Chapter 236: Going to the Battle! Going to the Battle! Going to the Battle! (I)

When the various units of the Youth Army entered Kunming city, they lined up columns to cross the city, which attracted citizens to watch the "Central Army". The young army soldiers were even more proud, one by one, raised their chests and looked up without looking sideways. Although the soldiers' faces were full of fatigue and the military uniforms were covered with dust, the soldiers all had firm faces and took neat steps, and the entire team always maintained high morale.

When the steel dragons of the mechanized infantry regiment and the armored regiment drove slowly, the citizens of Kunming were shocked. The roaring tanks, armored vehicles, and soldiers transporting cars were neatly arranged in a bicycle column, and the gray dragons were boundless. If it weren't for the blue sky and white sun emblem on the body of the car, the citizens wouldn't dare to be Chinese armored forces.

For several days after that, Kunming citizens discussed the Youth Army in amazement.

Because when citizens saw young soldiers going shopping on the street, they lined up in neat rows. One person entered the store, and the team waited on the side of the road; one person finished purchasing, the other person went in again, and then the team continued to move forward. The young soldiers all had smiles and were kind, never on credit, and took the initiative to pay according to market prices. These were something citizens had never heard of before. They were used to the freedom and scattered local warlord troops, and they beat and scolded the people at any time, and even forced to buy and sell.

When Long Yun heard these situations, he couldn't help but sigh, "Yue Hanping is really an extraordinary person. Such a person is too terrible." In the shock of the Youth Army, he specially ordered the Yunnan Army not to provoke the Youth Army.

On September 22, 1940, Hong Kong fell. On the 25th, 80,000 Singaporean British troops hung white flags to more than 30,000 Japanese invaders. In early October, Malaysia completely fell. At the end of October, Indonesia fell. In September, the Japanese base camp formed the 15th Army in Thailand and appointed Lieutenant General Iida Xiangji as the commander. The army's 18th Division, 33rd Division, 55th Division and 56th Division were dispatched to a total of four divisions, gathered in Thailand.

On the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army was dispatched some elite divisions to the Southern Army in North China, and the overall combat effectiveness of the Chinese dispatched troops was declining. Under this situation, the Japanese army could only use a large number of puppet troops to help control the occupied areas. The most harmful thing was that in Vietnam, Laos forcibly recruited 300,000 people to join the Japanese army and put them into the Chinese battlefield. It formed a strange form on the Chinese battlefield. The highest status was the authentic Japanese army, followed by the Korean Legion and the Taiwan Legion, and the Vietnamese army, and the Lao army was the Chinese traitor and puppet army.

These low-ranking colonial people who were originally bullied were actually more cruel than real Japanese soldiers on the battlefield in China after putting on Japanese military uniforms. They vented all the long-term backlog of bullied anger to China, and the state of bullying changed from bullying to bullying, which made these soldiers extremely satisfied.

Except for the Philippines, all Southeast Asian archipelagos have fallen into the hands of the Japanese army. A large amount of resource resources such as rubber and oil are constantly being transported to the local area, and the huge victory has made Japan almost crazy. The heads of the Japanese military and the navy generals are all raised high without exception, with smug smiles on their faces. Many people in the military even regret not to advance south earlier.

Myanmar's strategic position was immediately highlighted. It is the flank barrier of the Southeast Asian archipelago and the largest channel for China's foreign aid supplies. Firmly controlling Myanmar can not only attack British India at any time, but also cut off China's foreign aid and encircle China.

On November 4, the 55th and 33rd divisions of the Japanese army launched an attack from Thailand on Tuwa and Maulhamm in southern Myanmar. The British army tried to stop the enemy in the Salwin River, Biling and Xidang River areas, but failed. The British and Burmese troops retreated one after another, forcing Churchill to urgently invite Chinese troops to send troops.

In December 1940, dust suddenly flew on the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and flags were waving. The mighty Chinese team seemed like a long gray dragon that could not be seen, and began to advance on a large scale into Myanmar.

The section 80 of the Yunnan-Burma Highway passed by was mountainous mountains and difficult to maintain roads. In order to support the War of Resistance Against Japan, more than 20 counties along the Yunnan-Burma Highway mobilized the people to protect the roads along the way. At that time, when the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan entered a difficult period, young and strong laborers basically joined soldiers and carried guns, and those who stayed in the countryside were basically elderly, women, and children. Yue Hanping's car was slowly moving forward in the long queue. When the young lieutenant general looked at the women wearing blue cloth clothes every few hundred meters on the roadside, holding shovels, wooden shovels, and stone hammers. Children stood by the roadside, filling the soil with pits on the road from time to time, and then flattened and compacted them with stone hammers.

These people all had yellow faces and thin skin, and had ragged clothes. The lieutenant general's heart suddenly tightened. Yue Hanping stopped the car and stood on the road. He saw that the winding mountain road seemed to be large spirals, layer by layer.

Yue Hanping saw a 12-3-year-old child with his upper body and only a pair of black single pants on the bottom. His legs were rolled to his knees, and his legs were full of holes. His barefoot, naked, and thin body, waving the stone hammer in his hand and smashing it into the pit that had just been filled. His thin body seemed to be unable to support the weight of the stone hammer in his hand. Every time he smashed it, he had to stop and rest.

