The commander-in-chief of the National Protectorate, Cai E, and the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, Okamura Ningji, have many amazing coincidences

(General Cai E)

Cai E was born in December 1882 in Daba Group, Yangwan Village, Shuidong Town, Dongkou County, Shaoyang City. After Cai E was 4 years old, he moved with his family to Shanmen Town, 8 kilometers away from the free dam group on the Huangni River, and began to study in a private school. Shanmen Town is a prosperous market at the entrance of Xuefeng Mountain. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War in the Qing Dynasty, many 邵阳县, Xiangxiang and even Jiangxi people moved here for long-term settlement. There were also some Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers who lived in seclusion after the defeat. Cai E's ancestors also lived here. I moved from Shaoyang County.

(Former residence of Cai E on Dongkou Shuidong Dam)

Cai E has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and is a famous prodigy in Baoqing Mansion. He is 12 years old. Xiucai. In 1904, Cai E graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Academy with No. 1 in the school, changing the history of No. 1 Japanese in previous years. The Japanese emperor gave the swords as a rule, which made the Japanese military lose its face. Since then, the military academy has set new regulations. Chinese and Japanese students will teach separately, and Chinese students will not be able to obtain the highest truth from Japanese military instructors.

After returning from studying in China, Cai E has been serving in the Guangxi New Army for a long time and has become a leader of the Guangxi New Army. In the spring of 1911, Li Jingxi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was transferred to Yunnan. On October 30, he led the Yunnan Kunming Uprising of the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Cai E became the governor of Yunnan (admiral) at the age of 28. On the eve of the Kunming Uprising, trainee platoon leader Zhu De was promoted to company commander by Cai E FireWire, and was promoted to brigade commander during the National Defence War 6 years later. Zhu De has always been Cai E’s closest comrade-in-arms and subordinate. After Cai E’s death, Zhu De was squeezed out by 唐继尧 and left Yunnan on another road to save the country. Later, he became the commander-in-chief of the Communist Party "Zhu Mao Red Army" headed by Hunan native Mao Zedong. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of New China.

Soon after Cai E became the governor of Yunnan, when Li Genyuan led his army to patrol the west, he found in Dongchuan, Yunnan that the Japanese Kato Kato had many Yunnan military secret documents with approving words, and a military map of various regions in Yunnan was drawn. . After being reported to Cai E and confirmed as a Japanese military spy, Kato Kato was killed at Leotoupo in Dongchuan. According to investigations, Kato Kato changed his name to Li Jian'an, engaged in spy work in Yunnan under the name of running a sports school, and communicated with the Tokyo Military Ministry to report Yunnan military secrets. Cai E inferred from the situation of Kato Kato's spies in Yunnan on the southwestern border of China that Japan has a comprehensive plan to invade China.

In the summer of 1913, 孙中山, Huang Xing and others led the Battle of Ganning (Second Revolution) and defeated the Yuan war. 袁世凯 Beiyang army was famous in the world and controlled the whole country except the southwestern provinces Everywhere outside. In the autumn of 1913, Cai E was transferred to the Beijing Presidential Office for reuse by Yuan Shikai, and Cai E was assigned several important positions in the military and political departments under Yuan Shikai himself. Cai E devoted himself wholeheartedly to various tasks, and he also wanted to help Yuan Shikai build a strong Republic of China. Yuan Shikai controlled the southwestern provinces through Cai E's influence and achieved control of the country's military and political power. In order to maintain his position, Yuan Shikai, who has gained supreme power, has adopted a concessionary attitude towards foreign aggression, but he does whatever he wants at home. After World War I broke out in 1914 and Germany withdrew from the occupied Qingdao, Shandong, China, Yuan Shikai sat by and watched the Japanese invasion and occupation of Shandong and did not dare to declare war on Japan.

In February 1915, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters sent Okamura Neji and others to Qingdao to collect information to compile the history of the Japanese-German War. From this, Okamura Neji set foot on Chinese soil for the first time. Cai E met with Okamura Neji in Beijing. During the conversation, Cai E confirmed that Japan is preparing to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China.

