PS: There are so many things to explain in this chapter that it is difficult to choose...... I'm in the process of rushing it, and I'll be able to read it in about two hours.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, there were five main international communication routes in China: first, the Guangzhou-Kowloon-Yuehan Road, which used Hong Kong as a transshipment port; the second is the Guiyue line, which uses Haiphong as a transshipment port in Vietnam; the third is the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, which uses Haiphong as a transshipment port in Vietnam; the fourth is the northwest route from Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Xinxin to the Soviet Union, with Huocheng in Xinjiang as the land port; Fifth, the Yunnan-Burma line was opened to traffic in August 38.

In October 38, the Guangzhou-Kowloon-Yuehan international communication line was blocked by the Japanese army.

In November 39, the Guiyue International Highway was cut off by the Japanese invaders.

In June 40, with the defeat of France in the war against Germany, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was completely cut off by the Japanese army.

In April 41, with the signing of the "Japan-Soviet Neutrality Treaty", the Northwest International Transport Route also stopped transportation.

So far, China's international communication line is only the Yunnan-Burma line, and the Yunnan-Burma international communication line has become a veritable "blood vessel" for China's great cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Myanmar is located on the north coast of the Indian Ocean, bordering the Bay of Bengal in the south, Thailand and Laos in the east, Bangladesh and India in the northwest, and Tibet and Yunnan in the northeast.

The Yunnan-Burma Highway, the hub of the Yunnan-Burma international communication line, starts from Kunming in the east and extends southwest to Lashio in Myanmar, where the strategic materials purchased by China overseas and the supplies aided by overseas Chinese and the United Kingdom and the United States land at the Yangon International Port in Lower Burma, and then arrive in Lashio through the central railway running through the north and south, and then transport them to Kunming and Zhanyi through the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and finally transfer them to Chongqing, the rear of the Anti-Japanese War, and the front lines of the Anti-Japanese War such as Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou through the Sichuan-Yunnan Middle Road, Sichuan-Yunnan East Road, and Yunnan-Guizhou Highway.

In order to cut off Yunnan-Burma, China's most important international route, the Japanese took various political and diplomatic measures long before the outbreak of the Pacific War, and repeatedly sent naval and air aviation units to use Hanoi airfield as a base to bomb the Huitong Bridge on the Salween River (the part of the lower reaches of the Nu River in Burma) and the Gongguo Bridge on the Mekong River (the section of the Langcang River in Burma and below), but they failed to block the international communication line between Yunnan and Burma.

On December 7, 41, the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor and declared war on Britain and the United States, and on the same day, more than 20 countries, including Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, declared war on Japan one after another.

On December 9, China declared war on Japan, along with Germany and Italy.

On 11 December, Japan, Germany, Italy, and the three countries signed the "Japan-Germany-Italy Joint Operations Agreement" in Berlin, and on 18 January 42, they signed the "Japan-Germany-Italy Military Agreement," which laid down their respective operational areas and operational outlines.

The Japanese invaders fought in "the sea from 70 degrees east longitude to the west coast of the Americas, and the continents and islands (Australia, Dutch India, and New Zealand)" and the "Asian continent."

The outline of the Japanese army's combat operations was: "Destroy the British, American, and Dutch base areas in Greater East Asia, attack and occupy their territories; Annihilate the Anglo-American land, sea, and air forces in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and ensure naval supremacy in the Pacific. ”

At this point, the first invasion front of Japan, Germany, and Italy was formed.

To this end, on December 22, 41, the heads of state of Britain and the United States held an "Arcadia" meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss the issue of the international anti-war war, and held that "China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression contained two-thirds of the main force of the Japanese army, and was the main battlefield for resisting the Japanese Army, and supporting China's War of Resistance was of decisive significance to the Pacific Theater", and suggested that "a Chinese theater should be established to unify the command of the anti-Japanese forces in China, Thailand, Vietnam and other places."

On 31 December, President Roosevelt telegraphed the chairman of the National Committee and proposed the establishment of a Chinese theater of operations.

On January 1, 42, 26 countries led by China, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union signed the "Declaration of the United Nations" in Washington, D.C., stipulating that the member countries "promise to use all their military and economic resources against the members of the 'Triple Alliance' and their dependent countries in a state of war" and "promise not to conclude separate armistice agreements or treaties with the enemy countries."

On 3 January, the China Theater was proclaimed, and a joint planning staff department was set up in Chongqing, with the chairman of the committee serving as the supreme commander of the China Theater.

