The Chinese Expeditionary Force, people who are not familiar with the history of World War II, may be very unfamiliar with this title, especially in the current propaganda environment, the common people are naturally familiar with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by our party, but few people know that outside the border, there was also such a force, which dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders in a difficult and extremely difficult environment. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Before Song Zheng began to copy the script of this TV series, he had specially found a lot of information about the expeditionary force that year, and did some research on several famous battles that occurred during the period, and he found that every battle experienced by the expeditionary force was even more tragic than in China.

The Expeditionary Force was established in 1941, when World War II had entered the most intense period, after the defeat of the British and French forces in Dunkirk, the British Isles were in danger, and Britain hoped to use China's experience and strength in the long-term war of resistance to support its military situation in the Far East colonies, especially Burma, India and Malaysia, and save the crisis in the Far East.

At the same time, on the Chinese side, in order to achieve the final victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was also necessary to secure the Yunnan-Burma Road, the last international transportation route.

Therefore, from 1940 onwards, Britain first opened the long-blocked Yunnan-Burma Road, and then brewed a Sino-British military alliance.

After the outbreak of World War II, Britain was trapped in the European theater and was unable to take care of it, and for Britain's strategic policy, the first priority in the Far East was to defend India, the colony that exported the most resources, and to consider the remaining colonies as a strategic depth to defend India.

However, as far as China is concerned, Burma and other places are the last lifeline to win foreign aid, and if the Yunnan-Burma road is not secured, foreign aid will not be able to easily enter China, and the war with Japan will also fall into the disadvantage of insufficient supplies, so the Chinese side is trying its best to strive for a military alliance with Britain to ensure its war capital.

To this end, in 1941, Britain invited a Chinese military delegation to Burma, India, and Malaya to investigate, and after several consultations, in the same year, the "Sino-British Agreement on the Joint Defense of the Yunnan-Burma Road" was signed, and the Sino-British military alliance was established, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force was organized in accordance with the Sino-British military alliance.

At that time, Burma was a British colony, and the western part of British India bordered China's western Tibet and Yunnan to the north and northeast, and had an important strategic position.

Japan's attack on Burma also had many implications for itself, such as isolating China and serving as a base for invading India.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army swept through Southeast Asia in a short period of time, and then pointed the spearhead directly at Burma, and in 1942 Japan used about 60,000 troops to attack Burma, far exceeding the British defense force in Burma.

At the beginning of 1942, after the Japanese invaded Malaysia, they began to invade Burma, and soon conquered the important towns in eastern Burma, and then continued to advance in two ways, occupying Yangon, the capital of Burma, and then attacking Mandalay, in an attempt to cut off the Yunnan-Burma road.

At this time, with the help of the British, the Chinese side gathered about 100,000 elite forces at that time and marched towards Burma.

However, because the British underestimated the strength of the Chinese army, overestimated themselves, and did not want foreign troops to penetrate deep into their colonies, they repeatedly delayed and obstructed the Chinese expeditionary force from entering Burma, and the Chinese expeditionary force scheduled to enter Burma had no choice but to stay on the Sino-Burmese border.

However, in early 1942, after the Japanese attacked, the Anglo-Burmese army was defeated all the way, so the Chinese army was hurriedly invited to enter Burma to participate in the war, and the Chinese expeditionary force immediately left for the Burma battlefield.

However, because Britain had already lost the opportunity to defend Burma, it lost the battle to defend Burma, mainly because Britain insisted on the established strategy of Europe first and then Asia, and once the war situation was unfavorable, it completely lost interest in defending Burma, but repeatedly retreated, so that the Chinese expeditionary force's operation to defend Burma became an operation to cover the retreat of the British army.

Even so, the Chinese Expeditionary Force still achieved a record that was admired by the British and American allies, and achieved certain strategic objectives.

From March 1942, when the Chinese Expeditionary Force began to enter Burma to fight against the Japanese army, to the beginning of August, the Sino-British coalition forces withdrew from Burma, which lasted half a year, fought more than 1,500 kilometers, fought bloodily, and repeatedly defeated the enemy's front, so that the Japanese army suffered a rare heavy blow since the Pacific War, and gave strong support to the British and Burmese troops many times, and won victories such as the Battle of Tonggu, the Battle of Swa, the Battle of Ringanqiang and the Battle of Taunggyi Recovery.

In the Ringanqiang Aid to the British Operation, the Chinese Expeditionary Force relied on the strength of a regiment to fight bravely against the enemy several times its size, and won more with less, rescuing the 1st Division of the British-Burmese Army, which had been besieged for several days and was on the verge of despair, causing a sensation in the British Isles.

The loss of Burma had an extremely negative impact on future operations, allowing Japan to directly threaten India, and also causing China to completely lose the only land communication route on the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and to open up an air route from India over Hump in the future.

