After the victory of Wanjialing, there are still many relevant records to describe the cruelty of this bloody battle, such as the first class private Nasu Ryosuke of the 106th Wing of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army in the article "Three Weeks in the Valley of Hell":

"Thundering Drum Liu is a narrow basin surrounded by mountains. We marched towards this narrow valley, only to learn later that tens of thousands of enemy troops were waiting for us in the surrounding mountains. …… When he left Jiujiang, there were thousands of horses, and there was not even a single horse left. ”

When I found out that the enemy was coming, I heard a terrifying mortar shell over my head and exploded fifty meters in front.

The shells hit the horses, which exploded and crashed through the smoke. There were thousands of horses when they left Jiujiang, and when they arrived in the Thundering Valley, there was not even a single horse.

From the next day, our squadron hid around the mound of the ditch and confronted the enemy. However, since the surrounding mountains were full of enemies, bullets flew from all directions......

Most of their comrades were wounded, and some collapsed from hunger and exhaustion. The comrades-in-arms who died in the ditch, their faces turned brown and puffy, and maggots fell from their nostrils and mouths.

I didn't eat for a few days, and I had to scoop dirty water from the ditch where the corpses of my companions were floating and drank, and the living people were about to become ghosts. I also feel like my time of death has come. I cried loudly at the October moon.

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Tang Yongliang, commander of the 141st Division of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Army, was interviewed and reported by reporters after passing through Wanjialing in the following year (1939). The newspaper of the time contained the transcription of "Tang Division Commander Wanjialing Battlefield Witness" as follows:

In the winter of the twenty-eighth year (1939), Yu was ordered to cross the Xiuhe River and go behind enemy lines to carry out sabotage work. After crossing the river, Yu's whereabouts took the middle of De'an and Wuning as the scope of activity.

On December 14, Yu led his troops to Xiangwei, passing by Lei Wu Drum and Beep Street...... Suddenly, I found a wooden sign in the woods:

"The Twenty-three Heroic Spirits of the Former Infantry Cao Qinchuan", and then look closely at the vicinity, there are countless foxholes, many white bones inside and outside the pits, broken military uniforms, bayonets, and leather shoes......

There was a yellow army with two long bones wrapped in the sleeves, and the epaulettes of the lieutenant, and many leather shoes scattered broken foot bones, and further south, along the mountain, the bones kept coming.

Walking to Beep Street, a village of more than a dozen families, there are a lot of horse bones displayed next to the stone mill in the east of the village, a pond in the south of the village, and there are several enemy wooden signs by the pond: "The Tomb of Warrant Officer XX", "The Tomb of XX Commander"......

There was a four- or five-foot-tall pile of garbage, no, a pile of dead people, and the mound was full of skeletons, broken bones, steel helmets, gas masks, leather shoes...... When I poked it with a wooden stick, it still smelled a lot.

At the west end of the village, there are more than 30 tomb plaques, with wild flowers in front of the wooden plaques and vases inlaid with new bamboo. The common people told that there were more than 300 devils who had been killed around the village. The common people pointed to the south and said, there are many devils who have died on this ancient mountain.

Almost to the top of the mountain, there are many bones. On the top of a hill with a circumference of more than 10 feet, the common people told that they called this place the top of the beep, and there were piles of human bones, steel helmets, leather shoes, shell boxes, bayonets, and poison gas canisters, and the mountain was full of wolves.

On the southern slope of the mountain, there are also the remains of several Chinese soldiers wearing rubber shoes and wearing rain hats, and the red rubber soles have apparently turned white. …… From Zhanggu Mountain to the north for a bird's eye view, near is the Beep Street, far away is the thunder drum Liu Zhuang.

Walk along the place where there are many bones, pass through a bamboo forest, and pass a pine forest, the low mountain is already in front of you, about 300 meters high a mountain, and there is a thatched house under the mountain.

Looking at the top of the mountain from afar, countless wooden signs, first to the thatched house, there is an old man in his seventies, Hubei Guangshui atomic nationality. The old man said that this place is Wanjialing, where thousands of devils were killed last winter.

More than 300 Japanese soldiers died on Beixi Street, and a beggar found as many as 37 gold teeth among the large pile of Japanese skeletons. This is the evidence of the death of the Japanese army, the Chinese soldiers who are equipped with gold teeth.

At that time, the grass in Wanjialing was trampled down, the stench of corpses wafted in the mountains for more than a year, and the water in the stream was endless black blood.

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Note of relevant historical documents: The victory of Wanjialing is a rare feat in the frontal battlefield and has an important historical position in the history of the Anti-Japanese War.

It is the success of the skillful use of pocket tactics by the First Corps of the Ninth Theater of the Chinese Army, and the bankruptcy of the cone-shaped assault tactics habitually used by the Japanese invading army.

The great victory at Wanjialing greatly killed and injured the effective forces of the Japanese army, bought time for the Wuhan War, and greatly boosted the fighting spirit and confidence of the Chinese people in defending their homeland and defending the country.

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At that time, the major media rushed to report on it to encourage the morale of the anti-Japanese fighters and the determination of the whole nation to resist the war.

Newspapers such as "Central Daily", "Declaration", "Ta Kung Pao", "Sweeping Daily" in Chongqing, "Jiangxi Republic of China Daily", and "Li Bao" gave timely publicity and reports on the course of the Wanjialing Battle and the news of the victory.

This was the most exciting day for the people since "September 18." After Wuhan City heard the good news of Wanjialing's victory, people from all walks of life rushed to tell each other and vied to celebrate.

The mobile and well-organized characteristics of the Chinese army in this campaign, as well as the heroic and tenacious spirit of the Chinese soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice, greatly shocked the Japanese army, the government and the opposition, and the international community.

And the entire division of the Japanese army was almost wiped out, which has never been seen in the history of the Japanese Army.

The Battle of Wuhan, which ended with the victory of Wanjialing, killed and wounded more than 200,000 Japanese troops, accounting for more than half of the total number of troops invested.

It also sank more than 100 Japanese ships and destroyed more than 100 Japanese planes, consuming a total value of at least 3 billion yen in material resources, greatly weakening Japan's military strength and making it no longer able to launch a large-scale battle in China to annihilate China.

From then on, Japanese imperialism in China shifted from a strategic offensive to a strategic stalemate, and from then on it had to fall into the quagmire of a "protracted war of resistance" from which it could not extricate itself until it was defeated and surrendered.

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This was a very timely campaign-level victory on the frontal battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, against the background of the successive defeats in all parts of the country, the morale of the army and the people falling to the lowest point, and the people losing confidence in the country and the army, hope, and even despair.

This is also the only battle in the history of the defensive stage of the Anti-Japanese War in which a field division of the Japanese army was almost completely annihilated.

This great victory was like a shot in the arm that was injected into the hearts of the military and people throughout the country, and the confidence in the War of Resistance was raised at once, and our Chinese army was not unable to defeat the Japanese army, and it was not impossible for the Japanese army to defeat.

It is precisely because of such a huge political effect that the Chinese nation, which was at the most critical time in the defensive stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, has gained a very precious breath of air and can be continued, so that there is a stage of stalemate and counteroffensive in the War of Resistance against Japan.

The victory of Wanjialing is a watershed from the defensive stage of the Anti-Japanese War to the stage of stalemate, and it is brilliant for thousands of years!

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