Chapter 542: Burma

Zhou Lin was on the boat and sent a telegram to Cui Haitao, asking him to repair the small island twenty miles opposite Zhoujia Island and prepare to temporarily resettle Chang Liang's troops.

After Zhou Lin and his entourage arrived at Zhoujia Island, Cui Haitao, who was moving quickly, had already built a temporary military camp on that small island.

After Chang Liang walked around the island, he told Zhou Lin that he wanted to build a base for Chang Liang's troops to stay here.

Zhou Lin immediately agreed, and asked Cui Haitao to divide the two small islands on the side, and together with this small island, they formed a chain island as a base for Chang Liang's troops.

And the family members of those officers entered Zhoujia Island.

Now Zhoujia Island has been built into the richest commercial island in the South Seas.

The infrastructure on the island has been perfected, and people living on the island feel fresh, free and lively than living in the pearl.

All the people in Changliang's troops have visited Zhoujia Island.

Some soldiers who didn't want to move their families here also moved their minds and prepared to bring their families to Zhoujiadao without having to live in war-torn China.

After staying on Zhoujia Island for three days, Zhou Lin and Chang Liang's people arrived at Yangon Port by boat.

Yamada arrived in Yangon a few days earlier, and the headquarters of the Japanese military police in Yangon was officially established.

After Zhou Lin and his arrival, Yamada convened a meeting of various departments in Yangon. At the meeting, the Special Service of the Yangon Military Police Command was formally established.

Zhou Lin is the director of the Secret Service Bureau, which consists of the Exit and Entry Administration Department, the Economic Supervision Department, the Intelligence Department, the Investigation Department, the Operations Department, the General Affairs Office, the Telecommunications Investigation Department, the Confidential Department, the Inspectorate Office, and the Guard Brigade.

Shen Xiping served as the deputy director of the Secret Service Bureau and assisted Zhou Lin in his work.

The head of the Immigration Department is headed by a bald head. Wang Hu is the director of the Economic Supervision Department. The Intelligence Department was headed by the former Chief of the First Special Section, and the Detective Department was headed by the Captain of the First Brigade of the Pearl Detective Department (when the Detective Division was transferred to Burma, the original Pearl Detective Section Chief and above were not transferred, and they re-established the Pearl Detective Division in the Pearl). Zhang Ergou is the director of the Operations Division, the former Chief of the General Affairs Section is the Chief of the General Affairs Division, the Telecommunications Investigation Division is headed by the former Chief of the Telecommunications Section, the former Director of the Confidential Office is the Director of the Confidential Division, and the Captain of the Guard Brigade is a battalion commander of Chang Liang's Guard Regiment.

At the same time, the establishment of the Yangon City Defense Command was announced.

Chang Liang was appointed commander of the Yangon City Defense Command.

Two of Chang Liang's cronies were appointed commanders of the two armies.

In this way, Zhou Lin's subordinates and Chang Liang's subordinates were all promoted.

On the third day of arrival in Yangon, Chang Liang's troops took over the defense of Rangoon.

And Zhou Lin's people took over the port of Yangon, as well as the land checkpoint in Yangon, and the airport inbound and outbound goods management.

It is equivalent to saying that in Yangon now, everything that goes in and out of a dollar is controlled by Zhou Lin.

Zhou Lin was accustomed to living at the pier, so he built the Secret Service at the Yangon pier.

The big wolf and the second wolf were also brought to Yangon by Zhou Lin, and when they were placed on Zhoujia Island, they became lonely dogs without owners.

Sitting on the sofa, Zhou Lin lit a cigarette and watched the two dogs fight.

Now, both Yan'an and Chongqing have issued the same order: to support the Chinese expeditionary force in intelligence and fight against the Japanese army in Burma.

While in Mingzhu, Zhou Lin also heard the news about the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, due to China's weak industrial base and urgent need for a large number of materials and foreign aid, the Yunnan-Burma Highway was built in early 1938.

Inspired by the belief in resisting Japan and saving the country, 200,000 people from 28 counties in western Yunnan brought their own rations and tools, slept in the open air, split rocks and rocks, lasted 10 months, and built the Yunnan-Burma Highway with their hands and blood and sweat along the mountains and wilderness of 990 kilometers in western Yunnan and northern Myanmar.

During this period, countless people died due to blasting, falling rocks, falling rivers, heavy pressure of soil and rocks, and malignant dysentery.

Opened to traffic at the end of 1938, the Yunnan-Burma Highway became the blood vessel of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Japan is plotting to forcibly suspend the activities of "third countries" to aid China by force.

In the winter of 1939, Japan occupied Nanning, China, cutting off China's international communication line with Haiphong, Vietnam.

In the spring of 1940, Japan bombed the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.

In June, France was forced to accept a demand to stop shipments from China and Vietnam.

In September, Japan invaded Vietnam and signed a treaty of friendship with Thailand, and the Yunnan-Vietnam line was completely interrupted.

The Yunnan-Burma Highway has become the only route for aiding China.

Myanmar is a strategically important country on the Southeast Asian peninsula.

To the west is British India, bordering China, Tibet and Yunnan to the north and northeast.

The Yunnan-Burma Highway is an important international communication route in China, and the Japanese army can also threaten the rear of southwest China.

Myanmar is strategically important to both China and Britain in the allies.

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.

In order to defend Burma, China and Britain hatched a military alliance as early as early 1941.

China is actively preparing and proposing that Chinese troops enter Myanmar as soon as possible to deploy defenses.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, China and Britain signed the Sino-British Agreement on the Mutual Defense of the Yunnan-Burma Road on December 23, 1941, and the Sino-British military alliance was established.

China and Britain agreed on the same principle on the issue of defending Burma, but because the British army underestimated the strength of the Chinese army, overestimated itself, and did not want foreign troops to penetrate into its 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, on January 4, 1942, the Japanese army began to attack Burma, and the Anglo-Burmese army was defeated one after another, and the Japanese army quickly advanced to Rangoon.

At this time, the British called on the Chinese army to come to Burma for rescue.

On 16 February, the Military Commission of the Chinese Nationalist Government ordered the 5th and 6th Armies, which were stranded on the Yunnan-Burma border to enter Burma one after another, urgently advance to southern Burma and eastern Burma, and fight against Japan under the unified command of Hu Dun, commander of the Anglo-Burmese Army.

However, because the first opportunity to fight has been lost, the defense of Myanmar has been lost.

This was mainly due to Britain's extreme adherence to the established strategy of Europe first and then Asia, and once the war situation was unfavorable, it completely lost interest in defending Burma and retreated repeatedly, turning the Chinese expeditionary force's defense of Burma into an operation to cover the retreat of the British army.

However, the Chinese Expeditionary Force still made achievements that were admired by the British and American allies, and achieved certain strategic goals.

From March 1942, when the Chinese Expeditionary Force began to fight with the Japanese army, to the beginning of August, the Sino-British coalition troops withdrew from Burma, which lasted half a year, fought more than 1,500 kilometers, fought bloody battles, and repeatedly filed 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 Relief, and the Battle of Taunggyi Recovery.

In the Ringanqiang Aid to the British Operation, Sun Liren, the commander of the 38th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, relied on the strength of a regiment to fight bravely against the enemy several times his own, and won more with less, rescuing the 1st Division of the British and Burmese Army, which had been besieged for several days and was on the verge of despair, causing a sensation in the British Isles.

Dai Anlan, commander of the new 200th Division, performed many miraculous feats to cover the safe retreat of the British army, and was unfortunately wounded and martyred in the battle against the enemy over the mountain.