China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered an even more difficult situation after the fall of Burma, because the obstruction of this transport route would make the situation of our army even more dangerous. Although the Japanese army invaded western Yunnan, it was bound to occupy Tengchong, although it was a border town, but Tengchong's terrain was dangerous, it was an easy to defend and difficult to attack, occupying Tengchong, the Burma Road was cut off, the Japanese army will have a strong barrier, so it is inevitable to counterattack western Yunnan and retake Tengchong our army.
How fierce was the bloody battle of the expeditionary army? House by house, tens of thousands of casualties were killed or wounded, and Japanese officers committed suicide en masse
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Tengchong is on the border of Gaoligong Mountain, where the mountains are steep, not to mention there are many canyons, Tengchong is like an out-of-the-world town in it, but the Japanese army also valued Tengchong's geographical location, and after the loss of Lashi, Mangshi, longling and other places, Tengchong was in danger.
The Japanese captured Tengchong with less than 300 men
Here, all evil is done, and the people live a life of darkness. Our army formed an expeditionary force to retake Tengchong, and after the Japanese army knew about it, they took advantage of the dangerous terrain to block our army, and used buildings as fortifications inside Tengchong to start a street battle with our army.
Street warfare is the most difficult of all forms of warfare, with too many buildings obscuring it, and it can only be attacked inch by inch, and the progress of the war is very slow. After our army broke through these dangerous terrains, it was necessary to seize the only commanding height of Tengchong, Laifengshan. It was covered with barbed wire and mines, and it took our army 17 days to capture it, and then in the bloody battle in tengchong town, the Japanese army hid in the alleys and circled with our army, and the expeditionary force swept through room by room, in such a scramble, tens of thousands of casualties were killed and wounded. The Japanese army insisted on Tengchong and saw that no reinforcements were coming, and the commander ordered all the materials to be destroyed, and the Japanese officers committed suicide in this area en masse.