After the engineer's brief introduction and Mad Dog Dragon's detailed explanation, everyone except Kang Ye was shocked and understood.
The Burma Highway is a road built from Yunnan Province in China to Yangon in Myanmar. It was born in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. It is a road built with the flesh and blood of people of all ethnic groups in western Yunnan. Compared with the previous Great Wall, it may be more
It is not as majestic and spectacular as the Great Wall, nor is it as majestic and magnificent.
However, in China, in the world, in any dynasty, and in the history of any country, there is no road that is as closely linked to the destiny of a country, a nation, and an era as the Burma Highway.
Which road can remain in people's memory for a long time like the Burma Highway?
Historically, in 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out. With the fall of Hong Kong, most of China fell into the hands of the Japanese army. As the Japanese army attacked Vietnam and Myanmar, all China's external connections were cut off - except for the Burma Road.
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This is the only channel for China to connect to the international community, and it is also the only channel for the world to transport supplies to the rear areas of China's various armies. Once it is cut off, the whole of China may slowly perish.
Everyone finally understood that this highway is related to the future destiny of the entire China. This is the dragon vein of this era.
The mission assigned by the headquarters is simple: advance to the front line and build roads!
"Why don't you practice during the day and take action at night?" Yongbang said he didn't understand.
The engineer explained with a smile: "Because Japanese planes are carrying out heavy bombings in the sky during the day, it is best for you not to walk around outside."
This time, even Kang Ye stared at the map on the wall thoughtfully. This highway is more than 1,400 kilometers long, from China to Myanmar, and passes through nearly 20 cities. It is simply terrifying, but these are still minor.
Yes, judging from the map, the biggest problem with this road in China is the mountains and rivers, and the terrain is too steep. In those distant war years, it was almost impossible to build such a road.
Could it be said that the Japanese army is still worried that such a road will be built? It also sends out fighter planes to bomb it every day?
"Where has the highway been built now?" Mr. Kang finally got the idea.
The engineer explained: "The construction has now reached the edge of the Nu River. But there is not much time left for us. In Myanmar in front of the Nu River, there is also an army from the Chongqing government resisting the Japanese attack and fighting for the construction brigade.
The time is right. There are two troops from the United Kingdom and the United States assisting the army in fighting. Isn’t this comrade British? Is he here to support the Burma Road? "
At this point, Mad Dog Dragon and others had nothing to say, so they had no choice but to set off for the Nu River, because everyone had an intuition. The place where the Chinese ** team exchanged fire with the Japanese army was most likely the location of the Xi'an Dagger.
But as they walked along the road, everyone was still shocked by the scenes they saw along the way.
It is almost impossible to see transportation vehicles on this road. All transportation is done by manpower, and almost all of them are old people, children and women.
Two old men carried a lever on their shoulders and carried a huge stone in the middle. They formed a long queue of two and ran forward desperately, while the women and children behind pushed a huge stone two meters high.
Nianzi is climbing the mountain with the team.
To put it bluntly, this stone roller is just a cylinder, but Mr. Kang didn't understand: "Why are they pushing this thing?"
Mad Dog Dragon said calmly: "Is this a simple version of a steamroller?"
"Is it possible to use this rubbish to pave the road?" Mr. Kang couldn't help but laugh.
Mad Dog Dragon glared at him: "At that time, supplies were extremely scarce, and this was already the best steamroller."
Mr. Kang couldn't laugh anymore because he saw many women and children with bare bottoms: "Don't they even have any decent clothes?"
Mad Dog Dragon looked ahead and said in a deep voice: "This road was built under such harsh conditions. Our ancestors at that time believed that the survival of the nation was much more important than food and water."
Mr. Kang looked at the long queue: "How many people are there?"
"200,000 people!" Mad Dog Dragon replied calmly.
Meng Qiqing and others were also shocked speechless. Seeing it with their own eyes was much more powerful than what they heard.
At this time, the team in front let out bursts of exclamations, and the crowd fled in all directions.
"What's going on?" Black Wolf grabbed a child and asked.
"The Japanese plane is coming. Everyone, find a place to hide!" After the child said this, he ran into the grass.
In less than half a minute, there was a "buzzing" sound in the sky, like a swarm of flies calling. Soon the "fly" sound turned into a huge roar of machinery. It can only be said that this sound was so loud that it was close.
It's hard to hear people talking clearly within a short distance, so you can imagine the scale of the fleet in the sky.
The dark green shell has a red sun flag printed on it, and the fuselage is a cylinder that looks like a cigar. This is exactly the Japanese bomber group, so densely packed that it blocks out the sky and the sun, and there are so many of them that you can count them.
countless.
Compared with a flying column of this size, the flying brigade of the Eastern Dynasty during the Battle of Dynasty Port was nothing more than child's play.
