After receiving Luo Yue's report, the Central Military Commission also attached great importance to it and immediately organized special personnel to study and analyze the combat plan proposed by Luo Yue.

As a matter of fact, it is very common for front-line commanders to propose amendments to the operational plans drawn up by the headquarters and even to reinvent the wheel, and in the history of warfare in China and abroad, there are many examples of changing operational plans due to the opposition of front-line commanders. Because the front-line commander is on the front line, he has the best understanding of the battlefield situation and the comparison of the strength of the enemy and the enemy, so the battle plan proposed by the front-line commander is generally the most appropriate.

Of course, front-line commanders are not correct at all times, this is because front-line commanders are limited by their own position and can only consider the local battlefield where they are located, and lack full control over the overall situation of the entire battlefield, and the general headquarters considers the overall situation of the entire battlefield, and sometimes even sacrifices the interests of a certain local battlefield in exchange for a great victory in the overall battlefield, so whether or not to adopt the opinions of the front-line commander is ultimately up to the general headquarters.

However, after serious discussion by the Military Commission, it was finally believed that the plan proposed by Luo Yue was more practical and more implementable. Because the total number of marines is only about 50,000, and the formation of Russian mercenaries is less than 100,000, although Japan has suffered heavy losses in the previous war and its strength has been greatly damaged, it is still a country with a population of 40 million, which should not be underestimated.

And after the breakdown of the Putsmus negotiations, Japan is expanding the army, according to the situation mastered by the East China government, so far Japan has formed a new 10-12 divisions, with a total strength of more than 200,000, although the combat experience of the recruits is insufficient, but the number is huge, and this time Japan is fighting a battle to defend the territory, coupled with the unique crazy jade character of the Japanese, so it is bound to be more fierce and crazy. It is indeed a bit difficult to ask the Marines to hold on to the Japanese mainland for at least six months after landing in Japan, and to wreak great havoc in Japan and capture a large number of people. Then it is perfectly appropriate to increase the strength of the Marine Corps by 2-3 divisions.

Of course, when the Central Military Commission drew up the battle plan, it was because the war in the northeast theater had not yet ended, and the Russian army was entrenched on the line from Manchuria to Hulunbuir and could make a comeback at any time, so it was necessary to station four armies in the northeast, accounting for about 60 percent of the strength of the People's Army's army, so naturally it was unable to send more troops to the landing in Japan.

Now that the Manchuria Campaign has ended, the People's Army has won a complete victory, and the Russian army has retreated to Chita, and has basically withdrawn from the Northeast Theater. After Ma Longtan and other local armed forces, the banditry in the northeast region has also been markedly improved, and social order has basically stabilized, so the war pressure in the northeast region has been greatly reduced, and the strength of one army can almost be freed up, so that the people's army will also have enough troops to reinforce the Japanese landing operation.

In addition, from the plan drawn up by Luo Yue, landing on the Noto Peninsula and the Izu Peninsula will be carried out so that the two peninsulas will form a joint situation and cooperate with each other in operations, and then Pave the way to send troops to land in other parts of Japan to contain and mobilize Japan. It can effectively strike at Japan and consume the last bit of military power that Japan has left.

Of course, in this way, the scale of the war will also be expanded, and the resources, manpower, and material resources consumed by the East China Government in launching the landing operation on Japan will also increase exponentially, but at present, the East China Government can still afford to consume it, and if it does not, it will not be enough to completely subdue Japan as soon as possible, consume Japan's last combat strength, and finally honestly accept the East China Government's demand for compensation. The manpower, material and financial resources consumed by the East China government must be compensated in the indemnity.

So three days later, the Military Commission replied to Luo Yue, agreed to Luo Yue's third plan, and decided to add two divisions and two regiments to Luo Yue, and the additional troops would arrive in Shanghai within 15 days to join the marines. The timing of launching the Japanese landing operation was in Luo Yue's own hands, and he could launch the operation after the arrival of the additional troops and the convergence of the troops, or he could launch the operation first and wait for the arrival of the additional troops in the battle.

After receiving the reply from the Military Commission, Luo Yue immediately consulted with the senior commanders of the Marine Corps, and finally decided to immediately launch a landing operation in Japan. Because the landing operation is to be put into the army in batches, and the first is the Marine Corps, after the landing is successful and a solid land and coastal defense line is established, other troops will be put into the battlefield one after another, so even if the additional troops arrive, they will not go into battle immediately, but will have to wait for a while.

In addition, two days ago, the fleet of the Javanese evacuation of overseas Chinese had already set off from Shanghai and rushed to Java, which was also a stimulus for the Marine Corps, because of the victory achieved in the previous stage, the performance of the Marine Corps was quite eye-catching, so now the morale of the whole Marine Corps is very high, and the soldiers' desire to fight is quite eager, and Luo Yue believes that this spirit can only be drummed up but not discharged.

