At five o'clock in the morning on June 8, 1942, 1.8 million Chinese troops launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese puppet army in the northeast and north China from Harbin in the north to the Lanfeng line, and at the same time, 28 divisions under the command of Lieutenant General Ivanov, with the cooperation of some Chinese troops, went out of Jixi and attacked in the direction of the Mudanjiang River.

In the face of the powerful offensive of the Chinese and Soviet armies, the Japanese side also attached great importance to it, and sent a large number of troops to deploy defenses on major communication arteries and key cities, and was quite determined to fight to the death.

In the view of Umezu Mijiro and Okamura Ninji, this battle must be a protracted war of attrition, although the offensive of the Chinese and Soviet armies is powerful, but the Japanese puppet army in Northeast and North China is not dry, and the army of more than 1.4 million people can definitely not be defeated in a short time.

However, in fact, the situation of the war showed a one-sided situation from the very beginning, and the Chinese and Soviet armies adopted the key cities defended by the Japanese army to fight if they could, and bypassed them if they could not fight or could not be defeated for the time being, and they were not afraid of the Japanese army taking the back road at all, and occupied a large number of cities and towns in a very short period of time.

By June 15, nearly 300,000 Japanese troops north of Changchun were alone in the three cities of Songyuan, Shuangcheng and Mudanjiang, and other places had long become Chinese territory.

At first, the Kwantung Army Command wanted to copy the back path of the Chinese army, trying to use the defenders in these cities to cooperate with the troops in Changchun to flank the Chinese troops who broke into the hinterland of Japan, but soon they found themselves like beasts trapped in the swamp, seemingly powerful, but in fact they could not even move, because they only controlled some cities, and outside the city. The Chinese and Soviet armies launched a large number of Chinese civilians to attack everywhere and destroy the Japanese puppet transportation arteries, and the Japanese puppet troops in Songyuan and other places were empty of hundreds of thousands, but they could not get out of the city at all, and completely fell into the quagmire of China/military and civilians.

The battles in other places were similar, and the rapid development of the war situation not only shocked the Japanese side, but even Wei Lihuang, the Chinese commander in charge of the battle, was also surprised, commanding 1.8 million troops to deal with 1.4 million Japanese puppet troops, which Wei Lihuang had never imagined, although the combat effectiveness of the reorganized Chinese troops had made a qualitative leap, but he had a great understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army by fighting with the Japanese army all year round. To be honest, he didn't know the bottom of his heart.

However. The officers and men at the front used facts to teach him, the commander-in-chief, a lesson to the general, that in just one week, the troops' display had advanced more than 300 kilometers, and the members of the Turkish Communist Party, whom they had once looked down upon, had exploded into great combat effectiveness in this campaign. Mobilize the masses of the people to give great help to the troops at the front. Now the logistics of the army, as well as the reserves, hardly have to worry about it. The local people will be encircled, and the troops will only need to advance step by step.

After so many years of fighting, Wei Lihuang has never fought so smoothly. And the enemy is still such an elite as the Japanese Kwantung Army. At this time, Wei Lihuang felt great admiration for the young chairman of the committee in Chongqing and the former leader of Yan'an.

The victory on the front line directly stimulated the enthusiasm of the people in China for the anti-Japanese war, represented by big cities such as Guisui, Chongqing, and Chengdu, and a large number of people generously donated money and materials to the anti-Japanese resistance, and the young and middle-aged people who came to join the army filled the recruitment offices in various cities.

But the young people who came to sign up for the army suddenly found that joining the army this year was much more cumbersome than before, when the old Jiang was in charge, the big guy wanted to join the army as soon as he went to the conscription office to fill out a form, but now it is different, filling in the form is necessary, and a lot of proof is required, in addition, it is necessary to check the body, only those who are qualified can be soldiers, and the educated are relatively good, and the audit is not very strict, and the audit for those who do not know one of the big characters is much stricter.

According to the documents issued by the Executive Yuan, all provinces were required to set up additional governments at the township level, and to build education according to the standards of one township, one primary school and one middle school, no less than 15 primary schools and five middle schools in one banner county, and no less than three universities in one province.

The same is true for medical and health reforms: a township must have a health center, a county must have a hospital that can perform simple appendix surgery, and a city must have a comprehensive hospital.

According to the budget, all the national control areas will be completed, and the government will need to invest 500 million legal dollars a year in education and health care alone. Originally, according to the government's decision, it was planned to carry out reforms in stages and regions, and increase fiscal revenues year by year.

