Time is gradually passing. （. .）

Only time is eternal, and it does not stand still because of everything, from the extinction of the stars to wars, sickness, and death.

Nothing can stop time.

The snow and ice gradually began to melt, and the desolate earth gradually saw green grass emerge from the ground, and hibernating animals gradually woke up, crawling out of their burrows and looking for food.

The international situation has become more and more tense because of the reckless military force of Germany and Italy, especially the Soviet Union and Britain, which are also in the same European plot, are also beginning to make all-out war preparations, just like Poland and other small countries, which can only swing between these big countries, and the people at home are panicked and quite stormy, and they cannot control their own destiny at all.

The clouds of war loomed over the entire European continent, and the signs of the outbreak of World War II had begun to become inevitable.

Because of geopolitical relations, the United States is relatively better off at the moment, although it also has to face the question of what position it will stand on once a major war breaks out.

However, on the eve of the outbreak of this war, they were obviously like fish in water, and as they did in the Sino-Japanese war, they did not express their position until the last moment, but took advantage of this opportunity to constantly secretly export all kinds of weapons and make a lot of war profits.

The United States' national strength and geographical advantages have also become an ideal harbor for many top scientists on the European continent to escape the war, and many German physicists even secretly fled to the United States.

No one will know that these scientists, including the German scientist Albert Einstein, who has long since fled to the United States, will create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction that will change the entire world pattern in two or three years -- the atomic bomb!

The birth of the atomic bomb completely established the United States' position as the world's number one hegemon, and no one could shake it for centuries.

At the same time, Hong Kong.

A sign was hung in front of a small building, with a few big characters written on it - Anti-Japanese Iron Army, the hope of China, and the military fundraising office of the Sichuan Army Independent Regiment!

At the same time, a propaganda team composed of more than a dozen people took to the streets of Hong Kong with leaflets, telling the ordinary people and businessmen about the countless singing and crying deeds of the Sichuan Army Independent Regiment in the anti-Japanese war, especially the name of Lu Yuan, which became the most important part of their propaganda.

At the same time, the war situation between the domestic and Japanese armies was also quietly changing.

The Nationalist Government was located in Chongqing, confronting the Japanese army, and it was still a passive defensive posture.

However, the focus of the Japanese attack has begun to quietly shift.

Under the command of Okamura Ninji, the Japanese troops in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei area carried out a large-scale blockade of the Eighth Route and the Independent Regiment of the Sichuan Army in the base area behind the enemy, and launched a sweep as soon as possible after the year, and the common people suffered heavy casualties.

The Eighth Route Army and the Independent Regiment of the Sichuan Army also began to respond at the first time, withdrawing the people in the border areas to the core area on a large scale, and the whole army attacked, and fought to the death with the Japanese army, intending to smash the Japanese army's prison policy.

This large-scale operation lasted for more than a month.

At the beginning, the armed forces behind enemy lines with the Sichuan Army Independent Regiment as the core occupied the absolute initiative, and with mobile and flexible tactics, they continued to consume and inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army.

However, in the later period, the Japanese army gradually grasped the initiative on the battlefield, especially after Lieutenant General Abe Norihide led the second brigade of the independent gang to occupy Laiyuan, and even brought his mountain tactics to the extreme.

In this way, the Japanese army's encirclement of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region was completely formed, and the base areas of the Eighth Route Army and Trojan Horse County in the encirclement were eyeing each other.

On the frontal battlefield, the Japanese army, which had ended the Battle of Wuhan, was obviously not interested in continuing to attack the heavily fortified Yunnan-Guichuan region and completely eliminating the Chiang government.

In fact, when the Japanese army launched this war, it never thought of attacking the Yunnan-Guichuan region!

This is not only because the Yunnan-Guichuan region is a mountainous and hilly area, and the transportation is inconvenient, which is a serious test for their logistics supply, not to mention their main advantage, artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, in these places can not play an advantage at all, and it is not just that they are worried that the battle line is too long and the troops are insufficient, or that Yunnan-Guichuan is a barren land, and even if it is defeated, there is not much oil and water.

So when the decision was made to start the war, the Japanese army never thought that the war would be fought until now.

They naively thought that as long as they won the Songhu battlefield and captured Nanjing, the Nationalist Government would be so frightened that they would kowtow and beg for mercy, and then draw the land as a boundary, just as they occupied the three eastern provinces back then, and the Nationalist Government would not dare to let go of a fart.

Who knows, this time the Nationalist Government actually hardened up, even though it suffered heavy casualties and retreated one after another, it did not mention the surrender proposal at all, which not only completely shattered the dream of the Japanese military headquarters, but also forced it to carry out the war to the end.

At present, they are still winning, and they can still use victory to cover up the appearance that the longer the war drags on, the weaker their army will become, but many Japanese high-ranking people have realized that they have fallen into the quagmire of war, and they will not be able to pull out their legs at all, and sooner or later, they will be dragged down alive.

Of course, the fundamental reason for not attacking Yunguichuan is that these areas are not only complicated, but also because the people in these places are too strong.

As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people.

These people can survive in such a harsh natural environment, that is to fight with the sky, the earth, and people, and all of them dare to play with their lives.

In addition, these areas are high and densely forested, and it is easy to hide, once a large army enters these areas, it is like a light in the night, and everywhere is exposed under the noses of those fierce people.

In the frontal battlefield before, and the Sichuan army fought several times, the Japanese army already knew how difficult it was for the Diao people from these poor mountains and bad waters, they couldn't imagine what kind of fate would happen if they broke into the opponent's lair, they could only be sure that those Diao people would never let go of any opportunity to sneak attack them.

They don't want to enter an embarrassing situation where they may be attacked and shot cold at any time and anywhere, and then pout their butts and hide in the mountains, unable to even chase them.

Under these circumstances, on the one hand, the Japanese army maintained a confrontation with the Nationalist army, and at the same time shifted the center of gravity of the attack to the south and attacked the Liangguang area.

The war situation, as time passed, gradually developed in a direction favorable to China, but ordinary soldiers and ordinary people did not see any signs of such improvement, at least for the people and soldiers in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region.

They are trapped in the cage of the Japanese army, and they are facing the most difficult moment since the Anti-Japanese War, like the darkest moment before dawn!