Located in the National Funeral Cemetery, the Martyrs Cemetery for Doll Soldiers in Songshan Campaign was built to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the 20th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who recovered Tengchong in 1944. Completed on July 7th 1945. The name of the park is taken from the "National Funeral" in the Songs of the South, and it is called the National Funeral Cemetery, covering an area of 37,884 square meters. The cemetery consists of martyrs' shrine, memorial tower and martyrs' tomb.
On the west side, there is a list wall of Chinese expeditionary forces engraved with the names of 65,438+10,000 Chinese expeditionary forces and local fighters who participated in the anti-Japanese war in western Yunnan. There are 365,438+068 neatly arranged stone tablets, each of which is a martyr who died in the besieged city in that year, and is engraved with the name, birthplace, rank and position of the martyr. Their average age is only 15, and the oldest is less than 18.
The story of the battle of baby soldiers
In this battle, China invested 40,000 troops, fought ten big battles and hundreds of small battles with the Japanese invaders, which lasted for 95 days before winning the battle and adowa the Japanese army. However, the Chinese expeditionary force also paid a heavy price in this battle. At that time, the Japanese army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, while the Chinese expeditionary force suffered about 7,600 casualties.
This may be one of the worst battles in China in World War II. At that time, the strength was insufficient, and thousands of small soldiers also went to the battlefield. They are all child soldiers aged from 65,438+03 to 65,438+05. Among them, the youngest child soldier who died on the battlefield was only 9 years old. After that, China army recovered Tengchong. After the war of Longling, the expeditionary force recovered Longling, and the Japanese army fled to mangshi along the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway.