After these three movements, the masterpiece "Yellow River Cantata" gradually entered the peak of wonder, and the subsequent fourth movement "Yellow Water Ballad", the fifth movement "Riverside Dialogue", the sixth movement "Yellow River Resentment", and the seventh movement "Defending the Yellow River" have all become popular anti-Japanese songs in China ravaged by the Japanese at this time.

The most familiar "Riverside Dialogue" and "Defending the Yellow River" in the rest of his life will be sung in the music class of the school in later generations. "Riverside Counterpoint" is one of the whole works that establishes the flavor of the work. It unfolds from the perspective of a small person and is expressed in the form of local music. Although there is a slight overlap in the other movements, they are as important to the work as cumin is to mutton.

"Zhang Laosan, let me ask you, where is your hometown? My home is in Shanxi, and there are still 300 miles to cross the river. I ask you, at home, farming or business? Take a hoe, plough the field, plant sorghum and millet. Why, here and there, wandering by the river is lonely? Heartbreaking, don't mention it, there is no news of the broken family. Zhang Laosan, don't be sad, my fate is not as good as yours! Why, Wang Laoqi, where is your hometown? In the Northeast, doing business, there has been no news from my hometown for eight years. In this way, you and I both have a home and can't go back! Hatred and hatred, in my heart, rushing like the water of the Yellow River! By the Yellow River, make up your mind, let's fight back together! For the country, go as a soldier and fight guerrillas on Taihang Mountain! From now on, I will go back to my hometown with you! ”

This piece of music is slightly witty, with rhyming words. Yu Sheng was out of sight of everyone backstage, and saw a few Hollywood actresses laughing after hearing this slightly witty music. This paragraph was originally used to soothe and adjust people's spirits when they were nervous.

After "Riverside Dialogue", there is the poignant "Yellow River Resentment", where the sadness and indignation reach its peak, and then the resolute counterattack "Defending the Yellow River"

"The wind is howling. The horse is barking. The Yellow River is roaring. The Yellow River is roaring. The hills of Hexi are thousands of feet high. Hedong Hebei sorghum is ripe. In the mountains, there are really a lot of anti-Japanese heroes! In the green gauze tent. Guerrilla fighters are heroic! Pick up the earthen guns and foreign guns, wave the big sword and spear, and defend your hometown! Defend the Yellow River! Defend North China! Defend all of China! ”

This piece of music was widely used in later generations, not only in various singing competitions, but also in various documentaries about this era. In other words, as long as later generations make documentaries about the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression or patriotic education, this song "Defending the Yellow River" will not be able to make background music. As long as you don't slip away when the school charters a movie back then, you will basically be familiar with this song.

Also, the tempo of this piece is extremely fast. Like a galloping horse on the battlefield. The last few words "Defend your hometown!" Defend the Yellow River! Defend North China! Defend all of China! "Although it seems like a slogan, it is like a roar!

So, the final chapter of this chorus, "Roar, Yellow River", was naturally introduced!

"Roar, Yellow River! Raise your rags, let out your screams! Raise the alarm call for battle to the people of the world! Yes!

A nation of 5,000 years. There's a lot of suffering! The people under the iron hoof can't stand the pain!

Can't stand ......"

"However, the dawn of New China has dawned; 450 million people have united to protect the country! You listen. You listen, you listen: the Songhua River is calling; Heilongjiang is calling signs; The Pearl River roared heroically; The Yangtze River is full of anti-Japanese beacon fires! ”

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Yes! Yellow River! Roar! Roar! Roar! Raise the alarm call for battle to the suffering people of all China! Raise the alarm call for battle to the working people of the world! Raise the alarm call for battle to the working people of the world! To the people who work all over the world. Raise the alarm for battle! ”

The chorus ends with a roar. The first performance of "Yellow River Cantata" on the territory of the Americans was a complete success. The charity gala for the rest of my life came to an end, and the Hollywood crowd in the audience burst into warm applause. And all of them stood up.

I have to admit that although the theme of this party is a bit monotonous, the artistic level is quite high. Not to mention Hollywood's highly literate directors, screenwriters, music and artists, even stars who don't win with cultural literacy, can also clearly perceive the power contained in the work.

