At the same time that the Japanese military department Jihua asked the Onodera Gonori fleet to escort supplies to Taiwan, the Japanese army was also conducting a new round of operations, looking forward to solving the Taiwan crisis.

The new round of Japanese operations was proposed by the Kwantung Army, who daily accused the Japanese Navy of being useless and plunged the Japanese Army in Taiwan into a bitter war. Since the Tang Army had never attacked the Japanese Kwantung Army in the Northeast, they thought they were very strong and did not take the Tang Army seriously at all.

After the Japanese Kwantung Army created the Northeast Incident, further Jihua invaded Chinese mainland, which had been unable to be approved because Japan was defeated by the Tang Army in the Pacific Ocean and ceded land due to financial constraints, and now the Kwantung Army proposed that if the communication line of Chinese mainland was opened, it could use the Taiwan Strait to transport supplies from the mainland to Taiwan, and at the same time, even if Taiwan was lost, the Japanese army could make up for the losses by capturing the mainland.

Due to the blockade and bombing of the Japanese mainland by the Tang Army, the Japanese industry was hit hard and there was an extreme shortage of raw materials, but the Kwantung Army still had many factories in the northeast, and they had been operating for five or six years. At the same time, the Japanese military really needs to win a battle to boost domestic morale, and it is indeed a good way to open a knife on the soft persimmon Nationalist government army.

The Japanese never knew how prolific the land was and how bold the people were, they only knew how bold and prolific the people were, and they had no chance of winning a war with the Tang Empire, and they planned to start a full-scale war with China.

Of course, Japan is also forced to helpless. Because of the recent outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Zhongzheng was forced to reach peace terms with the Communist Party and jointly resist Japan, so that Chinese mainland has formed a momentum of all-out war of resistance. A full-scale war between China and Japan was inevitable.

The Nationalist Government also based on the fact that Japan was completely suppressed by the Tang Army in the Second Tang-Japanese War, and the Tang Army was in an advantageous situation, after several rounds of negotiations with the Tang Empire. The Tang Empire promised to provide the Nationalist Government with a large number of weapons and equipment and low-interest loans, and the Nationalist Government was only prepared for war against Japan after receiving these assurances, and the Xi'an Incident was just an excuse for the Nationalist Government to get a step down.

The first batch of military aid alone included 36 Thunder medium-range heavy bombers, 200 lite land-based Raptor fighters, 160 Leopard main battle tanks in service with the German Wehrmacht, and 36 155-mm heavy howitzers. 30,000 M1 submachine guns, more than 2,000 military vehicles of various kinds, and 3 million sets of regular and combat uniforms of the Tang Army. Including steel helmets, guns, sabers and military boots, the Nationalist Government changed the various insignia of the Tang Empire to the blue sky and white sun symbol, and the lower part was left untouched for the use of various troops.

It can be said that the entire army, navy, and air force of the Nationalist Army are all standard equipment of the Tang Army in appearance. At the same time, the Tang Empire sent training personnel for the army, navy and air force. It has trained more than 2 million national troops, transmitted the values, shijie and outlook on life of the Tang Empire, carried forward the concept of ancient Chinese civilization, and fundamentally eliminated the factors in the National Revolutionary Army that have been influenced by Japanese concepts since modern times.

For the officers and soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army, they naturally agree and accept the concept of the Tang Empire, which is of the same origin, and once upon a time they have been looking for a way to revitalize China. It's still a country of Chinese, and they've finally found a way to rejuvenate. Naturally, you don't have to study Japan anymore.

From the standpoint of the Tang Empire, they generously provided the National Revolutionary Army with various weapons and equipment on a large scale, and sent instructors to train them, for the time being, in order to jointly fight against the Japanese army, and in the long run, the Tang Empire imperceptibly influenced the Nationalist Government, and did not rule out the intention of dominating the whole of China in the future.

Of course, for the Tang Empire, it was somewhat difficult to influence the communist army. Although the Tang Empire ignored all the obstructions of the Nationalist Government and distributed all kinds of weapons and equipment, military uniforms, guns and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and a large number of instructors were also sent, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army also gladly accepted it, but there were political commissars in their troops, and the influence of the Tang Army's concepts and ideas was much weaker than that of the National Army.

However, the Tang Empire is not in a hurry, and it will continue to exert influence in a step-by-step manner, and sooner or later it will make them accept the ideas of the Tang Empire.

Originally, the Tang Empire also equipped the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army with aircraft and tanks, but unfortunately there were no talents in this area among them, and it also took time for the instructors of the Tang Army to train them, and they could not form combat effectiveness in a short time.

At this time, the communist army only wanted to stop the war with the national army and live in peace from then on, so they even wore the blue sky and white sun symbol, and were willing to accept the reorganization and leadership of the national government. Zhang Meng is interested in this, he knows that this moment is an opportunity for the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to cooperate again, he does not want to see the Kuomintang and the Communist Party civil war, because it is the biggest catastrophe to China, personnel and economic losses far exceed the War of Resistance against Japan, Zhang Meng hopes that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will never have a civil war again, this is also the purpose of the Tang Empire's generous assistance to the national army and the communist army, hoping to establish a connection point between the two sides with the Tang Empire as a link to prevent this catastrophe.

Naturally, no one knows Zhang Meng's true purpose, and no one thanks him for his secret efforts for the national righteousness, but he doesn't care about these, sooner or later history will correctly evaluate him.

The second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the joint resistance between Tang and China, and the nerves of the Japanese suddenly tensed.

In order to preemptively strike, on July 7, 1937, the Japanese army took the lead in attacking the Wailugou Bridge in Beiping, firing the first shot of the Sino-Japanese all-out war.

Just the night before, Zhang Xinhai passed away in Shanghai, and Zhang Meng arrived in Shanghai by special plane to attend Zhang Xinhai's memorial service and held an official meeting with Lin Sen, chairman of the Nationalist Government, in Shanghai to exchange views on the future of the Tang and Chinese armies to work together to build a joint anti-Japanese front.

During this period, Zhang Meng also talked with Zhang Wei for a long time, and finally persuaded her to return to the Tang Empire and continue to serve as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. And Zhang Wei was also unable to help Zhang Meng because of Zhang Xinhai before, but now that Zhang Xinhai is gone, Zhang Wei has no restraint and agrees to help.

For Zhang Meng, another surprise was to see Han Qingxuan again. To Zhang Meng's surprise, Han Qingxuan was no longer the eldest lady of the Han family, and she had drawn a clear line with the Nationalist Government, because she had joined the Communist Party and become a communist fighter. All this is because of Zhang Meng, Han Qingxuan likes Zhang Meng in her heart, and in order to give Zhang Meng a new look of herself, she joined the Communist Party.

Now, Han Qingxuan came to Shanghai as a representative of the Communist Party and expressed his gratitude to Zhang Meng in person. (To be continued......)