Baoshan - an important town in western Yunnan, the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the Anti-Japanese War, and the Yiluochi Park in the north of the city has a monument to the Anti-Japanese War in Western Yunnan.
Starting from Baoshan, continue along National Highway 320 to Daguan City, then take Provincial Highway 229 to the south, and the road condition is good all the way. Soon we arrived at Changshui Township, Shidian County, which has a famous name - 707, which is the 707th kilometer of the famous Yunnan-Burma Highway. I don't know if the Burma Road made this town, or the original place name was forgotten. I asked a few local people, and they all said that this place has been called 707 since I can remember. A small town with a road running through it, with shops, restaurants, supermarkets, etc. on both sides.
Passing through 707, the road forks. The Yunnan-Burma Highway goes in the direction of Songshan, which is County Road 191. County Road 191 is the most intoxicating journey before reaching Songshan. The road condition is good, the valley is densely forested, and gradually villages, terraced fields, red land, and banana trees come into view. The glowing red earth below. The tropical scenery has a panoramic view.
Gradually approaching the Nu River and coming to the area where the Songshan Battle was fought. The first thing I saw was the old site of the front command post of the 36th Division of Lao Lutian. Not far away is the Jiangfang relics composed of artillery positions and infantry positions. Not far forward, in order to maintain the original appearance of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, it was replaced with a paving stone road. Turning around a mountain pass, there is a large parking area beside the road, where you can see the Nujiang River at the foot of the mountain, Huitong Bridge, Hongqi Bridge, and the under-construction Darui Railway Bridge across the Nujiang River. On the other side of the Nujiang River, facing the Huitong Bridge, is the Songshan position of the Japanese army. Winding down along the Danshi Road, there are many positions and battle relics along the way. This section of the road has many bends and steep slopes, and you must also pay attention to the rolling rocks.
Go down to the side of the Nujiang River, and the Huitong Bridge is about 200 meters into the fork road beside the road. Now the Hongqi bridge is passing through, and there are border inspections. After crossing the bridge, turn right and go up the road to Longling, not far from the famous Tiger Mouth. All the way up the mountain, the slope is steep and winding. Because of the construction of the Darui Railway Bridge and Tunnel, construction trucks are the most encountered on the road, so drive carefully and pay special attention to passing cars on curves.
The mountain road spirals up, passing Dongbiezhai, Lameng Street, there is a three-way intersection, the right hand takes a shortcut to connect to National Highway 320, and the left hand goes straight to the Burma Highway, which enters the Danshi road again. After bumping and circling for a long time, I arrived at the rear of Songshan. There is a newly built memorial park for the Songshan Battle. The Japanese army’s Qimuzhai, Huangjiashuijing and other positions were built one by one. Monuments are recorded in detail about the process of attacking the positions and destroying the Japanese army.
Continue to play the stone road up the mountain, pass through a construction site, and arrive at the main peak of Songshan—the site of the Songshan Battle
garden. This is the site of the main peak of Songshan Mountain. Now the local government is trying to restore the entire site of the Songshan Battle. The construction site outside and some auxiliary positions behind the main peak of Songshan passing by are being gradually built.
Songshan is named after the pine trees all over the mountain. In the entire main peak ruins, the Japanese army's bunkers, traffic trenches, troop caves and other relics are clearly visible. Standing in front of the two big craters formed by the expeditionary army filling the tunnel with explosives to blow up the main bunker of the Japanese army, looking at the steep hillside and the soft red soil, it can be seen that the soldiers of the expeditionary army braved the heavy rain and walked along the slippery and muddy road. Steep slopes, how difficult it is to regain lost ground inch by inch.
Leaving the site of the Songshan Battle, all the way downhill, the heroism and shock of the Songshan battlefield eclipsed the scenery along the way. Soon we arrived at Longling, an important throat of the Yunnan-Burma Highway. This place is connected to Tengchong in the north, Songshan in the east and Nujiang River in the east. It is the main throat of the Yunnan-Burma Highway. The battle to liberate Longling was also extremely tragic. There are still reinforced concrete bunkers built by the Japanese army at the main intersections in the county.
Not far from Longling, the Burma Highway leaves National Highway 320, and the old road is now County Road 219 (Shuangxin Line) - also called Nantianmen Section. It's a pity that the entire Shuangxin Line has suffered serious landslides, and there are water conservancy projects, the entire line is closed and impassable.
Since then, the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway has basically been seriously affected by the 320 National Highway. Compared with the Lancang River, the winding and steep slopes on both sides of the Nujiang River can be said to be flat all the way to Wanding, and the climbing can only be regarded as hills and hills. After passing Mangshi, there are more and more Dai villages, and the golden pagodas are hidden in the tall banyan forest.
Zhefang, once a bustling material distribution center on the Burma Road, is now just an ordinary border town.
Wanding - the starting point of the Burma Highway. From a distance, I saw the stone tablet of Wanding Bridge, which is the zero kilometer of the Burma Highway. The old bridge across the Wanding River has been crossed for more than 80 years and has witnessed the attack, retreat, counterattack and reunion of the expeditionary army.