Yue Hanping felt so sad when he saw it. In his original era, children of this age were still acting coquettish. He walked straight to the child, "Child, please take a break. Where is your family?"

When the child saw that he was a high-ranking official in a military uniform, he stopped quickly and said tremblingly that his parents were exhausted when building roads. Both brothers went to fight the Japanese. I was the only one at home." After that, he continued to bury his head and punch the pit.

Yue Hanping was stunned. The child was so pitiful. He hurriedly asked the child, "Do you have any meals?"

The child was silent, and Yue Hanping continued to ask if your meal was managed by the government?" He didn't jump.

The child shook his head and the commander, it was all brought by our own family. I had no one at home, so I rely on the kind-hearted villagers to give me a bite." Yue Hanping felt a mess, and his eyes were filled with tears. What a good people, for the sake of the War of Resistance, they selflessly contributed to the country.

"Can you eat enough? Can you eat meat?" Yue Hanping asked with concern.

"Sir, I have eaten sweet potatoes, not to mention meat," said the child honestly. His face was full of longing, as if it was the best day to eat a bowl of rice.

Yue Hanping could no longer control his tears. He took out his handkerchief and wiped his eyes. Suddenly he remembered that there was still an unfinished steamed bun in the morning, so he put it in his pocket. He hurriedly took out a white steamed bun from his pocket and handed it to him, "Come on, child, take it and eat it. You will have the strength after eating."

The child's eyes lit up, but he didn't dare to take them. He looked at the young and kind chief nervously. Yue Hanping stuffed the steamed buns into his hand, turned around and wiped his eyes again.

The child kept bowing, "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir."

Yue Hanping called Wen Qing and told the kitchen team that he would set up a few big pots on the side of the road, make more meat, and make some meat for the villagers who are protecting the road to fill their stomachs."

Tao Wenqing was stunned, and Yue Hanping shouted in anger and said, "Stand up and make arrangements."

Tao Wenqing hurried to find the kitchen squad leader and arranged the meat soup.

Yue Hanping stood by the roadside, looking at the mountains overlapping and winding mountains. His thoughts flew back to the scene when the Yunnan-Burma Highway was built in 1937.

At the end of 1937, about 200,000 workers from nearly 30 counties along the Yunnan-Burma Highway were recruited to the highway. Most of these people were elderly, women and children, and most of them were enlisted in the army because of the young and middle-aged people.

This may be the most peculiar road construction army in the world. There are various ethnic groups here. They wear clothes made of blue cloth. Only a few of them are strong laborers. Others are women, old men and many children. The children bring their own pets: dogs, chickens and long-tailed little parrots. In the Dai area, the children who come to work with adults also bring monkeys.

Due to the urgent construction task, the National Government proposed the policy of "seeking access to the Yunnan-Burma Highway first, then seeking good luck". It strictly ordered that all counties along the highway must start construction before the end of 1937, and a simple road that can be barely opened to traffic within three months is first built.

Due to the lack of heavy machinery for road construction, workers use backpacks brought by their homes to carry soil and stones on almost all sections of the road. On sections of the road that are up to 959.4 kilometers, most of them use this method of moving an ant to build them one after another.

The road surface was repaired, and there was no large roller. Only the most primitive method could be used. The roller at that time was a large stone mill. The stone mill was about 1.8 meters high and had a weight of 3-5 tons. If the quarry was nearby, people would make materials based on local areas. But more often, they had to go to the mountains nearly a hundred miles away to find stones to make. In this case, it was difficult to get the stone mill on the road. Many stone mills were made from the jungle and the mountains by pushing and carrying them on their shoulders.

There is not much trouble when going uphill, and the stone mill is easier to master. However, due to the huge permeability of the stone mill when going downhill, many terrifying accidents occur: those workers who have no time to hide are often crushed to death by the stone mill that has lost control, and occasionally some children will be crushed to death.

As of the end of August 1938, after arduous efforts of 200,000 people, this "Chinese blood vessel" paved with the bodies of people of all ethnic groups in Yunnan and condensed with national blood and sweat, finally opened to traffic in the Yunnan-Burma Highway, which was noticed in China and even the world. On September 2, the Yunnan Daily published an editorial titled "The Yunnan-Burma Highway has been repaired." At that time, almost all newspapers in the Kuomintang-controlled area reported this extremely inspiring news, and it also shocked the whole world.

After passing the Yunnan-Burma Highway to Chongqing, the US ambassador to China said: This courageous perseverance and spirit of the Chinese government can complete this arduous project in a short period of time. Moreover, the construction of the Yunnan-Burma Road has extremely lack of material conditions. First, the machine is lacking, and the second is purely human development. It relies entirely on the hard work and endurance of the people along the way, which is beyond the reach of any nation in the world.

Chapter 236: Going to the Battle! Going to the Battle! Going to the Battle! (I)

Chapter 236: Going to the Battle! Going to the Battle! Going to the Battle! (I)
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