General Dai Anlan was born on November 25, 1904, from Dai Village, Flagshang, Lianxi Township, Wuwei, Anhui Province, an infantry scientist in the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and participated in the Northern Expedition.

In the winter of 1932, he served as the commander of the 145th Regiment of the 25th Division and led his troops to defend the anti-Japanese front line of Beiping. In March 1933, he fought against the Japanese army at Gubeikou of the Great Wall. After the July 7 Incident broke out, Dai Anlan had been promoted to the commander of the 73rd Brigade and participated in the battles of Baoding, Caohe, Taierzhuang and Zhongtiaoshan.

In 1938, during the battle against Japan in Taierzhuang, he was promoted to deputy commander of the 89th Division for his military achievements and participated in the Wuhan Battle.

In January 1939, he was promoted to the commander of the 200th Division of the 5th Army. In December of the same year, he was ordered to participate in the Battle of Kunlun Pass in southern Guizhou. He fought hard for one month, killed 6,000 enemies and killed Major General Nakamura Masao Nakamura, the commander of the 12th Brigade of the 5th Division, and wrote a brilliant page in the history of the War of Resistance. Journalists from various newspapers reported on the war in domestic and foreign newspapers, praising the demeanor of the commander Dai Anlan, a general of the Northern Song Dynasty.

On March 8, 1942, the 200th Division, which was the advance unit of the Expeditionary Force, arrived in Tonggu at night (also translated as Donggua, which is the name Donggua in the novel). This is a small town located in the southern Myanmar Plain, 260 kilometers away from Yangon, the capital of Myanmar, and it staggered on highways, railways and waterways, with a very prominent strategic position. At this time, the British and Burmese army retreated like a tide under the fierce attack of the Japanese army.

On the 19th, the Japanese army pursuing the retreating British and Burmese troops to the west bank of the Pew River were the first to catch fire with the vanguard of the 200th Division, which was defending the same ancient times. The war news came, and Dai Anlan announced: "Order the regiments and battalions to enter the position and prepare for battle. The division commander made a will first: If the division commander died in battle, the deputy division commander would replace him; the deputy division commander would replace him; the regiment commander would replace him, and so on, all levels would be like this."

On the 21st, Yongkegang Airport in the north of the ancient city was occupied by the Japanese army, and the rear route of the 200th Division guarding the city was cut off. On the night of the 28th, the Japanese army sent a small group of troops to raid the 200th Division headquarters. The division commander Dai Anlan carried a machine gun and led his troops to fight against the Japanese army. The fierce battle was all night, and all the officers and soldiers of the command were exhausted, and the bayonets were bent, and they were in danger. Fortunately, at dawn, a battalion of reinforcements arrived and the division headquarters was safe.

Because the British and Burmese army had retreated to Beimu as planned and were about to collapse in the battle with the Japanese army that followed, Beimu lost its destruction, causing the 200th Division to be surrounded by the 55th, 56th and 33rd Divisions of the Japanese army. In order to avoid the entire division being annihilated, on the evening of the 30th, the Tonggu Guardians took the initiative to retreat strategically.

In the war with ancient times, the 200th Division fought against more than 20,000 Japanese troops with a team of only 9,000 people for 12 days, causing the Japanese army to suffer the first major defeat since the southern invasion. This was also the first victory of the Expeditionary Force's entry into Myanmar.

As April begins, the situation on the battlefield in Myanmar changes rapidly. As the British and Burmese army loses cities and lands, the Sino-British Allied forces formed between the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the British-British army are gradually falling into the quagmire of failure.

On the morning of April 5, Chairman Chiang, who was then the commander-in-chief of the China-Myanmar Indian War Zone, arrived at the front-line command of the Expeditionary Force located here by plane to deploy operations. During this period, Dai Anlan has always been around Chairman and is highly favored.

More than 60 years later, Wang Chuying, who was then the captain of the Overseas Chinese Volunteer Team in Myanmar, recalled that in Meimiao, in addition to agreeing with the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army of the Expeditionary Force, including Dai Anlan, "(Cheng) also specially summoned Dai Anlan to have dinner with him and stayed in the headquarters, comforting him and relying very much."

