Dai Anlan
National hero, anti-Japanese hero.
(1904～1942), Han nationality. Also known as Dai Bingyang [1], his original name was Yan Gong and his nickname was Sea Ou. A native of Qigangdai Village, Lianxi Township, Wuwei, Anhui Province. Famous anti-Japanese hero. In 1924, he defected to the National Revolutionary Army. He graduated from the third class of Huangpu Military Academy in 1926 and served successively as platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, and regimental commander of the Kuomintang army. Participated in the Northern Expedition in 1926. In March 1933, he led his troops to participate in the Anti-Japanese War at Gubeikou of the Great Wall and was awarded the fifth-class Yunhui Medal. In August 1937, he was promoted to commander of the 73rd Brigade of the 13th Army. In March of the following year, during the Battle of Taierzhuang, Dai Luhuo attacked Taodun, outmaneuvered Zhuzhuang, fought fiercely at Guoliji, forced the enemies of Taierzhuang to retreat, and won a Huazhou Labor Award (some say Baoding Medal). In May, during the Lunan Battle, he led his troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese army for four days and nights in Zhongai Mountain. Due to his outstanding military exploits, he was promoted to deputy commander of the 89th Division and director of the cadre training class at the 31st Group Army Headquarters. In August, he led his troops into the Wuhan Defense War and was credited with a major contribution by the 31st Group Army. On January 5, 1939, he was promoted to commander of the 200th Division. In May, he led his troops to participate in the battle of Sui (County) Zao (Yang) against the Japanese invasion. In September, he participated in the defense battle of Changsha. In November, he participated in the Kunlun Pass battle in southern Guangxi. In January of the following year, during the battle to defend Kunlun Pass, Dai Bu secured Highland 441, killing more than 100 enemy people, destroying 2 enemy tanks and 4 guns, and capturing more than 100 firearms. On the 11th, Dai Anlan was seriously injured. The Kuomintang government awarded him the fourth-class Baoding Medal (sometimes known as the Medal of the Blue Sky and White Sun). On December 16, 1941, the 200th Division went to Burma to cooperate with the British army. In March of the following year, he participated in the Donggua Defense War. In the absence of coordinated operations by the air force, they fought hard for 12 days with the Japanese army, which was four times their size and equipped with infantry special forces and air force, covering the safe retreat of the British army and annihilating more than 5,000 enemy troops. On April 25, he led his troops to defeat Tang Ji. On May 18, he was seriously injured while commanding a breakout battle in the Langko area. He died in Maobang Village in northern Myanmar at 5:40 pm on the 26th. On October 16, the Kuomintang government posthumously awarded Dai Anlan the rank of Army Lieutenant General. On the 29th, the U.S. Congress authorized President Roosevelt to posthumously award Diane the Medal of Merit. On April 1, 1943, the Kuomintang government held a grand state funeral at Xiangshan Temple in Quanzhou, Guangxi, attended by more than 10,000 people. The leaders of both parties of the Kuomintang personally wrote their eulogies. Mao Zedong's elegy is: "General Seagull needs people to defend against foreign aggression throughout the ages, and the general is given the gift of picking weeds. The master is mechanized, and he bravely seizes the power of the tiger. The bloody east melon guards, and the Japanese tang returns home. He died on the battlefield, and his ambition was not violated. "Zhou Enlai wrote an eulogy: "The hero of Huangpu, the hero of the nation." Chiang Kai-shek's elegy was: "The tiger's head eats meat and bears the majesty, watching the long march of thousands of miles, fighting with the enemy with joy; the horse's corpse is wrapped in the body, but the great ambition is not collected. , How can it be painful to give up hope?" On May 3, 1948, Bu was buried in Xiaozhe Mountain, Wuhu City. On September 21, 1956, he was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Central People's Government.
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In memory of General Dai Anlan, the Wuhu Municipal People's Government renovated the cemetery in 1979 and erected a stone tablet. The left stele is inscribed with the elegiac poems and elegiac couplets inscribed by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Deng Yingchao and other ancestors; the right stele is the life resume of the general; the middle stele is the "Tomb of Martyr Dai Anlan" inscribed by Wang Kunlun. The tomb area is lush with trees and evergreen pines and cypresses, and people come to pay their respects all year round.
