In the Battle of Guilin, more than 3900 people were killed/kloc-0, injured1965,438+000, and more than 300 people were missing. Among them, the rank of colonel was 9 joint captains, the rank of lieutenant was 3 1 captain, and nearly 100 squadrons were killed. The water in Lijiang River is the blood of the enemy and our army. After the Guilin Games, I heard many old people in Guangxi say that the bodies of the Chinese and Japanese armies were scattered all over the beautiful Lijiang River for nearly 5 kilometers, showing the cruelty of the battle. Because the goal of "holding on for three months" was not realized, because the Kuomintang never wanted to defend Guilin, because of the contradiction between Chiang Kai-shek and Guangxi, and perhaps even because the Kuomintang wanted to sacrifice its troops in Guilin in exchange for counter-offensive time, many people in China did not know about this battle that shocked the Japanese. The only reward of the Kuomintang government is to promote the fallen Guilin garrison commander 13 1 division commander Kan Weiyong to lieutenant general, and that's all. The reason why the intensity of Guilin's defense war was ranked before Hengyang's defense war by the Japanese army was because the equipment of Guilin defenders was much worse than Hengyang defenders, and many of them were local armed forces. More importantly, none of the soldiers in Gui Jun surrendered when they were "awake" (the people who were later captured were unconscious by poison gas), and even if they ran out of ammunition and were seriously injured, they still resisted to the death. Moreover, according to many Japanese memoirs, the defenders of Hengyang, a citizen of Guangxi who participated in the war, were also well-equipped Central Army, but in the end, the defenders of Hengyang surrendered. The defending battle of Guilin is the epitome of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a local Kuomintang army. On the anti-Japanese battlefield, Gui Jun, Northwest Army, Xiang Army, Sichuan Army, Yunnan Army, etc. These local warlords brought great disasters to the people in the warlord melee, but at the moment of Japanese invasion and national peril, they still showed the blood that China people should have and made great contributions to saving the national peril, such as the Songhu War. When Xiang soldiers enter the battlefield, they should say "goodbye in the afterlife" to those around them. Gui Jun soldiers "hand-to-hand combat" with bayonets with bare hands, and only a few hundred people were left in the fierce battle between a division of Sichuan Army and the Japanese army. These are all symbols that the Chinese nation will never give in.