In November 1939, the Japanese 5th Division, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, the 5th Fleet and other units gathered covertly at Yulin Port at the southern tip of Hainan Island, and then appeared lightning in Qinzhou Bay, landed rapidly, captured the defensive city, and occupied Nanning, Longzhou and other places. The rapid japanese offensive completely disrupted the military deployment of the Nationalist government, and then Chiang Kai-shek urgently dispatched the 5th, 99th, and 36th Armies to Guangxi to reinforce, while the commander of the 5th Army, Du Yuming, was ordered to counterattack Kunlun Pass.
After the battle began, the commander of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Imamura, focused all his attention on the lifeline of the Nationalist army in southwest Guangxi, because in his opinion, only by completely cutting off the "blood vessel" of the War of Resistance would he bring him greater military achievements and honors, and for the defense of Kunlun Pass, he did not pay too much attention to it, but only strengthened the fortifications of Kunlun Pass, and built strong bunkers on both sides of the pass to support each other. When the Japanese troops stationed at Kunlun Pass had nothing to do all day, the Nationalist side had begun to quietly gather heavy troops and prepare to annihilate the enemy defending Kunlun Pass in one fell swoop, and when General Du Yuming's mechanized troops drove to the dense forest in the hilly area near Kunlun Pass, only three or four miles away from the enemy's forward position, he ordered the rapid construction of a defensive position, and then aimed the caliber of a heavy artillery cannon directly at the enemy's position.
In the early morning of December 18, 1939, when the Japanese army was still asleep, a huge roar suddenly came from the heavy artillery position of the Fifth Army, and the shells fell on the enemy's position like raindrops, and the Japanese army was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. After the artillery fire continued to extend, the 200th Division and the Honorary First Division, under the guidance and cover of the new tanks aided by the Soviet Union, rushed into the Japanese positions in a mighty way, and when the Japanese army was ready to intercept them with anti-tank artillery, it was too late, and the soldiers of the two sides had been strangled together and began to compete for every position inch by inch. The campaign lasted until December 30, when the enemy at Kunlun Pass was completely annihilated and the commander of the enemy Major General's Brigade, Masao Nakamura, was killed, and the T-26 light tank, a new Soviet tank that provided cover for infantry charge, made a great achievement at Kunlun Pass.
Speaking of the source of this tank, we have to mention a person, it is precisely because of his outstanding performance in diplomacy that this war weapon can be introduced into the Chinese battlefield and take over the seat of the french Renault FT-17 tank that has been lost, this person is General Yang Jie. After the formal signing of the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, the Soviet Union, in addition to providing material assistance, also specially sent regular troops called volunteers to fly fighter jets to participate in the war and serve as army advisers, and in the first batch of equipment transported between March and June 1938, the National Government obtained 83 T-26 light tanks, while the Soviet Union also assisted some BA-3/6/10 and BA-20 wheeled armored vehicles, as well as 45 mm anti-tank guns and various vehicles.
Later, the Nationalist government expanded the armored corps into the 200th Division, with Du Yuming as the first division commander and Qiu Qingquan as deputy division commander, and the division was equipped with 70 T-26s, 4 BT-5s, 18 Fiat CV-33s, and a small number of Soviet artillery. Before the Battle of Kunlun Pass began, the 200th Division was still in a state of training, and Chiang Kai-shek was reluctant to put it into use on the battlefield until the Battle of Guinan began, when he agreed to put this only mechanized division into the Kunlun Pass operation, and it was later proved that the 200th Division did not disappoint, and won the first place as soon as it appeared, making great contributions to the Kunlun Pass Victory.
Before the large-scale assistance of the United States to China, the T-26 tank has always been the main fighting vehicle of the Chinese army in the War of Resistance, but due to the unskilled infantry and tank coordination of the Nationalist army, coupled with the japanese army's infantry artillery anti-tank tactics and superiority in aviation force, and even the battlefield civilian roads and bridges can not carry the load and other factors, the T-26 tank is difficult to exert its power, resulting in the results of the battle is actually more than worth the loss. In addition, the T-26 also participated in the early invasion of Burma by the Chinese Expeditionary Force, but later after the defeat of the 200th Division in Burma, most of these tanks were destroyed by the Japanese army, officially withdrawing from the stage of history.