In mid-February 1943, the 146th Wing of the 56th Division of the Japanese Army, with a total of more than 2,000 people, invaded Yunnan, China, from Myitkyina in northern Meittendian, and was ambushed by the 2nd Reserve Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the deep mountain valley of the Tengchong Mingguang area, causing considerable casualties.
In the days that followed, the Pre-Second Division took full advantage of its familiar terrain and adopted guerrilla tactics to attack flexibly, hitting the Japanese army blindfolded and turning.
The Japanese army suffered such a heavy setback, which made the commander Matsumoto Daisaku furious, but he could not find this Chinese army at all, and he was even more violent.
On February 21, Daisa Matsumoto thought hard for a long time and finally came up with a poisonous plan.
He found a traitor named Meng Lianwu and wrote a letter of challenge to Major General Hong Xing, the de facto commander and deputy commander of the Pre-Second Division, and within three days he would lead his troops to The Pass and set up a decisive position.
In this letter of challenge, Matsumoto also instructed Meng Lianwu to write such a sentence: If you do not dare to go to the appointment, you should withdraw from the Mingguang region, and our Imperial Japanese Army is ashamed to make enemies with those who are hiding and hiding.
Hongxing, who was 42 years old at the time, was a native of Ningxiang, Hunan Province, and was also an iron-boned and firm anti-Japanese general, who led his troops from Kunlun Pass to Tengchong, killing countless enemies and making great achievements.
When Hong Xing received this challenge letter, he saw through Matsumoto Daisa's plot at a glance: the Japanese army was frightened by the flexible and mobile tactics of our army, and could not find our army to carry out a frontal decisive battle, and could only use this radical method to lure our army to appear.
Daisa Matsumoto's intentions are undoubtedly extremely sinister.
If Hongxing accepted Matsumoto's challenge, it would mean that the Pre-Second Division would have to give up its combat superiority of being familiar with the terrain and the support of the common people, which would be exactly the case with Matsumoto's treacherous plan.
If Hong Xing does not accept the challenge, the cunning Matsumoto will inevitably seize this matter and slander our army, which may affect the military spirit of our army and the confidence of the local people in resisting Japan.
In short, whether or not matsumoto accepts the challenge, it is a difficult problem for Hongxing.
When the generals of the Pre-Second Division saw this challenge letter, they all felt very troubled, and they couldn't think of a way to get the best of both worlds if they wanted to break their heads.
Hong Xing smiled slightly, and said emphatically: "How can Yang Yang Zhonghua lose to Xiao Er's small country in momentum?" Since the Japanese have issued a challenge, why should we not accept it? Write them a reply right now! ”
Subsequently, he asked people to take pens, ink and paper and personally wrote a letter of response to the effect:
You jackals invade our Chinese territory, and our army will inevitably beat you and annihilate you! I have long heard that the Japanese army boasts that it is good at white blades, and even claims to be "unparalleled in the world.", and our army is willing to learn something. Then at noon on February 24, the two sides will not fire a single shot at the turf pass, and use the white-knife fighting method to compete!
What a wise and courageous General Hong Xing! Although the letter he wrote was only a few words, it was full of vigor and impeccable, which was amazing.
His words not only showed the determination of the Chinese soldiers to fight to the death against the Japanese Kou, but also skillfully responded to the challenge of the Japanese army: Do you want to fight a decisive battle head-on? Yes, then fight a battle in a bright and bright way, and fight to the death in the way you think you are best at!
It should be known that at that time, the Japanese army did have the capital to brag in white-knife fighting, and they invested a lot of manpower and material resources to strictly train soldiers and soldiers, coupled with the guarantee of nutrition, and their physical fitness was indeed stronger than that of the soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, so they repeatedly had the upper hand in white-bladed fighting.
But Hong Xing didn't pay any attention to this, what he wanted was to harden the Japanese army in a duel that the Japanese army boasted of being the strongest! Beat you with the way you do best! What a boldness! What an imposing thing! What faith!
