1938 April 2 1 day, more than 40,000 sons and daughters of Yunnan formed the 60th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, bid farewell to their parents, wives and children, and traveled thousands of miles to Wang Yushan and surrounding villages on the east bank of the canal. In the second stage of Taierzhuang War, they fought bravely against the Japanese aggressors for more than 20 days, sacrificing13,869 people, and injuring more than 5,000 people. They are called "China Iron Army" by Tokyo Base Camp. However, due to various reasons, there are not many military history trees of the Kuomintang in this flesh-and-blood battle, and the Taierzhuang War Memorial Hall has not left a "place" for them. In order to make up for this "deficiency", in late May of 20 13, a delegation of six Yunnan Army heroes and heroines led by Wu, former deputy mayor of Zaozhuang City, party secretary and first deputy director of Taierzhuang District People's Congress Standing Committee, went to Yunnan to visit Taierzhuang anti-Japanese war veterans and their descendants, and prepared to establish the "War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Exhibition Hall of Yunnan Army" in Taierzhuang Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall. 2065438+On May, 2003 1 1 day, the reporter came to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province for the first time with the "Yunnan Army Heroes Visiting Group" in Taierzhuang. This city was the city where Yunnan troops donated the most troops to the country during the Anti-Japanese War in Taierzhuang. Zhaotong Museum —— the catalogue of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Heroes Exhibition Hall of Yunnan Army in, impressively records that 3,398 children gave their precious lives in Taierzhuang during the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Today, a 6-meter-high granite sculpture monument has been erected in Yuanmen Square, Zhaoyang District, Zhaotong City. The front of the pedestal is engraved with four bronzing characters of "* * * going to the national disaster", and the other three faces are engraved with the names of 3398 Zhaotong soldiers who participated in the 60th Army of the National Revolutionary Army in this city 1 1 county. The sculpture is a group portrait, and in the south is a "soldier going to war" holding high the military flag, with a firm expression and no hesitation. On the east side, there is a group sculpture of "Mother Farewell Her Son to the War", and the scenery is shocking. On the north side are soldiers waving goodbye to the villagers, and their faces are covered with the integrity of "a strong man is gone forever." In the west, there is a group of sculptures of "young wives holding their children to bid farewell to their husbands". They have mixed feelings and feel that the earth is shaking!

Yang Peng, the president of Zhaotong Alumni Association and a witness of Taierzhuang's Anti-Japanese War, wrote in the "Brief Introduction of Yunnan Army's Anti-Japanese War" that year: On September 9, 1937, the commander An Enpu led the officers and men of Zhaotong's children to leave Sichuan in Yuanmen Square and rush to Changsha, Hunan. On that day, from Yuanmen Square to Yuanbaoshan in the suburbs, tens of thousands of people from all walks of life lined up to bid farewell. The soldiers held their guns high and said goodbye to their parents, wives and children with tears in their eyes. The moving scene is beyond description. After arriving in Kunming, 182 division, 183 division, 184 division, etc. Vowed to go out in Wujiaba, the southern suburb of Kunming.

Luo Yuexian, a professor at Yunnan University and an expert in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression of Yunnan Army, introduced in detail the situation before and after the 60th Army went to Taierzhuang to resist Japan. He said that there are 26 ethnic groups in Yunnan, ranking first among all provinces in China. At that time, almost all Yunnan soldiers who signed up for the 60 th Army were of all ethnic groups. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Yunnan was not invaded by the Japanese army, and it was the rear area of the Anti-Japanese War. However, Yunnan people are honest and take the initiative to send troops. Long Yun, then chairman of Yunnan Province, publicly stated that the Japanese army made troubles without reason and humiliated the people of China, and was willing to sacrifice all the spiritual and material strength of Yunnan130,000 people for the motherland. At the beginning of 1937, the National Government held the Supreme National Defense Conference in Nanjing. Chiang Kai-shek asked Yunnan to send troops to resist Japan. Long Yun promised to start with 200,000 troops. Chiang Kai-shek was very happy and immediately gave four regiments supplies. Soldiers can replenish at the following time

