Two days later, a defensive position across the Noto Peninsula, mainly tunnels, had been preliminarily built, after all, the lateral distance of the Noto Peninsula was only more than 10 kilometers, and the People's Army had now captured nearly 10,000 young and middle-aged male laborers, and each person was only responsible for digging a distance of 1 meter on average, so the construction was naturally very fast. Of course, the positions that have been built now are only the main defensive positions on the front line, and the artillery positions in the rear, auxiliary logistics positions, etc., have not yet had time to be dug up, but they can continue to be constructed, and if the Japanese army attacks now, the People's Army will be able to resist for a while.

While the defense line was being built, the KPA offensive against the rest of the Noto Peninsula was also going very smoothly, and it successively captured Shiga Town, Anamizu Town, Wajima City, Suzu City, Fengzhu County, Noto Town and other places, after all, the Japanese army on the Noto Peninsula did not have many troops, and it was basically a local garrison army, and its combat effectiveness was not strong, and there was no official organization with a tough attitude and a certain military level like Nanao Mayor Naoshima Naoshige, so it was naturally not an opponent of the People's Army, and the People's Army was almost overwhelmed everywhere it went, and it took only two days to completely occupy the entire Noto Peninsula.

At the same time, the KPA also harvested quite a lot of harvest on the Noto Peninsula, plundering a large number of people and materials, and at this time it had already seized a total of more than 1,500 tons of various grains and seafood, and could harvest several tons of seafood every day, in addition to more than 300 poultry and more than 100 livestock. In terms of population, more than 20,000 young men and 20,000 women have been captured, and the total number of people captured now is nearly 60,000, so the labor force is completely sufficient.

In addition to food, there are also a lot of other materials plundered, mainly textiles, handicrafts, and gold and silver wares, after all, this landing in Japan to fight, in addition to plundering the population, all that can be snatched away must be robbed, but the Noto Peninsula is not an industrially developed area in Japan, so only these handmade products, of course, textiles are also important materials in this era, gold and silver products are precious metals, handicrafts are also considered to have a certain value, anyway, grab it first, regardless of whether it is useful or not.

On the third day, the KPA fleet arrived at the port of Nanao City and sent the 2nd Marine Division, the 3rd Reserve Regiment, and the other 3 corps of the Mercenary Corps, and the fleet was also fully assembled. When the convoy left, it not only took most of the supplies, but also about 15,000 men and women, which was also the first batch of population materials plundered by the East China government in Japan, and in the following months, it will continue to take away people and materials from Japan.

The materials will be sent to Qingdao by the fleet, and will be counted and collected by a special agency, and arranged for use, while the population will be sent directly to Lushun, where they will undergo physical examination and file registration, a small number of skilled workers, a certain level of cultural knowledge, and people with a skill will stay and make other arrangements, while the rest of the men and women will arrive in Harbin by train in Lushun, and the local administrative agency will be responsible for arranging their work and participating in the development of the whole Heilongjiang Province.

However, when the personnel boarded the ship, it did not cause any major resistance, because in the past few days, the People's Army has adopted a high-pressure and iron-blooded policy against the Japanese, which suppressed the Japanese people's resistance feelings, and the Japanese have in their bones the idea of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and obeying the strong, so they are also pressed by the People's Army to be honest and obedient, and dare not make any changes.

However, to Luo Yue's surprise, at this time, the Japanese side did not seem to have any reaction, and it was said that at least a few wings would be transferred over at this time to put pressure on the KPA and prevent the KPA from spreading inland from the Noto Peninsula. However, on the third day of the landing of the People's Army on the Noto Peninsula, the Japanese Government issued a statement strongly condemning the East China Government's invasion of the Japanese mainland in very harsh terms, and said that Japan would never succumb to the East China Government's threat of force and would fight to the end, and at the same time called on the international community to jointly confront the East China Government.

In fact, the Japanese government is now in a mess, because the Japanese navy and army have begun to tear each other apart again. Originally, when the fleet of the People's Army was shelling the southeastern coast of Japan, the navy and army had already decided to abandon their previous suspicions and unite against the enemy, so long as they survived these three months, when the British and French expeditionary forces arrived in the Far East, they could turn defense into attack and enter a counterattack.

At this time, although some people also suggested that they should be wary of the landing of the People's Army on the Japanese mainland, the War Department and the Navy Department both believed that at this time, the East China Government would inevitably go all out to prepare for the operation against the British and French expeditionary forces, and would not waste resources on the landing operation against Japan. However, for the sake of insurance, the navy and army issued a document to their opponents, the contents of which were that the People's Army might land on the Japanese mainland, and the War Department asked the Navy Department to strengthen the coastal garrison, while the Navy Department asked the army to pay attention to coastal defense, but in fact, each did not take any defensive measures, in addition to thinking in their hearts that it was impossible for the East China Government to launch a landing war, there was also an important reason, that is, Japan could not defend the entire coastline at present.