The last reason is that the Russian mercenary corps had already completed its organization at this time, and it was organized into 4 armies and 22 regiments. Of course, the establishment to the army level is only for the convenience of transfer and command, and the corps-level commanders are all under the command of the officers of the People's Army, so the actual combat units of the mercenary regiment are at the regimental level, and the regimental commanders are all Russians, but the mercenary regiments have no fire support troops, and the number of people in each regiment is less than 2,000 people, and the entire Russian mercenary regiment totals about 42,000 people.

The weapons of the mercenary regiment are very simple, each soldier is only equipped with an M1891 Mosin Nagant rifle, 30 rounds of ammunition, a bayonet, and a battalion and regimental officer can be equipped with a Type 96 pistol, 20 rounds of ammunition, a set of covers and military uniforms, of course, the military uniform is still the military uniform of the Russian army, in addition, other weapons are needed, such as machine guns, hand **, or additional bullets, etc., which need to be exchanged after obtaining work points on the battlefield.

However, to Luo Yue's surprise, the vast majority of Russian soldiers were actually very satisfied with such simple equipment, it turned out that the management of the Russian army was very chaotic, and the status of ordinary soldiers in the Russian army was very low, and they were even regarded as gray animals by the officers, so the equipment of ordinary soldiers was almost complete, and it was not complete in many cases, and it was up to the soldiers to find a way to make up for it. At the beginning of the establishment of the mercenary corps, many Russian soldiers even thought that the People's Army would not issue them weapons and let them go to the battlefield to figure out their own methods. The weapons and equipment issued to them by the People's Army are actually not much different from those of the Russian army, but if we take into account that the assembly of the Russian army will be short of two pounds, but the assembly issued by the People's Army is genuine, on the contrary, the assembly of the People's Army is better.

Moreover, the mercenaries are basically soldiers with actual combat experience, so after the establishment is completed, they only need a few days of training to have the ability to go to the battlefield. However, since they are mercenaries, they cannot be strictly controlled like captives, absolutely restricting their freedom, and they must always be given some room to move. However, the tens of thousands of energetic and rough Russian soldiers stationed in the Shanghai area are indeed a huge hidden danger, and if something happens, it will be troublesome, so the sooner they are put into the battlefield, the better.

It was based on these factors that Luo Yue decided to go into battle immediately, rather than waiting for the arrival of additional troops, so as not to change over time.

The landing of the Japanese combat fleet was composed of two routes from Shanghai, one led by the Huaihua warship, including the battleships Yuanyang and Luoyang, the armored cruisers Kaihai and Takuhai, the 5th cruiser detachment, and the 2nd destroyer detachment.

On the other hand, the leader of the Xiangyang ship, led 4 Zhenyuan-class ironclad ships, armored cruisers Jinhai and Baohai, the 4th destroyer detachment, 8 landing ships, and 8 troop carriers, and the landing force included the 1st Marine Division, the 1st and 2nd Regiments, and the 1st Mercenary Army, whose mission was to land on the Noto Peninsula.

The landing of the Japanese combat fleet and the 6th cruiser detachment remained in Shanghai for the time being, which was to provide escort for the troops that would be engaged in the Japanese war in the future.

Luo Yue boarded the Xiangyang ship and personally commanded the landing operation, because the speed of the four Zhenyuan-class ironclad ships was too slow, they could only travel at a speed of 10-11 knots, which also slowed down the speed of the entire fleet, and it took 3-4 days to reach the Noto Peninsula, and the landing fleet set off one day later than the artillery fleet, so when the landing fleet arrived at the Noto Peninsula, the artillery fleet would have 2-3 days to attack.

The artillery fleet was commanded by the deputy captain of the Huaihua ship, and after leaving Shanghai, it first arrived near Nagasaki on the Japanese island of Kyushu to shell Nagasaki, but Nagasaki was the garrison of the Japanese Navy, and the garrison was naturally very tight, and the shore-based batteries desperately fired back at the KPA Navy, so the KPA fleet did not dare to force too close.

One hour later, the KPA saw that Nagasaki's garrison was tight, so it did not fight for a long time, left the waters of Nagasaki, turned eastward, and first bombarded Shimojima, which was across the sea from Nagasaki, and the garrison of Shimoshima was obviously inferior to Nagasaki, and was immediately defeated by the KPA without any ability to fight back; then the fleet carried out along the southeast coastline of Kyushu Island, bombarding Satsuma, Kagoshima, Kushima, Nichinan, and Nitsunan along the way. In 10 cities, including Miyazaki, some cities were heavily guarded and suffered relatively small losses, but some cities were poorly guarded, and as a result, they suffered heavy blows. The coastline of Bijing Japan is too long, and it is impossible to build all the coastline impregnable, so it can only focus on defending large cities and important cities, and other cities can only be abandoned.