In June 1915, Cai E delivered a speech on combat against Japan at a Senate meeting, demanding rejection of the "Twenty-one Articles", and secretly handing over the combat plan against Japan to Yuan Shikai, but he did not get the consent of Yuan Shikai . At this time, Yuan Shikai knew that Cai E's political views were contrary to his own, and his vigilance was greatly increased, and he arranged for someone to secretly monitor Cai E. In August, Yuan Shikai publicly restored the monarchy, and Cai E was disappointed. The Beiyang squeeze encountered in Beijing, the chaos of the government, and the absurdity of the president’s repeated promises to break his promises all together exhausted Cai E’s confidence in Yuan Shikai. Cai E was determined to organize the protection of the country and the Yuan uprising in order to save the country. Chinese nation.

Cai E sneaked back to Kunming, Yunnan from Beijing via Japan, Hong Kong, and Hanoi, Vietnam, on November 21, 1915, to lead the National Protection Uprising. He declared Yunnan’s independence on November 25 and established 护国军 on November 26. headquarters. At that time, Cai E was seriously ill and elected Tang Jiyao to protect 国军 commander-in-chief. Tang Jiyao had no intention to go to war. Cai E was promoted as the commander-in-chief, Luo Peijin was the chief of the general staff, and Li Riyi was the secretary-general; Li Liejun was the commander-in-chief of the marching army, Huang Yu was the commander of the marching army, and Zhao Zhongqi was the commander of the echelon. Army Wang Wenhua, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army, marched towards the border between Sichuan and Hunan. 何应钦 is the commander of the Fourth Regiment of the First Division of the Eastern Route Army Qian Army. The leader of the left army echelon was Liu Yunfeng, the vanguard of the National Protectorate Army, and marched hurriedly to Shufu in the southwest of Sichuan to advance Chengdu. Dai Kan, the commander-in-chief of the Right Army, attacked Qijiang and forced Chongqing. Cai E personally led the Central Route Army to take Luzhou from Yongning in southern Sichuan. The Central Route Army has two echelons, the second echelon leader Zhao Youxin, the third echelon leader Gu Pinzhen, and Zhu De is the captain of the sixth echelon of the third echelon. Chief of the General Staff Luo Peijin and Secretary-General Li Riyi marched with the Central Route Army. Liu Xianshi is the governor of Guizhou, in charge of Guizhou's military affairs and logistics. Tang Jiyao was reinstated as the governor of Yunnan by the general of Yunnan, and was in charge of Yunnan's military administration and logistics.

In fact, Tang Jiyao was afraid that the National Protector Army would not be able to defeat Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army because of his short-sightedness. In order to protect himself, he did not have supply support to the front line during the National Protectorate War for several months. Later, the military and political power of Yunnan changed hands several times, mainly due to Tang Jiyao's inability to support the Protectorate Army and the loss of the support of the Protectorate Army commander who fought bloody on the front line.

Cai E was ill and commanded the main army of the National Defender Army's Central Route with only 3,000 people. After three months of no aid and no money, he fought the earth-shattering and Devil May Cry: Breaking the 50,000 elite division of the Beiyang New Army, The first division defeated Yuan Shikai's most combat-effective divisions, and commanded a total of more than 10,000 people on the front line of the Yunnan and Guizhou Protectorate Army to break through more than 200,000 powerful enemies in the provinces of Sichuan, Hunan and Guangxi. The National Defenders often have no overnight food. Soldiers are unclothed, but they lack food and supplies, never rob local tyrants and riches, and have nothing to do with Minqiu; they lack weapons and ammunition in guerrilla warfare and win surprisingly, relying on defeating the enemy to supplement and let the enemy army. Fearful. Wherever the army came, the people welcomed the people’s dance and volunteered donations. It was in stark contrast to the brutal acts of soldiers and bandits shared by other military forces in the north and south of China at that time: burning, killing, looting, and adultery. They became a true teacher of benevolence and justice. division.

(Cai E's Mansion at Dongkou Mountain Gate)

Cai E uses his soldiers like a god. In the war, he "schemes, defeats, second, and attacks "City" was vividly displayed, and all provinces across the country responded to the uprising. In the end, Yuan Shikai was forced to abolish the monarchy after the rebellion of his relatives and his anger became ill. He died on June 6, 1916. Cai E, as a non-partisan, accomplished the unfulfilled goal of the second revolution initiated by Southern Revolutionary Party members such as Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and 蒋介石 in several provinces in China in the summer of 1913 with one province of force, allowing him to flee overseas at that time. Many revolutionary party members can return to their hometown for many years.

