As the end of the year approached, the East China Army in Shandong entered a state of high alert, saying that he had always liked to fight without declaring war and would not compromise his means for victory.

The East China Navy and Air Force also entered a state of operation, and the two aircraft carriers of the East China Navy did not dispatch, but dispatched the salvaged and modified Fuso and Hiei.

At this time, the Fuso had been renamed the 'Shandong' and was included in the ranks of the East China-class battleships, and the Hiei was renamed the 'Dingdong'.

At the same time, the East China Navy also dispatched five Haidun 2 cruisers, ten Zhendong 3 destroyers, 30 torpedo boats, and 130 BIIV submarines.

This is most of the East China Navy's home base, and among the first batch of warships being manufactured, except for the Zhendong 3 destroyer, which has been launched and put into service, the others have not yet been built.

The East China Navy has gathered forces in the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, especially submarines, which are scattered everywhere.

It is said that the navy also has submarines, but they cannot attack under the sailors, and they often encounter the submarines of the East China Navy when they are cruising, but without exception they are sunk to the bottom of the sea by a few torpedoes from the submarines of the East China Navy.

Although the submarine was in a state of armistice at this time, the submarine was resolutely aimed at sinking, and there was nothing much to be done about it, and he was also deeply worried about the presence of submarines in East China everywhere, but it was undeniable that the anti-submarine technology of the navy had been greatly enhanced.

The current anti-submarine equipment, such as water stoppers and depth charges, is all equipped, but there is also no big breakthrough, but the number of anti-submarine ships is very large.

…… On the Shandong front, planes from both sides probed more and more, and the planes tried to fly out of the border of the combat area, resulting in a fierce battle with the East China Air Force.

The military fighter is a biplane wooden fighter that is studied in this study, and there is also a three-wing wooden fighter sold to them by the United States.

As soon as it came into contact with the Eagle 3 fighters of the East China Air Force, it was at a disadvantage, and the single-wing Eagle 3 was extremely fast, which was not at all comparable to those two-wing or even three-wing aircraft.

There are more wings, which are due to the demand for lift, and it can be seen that the engine technology of this and the United States is a big step behind that of East China.

Two months before the battle, the air forces of both sides had already broken out, and it was very fierce.

By 21 October, the East China Air Force had shot down nearly 30 military fighters and 26 reconnaissance planes, and this was without dispatching new planes.

Although there were still some reconnaissance planes that broke into the rear of the East China Army, they did not detect any meaningful information, and the vehicles of the East China Army were completely covered with something, and even if they found out, they did not know what it was.

The fighting between the two sides in the air began to escalate in November, and after the East China Army tried to send bombers to bomb the airfield of the East China Army, the East China Army immediately dispatched tactical bomber units to bomb the airfield, destroying hundreds of planes on the same day.

Subsequently, the artillery launched an artillery attack on the East China Army, and the East China Army immediately returned fierce artillery fire, and the artillery of both sides immediately fought fiercely.

War is on the horizon!

And there is still a month before the official start of the war.

The news spread throughout China's provinces within a day, and the nerves of the whole country were tensed by the escalation of the conflict in Shandong, and the East China Autonomous Government issued an urgent war order on November 2.

Xia Jun used the radio to convey his confidence in victory to the people of the eastern provinces and announced that he would once again mobilize 500,000 people to the front line.

"China is bound to win, and there is no reason for us to lose at this time, because we are the descendants of Yan and Huang, and we still have the will of our ancestors flowing in our blood, and each of us can feel this will awakening at this time. Moreover, because we are fully prepared, the East China People's Army has already prepared many secret weapons for the Japanese invaders, and now there is nothing that can stop us from victory. Since the Oriental Wako intend to provoke a war in advance, their end is also about to come......"

"Victory! Win! ”

"China will win!"

"Eradication of the Oriental Japanese ......"

The speech lasted nearly 20 minutes, and he showed great confidence in his speech, which also infected the people of the eastern provinces and made him succeed in boosting the morale of the people.

The period of the East China Army on the front line was also high, and the artillery battle between the two sides was continuous, and the East China Air Force was greatly touched on November 4.

The new fighter Sharp Sword 1 struck at the military plane like a slaughter, and in front of this professional fighter, the fighter plane was simply a toy.

The East China Air Force gained air supremacy without any suspense, and then bomber units were dispatched in an overwhelming manner to carry out a deep bombing of the Shandong Army.

The focus of the bombing was the artillery of the Chinese army, and the political axe not only stepped up the production of many artillery pieces, but also imported a large number of large-caliber artillery pieces from the United States.

In the previous shelling, the artillery unit of the East China Army had already suffered a loss, although it gave the artillery unit greater losses by virtue of its rapid response, but this was still a failure.

The dispatch of the bomber formation was like a basin of cold water poured directly on the heads of the Yue army, and most of the artillery of the Yue army was dumb in an instant, and they had to hide the gunpowder and use it at a critical moment, and the artillery group of the E Group Army of the East China Army immediately occupied the absolute upper hand.

He was shocked to learn that the air battle in Shandong had been so disastrous, but he did not expect that they had invested so much in the air force, but the result was still unable to reverse the air situation.

The morale of the East China Army was high, and instead of facing the enemy's artillery and planes, they saw their own planes and artillery wreaking havoc on the positions of the Japanese army, and their morale was naturally high.

