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It is named because it is about 5 kilometers away from Pingxingguan, the pass of the ancient Great Wall. The site is located in a natural ravine, with high mountains and steep cliffs on both sides, tens of meters high, and the terrain is very dangerous. The road winds around it.
At dawn on September 25, 1937, the 21st Brigade of the Sakagaki Division of the Japanese Invading Army entered this ancient canyon road, and the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which was ambushing on the top of the cliff in advance, launched an attack. After a day of fierce fighting, they won a complete victory. Annihilated more than 1,000 enemy people, destroyed and captured more than 100 enemy cars, more than 200 carts, 1 Type 92 artillery, 20 light and heavy machine guns, more than 1,000 rifles, more than 50 horses and other military supplies.
The Battle of Pingxingguan shocked China and the world, broke the so-called myth that "the Japanese imperial army is invincible", inspired the confidence of the people of the whole country in the victory of the War of Resistance, and aroused the solidarity and support of the progressive forces of the world for the Chinese people. The Battle of Pingxingguan was the first time since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War that the Chinese Kuomintang and the Communist Party joined forces to stop the invading Japanese army and won a well-known battle.
Today, the Beijing-Yuan Railway and highways pass by, and the battlefields of the past have become today's traffic arteries.
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