However, it also had great strategic significance, covering the retreat of the British army, preserving its strength to defend India, and consuming part of the Japanese army's strength, blocking the Japanese army's attack on the rear of southwest China, so as to gain time, cooperate with domestic troops to block the enemy in Yunnan to the west of the Nujiang River, and finally form a long-term confrontation, smashing the Japanese army's attempt to attack the rear of southwest China from northern Burma.

This expeditionary operation was also the first time that China went abroad to fight since the Sino-Japanese War, and they carried forward the internationalism and national sacrifice spirit of the Chinese people and enhanced China's international status.

The expeditionary force entered Burma for the first time, and it can be said that it was a great achievement, killing and wounding about 45,000 Japanese soldiers, but at the same time, it also suffered heavy casualties, totaling more than 50,000 people.

In 1943, in order to cooperate with the war situation in the Chinese battlefield and the Pacific region, the Chinese Expeditionary Force formulated an operational plan for counterattacking northern Burma to ensure the opening of the Sino-Indian highway and the laying of oil pipelines.

The plan was to start from the Indo-Burmese border town of Lido, cross the Indo-Burmese border, first occupy the areas east of the Tanai River such as Xinpingyang, establish offensive starting positions and logistics supply bases, and then climb the cross-country mountains, break through the Hukang River Valley and the Menggong River Valley with powerful firepower and outflanking tactics, seize Myitkyina, a key place in northern Myanmar, and finally connect the Yunnan-Burma Highway in Yunnan.

In 1944, the expeditionary force occupied Meng Pass, eliminated the main force of the most elite Japanese 18th Division, captured its military flag, customs defense, a large number of documents and various weapons, and then took advantage of the victory to march and capture the important town of Meng Gong in northern Myanmar with one blow, and won again victory.

After that, the expeditionary force all the way through the pass, invincible, on March 8, 1945 to conquer Lashio, on the 30th with the British army in Cho May, the northern Burma counteroffensive ended, at this time the Japanese army due to the defeat in the Philippines, shrinking the front, all withdrawn from Burma, so far, the Burma war is over.

The battle lasted a year and a half, annihilating more than 48,000 Japanese troops, and the Chinese expeditionary force also paid the price of more than 40,000 casualties.

The victory of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's counteroffensive reopened the international lines of communication, enabled the continuous transportation of international aid materials and resources into China, drove the Japanese army out of the southwest gate of China, opened the prelude to the frontal battlefield counteroffensive against Japan, contained and inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army in northern Burma and western Yunnan, and created favorable conditions for the Allied forces to recover the whole of Burma.

Counting from the entry of the Chinese army into Burma, the war lasted 3 years and 3 months, with a total of 400,000 troops and nearly 200,000 casualties.

"My Commander, My Regiment" tells the story of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's first entry into Burma to the counterattack, which happened in a small border town in Yunnan.

If you want to make a TV series that truly reflects the expeditionary force at that time, you must first understand everything about the expeditionary force at that time, and Song Zheng temporarily adjusted the shooting plan.

The next day, the entire crew stopped working for a day, and Song Zheng pulled all the actors of the crew to an expeditionary force cemetery, where all the soldiers of the expeditionary force who died in Burma were laid to rest.

To be honest, these actors don't know much about the stories that happened on the border line and on the other side of the border line, but after receiving the role, they know a little bit about it, and they know that there was a big war here, and many people died.

Paying homage to the soldiers of the Expeditionary Force, Song Zheng then took the main creator of the crew to visit several soldiers of the Expeditionary Force who survived that year, the smoke of gunpowder has long been dissipated, the former heroes of the patriotic country, now they look like ordinary old people, they live a poor life, but they enjoy it, for the people of the year, it is already the greatest luck to be able to survive.

Next, for two whole days, Song Zheng and the main actors of the crew lived with these old expeditionary soldiers, listened to them tell the stories that happened here back then, and completely immersed themselves in these stories.

Originally, the actors who just regarded the expeditionary force as a title and a code name gradually understood what they were shouldering at the moment, this is the first time that the Chinese film and television industry has filmed a TV series about the story of the expeditionary force, whether they can perfectly interpret the stories that happened here back then, those singing and crying stories, it all depends on them.

Two days passed quickly, and before leaving, Zhang Yi asked a question that everyone had been holding in their hearts for the past two days, but no one dared to ask: "The battle was so fierce back then, aren't you afraid at all?"

The old man smiled, cracked his mouth without a few teeth, and said: "Who can not be afraid of death, is it still a person who is not afraid of death?" My comrades-in-arms and I knew a truth at that time, we have to live, the Chinese have to live, not only have to live, but also have to live comfortably. ”

Stay alive!

The old man kept repeating these words, which made everyone present couldn't help but be moved.

If you want to live, you should stay away from the war, but if you want to live comfortably, you can't do it without fighting.

Everyone understands now, Song Zheng has not filmed a good scene in the past two days, what is the purpose of bringing them here, filming this TV series is for memorial, and forgetting means betrayal.