Cai E had been commanding the war at the forefront with an illness. He could not be treated in time for more than half a year and caused serious throat problems. Unfortunately, he died in Tokyo, Japan on November 8, 1916. All provinces, counties, and all walks of life across the country have spontaneously held mourning activities. The funeral ceremony, the participation of people from all walks of life, and the public watching the ceremony in empty streets are unprecedented in China. On April 12, 1917, he was buried in Yuelu Mountain, Changsha, the first person to be buried in the Republic of China. Mao Zedong, who was studying at the Hunan First Normal School at that time, called Cai E a "model of the country." After Cai E passed away, his family had no real estate, and the Cai family owed foreign debts. Cai E is a clean and honest official and dedicated to serving the country and the people. He is a rare person in my country with the perfect "ethics, meritorious service, and advocacy". He is known as the god of the army and the first soldier in China.

The chivalrous singer Ji Xiaofengxian, who once protected Cai E and his family from leaving Beijing, is famous for the great victory of Cai E’s leadership in the National Defense War. The Story of Little Phoenix". Xiaofengxian planted many maple trees around the tomb of Cai E in Yuelu Mountain, Changsha, to show his admiration for General Cai E. Now the maple tree has grown into an old tree surrounded by two people, and Yuelu Mountain has become the country's four major tourist attractions for red leaves. The two hundred-year-old maple trees left and right in front of the main gate of Cai's Tomb on Yuelu Mountain and the one-hundred-year-old maple tree between Cai's Tomb and Aiwanting Pavilion are the earliestA batch of maple trees planted. The ages written on the maple trees are all 100 to 150 years, but they are actually more than 100 years old.

(Maple tree from the tomb of Cai E in Yuelu Mountain, Changsha)

In June 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy was established, the prime minister Sun Yat-sen, the principal Chiang Kai-shek, the school party On behalf of Liao Zhongkai, Vice President Li Jishen (Cai E student), Political Director Zhou Enlai, Chief Instructor He Yingqin (Cai E student). After graduating from Zhenwu School in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek failed to enter the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Academy for further studies. This was also the regret of Chiang Kai-shek in his life. He Yingqin and Chiang Kai-shek were alumni of the Zhenwu School in Japan. After the failure of the Second Revolution in 1913, they went into exile in Japan and entered the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Academy.

In 1931, the Japanese army launched the "September 18 Incident" and began a war of aggression against China, occupying the three northeastern provinces of China. In June 1938, Okamura Neji, then commander of the Second Division of the Japanese Invaders to China, received an order from the Japanese military to form the 11th Army of the Japanese Invaders, and served as the commander of the army’s lieutenant general to attack the Wuhan area in Hubei. Due to the fall of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Nanchang, Okamura Ningci commanded the 11th Army and marched into Wuhan, Hubei in two divisions, defeating Zhang Fakui’s Second Corps and Li Pinxian (Cai E), commander-in-chief of the National Army’s Fifth Theater Commander Li Zongren (Cai E student). Student) The two corps of the Fourth Corps, heading for Wuhan.

In the face of the fierce and brutal Japanese army, the Chinese army was defeated on the battlefields from Shanghai to Hubei, Beijing to Henan. It collapsed thousands of miles and killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers in just a few months. There were tens of thousands of officers, while the total number of Japanese soldiers killed in the war was only tens of thousands. The Chinese army is in short supply of basic-level commanders on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. Under this tens of thousands of urgency, the Supreme Commander of the Kuomintang Armed Forces Chiang Kai-shek, the Minister of Political Training Bai Chongxi (a student of Cai E), the Chief of Staff He Yingqin, and the director of the Whampoa Military Academy’s Wuhan branch Li Minghan (a student of Cai E) , Liling, Hunan), Liu Gongwu, director of the political department of the school (Huarong, Hunan), and Zhou Pan, deputy director of the school (from the same township of Cai E, from Shaoyang, Hunan), etc., etc. urgently agreed that the Central Army Military Academy (ie Huangpu Military Academy) Wuhan branch ( Also called the Second Branch) moved to the then 武冈 county in Hunan-the hometown of patriotic general Cai E. (Note: Shanmen Town, where Cai E was born, belonged to Wugang County at this time. On April 1, 1952, the townships of Shanmen, Gaosha, and Dongkou in the northern section of Wugang County were demarcated from Wugang County to form Dongkou County) Cai E The military book "Quotations of Zeng Hu Zhibing" is also one of the military textbooks of the Whampoa Military Academy.

