Dai Anlan

Dai Anlan

Dai Anlan (November 25, 1904 - May 26, 1942), formerly known as Dai Bingyang, is a native of Fenghe village, Lianxi community, Renquan Township, Wuwei County, Anhui Province. He is a famous general of the national army and one of the backbones of the Huangpu department. He graduated from Huangpu Military Academy in 1926.

In 1942, he led the 200th division to Myanmar as the vanguard of the Chinese expeditionary army. He made great achievements in the battle with Cuba (annihilating more than 5000 enemies, while the Japanese troops were four times as strong as Dai BU) and recovering Tangji. On May 18, 1942, he was seriously injured in the battle of breaking through the encirclement in Langke area. At 5:40 p.m. on May 26, he died in maobang village in northern Myanmar. Major general, 17 September 1936. On October 16, 1942, he was awarded to the lieutenant general of the army and the revolutionary martyrs after liberation.

Dai Anlan fought bloody battles in Gubeikou. After that, he made some achievements in the Taierzhuang campaign (attacking taodun by fire / seizing Zhuzhuang by wisdom / fighting guoliji by fierce battles), defeated the main force of the ninth division of the Japanese army on Ruiyang highway (belonging to the Wuhan battle), repulsed the Japanese Army's attack on Aishan (belonging to the Xuzhou battle), conquered Kunlun Pass / killed major general Zhengxiong Nakamura (belonging to the Kunlun Pass battle), and won the title of Jiang Zhongzheng Replace it with the praise of "young general". He was the first Chinese soldier to receive the U.S. medal in World War II.

Life experience

Born in Fenghe village, Lianxi community, Renquan Township, Wuwei County, Anhui Province on November 25, 1904.

In 1923, he was admitted to Anhui public high school founded by Mr. Tao Xingzhi.

In 1924, he defected to the National Revolutionary Army and saw that his motherland was in danger. He was very sad. In order to express his ambition of flying wild in the wilderness, turning the tide over the collapse, and vowing to revitalize China to the death, he officially changed his name to "Anlan".

In 1925, he entered the third phase of Huangpu Military Academy.

In 1926, he graduated from the third phase of Huangpu Military Academy and successively served as platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander and regimental commander of the Kuomintang army. In the same year, he took part in the northern expedition.

In March 1933, he led his troops to take part in the Anti Japanese war at Gubeikou of the great wall and won the fifth Yunhui medal.

In August 1937, he was promoted to commander of the 73rd brigade of the 25th division.

In March 1938, in the battle of Taierzhuang, Dai brigade attacked taodun, outwitted Zhuzhuang, fought guoliji fiercely, forced Taierzhuang to withdraw from the enemy's rear, and won a Huazhou Medal (i.e. Baoding medal).

In May 1938, during the battle in Xuzhou, Zeng led his troops to fight with the Japanese army in Zhongai mountain for four days and nights. Because of his outstanding achievements, he was promoted to deputy division commander of the 89th division and head of the cadre training class of the headquarters of the 31st group army.

In August 1938, he led the army to fight in Wuhan, and was once praised by the 31st group army.

On January 5, 1939, he was promoted to major general of the 200th division, succeeding Du Yuming, who was only 35 years old. The division is the main force of the newly built Fifth Army and is known to the outside world as the first and only mechanized division of the Chinese army.

In May 1939, he led his troops to take part in the war against SuiZao (Yang) in suixian County, which was invaded by Japanese army.

On June 17, 1939, he was promoted to major general.

In September 1939, he took part in the defense of Changsha.

In November 1939, he took part in the Kunlunguan campaign in southern Guangxi.

In the early morning of November 25, 1939, the 600th regiment of the 200th division, under the command of Dai Anlan, fought alone against the 21st and 42nd regiments of the Japanese army in Ertang. The Japanese attacked fiercely under the cover of aircraft, and Shao Yizhi, the head of the 600 regiment, and Wu Qisheng, the regiment's subordinate, were killed. In view of the unfavorable war situation, Dai Anlan decided to retreat to Gaofeng pass after dusk. Although it failed to stop the Japanese army from advancing this time, it was the most fierce resistance that the Japanese army encountered since the landing of Qin and Fang. The fighting lasted two days and two nights.

On December 1, 1939, the Chinese army lost Gaofeng pass, and on December 4, the Japanese army occupied Kunlun Pass. The two sides took Kunlun Pass as the boundary and temporarily confronted each other.

On December 7, 1939, Chiang Kai Shek decided to counterattack with the goal of "seizing Kunlun Pass and then recovering Nanning".

On December 15, 1939, Bai Chongxi issued the first counter attack order in the name of Guilin camp: the Fifth Army of the North Road army mainly attacked Kunlun Pass.

On December 16, 1939, Du Yuming, commander of the Fifth Army, held a military meeting at or above the head of the regiment, arranged a tough battle against Kunlun Pass, formulated the encirclement and total annihilation tactics of "closing the door to fight tigers", and ordered the 200th division of Dai Anlan and the 1st division of Zheng Dongguo to attack Kunlun Pass head on.

In the early morning of December 18, 1939, the counterattack began. Under the command of Dai Anlan, the 200th division and the first division of honor began to attack. At night, the 1st division of Rong occupied several highlands near Kunlun Pass, the 200th division occupied 653 and 600 Highlands, and occupied the main position of Kunlun Pass.