No matter what kind of interest game and consideration this result has undergone, it shows a fact: China's achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression have been affirmed by the international community, and so far, after a hundred years of weakness, China has finally ushered in an opportunity to stand up in the international community!

Of course, the opportunity is just an opportunity, and if China wants to truly stand up in the international community, it needs to make more efforts and sacrifices!

On 15 January, the Third Battle of Changsha came to an end, and the Japanese invaders were defeated, and they fled back to the original defense area in panic, leaving corpses all over the field...... The victory of the Chinese army in Changsha not only further strengthened the confidence of the military and the people of the whole country in the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan, but also boosted the morale of the allied troops who were temporarily defeated on the anti-war battlefield.

The victory in the Third Battle of Changsha further confirmed to the Allies the determination of the Chinese army to resist the war to the end and the spirit of daring to fight, but this was far from enough.

The chairman of the National People's Congress served as the supreme commander of the Chinese theater of operations, but Thailand and Vietnam were already under the control of the Japanese invaders, and there were no allied forces that could be commanded, so the first sacrifice China faced was the expeditionary force.

On 1 February, the Japanese invaders had successively captured Dawei and Mawlamyine, and the situation in Burma was precarious, and the British finally put aside the reserve of the empire on which the sun never set, and asked the Chinese army to enter Burma for reinforcements.

On 15 February, the Japanese began to attack Rangoon, and on 16 February, the Fifth Army under the First Route Army of the Expeditionary Force received a mobilization order to enter Burma and was ready to go.

As mentioned above, the topography of Myanmar is like a diamond-shaped diamond, with a small mouth and a big belly and a pointed tail, the whole territory covers an area of only more than 600,000 square kilometers, slightly larger than Sichuan, slightly smaller than Qinghai, and the east, west and north of the border are mountains and plateaus, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, and the central part is a plain. The mountains and rivers in the territory can be roughly divided into three mountains and three rivers: from west to east there are three large mountain ranges - the Arakan Mountains, the Gaoligong Mountains and the Nushan Remnant, and between the three mountains there are three large rivers from west to east - the Inovady River, the Sidang River and the Salween River.

On 7 March, the 200th Mechanized Division, the vanguard of the Fifth Army, finally arrived at the Tonggu front line day and night.

At the same time, the newly formed 22nd and 96th Divisions also boarded buses arranged by the British side in Muang City and rushed to the Burma battlefield.

The Yunnan-Burma Highway was winding, and Li Siwei looked back from the military truck bumping on the winding mountain road, as if he was in the clouds.

"Dog's day," Chen Huaili's face was pale, looking at the convoy winding on the waddling road behind him, and smiled weakly and bitterly, "If you weren't in a hurry, Lao Tzu would rather go down and walk!" ”

"This road is ......" Zheng Sanyang is still in good spirits, but he also sighed with a full face, "I don't know how it was repaired!" ”

The War of Resistance has never been just about soldiers throwing their heads and spilling their blood, the fortifications on the front line, the military airports in the rear, and the lines of communication...... All of them are full of the blood and sweat of thousands of people!

The Yunnan-Burma Highway passes through Xiaguan, Baoshan, Longling and other places from Kunming, from Wan Town to the national border, connects with Lashio, Myanmar, and then connects with the Central Railway of Myanmar, along the high mountains and rivers ups and downs, the topography and geological conditions are very complex, with a total length of 1,146.1 kilometers, and the Yunnan section is 959.4 kilometers long; The Myanmar section is 186.7 km. It was agreed with the Burmese and British authorities that on the basis of the Kunming-Xiaguan highway that had already been built, China was responsible for the construction of a section of the road from Xiaguan to Wan Town, with a total length of 547.8 kilometers; The Burmese side is responsible for the construction of the section of the Burmese border from Lashio to Wan Town, which is limited to one year.

On November 2, 37, the Nationalist Government officially ordered the Yunnan Provincial Government to allocate 2 million yuan from the Executive Yuan to build the Yunnan-Burma Highway within a year and open up international communication lines.

In December, the Yunnan Provincial Government adopted the "extraordinary period" mobilization method and ordered all counties along the road and the establishment of administrative bureaus (political power organs at the county level in the border minority areas) to requisition and transfer more than 200,000 people from various counties in western Yunnan, and urgently transferred the first independent engineer regiment of the army and the construction team directly under the Ministry of Communications, which had the highest technical level and construction technical strength of road construction engineering at that time.

The Chinese people defeated the Hengduan Mountain Range in only nine months, allowing this winding mountain road, which was predicted by many engineering experts in the world to take three years to complete, ahead of schedule, shocking the world in one fell swoop, and also letting the world see the determination of the Chinese military and civilians to fight the war with all their might!

