Word: salween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese reports said that 30,000 Japanese, replete with collapsible boats and other war gear, were massed across the Salween River apparently ready to strike toward Kunming, 230 miles eastward on the route to Chungking...
From China, with footslogging infantry troops and all the rolling forces he could spare, Chiang Kai-shek moved south to meet them. Chiang threw another force into Burma far to the east, by fierce battling kept the Jap on the west side of the turgid Salween River...
...deep gorge on the upper Salween, foot-weary, battle-battered Chinese troops were finally backed up against the bridge, retreated across it while the Japs from the other side rained down fire on them. The Chinese left their dead behind them, blew up the bridge, and crawled up the winding road to the heights on the China side. Across from them the Jap's guns bayed at the scent of tired game...
...front dashed Lung Yun (the Cloud Dragon), Governor of Yunnan Province. With the dead general at his feet, he called on the little soldiers for another last stand. The Jap would soon cross the Salween. His rolling stock was already massing on the bluff. He would have to be stopped. It would be hard. Every beaten soldier there knew that the Japs across the Salween were from the crack Red Dragon armored division...
...Nipponese, apparently advancing rapidly along the Burma Road, after earlier reverses near the border, had reached the Salween River, where Chinese had blasted two suspension bridges...