FOLLOWING the Lugou Bridge Incident of July 7,1937,the Japanese army accelerated its invasion of China.China’s two political powers at that time,the Kuomintang(KMT)and Communist Party of China(CPC),jointly formed the Chinese united front against Japanese aggression in efforts to save the nation.The Chinese army fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern coastal city of Shanghai and put paid to their avowed ambition to“subjugate China in three months.”In central Shanxi Province,meanwhile,the Communist-led Eighth Route FOLLOWING the Lugou Bridge Incident of July 7, 1937, the Japanese army accelerated its invasion of China. China’s two political powers at that time, the Kuomintang (KMT) and Communist Party of China (CPC), jointly formed the Chinese united front against Japanese aggression in efforts to save the nation.The Chinese army fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern coastal city of Shanghai and put paid to their avowed ambition to “subjugate China in three months. ” In central Shanxi Province, meanwhile, the Communist-led Eighth Route