On this day, 81 years ago, on August 8, 1944 (June 20, 1944 in the lunar calendar), the Japanese army captured Hengyang and burned, killed and looted Hengyang. On August 8, 1944, the Japanese army captured Hengyang. In Hengyang, it burned, killed, and looted the remains of Hengyang soldiers and civilians who had been killed. On August 8, 1944, Hengyang City, which had been holding for 47 days, finally fell. Yesterday, under Japanese aircraft bombing, artillery bombardment, incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs, more than half of the last group of defenders were killed and injured. Ammunition and grain warehouses had been destroyed by Japanese incendiary bombs 20 days ago. The reinforcements had been unable to arrive. The dead horses, dead cats, and dead dog meat in the city were also eaten up. Some soldiers had begun to boil leather belts to satisfy their hunger. A large number of wounded soldiers died without timely medical treatment, and ammunition had long been exhausted. They had no choice but to. Commander Fang Xianjue ordered an end to the resistance. The Japanese army launched the "Changsha-Hengyang" Campaign on May 26. In order to open up the middle section of the Yuehan Road and then open up the southern section of the Xianggui Road and the southern section of the Yuehan Road, the Japanese army captured China airports in southern China and attacked in the direction of Changsha and Hengyang. The China garrison fought with 300,000 to 400,000 troops, but failed to stop the Japanese offensive. On June 18, Changsha fell, and the Japanese army continued south, approaching Hengyang. Hengyang is an extremely important strategic location. It is the connection point between the Guangdong-Han and Hunan-Guangxi railways. It is also the intermediate link between the Southeast Air Force Base and the Southwest Air Force Base. The Japanese army adopted the tactics of circuitous encirclement and made a detour south. After encirclement, it launched a general offensive on June 22. To this day, the Japanese army has 20,000 casualties, leaving less than a thousand of Hengyang's 18,000 defenders. Throughout the Battle of Changheng, the Japanese army suffered more than 60,000 casualties and the China army suffered more than 100,000 casualties. After 47 days of fighting, in front of the Hengyang garrison position, the bodies of the Chinese and Japanese armies piled up like mountains. The city's markets had become ruins. More than 50,000 houses in the city were destroyed. Property losses amounted to 570.1 billion yuan. Nearly 30,000 people were killed and 25,000 were disabled by guns. Up to 30,000 people died due to toxic gas and bacterial plagues. The reason why Hengyang was almost destroyed was that the Hengyang Defense Battle was the battle in which the lone army defended the city for the longest time, resisted the most tenacious, and killed the most brutally in the entire Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi. After the fall of Hengyang, the Japanese army stepped into the city of scorched ruins. They continued to burn, kill and rob residents and a few surviving shops who had not had time to evacuate, and captured those Kuomintang troops who laid down their weapons because they were outnumbered. Inhumane torture and abuse are carried out. The Japanese army first gathered prisoners of war in a courtyard, and then drove the hungry and hungry prisoners to all directions in batches to endure hard labor and transport supplies under the scorching sun. The Japanese army remanded prisoners of war and buried the bodies of the victims in piles, and even buried some injured people who were still breathing alive alive. As for the captured wounded, they were concentrated in Chuanshan Middle School. The Japanese army provided neither medicine nor food, resulting in most of them being killed. Due to the heavy damage to the urban area and the inability to satisfy the invaders 'desires, the Japanese army extended its claws to the suburbs. 40% of the people in Songshan Township in the suburbs were killed and raped by the Japanese army; there were many residents in Wangongtang Wuchang in the fifth resident group, but more than 70 people were killed by the Japanese army. Several Japanese soldiers attempted to violently attack a woman in the Tang family near Ertang. Seeing this, her husband came forward to rescue her. The Japanese soldiers actually hung her on a tree with wire, poured it with gasoline, and burned her alive. They also forcibly gang-raped the woman and stabbed him to death. On the Tielumen River, after a Japanese army insulted a woman carrying a child, he pushed his mother and two people into the river. A group of men and women taking refuge on a boat unfortunately encountered the Japanese army. The men on the boat were tied up by the Japanese army and the women were taken to gang rape. Later, all men and women on the boat were stabbed to death. After 47 days of siege, the Japanese army charged into Hengyang