The long journey to Hawaii was not an easy task, and Yamamoto, as commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, was well aware of the responsibility that rested on his shoulders. Although there had been a thorough plan and the Navy Headquarters had persuaded the Cabinet to obtain the support of the Army at the same time, Yamamoto had not yet set a specific time for the Navy's attack. For the sake of safety, Kurokawa has rarely contacted Kenji Ogura during this time, but today, Kurokawa took the initiative to come to the door.

"The fleet has been transferred to Kagoshima for simulated attack training during this time, and according to the information I have received, the attack plan has also been approved by the Emperor of Japan. Ogura-kun, our task has been completed, and the rest of the things can only be decided by God. "On this very ordinary night, Kenji Kokura, the operational staff officer of the Army Headquarters, and Kurokawa, the combat staff officer of the Navy Headquarters, were very drunk, and from the next day, Kokura Kenji did not get in touch with Kurokawa again. Three days later, Kogura received a brief phone call, and the contents of the call were sent back to mainland China that night.

"The Japanese are ready to do it, the specific time has been set, and now we can implement our second step plan." After receiving a secret telegram from Chongqing, Zhuo Fei immediately ordered the Independence Army to shrink its defensive line, and the British Army in Burma, which was already on the verge of collapse, would also be forcibly taken out of Mandalay by the Independence Army. Almost overnight, the situation in Burma changed dramatically, not only did the 55th Division take Mandalay, but even the sporadic enemy forces that had been roaming the Japanese rear line were gone, and the Japanese were finally able to control the entire Burma area south of Lashio.

The 2nd Independent Division, which resisted the 33rd Division's northward advance, also retreated one after another, and the 2nd Independent Division was deployed on the front line with Jewish soldiers, which made the 33rd Division mistakenly believe that the 2nd Independent Division was also a British army stationed in Burma. The British army retreated in great strides, and it was said that the Japanese troops who followed up to the north encountered strong resistance from the British army on the Lashio front, but Yamashita Fengfu believed that the overall situation in Burma had been decided, and the British army blocking the empire's northward advance on the Lashio line would be defeated sooner or later.

The situation in Myanmar has been decided, and according to the latest order from the base camp, the Southern Corps under the command of Yamashita Fengwen immediately began to divide its troops to attack South Asia, and this is exactly the situation that Zhuo Fei wants to see the most. A few days later, tens of thousands of Japanese troops gathered in Thailand swarmed out, and before the commander of the British forces in Malaya, Lieutenant General Percival, and the commander-in-chief of the British forces in the Far East, Air Force General Popham, could make the necessary responses, a large number of Japanese troops had already crossed the Thai-Malaysian border and entered Malay territory.

Over the next half month, Yamashita Bongbun explained how his reputation as the Tiger of the Malay came about, with more than 80,000 Malay garrisons stationed at the time. However, the Southern Corps under the command of Yamashita Fumi not only launched an attack by land, but also launched an offensive against the Malay from both the sea and the air, and the Malay defenders, with their poor weapons, could not resist the Japanese attack at all. At the beginning, they laughed at the incompetence of the British army in Burma, but they did not expect that they were also no match for the Japanese army, and even their performance was not as good as that of the British army in Burma.

The Japanese Southern Corps was in full swing in Malay, but the Independence Army only stuck to the Lashio defense line and confronted the Japanese 33rd Division that continued to move north. "Now is our most difficult time, you must restrain your soldiers, and before the order for a counteroffensive is issued, the departments must not take the initiative to attack, otherwise our follow-up plan will not be implemented smoothly."

Zhuo Fei said that the most difficult moment is the mobilization of materials and equipment, relying on his map recognition skills to help, Zhuo Fei has identified a large number of Japanese agents in Wan Town and Ruili in the past few days, and wants to avoid the eyes and ears of the Japanese army to transfer a large number of war equipment to the front line of Lashio, which has become the most headache for Zhuo Fei. After several years of preparation, in order to carry out this final plan, if all goes well, the time is not far off for the Independence Army and hundreds of thousands of new troops to set foot on the battlefield.

Time passed day by day, and Zhuo Fei, who was anxiously waiting, could no longer bear the torment in his heart, and then ordered the last batch of new troops in the Ruili training camp to set off for the north four days after the Japanese combined fleet quietly set off. The 400,000 systematically trained new troops were the key and killer weapon for the coalition government to turn the tables, and in order to buy them time to receive training, a large number of troops who were sent to the front line fought with the Japanese army to form a series of casualties.

The signal for the great counteroffensive came from Chongqing, where a huge rally was held in Chongqing after the New Army had almost all assembled. At the rally, the top level of the coalition government announced the launch of a major counteroffensive against the invading Japanese army, and called on the people to actively join the army and contribute their strength to the logistical support of the great counteroffensive. Like the British troops stationed in the Malay Army, who ignored Yamashita's letters, the Japanese troops in the occupied areas did not bother with the coalition government's declaration of a major counteroffensive, believing that it was merely a remnant of the Chinese government.

