So far, the number of battlefields in the northeast has increased to five, and there are three on the Suidong front, plus the newly opened Suihua battlefield and the Mandong battlefield, the five major battlefields have opened up firepower, and the Japanese puppet army has been defeated and retreated.

The Soviet Union has tasted the sweetness, and if Chen Feng's department can hold on to the current results, then the Far East crisis that has plagued the Soviet Union for a long time will be solved. At present, the Soviet side has invested less than 200,000 troops, and the investment is completely disproportionate to the income. Stalin was also an extremely courageous man, and after receiving Ivanov's report, he waved his pen and increased his troops by another 100,000.

In addition to the addition of 100,000 troops on the Soviet side, Yeherina also dealt with the matter of Heihe, leaving a regiment to maintain order, and the remaining 30,000 people all went south to join the battle sequence of attacking Qiqihar.

At the same time, Xu Bao's department, which had long been lurking in the hinterland of the northeast, also went all out, and the special combat team attacked everywhere, killing traitors and destroying strongholds, blowing up trains and picking up railroad tracks, and all kinds of tricks and methods were vicious, and every move could make the Kwantung Army Command feel convulsions for a while.

On 29 November, a military train from Mukden to Harbin was attacked at the Buyeo Bridge, and a squadron of escort troops on the car was completely annihilated, and a train full of munitions disappeared, and what was even more desperate was that the robber Jiang wagon drove to a sharp turn and threw it away, and in the afternoon of the same day, a military train full of soldiers collided with the train in that place, causing more than 500 casualties, and more importantly, the railway line was destroyed in a short time, and all the traffic to Harbin was left with only a bumpy road along the way.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Feng's troops launched a comprehensive general attack on Qiqihar. After a day and a night of attacking, and after paying more than 10,000 casualties, this military fortress was finally captured. At the latest, the Battle of Qiqihar ended, which lasted three months, and Chen Feng's troops invested 280,000 troops on the front line of Qiqihar to face off against the 200,000 defenders of the Japanese army.

In less than three months, as the attacking side, Chen Feng's troops suffered more than 60,000 casualties, of which 20,000 were killed directly. The rest of the more than 20,000 people were unable to return to the battlefield after recovering from their wounds. It can be seen that this battle is fierce.

Of course, the Japanese side also suffered a lot of losses, more than 200,000 troops were killed, wounded, and as many as 110,000 were taken prisoner, and the rest of the troops were all withdrawn to Harbin. This is mainly due to the fact that the Japanese army left more than 40,000 wounded and more than 10,000 puppet soldiers on the position as cannon fodder. Otherwise, the Japanese casualties would have been much less.

Qiqihar changed hands. There is only a lonely Harbin left in the entire North Manchurian drop, and the Kwantung Army Command intends to abandon Harbin, but the problem is that Harbin is a flat river to the south. If the Chinese army is allowed to detour through Harbin to attack Songyuan and Shuangcheng, then Baicheng and Ulanhot will not be able to hold it, and then Xinjing will be under it, so Harbin cannot be abandoned in any case.

Thinking that there were 500,000 or 600,000 Soviet troops around Harbin, Umezu Mijiro had a headache, and the Japanese army counted only 220,000 troops on the Suihua front, which was more than the average number of troops.

At this time, Okabe Naosaburo gave an idea, because most of the Manchu was captured, so hundreds of thousands of Japanese immigrants and five or six hundred thousand Koreans withdrew south to Harbin, anyway, these people will become prisoners of the Chinese after the city of Harbin is broken, it is better to use waste. Therefore, Okabe Naosaburo suggested that all these immigrants should be armed, and if they had weapons, they would go to the battlefield, and if they did not have weapons, they should build trenches and fortifications and act as logistics personnel.

It is good to be able to block the attack of the Shina army, and this is what we expect, and if not, we can also do it once. In the words of Okabe Naosaburo, with his understanding of Chen Feng's department, after the city is broken, they will execute all the captives, think about the hundreds of thousands of immigrants most of them are ordinary people, once the news of the Japanese Empire's massacre of the Chinese people and the unarmed immigrants is widely publicized internationally, it will definitely greatly damage the prestige of the Chinese people, and the hedgehog can also arouse the hatred of the domestic people and the Korean people for the Chinese people.

Obviously, General Umezu Yoshijiro said that in a very short period of time, all the immigrants in Harbin were armed, regardless of men, women, and children, of which as many as 180,000 were directly armed with guns, and the rest were all in charge of logistics. And the 180,000 armed immigrants did not all have guns, but in groups of three people, one person held a gun, and the other two people were each issued a bayonet and 10 rounds of ammunition.

