During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the commanding leaders and soldiers of every war would regard death as if they were dead, and no matter how much they paid, they would complete the tasks assigned by their superiors. General Zhang Zizhong was almost completely annihilated in the Battle of Zaoyi, but he still fought to the end, and at the last moment there were only eight generals left, they did not flee from the battlefield, but chose to be heroic and righteous, fighting to the last moment, their spirit is worthy of everyone's learning and respect.
During the anti-Japanese period, there were many wars lost on the mainland, not because of equipment and other reasons, but because some commanders and troops were not disciplined well, resulting in the failure of the battle. The Battle of Lanfeng was one of them, in which hundreds of thousands of Nationalist troops surrounded the Japanese army layer by layer, which in our view was a battle that must be won, but in the end our army was defeated miserably. In fact, it is not that the weapons and equipment of the mainland are not good, but the commanders who fled without a fight, and after the defeat of this war, millions of people in Lanfeng were displaced, and this war has become a joke since the war.
In May 1938, Chang Kai of the Nationalist Army mobilized 200,000 troops to the Xuzhou Battlefield, this time mainly for a life-and-death battle with the Japanese army. Before the Battle of Xuzhou, the mainland army won the famous Battle of Taierzhuang, and the soldiers were very happy, and this time the 200,000 central army can be said to be a relatively elite unit. At that time, the Japanese army also sent 300,000 troops to Xuzhou, their purpose was to annihilate the nationalist army Chang Kai and make them surrender.
When the siege was not completed, it was the Nationalist army that discovered their plan to encircle Xuzhou and decisively withdrew the defenders of Xuzhou, causing the army to fail miserably. Despite this, the Japanese army was still not satisfied, so they led the army to forcibly cross the Yellow River, hoping to expand the results of the victory and do some preparatory work for the future occupation of Zhengzhou.
At that time, there were more than 100,000 Nationalist troops here, while the Japanese army only had a team of 20,000 people, and the Nationalists had a great chance of victory in any case. Although the number of Japanese troops is not large, but the combat effectiveness is the strongest, the Japanese Fourteenth Coalition Army once blocked the Us army with 5,000 people for as many as 73 days, after which the number of US casualties was very heavy, and it can be seen that the strength of this team is still very strong.
At that time, the United States had many advanced weapons, such as aircraft and tanks, and the mainland army did not have these advanced weapons, so it seemed that there were many people, and the very powerful and wise generals Chang Kai and Cheng Qian personally commanded this battle, hoping to win the final victory. At that time, Cheng Qian commanded the nationalist army to surround Tufeiyuan, but unfortunately, the combat effectiveness of the other side was too tough, and it would not be able to take it down for a while and a half.
On May 23 of the same year, the Battle of Lanfeng officially began, although lanfeng's defenders had armored vehicles, but the armor was very weak, vulnerable, and easily destroyed by the strong artillery fire of the Japanese army, so Lanfeng would be defeated in one day, and Lanfeng was also lost. Although there were many soldiers in the Nationalist army, the command and deployment were too poor and even unreasonable, resulting in the besieging troops not annihilating the important passes within a limited time, leaving a breakthrough for the Japanese army.
The commander stationed at that time was Huang Jie, who was stationed in Shangqiu, and at that time Cheng Qian personally issued an oath to guard Shangqiu to the death, because this was a very critical place, and the consequences of failure were unimaginable. In the face of the orders given by his superiors, Huang Jie did not obey, but instead led the army to retreat to Kaifeng without authorization, and his retreat without a fight made the Japanese army quickly occupy Shangqiu.
After the fall of Shangqiu, the Japanese army attacked Kaifeng together with the 14th Division, and eventually Kaifeng was also lost, and the Japanese army pointed directly at Zhengzhou. At that time, Long Muhan, commander of the 88th Division of the Nationalist Army, issued a plan to prevent the Japanese army from attacking Zhengzhou, that is, to let the Garden Mouth break the embankment, so that the Attack of the Japanese Army could be blocked by the Yellow River water, and the battle ended with the Garden Mouth Breaking the Embankment. Huang Jie, who retreated without a fight, was revoked, thus giving him a severe punishment. The commander of the 88th Division, Long Muhan, was shot for losing Lan Feng, and this was also the first Nationalist general to be shot.
The failure of the Lanfeng Campaign led to the fall of Lanfeng, Kaifeng and other places one after another, and the Decision of Huayuankou led to the loss of homes and displacement of millions of people. Huang Jie's guilt was unforgivable, and he retreated without a fight as a defender of Shangqiu, and even defended his position after the battle, saying that it was because the radio was broken as an excuse. There was little loss in the ranks of the Eighth Route Army and the Red Army, because every soldier knew what their loss represented.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, because of the reasons of the Nationalist army, many battles were lost, and if it were not for a hasty decision of the Nationalist Army, perhaps the September 18 Incident would not have happened, and China would not have fallen so quickly, precisely because they had no sense of responsibility and selfishness that led to the gradual fall of the country. On the contrary, there are very few such things happening in the revolutionary army. The reason why the Korean War was won was because of the perseverance of the volunteers, even if frozen into ice sculptures, they would not disobey the orders of their superiors and must win the victory.