Que Hanqian's Important Battle

Since the Sino-Japanese War in Songhu, Que Hanqian has been the head of the 79th regiment of the 14th Division. In the defending battle of Luodian in Shanghai, he led his brothers to repeatedly compete with the enemy. He struggled here for several months, and the situation was extremely fierce. At that time, some reporters called it the flesh and blood mill. The 79th regiment suffered heavy casualties, which dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army. At the same time, Que Hanqian won wide acclaim at home and abroad for his good record. From this he was promoted to the commander of the 40 th Brigade. Subsequently, the 14 division was ordered to clear the north and south tangkou. The Japanese army was quite fierce in the war, which was really unbearable, causing the defensive position to move backwards, but Kan Hanqian's brigade could not resist. The situation was quite critical. His guards urged him to retreat many times, but he just resisted until the end. They fought hard for three months, and then strategically considered the withdrawal of the whole army. Fourteenth Division retreated through Qingyang Port and Kunshan, and Quebu Forty Brigade was behind to cover the position of Qingyang Port Highway Bridge and fight hard with the Japanese army. It was not until the whole army was transferred that he led the 40 th brigade to transfer.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, in order to ensure the safety of Wuhan, the 14th Division entered the garrison and vowed to cross the river. Indeed, the 40 th brigade is stationed in Maowu Mountain. He goes up and down the mountain every day to survey the terrain, and comes back at night to study it repeatedly with the staff. He estimated that the Japanese would attack along the Yangtze River. He drew an accurate defensive map and urged his subordinates to build strong fortifications along the Yangtze River, ready to destroy the invading enemy. As he expected, the Japanese army attacked along the Yangtze River, and the land, sea and air fought at the same time. Aggressive, crazy to the extreme, KanHanQian led the troops to fight hard. He admonished his men: "Brothers! I demand all of you for this crazy attack of the enemy! Be sure to get people in place! Never take a step back! Offenders are dealt with by military law! " Whenever enemy planes came, the brigadier general immediately ordered to enter the air defense point. As soon as the enemy plane left, he jumped into the trench with the soldiers and fired at the enemy with light and heavy weapons. They fought tenaciously and held their ground against the artillery bombardment of enemy ships on the Yangtze River. Hold your ground for nearly a month, and sometimes meet each other with white blades, and there are frequent melee, which makes the enemy tremble with fear and makes the gods cry. It was not until Wuhan's defense preparations were basically ready that it was ordered to retreat urgently. At the beginning of 1943, the American army turned to the offensive in the Pacific Ocean, and the Japanese army was gradually broken and turned to the offensive. The Chinese Expeditionary Force set up a headquarters headed by Chen Cheng (later Wei) to command the Indian army and the Expeditionary Force to carry out a large-scale counterattack and open up the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway.

/kloc-in the spring of 0/944, Kan Hanqian was promoted to deputy commander of the 54th Army. In April, as acting commander, he led the 1st 14 and 50th divisions to fly to India and Myanmar to solve the crisis of the Allies. Later, he returned to the headquarters of the 54th Army in Yunnan to participate in the counterattack in western Yunnan. At that time, the main task of the 54th Army was to capture Tengchong, and his 54th Army (after the 1st 14 and 50th divisions of the Army were airlifted to Myitkyina in northern Myanmar, only the198th division was left, that is, Li Zhipeng Division of the 36th Division of the 7th/KLOC-0 Army and Gu Baoyu Division of the 2nd Reserve Division of the 6th Army). Tengchong City was built in three years by15,000 soldiers from the Ming Dynasty 1445. The city wall is made of local volcanic rocks, with a circumference of 3,500m, a thickness of 6m and a wall height of 8m. There are 13-meter-high gates around the city wall. Since the occupation of Tengchong City by the 50 th Division of the Japanese Invaders 148 United Front Regiment in May 1942, not only several layers of tunnel bunkers have been built on the city wall. Moreover, every household has three layers of fortifications, upstairs, above ground and underground. The city is rich in materials and steel plates. The headquarters of the Japanese 148 United Front at the east gate of the city is located in an underground bunker 10 meters deep.

