Unlike the newspapers in the Kuomintang-controlled areas that were secretive and did not dare to report, the media in Western countries reported the Wujiashan victory vigorously.
The "Washington Post" in the United States published a report on the victory of the New Regiment at Wujiashan in a prominent position on the front page. Most of the content of the report was forwarded from the "Eighth Route Army Daily". Although it expressed doubts about the result of the victory of 5,000 people to wipe out 70,000 people, However, the "Washington Post" still spoke highly of the Wujiashan victory and the New Regiment. It believed that the New Regiment could fight the Northeast alone and inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, which fully proved the powerful combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army and also proved that China People have the ability to drive away invaders and maintain territorial integrity and security through their own efforts.
At the same time, the Soviet party organ newspaper "Pravda" reported the news of the Wujiashan victory in a prominent position on its third page, and also included an emotional editorial.
"China is an ancient country with a long history of five thousand years and many inventions including gunpowder, papermaking, printing, and the compass. It can be said that China has changed the world. In the past two thousand years, China has It has always been the most powerful country in the world.
However, as the industrial revolution led by Britain continued, China began to go from prosperity to backwardness, and was gradually distanced by the Western powers. Starting from the Opium War in 1840, China began nearly a hundred years of humiliation. Under the force of imperialism Under the threat, China was forced to sign unequal treaties one after another, and its sovereignty was completely lost.
At the same time, China's close neighbor Japan developed into an emerging imperialist country through the Meiji Restoration and continued to invade China. Eventually, an all-out war broke out between the two sides. After the war broke out, everyone from all walks of life was not optimistic about China. Comparatively speaking, Japan has a crushing advantage over China in industry, so at the beginning of the war, it put forward the slogan of destroying China in three months.
China has reached the final moment of national subjugation. Faced with a powerful enemy, they did not surrender or compromise, but fought bravely. They used inferior equipment and fought a desperate battle against the invaders with advanced weapons. So far, they have It has been fighting bloody battles for three years in isolation and without support.
However, no one thought that China would win the final victory of this war. Until a young officer named Xu Rui appeared, everything changed.
This is a young man with extraordinary wisdom and courage. He often finds his way out of desperate situations and seeks possibilities from the impossible. In Wuxi, he led hundreds of remnant soldiers to kill the Japanese prince.
In Damei Mountain, he led thousands of people to smash several raids by the Japanese army and wiped out tens of thousands of enemies. In Shanghai, he pioneered urban guerrilla warfare and wiped out several times more enemies.
In Hetao, he almost recaptured the entire Suiyuan. In the Northeast, he recaptured Fengtian. In Changbai Mountain, he annihilated ten times his enemy. He even went as far as Tokyo to assassinate the Emperor of Japan! The whole of Japan was frightened. His deeds were almost miraculous, and he turned every impossible into a reality.
Such people are real heroes.
With him, China will never perish! Victory will definitely belong to the Chinese people..."
"Pravda" used a long and emotional text to introduce Xu Rui's achievements, which aroused a huge response.
Subsequently, this editorial of "Pravda" was widely adopted by newspapers from various countries, including the British "Times", the Swiss "Geneva Journal", the Canadian "Toronto Tomorrow Evening News", etc., and all of a sudden, Xu Rui's name was
As the newspaper spread throughout the world.
Of course, as in the past, Japan has blocked news about the Wujiashan Battle. At the same time, the German and Italian media also kept silent. Instead, the "Shengjing Times" of the puppet Manchukuo made a brief report on the Wujiashan Battle.
Report.
The news of the Wujiashan victory spread throughout the country and abroad. Suddenly, overseas Chinese all over the world sang and danced to celebrate the victory. The victory of the Wujiashan victory was like a shot in the arm of the Chinese people, which relieved their already increasingly depressed mood.
The seeds were ignited, and overseas Chinese from various countries actively donated money and materials to support the domestic anti-Japanese war.
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Somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, a sixty-year-old grandma brought her grandson to the donation office and handed over the money she had saved for most of her life to the staff. At the same time, the grandma's six-year-old grandson handed over the money he had saved for most of his life.
All the New Year's money earned over the past few years was donated. This scene deeply moved the staff present.
San Francisco, U.S.
After hearing the news of the great victory in Wujiashan, the two young men bought their boat tickets overnight and prepared to return to China to join the army.
They found the staff of the Chinese Consulate in the United States. After taking one look at the two young men, the staff told the two young men that your bodies were too thin and you would not be able to withstand the high-intensity fighting in the country. You should go back.
The two young men begged bitterly, but the consulate staff just shook their heads.
The two young men gritted their teeth and arrived at a tall building. They thought it was a shame that they could not return to the country to join the army, so they jumped off the building.
