It was a foregone conclusion that troops should be sent to the north, but there was still no unanimous opinion among the top leaders of the Chongqing government on when and how many troops to send. The Chinese Communists are strongly advocating sending troops to the north, and if the assistance of the Soviet Army and the Korean People's Army in the Far East is added, it may be possible to completely drive the Japanese army out of China. However, the Kuomintang side was skeptical, and among all the troops that had completed the training, only the 300,000 New Army was still considered a strong army, but the Kuomintang never thought of transferring all the troops of the New Army to the north to prepare for war.

In this way, only half of the military aid provided by the Soviet Union arrived on time, and the Chongqing government also used this as an excuse to postpone the time of sending troops to the north again and again. "Damn the Chinese, after defeating the Japanese, I must let them know the fate of the perfunctory Soviets." In addition to scolding the Chongqing government, Stalin, who had nothing to do, had to urgently order the military to deliver all the seized military aid to the Chinese side.

After meeting with the British and American envoys, the Chongqing government, which had finally received all the military aid and the Soviet envoys who were in the vicinity of various government departments in Chongqing all day long, finally decided to send troops north to support the Soviet forces in the Far East. The New First Army, which had slaughtered all sides in North China, was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the vanguard army, and when the New First Army, the New Second Army, and the New Third Army were lined up in a triangular formation and marched north, the New Fourth Army and the New Fifth Army suddenly disappeared into Shanxi.

"Nani? The two units of the New Army deployed in Shanxi by the Chinese are nowhere to be found? Upon learning the news that the New First Army, the New Second Army, and the New Third Army were heading north, the Japanese army was ready to face the battle, but they did not expect the sudden disappearance of the New Fourth Army and the New Fifth Army.

The New Army units trained by the Umbrella help China are not only good at long-distance attacks, but also have positional warfare capabilities comparable to those of the Japanese army. This point of view is no longer a secret thing in the Japanese military system, especially Okamura Ningji, who has fought many times with the troops of the New Army, is deeply aware of it, and at this time, two corps-level units in the Chinese New Army suddenly disappeared, which is a great threat to the Japanese army.

The troops of the New Army went north, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army also sent heavy troops north to Hebei to change their equipment, and the six divisions of the Eighth Route Army after replacing the Soviet-style equipment assumed the defensive task of Hebei from now on, so as to be optimistic about the rear line of the New Army troops going north. The Japanese army deployed heavy troops on the front line of Chengde to wait for the arrival of the new army, and the new army troops lived up to expectations and formed a state of confrontation with the Japanese army on the front line of barracks town outside Chengde. The two sides have formed a confrontation, and before the first shot was fired, the haze of war has re-enveloped the land of Yanbei.

The Chinese army sent troops north and brazenly tore up the armistice with Japan, which was the most important thing the Allied side wanted to see, but the Japanese side was not so angry. "What the Japanese are thinking about now is nothing more than to use this kind of gentle means to delay the time and speed of our army's northward movement, and when their troops in the north have eliminated the Soviet Army and the Korean People's Army in the Far East, they will definitely turn back and fight us, so I personally think that it is better to go north sooner rather than later, continue to delay, and we can only suffer in the end."

Dai Anlan, who continued to serve as the commander of the New First Army, swore that he would make his suggestion, but the bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs did not make a decision on the spot, and even found Dai Anlan after the meeting, and all they said was that they hoped that Dai Anlan would continue to maintain the current momentum of confrontation with the Japanese army. Dai Anlan was helpless, so he could only send a telegram to seek Zhuo Fei's help and guidance, and Zhuo Fei, who was far away in Australia, was also very helpless after reading the telegram sent by Dai Anlan, and those bigwigs in China were too able to drag their feet.

"If you don't move, you will be as stable as Mount Tai, and if you move, you will move like a rabbit." Zhuo Fei's reply to Dai Anlan's telegram only had more than ten words to chat, and Dai Anlan, who got the reply message, didn't know what to do, and after asking the professor of Chinese literature, Dai Anlan understood what Zhuo Fei meant. "What good way do I have to give them, the new army itself is a mechanized army, if the advantages of mechanized troops are fully utilized, it will not be difficult for the new army to break through the defense line of the Japanese army in Chengde." When asked by Angela about the reason, Zhuo Fei's explanation sounded a little pale.