In May 1944, 1 1, the 54th Army crossed the Nujiang River, which is known as the natural barrier, and immediately launched an attack on the dangerous mountain Gaoligong Mountain. It was the rainy season and the climate was quite bad. The Japanese fortifications are built according to danger, which is more difficult for the attack. It took them 40 days to clear Gaoligong Mountain with friendly forces. The troops originally needed to rest and replenish, but the Expeditionary Force Command issued an order to conquer Tengchong. The general personally went to the front line to direct the siege and found that there were strong enemy strongholds outside Tengchong City, which was difficult to conquer. Moreover, in the battle plan of the Japanese army, it is necessary to defend Tengchong City and wait for reinforcements from Myanmar. The Japanese army has always had the spirit of "Bushido" and excellent fighting skills, which brought great difficulties to the China army attacking Tengchong City. At that time, the Chinese Expeditionary Force concentrated the powerful forces of four divisions to attack Tengchong City. At that time, there were only more than 3,000 Japanese troops stationed in Tengchong City, but the 20 th Army encountered considerable resistance when attacking. First of all, due to tactical problems, only the storm was used, and soldiers were used to charge, instead of the existing aircraft artillery, which caused heavy casualties. Despite months of hard work, little progress has been made. Tengchong siege warfare is of great concern to the military high-level. By July 25, the order was issued: Tian Fang, commander of the 20 th Army, was appointed as deputy commander of the 20 th Army, and Que Hanqian, deputy commander of the 54 th Army, was promoted to commander. General que made a suggestion to the 20 th army headquarters: it is suggested that the Japanese firepower should be destroyed by artillery and plane bombing before the charge. Commander-in-Chief Huo adopted this suggestion. On the same day, the chief officer dispatched fighters, bombers and mixed aircraft groups to carry out strafe bombing, and the artillery bombarded with heavy artillery. General que organized a sharp knife commando to spray with a flame thrower and aim at Fengshan. On July 27th, the 54th Army recovered to Fengshan. To this end, General Que specially rode a scarlet spirited horse to inspect and take photos at Laifeng Peak. The officers and men were full of lofty sentiments, and the horse was well received. They roared three times, which was even more imposing. After the general kissed the horse on the face, he returned to the military command post in Heshun Township. On this day, he added vegetables to dinner and paid 20 yuan. The general's soft-spoken story was translated into a beautiful talk. Tengchong City is the capital of Meng Huo, the head of Zhuge Liang's Seven Wonders during the Three Kingdoms Period. The city is made of stone, which is extremely strong. On July 29th, the Expeditionary Force dispatched more than 60 fighter planes to bomb Tengchong City. Then they bombarded the fort with artillery and attacked the hole with rockets or flame throwers. The two sides fought fiercely. On August 2, General Que urgently requested the air force to assist in the attack, so as to blow the wall out of the gap, so as to break through, avoid migration and increase casualties. On the 5th, the General Command of the Expeditionary Force dispatched 15 B-25 planes to blow up the city wall 13. The two sides launched a fierce tug-of-war at the broken part of the city wall. On the 7th, more than 5,000 people who were short of cloth broke into the city and occupied some Japanese city wall positions. 12, the Japanese army launched an attack on the wall position occupied by the 36th Division 108 Regiment, and the two sides launched fierce hand-to-hand combat. 108 regiment was forced to withdraw from the city wall position because of heavy casualties. More than 500 people from the second battalion of the regiment all died heroically. Since then, General Que has often visited the front. According to his observation, he estimated that the Japanese No.1 148 United Front Command was at the east gate of the city, so he urgently asked dozens of bombers of the No.1 1 14 Air Force of the United States to bomb in turn. After cleaning up the battlefield after the war, it was found that more than 30 officers and men of the Japanese command, including Zangchong, were all suffocated in the basement by the collapsed building, including Liu Aozhong Zuo, Ao Guang, and Lieutenant Zhongzang. Later, the general used engineers to dig tunnels and bomb the city walls, occupied several corners of the city, confronted the enemy and made a breakthrough. He immediately readjusted, and the divisions fought against the Japanese in the city. The Japanese army fought back with all its might, and the battle was very cruel. In Tengchong City, after a month of fierce street fighting between the enemy and ourselves, it was devastated and devastated. Since the war, more than 6,000 Japanese soldiers have died and committed suicide in the city, except for 300 people who fled the city. For the fleeing enemy, Kan Hanqian personally ordered Fang Cheng, head of the Second Division, to lead a regiment to pursue. Except for 65,438+00, everyone else was captured and killed. By September of 14, Tengchong's annihilation war was completely won. The enemy was either caught or dead, and no one escaped. A few years later, some Japanese instructors called it the most successful war of annihilation in China's history.