August 28, 1938 was a day of suffering in Lu'an, Anhui Province, because the Japanese army invaded China occupied Lu'an that night, and although the soldiers and civilians of Lu'an resisted desperately, they could not withstand the enemy's superiority in numbers and equipment.
On August 26, 1938, the Japanese 10th Division, which had arrived from the direction of Hefei, fought fiercely with the Chinese defenders of the 51st Army stationed in Lu'an.
The 51st Army had 113th And 114th Divisions, two divisions totaling about 12,000 men, while the Japanese Tenth Division was a well-equipped first-class division with two brigades and eight squadrons, plus a signal team, and a health team with 4 field hospitals, totaling 30,000 people.
Because the transportation line had been destroyed by the Chinese army, the infantry of the Japanese Tenth Division was marching towards Lu'an through the country lanes.
This unit was established by the Japanese army after the Sino-Japanese War, and after the September 18 Incident, the unit was put into the battlefield of invading China.
Because of the disparity in strength, the Chinese defenders could only block the enemy by destroying the lines of communication, and a Japanese transport brigade was detouring ashore through the water because the bridge in front of it was destroyed.
The Japanese were erecting a temporary wooden bridge at the base of the bridge, and behind them was the destroyed stone bridge.
The Morikawa unit of the Japanese Artillery Wing was shelling Lu'an City on a high ground, because the Chinese defenders were only an ordinary local military unit and were not equipped with artillery units, so these Japanese artillerymen were able to set up positions here so brazenly.
This was originally a defensive position built by the Chinese army, and it is not known why there was no trace of fighting on the position, and the vanguard of the Japanese army had occupied the defensive position on the outskirts of Lu'an City.
The Japanese army and the vanguard troops began to charge Lu'an City, and the Guanyin Temple Pagoda at the south gate of Lu'an City in the distance could already be seen, and it could be felt that the battle was not like in the film and television, and the two sides of the personnel shot at each other in front of the position, and the troops on both sides were fighting in a scattered formation.
The Japanese Biological and Chemical Corps, the Japanese Tenth Division, although a Class A unit, was also a devil's force, which repeatedly used poison gas bombs in the pre-emptive situation on the battlefield.
This masked devil force was waiting to charge, and if the Chinese defenders' defenses prevented them from breaking through, they would use poison gas bombs, which was really shameless.
Under the bombardment of the Japanese army, the city of Lu'an was filled with smoke
The Japanese death squads had rushed into Lu'an City, and the houses behind them had been burned down, and how many people were going to be homeless.
After two days of fighting, the Japanese army captured Lu'an City, the walls of which had been destroyed by artillery fire, and these Japanese invaders were cheering under the castle tower.
On the afternoon of August 28, 1938, the Japanese army was gradually entering Lu'an City, the Battle of the Chinese Army has exhausted all-out resistance, and paid a lot of casualties, if the Chinese army's weapons at that time can still be a little more advanced, the Japanese army can not occupy Lu'an, the Chinese defenders are still very strong will to fight, but lost in equipment and numbers.
After the Japanese entered the city, they launched a large-scale burning and looting of the people of Lu'an, and a large number of people died under the butcher knives of the Japanese army.