Word: hengyang
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Even in the main corridor, from Yochow and Hankow, through Changsha and Hengyang, down which the enemy was funneling his attack groups and supplies, he was subject to harassment by Chinese guerrilla bands. But these attacks were pinpricks against the flank of an armored monster...
...Chinese had been fighting south of Hengyang for a fortnight when the big break came. The weather had been cloudy and locked in all the way up the valley; never could we pour in all the air support in our power till the day we said goodbye to Kweilin. Then the sun shone clear and unchallenged and then it was too late...
Since capturing Hengyang (TIME, Aug. 28), the Japanese drive, spearheaded by five divisions with as many more in support, has advanced southwest at the rate of ten miles a day. It cut right through the Chinese army that opposed them-the Chinese, with no ammunition left, had to get away as best they could. The Japs overran Lingling, a Fourteenth Air Force field. At that rate of advance, ten days more would put them in Kweilin, site of a major U.S. air base and capital of Kwangsi Province...
...hesitation was over. The enemy had completed the road south from Changsha to Hengyang; he had made progress in restoring the railway to service, and he had cleared the Siang River of mines. Major General Chennault's airmen had flown their hearts out, bombing and strafing, but to little avail. The Japanese had at least seven well armed, well clad, well supplied divisions in the field. The Chinese had lost most of their artillery at Changsha. They still had foot soldiers galore...
Encirclement and . . . Nowhere else in the Asiatic or Pacific theaters had the Japs such a large force active in the field against any of the United Nations. The Japs' strategy was sound and tried: encirclement and annihilation. Due west from Hengyang, one column struck swiftly toward Shaoyang; southeast of Hengyang, another struck from captured Leiyang to engulf Changning...