Qingdao, in the encirclement, Kamio Mitsutomi is like a mouse in a light box, he has thought of countless ways to escape, but he has not succeeded once. Seven days had passed, and after the northwest had stabilized the outer defensive line, they dug trenches behind them, built a solid position, and then held there, calmly waiting for the besieged Japanese.

In the first 3 days, the Japanese army in the encirclement was divided into two parts, one side was resting, and the other half was still digging trenches, but no matter whether they were on guard or doing something else, the other party had no sense of attack.

After a long time, Kamio Mitsumi also saw that the other party had no intention of fighting, so they were surrounded like this, they thought Kamio Mitsutomi was very clear, it was nothing more than waiting to pick up the cheap at the end, as long as their army supplies were all exhausted, then even if Kamio Mitsutomi wanted to fight, he couldn't fight.

Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, whether it is the era of cold weapons in the past, or the era of hot weapons, the logistics department and are important aspects, now it is more important, there is no bullet gun, there is not much difference from the burning stick, as for food, it is even more important, a strong combat unit, after three days of starvation, the combat effectiveness is immediately greatly reduced, if it is 7 days, then there is no need to fight, directly collect the corpse.

At present, all the supplies are consumed on the entire shore, and it is certainly not possible to go on like this, and it stands to reason that the Japanese base camp should have received news a long time ago, but there is no at all, not even a single contact, let alone replenishment of supplies. The food can also last up to 20 days. There is no shortage of water, but looking at the appearance of the 18th Division. Mitsutomi Kamio knows that if it takes another 7 days. Without any news, I am afraid that the entire army will collapse, even if it does not surrender directly to the other side, it will launch a suicidal impact on a solid line of defense, such ordeal is definitely not something that people can bear, especially in a desperate situation.

At this moment, it's not just Kamio Mitsutomi who is suffering. In Tokyo, Japan, in the base camp, Japan has been waiting for news from the front, and decided to use the army, 80,000 army and the entire Combined Fleet, they are for victory, the sphere of influence in Shandong and the excellent port of Jiaozhou Bay, which have always been coveted by them, the Japanese Combined Fleet. Need a stable dìng military port, and there is no better one than Qingdao.

Japan is not a madman, unless it is a war that bets on the fortunes of the country. It will not send troops casually, and it is not yet time to gamble on the fortunes of the country, and the German army in Qingdao is only a few thousand people. There are only a few warships, and not all of them are in Qingdao. According to their expectations, it shouldn't be difficult to win. The Qingdao fortress was tight. The German soldiers in Qingdao simply could not give full play to the full strength of the fortress, and with dozens of times the superiority of the army, coupled with the fleets of Britain and France, it was no longer a problem to take Qingdao. But up to now, when the war reports from the front line have not returned, it stands to reason that the war has already begun, and there are transport boats and special personnel, and they will go to a nearby city that is a little full, and they can send back telegrams, but there is no at all, not at all, what is wrong.

The most important thing is that the telegraph office sent a clear code telegram from the northwest, and on the day they were about to attack Qingdao, their attack was at 10 o'clock in the morning, but at 8 o'clock in the morning, Germany officially returned Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay to the northwest, and invited many guests to attend the ceremony, and their Japanese diplomats and reporters also went.

This news alarmed all the people in the base camp, and the plans made were all in Qingdao in the hands of the Germans, if it was in the hands of the northwest, many things would have to be reassessed, and maybe even a lot of losses would be suffered, there was no one in Germany, but there were many people in the northwest, and in the first war against Russia, at least it was found that there were more than 300,000 army forces in the northwest.

The base camp is still not worried, after all, no matter how powerful the northwest is, it is only strong on land, as far as the ships inherited by the northwest in the former Qing Dynasty navy, the maximum displacement is only more than 4,000 tons, and the main gun is only a 203 mm main gun, compared with the ships of the combined fleet, I don't know how much worse, not to mention battleships and battle cruisers, armored cruisers come out one by one, and it is enough to kill the opponent's light cruisers in a pair of three, with protection at sea, suffer a little loss, and if you can't beat it, you will come back. Suffer a little loss, cover the army with the navy, and then come back is not.

Next, the news of the Northwest declaring war on Japan came after more than an hour, and the top brass of the Japanese military were almost out of anger, they didn't expect the Northwest to be so bold, and they didn't have to settle the accounts of designing Japan with the Northwest, whether it was the cotton crisis in the past or the rubber crisis in the back, on the Asian side, it was the Northwest that did it. Although Yang Yuanzhao is very secretive, behind Japan, there are British and French powers, if they really make up their minds to find it, it will be easy to find an opponent, and by the way, sue Japan, so that Japan will hold a grudge and act against China behind their backs.

