抗日战争初期的1938年10月，武汉失守，国民党政府迁都重庆，长沙成了当时军政人员汇集之地。随着日军的进逼，蒋介石制定了“焦土抗战”政策。他给当时的湖南省政府主席张治中去电：“长沙如失陷，务将全城焚毁”，还亲临长沙具体部署。由于当局的这种指导思想，国民党军官惊 In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War in October 1938, Wuhan fell, and the Kuomintang government relocated to Chongqing and Changsha became the places where military and civilian personnel came together. As the Japanese army pressed on, Chiang Kai-shek formulated the policy of “scorched earth and war of resistance”. He telephoned Zhang Zhizhong, then chairman of Hunan Provincial Government: “If Changsha is lost, it will be burned down by the whole city” and a specific deployment will be made in Changsha. Due to the authorities’ guiding ideology, KMT officers were scared