Unexpectedly, the battle situation suddenly fell overnight. At dawn on the 24th, the battle between Tangji broke out. The soldiers of the 200th Division, who were responsible for recapturing Tangji, took the lead in launching an attack on the Japanese army. Given the strong enemy defenders, Dai Anlan ordered his troops to attack the enemy's guard positions on the west side of Tangji and seized them in one fell swoop.

However, the victory of local battles at this time could no longer stop the rapid defeat of the Chinese and British Allied forces on the entire Myanmar battlefield. In addition to supporting the frontal enemy, the 56th Japanese Army continued to secretly cross the primitive forest 1,500 kilometers of the Burma-Thailand border, and appeared elusively in front of the Chinese defenders in Lashio, Myitkyina and other cities in the rear. Almost no strong resistance was encountered, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force returned to the throat of the country and fell one by one.

In early May, the Sino-British Allied Forces were completely defeated. On May 10, a large number of expeditionary forces retreated to the Hukang Valley and were blocked by the Japanese 56th Division. While launching ground attacks, a large number of Japanese planes repeatedly dived towards the road and scattered at the crowd. As a result, the army was in chaos without fighting and rushed into the mountains and forests. The 200th Division of Dai Anlan, who was responsible for covering the retreat in the Wenzo area, lost contact with the military headquarters.

With pursuers behind and the road ahead is blocked, Dai Anlan resolutely decided to lead his troops into the mountainous areas of central and northern Myanmar to fight guerrillas, and seek a gap to retreat back to the country. On the 18th, the 200th Division divided into two groups and crossed the Xima Highway. The forefront troops were suddenly ambushed by a large number of Japanese troops, and the Myanmar guide who was trying to escape was caught by the soldiers. The guide firmly refused to lead the way for the Chinese army. Dai Anlan was extremely angry and kept hitting his horse whip with a horse whip, and then ordered the troops to immediately break through. Deputy Division Commander Zheng Tingji dissuaded: "The target of breaking through during the day is too big, is it changed to the evening?" Dai was deeply saddened, "Guan Gong went to Maicheng, which is just like this. Myanmar is not a place to stay for a long time. Today, it can only be either a fish die or a net break!"

Facing the dense fire net organized by the Japanese army with machine guns, rifles and artillery fire, thousands of Chinese soldiers rushed forward with bayonets without hesitation. The enemy was waiting for the effort and was ambushed. The 200th Division suffered heavy casualties. During the fierce battle, a round of machine gun bullets shot Dai Anlan in the chest and abdomen, and the soldiers behind him quickly rescued him. The division commander was seriously injured, and the remaining officers and soldiers took turns to carry him on stretchers. While dealing with the Japanese army, they were struggling to travel in the high mountain canyons and primitive dense forests in northern Myanmar.

On the evening of the 26th, when the 200th Division was circulating with the enemy to a Kachin Village named Mao Bang in Myanmar, it was infected by the wound. Dai Anlan, a famous anti-Japanese general, died of regret. He was only 38 years old. At that time, there was no wooden coffin in Myanmar, and the general returned to his country with a horse-haired body. He passed by Baoshan, Kunming, Guiyang, Liuzhou and other places, and went to Quanzhou, Guangxi, and placed his body in Xiangshan Temple. All the people along the way burst into tears and worshiped General Dai.

After General Dai Anlan's death, the supreme leader of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party wrote poems to commemorate him.

Chiang Kai-shek, the highest commander of the Chinese theater, wrote the five-character charity to defeat General Dai Anlan:

The tiger's head eats meat and bears the hero's capital. Watch the Long March and deals with the enemy with joy. The horse is wrapped in a corpse and ambitions, and cherishes the success of the great achievements. What is the pain of the hope of being empty?

The eulogy is: Foreign aggression requires people to control, generals have a gift to pick Wei. The division is mechanized, bravely seized the power of tigers and tigers. Bloody winter melons guard, and the virgin sacred return. He died on the battlefield, and his ambitions are not contrary to his ambitions.

Others include memorial poems by Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai and others, which are not listed here.
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