When General Cai E was alive, he had always advocated preventing Japan from invading China and fighting against Japan. The heads of the Supreme Command of the National Army hope that there will be a commander like General Cai E, the god of the National Guard, to block the pace of the crazy Japanese invading army and protect the safety of Chongqing, the accompanying capital. They hope to use the heroic spirit of General Cai E to suppress the powerful Japanese army commanded by his classmate, Neji Okamura, so that the non-commissioned officers of the Whampoa Military Academy will earnestly learn Cai E’s patriotic spirit of giving up righteousness in General Cai E’s hometown, and develop extraordinary military skills. In order to boost the army's fighting spirit and the belief in victory, the Chinese nation will be saved from the crisis.

"Wugang Huangpu Love"

In the autumn of 1938, the Wuhan Branch of the Central Army Military Academy was ordered to withdraw. The first plan was to move to the hometown of General Cai E, the god of the National Guard Shaoyang County, the sixth district of Hunan (Shaoyang Prefecture), all teachers and students took the train from Wuchang and got off at Xiangtan Yijiawan, and arrived at Shaoyang County on foot. After everything was settled. Li Minghan, Liu Gongwu, Zhou Pan and other military school leaders asked about Cai E’s hometown and Cai E’s former residence, but they could not find them. They learned that Cai E was from Shanmen, Wugang County’s Ji'an Township, but his ancestral home was in Shaoyang County. There is no ancestral home in Shaoyang County. And real estate. I only heard that after the death of Cai E, Cai family bought a house in Shaoyang City with the money left over from the government for Cai E's funeral. The Cai family lived for a period of time. Later, due to the war, the property was sold to the Shaoyang city defense officer. The former residence of Cai E in Daxiang District, Shaoyang City was built in 1990.

After the leaders of the military academy went to Wugang County for fieldwork, it was confirmed that the birthplace of General Cai E was in Wugangshanmen instead of Shaoyang County. And because of the profound culture of the families in Wugang, the ancestral halls and temples are numerous and large, the leaders of the military academy met to discuss the decision to relocate. After telegrams to the National Military and Political Training Department and the General Staff, they were ordered to relocate the second branch to Shaoyang.100 kilometers away, General Cai E's hometown is Wugang County, also called Wugang Campus. When the military academy first arrived in Wugang, the headquarters of the school was stationed in the Lujia Courtyard in the south of the city. After the construction of the new teaching building in Faxiangyan in the east of the city, it moved into the new school. The army officer corps was mainly in Wugang, Shiyangqiao, Gaosha, Zhushi, and Shanmen. The ancestral halls and temples around are stationed for training. There are Zhongzheng Building, Yingqin Building, Chongxi Building and Zhongshan Hall in the school headquarters. Now the school headquarters has become the Second Middle School of Wugang City. Only Zhongshan Hall has been preserved as a national cultural relic protection unit. The other buildings have been demolished during the expansion of the Second Middle School.

(Picture of Zhang's ancestral home in Shuikou, Shanmen)

In 1939, the second branch of the Central Army Academy of Military Academy, the 16th period, the 27th officer corps was originally the political training corps, later changed to 27 officers The corps, more than 900 people, is divided into 8 squadrons, teaching and training in the ancestral temples and temples of the mountain gates such as the Yanmen Yin's Ancestral Hall, Guanzhuang Zhangcai Gong Ancestral Hall, Tian Tai Wu Yang Ancestral Hall, and Shanxia Yang Bei Gong Ancestral Hall. The Yin's Ancestral Hall is located in the north of Shanmen City. There is a large karst cave 70 meters to the east of the Ancestral Hall, which can accommodate thousands of people. It was a natural air-raid shelter during the Anti-Japanese War and was also an air-defense storage warehouse for military academy weapons and ammunition. Shanmen is more than sixty kilometers away from Wugang, and is the farthest teaching site from the main campus of Wugang school. The training site is located at Shanmen. The main reason is that General Cai E, the god of the National Guard, was born here and is the hometown of General Cai E.

(Yin's Ancestral Hall at Dongkou Mountain Gate)

Shanmenzhai (now Shanmen Town) was one of the fifteen villages of Baoqing Mansion in ancient times and the most important of Xuefeng Mountain Guanzhai. Before the opening of the Xiangqian Highway from Dongkou to Huaihua in July 1939, the Shanmen used to enter the nearest pass between Huaihua and Yunguichuan in the southern part of Hunan by land, which was a battleground for military strategists. The earliest written record of the ancient road from Shanmen to Xiangxi: When Shanmen belonged to the three kingdoms of Shu (later a territory of Wu for a long time), Guan Yu’s Shu army crossed Xuefeng Mountain (called Meishan before the Republic of China), and looked at the countryside from Longtan Town, Tongshan, and Shanmen in Xiangxi. The town entered Zhaoling (now Shaoyang City) and fought the Wu army in southern Hunan. There has been an ancient bluestone tea-horse road from Shanmen to Longtan in Xiangxi. Unfortunately, the ancient road stone was demolished at the end of the 20th century.