As a result, the KPA really succeeded in landing on the Noto Peninsula, which caused a great shock to the Japanese Government, because before that, the Japanese Government had tried its best to cover up the unfavorable news about the military situation, but now that the KPA had landed on the Japanese mainland, it would certainly not be able to cover up the defeat on the Chinese battlefield, so government officials blamed the military for its mistakes and demanded that the military take full responsibility for the KPA landing.

In order to shirk their own responsibilities, the navy and army blamed the other side for the negligence of the other side that caused the landing of the People's Army on the Japanese mainland, and said eloquently that they had reminded the other side, but the other side did not listen. Later, under the joint suppression of Prime Minister Katsura Taro, bigwig Hirobumi Ito, Aritomo Yamaguchi and others, the navy and army stopped blaming each other and began to study how to deal with the landing of the People's Army.

However, Minister of the Navy Ito Yuhiro believes that the current KPA has successfully landed on the shore and has taken control of the Noto Peninsula, so the navy is actually useless, after all, warships are not equipped with wheels, and it is impossible to sail ashore. Moreover, the navy suffered a lot of losses in the early stage of the war and has not been replenished, so naturally the army should be responsible for this battle, and it has nothing to do with the navy.

In fact, these reasons of the navy are not wrong, and the counterattack against the people's army is of course for the army to play the leading role, but it is not right to say that this battle has nothing to do with the navy, although the navy has indeed suffered great losses, it is completely appropriate to provide the necessary help to the army.

However, in the eyes of the army, this is still the navy shirking its responsibilities and wanting the army to bear the responsibility of letting the KPA land, so the minister of the army, Terauchi Masatake, immediately said that the army can of course be responsible for attacking the KPA, but the KPA's logistics support and supply transportation all come from the sea, and because of the special terrain of the peninsula, the KPA's warships can also provide fire support, requiring the navy to defeat the KPA's fleet before the army can attack.

It is not wrong to say that Terauchi Matakeshi's statement is not wrong, and it is indeed not only the army's business to counterattack the People's Army, the navy is obliged to provide necessary assistance to the army, but it must be dominated by the army, supplemented by the navy, especially Terauchi Masatake's request for the navy to defeat the fleet of the People's Army, it is indeed difficult for some strongmen.

Ito immediately stated that the current state of the Navy was that it was impossible to defeat the fleet of the KPA. Terauchi Masatakeshi ridiculed the navy for spending so much money on the government, but when the navy was needed, it was not up to the task.

This also angered Ito Yuhiro, and immediately refuted that the army's performance on the Chinese battlefield was not as good as the navy, and after the defeat, the government's military spending was basically allocated to the army, so that the army could rebuild, and the navy's funds were repeatedly compressed, and it could only maintain the status quo and could not be rebuilt. Naturally, Terauchi Masatsui was not to be outdone, saying that before the war, most of the military expenditure was occupied by the navy, and the construction of the flashy "66 Fleet" squeezed the space of the army, even if only half of the navy's military expenditure was transferred to the army, then the army would be enough to defeat the Russian and East China governments, and there would be no need for the navy at all.

As a result, the more the two sides talked, the more stiff they became, and the grudges between the Japanese navy and army, which had been extremely deep, had now erupted all at once, and many old adult accounts had also been turned over, and of course there was no way to negotiate any further.

The navy and army quarreled like this for three days, and carried out all kinds of tearing every day, but the KPA was not idle, since the Japanese army did not attack, the KPA sent out to attack, so Luo Yue ordered that the three combat regiments of the 2nd Division, which had just arrived in Japan, were the main force, and each regiment was equipped with two mercenary regiments, and attacked in three ways, attacking Kanazawa, Himi and other places respectively, and expanding to the inland areas of Japan.

In three days, the People's Army captured a total of five cities, including Kanazawa City, Himi City, Takaoka City, Hebei County, and Koyabe City, and plundered these five cities, and these inland cities were much more socially and economically developed than the Noto Peninsula, so the People's Army plundered very richly.

At the same time, it also brought great panic to the Japanese people, because at this time the news of the landing of the People's Army in Japan could no longer be concealed, and at the same time, all kinds of rumors and slanders were circulating everywhere, some said that the People's Army not only looted materials, but also captured the population, but also transported them to China to work as coolies, and even said that the People's Army carried out massacres in Japan, as long as it was a city occupied by the People's Army, there was not a single person left alive, and all the Japanese on the Noto Peninsula had been killed, and now the People's Army was going there to kill there, so the residents of Shan County and nearby areas were also extremely frightened, and they fled from home one after another, causing a large number of refugees to lose。

At this time, Emperor Meiji Akihito, the supreme ruler of Japan, finally could not sit still, immediately called an imperial council, severely reprimanded the ministers, and strictly ordered the navy and army to take effective action immediately and not allow the situation to continue to expand.