However, Chen Feng is well aware of the importance of education and medical care, so he promised to invest 200 million US dollars a year in education and medical reform for the government, hoping that the government will implement this policy as soon as possible.

With Chen Feng's strong support, the government moved quickly. A large number of educated young people and doctors were sent to various counties and towns to teach and practice medicine, and the government accelerated the construction of schools and health centers.

The common people see all this in their eyes, and they know better than anyone what the government is doing and what it wants to do. At the same time, the common people are the most simple, and they must support such a conquest, so in 1942 there was the most touching group phenomenon in Chinese history.

This year, the government did not need to urge the payment of taxes, and the people drove their ox carts to the county seat within the specified time, and guaranteed that they were full of two catties, never mixed with sand, and they were all fine grains; This year, the government did not need to arrest the strong men, and the conscription offices in various places were overcrowded; This year, there are many fewer small radish heads in the fields and child labor in the factories, and even in the most remote towns in China, you can hear the sound of reading aloud; There are many fewer Chinese who died of headaches and colds this year, because each county and town has its own health center, and serious illnesses may not be seen, but headache and brain fever are still no problem

Whether it was the U.S. government, the Soviet government, or the Hitler regime, which was in the hostile camp with China, they were all extremely surprised by what had happened in China, and at the same time, they all felt that this ancient country had finally exploded in silence, and the lion of the East had woken up.

The Japanese government, which has been repeatedly attacked militarily, is also quite helpless, and although they do not believe that the Chinese government can defeat the Japanese government in a short time, many officials are pessimistic about the outcome of the war.

At this time, there were some different voices at the Japanese civil and government levels, and they believed that the government should hold talks with the Chinese government and the US government as soon as possible to end the war as soon as possible, or make peace with one side and then continue the war with the other side.

The Japanese Government also attached great importance to this and sent an ambassador to the United States on 18 June to discuss matters related to the peace talks, but the United States refused.

At the same time, Japan's large enterprises have been frequently attacked, mainly by military enterprises, such as arsenals and aircraft factories, but also by enterprises such as steel factories and cement factories.

In addition, some Japanese war advocates have been assassinated frequently, and there are military officers and politicians, and although their identities are different, they all have a common characteristic, that is, these people are all in favor of waging war against China, the United States, and Britain, and they have done a lot of things for this purpose, and have been awarded certain honors by the Japanese Government.

Of course, now these people also have a common characteristic, that is, the death is extremely miserable, and they are not dismembered and are shot in the head, and each one is left with a whole corpse. The Japanese government and ordinary people have been making a lot of noise about what has happened, but they are helpless.

As early as last year, he sent Li Zong and others to return to Japan with dozens of special combat personnel who were familiar with Japanese society and Japanese living habits, and rebuilt the "Hojo Family" and the Hojo Trading House in Tokyo.

At present, Chen Feng has ordered Li Zong's special combat team to draw up their own operational plans and plan to disrupt Japanese society, crack down on those fanatical war elements, and create an atmosphere of terror in a purposeful and planned manner.

Chen Feng knows better than anyone the role of terrorist attacks, and even a superpower as strong as the United States in later generations is silent about terrorist attacks, let alone Japan now.

The defeat of the war, the air raids of the enemy's air groups, and the ubiquitous terrorist attacks, the Japanese people finally felt the pain of their skin, and the previous enthusiasm for the war was declining, which was directly reflected in the people's support for the army and the government, and the Japanese government was relatively easy to recruit soldiers in the first two years.

Especially 37 years ago, when the Japanese army was invincible everywhere it went, almost all the soldiers made a fortune, and the looted property was enough for the family members in the country to eat and drink, so for a long time the young and middle-aged people in Japan rushed to become soldiers, and whose children joined the army had to feast relatives and friends.

But as the war dragged on, that was the case forever, and now many times, families send their children to the army, and it doesn't take long to receive death notices.

Those who died in battle are still good, at least they can be commended by the government, and there is a certain amount of pension. But if they are captured, it will be troublesome, not only will their own reputation be damaged, but they will also affect their family and friends, and they will be discriminated against and humiliated by the government and their neighbors.

This year, the Japanese government expects to recruit 1.5 million soldiers, but only more than 500,000 have been recruited after half a year, and two-thirds of the tasks still need to be completed. (To be continued......)