国民革命军晋绥军第六十一军是抗日战争全面爆发后,在晋东北最早与日本军队交战的部队之一,也是一支抗战初期以败绩被载入中国抗战史册的部队。军长李服膺因六十一军在天镇、阳高抗战失利,被阎锡山追责正法,执行死刑。此事件当时在全国影响巨大。六十一军虽然没有挡住日军,但他们两次完成了阻敌日军的任务。六十一军失利从战场上撤退后,侵华日军曾在雁北地区对平民进行了惨绝人寰的大屠杀。这场大屠杀从天镇、阳高两县城开 National Revolutionary Army The sixty-first army of the Sui Su military was one of the earliest troops to fight the Japanese army in northeastern Shanxi after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War and one unit that was loaded into the annals of Chinese history of anti-Japanese war with an early defeat. Lieutenant Commander Li for the 61st army in the town, Yang high resistance to defeat, Yan Xishan is responsible for the Fa-rectification, the implementation of the death penalty. This incident had a huge impact in the country at the time. Although the sixty-first army did not block the Japanese army, they completed the task of defeating the Japanese army twice. After the defeat of the 61st Army had been withdrawn from the battlefield, the Japanese invaded the Chinese army conducted a massacre of innocent civilians in the Yanbei area. The massacre from the town, Yanggao county two open