readx; As he was dying, Dai Anlan blamed himself, his eyes wide and restless. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info Burma battle, lost troops, defeated, ashamed of the commander, ashamed of the nation, and regretted death!

Diananlan's heart, which was once as strong as an engine, finally went out. It was 5 p.m. on May 26, 1942. He was 38 years old.

Zheng Tingqian endured his grief and sent sappers up the mountain to cut down a longan tree that was extremely hard and had grown for more than a hundred years, built a large coffin, and buried the division commander thickly. In front of the coffin, there is a bouquet of rue herbs with small purple and white flowers.

The next day, the officers and men of the whole division carried the coffin forward, and the mournful voices were endless all the way. The ancients had the feat of carrying the coffin for a decisive battle, but all the coffins were empty. And today, in this coffin lies the division commander who was born and died with them, sharing weal and woe! 10,000 officers and soldiers of the 200th Division marched into Burma and fought bloody battles for several months, and now there are only more than 4,000 wounded and sick left, and the division commander still comes back from lying in a coffin. After thinking about it, can you not be sad?

On May 29, the troops retreated to the Ruili River. Because of the hot weather and continuous rain, the body of the division commander could not be saved. But the deceased said that he would be buried back in China after death, so what should he do?

Defeated in a foreign land, there is no way back in life, and there is no place to bury in death! Zheng Tingqian sighed for a long time, sad and helpless, so he had to cremate the body of the division commander together with the coffin.

On the bank of the Ruili River, a raging fire was ignited, and the firelight reflected the river like a sea of blood. Billowing smoke, rising into the sky, it was an unyielding soul rising, rushing.

The mountains are solemn, the forest is moaning, and the river is whimpering.

The officers and men of the 200th Division stood around the fire all night.

After dawn, Zheng Tingqian personally picked out the bones of the division commander one by one, wrapped them in white cloth, and put them into a wooden box. He couldn't cry and said, "Commander, I didn't handle the aftermath according to your last words, I'm sorry for you!" ”

Large teardrops rolled into the ashes of the unember.

On 2 June, the surviving officers and soldiers finally crossed the border between China and Myanmar and returned to their motherland. As soon as they set foot on Chinese soil, the officers and men were filled with joys and sorrows, and it was difficult for them to control themselves. Some cheered, others wept.

In the vicinity of Tengchong, the troops bought a coffin, put the ashes of the division commander into the coffin together with the wooden box, and re-buried them. Deputy division commander Gao Jiren led troops to escort the coffin to Kunming.

When passing through Anning County, the coffin was parked at the residence of an old overseas Chinese. Before going abroad, he passed through Anning County, and Dai Anlan also spent the night at the overseas Chinese's home.

Now I only see the coffin there, and I don't see the old people returning. This seventy-year-old man couldn't stop his tears and was overwhelmed with grief. When he saw the thin coffin of the general, he couldn't bear it, and said: "General Dai is a national meritorious hero who sacrificed his life for the country, how can he be allowed to lie in such a cramped place?" ”

This old man dedicated the longevity wood he had prepared for a hundred years later. This coffin is not only of good texture, but also huge. After thanking the old man, Gao Jiren put the small coffin containing the remains of the division commander into the Nanmu coffin. As a result, Dai Anlan's coffin has three floors, setting a precedent for ancient and modern funerals. The innermost layer is the urn, the middle is a small coffin, and the outer layer is a large coffin. The two walls of the outer coffin are painted crimson, and the two ends are painted vermilion. On both sides of the hearse hung four pieces of Dai Anlan's bloody clothes. solemn and sad.

Dai Anlan's coffin passed through Kunming, Guiyang, and Guilin, and finally arrived in Quanzhou, Guangxi, where it was buried in the birthplace of the 200th Division. Everywhere the coffin is transferred, every house has candles and flowers, and everyone is sobbing and clinging.

Chiang Kai-shek in Yucheng presented an elegy to commemorate this beloved general:

"The tiger's head eats meat and bears the majestic posture, watching the long march of thousands of miles, and the enemy is not hesitant. The horse leather shroud is ambitious, and it is a pity that the great honor has not been collected, so what is the pain of false expectations? ”

[***] in Yan'an also wrote an elegy to pay tribute to the soul of the hero: "The seagull general is eternal: foreign insults need to be guarded, and the general is endowed with Caiwei." The division is called mechanized, and it is brave to win the tiger's might. Bloody East melon guards, drives away the auspicious return. The battlefield was killed, and the ambition was not violated. ”

Back to the land of China, back to your loved ones, General Dai Anlan, you can rest in peace.

