“七·七”事变后,蓄谋已久、装备精良的日军把猛烈的战火烧向中国内陆,先后占领了北平、天津、上海、南京等大城市。为了加快击溃中国军队的步伐,日军进一步把魔爪伸向了广大的华中地区,气势汹汹沿长江流域向西而来。九省通衢的武汉成为日军垂涎已久之地,此时,“保卫大武汉”成为抗日战争的核心所在。 After the “July 7 Incident”, the well-planned and well-equipped Japanese army burned the fierce fighting fire into the hinterland of China and successively occupied the major cities of Peiping, Tianjin, Shanghai and Nanjing. In order to speed up the process of defeating the Chinese army, the Japanese troops further extended their clutches to the vast Central China region and went on to head west along the Yangtze River valley. Wuhan, a thoroughfare of nine provinces, became a long-awaited land of the Japanese army. At this time, “defending the great Wuhan” became the core of the anti-Japanese war.