During the construction of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, Li Siwei was fighting in Wuhan, and naturally did not know this history, but his feelings were sincere, "When the Chinese are united and work hard, no difficulties and obstacles can overcome them!" You can't go to the mountains, you can't the big rivers, and you can't the little devils! ”

"Yes!" Zheng Sanyang was stunned for a moment, and nodded hurriedly, "Our nation has a tenacious and great spirit like the Yellow River!" ”

As he spoke, Zheng Sanyang hummed in a low voice, "I am standing on the top of a high mountain, watching the Yellow River rolling towards the southeast......

"The golden waves are surging,"

Li Siwei followed and reconciled, "setting off a lot of turmoil......"

"The turbidity is like a turn,"

All the soldiers in the car also cheered up and reconciled, "knotting nine songs and ......"

In the roar of the car, the song was not loud, but it still drifted away on the winding mountain road with the wind, attracting the soldiers in the surrounding cars to echo it, "...... up and down from Kunlun"

Cars are running on the highway, and singing is wafting and waving among the mountains...... That is the unyielding cry of the sons and daughters of China, and that is the iron-blooded soldiers singing their aspirations, "...... The heroic sons and daughters of our motherland will learn from your example, be as great and strong as you, be as great and strong as you! ”

After singing the song, the aftermath lingered on Gaoligong Mountain, setting off waves in the dense forests of the mountains.

"Happy," after singing the song, Chen Huaili's face was a little more bloody, "I knew that Lao Tzu would have sung it a long time ago, and I didn't have to suffer this crime!" ”

"That's right!" Lu Tiesheng hurriedly nodded in agreement, although he was still a little pale, but there was a little more look in his eyes, "Brothers, can you sing another song?" ”

"Cheng," all the soldiers echoed, but they could hear the song behind them, "The wind is roaring, the horses are barking......"

"The Yellow River is roaring, the Yellow River is roaring......"

The soldiers were stunned and hurriedly sang along, and the singing began to fly again.

"Joe," said the British soldier on the steering wheel, with a look of surprise on his face, "your compatriot is amazing!" Just now, I looked weak, and I just sang a song......"

"John," the co-pilot sat a black-haired and yellow-skinned young man, still dressed in the costume of a British soldier, but speaking Chinese fluently with a hint of pride, "in the future, you will find that there are more magical places about them!" ”

"Really?" John stared at the mountain road in front of him with blue eyes, but the smile on his face was even stronger, "I'm looking forward to it...... We need a magical army right now! ”

Cars are running on the highway, and singing is wafting and waving among the mountains...... That is the unyielding cry of the sons and daughters of China, and that is the iron-blooded soldiers singing their aspirations, "...... The heroic sons and daughters of our motherland will learn from your example, be as great and strong as you, be as great and strong as you! ”

After singing the song, the aftermath lingered on Gaoligong Mountain, setting off waves in the dense forests of the mountains.

"Happy," after singing the song, Chen Huaili's face was a little more bloody, "I knew that Lao Tzu would have sung it a long time ago, and I didn't have to suffer this crime!" "Cars are running on the highway, and the song is wafting and waving among the mountains...... That is the unyielding cry of the sons and daughters of China, and that is the iron-blooded soldiers singing their aspirations, "...... The heroic sons and daughters of our motherland will learn from your example, be as great and strong as you, be as great and strong as you! ”

After singing the song, the aftermath lingered on Gaoligong Mountain, setting off waves in the dense forests of the mountains.

"Happy," after singing the song, Chen Huaili's face was a little more bloody, "I knew that Lao Tzu would have sung it a long time ago, and I didn't have to suffer this crime!" ”

…… The heroic sons and daughters of our motherland will learn from your example, be as great and strong as you, be as great and strong as you! ”

After singing the song, the aftermath lingered on Gaoligong Mountain, setting off waves in the dense forests of the mountains.

"Happy," after singing the song, Chen Huaili's face was a little more bloody, "I knew that Lao Tzu would have sung it a long time ago, and I didn't have to suffer this crime!" "Cars are running on the highway, and the song is wafting and waving among the mountains...... That is the unyielding cry of the sons and daughters of China, and that is the iron-blooded soldiers singing their aspirations, "...... The heroic sons and daughters of our motherland will learn from your example, be as great and strong as you, be as great and strong as you! ”

After singing the song, the aftermath lingered on Gaoligong Mountain, setting off waves in the dense forests of the mountains.

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