In April, the temperature is surprisingly hot, with temperatures reaching 412 degrees Celsius, the sun is scorching, the forest is smoking, the pond is steaming, and the buffalo is foaming at the water. On the road, it is common to see cows or pedestrians who have been sunburned.

The fighting in Myanmar is hotter than the summer sun. In the middle of the road, the 5th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force fought a bloody battle with the 55th and 56th Divisions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the sky was dark. On the east road, the 6th Army and the 18th Division of the Yue Army fought in a tug-of-war, and the artillery roared. On the west road, the British army and the 33rd Division of the Japanese army repeatedly exchanged fire, all the way. Numerous armies were fighting, many firearms were clashing, and this small piece of land suspended on the northern shore of the Indian Ocean was about to collapse and blow up.

All over Burma, the flames soared into the air, the sound of artillery shook the ground, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and it was boiling like a boiling pot.

Chiang Kai-shek was standing next to the cauldron at this time, holding a ladle of water in his hand, and hesitated in his heart: should he pour this scoop of cold water down, or keep it?

He wanted to pour it down and suppress the fire, but he was afraid that if he couldn't suppress the fire, he steamed the ladle of water as well.

On the Burmese battlefield, China has already thrown in the 5th and 6th armies. The newly formed 2nd Army remained in western Yunnan as a reserve for the expeditionary force. This was Chiang Kai-shek's last basin of cold water to control the temperature of the Burma battlefield, and it could not be poured easily. On March 16, he had a strict order:

"The new 2nd Army must not be opened again. The main force of the New 2nd Army is not only the general reserve of the expeditionary force, but also the garrison of Kunming. ”

It was not until the loss of Tonggu and the crisis in Burma that Chiang Kai-shek agreed to transfer the 66th Army into Burma to participate in the war.

The commander-in-chief was ruthless, and finally poured the last scoop of cold water into the bubbling pot of boiling water in Burma.

On March 18, Gao Fei, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, arrived in Kunming, and the brothers of the 26th Division, who had been looking forward to it for a long time, thought that the time had finally come for them to go on the expedition.

However, what I didn't expect was that Gao Fei, who has always liked to fight evil battles, gave the order: "The 26th Division is still stationed in Kunming, pull the new 38th Division up!" ”

"What?" Lao Hei thought he had heard it wrong: "Xiucai, we were the first to enter Kunming, why have we been staying here all the time?" Let the new 38th division Sun Liren go first? ”

"Old black, bear it." Goofy took a deep breath: "Hold back, hold back no matter what, I know what to do, and I know what to do, and soon, you will know why I did it." ”

Lao Hei opened his mouth, but finally swallowed the words back to his mouth

The new 38th Division commanded by Lieutenant General Sun Liren, as the vanguard of the New 2nd Army, marched into Mandalay, the former capital of Burma, on April 8.

Due to the repeated attacks and indiscriminate bombing by the planes, Mandalay, the ancient capital of the fifth generation, has been greatly damaged. Craters, rubble, blood, and bones have replaced the prosperity of the past.

The city was littered with the carcasses of men and animals. The swollen corpses soaked in the green sewage, and the stench of the sun was exposed. Red-headed flies buzzed and flew in the heaps of corpses, crows jumped from this corpse to another, pecking at the eyes of the dead, and wild wolves ran into the streets to eat the bones.

Mandalay became an empty city, a ruined city, a dead city.

And when the majestic queue of the new 38th Division "brushed" into the street, and when Sun Liren's black and shiny riding boots "knocked on" on a scorched earth, Mandalay, a land trembling under the vicious coercion of the army, began to calm down.

The new 38th Division is a well-trained and reassuring team.

Its origins are extraordinary. It was formerly known as the Tax Police Corps of the Ministry of Finance, which was responsible for the national anti-smuggling task and was directly under the command of Finance Minister Song Ziwen. Even if Commander-in-Chief Chiang wants to use this force, he has to discuss it with his brother-in-law. Song Ziwen, who had a bulging pocket, raised the Song family army under his command to be fat and strong, and spirited.

The equipment of the Tax Police Corps is second to none in [***]. All American equipment. Guns, artillery, vehicles, radios, telephones, binoculars, medical equipment, everything has the letters of USA, and even the canned food is made in the United States. Inside and out, up and down, except for the gray military uniform and the blue sky white cockade, which are domestic products, the rest are all "made in the United States". At this point, no one [***] can reach the dust.

