During the three months of the German army's frenzied attack on the Soviet Union, the battle between the Tang and Japanese armies in the Luda area was also coming to an end.

On June 15, the newly established Eighth Marine Division of the Tang Army arrived at Bohai Bay, and under the escort of the Tang Army's fleet, it landed at Yingkou at dawn the next day, broke through the heavy defense of the Japanese army, and captured Yingkou on the morning of the 17th.

The Tang Army suddenly made a move at Yingkou, which immediately caused a great mess of the Japanese Kwantung Army's operations. Yingkou was lost, and the 400,000 Japanese troops on the Luda Peninsula faced an unfavorable situation of being flanked from the front and rear.

The Japanese army was greatly panicked, and after a fierce battle at the Luda fortress for more than half a year, they held on to the Tang army, paying a heavy price of more than 100,000 casualties, but still failed to capture the Luda fortress. This was far more tragic than the brigade offensive and defensive battles during the Russo-Japanese War.

The Tang army defended against the danger, relying on advanced weapons and equipment, and with the support of the navy and air force, the casualties were less than 2,000, and it was enough to consume the Japanese army if it continued like this.

However, the National Revolutionary Army was not idle, knowing that the sun was setting in Japan, so its fighting spirit was higher. At this time, the National Revolutionary Army had adapted to the use of the planes and tanks aided to them by the Tang Empire, and all kinds of weapons and equipment were used smoothly, and they gradually regained the initiative in the battle against the Japanese army.

In the first battle of Shanhaiguan, the National Revolutionary Army broke the defense of the 15th Division of the Kwantung Army in one fell swoop and broke through to the outside of the pass, which was the first time that the National Revolutionary Army stepped into it since the fall of Northeast China, which was of great significance.

The Tang Army did not take the initiative to attack for most of the year, which gave the Japanese army a false impression that the Tang Army was beyond the reach of the whip, so they neglected the defensive forces in the direction of Yingkou, and the Japanese troops originally stationed at Yingkou were transferred to the front line of the brigade. The wounded Japanese soldiers who had retreated from the battlefield of the brigade rushed to Yingkou to change their defenses.

However, the Tang army seized this loophole, and after the departure of the original Yingkou garrison, the Japanese wounded soldiers did not arrive before the change of defense troops. Suddenly sent the 8th Marine Division to launch a surprise attack, which resulted in victory in the first battle and capture the important town of Yingkou.

This dealt a huge blow to the Japanese army, and the 400,000 Japanese troops who were engaged in a battle with the Tang Army on the battlefield of the brigade panicked, and the Japanese army headquarters knew that the general trend had gone and the brigade could not be recaptured, so it ordered the Japanese army to retreat on all fronts.

The Japanese army had already seen the strong combat effectiveness of the Tang Army. The weapons and equipment of the Tang Army were far more advanced than those of the Japanese army, and they occupied the absolute superiority of the Navy and Air Force, plus they could not recapture the brigade fortress. When the rear road was outflanked, the Japanese army's morale was suddenly weakened, 400,000 Japanese troops scrambled to retreat, and many logistics troops were slow. but blocked the main passage of retreat. As a result, the Japanese troops who had withdrawn from the front could not retreat quickly, and soon caused traffic jams.

At this time, the naval aviation of the Tang Army was dispatched again, bombers bombed Japanese vehicles, artillery, tanks and other important targets, and fighters dived and strafed the Japanese marching troops, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army.

The Tang Army sent armored units at the right time to pursue and attack the retreating Japanese troops, which immediately aggravated the panic and chaos when the Japanese troops retreated.

In just one week, the Japanese army suffered 100,000 casualties. Far exceeding the casualties paid by the Japanese in normal offensive operations, the retreat became disorderly. Reduced to a rout.

The Tang army beat the water dogs, and the Japanese army abandoned their heavy equipment and fled to Mukden with light equipment. It's just that it is difficult for them to march quickly during the day, because there are reconnaissance planes and fighters of the Tang Army in the sky, which will dive down at any time, and a wing of Japanese troops will be slaughtered at every turn, forcing the Japanese troops to only walk through the mountains during the day and dare to advance on the road at night.

As a result, the Japanese retreat was even slower, and the armored forces of the Don Army pushed all the way sideways and were unstoppable. The Japanese army originally retreated, but it was about to turn into a tragic fate of being completely annihilated.

The entire retreat of the Japanese army lasted for a month, and it was also beaten by the Tang army like a rabbit for a month, and less than 50,000 Japanese troops of 400,000 troops finally retreated back to Mukden, more than 200,000 Japanese troops were wiped out, and more than 100,000 Japanese troops were missing.

These were all the core elite units of the Kwantung Army, and as a result, they suffered casualties throughout the brigade battle.

At this time, the strength of the entire Japanese Kwantung Army had dropped from 1.18 million six months ago to less than 400,000, and it could not defend the entire three northeastern provinces and could only focus on defending important cities.

The anti-Japanese coalition forces in the northeast seized the opportunity to quickly capture the areas where the Japanese army had withdrawn, and established base areas one after another under the command of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese army held on to Mukden, Changchun, Harbin and other important towns, and fought to the death with the Tang Army and the National Revolutionary Army.

The Japanese army Jihua and the Tang army died together, and their 731 unit in the northeast wanted to detonate all the poison gas bombs and bacteriological bombs, and let everyone in the three eastern provinces bury the Japanese army together.

The agents of the Tang Army intercepted the Japanese Jihua and quickly reported it to the General Staff of the Tang Empire.