On July 31, 1942, in Quanzhou, Guangxi, tens of thousands of people held a grand burial ceremony for Dai Anlan, the anti-Japanese hero who died for his country. The Communist Party of China highly praised the heroism and heroic deeds of General Dai Anlan. Mao Zedong wrote an elegy: "Foreign aggression needs people to resist, and the general is bestowed with picky flowers. The master is mechanized, and he bravely seizes the power of the tiger. The bloody east melon defends, He drove the Japanese back home and died on the battlefield, and his ambition was not violated." Zhou Enlai wrote an elegy: "The hero of Huangpu, the hero of the nation."
Dai Anlan, also known as Yangong and Haiou, was born on November 25, 1904 in Wuwei County, Anhui Province. In 1923, he was admitted to the high school of Anhui Public School founded by Mr. Tao Xingzhi. In 1925, he was admitted to the third phase of the infantry department of Huangpu Military Academy and participated in the Northern Expedition the following year. In the winter of 1932, he served as the commander of the 145th Regiment of the 25th Division and led his troops to move to Peiping, the anti-Japanese front line. In March 1933, he fought against the Japanese army at Gubeikou of the Great Wall. After the July 7th Incident broke out, Dai Anlan was promoted to the commander of the 73rd Brigade and participated in the battles of Baoding, Caohe, Taierzhuang, and Zhongtiao Mountain. In 1938, during the battle against Japan in Taierzhuang, he was promoted to deputy commander of the 89th Division due to his military exploits and participated in the Battle of Wuhan.
In January 1939, he was promoted to commander of the 200th Division of the 5th Army, China's first mechanized force. In December, he was ordered to participate in the Battle of Kunlun Pass in southern Guangxi. After a month of hard fighting, he killed 6,000 enemies and killed the Japanese frontline commander of the 5th Division and the 12th Brigade, Major General Masao Nakamura, writing a glorious page in the history of the Anti-Japanese War. Journalists reported on the battle in domestic and foreign newspapers and praised Commander Dai Anlan for his demeanor like that of General Di Qing of the Northern Song Dynasty.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, in response to repeated requests from the United States and Britain, in early 1942, China established the Chinese Expeditionary Force and went to Burma. Dai Anlan was ordered to lead the 200th Division as the vanguard of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to participate in the war in Burma, "to show prestige abroad and to uphold justice." Donggua (also known as Tonggu) was an important town that prevented the Japanese invasion of the north. On March 20, the Japanese army launched an attack on the main positions of the 200th Division stationed in Donggua. Facing the Japanese army that was several times his own, Dai Anlan expressed his firm belief in fighting to the death. He convened a meeting of officers above the battalion level in the division that night, and took the lead in writing a suicide note "Oath to live and die with the same ancient Japanese army." He said: " This expedition is a grand event that has made people famous abroad since the Tang and Ming Dynasties. Even if we fight to the death of one soldier, we will defend Donggua." He also announced the following order: "If the division commander dies in battle, he will be replaced by the deputy division commander; the deputy division commander will fight. If the chief of staff dies in battle, he will be replaced by the infantry commander, and this will be done at all levels." In the fierce defense battle of Donggua for more than ten days, Dai Anlan led his troops to fight hard, defeating many with less, and killed many. The enemy's force of more than 5,000 men won their first victory abroad. The U.S. government believed that the Battle of Dong Kua was "the longest defensive operation sustained by all Burma defenders and earned the division and its commander great honor." Chiang Kai-shek praised this: "The Huangpu spirit of the Chinese army defeated the Bushido spirit of the Japanese army." The British newspaper "The Times" said: "We don't care what the fate of Donggua is. But the heroic battle of the besieged defenders against an outnumbered enemy really added a new page to the glory book of the Chinese army." The Japanese invaders also had to admit that the Battle of Winter Melon was "one of the most difficult battles" in the Burma War.
On April 21, Dai Anlan was ordered to recover Tangji at dawn on the 24th. Launched an attack, they successively captured the highlands on three sides of the southwest and north, and broke into the city to engage in fierce street battles with the enemy. The general came to the front line to take command. The battle lasted until midnight, and Tangji was captured. The news of victory came, and the whole country was rejoicing. The Japanese invaders broke into the rear of the Chinese army from the border of Thailand and Laos and launched a siege. Dai Anlan's troops were surrounded by the Japanese army. The situation was critical. His superiors urgently ordered him to break out of the encirclement and return home. General Dai led his troops to break out of the encirclement and retreat into the primeval forest areas of the Thai-Myanmar-Laos border. The conditions were extremely difficult. The soldiers had no food or clothing and could only eat wild grass and vegetables every day. They climbed mountains and ridges for more than 70 days. On May 16, 1942, with heavy rain, Dai's troops were suddenly ambushed by heavy Japanese troops. After two days of fierce fighting, they were killed. The division suffered heavy casualties. When General Dai was commanding to seize the enemy's position on a small flat hillside, he was unfortunately hit by an enemy bullet in the lungs. When the 200th Division marched to Maobang, General Dai shed his last drop of blood and died for his country. He was only 37 years old. There was no wooden coffin in Myanmar at that time, and the general's body was returned to China via Baoshan, Kunming, Guiyang, Liuzhou and other places, all the way to Guangxi. State, the body was placed in Xiangshan Temple. People along the way shed tears and held a grand memorial ceremony for General Dai.