On December 2, 1941, the Battle of Harbin began, which was the largest battle launched by China and Japan in northern China so far, in this battle Chen Feng's troops gathered 300,000 troops on the front line of Harbin, the Soviet Union touched 300,000 troops, and the Kwantung Army dispatched nearly 300,000 troops in total, and the troops of China, the Soviet Union and Japan on the Harbin line alone reached more than 900,000.

On the first day of the battle, neither side did their best, and fought tentatively for a whole day, with few casualties, but from December 3 onwards, both sides opened fire at full capacity, and in addition to conventional weapons, both sides engaged in long artillery and aviation battles.

In general, the Chinese and Soviet troops had the upper hand in the one-day battle on the 3rd, the Japanese army was shot down 27 fighters, more than 30 tanks were destroyed, and the losses of the Chinese and Soviet troops were only one-third of that of the Japanese army.

However, because the Japanese army built a large number of strong fortifications inside and outside Harbin, and there were still hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians in the city, which greatly limited the hands and feet of the Chinese and Soviet troops, it was quite difficult to take Harbin in a short time.

However, when the two sides were fighting to the death in the North Manchurian region, a news came from the south that shocked the whole of China, on the morning of December 3, the Japanese army launched a surprise attack on the Zeng Jiayan residence in Chongqing, and used five fighters full of bombs to storm the Zeng Jiayan residence, and the old man and the chief of staff were having a meeting in Zengjiayan at that time.

At the same time, the Japanese army launched a suicide attack on Yan Laoxi in Taiyuan, Longyun in Yunnan, Li Zongren in Hanzhong and Chen Mansion in Guisui, and only Yan Laoxi was unlucky and was succeeded by the Japanese in the next four assassinations.

The fighter plane that assassinated Chen Fu took off from Beiping, but the Japanese did not know that Chen Feng's department had long been equipped with a long-range early warning radar, and the first wave of covering planes flew together, and the Northern Air Force dispatched 12 fighters to meet the enemy, and the second wave of fighters was intercepted again as soon as they crossed Zhangjiakou after takeoff.

However, the Japanese side was obviously very patient, and after being intercepted for the second time, Tegaoke dispatched three batches of 15 fighters to different routes, and finally let one of the fighters arrive in Guisui.

However, the Japanese army's action ended here, these five Japanese fighters just arrived in the sky above Guisui when they were suddenly attacked by the Guisui ground air defense forces, three of the five were beaten down, and the remaining two were also beaten down by the Northern Air Force that was urgently lifted into the air, so the Japanese army's assassination of the Chen family this time was a complete failure.

However, in the grand scheme of things, the assassination was a great success, and China's most important figures were either killed or wounded, and even Lao Chiang's life and death were uncertain.

When the news came, the world was shaken, and there was even more chaos in China. Lao Chiang's personal life and death do not matter, but he shoulders the historical mission of leading China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as far as the current situation is concerned, anyone in China can die, but he cannot die, because if he dies, China will inevitably fall into chaos. No one had the prestige of Lao Chiang, who could integrate the central army, the local miscellaneous army, and the army of Yan'an at the same time.

The Japanese also saw this, so they launched this assassination, once Lao Chiang died, the united front of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression will inevitably collapse, and even local factions will break out because of power struggles, just like the warlord melee more than ten years ago.

After receiving that his father-in-law was killed, Lao Jiang's life and death were uncertain, and his own house almost became the target of the Japanese army's dead soldiers. While Chen Feng was angry, he was more worried.

At present, China is in the most critical period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, North and Central China have become familiar with the Japanese routine, and it will not be a problem to hold on, while the Northeast and Burma have entered the counteroffensive, especially the Northeast region, the large-scale counteroffensive is continuing, and it will not take long to recover the Great Northeast.

If this had not happened, China would certainly have been able to defeat Japan ahead of schedule, and then it would have been able to recover all the land it had lost in the past century.

However, as soon as Lao Jiang died, the problem became serious. If the Japanese army takes this opportunity to counterattack, it is better to say that he is in North China, and South China will not be able to guarantee it, as for the situation in Burma is also worrying, you must know that the people who fight in Burma are the elite of the Nationalist Government, the descendants of Lao Chiang, and now that Lao Chiang has an accident, those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals may not be at ease to resist Japan.

When the United States and Britain learned that Chiang's fate was uncertain, they all called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government to inquire about Chiang's injuries, and Roosevelt even urgently sent his own personal doctor to China, demanding that Chiang be revived at all costs.

The Japanese side was also uneasy, and the assassination of China's top leaders was relatively successful on the whole, Lao Jiang did not know whether he was alive or dead, Yan Laoxi was killed, Long Yun was seriously injured, and only Li Zongren and Chen Feng were fine, which greatly damaged the morale of the Chinese military and people. (To be continued......)