The war room was quiet, and several staff officers saw the commander sitting in front of the map and pondered, and the voice of the phone was lowered, for fear of affecting the commander's thoughts.

Liu Yimin sat in front of the map, looking at it and thinking, his brain was spinning like a roller coaster.

Due to the removal of the ** communication and liaison group, and the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fell to the freezing point after Chiang Kai-shek launched the ****, the Military Commission no longer reported the battle report on the frontal battlefield to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, let alone Liu Yimin. This has caused a negative effect, that is, Liu Yimin has lagged behind in grasping the changes in the situation on various battlefields, and he often comprehensively analyzes and judges the original historical knowledge and the current news intercepted by the Japanese pseudo-radio station. In this way, Liu Yimin did not know about some things that both sides thought were highly secret.

Historically, at this time, the Japanese army was making preparations for the invasion of Southeast Asia, and even preparations for a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, because history has changed so much, Liu Yimin is really not sure whether the little devil will move blindly as in history, so he has a new strategic thinking that he is determined to defeat the little devil under the premise that the Japanese army does not launch the Pacific War.

In fact, at this time, Southeast Asia was already in the news.

The little devil's biggest skill is to rob while the fire is burning.

At a time when Germany was in danger of conquering the Netherlands and Britain and France, the Japanese army headquarters sent eight staff officers to various parts of Southeast Asia to reconnoiter the military, topographical, and political situation in order to formulate a plan for attacking these areas. The 'middle ones who went to Indonesia were Shifu Kenkichi, Okamura Seiyuki, and Kato Nazo; Those who went to Malaya were Kazuo Tanigawa; Those who went to the Philippines were Shimamura Juyasu and Iwakoshi Shinroku; The one who went to Hong Kong was Ryuzo Sejima. On 16 August, just before the Battle of the Hundred Regiments began, these eight staff officers wrote down an operational plan for the army's attack on Southeast Asia based on the reconnaissance situation on the spot, and submitted it to the base camp.

This is the Japanese army's habit of shooting guns and working secretly!

If that's all there is to it, then the little devil is not called a little devil.

Immediately after the German occupation of France, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the British ambassador to Japan, Klei, and threatened Britain to absolutely prohibit the delivery of military supplies to China through Hong Kong and the port of Yangon in Burma.

Immediately afterwards, the South China Army mobilized the 1st Artillery Command and 3 rapid-fire artillery brigades, the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing, the 2nd and 3rd Independent Heavy Artillery Brigades, and the 2nd Independent Heavy Mortar Brigade, as well as the troops of the 18th Division deployed near Shenzhen north of Hong Kong, and the 98th Heavy Bomber Brigade transferred from the Kwantung Army also arrived in the vicinity of Shenzhen, assuming a posture of blockading Hong Kong. Britain was forced by the German army at this time, where could it take care of the colonies in Southeast Asia, so on July 12 it replied to Japan and agreed to block the ports, railways, and roads from Burma to China for three months after July 18.

Seeing that Britain bowed its head, little Japan was overjoyed, and immediately dispatched officers such as Saburo Watanabe, Hiraoka Tsukazo Osa, and the navy Yoshitaka Ohno to fly to the embassy of the Consulate General in Yangon, Burma, to monitor the situation of the British army's blockade of the transportation channel to China.

Not to mention France, before the German army occupied France, Japan repeatedly proposed to France that it was not allowed to send war materials to China through French Vietnam. On June 18, the third day of France's surrender to Germany, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a circular to the French ambassador to Japan, Ansato, that weapons, ammunition, automobiles, and gasoline were not to be transported to China through Vietnam. The next day, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs proposed to French Ambassador to Japan Anri that it would send a number of military personnel to form a monitoring group to Vietnam's northern ports and to the terminus of roads and railways leading to China's border areas to inspect and inspect on the spot whether any materials had been brought into China.

Immediately after that, the Japanese Fifth Division began to advance towards Zhennan Pass, assuming a posture of entering Vietnam by force.

In the eyes of little Japan, the defeated France is like a rubber doll that can be pinched as much as it wants!

At this time, the French troops in Vietnam still had 160 aircraft of various types, a cruiser, 5 gunboats, and more than 30,000 troops (including Vietnamese), including the Tokyo Division stationed in Hanoi, about 1 person, of which the white man was about name; the Annam Division stationed in Saigon, about 4,000 men, of which about 1,000 were whites; Cambodian division stationed in Phnom Penh: about 6,700 people, of which the whites are about name.

The 5th Division of the Japanese Army was only a brigade to Zhennanguan, and the French troops in Vietnam were afraid to death!

This is not to say that the French army does not have the courage to let go of the first battle, the key is that the French government has surrendered! Although General de Gaulle, who had withdrawn to England, organized a "free French" resistance government, General Cadol, the French governor in Vietnam, and General Malden, commander of the army in Vietnam, had to submit to the leadership of the Vichy government, after all, Marshal Pétain, the prime minister of the Vichy government, had great influence in France, and his government was also in France itself.

As a result, France surrendered on June 16, and on July 2, Rear Admiral Kazusei Nishihara, chairman of the Japanese Surveillance Committee in Vietnam, led 30 Japanese army and navy officers to Hanoi. Immediately afterwards, China's unfinished transportation of materials in Haiphong Port was seized by Xiyuan Yice, the Lao Cai railway bridge at the junction of Yunnan and Vietnam was interrupted by the removal of a section of railroad tracks, and the highways leading to Vietnam from Zhennanguan to Tongdeng, Beilun Hekou, and Dongxing to Mong Cai in Guangxi Province were all dug up by the Japanese army's surveillance team in the area.

