At this time, the National Government held the highest military meeting in Nanjing, demanding that all localities have money and make great efforts to defend Nanjing and save the crisis. Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the country. Long Yun, chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government, who has always been "disobedient" to the Central Committee, made an uncharacteristic speech at the meeting, taking the lead in saying that Yunnan was willing to offer "200,000 soldiers", which was praised by the government and followed by other places.
Yunnan local newspapers and periodicals issued an urgent notice, demanding that soldiers who went out for vacation and official duties immediately rush back to the army, and announced preferential policies for the families of killed and disabled soldiers, calling on young people to join the army. Yunnan's only troops, more than 30 thousand people, quickly concentrated in Kunming and Qujing and reorganized into 60 armies. In addition, the "old three armies" stranded in Guangdong due to the civil war and the old Yunnan army, such as the newly compiled seventh division in Sichuan, left for the front ahead of time. At the same time, we immediately formed a new army-the 58 th Army and the new three armies, and then went north. It can be described as "resisting the war and rejuvenating the army."
193710 June 12, officers and men of the 60th army led by general Lu Han, commander of the army, held a grand swearing-in meeting in Wujiaba Barracks, Kunming. Tens of thousands of dignitaries and people from all walks of life in Yunnan attended the meeting. At the meeting, people held flags and shouted slogans, "Lu, fight!" Fight! Fight! Third division commander, kill! Kill! Kill! Swear to destroy the enemy and defend the motherland! " After the meeting, with the farewell of Kunming people, the 60th Army walked for more than 40 days and assembled from Kunming to Changsha and Changde in Hunan.
At that time, the Yunnan Army was a new type of army commanded by officers who graduated from Wujiang School in Yunnan. Feudal corruption is less, and it has experienced many battles, such as the Revolution of 1911, the first meaning of protecting the country, the Guo Jing War, and the change of sovereignty in Yunnan. After Long Yun entered Yunnan, after ten years of dismal management, he sorted out local finance, gradually stabilized the currency and increased taxes. Then the whole army set up a team to raise money to raise troops, and Miao Yuntai handled the procurement of Belgian 79 rifles, Czech light and heavy machine guns and French 82 mortars, 60 mortars and anti-aircraft machine guns. Most of these soldiers come from Naxi and other ethnic minorities. They are brave and well-trained. Therefore, the 60th Army came to Hunan, and its military capability dwarfed that of the Central Army and other local troops. Long Yun once said: "One shot and one bullet of the 60th Army were shot by the people of Yunnan, and they contributed to the country with the manpower and material resources of the whole province", which is true.
1April, 938, the 60th Army rushed to Lunan to participate in the battle of Taierzhuang in Xuzhou Congress. On their way to the Grand Canal, they were attacked by the Japanese army Sakamoto Division and Yoshitani Division. In the next 27 days, the 60 th Army fought an unprecedented and tragic battle with the Japanese army on the front line of the canal and successfully completed its task. But the 60th Army also suffered more than half of the casualties.
Later, except for the sixty troops deployed in southern Yunnan because of the Japanese occupation of French Indian zhina, the rest of the troops fought in other places until they won.