A man rides the wind and travels thousands of miles. It is best to die on the battlefield and humiliate his country. How can he become famous? He carries a sword and goes to war.

This was the famous war song of the Sichuan Army at that time, "Praying for Death in War".

300,000 Sichuan troops came out of Sichuan to fight the enemy, 3 million strong men went to fight against the enemy, and 50 million Sichuan people were united. This is the memory and message of a nation.

Sichuan was the main battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War at that time, and the Sichuan Army made a huge contribution to the Anti-Japanese War!

All the soldiers lived up to the country's gratitude and fought bravely to kill the enemy!

Even if you run out of ammunition and food, you still have to bite the enemy with your teeth!

Even today, 80 years later, when people mention the Sichuan Army, they are all in awe!

In early February 1938, because the warlord "King of Shandong" Han Fuju retreated without a fight, the 10th Division of the Japanese invaders Jigu Lianjie occupied Jinan, Tai'an, Yanzhou, Zouxian and other places along the Jinpu Railway without any hindrance.

To force Teng County, and with Itagaki Seishiro's 5th Division attacking Linyi, they planned to encircle Taierzhuang, occupy Xuzhou, a strategic town at the time, open up the Jinpu and Longhai railways, and finally plan to occupy Wuhan.

Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone at the time, urgently mobilized the 22nd Army to rush to Teng County to block the Japanese troops moving south.

At this time, Wang Mingzhang's 122nd Division was guarding Teng County.

At that time, there were only 3 division headquarters and 1 brigade headquarters in Teng County, all of which were logistics and security personnel. The main forces were suppressed by the Japanese army and could not be mobilized, so the force was very empty.

On the one hand, Wang Mingzhang urgently mobilized the commander of the 727th Regiment, Commander Zhang Xuanwu, and a battalion of combat troops to return to the city for defense. On the other hand, he called the 266th Brigade on the Pingyi front line to quickly return reinforcements, and at the same time requested help from the headquarters stationed in Lincheng.

At this time, there were only more than 3,000 defenders in Teng County, of whom less than 2,000 were able to participate in the battle.

In accordance with the requirements of his superiors, Wang Mingzhang was determined to wait for reinforcements and immediately announced to all the officers and soldiers in the city: "I am with you all, the city will survive or die." At 8 o'clock in the morning on March 16, 1938, the Japanese army had arrived at the city.

More than 10 cannons concentrated their fire on Dongguan and the city, and more than a dozen aircraft also bombed and strafed the city wildly.

After two hours of bombing, more than 3,000 artillery shells were fired inside and outside the city.

A gap of one to two meters wide was opened in the southeast corner of the Dongguan City Wall.

Then, the Japanese army used dozens of light and heavy machine guns to fire fiercely at the gap to cover the infantry attack.

With our army's vigorous counterattacks, the enemy's attacks were repelled many times until the fighting stopped at around 8 p.m.

At 6 a.m. on March 17, the Japanese army bombed the city indiscriminately with artillery and aircraft. The whole city was a sea of ??fire and devastated.

More than ten Japanese tanks took the opportunity to rush through the gap in the east city wall, followed closely by rows of Japanese troops.

Our defenders used cluster grenades to destroy two Japanese tanks, brandished their machetes, jumped into the enemy group and slashed, wiping out all the Japanese soldiers who climbed up the city wall. After the tragic war, only 14 disabled people were left in one company of our army.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army bombarded the southern city wall with 12 heavy howitzers, and twenty or thirty enemy planes violently bombed the Nanguan defenders.

A gap was opened in the south city wall by enemy heavy artillery. Five to six hundred Japanese soldiers, covered by more than ten tanks, swooped into the south city.

Lu Kang, commander of the 370th Brigade of the 124th Division, and Wang Chaolian, deputy commander of the brigade, were seriously injured in the front-line battle. At that time, the defenders suffered heavy losses.

At 3:30 pm, after the Japanese army occupied the southern city wall under artillery fire, Wang Lin, the leader of the 740th Regiment of the 124th Division guarding Dongguan, died for his country.

When the Japanese army rushed into Dongguan, Division Commander Wang Mingzhang personally went to the crossroads in the center of the city to direct operations.

Unfortunately, they were hit by Japanese machine guns. Division Commander Wang Mingzhang, Chief of Staff Zhao Weibin, Adjutant Commander Luo Jiaxin, Major Staff Officer Xie Da Yong, Chief of Staff of the 124th Division Zou Mutao and more than ten of their entourage all died heroically.

At this time, Wang Zhiyuan, commander of the 364th Brigade, and Zhang Xuanwu, commander of the city defense, were shot and wounded. The defenders in the city had no one to command and fell into a state of fighting on their own.

At 9 p.m., under the command of Hou Ziping, deputy battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 727th Regiment, more than 200 officers and soldiers guarding the northern city wall worked together to open the sealed north gate and broke out in an organized manner.

The small group of troops that lost contact in the city failed to break through, so they fought independently and started street battles with the Japanese army. The gunfire stopped only when all the troops died heroically before noon on the 18th.

In the Battle of Teng County, the Sichuan army fought bloody battles and became famous in history.

It delayed the Japanese army from moving south and bought valuable time for the Chinese army to deploy defenses in Taierzhuang.

The leader of the Communist Party of China wrote an elegiac couplet to mourn Wang Mingzhang: "Fighting to defend the isolated city and seeing death as if returning home are the true qualities of a revolutionary soldier; determined to annihilate powerful enemies, sacrifice one's life for the country, and bring glory to the Chinese nation!" Li Zongren later wrote in his memoirs: "If there was no Teng

How could the county's defense be as great as the great victory of Taierzhuang?" He also highly praised: "In the Battle of Tengxian County, the Sichuan Army outnumbered the enemy and did not hesitate to make heavy sacrifices to prevent the enemy from moving south. It completed the combat mission and wrote the most glorious battle in the history of the Sichuan Army's Anti-Japanese War.

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One of the areas with the largest number of people and the heaviest sacrifices! The Sichuan Army can be found on every battlefield across the country, making great contributions to the Anti-Japanese War at that time.