On November 2, the 87th Division completely conquered Miaofangpo, and the southeast point of Longling was basically controlled by the expeditionary force.

The battle advanced smoothly, and the various units of the expeditionary force occupied important strongholds on the outskirts of Longling one by one, and the encirclement was further reduced.

On November 1, the center of gravity of the Longling counteroffensive was shifted from the two flanks to the center, and the 11th Army once again broke through the city of Longling.

This round of the battle for the city of Longling was much smoother, Huang Jie opened the passage for the ground attack troops with the overwhelming bombardment of 300 heavy guns, and the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Honor Division entered the city for the first time under the command of Commander Cheng Xialei and took the Guanyin Temple. The 2nd Regiment also attacked the Duan Family Ancestral Hall under the command of the commander of the Zhou Clan, and the Japanese army resisted with its strong houses, and the 2nd Regiment and the Japanese Army fought for it house by house, and the flamethrowers were used, and the flames burned the Japanese troops hiding in the depths to the point that they cried wolf, and at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the battle for the Duan Family Ancestral Hall finally ended.

On this day, the suburbs of Longling City fought more lively, dozens of allied planes flew over Longling in seven batches, aimed at the Japanese position after a burst of bombing, and then flew away, leaving billowing smoke to cover all the large and small hills, although Miaofangpo, Guodi Tangpo, Zhangjinshan, Fangmaqiao and other places still have the sound of gunfire, but this gunfire has been full of hope for victory.

On November 2, the 200th Division, the 87th Division, and the 36th Division captured Shilaohu, Miaofangpo, and Fengfeng Slope respectively, and the Japanese army in Longling City only had a few strongholds left in Laoliangtai and Dakuige. When the news came that the 76th Division had cleared the mountain behind Mukang and cut off the Longmang Road, the hope of the Japanese troops in the city waiting for reinforcements was completely dashed. That night, the night fog was filled, and under the cover of the fog cover, the Japanese army scattered and broke through and fled in the direction of Mangshi, leaving behind Longling City, which was full of wounds.

On November 3, the city of Longling was completely under the control of the expeditionary force.

Huang Jie immediately ordered all units to follow and pursue the fleeing Japanese army, and the main force of the 71st Army took advantage of the victory to clear the remnants of the enemy in Longling City and its suburbs, and the 2nd Army also cleared the remnants of the enemy in the area of Tongguoyuan and Hongyan Mountain.

After several bloody battles, the Chinese expeditionary force finally conquered Longling.

On November 3, 1944, the smoke of gunfire in Longling City had not completely dissipated. The old grain platform and Da Kui Pavilion are still emitting black smoke, and the heroic military song of the expeditionary force has sounded on Dongka Square:

Go forward, don't retreat, the battle is at its end,

Compatriots were slaughtered, land was forcibly seized,

We can't stand it anymore,

We must not accept the conditions of the death of the country,

China's territory must not be lost at all.

......

Pick up our knives and guns,

Lift up our hoes,

Fight with our flesh and blood,

Spell out the enemy's head.

The singing came and went, echoing over the Dragon Tomb for a long time. The passionate war song makes people's blood boil. In the square, with the soldiers covered in gunpowder, the pack horse team that had just returned from the front line, the residents around Longling, and those war correspondents, everyone was so excited that they pulled their throats and repeated the lyrics: "We must not accept the conditions for the loss of the country, and China's territory must not be lost at all."

When General Wei Lihuang, commander of the expeditionary force, stood majestically in the center of the venue, he loudly announced in his thick Anhui accent that "when the Chinese Expeditionary Force finally regained the land of Longling, Dongka Square was boiling, and cheers mixed with gunfire whistled through the clouds."

General Wei Lihuang read out a congratulatory telegram sent by the Chongqing Government on the spot, and Colonel Stuart, adviser to the US military, also expressed sincere congratulations to Huang Jie, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, on behalf of the US military headquarters.

Huang Jie, acting commander-in-chief of the 11th Group, presided over the flag-raising ceremony, and in the sound of the national anthem, the national flags of China and the United States were rising, and the blood-stained national flags were more vivid and dazzling under the blue sky and white clouds.

After the baptism of blood, the Dragon Tomb was finally recovered.

