The Battle of Hengyang was the most brutal city defense battle since the Anti-Japanese War. The Japanese army's general attack was defeated three times, and the main offensive force was continuously disabled. More than 200,000 Japanese troops (110,000 attacking the city and more than 100,000 assisting) were intercepted here for 48 days. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties. Although the figures are controversial (ranging from 20,000 to 60,000), the undoubted fact is that a large number of middle and senior Japanese officers died here, and at least three Japanese generals were knocked down under the city.
However, they also made huge sacrifices. More than 6,000 soldiers died and 9,000 soldiers were injured. When they ran out of ammunition and food, and when all assistance was hopeless, in order to prevent the 9,000 wounded soldiers who were unable to fight from being massacred, the remaining 2,000 officers and soldiers stopped resisting and were sent to prisoner-of-war camps (labor camps). This also disappoints those who expected them all to die in battle.
No one knows how many people died in the end, and no one knows what the future fate of the survivors will be. Decades have passed, and even the graves of the soldiers have not been preserved in this city where the Japanese army faced the most difficult siege since its invasion of China. Although the remains of thousands of soldiers are still scattered randomly in the city.
In order to commemorate the dead who died in the Anti-Japanese War, to commemorate the brave and not-so-brave people who once defended this country, and to commemorate the dead who will never have tombstones, I tried to restore their stories and restore the real history with fictional characters.