1941年12月中旬,侵华日军为牵制我军增援港九、缅甸,第三次进犯长沙,企图打通粤汉线,切断我军东西两战线的联系。日军为此将原驻湖北应山之第3师团、驻蒲圻之第6师团、驻成宁之第40师团及部分配属部队,集中于岳阳地区,由第11军司令官阿南惟畿指挥,于12月24日夜开始强渡新墙河,向南进犯。长沙属第九战区防区。战区司令长官薛岳将军,在日军开始调动时,判断日军将进犯长沙,决 In mid-December 1941, the Japanese army invaded China reinforced its support for Hong Kong, Kowloon and Burma by the Chinese army and attacked Changsha for the third time in an attempt to get through the line between the two sides and cut off the links between the two fronts. For this purpose, the Japanese troops concentrated the 3rd Division of Yingshan, the 6th Division stationed in Puchuang, the 40th Division stationed in Chengchuang, and some of its affiliated units, in Yueyang area, Gyeonggi command, on the night of December 24, began to force the new Wall River, south of the crime. Changsha is the ninth theater zone. General Yue Xue, commander of the theater commander, judged that the Japanese would invade Changsha when the Japanese began to mobilize