After the loss of Wuhan, Okamura Ninji lost face because of the heavy losses he suffered in the battle of Wanjialing, so he did not give up and commanded the divisions of the 11th Army under his command to pursue the retreating troops of the Ninth Theater.

They successively captured Xianning, Tongcheng and other places, and then captured Yueyang on 11 November.

Although the troops belonging to the Chinese Ninth Theater have been deployed on the front line of the Xiushui River and the Xinqiang River to block the continued attack of Okamura Ninji's 11th Army towards Changsha.

But hundreds of thousands of refugees and a large number of troops have poured into Changsha from the Wuhan area, and all kinds of rumors are flying everywhere, making Changsha already a rumor.

"The devil has already hit the Xinqiang River and is rushing to Changsha!"

"The devil is less than fifty miles away from Changsha......"

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All kinds of rumors undoubtedly made the entire Changsha people panic, and on the 11th, the chairman of the NPC committee sent two telegrams to the chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, demanding that the "scorched earth war of resistance" be persisted.

Once Changsha cannot be defended, then it is impossible to leave a brick and a grain of grain for the little devil, and in the case of all kinds of news flying all over the sky, Changsha has to prepare to burn the city.

However, there is an agreement in advance that the city is not allowed to be burned until it is absolutely necessary, after all, Changsha is a thousand-year-old city, and all the provincial government agencies, banks and schools are in Changsha.

The number of refugees pouring into Changsha has also reached three to four hundred thousand, and once the city of Changsha is burned down, the damage will be immeasurable.

However, the situation was too chaotic at that time, and on the night of the thirteenth day, the vanguard of the 74th Army's withdrawal to Changsha arrived on the outskirts of Changsha, so that the people who set fire to the city thought that the devils had attacked outside the city, and began to set fire to the city without confirmation.

As one location began to set fires, the rest of the agreed locations began to ignite one after another, and with the help of the night wind, in a short period of time, the entire Changsha fell into a sea of flames.

The fire burned for two days and two nights, burning this thousand-year-old city to ashes, and when Changsha caught fire, the little devil was still blocked by the troops belonging to the Ninth War Zone in the Xinqiang River and Xiushui River hundreds of miles away.

When Yang Ling and the others arrived in Changsha, the entire city was almost burned, black ash was floating in the sky, and the city was in ruins.

"Quick, assemble, assemble!"

Before the officers and men who had just gotten off the bus could take a breath, they had to assemble and run into Changsha City to carry out rescue and maintain order.

Changsha has become a Shura field, the smell of burning wafts in the air, as far as the eye can see, it is charred black, there is no intact building, and many people who died in the fire are lying on the side of the road, and they have long been unable to distinguish their appearance.

"Fuck, whoever sets the fire will be pulled out and shot ten thousand times!"

Seeing the tragic situation in the city, the brothers were naturally angry in their hearts, thinking that last year, in order to stop the devil troops, the Military Commission ordered to blow up the Yellow River embankment at Huayuankou, turning dozens of counties and districts into a flood.

While the brothers were rescuing the burned people from the rubble, they cursed, and the officers and soldiers whose homes were in Changsha cried even more, which made the brothers' hearts even more uncomfortable.

"Scorched Earth Resistance, Scorched Earth Resistance, why didn't you burn down his home!" Looking at the miserable situation full of desolation, some people couldn't help but scold.

In the battle against the little devils, in order to preserve the government's strength and for the so-called grand strategy, the Chinese people endured too much suffering, were burned and flooded, and were abandoned in Nanjing for the little devils to slaughter......

And even in this difficult situation, the Chinese people in dire straits still cut back on food and clothing, and pulled their belts to donate surplus food to the front line to resist the invaders.

Although the people did not get anything from the state, every time the army was recruited, the people sent their sons and husbands to the front line to fight and fight the national war without complaint, which was glorious to their ancestors.

However, after every battle, many villages and towns are almost every family wearing linen and filial piety, and the tragedy of white-haired people sending black-haired people is staged in countless families.

In the battle with the little devils, tens of millions of casualties are just a cold series of casualties, but behind this, how many people can deeply understand the suffering caused by the little devils to the Chinese nation, and how many of them have been separated from their wives and families......

The city was in ruins, and the little devils were also blocked on the front line of the Xiushui River and the Xinqiang River, and it was difficult to survive, and they were facing off across the river from the troops belonging to the Ninth War Zone.

The devils couldn't hit Changsha for a while, and the troops of the 74th Army that went to Changsha for defense had no combat mission for a short time, and under the orders of the commanders, they began to help maintain order and rebuild houses for the people.

Although the house can be rebuilt in a short time, the wealth of the thousand-year-old city was burned clean in the fire, which has to be said to be a huge loss.

The fire in Changsha had an extremely bad impact, not only the people were boiling with resentment, but even the troops were blaming the government, and the hearts of the brothers were full of resentment.

They fought bloody battles with the little devils on the front line, but in the rear, in order to carry out the scorched earth war of resistance, before the little devils could fight, their homes were burned clean by the officials.

Since hundreds of thousands of Nanjing people were killed by little devils, the Yellow River has flooded more than 40 counties and districts, and now Changsha has been burned again...... The government's actions have already caused outrage.

Although it is said that the little devil is extremely vicious, but nothing the government has done is for the people to consider, after the fire, in order to calm the anger of the people, the government ordered a thorough investigation of the cause of the matter.

The speed of the investigation was very fast, and only a few days later, news came that Zhang Zhizhong, chairman of the Hunan provincial government, had been dismissed from his post on the spot, and a large number of people, including the head of the Second Garrison Regiment and the police chief of Changsha, had been arrested and shot.

After Yang Ling got the news, he was already lying on the bed in the field hospital, and he was busy directing the troops to fight fires and provide disaster relief for several days and nights all the way.

His physical strength was seriously overdrawn, and the wound that was shot was not treated in time because of the poor conditions on the battlefield, resulting in an infection of the wound, so he had to be admitted to the hospital to start recuperating from his injuries.

Although the government's handling of the Changsha fire this time was unprecedentedly large, and even the provincial chairman could not escape, the so-called "scorched earth anti-Japanese war" policy was the most important driving force to investigate the deep-seated reasons.

If there was no such order, Changsha would not have piled up all the streets and houses with firewood, poured gasoline on them and prepared to burn the city, and there would have been no mistakes in lighting fires later.

Although the matter was almost perfectly resolved, the person who took the blame was found, and the anger in the hearts of the people gradually subsided when they saw a large number of people being dealt with, but the hearts of the people of the government were lost again and again.

Yang Ling is a soldier whose duty is to defend the country and resist the invaders, so he doesn't bother to ask about the so-called current politics.

The devil was blocked by the troops belonging to the Ninth War Zone in the Xinqiang River and the line of the Xiushui River, and after the devil captured Wuhan, in fact, he was unable to continue the attack, and the battle line was too long.

The devil would not be able to fight for a while, the war gradually subsided, away from the battlefield of gunpowder, Yang Ling enjoyed a rare rest time in the hospital.