(Dongkou Mountain Gate became a provincial-level historical and cultural town in Hunan)

October 1939, because the commander-in-chief of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army Gangcun Ningci launched the first During the Battle of Changsha, Cai's brother Cai Songchi's family temporarily moved from Changsha to his home in Longchi Village, Shanmen, Wugang County (now Shanmen Town, Dongkou County), and his sister Cai Ronggui (Married to Shanmen Xie Yucheng) to escape the war. In the winter of 1939, Major General Wang Pingyi, the political instructor of the 27th Corps, specially invited Mr. Cai Songchi to give lectures to the Corps. According to Wang Xikan from the Seventh Squadron of the Second Battalion of the 27th Officer Corps in the book "Wugang Huangpu Love" published in 2009, after Cai Songchi introduced the patriotic deeds of General Cai E in detail, he encouraged the students: "Shanmen is the birthplace of General Cai E. It is necessary to study hard like General Cai E, to develop excellent skills in killing the enemy, to fight against the Japanese fascist aggression, and to resolutely drive the Japanese invaders out of China. When he was studying in Japan, General Cai E wrote to his father and fellow villagers in Hunan. Believe that he saw the arrogant ambitions of Japan’s post-reformation, and he sounded a warning to the Chinese people, calling on them to become awakened quickly, otherwise, they will cause a big pot.” Now it seems that General Cai E’s words have been fulfilled.

In the summer of 1941, Director Li Minghan came from Chongqing to the Yin Family Ancestral Hall in Yanmen, Shanmen, personally presided over the graduation ceremony of the 27th Officer Corps and gave an important speech. Records of his speech: "It is an honor to hold the graduation ceremony at Shanmen, the hometown of the national hero, General Cai E. You are students of the Second Campus, and you will win glory for the Second Campus after graduation. An important characteristic of the second campus students is that they are good at shooting. Good military skills. Japan invaded China and relied on its military strength. When I was studying at the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School, the Japanese focused on shooting training. I hope that you will tell the soldiers after you distribute them to the army that you must practice the skills that you can use. Destroy an enemy with a single shot, and then win the war of resistance. Secondly, you are students of Huangpu. The spirit of Huangpu is not afraid of death, not greedy for money, love the country, and love the people. Now that the national crisis is facing, the revolutionary soldiers should carry forward the spirit of Huangpu, give up life for righteousness, and fight to the end. Not to be a surrender. After you arrive at the frontline troops, no matter what the occasion is, you must love the motherland and the people, and be a citizen who defends the motherland.Family hero. ”

Wugang City with traffic jams, due to the migration of teachers, students and family members of the Second Branch Military Academy, the economy also prospered for a while, becoming an active anti-Japanese rear center. From autumn 1938 to August 1944, the second branch was in Wugang. The school has been running for 7 years, from the 14th to the 19th. These trainee classes, officer training classes, technical training classes, tactics research classes, and supplementary training corps scattered in the ancestral halls and temples of Wugang have trained more than 23,000 in total. The number of officers at all levels and the number of cadets was the highest in each branch school. After graduation, they were assigned to the first line of the Anti-Japanese War. The second branch school moved to Wugang, and the teachers and students of the school immediately incorporated Zhang Yuncheng, the largest bandit in Wugang County. During the long period of time, Zhang Yuncheng set up looting on the ancient road of Xiangqian in Xuefeng Mountain in western Hunan, especially robbed a lot of anti-Japanese materials, which seriously affected the Anti-Japanese War. Hundreds of bandits led by Zhang Yuncheng were reorganized into the regular army of the battalion-level national army and opened the Guangxi Anti-Japanese Front Line. 。

In the summer of 1944, Hengyang and Shaoyang fell one after another due to the Japanese invasion of Hunan. In August 1944, the Second Branch was forced to evacuate from Wugang to Suining County. In the spring of 1945, it was moved from Suining to Huaihua Huitong due to the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain. County (the hometown of General Suyu, God of War), in October 1945, it was transferred from Huitong via Xiangxi to Chengdu, Sichuan.

