The victory in the battle confirmed the truth that an army and people led by an outstanding leader are always invincible.

Hearing the news that the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) attacked Damalugou by surprise, Maeda, a company commander of the "police punitive force" in Helong County under the "Nozoe Punitive Command", made a blood-written pledge to annihilate the KPRA. He held even a ceremony to go into action and forced his troops to write their testaments.

President Kim Il Sung decided to attack the enemy troops in a deep valley of Hongqihe and conclude the large-unit circling operation victoriously.

On March 25, Juche 29 (1940), he ordered KPRA units to go down the valley and go up again, erasing only their uphill footprints, to lie in ambush.

A decoy party resumed marching along the valley, leaving as many footprints as possible.

When the main body of the enemy poured steadily into the area of the ambush, the guerrillas opened fire.

Maeda and his troops made frantic efforts to the last, but failed to escape from the deadly situation after all.

Reporting the news, a Japanese police magazine said that only God knows why Maeda, a punitive operation veteran, was defeated in the battle.