Nishihara Kazusei has gained a lot in Vietnam. At this time, China's unfinished transportation of materials in Haiphong Port was piling up, including imported automobiles, gasoline, steel rails, bridge equipment, copper, aluminum, wires, communication equipment, automobile tires, various engines, machinery, etc., as well as exported tungsten, tin, antimony and other materials, totaling more than 100,000 tons.

General Duko, who succeeded General Cadol as Governor of Vietnam, provided the Japanese army with a list of seized Chinese war materials: 1,760 tons of steel, 1,760 tons of iron, 195 tons of copper, 1 ton of lead, tons of rails, 600 tons of copper and iron wire, 1.0 tons of brass, 6 tons of automobiles, 6 tons of machinery, 5,013 tons of bedding textiles, etc., and 3,136 tons of salt.

The cunning Nishihara Kazuse, fearing that the Vietnamese would conceal the supplies, asked the French governor in Vietnam, Ducco, to revise the list, and at the same time sent people to Haiphong Port to investigate on the spot. As a result, in the fields along the road about 60 kilometers west of Haiphong, the Japanese army found 1 barrel of aviation gasoline and a barrel of gasoline for vehicles.

What is the concept of such a huge amount of supplies falling into the hands of the Japanese?

100,000 tons of supplies! Chiang Kai-shek was reluctant to allocate a penny of military expenses to the Shandong troops of the Eighth Route Army, and was reluctant to replenish a single bullet, and all of them fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

The Eighth Route Army was captured from the devils, and the Japanese army was seized from Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Xueliang and others.

The defeat of the Battle of Guinan, the defeat of the Battle of Zaoyi, the blockade of the material passage from Hong Kong to the mainland, the blockade of the material passage from Yangon in Myanmar to China, and the blockade of the material passage from Vietnam to China, the Nationalist Government suddenly fell into the most difficult period since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, no wonder an atmosphere of surrender and compromise suddenly permeated the Chiang Kai-shek government in Chongqing, and many officials fled from Chongqing to join Wang Jingwei.

The Japanese were not so good at conquering Southeast Asia! On June 12, just three days before the surrender of France, Japan signed a treaty of friendship with Thailand, preparing to instigate Thailand to attack the French forces stationed in Vietnam on the pretext of settling the territorial problem with French Vietnam on both sides of the Mekong River, and cooperate with the Japanese army in occupying Southeast Asia.

Now, the Japanese have sharpened their knives against Southeast Asia, and all they need is the army to attack Southeast Asia. Therefore, as soon as the Konoe Cabinet came to power, it decided to reorganize the 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, and 56th divisions, a total of five new divisions, plus the 28th, 29th, 48th, 5th, and 57th divisions and regiments that were newly organized this year, and the Japanese Army added 10 new divisions and regiments. These five divisions are all prepared to be used for offensive operations in Southeast Asia, and they have never been to the Chinese battlefield in history, so the Chinese basically do not have much research on these five divisions.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, and the pace of little Japan to Southeast Asia is already unstoppable!

Liu Yimin was very clear about these situations when he studied the history of the war, the problem is that history has changed so much now, the little devils can't even destroy the Eighth Route Army, and will they go down the historical trajectory.

Since the Lunan Campaign wiped out the main force of the 10th Division rebuilt by the Japanese army, Liu Yimin has been busy fighting and practicing radio silence for a lot of time, even to monitor the movements of the Japanese army, mainly aimed at the North China Front, and did not have enough control of the movements of the Japanese army in other strategic directions. Just like the Japanese army launched the Battle of Guinan and the Battle of Zaoyi, Liu Yimin only learned the accurate news from the radio after the Japanese army launched.

The fact that the Japanese army forced Britain and France to compromise was all an inside story, and only the Japanese, British, French, and Chiang Kai-shek knew about it, and it was impossible to hype it up on the radio and in the newspapers. Chiang Kai-shek did not inform the Eighth Route Army that the British and French had done things that harmed China, and they had no face to show it around; The Japanese have their eyes on Southeast Asia, and it's too late to keep it secret, let alone show off.

If it weren't for Liu Yimin being a traverser, who would have known that the Japanese had detained 100,000 tons of Chinese supplies at the port of Haiphong in Vietnam? Who would have known that the British promised Japan to block the passage of supplies from Rangoon to China for 3 months? Don't say that the generals of the Eighth Route Army don't know, even the generals of the Kuomintang, I'm afraid the vast majority of them won't know either. Chiang Kai-shek was afraid of shaking the morale of the army, so he would not publicize it!

Liu Yimin called Qian Zhuangying and asked him to concentrate on sorting out the news he had intercepted about the Japanese army's military operations in South China, and he must find out the movements of the 18th and 5th divisions of the Japanese army.

As early as the time of the Red Seventh Army, Liu Yimin set up an intelligence analysis department, with He Xinghua, director of the radio station, concurrently serving as the director, and Jiang Dahong and Li Zifeng as deputy directors. After Li Qiang arrived in Shandong, he became the political commissar of the radio station and the intelligence analysis department. It can be said that our army's intelligence gathering and analysis capabilities in Shandong are far higher than those of other units.

In the evening, Qian Zhuangying came to see Liu Yimin with a thick stack of materials.

Liu Yimin carefully flipped through the pages one by one, and finally found a piece of news about the 18th Division in a seized Japanese "Yomiuri Shimbun" newspaper.

This is a picture news of a Japanese officer looking into the distance, the muzzle of the gun behind him looming, the sea in the distance, and the city looming on the other side of the sea.

Liu Yimin didn't even read the text description under the photo, sat down and began to draft the telegram.

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