Zhang Meng attached great importance to this matter, and immediately exchanged views with the leaders of the Nationalist Army and the Communist Army, on the one hand, he did everything to stop the Japanese army, and on the other hand, the Tang Empire officially issued an ultimatum to the Japanese Kwantung Army, claiming that if the Japanese army dared to use poison gas bombs and bacteriological weapons, then the Tang Empire would directly drop poison gas bombs and bacteriological bombs over the Japanese mainland and annihilate the whole of Japan.

It's a big shot in the face, and it comes with a certain amount of risk. The Japanese Kwantung Army wanted to die together, but in the face of the strong threat of the Tang Empire, they couldn't bear to let their family members in China also be attacked by poison gas and bacteria, and they were forced to cancel this terrifying jihua.

However, the Japanese Kwantung Army also took advantage of this rare opportunity to get in touch with the high-level of the Tang Empire and formally applied for peace with the Tang Empire. It was hoped that at the cost of the surrender of the entire Kwantung Army, this Tang-Japanese war would be ended.

If the Japanese army is forced in a hurry, I am afraid that they will really die together, so that tens of millions of Northeast fathers and elders will suffer, and the call to end the war was jointly issued by most of the parties and people in China, and the Tang Empire also exchanged views with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and finally promised that the Japanese army would surrender unconditionally and would be exempted from the suffering of war.

The Japanese base camp also knew that they had no power to return to the sky, and the second Tang-Japanese war was still a defeat, so they chose to give in, because there was no hope of victory, and if they did not surrender, when the Tang army landed on the Japanese mainland, it was far more terrifying than the current Tang army's wanton and indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese mainland.

On August 15, 1939, after more than a dozen negotiations between the relevant personnel of Tang and Japan, an agreement was finally reached, and the new emperor of Japan announced Japan's unconditional surrender, while the Tang Empire allowed Japan to retain the emperor system, nothing more.

On the same day, the Japanese cabinet submitted an edict of unconditional surrender to the Tang Empire, and from that day on, the Japanese army completely laid down its arms and surrendered to the Tang Army and the Chinese army.

According to the Tang-Japan armistice agreement, Japan did not have any other requirements except to invite the Tang Empire to retain the Japanese emperor system, and in their view, as long as the emperor retained, Japan could have a day of recovery.

The Tang Empire and its allies were to send troops into the Japanese mainland, disarm the Japanese army, try war criminals, and make war reparations.

The Japanese Kwantung Army in Northeast China finally completed its complete surrender in September, and the National Revolutionary Army announced the complete recovery of the three northeastern provinces on September 23.

The 300,000 Japanese troops in Korea surrendered to the Tang Empire, and the Korean Peninsula was temporarily under the trusteeship of the Tang Empire until the DPRK completed democratic elections and established a government.

As a result of Japan's surrender, the Nationalist Government abolished all unequal treaties of Japan since the Treaty of Shimonoseki, but on the Taiwan issue, the Nationalist Government said that it could be temporarily entrusted by the Tang Empire, and if one day the Taiwanese democratically voted to return to China, then the Tang Empire should return Taiwan. The Tang Empire understood this.

The two sides handled the Taiwan issue in a low-key manner, and the Chinese people did not have much emotion about the Tang Empire's occupation of Taiwan, because both sides were one ancestor.

At present, both sides are busy with the issue of punishing Japan's defeat, and Tang and China set up a Far East Military Tribunal to begin trials of war criminals and traitors and scum who betrayed the nation in Japan's war of aggression against China and the Tang-Japanese War, and set up an economic investigation team to assess the economic losses and casualties caused by the Japanese army's war, and then claim compensation from Japan.

Tang and China sent troops to the Japanese mainland to form a joint command of the occupation forces to carry out military occupation of Japan.

All this was going on in an orderly manner, and with the surrender of Japan, the destruction of Britain and France, the entire Entente bloc was left with the Soviet Union itself.

However, the Tang Empire still did not invade the Soviet Union militarily, and only the German and Italian armies and the armies of their client states were still fighting the Soviet army. The Tang Empire still demanded that the Soviet Union cede the Far East to the Tang Empire as soon as possible, otherwise the Tang Empire would send troops to the war.

For the Soviet Union, when he learned of Japan's surrender, Stalin understood that Far East Africa had to be ceded to the Tang Empire, otherwise the Soviet Union would face the siege of Germany, Italy, Tang and China, and the situation would be even worse.

Fortunately, the Far East was originally obtained by Tsarist Russia's invasion of China, and Lenin had previously said that the Far East would be returned to China, so at this time Stalin handed over the Far East to the Tang Empire, and for the Soviet people, their resistance was not so high, and after scolding Stalin for a few days, the attention returned to the Soviet-German battlefield.

In this way, the Soviet Union began to hand over the defense of the Far East to the Tang Empire, and the Nationalist Government was quite entangled at this time, and Jiang Zhongzheng was bent on destroying the Communist Army, so as to make a request to the Tang Empire, as long as the Tang Empire did not interfere in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Nationalist Government would no longer claim Taiwan and the Far East.

However, soon Jiang Zhongzheng was sad, and Zhang Meng clearly warned him that no civil war was allowed.

At Zhang Meng's strong request, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party held negotiations on the formation of a coalition government in Nanjing under the arrangement of the Tang Empire.

It's just that the political ideas of the two sides are different, it can be said that water and fire are incompatible, and it is extremely difficult to set up a coalition government, but Zhang Meng decided that he wants to prevent the civil war, and he must try no matter what, after all, he knows the future situation, and he can use the "socialist system with Chinese characteristics" to integrate the ideas of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party together and resolve the differences between them.

Zhang Meng quickly summed up the overall program of the so-called system with Chinese characteristics in later generations, and demanded that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party seriously study that there is both a state-run economic system that satisfies socialism and a private economic system that satisfies the capitalist system, and that the two systems can be mixed with the advantages of both systems and can make up for the shortcomings of the two systems. (To be continued......)