Jianghan Lament -- Battle of Wuhan

Author: Fang Zhijin
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: The Wuchang Defense Campaign from June to November 1983 was the largest battle in the history of China's Anti-Japanese War, where both the Chinese and Japanese forces gathered the largest number of troops and suffered the heaviest casualties. The book describes how the Chinese army, with the designated lines of Pingxiang, Tonggu, Wuning, Ruichang, Tianjiapeng, Guangji, Luotian, Macheng, Huang'an, and Wushengguan as the decisive battle zone, and the mountainous areas on the left bank of the Ganjiang River, along the Qingjiang River from Jiujiang, and along the northern bank of the river bordering Hubei and Anhui, as the forward defensive positions, maintained peripheral operations and fought to defend the greater Wuhan. The book depicts the tragic scenes of the vast patriotic officers and soldiers fighting desperately with inferior equipment, while also providing a detailed description of the internal conflicts within the Kuomintang government and Chiang Kai-shek's high leadership, revealing the deep-seated reasons for the eventual failure of the Wuchang Campaign.