In 1943, the situation in the world was also turbulent, and in early January, the Soviet army launched a counterattack in Leningrad, thus successfully breaking through the German blockade of Leningrad that lasted for more than 900 days.

Leningrad, formerly known as Petrograd, is the Russian "window of Europe" established by Peter the Great in 1703, where it was the cradle of the Great October Revolution, the second largest city in the Soviet Union, an important seaport and railway and river transport hub, and an important base of the Soviet Baltic Fleet, known as the second capital of the Soviet Union...... When Hitler formulated the "Barbarossa" plan, he repeatedly stressed the need to capture Leningrad, the "birthplace of Bolshevism", and arrogantly clamored that the city must be "wiped off the face of the earth." The war began with an unsuccessful attempt to capture the city, and a siege lasted for 900 days.

In late August 1940, a distraught Hitler mobilized 32 infantry divisions, 4 tank divisions, 4 motorized divisions and 1 cavalry brigade on the northern flank, equipped with 6,000 artillery pieces, 4,500 mortars and more than 1,000 aircraft, to launch a fierce offensive on Leningrad, threatening to occupy this important city on September 1.

The Germans were 1.4 times larger than the Soviet army, 3 times as many artillery, 4.8 times as many mortars, 0.2 times as many tanks, and 8.8 times as many aircraft.

The Soviet Union fell into a passive state at the beginning of the Chen battle, and with the great defeat of the Soviet Union in the entire Eastern European theater, the Leningrad side also suffered an unprecedented blow. However, bombs can destroy the homes of Leningraders, but they cannot destroy their fighting spirit. Neither can the cold and hunger. During the most difficult winter of 1941, the Leningraders miraculously opened an ice road on the ice of Lake Ladoga, through which they brought in food and transported out the wounded, the only "road of life" with the outside world, thus overcoming the threat of cold and hunger and thwarting the German army's attempt to trap the Leningraders.

After that, the German army and civilians in Leningrad carried out a two-and-a-half-year siege, which lasted 900 days, destroying public facilities, water, energy and food supplies, and leading to an unprecedented famine in the Leningrad region. Caused up to 1.5 million deaths. More than 1.4 million civilians and soldiers were evacuated, many of whom died in bombing and famine during the evacuation. One of the cemeteries in Leningrad alone buried 500,000 victims of the siege.

In Leningrad, the economic destruction and loss of human life exceeded the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The Siege of Leningrad is included in the history of the world's bloodiest battles.

In January 1943, the Soviets concentrated 2,000 artillery pieces and mortars on the German positions in the Schlüsselburg area for two hours of heavy artillery fire. Then the Su-61st Army and the 2nd Shock Army attacked from the south and north, respectively. After 7 days of fierce fighting. Break through the German positions 14 kilometers deep. The Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts triumphantly joined forces in workers' villages No. 1 and No. 5, thus breaking through the 17-month German siege of Leningrad.

Shortly after breaking the German siege of Leningrad, the Soviets again achieved a breakthrough victory at Stalingrad. The Soviet Red Army defeated 330,000 German troops at Stalingrad and captured more than 90,000 people, including German Field Marshal Paulus, and won the Battle of Stalingrad.

At the same time, the British army also made considerable progress in the North African theater, capturing the port city of Tripoli, where the Germans were stationed, in early February, and controlling more than half of the territory of Libya.

In the Asian theater, the Japanese completely withdrew their troops from Chinese mainland and built a 300-kilometer defensive position along the Changbai Mountain line in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. On the Sino-Vietnamese border, more than 700,000 puppet troops deployed along the line of Lang Son and Zhennan Pass, trying to defend French Indochina.

In the struggle for islands in the South Pacific, the navies of China, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union worked together to encircle and suppress the remaining 150 warships of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet, forcing the Japanese Government to urgently deliver to the navy several aircraft carriers and battleships that had not yet been completed and had not yet undergone sea trials.

Although the Japanese Navy has been supplemented by more than a dozen large warships in a short period of time, and its strength has recovered somewhat, it is still much worse than the combined fleet half a year ago, especially the death of a large number of veterans and senior commanders, which directly caused the command center of the combined fleet to suffer a serious blow.

In mid-May, after half a year of bitter fighting, the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet was never able to regain air and sea supremacy in the South Pacific waters, and completely lost the initiative in the South Pacific War.

With the Allied counterattack, the Japanese casualties soared, and the Japanese economy was already in a state of semi-collapse due to the drastic depletion of resources and other strategic materials.