Between 1938 and the summer of 1941, the Japanese army marched into Hunan many times. It appeared in the War of Resistance Against Japan. There are many Hunanese. The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by Mao Zedong have many main generals from Hunan, such as Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, from Xiangtan, Hunan, a student of Li Minghan, and a direct subordinate of Zhou Pan. Chief of Chief Zuo Quan, Liling, Hunan He is a cousin and student of Li Minghan. Su Yu, acting commander and political commissar of the New Fourth Army, is a member of the Hunan People’s Association and is known as the God of War. He was born in Huitong County at the western foot of Xuefeng Mountain. The hometown of the military god Cai E is at the eastern foot of Xuefeng Mountain, the god of war and military. The hometown is only 130 kilometers apart. In addition, the Communist Party is good at fighting behind enemy lines, organizing and mobilizing the common people, and launched the most powerful guerrilla war against the vast Japanese military consular areas in North and East China, making Japan go south from the three eastern provinces via railway. The military supplies of southern China and Southeast Asian countries were severely blocked, forcing a large number of Japanese troops to stay for defense and containing the enemy's strength.

In July 1941, Ningji Okamura was promoted to general and took over as the commander of the North China Front Army of the Japanese invaders. Ningji Murakura commanded the Japanese army to carry out a major sweep against the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in North China and East China. In the 4-year sweeping war in North China, Ningji Okamura instigated a large number of KMT miscellaneous troops, which caused serious damage to the Chinese Kuomintang and Communist forces. Loss. In May 1942, Zuo Quan, Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army, was hit in the head by a Japanese artillery in a battle, and he became the highest leader of the Communist Party's sacrifice in the War of Resistance Against Japan. The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army destroyed and intercepted them in the enemy theater. A large number of Japanese military equipment, most of their anti-Japanese military materials were seized from the puppet army and the Japanese army, which played a vital role in delaying the progress of the Japanese army in the Pacific battlefield and Southeast Asia battlefield. In the Anti-Japanese War, 140,000 Japanese troops were killed.

Okamura Neji was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatched army in Japan in November 1944. In April 1945, he launched the "Zhijiang Raiders" in Hunan. The Chinese call the Zhijiang Defense Battle, also known as the Battle of Xiangxi and the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain, which was the last major battle during the Chinese Anti-Japanese War. The purpose of this battle for the Japanese invaders was to compete for the Zhijiang Air Base in Xiangxi, thereby threatening China’s accompanying capital, Chongqing, and reversing the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War. The Japanese army, with the commander of the 20th Army Lieutenant General Banxii Yiliang (Cai E's younger brother) as the commander-in-chief of the campaign, plans to invest a total of five divisions and one pilot regiment in the campaign, with a total strength of more than 130,000.

The Chinese army is a powerful force of more than 200,000 people with 9 armies and 26 divisions personally commanded by General He Yingqin, commander-in-chief of the Republic of China Army (Cai E, Ningci Okamura). The main battlefield of the battle is in the Xuefeng Mountain area of ​​Dongkou, Suining, Xupu, Longhui, Xinhua, Xinning and Wugang counties in Hunan. There are Shanmen (Cai E's hometown), Dongkou, Jiangkou, Wuyang, Longtan, etc. town.

On April 11, 1945, the 109th Wing of the 116th Division of the Japanese Army's vanguard plunged straight into the cave from Shaoyang Duzishuitou and back to the hinterland of Xuefeng Mountain. The original plan was to introduce the main force of the national army into the hinterland of Xuefeng Mountain and annihilate it in one fell swoop. The plan of the national army was to lead a few groups of Japanese troops deep into the hinterland of Xuefeng Mountain, forming a large encirclement, and annihilating them individually. This is the plan of the Chinese army. The national army took the initiative to retreat, so that the Japanese army did not encounterQuickly entered the hinterland of Xuefeng Mountain under the resistance of Because the Shaohuai Highway was heavily defended by the 73rd, 74th, and 100th Army of the Fourth Front Army of the National Army, the north side of Longhui Hexiangqiao Town through Shanmen Town to Jiangkou Town and Longtan Town became the main route of the Japanese army’s actual attack on the middle route of Zhijiang Airport. This line was once occupied by the Japanese army. Later, the national army, which was fully equipped with American equipment, and with the cooperation of the Yao Self-Defense Forces in Xiangxi, violently encircled and suppressed the 109th Wing of the Japanese Vanguard that reached Jiangkou and Longtan. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties. Among them, the Japanese Infantry 109 Wing, Infantry 133 Wing, Yacht Heavy 116 Wing, Wild Artillery 122 Wing, Cavalry 120 Wing and other main force tens of thousands of horses, have been fighting from Shanmen to Xuefeng Mountain hinterland, Dawu, Tongshan, Jiangkou and Between Longtan.

