Since the Japanese army successively occupied China's seaports and sea supremacy, the course of China's domestic war of resistance has entered a war of attrition, and timely material supply has become the key to determining the victory or defeat of a battle. Since the Nationalist Government moved its capital to Chongqing, the Chinese side has been transporting strategic materials into China through the port of Yangon in Burma, especially those overseas Chinese, who have spent a lot of money to buy various materials and send them to Yangon, and then hire cars to send them to China to support the war of resistance.

In this direction, the Yunnan-Burma Highway connecting China and Myanmar has promoted the prosperity of the transportation industry in Myanmar and China. Kunming's Southwest Transportation Department has more than 10 regiment-level transport brigades, with nearly 10,000 automobiles, and they mainly transport military supplies, such as weapons and ammunition, vehicle machinery, gasoline, and military clothing, and so on, and they are the main transport force on the Yunnan-Burma Highway. On this lifeline of the war of resistance are thousands of trucks from government units, as well as private transportation companies and even two or three families who have partnered to buy a truck to run transportation.

800 kilometers southwest of Kunming, the town of Wan Town is the first stop of the Yunnan-Burma Highway into China, Wan Town Bridge is located on the side of Wan Town, is the gateway to southwest China, the key of the Yunnan-Mao Highway, and the link of the Sino-Indian Highway. It arrives in Kunming in the north, goes south to Lashio in Myanmar to Yangon, goes up to India in the northwest, can be described as a bridge lock, the Quartet does not open, because of the danger set by the sky, the history makes its majestic and famous at home and abroad, the world pays attention to the other side of the Wan Town River is the nine valley town of Myanmar, the voice of the chickens and dogs of the two countries hears each other, the border people come and go freely, and the friendly market. Many border people have the custom of marriage, and many Burmese people also go to Wan Town to do business, they speak Burmese, sell Burmese goods, use the goods market of the two countries, and some even have signboards written in Burmese. In addition, there are also merchants from Southeast Asian countries who gather in Wan Town.

The piled up of various materials from south to north make Wan Town very lively, and the North Market Tea Shop in Wan Town is a lively place, coming and going with the merchants of Wan Town, one after another, and the North Market is a place for free trade in Wan Town, so the North City Tea House has become a place for traders to exchange news. Although the material distribution center in the town is very large, it is also the worst place in the whole town, and there are many people, and it is inevitable that there will be a little skirmish, but everyone does not dare to kill people, but fights and brawls are very common.

In comparison, the town has the best security in the North City teahouse, and more than a dozen guards recruited by the teahouse shopkeeper patrol back and forth outside the teahouse, staring at a pair of copper bell-like eyes, if they find a little bit of uneven situation, they will rush over. These guards are all natives recruited by the shopkeeper from the deep mountains of Myanmar, and the Burmese knife with a cold light on his waist is not a vegetarian, and it is precisely because of such strict guards that this Beishi teahouse has become the safest safety zone in the town.

As a distribution center for supplies, the town is not only crowded with people, but also has a lot of people setting up stalls here, and even more people come to see the excitement and pick up things. As long as there are many people, there will inevitably be a lot of things to communicate, and as many things as there are exchanges, all kinds of gossip and gossip will fly all over the sky. Of course, such exchanges in the market are too scattered, and in the tea shop, it is much more systematic, so the Hokaichi teahouse, which has always been very safe, has become a distribution center for gossip in Wan Town.

The Beishi teahouse built of bamboo and wood is actually just an ordinary tea house, more than 100 square meters of the hall is scattered with more than 30 tea tables, sitting in the north corner of the tea shop there is a group of drivers who have just come from Myanmar, 7 or 8 people occupy three tables, and two black-faced men dressed as the same driver sit at the table in the corner. A bowl of beef noodles per person was eaten by them snoring, looking as if they had been hungry for many years, although their clothes were not clean, but their faces and fingers were extremely clean, even when they took the beef noodles from the second-hand child, Xiao Er found that there was not even a little dirt in their short nails, Xiao Er was quite puzzled, he had never seen the driver's hand-painted so clean.

"Hey, I heard no, a convoy came from there today, I heard that it was escorted by the British army, and the cars were all foreigners with yellow hair and green eyes."

"Huang San, you're all fucking nonsense, there are tarpaulins on people's trucks, and your eyes can see people through the canvas."

"you, our car has been walking behind them since it came out of Mandalay, and when they stopped to rest, I saw the foreign woman getting out of the car with my own eyes"

"It's really fake, Huang San, didn't you kid have a mind to marry a foreign woman and go home, be careful that your wife breaks your legs"

"Then I don't dare" The speaker smashed his mouth, looked around cautiously, and then turned his eyes to the person talking to him, lowered his voice a few points, and said: "Don't say it, that foreign woman is really good-looking, but that head is too high, I look a head taller than me" He shook his head as he said.

