War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is the first national war in which the Chinese nation 100 years has won an all-round victory against foreign invaders. In this eight-year defence war to save the nation from peril, more than 300 soldiers from Wan Chuan and Chongqing took to the front line of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression without hesitation. They fought bravely and fought bloody battles, ranking first in the country in terms of both the number of participants and the tragic degree of sacrifice.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, in addition to the seven group armies of the Sichuan Army, more than 400,000 people from 1 Army and 1 Division went to the front to fight bloody battles with the Japanese aggressors. Sichuan also transports 65,438+10,000 to 300,000 able-bodied men to the frontal battlefield every year, becoming a national military base.
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From September 1937, the Sichuan army was ordered to go to the anti-Japanese front in three ways.
The first route is led by Deng Xihou, commander-in-chief of the 22nd Army (under the jurisdiction of 4 1 Army, commander Sun Zhen; 45 th Army, commander Chen Shunong; Li Jiayu, commander of the 47th Army, set out from Chengdu, went to Baoji via Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway, then went eastward along Longhai Road, crossed Tongguan and the Yellow River, and entered Shanxi to resist Japan.
The second route is led by Liu Xiang, commander-in-chief of the 23 rd Army (under the jurisdiction of 2 1 Army, commander Tang Shizun; 23 army, commander Pan Wenhua; Wang Zuxu, commander of the 44th Army, set out from Chaotianmen Wharf in Chongqing, took a boat down the Yangtze River, and transferred to Xuchang and Zhengzhou via Wuhan to participate in the Nanjing Defence War.
On the third road, 20 armies led by General Yang Sen of Sichuan Army set out from Guizhou and arrived in Shanghai to participate in the Battle of Songhu. Sichuan Army *** 14 reorganization division, more than 200,000 people participated in the war.
In addition, in the spring of 1938, with the support of Gu, the general of Sichuan Army set up the 88th Army in Chongqing and went to the third war zone as the general reserve. Then there is the Independent 35th Brigade, which was originally a reinforced brigade of the Yangsen Department of the 20th Army of Sichuan Army. Later, it was directly under the Military and Political Department of the National Government and was ordered to go to the front.
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