In Japan, the tide is surging, and the people's living standards are worse than two years ago, and the rice that can be eaten once a month is no longer visible, let alone meat, except for the occasional little fish, other meat is still almost extinct in the Japanese market.

The unemployment rate in Japanese society is very high, and many women are forced to become prostitutes due to the pressure of life. Under these circumstances, many people's dissatisfaction with the government has reached its peak, and the anti-war voices have become louder and louder, and even some senior government officials have called on the government to negotiate with the United States and Britain and other countries to end the war at an early date.

In view of this situation, the Japanese government had no choice but to face up to the anti-war voices and agreed to formal peace talks with China, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union.

The Japanese side put forward a very low position this time, and put forward the condition that Japan agreed to withdraw its troops from the entire South Pacific region, hand over all the territories it had acquired after the outbreak of the Pacific War, and only demanded that the two places of Korea and Treasure Island be retained, and that it was willing to pay a certain amount of war reparations to China, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union.

The United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain were very interested in Japan's conditions, and they were eager to withdraw from the Asian theater and then throw themselves into the European theater, so they were very willing to negotiate peace with the Japanese side.

However, the Chinese side does not show any interest in this, and the Chinese Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has officially made clear its attitude to the governments of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union that China will not hold peace talks with the current Japanese government under any circumstances, unless Japan surrenders unconditionally, and at the same time hopes that the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain will abide by the relevant agreements of the "Atlantic Charter" and the "Cairo Declaration" and will never make peace with Japan.

If the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain do not heed the advice, the Chinese government will consider withdrawing from the Allies, severing all cooperation with the United States and the Soviet Union, and fighting Japan on its own.

The Chinese government also urgently held a press conference to announce the government's decision. In the words of the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chinese are modest, and it is precisely because of such a modest character that everyone thinks that the Chinese are easy to bully, but now the Chinese have stood up and dared to fight any enemy to the end. The grievances and hatreds of this generation will be resolved in this generation, and will never be left to the next generation, and the Chinese must leap into Tokyo with a sword.

The United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain were also taken aback by the tough attitude of the Chinese government, withdrew from the allies, and fought against Japan alone, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill were messy, they knew Chen Feng very well, and only he dared to say such strong words, and he could also do it.

As a last resort, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill had to urgently telegraph the matter, and the Chinese government can now be said to have completely dominated the Chinese theater, the Northeast Asian theater, and the South Pacific theater, and if China withdrew from the allies and broke off all cooperation, it would be a disaster for the Allies.

More importantly, China had a very good relationship with Germany before this, and many high-ranking German officials were very good friends with Chen Feng, such as Delixi and others, and even now, Chen Feng's army still has a large number of German Jews serving in the army. It is important to know that not all Jews hate Germany, and if these people have contributed to it, Sino-German cooperation is not impossible.

After urgent consultations, the leaders of the three countries agreed that the allies could not afford to lose China as an ally for the time being, so they decided to advance and retreat together with the Chinese government, and if the Japanese government did not surrender, the war would continue.

The Japanese government is helpless, they feel that their shelves have been put to the lowest, and even some of them are wagging their tails and begging for mercy, but the hateful Chinese still bite it.

Surrender, it's a joke, how could the Great Japanese Empire surrender, even if it was the last person to fight, the Great Japanese Empire would not surrender.

Since the Allies officially refused to negotiate peace with Japan, the Japanese emperor and their ministers united as never before, and even the army and navy, which had always been difficult to deal with, got along very well, with only one purpose, that is, to fight the next war and defend the Japanese mainland.

In early June, Chen Feng was officially appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Asian Theater, commanding the Chinese Army, Navy, and Air Force, the Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Burmese forces stationed in India, the Soviet Far East Red Army stationed in the Far East, and the U.S.-Philippine and Australian armies stationed in Australia.

On June 10, U.S. Admiral Nimitz commanded U.S. troops to land on the island of Central New Georgia in the Solomon Islands and began a counterattack in the central Solomon Islands. On the same day, MacArthur commanded U.S. troops to land in the Gulf of New Guinea to join up with the Chen family's troops stationed in the South Seas Territory to prepare for an attack on the Japanese forces in Singapore and the Philippines.

In less than half a year, the situation on the anti-fascist battlefield in the world has changed greatly, the allied forces have continuously made breakthroughs, and the anti-fascist war has entered the stage of all-out counteroffensive. (To be continued......)