Recently, famous singer Alan Tam recalled his father's anti-Japanese deeds, which shocked countless people. Many people only realized at this time that Alan Tam was also a loyal descendant, and his father was a veritable anti-Japanese hero. Alan Tam's father's name is Tan Jiangbai. He is a famous Chinese football player in modern times. He was selected into the national team in 1934 and once represented the Chinese team in the Berlin Olympics. However, in Tan Jiangbai's heart, resisting Japan and saving the country is far more important than becoming a football star.
In the first Battle of Shanghai in 1932, Tan Jiangbai served as the captain of the logistics and civil movement of the 19th Route Army, and pioneered the "rolling transportation method", leading migrant workers to quickly transport wounded and strategic items through relaying rolling stretchers and supplies boxes during the Japanese bombing, saving more than 200 wounded soldiers a day. In 1938, Tan Jiangbai went to Yunnan as a lieutenant of the army, serving as the captain of the 12th Overseas Chinese Transportation Brigade, responsible for transporting anti-Japanese materials on the Yunnan-Burma Highway. The Yunnan-Burma Highway was the only land artery for China to obtain international aid materials at that time, but it was full of dangers. Tan Jiangbai led the transportation brigade to face the dangers of Japanese aircraft bombing, spies' destruction, landslides, mudslides and other dangers.
Tan Jiangbai fully utilized the agile reaction and courageous spirit he exercised during his athletes, and cleverly avoided danger again and again. He also thought about the "three-point binding method" and firmly tied heavy goods into the carriage in a triangular layout, greatly improving the safety and stability of transportation. This technology was later written into the operation manual by the Southwest Transportation Office and promoted in various transportation brigades.
When the road was paralyzed after the convoy was bombed, he directed the team members to carry the hand with their hands with their hands and transport the materials across obstacles to the destination in the form of a "human flesh conveyor belt". In 1942, the convoy was bombed by Japanese troops at Huitong Bridge. Tan Jiangbai jumped out of the cab and protected the wooden box containing penicillin with his body until he completed the medicine handover with his comrades who came to pick him up. Under his leadership, the Transportation Brigade traveled back and forth on the Yunnan-Burma Highway for more than 200 trips, transporting tens of thousands of tons of guns, ammunition, medical equipment, fuel and other materials, and achieved amazing results of zero major accidents throughout the transportation process.
It was the outstanding Chinese soldiers represented by Tan Jiangbai who braved the rain of guns and bullets and stayed on the Yunnan-Burma Highway to continuously transport anti-Japanese materials such as guns, ammunition, medical equipment, fuel, etc. to the country, and strongly supported the domestic war of resistance.
Alan Tam said that in order to prevent being bombed by Japanese military aircraft, the transport convoy led by his father could only go up the mountain in the dark at night and could not turn on the lights. The militia waved white cloth at the turn, so that the driver could see the road and turn clearly through the moonlight. Alan Tam expressed affectionately that his father has always been a hero in my heart. Mr. Tan Jiangbai and his comrades are truly amazing when he stays on the front line in such extreme dangers.
For Alan Tam’s father, Mr. Tan Jiangbai, there is an ancient poem that can be summarized as follows: to go to the national crisis with great pride and treat death as if it is home. Why has Chinese civilization encountered so many disasters but never destroyed its country? It is because in every crisis, countless patriots stand up and look on their way to death. They support the backbone of our nation and are national heroes that will never be forgotten by future generations.