Professor Luo said that after the Japanese army captured Nanjing, it began to take Xuzhou from the north and south of Jinpu Road. Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 600,000 troops to fight the Japanese army in Xuzhou. The battle of Taizhuang was divided into two stages. In the first stage, from March 23rd to April 7th, under the command of General Li Zongren, China army annihilated Japanese troops 1 1984, and seized 3 guns 1, 8 chariots, armored vehicles 1 1 vehicle and rifles/KLOC. This was the first major victory of the Kuomintang in the frontal battlefield, which shattered Japan's plan of "destroying China in three months" and inspired the Japanese people's anti-Japanese morale. In the second stage, from April 22nd to May 18, ***27 days, with the 60th Army of Yunnan as the main force, the Wang Yu war in the southeast of Taierzhuang was blocked and a fierce battle was held. After the defeat of Taierzhuang, the Japanese army mobilized more than 300,000 people from the 13 Division, including the most elite Sakahara 5th Division, Izzo Tandi 10 Division and dohihara Tandi 14 Division, and surrounded Xuzhou in six ways. At the beginning of the battle, Tang and Yu Xuezhong struggled to resist, and finally Taierzhuang was once again in danger because of the advanced weapons and fierce attacks of the Japanese army. Passing through Xuzhou, the 60 th Army preparing to besiege the Henan dungeon was temporarily ordered to rush to Wang Yushan, east of Taierzhuang, to meet the defense. Before all the 60th Army arrived, Tang and Yu Xuezhong had led the troops to evacuate, leaving a big hole in the front line of defense, so in July, they met with wet nurse Chen Wafang, which was the cruelest and bloodiest battle. According to historical records, 1938, 18 In April, the 60th Army got off at Taierzhuang South Station by train and went straight to Hexingjialou area east of Taierzhuang on the east bank of the canal to prepare for defending the 20th Army of Tang Dynasty and the 3rd Army of Yu Xuezhong. Due to the early retreat of Tang and Yu, two Japanese regiments with more than 4,000 people and more than 30 cannons took advantage under the cover of more than 20 tanks.

At 8: 00 a.m. on April 22nd, 1938, 108 1 When Guohua battalion, the vanguard of the division, arrived at Chenwafang, the Japanese search troops had entered ahead of time and opened fire on the Yunnan army. The battalion commander Yin immediately led the troops to charge and broke into Chenwafang. Then the Japanese army swarmed in and cut off the reinforcements of the Yunnan army with heavy artillery fire. The officers and men of the whole battalion fought hand-to-hand with the enemies from all directions. When the battalion commander Yin blew up the Japanese tanks with grenades, he died with them. When there were only 10 people left in the camp, under the leadership of a squad leader, they broke through to the village head and were all killed by the Japanese. More than 500 officers and men in the whole battalion were seriously injured and the mail was withdrawn in advance. Only four of them survived and the others were killed. According to Zhang Zizhai, an underground party member who worked in the headquarters of 184 Division, in the battle of Chenwafang, Guohua Camp annihilated nearly 2,000 Japanese troops. They fought bravely and sacrificed heroically, which won valuable time for the divisions of the whole army to build fortifications and defeat the Japanese army. That bloody battle will never be forgotten. According to Chen Qikun, one of the survivors of the battle in Chenwafang, it was foggy that morning. When I arrived at Chenwafang, I found soldiers who thought they were friendly, and blew an inquiry signal to them, in exchange for the sound of machine guns of "card, card, card". At that time, the guns and ammunition of our battalion had not been unloaded from the horse, and many soldiers were killed by the sudden bullets of the devil before they could get their guns. We fought quickly, and the machine gunner stood and fired at the Japanese. Battalion commander Guo Huayin took Chen Wafang back from the Japanese army. The backup ghost soldiers surrounded us with several times of troops, driving tanks and shooting at us with machine guns. At that time, our officers and men in Yunnan had never seen a tank, and they didn't know what it was or how to fight it. Many soldiers were killed or crushed by tank machine guns. Some soldiers climbed into Japanese tanks, pried open the lid with shovels and threw grenades into it. Watching the brothers fall one by one, the younger brothers and historians died without fear, only knowing that the loaded bullets were fired at the Japanese army.

Chen Ruhui, an 84-year-old man from Chen Wafang, recalled that when they returned to the village after the war, there were only six houses left in the village, and the others collapsed. The doors and beams of the house were basically destroyed by gunfire. Every family has hundreds of bodies of Yunnan soldiers, and many of the dead soldiers are in good health. It is said that they were poisoned by Japanese poison gas. In order to let the dead Yunnan soldiers rest in peace, we buried the bodies of Yunnan soldiers in pits in the southeast of the village, and some of them were burned to ashes on the ground. He led the reporter to the south of the village, where there used to be a temple, which was destroyed by the war and is now a small forest. The old man said that many years after the war, children fished in the river ditch and fished out many guns, knives, bullets and human skulls from the ditch.