The officer is headed and footed, and the brand is hard. Most of the officers above the battalion level have stayed at British and American military academies. It's not the local buns that grew up eating millet and sweet potatoes, it's the international students who are fed with milk bread. Many people speak foreign language as slippery as Chinese. They have a high military rank, a lot of salary, and good food, and everyone who sees them is red-eyed.

The division commander Sun Liren is not a mediocre person. His ancestral home is Shucheng, Anhui Province, and he is a scholarly family. In 1923, Sun Liren graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering. Later, he was admitted to Purdue University and majored in mechanical engineering. But Sun Liren did not indulge in the dream of being an engineer. In his early years, when he was studying in Qingdao, 14-year-old Sun Liren was slapped by the Germans in the concession for no reason. This shameful slap planted the seeds of revenge in Sun Liren's heart. After graduating from university, he saw that after the First World War, Europe and the United States rose rapidly, while China was swallowed by foreign powers, internal strife and external troubles, and the people were struggling to make a living. He believes that to save China, it is not to revitalize industry, but first to strengthen national defense; Aspiring young people should not be scholars, but first and foremost soldiers. So, he gave up the original intention of saving the country through industry and was admitted to the Virginia Military Academy in the United States.

The Virginia Military Academy is top-notch in the United States. Talents are abundant, and the stars will shine. Marshall, chief of the U.S. Army General Staff, and General Stilwell, who commanded operations in Burma, both graduated from the academy.

Sun Liren started in the United States and began his career as a horseman, and the starting point was the famous Virginia Military Academy. In 1927, he returned to China after completing his studies, and was very valued and promoted one after another. He first served as the captain and captain of the Central Party Affairs School. Soon he was transferred to the army teaching corps lieutenant colonel battalion commander, and in 1931 he was appointed colonel and deputy chief of the guard corps of the army, navy and air force headquarters. Soon, he was favored by Song Ziwen and transferred to the head of the 4th Regiment of the Tax Police Corps. The head of the regiment is Huang Jie.

In 1932, the Songhu Anti-Japanese War broke out, and the Tax Police Corps participated in the operation, and Sun Liren served as the commander of the Major General Detachment.

The rank has been hung to major general, but this is the first time Sun Liren has participated in actual combat.

In this battle, he performed well. In the frontal position of Suzhou Creek, Sun Li took the lead and fought bloodily, was hit by enemy bullets, wounded in 11 places, fainted for three days, and was sent to Hong Kong for treatment.

In 1938, Sun Liren was ordered by Song Ziwen to rebuild the Tax Police Corps and served as the head of the Lieutenant General.

In ten years, he rose from a captain to a lieutenant general. At this speed, no one can catch up! Even Du Yuming, who was outstanding, devoted himself to the National Revolution in 1920, entered the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924, and guarded the spirit of Sun Yat-sen in 1925, did not surpass him. Isn't Du Yuming also a lieutenant general now?

Speaking of Sun Liren's rank of lieutenant general, many people are not convinced: how many battles has he fought? How many shots were spared?

When it comes to the tax police corps, there are also many cool words: it is an embroidered pillow, which is useless!

Only those who know the inside story understand that Song Ziwen is not spending money to be lively, he is looking good, he has a very tight grip on the troops under him. Sun Liren is not a dry eater, and he has a set of methods for military training. Otherwise, when the Chinese Expeditionary Force was formed, after the British and American military delegations inspected the southwest region, how could they look at the Tax Police Corps, which was not originally a field army?

Stationed in Mandalay, the officers and men of the new 38th Division put down their backpacks and set up camps, then picked up shovels and brooms, swept the streets, filled bomb craters, removed rubble, buried the dead bodies, and sprayed disinfectants all over the streets. It seems that they did not come to Burma to fight, but to build.

The notice of Anmin stamped with the red seal of Lieutenant General Sun Liren, commander of the Mandalay garrison, was written in Chinese, British and Burmese and was widely posted throughout the city. As soon as Sun Liren arrived in Burma, he was named the highest local military and political chief without firing a single shot. No Chinese general has ever enjoyed such an honor.

Sun Liren's measures to govern the city began to bear fruit. The people who had taken refuge in the mountains gradually returned to the city, shops opened, factories opened, water and power plants restored water and power supplies, and wisps of cooking smoke rose from under the broken walls.

The city of Mandalay has come back to life after the war.

The officers and men of the new 38th Division, who lived in the British barracks, slept on the spring beds left by the British, used electric fans and refrigerators, and drank cool beer to quench their thirst.

