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...tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yo went the credit. When the Japanese columns first stabbed at his troops General Hsueh had not tried to hold them. To make effective his numerical superiority he tried to outflank the drive, throw his men at the Japanese rear supply lines. As the Japanese drive forced it in, General Hsueh's line strained back like a bowstring. But the ends remained securely anchored deep behind the Japanese flanks...
Desperately the Chinese tried to stem the advance. Skillfully General Hsueh Yo thinned his troops out in flanking columns, hoping to round the Japanese end. But the Japanese spearheads pushed on. Their bombers pounded the city mercilessly. Chungking admitted that some Japanese had entered the city, but insisted they had been wiped...
...diminutive Cantonese General Hsueh Yo, commander in chief of the Ninth War Area and Governor of Hunan, the situation looked grim. The Japanese had crushing superiority in planes, artillery and mechanized equipment; they might have up to 100,000 men. The valley of the Hsiang River gave them a natural avenue of approach to his capital. A few crosswise streams and low hills were his only terrain advantages. General Hsueh studied the map, pondered. He had let the Japanese get within 15 miles of Changsha in 1939, then cut them to bits. But he had fought with crack Central Government...
...General Hsueh Yo had been in tight spots. He had led the famous ist Division under Chiang Kai-shek in the northern march that unified China in the '20s. They had won against all the world's opposition, in the teeth of all the warlords. This week he is in a tight spot again, fighting again to hold his capital, to keep its rice for China...
...particular, was that one of the towns the Japanese advance rolled past was Fenghua, the "Gissimo's" birthplace. The Gissimo is sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since his mother is buried there...