Chapter 211: Alexander

Zhang Ziwen heard an exclamation in front of him and hurriedly jumped out of the car, he was about to go abroad, and a little thing would become a big thing.

Zhang Ziwen hurried forward and found that it was a car that had overturned down the mountain, and the first conclusion was that it was hopeless, because it would take at least a day to travel from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and this was still the case where he was led by himself.

If you send someone down to look for it without authorization, you may not even be able to come back to save people, there is a miasma here, it is all an abyss, Zhang Ziwen can't imagine how many people sacrificed for this road to build it.

A brother looking down from the side of the road exclaimed, "This is the seventh."

The 200 divisions are only one automobile battalion, and they have already overturned seven vehicles, Zhang Ziwen broke out in a cold sweat, if he hadn't sat on the first car and deliberately lowered his speed, he was afraid that the result would not be much better.

"Xiao Luo, tell the brothers in the car platoon to keep me down and walk, and the brothers on horseback to mark the dangerous places."

Zhang Ziwen wants to come to the horse, and plans to ride all the way to Myanmar, and at the same time can watch the troops more intuitively, so that he can feel at ease.

At noon, the Nu River is like a silver horse, reflecting the blue skylight, winding south along the foot of the mountain on the east side of the Lujiang Dam, and disappearing in the hills at the end of the dam.

When it reached the valley, it suddenly showed its feet again, and at the same time turned east. The road runs along the river, the hot wind blows in the face, and all kinds of tropical trees and leaves blow by.

The scenery is just right, but you don't want to watch it, and there is a bridge across the river and sky in the south, turning the dangerous moat into a thoroughfare.

This is the Huitong Bridge, the iron cable across the river.

When he got here, Zhang Ziwen had to dismount and walk, and Dai Anlan was standing at the head of the bridge watching the troops cross the bridge, because the armored vehicle was too important and had to be taken seriously.

Crossing the armored cars queuing up to cross the bridge, Zhang Ziwen climbed to the position where Dai Anlan was, and dragged his somewhat sour waist with his hands to look at the waterfall not far away.

"Brother Dai, if you weren't in a hurry to enter Burma, Brother might be looking at the scenery at sunrise, it would be very beautiful."

Dai Anlan turned his head and said: "It's good-looking, it's a pity that it will eat people, just like that poppy, beautiful and life-threatening."

Zhang Ziwen knew that Dai Anlan was referring to the seven cars that rolled into the river and the abyss.

"Die before leaving the school, and the hero will be full of tears. How helpless and indignant are the people of our army, if our country can be stronger and more industrially developed, where can we take this road. ”

Dai Anlan could only sigh deeply, sad and indignant.

In Dai Anlan's gaze, he crossed the Nu River through the chain bridge Huitong Bridge, and then entered Myanmar through Songshan, Longling, and Wan Town.

Take the highway to Lashio via Sinwei, and then take the train via Si Bao, Mae Mou, Mandalay (Wa Cheng).

At this time, the weather had become very hot, and Zhang Ziwen had already asked his brothers to change into single clothes, but they were still sweating profusely, but they had to wear them.

Because the mosquitoes here are so ferocious, Zhang Ziwen can't sleep at night without mosquito repellent medicine.

The lack of preparation of the 200 divisions meant that the brothers had to wear heavy cotton clothes, and many of them could not stand the heat and had to be bitten by mosquitoes.

Dai Anlan said to Zhang Ziwen: "I didn't believe what my brother said at the beginning, but now I cry brothers."

By this time, it was the end of February, and the Japanese army had conquered Rangoon, surging from the south to the north.

However, Dai Anlan did not know the news, and at this time he was leading the troops to be welcomed by overseas Chinese in Myanmar.

As soon as I got off the train, I saw the overseas Chinese compatriots and the British troops holding signs to greet them, and no one in the British troops stepped forward to speak, but an old man among the overseas Chinese said: "Welcome general, we are finally saved when you come."

The old man's excited expression and grateful tears reflected the state of the situation in Myanmar, and Dai Anlan was a little surprised, but he still showed great calm.

"Please rest assured, we went abroad to fight the Japanese devils, and we will definitely drive the Japanese out to protect your safety."

After receiving the assurance, the old man nodded excitedly, and the overseas Chinese were also relieved.

Next was the reception of the British army, after which the 200 divisions were in Mandalay for final replenishment and rest.

Back at the station, Dai Anlan said with great emotion:

"The strength of a country directly affects the status of expatriates abroad. Premier Sun struggled all his life and wrote in his will: "We must arouse the people and unite the nations of the world to treat me equally." Thirty or forty years have passed since the National Revolution, and the revolutionary goals of the Father of the Nation have not yet been achieved, and our revolutionary goals have not yet been achieved. Now that I see overseas Chinese, I feel even more that the soldiers of our generation have a heavy responsibility. ”

Gao Jiren also sighed: "Yes, the subordinates also feel ashamed of the overseas Chinese, and this time to fight in Burma, we must show the prestige of the Chinese and grow their ambition for the overseas Chinese!"

More than 100 miles away, Du Luming was a little unhappy, because he followed Stilwell to Meimiao to meet with Alexander, commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Burmese army, to exchange plans for coordinating combat deployments, but they had different opinions and differences.

Alexander's leading ideology was a reluctance to war, his intention to abandon Burma and retreat into India, and he was arrogant and lacked sincerity in cooperation. It is clear that China does not dare to give up the supplementary line of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and uses China's flesh and blood to block the Japanese artillery.

Stilwell, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, had the idea of seizing the fighter plane, using the 200th Division's Dai Anlan Division to block and contain the enemy in the Tonggu area, and the new 22nd Division and 96th Division to quickly follow up and divide and encircle the Japanese 55th Division in front of it, so as to destroy one or most of it.

Du Luming almost pointed at Stilwell's face and scolded his mother, Myanmar is 4,000 miles long from north to south, and 2,000 miles wide.

Most of the country is mountainous plateau, and the mountains and rivers go from north to south, and it is easy to attack from the south and the north, but it is not easy to defend, and once it is too late, it will have to be surrounded.

This is simply worse than a pig, and not engaging in positional warfare with the Japanese army is a conclusion that Li Zongren reached in the first battle of Taierzhuang.

However, Du Luming did not know that Stilwell had never led soldiers at all since he graduated from the military academy, and had always served as a staff officer, and he could only talk about fighting. But because of Lao Jiang's telegram, he didn't dare to resist, so he could only tell Dai Anlan to be careful.

Du Luming originally wanted to fight for some, and suggested using the depth to let the Japanese army in, and then cut off the waist, and use Xue Yue's inverted eight characters to give the Japanese army a ruthless blow, but he didn't expect Lao Jiang to come the next day.

Lao Chiang flew directly to Lashio, Stilwell did not go, Alexander did not go, but Du Luming had to go.

The first thing Lao Jiang did when he arrived at Lashio was to tell Du Luming to listen to Stilwell, and also warned Sun Liren who was on the side.

Du Luming has words of suffering, as long as he lets it go.

And who was Alexander, who could be the commander-in-chief of the British army?

This man was the man who commanded the Dunkirk retreat, and it is said that he was eating breakfast on the beach under German fire in order to stabilize the morale of the army.

And the first thing Churchill's commander-in-chief did when he arrived in Burma was to replicate the Dunkirk retreat.

So Rangoon was lost.