However, the students' answers are not satisfactory to the instructor. Finally, the instructor said: The most successful battle of China Army was Tengchong.
After more than a month of fierce street fighting, Tengchong City was devastated and in ruins. All the 6,000 Japanese troops died and committed suicide in the city except 300 who fled the city. A few years later, Japanese instructors called it the last successful war of annihilation in the history of China. General Starr, the US Army Secretary, was so impressed that he made the Tengchong siege into a movie.
1In May, 944, the 20th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force crossed the Nujiang Natural Barrier with six divisions and launched an all-out attack on the Japanese army that occupied Tengchong, a strategic fortress in western Yunnan, for two years. The siege of Tengchong lasted for 42 days, and the expeditionary force annihilated more than 3,000 Japanese troops and recovered Tengchong with great victory. In the battle, more than 9000 soldiers of the group army died heroically. The victory of Tengchong War strongly promoted the victory of the battlefield in Yunnan and Burma, and wrote a glorious page in the history of China's anti-fascist war, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's history and the world's history.
May 1944, 1 1, 20th Army of Chinese Expeditionary Force (under the jurisdiction of 53 Army and 54 Army, there are 5 divisions in total-Reserve 2nd Division,198th Division, 36th Division,165438th Division, and so on). The next morning, we began to attack Gaoligong Mountain. The main force of the enemy's 56th division 148 and 146, defended themselves in times of crisis, and our army violently attacked. After a bloody battle on the 9th, the Japanese army retreated, and our army captured the public houses in the north and south of Gaoligong Mountain. After more than ten days of fierce fighting, it was transferred to Mamianguan, Jietou, Wadian and Jiangju in Tengbei. Aware of the strategic significance of losing important strongholds such as Gaoligong Mountain, Qiaotou and Jiang Yi, the Japanese army dispatched 1 13, 1 14, 146, artillery 56 and search 56 to carry out rapid reinforcement and fierce counterattack.
But the soldiers of our expeditionary force have high morale, fought bravely and fought hand in hand. After a bloody battle on the 22nd, they finally wiped out half of the enemy. Then, in pursuit of victory, they captured the bridgehead and Jiangmao, the enemy's central strongholds in Tengbei, and swept away the remnants of the enemy from the north of Gudong to Pima along the south of Longchuan River, and swept away the remnants of the enemy on both sides of Longchuan River, forming a trend of approaching and surrounding Tengchong City. At this time, all the Japanese invaders fleeing from north to south and the Japanese soldiers guarding Tengchong were combined into a synthetic wing, under the command of Colonel Zang Chong Kang Mei, the captain of the 148 unit who was guarding Laifeng Mountain and Tengchong City.
Tengchong is the strongest city in western Yunnan, with Fengshan as the barrier and the two places relying on each other. After more than two years of fighting, the Japanese army built strong fortifications and fortresses in the two places, prepared enough food and ammunition, and was ordered to defend until the end of 10, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
Our army decided to capture Fengshan first, and finally panic in Tengcheng to defend the enemy. At noon on July 26, under the cover of the air force, our army stormed five fortress groups in Fengshan with superior forces at the same time. The officers and men fought bravely and fought bloody battles on the 3 rd, making great sacrifices to capture Fengshan. They immediately cleared the enemy outside Nancheng and surrounded Tengchong City on all sides. Finally, the wall of Tengchong, a lonely city, is surrounded by huge stones, which are tall and thick. There are forts around the city wall, and there are large forts on both sides of the four corners of the city wall. On August 2, our army boarded the city by ladder for the first time, but it suffered heavy sacrifices and could not gain a foothold. Then it used the air force to bomb the city wall from the sky, collapsed more than ten places, and forcibly entered the city from the gap. After 12 days of fierce fighting, the fortress groups on the city wall were destroyed one by one.
On August 14, our army rushed into the city from the south wall with four whole divisions and launched a fierce street fighting. Due to the dense streets and lanes in Tengchong city, houses are connected, and stubborn enemies use houses to fortify and build castles in the lanes, and the fighting is extremely fierce. Every step forward will pay a terrible price. As the "20 Army Battle Minutes" said, "Siege battles, big and small battles, fierce battles everywhere. Our enemies are in melee, and the mountains and rivers are dazzling, and the potential is like lightning. Because of the heavy sacrifices, there is blood on the walls. " After 42 days of "scorched earth" campaign, the enemy troops on the defensive were wiped out, and Tengchong regained its city on September 1944. Tengchong fell for two years, four months and four days and returned to the hands of Tengchong people.
From 1944, May 1 1, the 20th Army of the Expeditionary Force crossed the Nujiang River in September 14 and captured Tengchong City, which lasted 127 days. More than 40 battles were fought, and 4 enemy officers and more than 60 soldiers were captured. More than 65,438+000 officers and more than 6,000 soldiers killed the enemy's Major General Commander and Tibet Commander Major General Kang Mei. 7 field guns, 6 infantry guns, 0/0 mortars, 0/9 heavy machine guns, 47 light machine guns, more than 0/000 foot guns, more than 20 cars and 25 wired and wireless motors were seized. Our expeditionary force also suffered casualties 1.234 officers and 1.7075 soldiers, which shows the arduous and tragic battle of Tengchong and the patriotic spirit of the expeditionary force soldiers.
China battlefield and Tengchong battlefield are part of the world anti-fascist battlefield.
People in Tengchong mountainous area never imagined that in Tengchong Anti-Japanese War, there were even a group of blond westerners fighting side by side with them. The allies joined the battle from the ground to the air. There is an American Staff Committee in the Chinese Expeditionary Force to participate in campaign planning. In the air, the Flying Tigers (later Air Force 14), headed by Chennault, participated in the Tengchong Campaign.
From1August 943 17, the allied air force bombed the Japanese army in Tengchong for the first time, to1September 9441day, in the 390 days, the allied air force dispatched more than 20 times, involving more than 300 aircraft, and bombed Gaoligong Mountain and Laifengshan successively. On August 22nd, 1944, the allied air force dispatched 60 planes in five batches to bomb and strafe the Japanese battery group in the northwest corner of Tengchong city, which created favorable conditions for the ground troops to conquer the buildings in the northwest corner. In September 10 air battle, four Japanese planes were shot down.
In the whole Tengchong Anti-Japanese War, the key targets of the allied air force attack were Laifeng Mountain and Tengchong City, which were the most heavily defended by the Japanese army. These attacks reduced the casualties of the ground troops of the expeditionary force and destroyed most of the Japanese fortresses. Destroyed a considerable number of enemy troops and won time and opportunity for the final victory of the campaign.
The Allied Air Force also undertook the airlift mission. Tengchong had an airport before the war, and five temporary airports and airdrop points were built during the war for the use of allied air forces. During the large-scale counterattack of the expeditionary force, the allied air transport was extremely busy; Flying around the clock, it transported a large number of ammunition, food and other military supplies to Tengchong to support ground operations and made great contributions to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
During the Tengchong Anti-Japanese War, due to Japanese artillery attack, weather factors, disorientation and other reasons, some allied fighters and transport planes crashed, some pilots died heroically, while others were rescued by ordinary people in time, helping them to heal and find soldiers, and giving them cordial treatment, which made them unforgettable. More than half a century later, a pilot specially told his children that Wan Li had come all the way to Tengchong to look for rescuers and express his gratitude. The Chinese and American people will always remember and cherish the profound friendship forged in the common anti-fascist struggle.