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Bow Mountain Memorial Hall for Soldiers Killed in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

In the spring of p>1945, the last battle of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression started in Xupu Longtan. At that time, the Japanese invaders assembled tens of thousands of troops and invaded Xuefeng Mountain area in western Hunan, aiming at competing for Zhijiang Airport, which was called "Xiangxi Conference War" in history. The battle was extremely fierce and cruel, and China and Japan fought hand-to-hand for 28 days and nights. After the Xiangxi Congress, the Japanese army announced its unconditional surrender. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the government of China played a national prestige in memory of all the soldiers, and built a cemetery for the martyrs killed in the Anti-Japanese War on the bow-shaped mountain in Longtan.

in April p>1945, Japanese troops entrenched in eastern and central Hunan dispatched 8, troops to launch the "Zhijiang Raiders War", aiming at seizing Zhijiang airport, gaining a glimpse of Guizhou and Sichuan and annexing the southwest. The Kuomintang army, with the fourth front army in Wang Yaowu as the main force, used the natural barrier of Xuefeng to stop the attack, which was called "Xiangxi Battle" in history. Our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians fought "an inch of land and an inch of blood" and defeated the Japanese army for two months, forcing it to stop its offensive, and then surrendered at Qiliqiao in Zhijiang in August of the same year. Longtan battle is the most crucial battle in Xiangxi battle, and it is an eight-year decisive battle against Japan. This campaign takes Longtan as the main battlefield, including the related wars in the neighboring Longhui and Dongkou.

Xupu Longtan is a rare mountain valley in the hinterland of Xuefeng Mountain. It is surrounded by 21 high mountains with an altitude of more than 1 meters, and only a few steep passes are connected with the outside world. At that time, "Longtan Division" was an economic center connecting central Hunan and western Hunan. Therefore, Longtan has a very important strategic position in the battle of Xiangxi.

On April 9, 1945, the battle began, and the Japanese army invaded on the left, middle and right lines, and the left line invaded from the Guangxi border to Xinning and Suining. About 3, people in the middle line, with 116 divisions as the main force, invaded from Shaoyang along the "Hunan-Guizhou Highway" to Longhui and Dongkou. The right line invaded from Xiangtan and Shaoyang to Xinhua, Xupu and Chenxi. On the surface, there was an attempt by the Japanese army to attack Xupu Qiaojiang Airport on the right line, so I commanded the senior management to transfer the 51st Division of the 47th Army stationed in Longtan (code-named "Wenchang Force") to Xupu for emergency.

Who knows, the Japanese army on the right line just flaunted a shot, Wenchang troops had just left Longtan, and the 116th Division of the Japanese Army Middle Road, Long Temple United, plus about 5, artillery and special forces (see Hunan Archives in May 1955), rushed from Xiaoshajiang, Longhui, to Longtan with lightning speed, and occupied the narrow castle peak of Longtan and the vicinity of Eagle Mountain and Guidong.

Fortunately, Wenchang troops responded very quickly. On the 17th, the advance team of Longsi United arrived in Guidong at 6 pm, and Wenchang troops returned to Longtan at 1 pm, and quickly occupied the main strategic locations outside Longtan. At the same time, I returned to the garrison of Xiaoshajiang to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese troops who arrived later, and blocked the retreat. In this way, the troops of Longsi Temple were "jiaozi" by the China army instead.

The Longsi United Team did not throw itself into the trap, but more importantly, it contained the main force of the Japanese 116th Division. Long Temple United raided Longtan in order to open up a stronghold to meet the main force. Who knows that when the main forces of its divisions rushed to the entrance of Dongkou Mountain and Zhaping around April 25th, Long Temple United had already suffered more than half of the casualties and was in danger, which not only failed to help, but became a burden to the main force.

I don't know that there is only an 8-kilometer-long Shaanxi valley named "Majinggu" between Longtan and the entrance of Dongkou Mountain, and the narrowest part is only over 1 meter wide. Moreover, my Wenchang troops, the 19th Division and the 63rd Division had already set an ambush on the two sides of the "Majing Bone". This made it impossible for the enemy's main force to save or not to save. In the end, they had to make up their minds to order the 133rd Wing and the trench wing to "rescue with all their strength".