In the grand cheers and applause of everyone, all the actors took the stage for a curtain call. And Yu Sheng and Qing Xiaoyi stood in front of each other. The rest of my life, which is usually not out of shape, is also a little excited and uncontrollable at this time.

"Thank you, thank you! Thank you all for being invited to the party, and thank you for your donations. By the end of the party, the anti-Japanese people in China had received a total of 9,237,800 US dollars! I will pay for it myself, get together 10 million, and then exchange all this money for the supplies needed to fight the Japanese and ship it back home! Everyone is welcome to supervise! ”

As soon as the number of money that Yu Sheng will receive was announced, there was a gasp of exclamation in the audience! With this huge amount of money, you can buy two good film companies in Hollywood! Immediately, the applause became more enthusiastic, and the people's hearts were still willing to see good thoughts.

And the gathering of Hollywood's stars naturally attracts a large number of journalists and news media. In this era, the various media in the United States are far more powerful than the Chinese news media. Yu Sheng, Meyer and others, in order not to offend these media who have a certain right to speak, also gave them some invitations.

Although the donation of this group of people was not much, the spotlight and notebook in their hands almost recorded the charity gala.

By the next day, the major media in the United States, almost all newspapers and broadcasts had left the headlines for the rest of their lives for the charity gala. Although the focus of the report is different, some newspaper headlines are "Yu Sheng raised tens of millions of dollars, about to buy supplies to send back to China", some are "The Yellow River Cantata, Shocking America", and even more, they actually started with the little dog "The Story That the Spirit Dog Lacey and the Chinese Gree Dog of the Yu Sheng's Family Have to Say"......

Of course, no matter what the headline is, the only thing reported is the charity gala for the rest of my life. Although the Americans at this time, they have already imposed military control on many military supplies, including wheat and other food crops. However, fortunately, he circumvented these controls in various ways for the rest of his life.

Even some medicines are within the scope of the embargo, but the United States and China are also allies at this time. Moreover, the orders for the rest of their lives are really large, and many business owners are reluctant to give up. Under joint pressure. Lao Mei can only push and half push.

After all, the United States is actually controlled by major conglomerates. These consortia want to make money, and no one can stop them. The rest of his life orders included not only large quantities of corn, medicines needed to treat the wounded, but even large quantities of penicillin, which had just been mass-produced in 1943.

Since the initial refinement of penicillin in 1940, people have discovered the great efficacy of penicillin in controlling wound infection. For all kinds of inflammation, penicillin is a panacea for people who are not resistant. Moreover, in the research and development of penicillin. The United States and its allies far outpaced the R&D of the Germans and the Japanese.

And, in 1943, when the Americans discovered a way to produce penicillin in large quantities, the scale of production expanded rapidly. By 1944, its production was sufficient to meet the needs of the U.S. military and its allies. So, at the end of the war, the tide of war between the United States and Japan quickly reversed.

If on the battlefield, the Japanese elite was seriously wounded. Because of the torment of inflammation, it is often not because of complications that you die. It's about becoming disabled. The battle damage rate is extremely high. However, for U.S. military personnel, as long as it is not a major disability such as amputation, or the injury is too severe. A few penicillins. It is possible to rescue a wounded soldier from the shadow of inflammation. As a result, a large number of talents and soldiers with battlefield experience are retained.

The combat effectiveness of these people has been through trauma. Even after the death test, it became terrifying. So, after the war entered 1944. The invention of penicillin has allowed the Americans to sweep the Japanese.

Of course, at this time in China, penicillin was still a rarity. Whether it is Lao Chiang in Chongqing or the anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines, lack of medical treatment and medicine is the norm. Lao Chiang is better, and his wife has a very good relationship with the Americans, so he always gets some penicillin. However, the situation in the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines was not so ideal, and sometimes, some experienced fighters became disabled or even died of inflammation for some minor injuries that were not worth mentioning in the eyes of later generations.

This batch of medicines was sent over, and I don't know how many soldiers will be saved because of this and go to the battlefield again. Moreover, in the long run, this batch of medicines can completely change the proportion of war losses between China and Japan. Over time, the ever-increasing number of wounded alone could bring down the Japanese army.

