On this day, 87 years ago, on March 15, 1938 (February 14, 1938, the lunar calendar), Teng County was lost in a bloody battle, and the Japanese army massacred the city in retaliation. China soldiers fighting the Japanese army to the death in the position. In mid-March, the Japanese army divided into two groups and attacked Taierzhuang. In Jinpu Road Xixian County, the China garrison was the 41st Army of Sun Zhen of the Sichuan Army. They were outnumbered and prevented the enemy from moving south. Starting from March 14, the 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army's 10th Division, Itanya, attacked Tengxian from Liangxiadian. On the 17th, the Japanese army bombarded Tengxian with dozens of aircraft and more than 30 cannons. Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the garrison, led Chief of Staff Zhao Weibin, commander Wang Lin, and county magistrate Zhou Tongtong to guard the city and commanded more than 3000 city guards. The military police fought hand-to-hand with the enemy. The Japanese army repeatedly invaded the city wall and was repelled many times. Before noon on the 17th, our army suffered heavy casualties. Wang Mingzhang sent an urgent telegram to Sun Zhen asking for help, but there was no hope, saying that he was "determined to fight hard to repay the country." So he went to Xiguan to command the garrison to continue fighting. Arriving near the electric lamp factory, he was fired by the enemy's intensive fire. He was shot several times and died immediately. Zhao Weibin and Wang Lin died in battle, and Zhou Tong fell into the city and died. By noon on the 18th, knee county fell. The defense battle of Xixian County lasted a total of four and a half days, and more than 5000 officers and soldiers from commander Wang Mingzhang were killed and injured. Wang division commander martyrdom news spread, the city 300 seriously wounded, would rather die than fall enemy, each other with grenades from bombing, all heroic sacrifice. The entire battlefield was strewn with corpses, and Teng County was covered in smoke and scorched earth. In this battle, the Japanese army killed more than 2000 people. The National Government ordered the commendation of Wang Mingzhang, the posthumous title of army general, and the granting of a state funeral. After the Japanese army broke the city, they searched and killed every house. When women raped and then killed, when men were seen, they either cut and shot on the spot, or tied up and shot them together. In Zhengjialin and Mashen, 42 civilians were collectively shot dead by the Japanese army. The Japanese army broke into Dong Youjun's home and threw several grenades from the cellar entrance. No one who took refuge inside was spared. Wang's daughter-in-law, who had just been married for three months, was dragged out of the cellar by the Japanese army and gang-raped, and then stabbed to death with a bayonet. There was an 18-year-old girl who put up her pigtails and pretended to be a daughter-in-law and fled from the city. She ran into the Japanese army head-on and was gang-raped and then stabbed to death. Fifty families were killed on North Street and Shawo Street, and 82 people died tragically. The Japanese army also carried out massacres in the holes of more than a dozen businesses and shops on Nanbei Street in Dongmen and Outer Dongmen. 110 people were killed in the holes of the Xu family's Deyuan, the Li family's Dejuquan Hotel, the oil workshop and the Hengsheng Gong Dyeing Workshop alone. In just three days after the city was broken, the Japanese army killed 2259 innocent people, raped 224 women, and burned more than 60,000 houses in Teng County. After the bloody battle, Teng County was destroyed by the Japanese army