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Tengchong County, located in western Yunnan, borders Myanmar and is an important transportation route to Southeast and South Asia. In 1942, the Japanese invaders who defeated the British and Chinese expeditionary forces in Burma chased the retreating expeditionary force all the way north to the west bank of the Nu River, in order to prevent the Japanese army from crossing the river, the expeditionary force soldiers blew up the bridge over the Nu River, so the Japanese frontier, which was temporarily unable to cross the river, set its sights on Tengchong County on the west bank of the Nu River.
On May 10, 1942, a japanese army of only 292 people rushed to the city, and to their surprise, there were no defenders in the city, and they occupied this important town in western Yunnan without a single shot. It turned out that the county magistrate of Tengchong at that time heard that the Japanese were coming, and had already fled into the northern mountains, and the defending army had also scattered and fled. However, this fortified city that they gave to the Japanese was retaken from the Japanese two years later by tens of thousands of casualties.
In May 1944, the 20th Army of the Expeditionary Force launched the Battle of Western Yunnan, and its first task was to recover Tengchong. However, after investigation, it was found that the Japanese troops stationed in Tengchong had built a large number of military offensives in two years, and it was known to the outside world that Tengchong was a city that could not fall in western Yunnan. Moreover, the Japanese 148Th Wing, which was responsible for guarding Tengchong, was a Japanese army that dared to fight and dared to fight, and once inflicted heavy damage on the expeditionary force. Wing Commander Yasumi Kurashige graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and successively participated in the invasion campaigns in Northeast China, North China, and Southeast Asia, and had extremely high military literacy.
After the battle began, although the Allies sent a large number of aircraft to bomb Tengchong, the Japanese army still held the fortified city, causing a large number of casualties to the expeditionary force. Even after the city defense was breached, the Japanese army still carried out brutal street battles until the last soldier was killed and no one surrendered, so the Battle of Tengchong was also known as the "Scorched Earth Battle", which was a huge difference from the Japanese occupation two years ago without spending a single soldier.
The entire Tengchong Campaign lasted 42 days, according to post-war statistics, the number of casualties of the 20th Army of the Expeditionary Force was as high as 20,000, and the number of officers killed or injured alone was more than 1,200, which can be imagined the intensity of the battle that year. However, it is gratifying that in the siege battle, the supreme commander of the Japanese army, Yasumi Kurashige, and the main officers of the 148th Wing were completely annihilated.
In the second year after the end of the Tengchong Campaign, in order to commemorate the soldiers who died in the war during the reconquest of Tengchong, the local patriotic compatriots specially raised funds to build a solemn martyrs' cemetery at the foot of Laifeng Mountain. After the dead soldiers were buried, the patriots named the cemetery "National Martyrdom", hoping that future generations would always remember that the people buried in the cemetery were martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country.
In order to warn the foreign invaders, on the opposite side of the National Martyrs Cemetery, people also built a simple tomb, and buried four officers including Yasumi Zangzhong, the biggest invading war criminal of the Tengchong Campaign. And when they entered Tibet, they tied their hands and made a kneeling confession, hoping that they would never be reborn. After the completion of the tomb construction, a tombstone was also engraved and stood in front of the grave, with the two big characters of "Wozuka" written on it.
For this tomb, the Japanese side has a great response, they hope to be able to take the remains of Yasumi and others back to Japan for burial, but they have been refused. For this practice has been unanimously recognized by netizens, some netizens said: the aggressor deserves the crime, will not be tolerated, and some netizens have put forward opinions, should be like Qin Juniper, let them kneel in front of the martyrs' cemetery to repent. What do you think about that?