The young pilots were very lucky, and after only half a month's wait, the planes (the second batch) purchased by Zhou Hexuan last time were delivered, and 16 SB bombers from the Soviet Union aiding China were also delivered.

Fast forward to December, and after several retaliatory bombings of Chengdu, Japanese planes suddenly stopped.

This is not the result of the enemy becoming benevolent, but the result of the air force athletes on the Chengdu side struggling to block it. Although the Chengdu airport was badly bombed, the Japanese also paid the price of nearly 20 planes - the result of the previous air battles was that the pilots and fighters in Chengdu were depleted, and the Japanese air force in Wuhan was sharply reduced by one-fifth.

Before the young pilots assigned to Chongqing had time to touch the plane, nearly half of them were urgently transferred to Chengdu for garrison.

As the Japanese air force in Wuhan was licking its wounds, the entire month of December saw only two air strikes on major cities in Sichuan. Chongqing was often foggy in winter, and the Japanese spies who could send telegrams were taken away by the military commanders, so from December to the Lunar New Year, the people of Chongqing enjoyed a rare tranquility, and they did not encounter a single bombing.

On the Guangxi side, the "Battle of Guinan" was in full swing, with Bai Chongxi as the commander-in-chief and Chen Cheng as the supervisor next to him.

There is a saying that "kill the Japanese army except the enemy, kill the friendly army except the internal enemy", during the Anti-Japanese War, Chang Kaishen always consciously consumed miscellaneous troops. This time, he met Bai Chongxi, who was "a demon high", who openly avoided Chen Cheng, the supervising army, and let the Gui army troops fight a side battle from beginning to end, and transferred Du Yuming's Fifth Army and other miscellaneous armies to fight with the Japanese invaders.

The "Kunlun Pass Victory" made Du Yuming and the Fifth Army famous, killing the commander of the Japanese brigade Nakamura Masao, killing more than 4,000 enemies and capturing more than 100 people. But Lao Jiang's heart was dripping blood, the Fifth Army was not only the descendant of the Central Army, but also China's first mechanized army, and more than 15,000 casualties were lost in this battle.

Chang Kaishen felt that he had been pitted by Bai Chongxi, and there were still words of suffering and fire-Bai Chongxi had just commanded a big victory, so it was impossible to punish him. Not only can it not be punished, but it must also be commended, Lao Jiang is so choked that he wants to vomit blood.

At the end of 1939, there were very few fierce battles like the Battle of Guinan. The Japanese troops on all other fronts stopped their large-scale operations, and the "stalemate situation" became more and more obvious - the Kuomintang, which was finally able to take a breath, quickly set off the first anti-communist upsurge during the Anti-Japanese War.

On December 1, Yan Xishan instigated the "Jinxi Incident" and suddenly launched an attack on the Shanxi New Army with almost all the military strength in his hands.

Although the Shanxi New Army was a team formed by the Communist Party, it belonged to the Jin Sui Army number sequence, which was agreed by Yan Xishan in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. Now Yan Xishan not only turned his gun to attack the Shanxi New Army, but also colluded with the Japanese puppet army, and there was a ridiculous and strange thing that the Jin Sui Army (old army) and the Japanese puppet army were flanking the Jin Sui Army (new army).

On December 4, the Kuomintang once again created the "Longdong Incident" and took the initiative to attack the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army was also unambiguous, and easily drove away the Heshui and Qingyang county governments under the rule of the Kuomintang.

On December 20, the Kuomintang ordered the implementation of the "Measures for Handling the Communist Party Question," which explicitly restricted the development of the Communist Party from the three aspects of the party, government, and military.

At this time, Wu Peifu died, and the whole country mourned, and both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party spoke highly of it.

According to the Japanese invaders' attempt, they wanted Wu Peifu and Tang Shaoyi to form a puppet government.

Tang Shaoyi was more unlucky, his son-in-law (Cen Deguang) had already defected to the enemy, and he personally took Kenji Tu Feihara to lobby Tang Shaoyi to be a traitor. Tang Shaoyi hadn't even shown his attitude, and he didn't even see Kenji Dohihara, and the news was discovered by the military commander's spies, and he was assassinated and killed by Dai Li's faction.

The Kuomintang elders are very dissatisfied with this, because Tang Shaoyi has not yet surrendered to the enemy, who can say whether he is loyal or traitorous?

