When the Sichuan army went to Sichuan, it was widely recognized that it was the "worst army" in China at that time, with insufficient equipment, lack of ammunition, supplies and medical equipment, and in the winter, when fighting in Shanxi, the soldiers wore straw shoes on their feet. However, it was such a troop that made countless hardest and most tragic sacrifices in the war of resistance and made great contributions to the cause of national independence of the Chinese people. Together with the Sichuan troops who went out to fight in the war, a total of about 3.5 million Sichuanese went to the battlefield of the war. That is to say, that year, about every 15 Sichuan people in 1 person on the front line of the anti-Japanese; national anti-Japanese soldiers, every 5 in 1 is Sichuan
According to He Yingqin's statistics: Sichuan out of the number of casualties of the national anti-Japanese army of about two-tenths of the casualties, i.e., 263,991 killed in action, 356,267 wounded, 26,025 missing, * * * * counted more than 640,000 people, ranked first in the country! the nation's top!