The 14-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression became the most important part of China's history. During those 14 years, our army not only had to face the War of Resistance Against Japan at home, but also had to go to other countries to fight the Japanese army and annihilate the Japanese Kou together with the Allies.
In October 1943, the Battle of Northern Yunnan in Burma was launched, which was an offensive campaign of the Chinese Army in India and the Chinese Expeditionary Force against the Japanese Burma Front in northern Burma and western Yunnan Province in coordination with the American and British armies.
The ambitions of Japanese imperialism were not only focused on China, but also invaded Korea, India, Burma and other Asian countries during the outbreak of the war of aggression against China. Even the United States, far on the eastern shore of the Pacific, did not let go. Of course, this is an afterthought, the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was also because the invasion of southern Asian countries did not achieve much and the plan to go south failed, and the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was launched.
So how did this Burmese Northern Yunnan Campaign start? How?
In the spring of 1942, the Japanese army officially invaded Burma. At that time, Burma was occupied by the British colonial government, and the Japanese invasion made the British army helpless, and the British army asked our army to fight with the enemy. At the request of the British army, our army sent an expeditionary force into Burma to support the British army in combat. At the beginning, the outbreak of the Battle of Dianxiang Road, although our army and the British army resisted the enemy, but also caused heavy losses to the enemy army. Later, a part of our expeditionary force entered India and became the Chinese army stationed in India. The other retreated to western Yunnan and was expanded into two group armies.
In October 1943, the Burmese Northern Yunnan Campaign officially broke out. In order to implement the decision of the Allied Quebec Conference on launching an offensive against the Japanese army in Burma and opening up the international communication line in southwest China, the Chinese troops stationed in India, under the command of Commander-in-Chief Stilwell, assembled in the Ledo area on the Indo-Burmese border to prepare for an attack on the Japanese army in northern Burma. The Chinese Expeditionary Force in Western Yunnan cooperated with the decision to launch an attack on the Japanese army with Tengchong as the target.
The Japanese troops stationed in northern Burma and on the west bank of the Nu River had a total of 4 divisions, 9 infantry companies, and 8 special forces companies, which defended our army and the British army under the command of the commander of the Japanese 33rd Army at that time, Honda Masaaki.
In the 1 and a half years of the Battle of Northern Yunnan in Burma, 34,115 of our army and the Allied forces were killed and 35,948 wounded. The Japanese suffered more than 25,000 casualties, and the battle resulted in the opening of the "Yunnan Burma Highway", an international communication line in southwest China. In addition, it also greatly cooperated with the Great Counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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The victory in the Battle of Northern Yunnan in Burma was the only large-scale offensive operation in the frontal battlefield since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It opened the prelude to the Allied counterattack against the Japanese army in the Asian theater, which was later called the "Battle of Normandy in the East" by military scientists. After the victory in this campaign, it also broke the encirclement of our country by the Japanese army; our army recovered a large area of the fallen territory; after opening the Burma Highway, it also greatly strengthened the strength of China's great counteroffensive, greatly enhanced its strategic materials, and slowly enabled China to grasp the initiative in the war and accelerate the arrival of the nationwide counteroffensive.