he had a separate room to recuperate, he did not seem lonely alone, and there were many brothers in the regiment who were injured in the battle of Wanjialing.

Yang Ling's wound infection worsened, when he first arrived at the hospital, the doctor asked for amputation, Yang Ling didn't do it, if he became the one-armed regiment commander, how could he lead the troops to fight, and finally saved his arm at his insistence.

In the era of lack of medical treatment, for busy doctors, many injuries actually do not need amputation, but in order to save medicine and time, they are amputated, which is also a helpless thing.

The wounded brothers ran around Yang Ling all day long, and the regiment commander was injured in the charge on the battlefield, and the brothers admired it from the bottom of their hearts.

The brothers chatted and bragged together, and sometimes played chess, but after a long time, it became boring, and Yang Ling had to ask them to get some newspapers and books when they came over for Yang Ling to relieve their boredom, so as to understand the situation outside the hospital.

The fire in Changsha was dealt with quickly, and the chairman of the committee also personally flew to Changsha to inspect the victims, and went to the station of the 74th Army to offer condolences, but before that, Yang Ling had been sent to the hospital, but he did not see it.

Yang Ling also learned a lot of information from the outside world through major newspapers and radio stations, so that although he was in the hospital, he knew everything about the outside world.

The Chinese army fought repeatedly with the little devils in the outer areas of Wuhan for several months, and a large amount of the little devils' vital forces were consumed.

The little devils who have been fighting for several months are also exhausted, and they are not capable of launching a large-scale offensive in a short period of time.

They first wanted to destroy China within three months, but the Chinese army fought bloody battles on the Songhu battlefield for three months with their flesh and blood, breaking the devil's plan for a quick victory.

The little devils were very arrogant before the war, their annual steel production was more than five million tons, while China only had tens of thousands of tons, they produced more than a thousand aircraft a year, and China could only rely on buying from abroad......

It is precisely based on the comparison of a large number of military and economic data that makes the little devils think that they can destroy China in a short time, but they have lowered the determination of Chinese officers and soldiers and ordinary people to resist.

Millions of officers and soldiers traveled thousands of miles to the battlefield, just to go to the national disaster, and only one battle of Songhu bankrupted the devil's plan to destroy China in three months.

The devil's base camp also proposed a plan to capture Wuhan and force the Chinese government to land at the bottom of the kettle, trying to achieve its own strategic intentions.

But the little devil was disappointed again, after four months of fierce fighting, countless soldiers were lost, and countless weapons and ammunition resources were spent to get an empty city, and China was still resisting.

Although the little devils have captured most of China, the devils are also exhausted after more than a year of repeated battles, and with the expansion of the occupied areas and the elongation of the battle line, they are becoming more and more powerless.

After the capture of Wuhan, the devils had to adjust their strategy according to the current situation, changing from attacking by force to focusing on political inducement, supplemented by attacking by force.

Politically, they constantly co-opted the senior officials of the government in an attempt to induce the government to surrender, and only maintained local pressure militarily, and no longer pressed step by step. The main forces will be transferred to the rear occupation areas to carry out law and order clearance battles.

With the change of the strategy of the little devils, the devils suspended the large-scale offensive, so that the Chinese army, which had lost more than one million yuan after more than a year of fighting, finally took a breath, and the two sides entered the stage of confrontation.

The little devils are adjusting their strategy, and the Chinese side is also adjusting its strategy, and all units have suffered heavy losses in more than a year of operations, and their weapons and equipment have suffered considerable losses.

Because the 74th Army fought quite brilliantly in the First Battle of Wanjialing, it was directly listed as a strategic general reserve by the Military Commission and was directly under the jurisdiction of the Military Commission.

In particular, a number of young Whampoa officers were specially removed from the Whampoa Military Academy to replenish the 74th Army to restore its combat effectiveness.

Before the 74th Army, there were many troops that could fight tough battles, such as the 87th and 88th divisions of the German armament, although the combat effectiveness was very strong, but after a hard battle, after the veterans fought hard, they were weak.

Many ace troops on the battlefield gradually disappeared from people's sight under such circumstances, because they could not get high-quality soldiers and weapons to replenish, even if they were ace troops, after a few bloody battles, they would not be able to recover their glory.

Fortunately, the 74th Army is, after all, a descendant unit of the Central Army, and there are people above who are easy to talk to, after all, the army commander Yu Jishi is the nephew of the chairman of the committee, and this time he has won back face, and the chairman is naturally happy.

With the replenishment of a large number of Whampoa officers and high-quality soldiers, the strength has not weakened, but has become stronger.

The strength of the 74th Army was strengthened under the care of the Military Commission, and their opponent, the 11th Army of the Devil under the command of Okamura Ninji, was also strengthened, and three divisions were placed under the command of the 11th Army.

The troops under the direct command of the 11th Army reached seven elite divisions, which can be described as strong, and they pressed on the front line of the Xinqiang River and Xiushui River to confront the troops of the Ninth Theater, eyeing Changsha, and the clouds of war did not dissipate.

On the Chinese side, the Central Military Commission has also made new arrangements for summing up the experience of fighting the little devils in the first stage.

One-third of the country's troops were ordered to be transferred behind enemy lines to fight guerrilla attacks to contain devils, one-third to be stationed in front of the enemy to confront the devils, and one-third to be transferred to the rear areas for rotational training, and each unit was rotated with each other for four months in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Among them, the 7th Army, the 24th Group Army, and the 26th Group Army of the Gui Army fought guerrilla warfare in areas behind enemy lines such as Dabie Mountain, and were responsible for operations behind enemy lines, while units such as the 74th Army were transferred to the rear to begin training.

The theater of operations throughout the country has also undergone a new readjustment and is divided into 10 major theaters and one theater behind enemy lines, and with General Xuezhong as the commander-in-chief, the theater has jurisdiction over battlefields behind enemy lines, such as southern and northern Jiangsu.