Author: Chuan chuan dian dian
Statement: Soldiers say original, plagiarism will be investigated
In December 1939, about 60 kilometers northeast of Nanning, Guangxi, the elite Japanese army encountered a stubborn attack by the Chinese army. The Chinese army besieged and blocked the Japanese army in many ways, beating the Japanese army to the limit, not only fighting with bayonets and bamboo guns, but also having to eat leaves and grass roots to fill the hunger, and a major general and brigade commander was killed. This battle is the famous Battle of Kunlun Pass.
The Chinese soldiers cheered victory
At the end of 1939, in order to reinforce Guangdong, Chiang's wishful thinking made the "biggest mistake" - thinking that the Japanese army would not invade Guangxi and evacuating the Guangxi garrison. Most of Guangxi's troops were transferred to Guangdong to participate in the war. How can war be taken for granted? The Japanese army discovered that Guangxi's troops were weak, and landed from Qinzhou Bay, and its elite Fifth Division and other troops soon entered Nanning and other important places.
According to the defense of Nanning, the Japanese army did not pose much threat in the south, and its main need to defend was the counterattack from the north, and the key to defending Nanning was Kunlun Pass in the northeast direction of Nanning. This pass is one of the top ten famous passes in China, which can be called "one husband and one pass, no one can open"! The Japanese Fifth Division sent the Fifth Cavalry Regiment and the Third Brigade of the Twenty-first Regiment to jointly defend Kunlun Pass.
Jiang Shi easily lost Nanning, first, it was really not good on the face, and he later made a review of it. Second, Guangxi is close to Vietnam, which is an important channel for the international support materials of the Chinese army, and once it is lost, it will have a great impact. As soon as the Japanese army occupied Nanning, it sent the Hechuan detachment to march to loot a large number of military supplies of the Chinese army in Longzhou and Zhennanguan on the Sino-Vietnamese border, and was later urgently transferred back due to the tight war, and failed to completely seize our military supplies, but we still lost about 100 cars, 580,000 gallons of gasoline and heavy oil, 2,000 electrolytic copper and iron rods, 180 tons of lead, 6.8 tons of tin, about 1 ton of tungsten steel, 359 rifles, 32 bundles of heavy industrial materials, and a large amount of gunpowder, ammunition and clothing. Third, it had a bad impact on the entire situation of the War of Resistance, and the Japanese army went so far as to occupy a key area in a province without any effort, which not only dealt a blow to the morale of the Chinese military and people in the War of Resistance, but also made the entire battlefield situation even more critical.
In order to retake Nanning, Du Yuming, commander of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Army, was very determined to fight: "Our army aims to recover Nanning. Decided to start attacking at dawn on the 18th, and first break through the enemies near Kunlun Pass and Batang..."
Du Yuming was on the line of Kunlun Pass
In order to recover Nanning, we must first conquer Kunlun Pass. The Kunlun Pass is sandwiched between two mountains, with 653 on the east and 445 and 441 on the west. The Japanese army was full of arrogance, and it was also an elite Fifth Division, and it also occupied a geographical advantage, and it was not easy for the already weak Chinese army to capture Kunlun Pass.
At 1:00 a.m. on December 18, the heavy artillery and mountain artillery of the Fifth Army opened the curtain on the Battle of Kunlun Pass. After the artillery fire, the officers and men of the Honorary First Division and the 200th Division of the Chinese Army took the lead in attacking the Japanese positions. The Fifth Army was well-equipped and well-trained, especially the Honorary First Division, which was mostly composed of veterans and had rich combat experience, and soon seized the frontier heights of Kunlun Pass. This made the commander of the Japanese Fifth Division, Imamura, really unexpected, so he ordered the 21st Wing Commander to lead reinforcements.
The Chinese army's blocking forces played a crucial role in this battle, and the Japanese reinforcements were divided and surrounded not far from the outside. Until the 21st, the Chinese army also continued to reinforce, and the Japanese army also continued to send troops to try to relieve the siege of Kunlun Pass, and the two sides fell into a scuffle.
At that time, the Fifth Army was equipped with the most sophisticated weapons of the Chinese army, and was also equipped with Soviet-made T26 tanks
In the melee, the Japanese lost their troops. As a result of the continuous fighting, the Japanese army was very tight on food and ammunition on the 21st, and the Chinese army sent fighters to participate in the battle for the first time. The Japanese army never expected that in this place in Guangxi can still see the Chinese Air Force, as soon as they heard the planes, they thought it was Japanese aircraft, and when the Chinese fighters flew temporarily, they also laid out the air contact board, which just provided the Chinese Air Force with target guidance, and the bombs dropped were just right, causing heavy casualties for the Japanese army.
The fighting continued until the 23rd, and the Japanese army had begun to pick up tree bark and grass roots to fill the hunger, and also cut bamboo into guns. The Japanese troops on the main position of Kunlun Pass, knowing that their demise was imminent, were actually preparing to remove the military flag and burn it. When several Japanese troops collected the flag, they were accurately hit by several Chinese mortars, and several Japanese troops on the side of the flag were immediately killed, and their limbs were scattered on the ground.
The Japanese reinforcements were even more tormented, and Major General Masao Nakamura, the brigade commander of the Japanese 21st Brigade, who personally led the reinforcements, led the troops to struggle on the road, and the road of tens of kilometers was originally a fleeting thing for the Japanese army, but this time it struggled on the road for several days, and it could only be deterred.
Masao Nakamura, commander of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army
Masao Nakamura, the commander of the 21st Brigade, was promoted to major general in March 1939, and he could never have imagined that the reinforcement route in December 1939 would become his end.
Nakamura was ordered to lead a reinforcement to Kunlun Pass on the 20th, and advanced with great difficulty along the way. On the evening of the 23rd, Nakamura hit the first bullet, and the bullet passed through his left cheek, but he still continued to lead the team forward. On the 24th, Nakamura was shot again, and the bullet penetrated his abdomen. This is not the worst, when the military doctors operate on it in a civilian house, the mortar shells of the Chinese army will accurately hit the house. The medic had to cover Nakamura's freshly cut abdomen with his body. After these three tosses, Nakamura was completely cool at about 5 a.m. on the 25th, less than a year after his promotion to major general.
Later, Du Yuming dug a tomb for Masao Nakamura at the foot of the mountain near Kunlun Mountain, and also inscribed an inscription: "Du Yuming, commander of the Brigade of major general Nakamura Masao of the Japanese Fifth Division, who was killed in the Battle of Kunlun Pass in the 29th year of the Republic of China. ”
Du Yuming's tombstone inscribed for Masao Nakamura
In the end, after a bloody battle, the Chinese army, after making great sacrifices, captured the Kunlun Pass and won the Battle of Kunlun Pass. However, due to many problems such as the coordination of all parties, the Chinese army was ultimately unable to recover Nanning. However, the victory in the Battle of Kunlun Pass dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army, and the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army suffered a heavy blow, which also became a rare victory of the Chinese army in the offensive against Japan, which greatly encouraged the morale of the soldiers and civilians of the War of Resistance. In this battle, the Chinese army also paid a huge price: 17,300 wounded, 10,679 killed, and 1,360 missing.
After the recapture of Kunlun Pass, the Chinese army cheered victory
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