At noon on December 19, 1939, the Japanese army sent out another plane to bombard heavily. The 21st regiment of the 21st brigade, led by the regiment leader Mitsuki tosuke Dazuo, recaptured Kunlun Pass. Chiang Kai Shek was dissatisfied with the slow progress of the Kunlun Pass campaign. On December 21, he issued an order to the Guilin camp and the participating troops: "if the troops and artillery in the front don't make active efforts to attack, or can't reach the task within the time limit, they should be punished for fearing the enemy and can be dealt with on the spot."

On December 23 and 24, 1939, only the two divisions of the fifth army attacked head-on, resulting in more than 2000 casualties. The Japanese army also suffered more than 1000 casualties. The fortifications of the Japanese army in Kunlun Pass were very solid, with two layers above and one layer below, forming a cross fire, which hindered the Chinese Army's attack. The fighting was unprecedented. General Dai Anlan personally led the troops of the two regiments. With big knives, shovels and flesh and blood, they cut grass all the way to open the way, cut through the barbed wire fence set by the Japanese army all over the mountains, and launched a fierce attack on the frontier front, the last gate of Kunlun pass. Jieshou highland, located in the north of Kunlun Pass, is the strongest stronghold of the Japanese army. Dai Anlan commanded the Zheng tingji regiment and began to attack Jieshou highland on the evening of December 28. Although the enemy planes strafed and bombed on their heads, the regiment was full of morale and made an indomitable attack regardless of sacrifice. The Chinese soldiers formed a Death Squadron and stuffed grenades into the gun holes of the Japanese stronghold. They were not afraid of sacrifice. They finally conquered Jieshou highland on the morning of December 29. Among the nine infantry companies of zhengtingji regiment, seven company commanders were injured and killed, and the company commander beside the commander was also killed.

On December 31, 1939, the Chinese counter offensive army eliminated all the remaining enemies in Kunlun Pass. When cleaning the battlefield, a diary was found on the corpse of Masao Nakamura. Before his death, the head of the brigade wrote: "the reason why the 21st brigade of the 5th division of the imperial army had the title of" steel army "in the Russo Japanese war was that my tenacity defeated the tenacity of the Russians. However, in Kunlun Pass, I should admit that I met a more tenacious army than the Russian army. The 200th division under Dai Anlan's command was awarded a collective award by the national government for its outstanding service in the Kunlun Pass campaign, and the salaries of the participants were raised by two levels. Because of his good command and serious injury, Dai Anlan, the division commander, was awarded a medal of the fourth grade blue sky and white sun. He was praised by Chiang Kai Shek as "the contemporary standard young general".

In January 1940, Daibu ensured the 441 highland, killed more than 100 people, destroyed two tanks and four guns, seized more than 100 guns, and killed major general Nakamura, the head of the Japanese army, with a major victory.

On November 11, 1940, Dai Anlan was seriously injured. The KMT government awarded the fourth class Baoding Medal (the blue sky and white sun medal).

On December 16, 1941, the 200th division went to Myanmar to fight with the British. He led the 200 divisions into Tonggu at the risk of going deep alone, succeeding the British Defense one by one. In order to cover the safe retreat of British troops and make full preparations for the battle, Dai Anlan led his troops to repair the fortifications day and night and set up three lines of defense to stop the advance of the enemy.

At the beginning of 1942, at the request of the United States and Britain, the Chinese government formed the Chinese expeditionary force.

In February 1942, he took part in the defense war of Donggua. Chiang Kai Shek met Dai Anlan alone and asked if the 200th division could hold on to Donggua for a week or two and win the battle? Dai Anlan issued a military order: "this expedition is a grand event that has been held abroad since the Tang and Ming Dynasties. Although Dai fought to a single soldier, he will surely defeat the enemy and defend Donggua." Dai Anlan announced before the war: "our division commander made a will first: if the division commander died in the war, the deputy division commander would replace him, the deputy division commander would replace him, the chief of staff would replace him, the commander of the battalion would replace him And so on, at all levels. " Without the cooperation of the air force, they fought hard for 12 days with the Japanese army, which was four times as big as themselves and was equipped with infantry special forces and air force. They used infantry to fight against the three-dimensional attack of the Japanese army, covered the safe retreat of the British army, and annihilated more than 5000 enemies.

At dawn on February 19, 1942, when the last group of British and Burmese defeated soldiers rushed over the Pew River Bridge near Donggua, the advance battalion of the 200th division of the Chinese Expeditionary Army just arrived at the North Bank of the bridge and met the Japanese vanguard troops. The armored vehicles of the cavalry regiment assigned to the 200th division of the Chinese expeditionary army also attacked the Japanese army. Three hours later, the advance camp sent the first victory report to division commander Dai Anlan: "repel a large Japanese troop and annihilate a small one.".

On March 19, 1942, the defense war with Cuba began. All the officers and men of the 200 division held their positions and fought back bravely. Although it was a lonely battle and difficult to support, division commander Dai Anlan was determined to fight to the end. In his letter to his wife, Wang Hexin, he wrote: "I have been ordered to stick to Tonggu this time. Because of the uncertain plan above, too far contact in the rear, and the enemy's quick action, I am now fighting alone and determined to sacrifice all my life in return for the country's upbringing. It's a great honor to die fighting for our country. " He took the lead in making a will: as long as there is a soldier left, he should stick to it. If the division commander is killed in battle, he shall be replaced by the deputy division commander, and the deputy division commander shall be replaced by the staff officer

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