Then the bombing began. Countless warheads, large and small, scattered from the sky, more densely than heavy rain. Some warheads even formed a line and bombed indiscriminately along the highway.
The flames generated by the explosion ignited the woods on both sides of the road, and the dust raised by the explosion made the road invisible. The whole world seemed to be involved in this dense and crazy bombing.
The bombing lasted about 10 minutes. As the Japanese flying column left, everyone ran out of the air raid shelters or mountain cols.
The road had been blasted into potholes and fragments. The mechanics team following behind immediately began repairs, while the team in front continued to move forward.
But in such a large-scale air raid, it is impossible not to die.
Many old people carrying stones were blown to death on the roadside before they could escape into the woods. Most of their bodies were not complete, either headless or legless, and some even had half of their bodies hung on branches by the explosion.
A bloody mess.
Even though everyone has seen a lot of battle scenes, none of them feel more shocking than the scene in front of them, because the big scenes in the past were all big battles, with both sides fighting, but this is not a fight, this is the sky.
The planes were bombing the civilians below indiscriminately. These civilians knew the danger, but they still carried the bombs forward.
A woman squatted on the roadside, stroking the body of a child and weeping silently. The body was covered with linen and quickly carried away. The mother continued to follow the large army with a basket full of stones on her back.
Go forward.
Seeing these tragic scenes, everyone felt heavy-hearted and no one seemed to want to say anything more. They all walked forward in silence.
In fact, it has been four days since we reached the edge of the Nu River. Along the way, we have experienced countless bombings by planes and witnessed the tragic deaths of countless Chinese civilians.
No one felt sad, everyone just felt that the blood in their bodies was constantly burning, not because of the brutal bombing by Japanese planes, but because they were proud of being descendants of the Chinese people. Our ancestors built a barrier with their flesh and blood.
The Great Wall that buried the Japanese dream gave birth to the Chinese miracle. The Burma Highway is something that no other outstanding nation in the world can accomplish, but we Chinese people have done it.
"The country of Myanmar is ahead!" Meng Qiqing looked at the towering peaks across the Nu River. There were traces of white on the tops of the large and small peaks. It was obvious that the altitude was very high, and there were sun flags on them, "We are going
The place is probably up there!”
"The little devils don't allow us to build a bridge on the Nu River, but we have to build it if we don't want to!" A young man came over and explained, "Once this bridge is built, the Burma Highway will be opened. Overseas Chinese in the United Kingdom and the United States will
The purchased materials can be smoothly transported into China."
Meng Qiqing smiled and said, "Who are you?"
The young man immediately puffed up his chest: "Hello, comrade, my name is Lin Shiyang. I am the designer and deputy commander of this bridge. I graduated from Oxford University in the UK and have now returned to my motherland to fight to drive away the Japanese."
Everyone immediately stood in awe.
Mad Dog Dragon couldn't help but said: "Mr. Lin, this bridge hasn't been erected yet. How to erect it? How to deal with the Japanese on the opposite mountain?"
Lin Shiyang sighed: "It is expected that the fight will start tonight, but the intelligence from the expeditionary force says that there will be another large-scale bomber attack from Japan tonight. Maybe we can wait, but China can't wait any longer, and our nation can't wait any longer.
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A bridge must be built. There are also Nationalist Government troops guarding the Nu River here. The Japanese dare not attack rashly. Everyone, you are dressed in strange clothes and must have amazing skills. Now is a critical moment. I hope you can help the mechanical service group."
Meng Qiqing immediately turned to look at Mad Dog Dragon, meaning should we set off to find a dagger on the opposite peak? The Nu River can stop the warring Chinese and Japanese sides, but can it stop us players?
Mad Dog Dragon hadn't spoken yet, but Princess Qing spoke first for the first time: "Sister Meng, I want to stay."
Meng Qiqing was suddenly stunned: "What's wrong?"
The princess's expression was solemn: "Build the bridge!"
Meng Qiqing was stunned, and suddenly smiled: "That's okay!"
Prince Zhilian also said: "I want to stay too!"
This emotion seemed to have been brewing for a long time, and now it suddenly spread among everyone. Hei Lang also raised his hand and said: "I want to stay too!"
Yongbang said: "Maybe once the bridge is opened, the Japanese troops above will have to retreat, and it will be easier for us to go up the mountain."
Cannian nodded and said: "That's the truth!"
Mr. Kang was stunned: "Don't you want the legendary Xi'an dagger?"
Mad Dog Dragon smiled and said: "I have said before that you, a British person, will not understand the things of the Chinese people. Just look at the British troops in Myanmar in front of you and you will know how to escape. But we Chinese people
Do you think you have a better chance of winning by building the bridge, or by going up the mountain against the bombers?"
"A bunch of lunatics!" Mr. Kang was furious. (To be continued...)
