The Chinese have a couple of options for setting up their defense depending on your playing style but you have the numbers just not the morale and depending on the draw, enough quality officers, still the Japanese will have their work cut out for them.

The Japanese advance found some softness in the Chinese defense on one of the flanks and maneuvered to exploit it but one stubborn Chinese entrenchment held out for most of the game tying up valuable Japanese resources. As the Japanese bypassed this lone holdout they came across the Chinese second line of defense, two out of the three hexes held out longer than expected in close combat while Chinese mortars picked this time to be effective disrupting and demoralizing several Japanese units, but two companies of Japanese infantry did make it to the outskirts of Changsha, capturing one hex but they lacked the support to go any further into the town.

Surprisingly the Chinese fought well, maybe not every hex but enough hexes with good Chinese leaders held up the Japanese advance and inflicting far more casualties than they took.