General Yang Dezhi praised the success of Pingxing Pass in his memoirs: Pingxing Pass is a heroic pass, because she was washed with blood by martyrs! Pingxingguan is unforgettable, because it records the first great victory of China people against Japanese invaders! Pingxingguan has been recorded in the glorious history of China people's revolution!
General Yang Chengwu's inscription on the 50th anniversary of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory on 1995: Pingxing Guanqiang soul of china.
In 2002, Lieutenant General Sun Yi wrote an inscription for the 65th anniversary of the victory of Pingxingguan: The spirit of Pingxingguan will last forever. How many Japanese soldiers were killed or injured in Pingxingguan? China has 10000 (Chiang Kai-shek's congratulatory message), 3000 (long-term used figures) and 1000 (recently used figures in domestic works such as Sanjin). Judging from the logistics forces that the Japanese army put into battle at that time, 10,000 or 3,000 are unlikely to be used to publicize the results of the war and boost morale.
On this basis, in the article "The First Drop of Blood-Restoring Japanese Losses in the Battle of Pingxingguan from Japanese Historical Materials", China * * * Historical Network. 20 1 1 16. Sassou thinks that the reliable data of China is 1000. This figure is relatively reliable compared with the Japanese troops participating in the war. The report that the Japanese army only lost 60 people is not true. Why did the "two tragedies" happen?
To this end, Sassou explained in the article "The First Blood-Restoring Japanese Losses in the Battle of Pingxingguan from Japanese Historical Materials" as follows:
According to the historical data of China, the situation of the Japanese army in the Pingxingguan campaign was a typical pocket battle, that is, the Japanese army got into the pocket array arranged by the China army and was completely annihilated. However, according to Japanese records, there are two imported bags.
In fact, the battle of Pingxingguan did not take place in Pingxingguan, but in Guangou Canyon east of Pingxingguan.
Yichuan's article explained at the beginning of this war that "Pingxing Pass is the valve in the north of Shanxi and the mountain area in the north", "There are steep cliffs 10-30 meters high on both sides of the winding pass" and "Before noon on September 25th, the twelfth year of Showa, in the rain, two great tragedies occurred here".
Why are there "two tragedies" in a battle? It turned out that the Japanese troops who entered the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army "1 15 Division with 6000 people" belonged to two troops! These two enemy forces, one of which is the "Xinzhuang Automobile Team" returning to Lingqiu from Pingxingguan, are carrying another Japanese army, belonging to the motorcade of the sixth station of the Japanese army. It consists of two squadrons with unknown strength, and entered the ambush area of the Eighth Route Army from west to east. The commander of this unit is Chunzhong Zuoxinzhuang. The total number of Japanese troops is not recorded in the Japanese data, but judging from the casualties recorded later, this unit is much more than the big luggage unit coming from the direction. A friend confirmed that Major General Miura, the head of the Japanese army, and the condolence group returning from the front line were among them. This point is not recorded in the Japanese materials I have seen, and I have doubts. Another unit that entered the ambush circle was the trench unit (commander Kazuo Hamada) of the 2nd1Infantry Wing. They transported a lot of ammunition, clothes, food and other materials from Lingqiu to the front line of Pingpingguan. Hashimoto, the staff officer of the 5th Division, walked with them.
The top commanders of both Japanese troops were killed in this battle.