From 1931 to 1945, the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was an eternal pain in the hearts of all chinese sons and daughters, and the years passed, but we must not forget history, and we must not forget those heroes who fought in blood and laid to rest in the ground in order to drive the invading Japanese army out of the land of China. The Cemetery is located in Tengchong, Yunnan, China, where 9,168 Chinese heroes, all of whom were killed in the Tengchong Counteroffensive, were killed by the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army committed countless crimes on the land of China, and they pursued the inhumane "three-light policy", that is, "killing, burning and robbing", in May 1942, the Japanese army occupied Tengchong for more than two years and four months, during which more than 21,000 people were killed. In May 1944, the Tengchong Counteroffensive War began, and the Chinese soldiers fought bloodily for 127 days, experiencing more than 40 large and small battles, killing more than 6,000 enemies, and finally successfully recovered Tengchong City, which became the first county town recovered by the Chinese army in the War of Resistance Against Japan. The Tengchong counterattack was extremely tragic and tragic, with a total of 9168 Chinese soldiers sacrificing heroically!
After the Tengchong counterattack, Li Gengen, the founder of the Yunnan Army Daowutang School, proposed to build a "National Martyrs Cemetery" to commemorate these Chinese boys who died heroically in the Tengchong Counterattack, on July 7, 1945, the National Martyrs Cemetery was completed, and in 2017, the National Martyrs Cemetery was selected as the "Second Batch of Chinese 20th Century Architectural Heritage". The Cemetery of the National Martyrs covers an area of more than 80 acres, and the cemetery contains the Martyrs' Shrine, the Inscription Stone of the Fallen Soldiers, the Monument to the Guangfu Tengchong of the 20th Group Army, and the cemetery of the burial ground of the fallen soldiers. What is particularly shocking is that the cemetery monument is surrounded by dense tombstones, which are engraved with the ranks and names of heroes, and each tombstone represents a hero who sacrificed his life for the country, which is tearful!
It is worth mentioning that there is also a "Uchiha Tomb" in the Cemetery of the National Martyrs, which contains 4 Japanese soldiers, they are the Japanese commander Major General Yasumi Kurashige and three of his subordinates, and there are four kneeling Japanese stone statues outside the Konozuka. The japanese army that invaded China should apologize and kneel, but some Japanese people expressed strong dissatisfaction, calling for the bones of the four Japanese soldiers to be returned to Japan and buried in peace, and demanded that the four kneeling statues be demolished. What do you think of this?