When Matsumoto saw this letter, he couldn't help but be shocked, he never expected that Hongxing not only accepted the challenge, but also offered to fight with the Japanese army with a white blade.
He began to mutter in his heart: This opponent who had caused trouble to the Japanese army many times in the Indo-Burma battlefield did not seem to be underestimated.
When the day finally came on February 24, Matsumoto, as previously agreed, set up a position at the site and planted plaster flags, anticipating the japanese slaughtering a large number of Chinese soldiers with bayonets when the two armies faced each other.
At noon, Hong Xing did indeed arrive with his subordinates.
Although Hong Xing commanded the strength of a division, he only brought more than three hundred soldiers to the appointment, and three hundred warriors he had carefully selected, stopped only 200 meters from the Japanese position.
Because this unit has been fighting in the Burmese battlefield for a long time, coupled with logistical supply difficulties, the way from Burma into Yunnan has experienced difficulties, so that their uniforms have been very broken, and some soldiers can only wear straw shoes or barefoot.
Compared with the well-dressed and well-nourished Japanese army, these three hundred soldiers looked ragged and yellow-skinned, but they did not seem to pay attention to the murderous Japanese army at all, and even sat or crouched or hid without scruples, either basking in the sun or catching lice on their bodies, as if they were not coming to fight to the death.
When the warriors were all in place, Hong Xing nodded slightly behind him, and the two soldiers quickly ran to a towering tree, and Hula raised a Chinese flag, which was far away from the Japanese plaster flag opposite.
Matsumoto saw this, raised his command knife high in his hand, and ordered hundreds of Japanese soldiers to rush forward with dangling bayonets and rush forward to bayonet the Chinese soldiers.
At the order of Hong Xing, the trumpet soldiers blew the military trumpet, and the three hundred warriors heard this loud trumpet, like a shot of strengthening, and instantly became energetic, all of them stood up facing the Japanese army and prepared for battle.
When the second trumpet sounded, the warriors all drew their large swords from behind, clasped their hands, and shouted, "Rush! Kill! The slogan, arranged in a glyph-shaped formation of every three people, rushed towards the Japanese troops who were rushing towards them!
At the intersection of the two armies, there was a clanging sound of large knives colliding with bayonets, and for a moment the swords flashed and flesh and blood flew!
Just a few meters behind the warriors, Hong Xing, a Chinese general with a large knife, sat in the rear. The expression on his face was incomparably dignified, and he watched the battle unfold majestically and coldly, like a boulder standing on a hill, standing still.
The Japanese army, which is known as "the matchless white-knife fighting in the world", only encountered a real opponent this time. Although the Chinese soldiers lacked clothing, food, nutrition, and were inferior in physical fitness, each of them was full of anger at the Japanese invasion of China, and everyone burst out with unprecedented murderous spirit and fighting spirit, and they were determined to wipe out all these invincible Japanese troops!
It's a real bloody battle, and the scene is extremely intense! There were constantly Chinese soldiers who were injured or even fell in battle, but the casualties were more Japanese troops, and most of them were cut off by Chinese soldiers with large knives, making the remaining Japanese troops more and more frightened and frightened.
Hong Xing also joined the battle group at the right time, and engaged in a one-on-one duel with a Japanese officer wielding a samurai sword. In just a few seconds, he cut his opponent into five pieces!
Matsumoto took a breath of cool air when he saw this, he saw that his side was about to face a rout, and he ignored the previous agreement, drew his command knife, and ordered more than 1,000 Japanese troops with live ammunition to rush out of the hidden place in an attempt to save the defeat.
At this moment, the rest of the officers and men of the Pre-Second Division rushed to the turf pass with thousands of people, and they roared angrily and rushed to the enemy, struggling to pursue and kill, killing and wounding a large number of Japanese troops.
In this white-knife battle, General Hong Xing led three hundred warriors to defeat the Japanese army in the way that the Japanese army was best at, playing out China's national and military prestige, and also completely shocking the Japanese army in the Tengchong area, they were convinced, and praised Hong Xing as the "Chinese god of war".