At this time, the brothers of the 5th and 6th armies were throwing their heads and spilling blood on the front line, fighting desperately with the army!

On April 16, Sun Liren was summoned to Meimiao to attend a military meeting.

Mei Myu, 25 kilometres east of Mandalay, is a summer resort in Myanmar. The site here is not large, but the environment is beautiful, and the exquisite and unique Western-style buildings are dotted among the green pines and bamboos. In previous years, every summer, all the Burmese political axes in Yangon moved to Mui Miao. At present, Mui Miao has become the command center of the Allied forces in Burma. The headquarters of the British Army in Burma, the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the Yunnan-Burma Staff Corps of the Yucheng Military Commission, and Stilwell's headquarters were located here. The flags of China, Britain, the United States and Myanmar fluttered at the same time in this cool world.

Military meetings were held at the headquarters of the British Army. The British army had a total of two divisions in Burma, but the British army headquarters in the Flagstar Building was full of officials and stars, with a total of 18 brigadier generals, 5 major generals, 1 lieutenant general, and 1 general. There will be more soldiers and less top-heavy.

General Alexander, the new commander-in-chief of the British forces in Burma, presided over today's meeting. Alexander was a descendant of an earl and graduated from the Royal Defence Academy. He served in the Irish Praetorian Guard from 1911 and fought in the First World War as a lieutenant. At the beginning of World War II, he commanded a mechanized corps of the British Expeditionary Force fighting in France. In May 1940, during the retreat from Dunkirk, he made a name for himself. It is said that when more than 200,000 British troops retreated to the sea in a hurry under German planes, the commander remained in danger, "wearing shiny leather shoes and crisp breeches, having breakfast, and praising French jams." At today's meeting, Alexander's leather shoes were still so bright, his breeches were still so straight, his brown curly hair was very well-combed, and his Praetorian Guard-style mustache was cocked with a look of command.

Sitting next to Alexander, Lieutenant General Stilwell looked old and shriveled and scruffy. More than half a month ago, he had just celebrated his 59th birthday in Lashio. He was a full 10 years older than Alexander, and he had one less star on his shoulder. According to the plan of the Anglo-American Joint Staff Committee, he and Alexander had planned to lead their own troops in North Africa to carry out a campaign plan codenamed "Sportsman", but now the two met by accident in Burma. Stilwell's face was like a piece of old ginger, full of wrinkles and without a trace of shine. The bridge of the nose is also high, but too steep and far less plump and rounded than Alexander. A large pair of rimless glasses, which almost covered half of his face, was very incongruous with the shape of his thin face: only the battle cap on his head, which was popular during the First World War, was in keeping with his spirit. An unlucky and eccentric old man!

Du Yuming, who did not look amazing, sat quietly in his seat.

On the Burmese battlefield, his position was below that of Alexander and Stilwell. Commander-in-Chief Chiang had made it clear that he was under Stilwell's command and Stilwell was under Alexander's command. But he is a man of real power. Alexander only had 2 divisions of the British army, Stilwell was the commander of the light pole, and Du Yuming was actually in charge of the 3 armies of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Therefore, in front of Alexander and Stilwell, Du Yuming is always unrestrained, reserved and proud. The two bosses often felt that his sharp and cold eyes flashed with the shrewd and stubborn light of the Orientals. A hard guy.

Sun Liren sat next to Du Yuming. For the first time, he took part in a military conference of the Allies. From the expressions of Alexander, Stilwell, and Du Yuming, he already felt the intricate and delicate relationship between the allies on the battlefield in Burma.

Today's military meeting discussed an extremely urgent issue: the rescue of the 7,000 British troops besieged in Ringanqiang.

Alexander, with a beautiful horsewhip, dotted on the map of the Ringanqiang area and began to describe the emergency there.

Ringanqiang, which means oil river in Burmese, is the largest oil field in Myanmar and the oil supply area of the Allied forces in the Burmese battlefield. After the fall of Rangoon, the British army fought and retreated from the west, abandoning Prome, Alan Temple and Magway, and on April 15, the British 1st Division and the 7th Armored Brigade retreated to the Ringanqiang area, preparing to rest for a while, and after destroying the oil fields, they continued to retreat north. But that night, he suddenly fell into the siege of the army. It is a desert area, and it is scorching, not to mention that the army is besieging on all sides, as long as the water source is cut off, within three days, the British army in the encirclement will collapse.

The situation is critical!

(To be continued)