Chongqing's order began, and the guerrilla troops behind enemy lines, which had been hiding and waiting for their orders, fired the first shot, and more than 100 guerrilla units of considerable scale launched a massive attack in North China. In just three days, the blockade line and many artillery strongholds built by the Japanese army in North China were reduced to ruins, a large number of telephone lines were cut, a large number of railway bridges were destroyed by the guerrillas, and a large number of rebelled Imperial Allied troops were on the battlefield.

In the space of three days, there were simultaneous exchanges of fire in more than a dozen county towns in North China, and the guerrilla units of all stripes brought into full play various tactics such as rush warfare, encirclement and reinforcement, and coordinated operations, all of which brought to the Japanese army more than 5,000 casualties among Japanese soldiers and the destruction of a large amount of supplies. "Yaga, damn the guerrillas." Okamura Ninji, who was the commander of the Japanese army in North China at the time, was anxious, if he continued like this, he would not have to wait for the arrival of the regular army of China, and his defense area would have been pierced with holes by guerrillas who had come and gone without a trace.

The guerrillas' wanton attack was only a prelude to a major counteroffensive, and before Okamura could make arrangements to deal with the guerrillas' madness, a large number of troops of the Eighth Route Army, which had already been assembled at the junction of Hebei and Shanxi provinces, entered Hebei. The troops of the former National Army deployed in Henan also made great strides forward, with the Eighth Route Army as the flank to echo, and the troops of the former National Army, which had always been weak in combat effectiveness, also showed their fangs.

The previous declaration of the invading Japanese army on Chongqing's counteroffensive was not the same thing, but when the North China Theater was really in chaos, they had already regretted it too late. The terrain of the North China Plain was extremely advantageous for the armored forces of the New First Army, and the light tanks equipped by the Japanese army were not at all the opponents of the European tanks of the New First Army.

Okamura Ninji hurriedly mobilized troops to block the New First Army that entered Hebei from Shanxi, but was beaten by the well-trained and well-equipped New First Army. After the New First Army, which had won three battles and three victories, did not stop, and with the cooperation of the Eighth Route Army, successively took Handan and Xingtai, and forced a large number of Japanese troops back to Shijiazhuang, the New First Army directly bypassed Shijiazhuang and went straight to Hengshui and Dezhou. Okamura Ninji thought that this well-equipped army of unknown origin was preparing to cut off the connection between the Japanese army in North China and the Japanese army in South China, but he did not know that the New Second Army and the New Third Army had rushed to the Heze line at this moment.

The New First Army is not the protagonist of the major counteroffensive plan, but it is the New Second Army and the New Third Army that really plan to cut off the connection between the Japanese army in North China and the Japanese army in South China. The Joint Command originally did not agree with Zhuo Fei's cross-cutting plan, they had always been worried that the New Second Army and the New Third Army would suffer a counterattack by the Japanese army in South China, but when their New Second Army and New Third Army were already equipped with a large number of new equipment, they reluctantly agreed to Zhuo Fei's cross-cutting tactic.

Compared with the Japanese army, the Forces nouvelles did not have naval artillery support and lacked controlled fire support, but they were already equipped with home-made light tanks and fire fighting vehicles modified by the Umbrella Company, as well as a large number of rocket artillery vehicles. In the face of the same number of Japanese troops, the 60,000 soldiers of the New Second Army and the New Third Army were fully capable of winning each other's battles, and there were still a large number of guerrilla troops in Shandong who were fighting in coordination. In just one week, the situation in China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has undergone earth-shaking changes, thanks to this change, the conscription work in the Kuomintang has been carried out very smoothly, and the coalition government's original plan to recruit 500,000 reserve troops has to be relaxed again and again, because the number of people in the Kuomintang has already exceeded the one million mark.

The Chinese have gone mad and are clamoring for a major counteroffensive when most of the country has already been occupied by the Japanese. None of the world's intelligence agents in China took the coalition government's declaration seriously, but the facts proved that they were all wrong, and the Chinese really began a major counteroffensive.

This kind of change is what Zhuo Fei wants to see, but he has no chance to enjoy the hot atmosphere in Chongqing, the country has already started the prelude to the counteroffensive, but the independent army troops stationed on the front line of Lashio will continue to wait. The soldiers and officers of the Independent Army became more and more impetuous, and even Chen Geng, who commanded the 1st Independent Division, was also impatient, so Zhuo Fei could only stay on the front line in Lashio now, trying to stabilize the mood of the officers and soldiers of the Independent Army.

In the anxious waiting of Zhuo Fei and the independent officers and soldiers, good news and bad news alternated, the momentum of the domestic counteroffensive slowed down, and after the Japanese army used a large number of aircraft to assist the operation, the offensive of the new army slowed down significantly, but the new second army and the new third army also took Texas and continued to move eastward, and the Japanese army in South China could no longer care about continuing to confront the troops of the original national army and actively turned north.