Tianmen Anti-Japanese War

Tianmen Anti-Japanese War (October 1938-December 1943) - "Eastern Stalingrad" in the Jianghan Plain After the Battle of Wuhan, Tianmen became a barrier between the Yangtze River and Han River, blocking the waterway of the Han River, protecting the flanks of Yichang, and blocking the gateway to Chongqing. Main battles: In the 1938 Blockade War, the enemy was defended by digging embankments into marshes and using "gunpowder coffins"; In the counter-mopping up in 1940, the New Fourth Army ambushed, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party conducted night attacks, and the anti-Japanese armed forces used reeds and poisonous bamboo sticks for guerrilla warfare (37% of wounded soldiers were infected); In the Battle of Tianmen in 1943, ammunition was finally exhausted and we fought with bricks and stones." Innovations of the military and civilians: oil barrel "earth cannon", clay pot mines (three motorboats were sunk), salesmen passing information, bird whistles warning, and existing ruins such as the tombs of martyrs. The Associated Press report (1941) called it the "Battle of Madrid on the Yangtze River." The Japanese war history admits: "The cost of the Tianmen battle exceeded three times expectations." This protracted war of resistance was hailed by Tian Han as the "Raging Waves of Jianghan".