On this day, 81 years ago, on May 28, 1944 (April 7, 1944, the lunar calendar), Luoyang was occupied by the army. Japanese corpses on the battlefield in Henan In the early morning of May 28, Japanese tank troops broke into Luoyang City with strong artillery fire. After the 37th, 62nd, 63rd, 110th Divisions and other divisions belonging to the 12th Army of the Japanese Army occupied Zhengzhou, Xinzheng, Changge, Xuchang, Ruancheng and other towns with strong offensives, the Pinghan Railway in Henan was opened on the morning of May 9. At the same time, the Japanese army also captured Mixian, Yuzhou, Jia County, Ruzhou and other places west of Pinghan Road. Japan's North China Front Army continued to invade the west with a unit of the 12th Army, and moved south with the 69th and 27th Divisions of the 1st Army stationed in southeastern Shanxi, creating a tendency to attack Luoyang from both sides. On May 12, Chiyono Kimura led the 59th Infantry Brigade to occupy Mianchi and cut off the Longhai Railway, making Luoyang an isolated city surrounded by the Japanese army. At the same time, the 12th Army of Japan launched a tough battle against Luoyang. The 36th Group Army of China's garrison relied on the damaged positions to fight tenaciously. In the end, it even moved entire bags of rice and salt to make parapet and obstacles, causing greater damage to the Japanese army. However, under the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, the garrison troops were running out of ammunition and all communications in the city were interrupted, and finally failed to stop the Japanese attack. On April 17, when the Japanese army approached, the Luoyang Chief Command was completely in chaos. Jiang Dingwen, commander of the theater area, and senior generals rushed their families to Shaanxi. More than a thousand people were killed by enemy aircraft on the Luoyang to Tongguan railway line. When Mianchi fell, the enemy captured more than 300 official wives and young ladies. Luoyang lost more than 20 million bales of grain this time, and more than 350 vehicles in the first war zone were driven away intact by the enemy. 6000 people under Liu Maoen's troops who defended the city were wiped out, 4000 people surrendered to the enemy, and the rest were scattered. Sun Weiru's troops lost more than half of the most complete troops in a war zone, only more than 10,000 people. Tang Enbo's 15 divisions were only 20,000 left and less than 10,000 rifles. All heavy weapons, artillery, heavy machine guns, ammunition warehouses, etc. in a war zone were all lost. When Jiang Dingwen led the senior headquarters to flee from Luoyang to Luoning, there was only one driver and two farmers he hired. Later, he took in 11 soldiers as guards and was scattered by the people. "The chaos of its dispersion and disorder is unprecedented since the Anti-Japanese War." Thousands of refugees climbed on trains leaving the war zone, eager to escape the war. Liu Guochang, the colonel and commander of the 58th Regiment of the 20th Army Division, made a heroic donation when he defended Xiangxian County, Henan Province.