As a last resort, Chang Kaishen could only claim that Tang Shaoyi was assassinated by the Japanese because he refused to be a traitor, and the Kuomintang also specially issued a "Commendation Order" and 5,000 yuan funeral expenses to Tang Shaoyi.

Wu Peifu's death is much more bizarre, and he is likely to have been killed by the Japanese invaders. This gentleman refused to be wooed by the Japanese invaders many times, and when the tooth disease recurred, a Japanese dentist suddenly forcibly came to see a doctor, and Wu Peifu died on the spot.

The most nonsense thing is that after Wu Peifu's death, not only the Kuomintang and the Communist Party unanimously praised him, but also the Japanese invaders commended him. The supreme commander of the Japanese invasion of China personally attended Wu Peifu's public memorial ceremony, and all cities and counties in the occupied areas of North China lowered their flags at half-mast for three consecutive days to mourn -- it was nothing more than using his fame to win over the hearts of the Han (Han) people.

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The pictorial co-founded by Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yuxiang quickly became popular, whether it was "Captain China" or "Sanmao's Tale in the Army", which was widely sought after by readers.

In terms of word-of-mouth, "The Story of Sanmao in the Army" has a higher evaluation, and intellectuals and ordinary people like it.

But "Captain China" caused an even bigger sensation, this kind of superhero type of comics, no one has ever seen it before. What is a genetic drug? Except for a few student biographies, no one knows. But it doesn't affect its popularity at all, the common people are fed up with the invasion of the Japanese invaders, and they can see Chinese heroes beating little Japan in comic works, which is also a kind of spiritual sustenance and emotional venting.

Although many literati criticize "Captain China" for having no connotation, reflecting a kind of escape psychology that is detached from reality, people just like to watch it. Even the children in the school play games, all vying to play the "Tiger King" Zheng Xiaofei, and the particularly unlucky students can only play the role of Dr. Aihara and be beaten.

The fourth episode of "Captain China" is roughly about Zheng Xiaofei taking out the laboratory and being taken in by a farmer on the outskirts of Beiping, and the beautiful village girl also fell in love with Zheng Xiaofei.

Just when the reader thought that the village girl was the heroine, the Japanese devil entered the village with the puppet army. They came to the countryside to collect grain, and the village girl was taken by a devil, and was brutally killed because of resistance, Zheng Xiaofei, who went into the city to inquire about the enemy's situation, flew back to the village to witness this tragedy.

Zheng Xiaofei broke out, he transformed into a humanoid tiger, killed the Japanese devils and the leader of the puppet army, and forced the remaining puppet army to join the anti-Japanese army.

With one enemy and a thousand, he can still win completely, which makes the reader's blood boil, and he can't wait for there is really a "Tiger King" Zheng Xiaofei in reality.

The fifth episode is even more powerful, Zheng Xiaofei directly entered the North China Dispatch Army Headquarters. Since the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, Shouichi Terauchi, happened to be absent, he could only slaughter a few Japanese staff officers with his own hands, and fought again fiercely with Dr. Aihara, who heard the news. Both of them were defeated, and Zheng Xiaofei broke through with injuries all the way, causing more than 3,000 casualties among the Japanese troops and puppet troops who surrounded and intercepted them.

Zheng Xiaofei desperately fled to Xiangshan and came to a broken Taoist temple. There is a young Taoist priest in the Taoist temple who is seeing off the master in the dojo, and the two fight because of a misunderstanding.

They didn't fight and didn't know each other, so they made an appointment to go down the mountain together to kill devils, and Li Tonglin, the second person of the super anti-Japanese hero, "Sword Fairy", returned to his position.

In the sixth episode, when Zheng Xiaofei and Li Tonglin were assassinating high-ranking Japanese officials, they undoubtedly bumped into Dr. Aihara to mass-produce Japanese super soldiers. The two infiltrated secretly, successfully sabotaged each other's conspiracy, and completely destroyed the genetic potion data and finished products, but there were still two super-soldiers who were successfully created.

Before New Year's Day in 1940, the serialized content of "Captain China" was these, and it was so popular that some old talents in the late Qing Dynasty were waiting to chase after each other every day. These cartoons gradually spread to all theaters of war, and were vied by the front-line officers and soldiers, so much so that when some units were asking for supplies, they specifically indicated that they wanted several pictorials of "Captain China" to be serialized.

Wanrong, who was already a university lecturer, couldn't draw at all, so Zhou Hexuan had to recruit two more young cartoonists to create an assembly line according to the plot he gave.