Because of the existence of Zhuo Yan and others, Zhuo Fei has been studying the war that broke out in the Far East during this time, and after synthesizing all kinds of information sent back by Zhuo Yan, Zhuo Fei asserted that if the data can really cooperate with the Chinese army, it may not be impossible to repel the Japanese attack. But if the Soviets are too arrogant, or only want the Chinese army to be cannon fodder or bait, then the Soviets will only be defeated in the end, and the final big winner can only be the well-prepared Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army has repeatedly sent troops to the American battlefield, in the northeast, there are still many elite troops of the Kwantung Army, especially among those troops that the Japanese army withdrew to the north after abandoning the hinterland of China, there are many veterans of a hundred battles. Although the Soviet army also stationed heavy troops in the Far East, their supply lines were too long, and if the supply lines of the Soviet troops in the Far East were cut off first, and then the tactics of encircling and not fighting and breaking through each of them were used, the collapse of the Soviet forces in the Far East would be inevitable. ”

When conducting sand table deduction exercises with his staff officers, Zhuo Fei put forward this point of view more than once, especially when the Japanese army far exceeded the Soviet army in the Far East, no one was optimistic about the outcome of the Soviet army in the Far East. The umbrella has been temporarily away from the battlefield, Zhuo Fei doesn't care about the life or death of the Soviet army or the Japanese army, and even the Southeast Asian war that has been in full swing, Zhuo Fei doesn't pay much attention to it.

"Before our new army units are put into actual combat, the umbrella company is just a bystander, and we should now focus on how to defend our interests from being violated, and how to obtain sufficient benefits in this war. As for other things, it should be considered by other people themselves, and we are not involved in their affairs. Regarding the recruitment of Britain and the United States, Zhuo Fei gave only one answer, that is, he only watched from the wall.

The absence of the main battle force is the best excuse for Zhuo Fei to refuse the British and American envoys, the parting of ways between the independent army and the umbrella is a well-known thing, under the deliberate concealment of the umbrella, the umbrella has long lost its mysterious coat, and it is more like a business group. Leaving only a 700-strong escort force, such an umbrella company could not participate in the war in Southeast Asia, and after several field investigations of the umbrella company, such a consensus was finally reached between the British and American envoys.

Zhuo Fei has a staff officer corps that has been preparing for war all year round, and the officers who can be selected for this staff officer corps are all the best among the southbound troops of the independent army after going through the whole training of the Ruili training camp. In his spare time, Zhuo Fei and his staff officers conducted sand table exercises all day long, and the war in Southeast Asia, the war in the Americas, the war in Europe and the war in the Far East that was about to be fought were the targets of their daily deduction and attention.

After the Independence Army left the umbrella, Zhuo Fei's men were almost unavailable, and this staff committee was the only way to solve this dilemma. Both Angela and Vivian knew that Zhuo Fei had made this staff group to train future commanders for the umbrella of the New Army units, and these officers selected for the staff committee included not only Chinese, but also Europeans and local Chinese in South Asia, and Zhuo Fei was all concerned about these people.

"Somalia is a French colony, Yemen is a British colony, and you must not underestimate these two places. Once the war is over and the world economy recovers, these two places that can hold the entrance and exit of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea will become treasures for Western countries to compete for, and what our protective umbrella has to do is to use all kinds of joint means to get them before the war is over. If they are not fully controlled, at least enough benefits must be won from them, and control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait will allow the umbrella to gain the possibility of seeking greater benefits from the Mediterranean countries. ”

At the same time that the Jewish Independence Army broke away from the umbrella, Zhuo Fei had already decided to enter a dormant period under the umbrella, but he did not forget to lay out the world in advance. In order to ensure the safety of shipping routes and cargo ships, countries actually set up escort fleets to ensure the safe passage of cargo ships through the Gulf of Aden.

At present, Somalia is still a French colony, but the French government has fully surrendered to Germany, and the French government in exile is nothing more than a few utopians, and without the help of the Allies, the French may lose their homeland forever. If the Umbrella Company had taken Somalia from the Germans and then instigated the indigenous people to exercise independent self-government, France would not have been able to regain control of Somalia even if it had the support of other countries after the war.

Zhuo Fei has made up his mind to attack Somalia, and he will never waver in this idea again, but there are still many difficulties that plague Zhuo Fei to implement this decision, at least, the umbrella company does not have a navy that can defend the coastline. The Umbrella now controls the five countries of South Asia, West Malaysia, and Sumatra, all of which require fleets to improve their maritime defenses, but the ships captured by the Umbrella from the Japanese are too old to shoulder this burden.

"Give me another year, and I will be able to form a new type of force with strong combat power for the umbrella, whether it is the independent army or the Chinese new army, it will not be their opponent." These dozens of staff officers in the staff group made Zhuo Fei very complacent, and now Zhuo Fei seized all the time to instill in them the military concept of leading and this era, which was to lay the foundation for the umbrella for the next ten years or even decades, but others couldn't accept it for a while.