Old Soldiers Dictating the Anti-Japanese War Series III

Bok av Li Yaosha
The book Old Soldiers Dictating the Anti-Japanese War Series III: Expedition to Myanmar, through the narration and recalls of many veterans personally appeared in India and Burma battlefield, strung together the courses of the war. In December 1941, the Japanese attacked on Pearl Harbor, then occupied a large tract of land in Southeast Asia in two months, cut off the Burma Road, thus the last channel connecting China and the outside was disconnected. In March 1942, China's 100,000 Expeditionary Force went abroad to join in fights, however, due to the discrete command, poor intelligence and other reasons, the Expeditionary Army suffered a setback in all respects, who had to withdraw from Myanmar. A few months later, most of the Expeditionary Force returned to the country, with a small portion evacuated to India. One year later, China reorganized the Expeditionary Force which was branched out into two columns, to launch a counterattack in the India-Burma battlefield, the New First Army won victories one by one in the Northern Burma battlefield, the Expeditionary Army involved in the counterattack in western Yunnan also won the battles in Tengchong, Songshan and Longling. In the end, two Chinese expeditionary forces successfully joined forces.