"Wow, isn't it, it's even higher than you?" The person who accosted the conversation exclaimed in surprise, but the expression on his face did not show any surprise, but there was some unexplained excitement in his eyes, as long as it had nothing to do with him, it was actually just a small talk.

"Isn't it, the foreign woman is taller."

"What are all those foreign women sending to China for? Isn't there going to be a war? ”

"Who knows......"

"I know this, I know" At this time, another person came to their table and began to mutter: "I have a buddy, he is the cook in the British barracks in Mandalay, I heard him say, the Japanese have now begun to attack Vietnam, and that Germany has landed in England is their hometown, the life of the British is not very good now, they should have sent their own family to us for refuge first, I am afraid that it is to prevent the Japanese from attacking Burma."

"Yes, the Japanese are gaining momentum, shouldn't they go to Burma after fighting Vietnam?"

"What are you kidding, it's impossible, the British troops in Burma are old-nosed, and they still have artillery and tanks, besides, Burma is all mountains and forests, and the Japanese will be afraid that they won't be able to fight for a while, and you guys are just worrying"

"I think it's more likely, I heard my friend say that a few days ago, a few British patrols went out and were attacked, these people's corpses were all well dressed, only weapons and equipment were gone, you think about it, if they attacked them were wild men in the mountains, how could the clothes on the corpses be kept, and the wild men would not use guns, my friend said that it was very likely that the British troops who attacked them were the Japanese detachments that infiltrated Burma."

"According to what you mean......" The man's voice became lower and lower, his hand made a gesture in the air, but he didn't say it, it seems that these people are still very taboo about the current situation, and even now they have a bit of a feeling of talking about the tiger's color.

"Who knows, it's all blind guessing" The person who spoke before shook his hand, an expression that I definitely didn't touch on this topic, but then sighed, lowered his voice and whispered: "You should also be careful when you run cars in the future, my friend said, the Japanese are probably coming to the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and they don't want to see so many strategic materials transported into China"

"Isn't it......"

A group of people talked and talked about the topic again, and the two people sitting quietly in the corner were still eating beef noodles in a big gulp, and they didn't seem to be affected by everyone around them at all. However, since they entered the shop, their ears have not been idle, listening carefully and carefully to these gossips, although these gossips are sometimes not 100% true, but, again. There must be some rumor that there is no wind and Lang, so there must be something that can be spread from the beginning.

Originally, they still wanted to listen patiently to the things discussed by these people, but they didn't want these people to talk about it and just get to the point, and finally they even started to talk farther and farther, so they didn't have the mood to continue to waste time here. There was still gossip and gossip in this tea shop ringing in his ears, Ye Kong exhaled slowly, turned his head to Xiao Er, who was serving food beside him, and said, "Xiao Er, please accept the money."

Ye Kong's voice is very good, and he has been in Germany for a long time, and there is always a smell of indescribable in his spoken Chinese, which attracts several people around him to look back. It seemed that he was not used to such a gaze, Ye Kong pulled down the cap buttoned on his head, hurriedly gave the money and walked out quickly, and Mo Lun, who was also full of food and drink, hurriedly followed.

"What they just said can't be true, right?" Walking out of the distance, Mo Lun asked Ye Kong quietly, the first batch of British troops to be escorted across the Wanmachi Bridge into China were less than 10,000 Jews and some supplies, a large number of Jews and Zhao Zhi They are still stranded in Yangon, if it is really like those people just said, once the Japanese army cut off the Yunnan-Burma road, what will happen to the materials that are still piled up in Yangon Port? And what about the tanks and ordnance that you brought back with all your hard work?

"My intuition tells me that what they just said is very likely to be true, the Japanese army is about to attack Burma, and it is only a matter of time before the Yunnan-Burma Highway is cut off" Looking at the crowded Wan Town Market, Ye Kong squinted his eyes: "Before we left, Mr. talked to me, Brother Dazhi had already taken people to occupy an area in Kunming, as long as this batch of Jews and equipment arrived, our tank factory would start construction, and by the time the Japanese army cut off the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the tank factory would have already begun to produce" Ye Kong's eyes revealed a trace of coldness," When the time comes, let's see if our tanks are powerful or the Japanese tanks are powerful."

Although Mo Lun's pace was quite fast, he still heard Ye Kong's words clearly, what kind of combat power the Germans' Tiger tank was, Mo Lun naturally knew, but Zhao Zhi only brought back 20 vehicles, and Mo Lun's heart was not as stable as Ye Kong. Building tanks is not as simple as building guns and cannons, and there is no shortage of engineers, but haven't the supporting power plants and steel not yet been found? And there is fuel for the tank to continue.