Whether it is the cotton crisis, or the rubber crisis behind, Japan's losses are very huge, China's industrial development, especially light industry, almost blocked Japan's footsteps towards the world, Japan is good at, China is also good at, and with the support of the strong industry in the northwest, it is better than Japan, the Japanese with the help of squeezing workers, crazy production to reduce the cost, in the face of the northwest industrial upgrading, the cost reduction brought by machine efficiency, is simply too far behind, labor in inefficient production, occupies an important aspect, but when the efficiency of the machine is equivalent to 10 times, 100 times, and 1000 times that of ordinary labor, the labor cost can be almost ignored to the point that there is no need to calculate, and the cost of the raw materials itself is always the cost of the raw materials themselves.

In this way, with the help of the low cost and quality of machine production, made in China swept the world at the same time, but also a large number of bankruptcies in the Japanese handicraft and textile industry, that is, after the outbreak of the European war, a little order was obtained from Britain and France. This attack on Qingdao was also aimed at suppressing the northwest, and even liaising with Beiyang and the revolutionary party.

I don't know what the situation in Qingdao will be, but the Japanese base camp is not worried, there is a combined fleet, but South Manchuria and Korea and Taiwan, the base camp immediately telegraphed the Japanese soldiers in the northeast, Korea and Taiwan, ready to be ready at any time, maybe, next, war is coming.

There was a major event of a declaration of war, it was China that was close at hand, Japan has always regarded China as a target, entering the mainland, and the purpose of occupying the mainland has never stopped, not to mention the current Japan, even if it was the Warring States Period, the once magical Taiko, after the unification of Japan, wanted to go to the mainland to show off his might, but the Ming Dynasty at that time was all over the ground looking for teeth, and it could not even be said that it was the Ming Dynasty, just the Northeast Frontier Army, but the spirit of yearning for the mainland in the bones was left.

This time, it is under the acquiescence of Britain and France, Japan's power to occupy Shandong, relative to the Northeast, although Shandong is a little far away from Japan, but it is the most suitable, without entering the Bohai Bay, you can go down directly along the Yellow Sea, compared to the cold and harsh climate of the Northeast, the climatic conditions are better, the most important thing is that it is close to the core area of China, close to Zhili, Anhui, and not far from the rich area of the south of the Yangtze River, in terms of the purpose of occupying the mainland, a big step forward.

From this telegram, no good telegrams came, for a whole hour, it had been so long since the start of the war, what was going on, whether Qingdao was taken, or in the midst of a fierce battle, all the personnel in the rear were a little hairy, and even the General Staff, constantly ordered spies in China to try to find out what was happening in Qingdao.

It's a pity that China has long been prepared, and the theater of operations is quite tightly controlled, that is, which night, dozens of specially trained officers ran away, and then, the entire First Army, hundreds of thousands of troops, the water guarding outside, all aspects of the Luka card master, to know the situation in the core area, almost at a cost, the General Staff almost at a cost, ordered the spies to rush inside, in order to figure out a qiē, at some cost.

Countless spies, just like rabbits, frantically rushed to the vicinity of Qingdao, but by the Northwest Army's layered defenses, there was no way, the previous method, money opened the way, in the face of strict discipline, with patriotic beliefs of the Northwest Army soldiers, there is no use at all, no bribes are better to say, at most it is regarded as a mistake, but once the bribes are given, they are immediately regarded as a conspiracy, directly taken down, and sent to the intelligence agency.

After Yang Yuanzhao's personal care, the intelligence bureau cultivated with a lot of money, to deal with these so-called Japanese secret agents, it is simply professional and amateur, these secret agents who have grown up with the development of Japan, their professional skills, that is, the chaotic China gave them the opportunity, in World War I, World War II, Japan's intelligence department, except for China, did not have any appearance, almost by Britain and the United States.

Thousands of miles away, separated by the sea in between, in this era, it is very difficult to figure out the front of the road, but there are still cable telegrams on land, but the near ones are given to the northwest control, although the British and French got the information from the soldiers who escaped from Japan, but they did not inform Japan, almost a day late, that is, 5 days after the start of the war, it was sent to Japan, by the way, there are also telegrams from the 18th Division, these two are in order, the 18th Division is about 2 hours earlier, British and French, It was two hours late, and the ambassador to Japan sent it directly. (To be continued......)