Thus, from May 7 to 14, 1945, the Japanese soldiers who were rescued and rescued suffered even more casualties in the process of crossing the "horse neck bone". On May 13, 1945 alone, 2,5 people were killed, including 1,3 people in the Long Temple United, including the team leader Long Temple Bao Saburo. Many years later, when the local people went to the "Horse Neck Bone" to cut wood and fight pig grass, the Japanese invaders' dead bones and sabers and other relics bowed their heads and could be picked up. According to Japan's "Weaving China's Sending Troops", the Japanese army, including the rescue troops, "marched into Longtan with 15,29 troops, and only 216 people remained after the battle".

What's even more surprising is that the fleeing Japanese army was still in shock. Our 74th Army and 1th Army attacked with four divisions, surrounded all the remnants of the Japanese 116th Division from all directions in the narrow flat between the entrance of Dongkou Mountain, Shixiajiang River and Zhuyaotang, and blocked the back roads layer by layer, and then intercepted them. Due to the devastating blow to the middle road of the Japanese army, the left and right roads could not take care of each other from beginning to end to form a joint force, so that the nearly 2-kilometer-long north-south front laid by the Japanese army quickly fell apart.

on June 7th, 1945, the "Xiangxi Battle" ended. According to the Kuomintang's "Military History" data, the whole battle * * * killed 12,498 Japanese soldiers and injured 23,37 people, and 7,737 China soldiers were martyred and injured 12,483 people. In the last eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese nation was down a peg or two.

epitaph

inscription for a thousand years

The cunning one will defeat me, and the hundred cities will fall, and all will not fall.

I'm angry that I won't fight for the narrow pass in Longtan.

I have been a teacher, and I swear to death that I will never be born. I have never heard of it.

Since Kou's blood is drained, my corpse is also horizontal, gathering bones and mountains to gather the spirit.

The hero who died in the country turned into Chang Geng. Long live the future, and admire Mo and Beijing.

This poem, which depicts the Battle of Longtan and eulogizes the quatrains of soul of china, is the conclusion of the previous epitaph. Today, because the original tablet is seriously incomplete, it is difficult to restore the whole picture, so this poem is recorded in order to rewrite the sequence of the epitaph.

in the summer of 1945, Japanese militarists dispatched six divisions and a brigade to launch the battle of Xuefeng Mountain (known as Xiangxi Battle in history), aiming at seizing Zhijiang Airport, spying on Guizhou and Sichuan, and embezzling the southwest. I fought bloody battles against Japanese soldiers and civilians, defeated the Japanese aggressors, and achieved remarkable results. It was a great victory for Xiangxi. Soon, Japan surrendered unconditionally and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression won the final victory.

the battle of Xiangxi is the last general assembly battle in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the battle of Longtan, and it is a major battle famous internationally. In April of that year, the Japanese army, the 19th United Front, entered the west, and attacked Longtan on April 17th, occupying the highland of Eagle Mountain (renamed Hero Mountain after the war). At that time, the 51st Division of the 74th Army of our army was ordered to send troops to Longtan to resist the enemy's invasion, and successively launched fierce battles such as Eagle Mountain Battle, Songshan Highland Hand-to-Hand Combat, Yellow Sand Panic-in-hand Battle, and Horse-neck Bone Destruction War, which lasted for 28 days and nights and wiped out more than 2, people, and our army also lost more than 7 soldiers. In this campaign, the brave patriotic spirit of the officers and men of the 51 ST Division, one inch of land and one inch of blood, swallowed mountains and rivers, and made great achievements, which is inseparable! After the war, a cemetery was built in the bow-shaped mountain at the southern tip of Hero Mountain, where soldiers who died in defending the country were buried and a monument was erected to commemorate them, so as to mourn future generations and sound the alarm and never forget the national humiliation.

the soldiers killed in the anti-Japanese war are immortal!

It was established in the autumn of the thirty-fourth year of the Republic of China

It was restored in the spring of 1993. Written by Huang Zhuoqun

The "Longtan War Memorial Cemetery" is located in longtan town Bow Mountain in Xupu County, and was built in the autumn of 1945.