On May 25, 1944, Luoyang fell today, and the twenty-one-day campaign around Luoyang ended. Since the outbreak of the battle on May 5, we have published the oral accounts of twenty veterans of the Luoyang Defense War, hoping that everyone can feel the war from their mouths.
Whatever the outcome, it was a tragic battle:
"Three divisions entered positions on May 8. On the afternoon of the 9th, the Japanese army began to attack our army's positions outside Luoyang. ...... Positions outside the city were lost one after another. By the 20th of the battle, more than 30,000 enemy infantry and more than 300 tanks began to attack the city, and Wang Yuzhen, chief of staff of the 64th Division, was shot and killed. At dawn on the 22nd, the enemy attacked our position with more than twenty aircraft, more than eighty guns, and more than sixty chariots, and when the troops approached the city, our army suffered heavy casualties for several days, the number of soldiers was sharply reduced, and the ammunition was lacking. On the morning of the 24th, 27 enemy planes and more than 120 cannons simultaneously bombarded the city, followed by more than 30,000 infantry, more than 300 tanks and armored vehicles, and attacked the southwest city corner, the west gate, the northwest city corner, the east gate, and the northeast city corner in six ways. At 3:00 p.m., enemy chariots rushed into the city one after another, and by five o'clock, the number of enemies who had invaded the city had reached more than 10,000, and more than fifty chariots had been written; our army used civilian houses to fight with the enemy's alleys, street by street, and resisted step by step, but it was impossible to stop the swarming enemy troops. After dusk, our army ran out of ammunition and food, unable to fight again, and had no choice but to order the troops to seize the road and break through...
The remaining troops broke through, and more than 20,000 troops were left with only 316 officers and 1,775 soldiers."
It's also a battle that's drowned in history! A silently submerged battle.....
In 2005, Geng Zhigeng, a veteran of the Luoyang Defensive War, came to Luoyang to revisit the battlefield, and at the Luoyang Martyrs' Cemetery, Elder Geng asked me: Is there a monument to the soldiers of the Luoyang Defensive War of Resistance? I replied helplessly: No.
At that time, I thought, when will we be able to erect a monument to those anti-war soldiers who fought bloodily in the defense of Luoyang?
For more than ten years, I have not been able to erect a monument for them, a monument that they should have...
There was a time halfway through when we were almost ready, but we gave up because the monument we could erect was too different from the goal in our hearts.
Their monument should be mighty, it should stand tall in the sky! Erect a piece the size of a tombstone I feel sorry for these soldiers who fought for Luoyang in blood....
I have always hoped that a department can come out to complete the erection of the monument, but unfortunately until now I have not waited, I can still wait, but those veterans who participated in the luoyang defense war and are still alive do not know whether they can wait...
Some things are too far away from us, some things cannot be achieved with expectations, and some things cannot be accomplished by hard work.
But I was still thinking, I even thought, if we could place a few national defense bunkers next to this monument, there were many such bunkers in Luoyang, there should be dozens of them, and then make a relief wall, this is not a small square of anti-war culture.
Everything is still imagined, I understand my own weakness, and I have always hoped that such a person or institution will appear to complete this.
Yes, who does not expect a strong man to appear and lead himself to break the predicament that he cannot complete. Dependence on the strong is also a trait common to most humans, and obviously I belong to this category.
I know I will wait, I will look forward to it, I will depend on it, but I also know that I will not wait forever and look forward to it.
If the strong man never appeared, I would sometimes say: I will come!
Only, this time, I hope to be able to use someone like me.
Enclosure:
In 1944, the Japanese army launched the Battle of No. 1 (historically known as the Battle of Yuxianggui) aimed at opening up the communication line from northeast China to the Southeast Asian mainland.
On May 5, the 33rd year of the Republic of China (1944), the Japanese attacked Longmen and the Defense of Luoyang broke out.
On May 7, the Dragon Gate was lost. Lieutenant General Wu Tinglin (a native of Yichuan, Luoyang), commander of the 15th Army of the Chinese Army, was ordered to lead the 64th and 65th Divisions of his army and the 94th Division of the 14th Army to hold Luoyang for 10 to 15 days. On May 9, the counties outside Luoyang fell, and Luoyang became an isolated city.
The 64th Division defended the West, attacked the enemy aircraft, artillery, and tanks with rudimentary weapons, and fought fiercely for two days and nights, and in order to preserve its strength, it retreated to the city and held firm. On May 11, Xigong lost.
The 65th Division defended Mount Yao. The Fifteenth Army went up to the chief and deputy commanders (deputy commander Yao Beichen Luoyang Mengjinren), down to the soldiers were mostly yuxi disciples, guarding the land and protecting their families, fighting to the death. Slope by slope and ditch, spinning into a dead land; village by village, house by house, white blade shopping. Sticking to the tenth day, Kou could not take a step closer to Luoyang.
Luoyang could not be attacked for a long time, and the commander of the enemy chieftain's Twelfth Army, Hidetaro Uchiyama, mobilized heavy troops to besiege the new 63rd Division, the 110th Division, the 3rd Tank Division, and the 4th Cavalry Brigade several times more than our troops. On the twenty-first day of the battle, the main force of our fifteenth army withdrew to the city box, and the city was killed.
On the 22nd, more than 35,000 Japanese Kou and more than 400 chariots attacked the city after shelling more than 8,000 rounds, and repeatedly cast poison gas. The defenders fought bloodily, killing and wounding more than 8,000 enemies, outnumbered, broken, dead, exhausted, and exhausted. On the twenty-fourth day, the city of Luoyang was destroyed and turned into a street battle. On the twenty-fifth day, Luoyang fell.
The defensive battle of Luoyang lasted for twenty-one days from May 5 to 25, with 530 officers killed and 13,339 soldiers and only 2,111 men breaking through.
Killed and wounded more than 20,000 enemies.
At the Battle of Henan, the Japanese Kou defeated the Nationalist army of 400,000 with less than 100,000 troops; the defenders of Duluoyang fought several times the enemy with more than 10,000 sons and daughters, and the haoran spirit will always run through China!
The lonely city of a hundred battles died,
The Central Plains is red with blood.
Dead and spirited,
The soul of the child is a ghost male.