It has been two and a half years since the fall of Longling on May 4, 1942. The Chinese people and the Chinese army have fulfilled their oath: fight with our blood and flesh! In the hard work, he finally regained his own land. "The Dragon Tomb has been restored!" This is a full five months away from when the Chongqing government broadcast the news of the capture of Longling, and in these long five months, how many hard battles have been fought and how many bloody sacrifices have been paid!

The battle of Longling was the longest and most complicated battle in the counteroffensive in western Yunnan, from June 5 to November 3, 1944, fought for nearly five months, Wei Lihuang not only invested all the Chinese Expeditionary Force 11th Group Army 3 armies, 7 divisions and 1 guerrilla column, and then successively invested the 5th Army and the 8th Army, a total of 11 divisions were invested before and after, which was the battle with the largest number of troops invested in the counteroffensive in western Yunnan.

In the Battle of Longling, a total of 10,364 Japanese troops were annihilated, 266 were captured, and 16 artillery pieces of various calibers, 164 light and heavy machine guns, 1,777 rifles, and other trophies were captured. It was also the battle that annihilated the most Japanese troops.

Of course, this was also the battle with the greatest casualties in the counteroffensive in western Yunnan. The 11th Army suffered 28,384 casualties in the battle, and the ratio of loss in strength was as high as 1:2.74. The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the Honor, there were more than 500 people when the battle of Longling began, and after a few battles, only more than 30 people remained...... In the battles of Nantianmen and Zhangjinshan, almost all of the new 39th Division suffered casualties. The commander of the "God of War" Hong Xing also suffered a car accident on the way from Nantianmen to Longling, and the star fell, becoming another general who fell in the Western Yunnan Counteroffensive Expeditionary Army.

Behind the army are the people. Without the support of the people, it would be difficult to say victory in the First Battle of Longling.

At the beginning of the counteroffensive, all the logistics depended on manpower and horses, and the hardships of the road were even more difficult to express in words. Due to the impassability of the highways, the supply of the troops also depended on the local people to cut down on food and clothing, and even a bag of buckwheat and sweet potatoes was saved by the local people eating bran and vegetables.

If the 20th Group Army had the support of the Tengchong Anti-Japanese Government in the north, then the civil-military cooperation station was the first initiative of the 11th Group Army in the south. In the first battle of Longling, the military and civilian stations were established. Longling is impoverished and sparsely populated, so it can only forcibly draw one out of two and two out of three, and apportionment to each household and transfer migrant workers. Transporting ammunition, sending military rations, building airports, building roads, digging fortifications, almost every family contributed, and only a small Longling County sent more than 7,380 people's posts, 114,700 people's husbands, and 116,700 mules and horses. In order to support the war, nearly 170 migrant workers in Longling County alone sacrificed their precious lives.

After five months of bloody battles, blood stained the kapok on both sides of the Nu River, the mountains that had been ploughed by artillery fire were bare with blood, and the mountains and ridges were painted scarlet. Standing on the top of the Longling Mountain, witnessing this blood-stained look, Mr. Li Gengen sadly waved an inscription:

Half a year of hard work and tug-of-war,

Rush to kill thousands of times.

The dead and the resurrection have today,

How much blood of the national army was exchanged.

In order to commemorate the warriors who died in the First World War of Longling, one of the most extravagant memorial ceremonies was held on the outskirts of Longling.

In the early spring, the people of Longling set up a shrine on the scorched earth battlefield on a high altar to "mourn the martyrs of the five ethnic groups and the heroes of all walks of life." The water and land conference was crowded with the people of the four towns, all dressed in plain clothes, plain bunches, and plain flowers, so that the white veil on the war-blackened mountain.

The bell chime echoed in the four mountains, and the paper money flew like snowflakes. The mournful singing of condolences was tear-jerking: "The military, migrant workers, five ethnic groups and nine species, in order to fight against the Japanese invaders, either swing bombs, or defend the peak, or carry food and ammunition on their shoulders or carry wounded laborers...... Each is sincere and strives for the glory of the country. The bombardment and bombardment were unavoidable, the bullets rained down one after another, regardless of life, the beacon fire was long, and hand-to-hand combat was ...... Blood splattered on the field, killing ......"

The dancers danced all over the scene, and their trembling arms were like escorting souls to heaven: "Who has not died in life since ancient times, and left Dan to take care of his sweat." Princes sacrificed their lives for the country and the nation, and their righteousness endures forever......."