And the transportation route has already been planned for the rest of his life. All the supplies, divided into two batches, the first batch departed from Los Angeles and was escorted by the US Navy and Allied troops, and arrived in India. Then, from India, via the Stilwell Highway, into China. This batch of materials is for Lao Jiang. After all, although Lao Chiang sometimes did not do things very authentically, his troops died a lot for the anti-Japanese resistance. In several major battles, they all relied on the formed regiments under Lao Chiang to resist the Japanese and survive.

For the sake of the face of the anti-Japanese resistance, giving some materials to his subordinates can be regarded as comforting the heroic soul. Not for Lao Jiang, but for those who shed blood for the country. Stilwell Highway, also known as the China-India Highway. Stilwell was a lieutenant general commander of the U.S. Army in the China-Burma-India Theater of the Allied Powers. Because this section of the road was proposed and promoted by Stilwell, it was named the Stilwell Highway.

This section of the highway starts from the border town of Ledo in northeastern India to Myitkyina, Myanmar and then divides into two routes, north and south, and the south route passes through Bhamo and Nankan in Myanmar to Wan Town, China; The northern route passes through Kampati, Myanmar, through the Monkey Bridge port in China, and through Tengchong to Longling, and both lines eventually connect with the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

However, due to the independence of its construction and function, it was distinguished from the Yunnan-Burma Highway in the transportation route of the Anti-Japanese War. The Yunnan-Burma Highway was basically unusable after Japanese military planes blew up the Changgan Bridge on January 23, 1941. In May 1942, when the Yunnan-Burma Highway was completely cut off, Stilwell proposed a plan to build the Sino-Indian Highway.

The reason why the Stilwell Highway is worth commemorating is that in addition to the fact that this highway is the most arduous and huge construction project in the history of China's highway construction in this era, crossing six mountains, five rivers and eight cliffs, this highway is also the largest channel for importing Chinese materials during the Anti-Japanese War. From the opening to the end of the Anti-Japanese War, a total of 80,000 tons of military supplies (some say 50,000 tons) were imported into China from this highway.

In addition, the Stilwell Highway was built at the same time as an oil pipeline from Kolkata, India, to Kunming, China. This pipeline starts from Kolkata and passes through Tingjiang, Ledo, Myitkyina, Bamo, and Wan Town to Kunming, with a total length of more than 3,000 kilometers. It became the world's longest oil pipeline in this era. In the seven months after its completion, more than 100,000 tons of aviation gasoline, diesel and other fuels were imported into China.

That's why the Stilwell Highway is indispensable.

However, the rest of his life does not plan to send all the supplies back to China through this route. After all, at this time, southwest China was completely Lao Chiang's world, and when the materials were in Lao Chiang's pocket, it would be difficult for Lao Chiang to give them to others. For the rest of his life, he plans to find another way.

During the Anti-Japanese War, in addition to several routes in the southwest, there was also a northwest transportation line for international aid materials entering China. In 1937, after Japan's full-scale invasion of China began, it planned to invade the Soviet Union. It's just that the Soviet Union didn't eat dry rice either. Naturally, I understand the matter of looking for allies and leveraging strength.

In 1938, the Soviet Union signed two trade agreements with China, and China received a loan of $250 million to purchase large quantities of military supplies from the Soviet Union at low prices. China, on the other hand, used tea, leather, antimony, tungsten, tung oil, medicinal herbs, and other items that were in short supply in the Soviet Union to compensate in batches.

This transportation line starts from Saryozek in the Soviet Union, takes Huocheng as the land port, and takes the Shaanxi-Xin Highway as the main transportation route, and finally reaches Lanzhou. Later, there was Xianyang, which extended to southern Shaanxi. And from here, it was directly delivered to the anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines. Although the Japanese repeatedly sabotaged this transportation route from the very beginning of its construction, there was a limit to this damage due to the joint efforts of China and the Soviet Union. It was not until June 1941, when the Soviet-German war broke out, that the Soviets were too busy to take care of themselves, and they were really unable to look eastward, that this transportation route was interrupted.

However, the rest of his life plans to borrow this transportation line again. It is said that between Alaska in the United States and the Soviet Union, there is only one Bering Strait, and the ship is a little faster, and things will be sent over in an hour! Even if you go a little farther, it will not take much time to get things to the ice-free port of Vladivostok, and besides, there are Soviet troops along the way, which is very difficult for the Japanese to invade. (To be continued.) )