Difficult period of World War II: France once cut off the military fire transportation channel to China.

1943165438+10, American president Roosevelt said at the cairo conference that French Indian zhina would never be handed over to France after the war; 1in August, 945, Japan declared its unconditional surrender, and the allied headquarters clearly stipulated that French Indian zhina was surrendered by Britain south of the 16 parallel and by China north of the 16 parallel. 1945 On September 28th, when the Allied Forces held the surrender ceremony in Hanoi, the French flag was not hoisted, and only French representatives were allowed to attend the ceremony in their own names. This is mainly because France has surrendered to Germany, and in the Asian battlefield, France has cut off the weapons transportation channel between China and Vietnam, which has caused China to suffer huge losses in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang government decided to import a large number of weapons and equipment and weapons manufacturing materials from foreign countries in order to enhance its anti-Japanese war strength. But at this time, the Japanese army has completely blocked Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities, and there is no port to land along the coast of China. The most convenient landing place for transporting purchased materials into China is Haiphong. According to the agreement reached between China and France before the war (when France colonized Vietnam), China had the right to transport goods by rail in Vietnam. 1in August, 937, the Kuomintang government sent a note to the French government, raising the issue of opening up the China-Vietnam transportation line, and the French side reluctantly agreed. The Kuomintang government immediately sent officers from the Ordnance Department to Vietnam to survey the road conditions. At that time, there were two railways from Haiphong to China: one was the Yunnan-Vietnam railway from Haiphong to Kunming, and the other was the Guiyue railway from Haiphong to the border of Guangxi. Both roads are full of danger.

At the beginning of 1938, the Soviet Union decided to provide a batch of weapons to the Kuomintang government to support China people War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. These weapons were packed in a military port in the Black Sea and secretly sailed to the Far East. The destination is Haiphong. In order to equip China's army with these weapons quickly, the Soviet side did not pack chariots, artillery and other large weapons during transportation. As a result, it was discovered by Japanese spies during loading and unloading at the coastal defense port, and the Japanese government immediately protested to the French colonial authorities, demanding that these weapons be prohibited from being transported into China. The French colonial authorities were afraid of Japan and accepted this unreasonable request. When France decided to stop the operation, most of the chariots, artillery and ammunition had been loaded on the train and began to leave. According to the original plan, this batch of weapons should take the Guangxi-Vietnam line. When China's transport personnel learned of the compromise between France and Japan, they immediately changed their plans and let the train cross the Yunnan line to prevent the French army from intercepting it. Due to proper measures, when the stop order arrived, the train had crossed the Sino-Vietnamese border and entered Yunnan.

Although large weapons have arrived safely in China, a large number of small arms are still piled up in coastal defense ports and detained by French colonial authorities. The Kuomintang government made solemn representations to France, but the French government still ignored them. Under the repeated pressure of the Kuomintang government, the French government put forward a solution: on the surface, it continued to detain these weapons, secretly allowing China to ship them in coastal defense, transport them to Mang Street along the coast, and then transfer them to Dongxing on the border between China and Guangxi. The Kuomintang government had to accept this method. Although the arms transportation was finally successful, from then on, France stipulated that weapons from any country except those made in France could not be transported into China from Vietnam, and the weapons provided by France to China were extremely limited, which actually cut off the way for China to obtain arms assistance to China through the Sino-Vietnamese transportation line, and the Kuomintang government had to turn its main energy to importing ordnance machinery.

1June, 940, France surrendered to Germany. Japan immediately asked the French colonial authorities to send troops to block the Sino-Vietnamese border. At this point, the transportation line between China and Vietnam was completely cut off, and1000000 tons of Vietnamese public and private materials were stranded in coastal defense. At this time, the only hope was to transport the goods back to China via the Burma Road, but the British colonial authorities blocked the Burma Road at the request of Japan, and the transportation of aid materials to China was completely interrupted. It was not until the Pacific War broke out and the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway was reopened that part of this batch of materials was shipped to China one after another.