In January 1942, the 33rd Division and the 56th Division of the 15th Army of the Japanese Army set out from Thailand and began to cross the dense forests and dangerous mountains to advance to Burma.

A small number of Japanese troops were chasing the British army everywhere, at the Xitang River Bridge, the Japanese army 2 infantry wings stormed the bridgehead, the British York City group saw that the situation was not good, regardless of life and death to blow up the bridge, resulting in more than 9,000 British and Indian troops on the other side of the river all became prisoners of the Japanese army. Another unit on the other side of the river, the Anglo-Indian 51st Brigade, ordered all equipment to be discarded and offered a £100 reward to encourage the soldiers to swim across the river. In the end, of the 3,389 survivors of the British and Indian troops, only five members of the Chinese liaison group brought back guns and ammunition, and also carried back the radio.

By the end of February, 10 infantry battalions of the British, Indian, and British-Burmese armies had suffered heavy losses, and 8 artillery batteries had been almost completely annihilated. In Burma, although the British-Indian and British armies still have the strength of 30,000 men, deployed in four places, including Yangon, Mandalay, Ringanqiang and Salween River, they have become frightened birds in terms of morale.

The frightened British were ready to run away, and the British commander, General Alexander, decided to abandon Rangoon, and he demanded that the Chinese army quickly enter Burma to stop the Japanese army.

However, the British did not have good intentions, they were afraid that the Chinese army would be rooted in northern Burma for a long time, and they demanded that the Chinese army enter quickly and not provide vehicles and supplies. As a result, the Chinese army relied entirely on foot, and the food was carried from China on its own. The British army itself was rushing to repair the road to India.

The British army did not have the slightest assistance, and the Chinese expeditionary force entered Burma like a blind man touching an elephant.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma for the first time, and the rations were all on their backs, lacking ammunition, food, clothing and other supplies. There is not even a military map of Myanmar in Chinese, and the Burmese maps obtained are a headache for the staff officers of the various units. And it's just that these maps aren't very accurate.

Where are the British troops, where are the Japanese troops now, where are the supplies, where the wounded are being sent, and where the positions are, the Chinese expeditionary force does not know. The British did not inform them that the first expeditionary force to fight in Burma came to this strange country full of dangers in a daze.

In March, the new commander of the Burmese Army, General Alexander, failed to organize any effective resistance to Rangoon, resulting in the Japanese taking Rangoon lightly on March 8, successfully achieving the first phase of the occupation of Burma.

On April 18, the Japanese army surrounded the British army in Ringanqiang, and the British army repeatedly attacked the road with tanks as the vanguard, but was blocked by the Japanese army.

The British troops at Ringanqiang at this time were the 1st Anglo-Burmese Division and the remnants of the British 7th Armored Brigade. The British army was trapped in Ringanqiang, facing a desperate situation of water being cut off, food was running out, and the army had no fighting spirit. General Slim, commander of the 1st Anglo-Burmese Division, telegraphed General Alexander, commander-in-chief of the British army in Burma, asking for reinforcements to be sent as soon as possible, otherwise there would be no choice but to surrender.

On the evening of the 19th, at the last moment when the British army was about to be annihilated by the Japanese army, the Chinese expeditionary force appeared in Ringanqiang. They bravely held back the Japanese army and covered the British army's escape. In this battle, the Chinese Expeditionary Force rescued more than 7,000 British troops equipped with tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and automobiles from the tiger's mouth of 2 Japanese brigades. The commander of the British army, General Slim, was the commander-in-chief of the British forces in the Battle of Imphal in 1944. In this battle, the 113th Regiment of the Expeditionary Force lost 204 people under the commander of the 3rd Battalion, Zhang Qi, and 318 were wounded. On March 18, the British forces in Burma, including the 1st Anglo-Burmese Division, the 17th Anglo-Indian Division, the 63rd Anglo-Australian Brigade, and the 7th British Armoured Brigade, all began to retreat towards India.

Subsequently, the damn British, Jin Cicada, escaped from his shell! The Chinese Expeditionary Force was in trouble!

The Japanese Southern Army quickly formulated a new operational policy and mobilized four divisions to annihilate the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

The main force of the Chinese expeditionary force was surrounded by the Japanese army, and finally had to break through in four ways.

The places where all the units of the expeditionary force withdrew were high mountains and dense forests, and it was the rainy season, the mud was slippery and difficult to walk, coupled with the bite of ants and insects, the food supply was insufficient, the troops were hungry and tired, the epidemic was epidemic, and there were many deaths. China's most elite 5th Army, with 42,000 troops, lost 7,300 men in battle and 14,700 in retreat, twice as many as on the battlefield. What is distressing is that the 200th Division, the strongest division in China, has only 4,000 people left.

In Myanmar in May, mountain apes resound through the valleys, and flash floods often break out in case of heavy rains. In the endless primeval forest, there are no people and no roads.

In the rainforest of Myanmar, there are many kinds of poisonous insects, and many officers and soldiers of the new 38th Division of the new 28th Division, which belongs to the same 66th Army, have disappeared in northern Myanmar. Later, a large number of well-erected but rusty guns were found in New Pingyang, northern Burma, and behind the gun racks were piles of white bones, and then the symbol of the new 28th Division was found in the white bones. The soldiers were attacked by poisonous insects in one night and were wiped out.

Qin Di and Yan Xue traveled thousands of miles overnight, and it took a lot of effort to find Gu Ruhu.

Gu Ruhu led a division, which had 11,000 men when it set out, and after several battles, it was reduced to 7,500 men, trapped in the rainforest, starved of food, exhausted, and disoriented.

Qin Di did not show up, but only dropped 50 tons of grain near the barracks, as well as a batch of medicines, plus a map marking the retreat route, on which the words "Guan Chunqiu" were written.

At this time, Gu Ruhu had a few more gunshot wounds on his body, and his weight had lost more than a dozen catties, he got the soldier's report, saw the medicine and food, and saw the marks on the map, first confused, and then surprised and delighted, clasped his palms and prayed to the sky, and there were words in his mouth.

Han Bing, who was physically and mentally emaciated, heard it beside him, and he clearly recited: "Thank you, master, for saving your life, the disciple will never dare to forget it......"

Han Bing thought to himself: "It's bad, the general has become ill from hard work, maybe there is something wrong with his brain! Otherwise, why doesn't he thank the Bodhisattva and the Buddha, but only remembers the master?"

However, Gu Ruhu was not crazy, he cheered up, led his soldiers, and according to the guidance on the map, after two months of arduous trekking, retreated to the territory of Yunnan. In the end, more than 7,000 people survived, which is considered a lot among all the armies.

The commander of the 200th Division, Dai Anlan, died of serious injuries in Maobang Village in northern Myanmar, and the Nationalist Government posthumously awarded him the rank of lieutenant general.

Of the 100,000 soldiers who went out on the expedition, only 40,000 came back in the end, and the rest were laid to rest outside the borders!

In the first Burma Campaign, the expeditionary force alone carried the Japanese attack, and finally ended in failure because of the ill intentions of the British army, coupled with its own factors, lack of communication command, and lack of material supplies.

After the war, Mr. Ching wrote: "The reason for the failure of the Burma campaign was that we lost our autonomy in decision-making, and we were forced to submit to our allies. However, the sacrifice is too great......"