(Shanmen Town under Xuefeng Mountain)

On May 8, 1945, the National Army counterattacked across the board. The Japanese Army’s 109th Regiment left over 4000 people from Longtan. The mountain gate retreated, and when they passed the snow peak mountain and retreated to the mountain gate Tongshanwang village, more than 400 people were besieged by the national army. A few days later, the 109th Wing, which had been running out of food for three days, including the leader of the 109th Wing, including the leader of the 109th Wing, was killed by the country. The 51st Division of the 74th Army, the 19th Division of the 100th Army, and the 63rd Division were surrounded by Majinggu Village, Tongshan, Shanmen. Only a few Japanese troops who had explored the way in the early days escaped through the Shanmen.

At the same time, the 11th Division of the 18th Army (the 11th Division Commander General Yang Botao is from Zhijiang in Xiangxi, and the 31st Regiment Commander Yin Zhongyue is from Dongkou) and other national troops were soon surrounded The morale of the mountain gate is extremely strong. After a few days of fierce fighting, the two regiments 133 and 116 of the 109 regiment, garrisoned and attacked to the mountain gate to rescue the 109 regiment trapped in Majinggu Village, were hit hard. The 116 regiment of the Japanese Yuzhong regiment was wiped out and more than 2,000 people from the 133 regiment were wiped out. Multiple people. The Japanese army seized more than 300 war horses. Due to the tragic war and chaotic battlefields, it was impossible to contact the headquarters. The seized war horses were tied to the periphery of the "Dianshian" temple where the headquarters of the 32nd Regiment of the 11th Division of the National Army in the North Highland of Shanmen City was located. , Was mistakenly bombed by the Sino-US Air Force Mixed Brigade as the Japanese army, leaving only more than 30 horses, which also caused great losses to the national army.

The local people vigorously cooperated with the national army to resist Japan, so that the Japanese army had nowhere to hide in the mountains and outside the mountains. When the Japanese army retreated, they retaliated against the brutal killing of Shanmen Yantang Village and burned all the houses in the village. The Japanese army was defeated across the board. After the Japanese Army 133 Wing, which was scattered in Xuefeng Mountain, escaped from the mountain gate, it retreated from the 6,000 before the war, leaving only more than 200 people to the Japanese occupation area of ​​Shaoyang on the east bank of the Zijiang River.

The couplets on both sides of the gate of the temple gate of "Dianshi'an" on the mountain gate were once inscribed by Cai E. In the winter of 1902, Cai E, who was studying in Japan, returned to the mountain gate to go to the funeral for his father Cai Zhengling. He waited with his mother and teacher Pan Xigui to pray for blessings at the "Dianshi Temple", and inscribed the couplet: "The Buddhas appeared for several lives; Wanshan went deep into a poem." The ancient village of Shanmen and the Shaoyang Guild Hall, Xiangxiang Guild Hall, and Jiangxi Guild Hall in Shanmen Town were also destroyed by the war. Fortunately, because most of the Japanese officers graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and Cai E is an alumnus, Cai E’s mansion has been well preserved.

(now the beautiful night view in Shanmen Ancient Town)

China’s eight-year War of Resistance against Japan has also changed from a strategic defense to a strategic counterattack from the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain. A national counterattack. After the defeat of the Japanese army participating in the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain, all returned to their garrisons before the battle. During the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain, there were more than 36,000 Japanese casualties, of which 12,498 died, and about 1,000 people committed suicide after being besieged by the Chinese army. The Chinese army also captured more than 90 Japanese flags (the Japanese army would never leave them before) and captured Japanese soldiers. 405 people, 42 officers. The Japanese army was wiped out with one brigade and four regiments, and one division was hit hard. The national army suffered 20,660 casualties, of which 7,737 were killed, including 823 officers.