This gave a shot in the arm to many soldiers who had just entered the battlefield and were a little nervous.

However, the war did not completely break out, and the two sides only stayed at the level of air battles and artillery battles.

…… When the fighting broke out in Shandong, the provinces of East China immediately entered the stage of intense war preparations, and the Supreme Command was making tense arrangements, just waiting for Xia Jun's order to carry out the naval encirclement of the Yue army.

In order to improve national cohesion, Xia Jun sent a telegram to the whole country in three days, calling on all provinces to respond to the national war.

"Tell the compatriots in all provinces that the battle of Shandong is coming, and this battle is related to the fate of the country. In the fourth year of the Republic of China, Jun sent troops to fight the Japanese in Shandong, and what he did was not his own benefit, and the person who fought for it was not only Jiaozhou. He said that the defeat of the First Wu Dynasty was still incompetent. However, now that the Republic of China has been established and the country is to be revitalized, how can we allow the Japanese to wreak havoc on our Chinese land and bully the dignity of our 40,000,000 compatriots? Jun Zidang led the children of East China to fight bravely, thinking that the people set an example. Not only the first victory, but the flame of Kou is also burning, and now Kou is coming back, intending to destroy our country. How can our Yanhuang bloodline be a spectator from the wall, and we should bravely respond to the national war. As long as the people are not timid, and 40,000 people work together to kill, they will definitely be able to wipe out the Shandong Yuekou, and comfort the souls of the ancestors with the shame of Xuejiawu......"

As soon as the electricity came out, the provinces were boiling.

Teachers and students in Yanjing, Tianjin and other places went on strike to the streets to protest against the Beiyang political axe, followed by a workers' strike and a businessman's strike, and citizens waved flags and took to the streets to shout: "Respond to the national war, defeat Yukou~!" ”

Even if the Beiyang political axe dispatched the military and police, it would not help, and many military and police officers were even dissatisfied with the Beiyang political axe's stay out of the way, especially after the imperial farce.

The people were emotional, and the internal chaos of the Beiyang political axe was also in chaos, and Yuan Shikai's prestige fell sharply at this time, and he could no longer completely suppress those Beiyang officers.

Yuan Shikai did not want to get involved in this war, so he did not reply to the people in time.

When the news reached Sichuan, Cai Ye received a telegram and immediately decided to respond to the national war, and immediately sent a telegram of support, and promised to mobilize at least 300,000 Sichuan troops to Shandong.

Cai's decision was immediately supported by the Sichuan people, and Xiong Kewu and other Sichuan warlords also supported the national war, and their opinions were surprisingly unanimous.

The children of Sichuan are also proud of fighting the national war, and they rush to the registration point from all over the country to join the army.

Sichuan can be said to be the province with the strongest national consciousness in modern China, and if something happens, it will immediately be a group of people, and the discipline surname is even better.

can endure hardships and is not afraid of death, this is the Sichuan army.

It's just that the mobilization has just begun, and the children of Sichuan have signed up so enthusiastically, which greatly surprised Cai Yi's expectations, according to this situation, mobilizing 300,000 people to go to the battlefield is a piece of cake.

On 6 October, Tang Jiyao said that Yunnan would mobilize 100,000 Yunnan troops in response to the call for national war.

Just when Sichuan was responding to the national war, in the Beiyang Army, Wu Peifu saw the situation and suggested to Cao Kun to send troops to respond.

Although Cao Kun did not have much ability, he knew how to make good use of people and obeyed Wu Xiucai's words, so Cao Kun suddenly telegraphed the whole country without any order, announcing that the Third Army of Beiyang would respond to the national war and go to Shandong.

Cao Kun's actions were like bursting an embankment, and Feng Yuxiang immediately sent a response telegram to respond to the national war! Many low-level officers were suddenly agitated, and there was even a phenomenon of the entire regiment going to Shandong without permission.

When Yuan Shikai learned the news, he spit blood again, and at this time, the Beiyang Army fell apart in an instant, how could Yuan Shikai not be in a hurry, but there was no way to finish the hurry, so he had to order to declare war on Yueben.

If you don't declare war on Yueben again, Beiyang will collapse.

At this time, all provinces were electrified to respond to the national war, and there was also a split within the Beiyang Army, and if the Beiyang political axe was indifferent at such a moment, no matter whether the Shandong battlefield was won or lost, it would be liquidated by the people after the war.

On 8 November, the Beiyang political axe officially declared war on the city, expelled the overseas Chinese, seized all the assets of the company in China, and mobilized 200,000 people to respond to the war situation in Shandong.

The declaration of war by the Beiyang political axe finally calmed the emotions of those young Zhuang officers.

In the Shandong battlefield, after the artillery bombardment and the dispatch of planes were stopped, the East China Army also stopped temporarily, and the wars that broke out one after another came to an abrupt end.

Sichuan, Yunnan, and Beiyang all sent telegrams in response to the national war, followed by Guizhou and Guangdong, and at this time, China's major provinces all responded to the Shandong war.

These telegrams said that the political axe was also received, this is a clear code, there is no secret surname at all, the original seemingly divided China, suddenly unanimously to the outside world, this makes the high-level of the political axe feel terrified......

(To be continued)