The actions of these two young men caused a sensation for a while. Under their encouragement, many overseas Chinese embarked on their way back home, preparing to contribute their efforts to the anti-Japanese war.
Inspired by the Wujiashan victory, overseas Chinese all over the world set off a new upsurge in resisting Japan.
The Battle of Wujiashan is over, and the entire Changbai Mountain area has once again returned to calm. On the entire Chinese battlefield, China and Japan have also fallen into a stalemate, and China is unable to counterattack. As the Japanese front grows, the domestic economic burden increases, and various supplies
Qi Que was on the verge of collapse and was unable to launch a large-scale offensive against the Changbai Mountain base area.
In order to be able to fight for a long time, the Japanese's plan of moving southward prevailed. On the one hand, they restored the industry in the Northeast and accumulated supplies. On the other hand, they prepared to attack Southeast Asia, which had relatively abundant supplies, and plunder supplies in Southeast Asia.
Nowadays, Southeast Asia is under the control of Britain, the United States and other countries. If the Japanese go south to seize Southeast Asia, they will inevitably conflict with Britain and the United States.
At this time, the world situation was changing rapidly. On the European battlefield, the Soviet-German war had been going on for four months. Leningrad, the most important city in the northwest of the Soviet Union, was lost. Subsequently, the Northern Lutheran Army marched straight in and captured Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Moscow
Fell into siege by German troops.
The German army pressed forward step by step, and Stalin mobilized all the troops he could muster to reinforce Moscow. However, the German army's offensive was extremely fierce, and the entire Soviet Union had reached a critical moment of life and death.
Smolensk is the only way to Moscow. The Soviet army deployed a large number of troops outside Smolensk. However, under the leadership of German general Guderian, the German armored forces launched a fierce attack.
Within twelve hours, the Soviet perimeter defenses completely collapsed, and the German vanguard entered Smolensk.
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In the shadow of the roof attic of an abandoned small building in Smolensk, Zaitsev was constantly looking for prey with a Mosinagan rifle in his hand.
As the frontal defense line was breached, Vasily led the special forces into the city, preparing for street fighting with the Germans.
Through the scope, Vasily saw, not far away, a group of German soldiers moving forward along the road under the cover of a Tiger tank.
finally come!
Vasily took a deep breath, held his breath, aimed at the German second lieutenant walking in the middle of the team, and then pulled the trigger.
"Snapped!"
One shot to the head!
The bullet pierced the helmet on the head of the German second lieutenant, and the second lieutenant fell to the ground with a plop.
Vasily saw the German troops in a panic and kept shouting. The tank in front also stopped and its turret turned around.
"Pah! Pah!"
Vasily fired two more shots, killing two Germans.
However, the muzzle flash that appeared when Mosinagan was shooting was quickly discovered by the Germans. Vasily discovered that his position was locked. The German machine guns were immediately set up to suppress Vasily's location. At the same time, the Tiger
The tank aimed its turret at its own location.
Vasily knew something was wrong and immediately moved to another sniper position.
Vasily saw the tank gun of the Tiger tank ringing out, blowing up the attic. Then, dozens of German soldiers rushed towards the small building where he was originally located. At this time, Vasily took a deep breath and snapped.
With his gun, he shot a German captain who was rushing behind him in the head.
Fierce street fighting was in full swing, and Vasily led the special forces to deal a heavy blow to the German army. Every step forward by the German army had to pay a huge price.
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At the same time, in Moscow, the Soviet Supreme Command.
Stalin, as before, was leaning back on his chair, holding a pipe in his mouth, his face expressionless. Two generals, Zhukov and Chuikov, stood in front of him and were reporting on the military situation.
"Comrade Stalin, the German army is about to capture Kiev, and the defeat of the Southwest Front is inevitable. The Germans have started Operation Typhoon. The 2nd Armored Group is in the direction of Bryansk, and the 3rd and 4th Armored Groups are in the direction of Vyazma.
An all-out attack was launched, and although our army put up heroic resistance, the German 2nd Army broke through the defense lines of our 50th Army and captured Bryansk and Orel," Chuikov said.
"Comrade Chuikov, your news is out of date. According to the latest information obtained, just now, the Germans have captured Vyazma, most of the Bryansk Front has been wiped out, and only about 85,000 of our troops have successfully broken through.
." Stalin said solemnly.
"Eighty-five thousand people?" Zhukov and Chuikov took a breath. There were more than 700,000 people in the Bryansk Front, and only 85,000 escaped. Doesn't this mean that more than 600 people were wiped out?
Ten thousand people?
In this case, it is really a huge fiasco.
At the same time, this also means that Moscow's front has been breached by the Germans.