On August 15, 1945, the Japanese government announced its unconditional surrender. On August 17, Chiang Kai-shek identified Zhijiang, Hunan as the surrender site of the Chinese theater, and established the "Preparatory Office for the Signing of the Japanese Surrender Ceremony" in Zhijiang. The preparatory office was headed by the New Sixth Army Commander Liao Yaoxiang (from Xinshao County, Hunan), and the Chinese Army Lieutenant General Xiao Yisu, Chief of Staff of the General Command, presided over Japan's "surrender ceremony." At 11:15 am on August 21, the Japanese ambassador ImaiWufu and his party of 8 arrived at Zhijiang Airport. From 4 pm to 5 pm, in the barracks of the 14th Squadron of the Fifth Battalion, Qiliqiao, Zhijiang, the "Chinese Theater Suspension Ceremony" was held. Takeo Imai handed over the map of the army, navy, and air force distribution of the Japanese army in China to General Xiao Yisu.

On September 9, 1945, the Japanese surrender ceremony in the Chinese theater was held in Nanjing. The commander-in-chief of the Japanese-Chinese dispatched army, Neji Okamura, signed the letter of surrender to China and handed over his personal sword to the Chinese side to indicate that the Japanese invaders formally surrendered to China.

During the 1949 War of Liberation, Huang Kecheng (from Yongxing, Hunan), Xiao Jinguang (from Changsha, Hunan), Wang Shoudao (from Liuyang, Hunan), Jin Ming, Li Minghan, Liu Gongwu, Cheng Qian, Chen Mingren, etc., organized the Hunan Uprising, Hunan Peaceful liberation. Cheng Qian, Chen Mingren and Li Minghan are fellow villagers in Liling, Hunan. On the eve of the National Defence War, when Cai E arrived in Japan via Beijing, he appointed Cheng Qian (Cai E's student) as Hunan Recruitment Envoy and Commander-in-Chief of Hunan Defender Army. Li Minghan was directly under Cheng Qian, and Chen Mingren was a student of Cheng Qian and Li Minghan. After the end of China’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the outbreak of an all-out war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in June 1946, the People’s Liberation Army led by Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Zhou Enlai took only 5 years to fully defeat the Kuomintang army led by Chiang Kai-shek, Bai Chongxi, and Li Zongren. The Kuomintang army monopolized Taiwan Island because of the protection of the United States.

On April 1, 1952, Shanmen, Gaosha, Dongkou and other townships in the northern section of Wugang County were demarcated from Wugang County to form Dongkou County, which was under the jurisdiction of the Shaoyang Administrative Inspectorate Office. On October 7, 2019, the Yin's Ancestral Hall at Yanmen, Shanmen was approved as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Because the Second Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy has run schools in the ancestral halls of the Zeng, Xiao, Yang, Yuan, Wang, Zhang, and Yin clan families in Dongkou County, more than a dozen ancestral halls of each clan have become state-protected cultural relics, and many more The ancestral hall became a cultural relic of provincial and county protection. There are two or three hundred large ancient ancestral temples in Dongkou County, which have been rated as the capital of Chinese ancestral temples and become a great beauty in Dongkou.

Yanmen Yin's Ancestral Hall, Shanmen Yanmen, was used as the training center of the second branch of the Whampoa Military Academy. It trained a large number of anti-Japanese officers for the Chinese Anti-Japanese War. It is a great honor for the Yin family. At the same time, the Yin family edited "Yin Ding Chu Gong Fifth Xiu Genealogy, published in 1946, many leaders of the Republic of China wrote inscriptions on Yin's genealogy. Now the surname Yin has become the most important surname in Dongkou County. Both are descendants of Yin Dingchu, the commander of the Southern Song Dynasty, whose ancestral home is Taihe County, Ji’an, Jiangxi. At present, there are more than 80,000 people surnamed Yin, mainly distributed around Shanmen. Dongkou is also the largest county in the country where the surname Yin lives.

The commander-in-chief of the National Protector Army, Cai E, and the Japanese invading army commander, Okamura Neji, did not directly fight on the battlefield, but Okamura Neji has been with Cai E’s students, subordinates, and two younger brothers. Fighting is like killing them directly on the battlefield. The Japanese invaders once swept across China's north and south due to the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, taking away many gold and silver treasures, destroying many cultural relics and historic sites, and causing serious disasters to the Chinese nation, but they eventually broke down and fell into the sand and lost the battle. In the hometown of General Cai E, the god of the National Guard, please drop your head. These many coincidences also reflect the essence of the five thousand years of outstanding culture of the great Chinese nation!