After Dai Anlan's death, the U.S. government paid tribute to him for his great contribution in the Second World War. For his contribution, he was awarded the Medal of Merit on October 29, 1942. General Dai Anlan became the first Chinese soldier to receive the American Medal in the anti-fascist struggle in World War II. The order signed by US President Roosevelt said: " General Dai Anlan, the commander of the 200th Division of the Army of the Republic of China, fought bravely and commanded brilliantly during the Allied Powers' Burma battlefield in 1942 to assist the British in the war against Japan. He successfully completed his mission and was indeed an excellent role model for our Allied Powers soldiers."
In December of the same year, the Nationalist Government issued an order posthumously honoring Dai Anlan as an Army Lieutenant General, and approved Dai Anlan's honorary name to be placed in the Martyrs' Shrine in Nanjing. In the autumn of 1943, Dai Anlan's coffin was moved from Quanzhou, Guangxi to his hometown in Wuhu, Anhui. /p>
On September 21, 1956, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China ratified General Dai Anlan as a revolutionary martyr. On October 3, Chairman Mao Zedong issued the "Revolutionary Sacrifice" to Dai Anlan's survivors. Honorable Memorial Certificate for Military Families".
In memory of General Dai Anlan, the Wuhu Municipal People's Government renovated the cemetery in 1979 and erected a stone tablet. The left stele is inscribed with the elegiac poems and elegiac couplets inscribed by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Deng Yingchao and other ancestors; the right stele is the life resume of the general; the middle stele is the "Tomb of Martyr Dai Anlan" inscribed by Wang Kunlun. The tomb area is lush with trees and evergreen pines and cypresses, and people come to pay their respects all year round.
The generals conquered the champion gate,
The Japanese invaders suffered heavy losses several times;
The souls of heroes are in Myanmar,
The Chinese people are mourning everywhere .
——Peng Dehuai
Hero of Huangpu
Hero of the nation!
——Zhou Enlai
Foreign aggression needs to be defended by others,
The general is assigned Caiwei.
The division is called mechanization,
to seize the power of the tiger.
The blood-soaked Donggua Shou,
drives away the Japanese and returns home auspiciously.
Fighting to the death on the battlefield,
There is no violation of ambition.
——Mao Zedong
In March 1942, the hottest summer of the year in northern Myanmar had arrived early. On the Burma Highway, which connects China and Myanmar, the dust is flying and a long line of cars loaded with soldiers with live ammunition speed past.
The flags of thousands of miles are flying brightly,
The king's army left the island and destroyed it.
The whip is pointed at the flowers in the distance,
Zhuge’s predecessor is here again.
Riding horses and chariots across eight wastelands,
The achievements of expeditions are as great as those of Emperor Qin.
To clarify the universe, An Li Shu,
First draw your long bow and shoot at the sunset.
Dai Anlan, commander of the 200th Division, went to Myanmar to fight with the Chinese Expeditionary Force. During the march, the general wrote these two poems "Qijue·Expedition" with great ambition. However, what he never expected at the time was that the 200th Division, as the only motorized infantry division in the country and the ace division of the National Army, would actually set a series of bloody records during the subsequent battle in northern Myanmar in just over two months. After the fire war, he retreated and died; he himself was wrapped in horse leather and died in the jungle of northern Myanmar.
The Five Rhythms·Rescue General Dai Anlan
Poem title: The Five Rhythms·Rescue General Dai Anlan Author: Mao Zedong Dynasty: Modern Genre: Five Rhymes
Foreign aggression needs to be resisted.
The general Fu Caiwei.
The division is called mechanization,
to seize the power of the tiger.
Winter melons are guarded by blood,
drive away the Japanese and return home auspiciously.
He died on the battlefield,
His ambition was not violated.