Chapter 21 Section 8 Wanding Reunion and Sunset Brilliance

When the captives were brought in front of Sun Liren, Sun frowned and said to the people around him: "These bastards! Hand them over to the diplomatic office for interrogation. Anyone who has been to China will be shot!" Just after the rainy season in early October, the Chinese troops stationed in India, with the cooperation of the British and American troops, went south in three routes to encircle Bhamo City, a strategically important city on the China-India Highway. Bhamo invaded our rear base in western Yunnan for the enemy. The advance or retreat is related to the overall situation in northern Myanmar and western Yunnan. After abandoning the defense of Myitkyina, the enemy concentrated the remnants of the city to strengthen the defense of the city. A total of the enemy troops gathered around Bhamo City There are all of the 2nd Division and the rest of the 18th Division and the 56th Division, about 30,000 people.Therefore, on the outskirts of Bhamo, there are ravines and ravines, and the streets and alleys in the city are full of fortresses.

On October 16, the new 38th Division launched a siege.Unexpectedly, as soon as the fire was fired, the enemy resisted three-dimensionally with fierce firepower, and the new 38th Division fought fiercely without gaining an inch of ground.Drawing lessons from the piecemeal and swaying command of the Myitkyina offensive, Sun Liren took advantage of the absolute advantage of the "Flying Tigers" of the 69th Aviation Brigade with bold determination to adjust the deployment the next day. The infantry wiped out the enemy point by point, and pressed the enemy into the city in one fell swoop.After retreating into the city, the enemy fought tenaciously, and the scramble for every room was extremely fierce. The "Flying Tigers" bombarded the Japanese positions with 500-pound or even 1,000-pound heavy bombs day and night. After 20 days, the enemy's positions were almost destroyed, and Bhamo City was finally breached. Except for a few who fled to Nankan, most of the Japanese troops were wiped out and some were captured.

Poisoned by the spirit of bushido, Japanese officers and soldiers were very stubborn. When they were defeated, they cut their stomachs with swords or blew themselves up with bombs. Only a hundred people were captured alive.When these captives were brought before Sun Liren, Sun frowned and said to the people around him: "These bastards! Hand them over to the Foreign Affairs Office for interrogation. Anyone who has been to China will be shot!" The 18th Division, the translation agency for the 1st Army's external liaison, was one of the main forces of the Japanese army in the Battle of Songhu and Wuhan. Its officers and soldiers had their hands stained with the blood of the Chinese people.

After conquering Bhamo, the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army took advantage of the victory to pursue the enemy in Nankan. The Japanese army, like a frightened bird, abandoned Nankan and Wanding one after another, and our army regained all the lost land in northern Myanmar. Previously in 1944, in order to cooperate with the Northern Burma Campaign, another expeditionary force stationed in western Yunnan, under the command of General Wei Lihuang, forcibly crossed the Nu River on May 11, occupied Longling one month later, and continued to sweep south Enemies on the line from Longling to Mangshi.

On January 27, 1945, the Western Yunnan Expeditionary Force joined forces with Zheng Dongguo, Sun Liren, and Liao Yaoxiang in Mangyou near Wanding. At this point, the China-India-Myanmar Highway was fully opened!The bloody expeditionary force finally achieved its pre-war goal!Thousands of trucks, loaded with a large amount of military supplies, were finally able to pass through this road built with the flesh and blood of more than 40,000 officers and soldiers, and continuously transport them to the mainland of China to support the Chinese people in winning the final victory of the War of Resistance.

Interestingly, after the China-India-Myanmar Highway was opened, Chiang Kai-shek took an incomprehensible name: Stilwell Highway.When Stilwell, who was far away in the United States, got the news, he said with contempt: "I don't agree!" The Chinese general who wiped out the most Japanese troops Afterwards, the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army marched southward bravely, captured Lashio on March 8, occupied Nantu on March 23, captured the cells on the 24th, and recovered Mengyan on the 27th. The country is eager and unstoppable!" So far, the Burmese campaign has won a complete victory, and it is all over.

Soon, the Xuefeng Mountain area in western Hunan was covered with clouds of war, and the Japanese 20th Army wanted to put all their eggs in one basket here, fighting me to the death. Therefore, the New Army was transferred back to China to serve as the general reserve of our army, while the New 1st Army stayed in Lashio until Japan surrenders. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, people made a detailed statistics on the performance of the New 1st Army in the Second Burma Campaign, and the specific data obtained are: Killed more than 33,000 officers and soldiers below the captain of the Japanese army, wounded more than 75,000 Japanese soldiers, captured 323 officers and assistants below the captain of the Japanese army, captured 186 cannons, 67 chariots, and 552 cars, and captured 646 miles (about 1,140 kilometers) of roads.

The New 1st Army suffered 17,000 casualties. This kind of record was the most outstanding among all Chinese military-level organizations during the Anti-Japanese War. The New 1st Army won the reputation of "the 1st Army in the World" for its brilliant military exploits. Sun Liren is known as the Chinese general who wiped out the most Japanese troops. The New 1st Army missed a golden opportunity to avoid destruction In July 1945, Sun Liren led the New 1st Army back to the motherland and stationed in Nanning, Guangxi, preparing to counterattack Guangzhou.At this time, there was no more gunpowder in the European battlefield. General Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the European Allied Forces, invited representatives of some anti-aggression countries to Europe to visit the battlefields in order to publicize the results of the Anglo-American anti-fascist war.As an alumnus of the West Point Military Academy and a famous general who has been fighting side by side with the Americans for four years, Sun Liren was freely invited. During this period, he traveled around the European continent, inspecting one battlefield after another, and gained a deeper understanding of modern warfare. Experience and feel!

This trip to Europe is the glory of his Sun Liren, the glory of his New 1st Army, and the glory of all Chinese soldiers! Of course, there are many people who look at Sun Liren with a different look and mentality. When Sun Liren returned to China, the Japanese had already announced their surrender, and the New 1st Army was designated to go to Guangzhou to accept the surrender. On September 7, the New 1st Army entered Guangzhou. Sun Liren, as the commander of the surrender in Guangzhou area and assistant to General Zhang Fakui, commander-in-chief of the Second Front Army, accepted the surrender of the Japanese 23rd Army, 129th Division, and 130th Division.

In October, the Americans asked China to send an army composed of 50,000 people to assist the allies in occupying Japan, and named Sun Liren's New 1st Army to go there. He was going to send the New 1st Army to the Northeast to fight the civil war, but he did not want to divide his troops to occupy Japan. As a result, the New 1st Army missed an excellent opportunity to avoid destruction.