When I first checked some information about the Kunlun Pass Battle, I noticed this passage: On February 22, at the Liuzhou Military Conference, Chiang Kai-shek was very annoyed, and gave the commander-in-chief Bai Chongxi and the central war supervisor Chen Cheng the punishment of reducing their salaries and leaving their posts. General Xu Tingyao, Commander-in-Chief of the 38th Group Army, and 8 generals under General Xu Tingyao were dismissed and investigated. It is obviously a great victory at Kunlun Pass, why is Lao Jiang so annoyed? Later, when I continued to read other materials, I discovered that the truth of history is:

"In the Battle of Southern Guangxi, the Kuomintang used 27 elite divisions with 250,000 people to attack the Japanese army, a division and a brigade with 10,000 people; the main attacking force was 100,000 to attack the Kunlun Pass, which was guarded by a Japanese brigade of 800 people. It did not take it for 47 days. The battle ended on February 4, 1940. Eighteen days later, that is, on February 22, Chiang Kai-shek hosted a summary meeting of the Taiwan Open Guinan Battle in Liuzhou. At the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek gave Bai Chongxi (commander in chief) and Chen Cheng (central supervisor) a salary cut Punishment of detention. General Xu Tingyao, Commander-in-Chief of the 38th Group Army, and eight generals under General Xu Tingyao were dismissed for investigation. This matter has been concealed in the KMT's war history..."

The author of this article is Mr. Zhang Hongzhi, a researcher at the Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences. The full text was published in the magazine "People's Feelings and Letters and Calls". Interested readers can find it here and read it. The successive defeats of the national army in the War of Resistance made the then US President Roosevelt very annoyed. He once decided to allocate three divisions of American equipment to Yan'an. Our party's army with an American mechanic will have an even more astonishing performance in the War of Resistance, and the three-year civil war will be another scene.

(Personally, I’m not sure if this is the truth. Readers, please be aware that the purpose of collecting these materials is to give us a clearer understanding of this war. You can discuss it, but don’t involve sensitive topics and personal attacks! )