With the devastating blow to the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese Navy lost the strategic initiative in the Pacific Theater and was unable to form a counterattack for several years, which was undoubtedly a pain in the arms of Japanese imperialism.

To add insult to injury, the Tang Army, with the might of a great victory, sent marines to seize the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and other strategic points in the Pacific Ocean, and even more had a strategic attempt to attack the Ogasawara Islands, Iwo Jima, and other southern islands.

Japan was desolate, first the economic crisis hit the Japanese economy hard, millions of people were unemployed, and then at the beginning of the Tang and Japanese wars, the Tang Army's Blue Fox Special Service was scattered across the Japanese mainland, creating terrorist attacks everywhere and destroying factories, which made the Japanese panic all day, and then the Japanese Navy lost one battle after another, until the Combined Fleet was defeated, and the Tang Army launched a counteroffensive to approach the Japanese mainland, a series of blows, each of which made Japan exhausted, and the whole Japan suddenly fell into endless panic.

"It's rumored outside that the Tang Army is coming, is it true?"

"I heard that the Tang Army has landed in Tokyo Bay, is it true?"

"What are you doing to eat, you can't even beat a little Datang, you just buy a piece of tofu and kill it!"

The telephones of the Japanese Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Defense, and other departments were almost blown up, with voices of consolation, invective, and inquiries about whether the Tang Army had landed on the Japanese mainland. The rich began to pack up and retreat inland, not only for fear of being robbed by the Tang army that landed on the Japanese mainland, but also for fear of being smashed and looted by the Japanese mob that could be seen everywhere, because those mobs were far more terrible than the army.

Eggs, rotten cabbage, bricks, etc. Everything that could be picked up near the yamen of the Japanese government was picked up and smashed by the Japanese mob demonstrative, and the doors and windows were smashed immediately.

Initially. The Japanese military and police also carried out armed repression and slaughtered a large number of civilians, but as the situation in Japan deteriorated and millions of unemployed vagrants joined the ranks of the mob, the repression only made the conflict more intense, and the Japanese government, which was beleaguered internally and externally, was forced to announce the resettlement of millions of unemployed vagrants.

In fact, this is nothing more than a conspiracy of the Japanese military. From the very beginning, the Japanese military was dissatisfied with the cabinets of Yuyuki Hamaguchi and Rejiro Wakatsuki. The newly appointed cabinet of Inuyangyi was relatively obedient at first, following the military's intentions to plot a puppet state of Manchukuo and supporting the use of troops against Shanghai and the expedition to the Tang Empire.

However, with the defeat of the Japanese Combined Fleet and its heavy losses, the Inukai Cabinet immediately had an excuse. The accusation that the Japanese military is a bunch of rice buckets that mislead the country and the people has received a unanimous response from all walks of life in Japan. The Japanese military, led by Kato and Hideki Tojo, was criticized and abused by the people, and the Inukai Cabinet seized the opportunity to seize most of the rights and funds previously handed over to the Japanese military. Instead, Jihua sued for peace with the Tang Empire. Strike the war with China, quickly end the war and recuperate.

But the fanatical Japanese militarists were unwilling to lose their position like this, and the fiasco of the Combined Fleet pricked their nerves even more, and they vowed to take revenge on the Tang Empire. But before that, the Japanese Navy must be rebuilt as soon as possible, and the Japanese militarists led by Kato are eager to rebuild the 88th Fleet of the Japanese Navy, and they do not hesitate to build the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier battle group to compete with the aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Empire.

The 88th Fleet was rebuilt and an aircraft carrier battle group was built, and tens of thousands of Japanese naval officers and men were retrained. This requires a lot of time and money, especially for building ships. The cost of rebuilding the 88th Fleet, which is eight supercrossbow-class battleships, eight heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers, and a large number of destroyers and related auxiliary ships, will be as high as 3 billion yen, and 1 billion yen will be needed to build at least four large aircraft carriers and their auxiliary light cruiser and destroyer formations, and 4 billion yen will be spent on battleships alone.

And that's not even counting the cost of secrecy, new slipways, workers' salaries, new warship designs, and the design of new carrier-based aircraft to create carrier battle groups. If these warships are built normally, it will take at least three years for all Japanese shipyards to start construction at the same time, and because the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group threatens the Japanese mainland, all the warships will have to work overtime to catch up with the schedule, so the total expenditure is conservatively estimated to be 6 billion yen, equivalent to nine times the total revenue of Japan in 1931, equivalent to 2 billion US dollars.

This is still the cost before the depreciation of the global currency, and as the economic crisis intensifies, the cost of building ships will be ridiculously high, and Japan will inevitably be overwhelmed.

Obviously, it was impossible for the Inukai Cabinet to come up with so much money, so it categorically rejected the military's request.

As a result, in order to make the Inukai Cabinet pay for their mistakes, the military abandoned the national military control, causing millions of Japanese mobs to storm the national and local governments, threatening the safety of the Japanese people, especially the major Japanese chaebols have suffered heavy losses, and have put pressure on the Inukai Cabinet to cooperate with Kato to solve the domestic crisis.

In order to prevent millions of mobs from bloodbathing Japan and causing greater losses, he had to compromise with Kato and agreed to Kato's plan for the reconstruction of Japan's combined fleet, and Japan's major shipyards, including private shipyards, have obtained huge shipbuilding orders from the Japanese Navy. The military resumed large-scale repression of the mob and drove the mob to work in major shipyards, which largely solved their work and life problems, and made the riots in Japan much less.

However, because of the defeat of the Japanese Navy, the national prestige of the Japanese Empire was completely supported by the Japanese Army. The Japanese Kwantung Army showed unprecedented toughness, forcibly established the puppet state of Manchukuo under the opposition of the whole Shijie, and at the same time expanded the scale of the war in Shanghai, China.

The Japanese War Department obviously wanted to divert the attention of the former Jihua to the international community and wage a local war with China, but now it has no choice but to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China in order to divert the frenzied social contradictions at home and resettle millions of unemployed vagrants, so as to solve the current problem of the Japanese military's tragic situation.

The 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army of the Nationalist Army, with less than 50,000 horses, fought a bloody battle with about 70,000 Japanese troops of the 24th Brigade, 9th Division, 11th Division, and 14th Division, facing the advanced equipment of Japanese aircraft, tanks, and artillery. The officers and men of the national army still forced the Japanese army to change commanders three times only with simple equipment, and many attacks were frustrated, winning the praise of the people.

Although the Nationalist Government had moved its capital to Luoyang. Preparing for a full-scale war with Japan, but it was still only preparations, the Kuomintang was still fighting for power, and Chiang Zhongzheng supported the anti-Japanese resistance in order to return to power, but refused to increase troops in Shanghai, on the grounds that the Red Army took advantage of the Battle of Songhu to capture a number of Kuomintang-controlled cities, giving Chiang Zhongzheng an excuse to fight outside and first settle down.

In fact. The real reason is that Jiang Zhongzheng has been waiting for Europe and the United States to mediate, waiting for the League of Nations to make a ruling, and waiting for the results of the negotiations between Song Meiling and Zhang Meng.

Even Chiang Chung-cheng did not believe in the mediation of the League of Nations and European and American countries. Otherwise, it would be impossible to move the capital to Luoyang, what he is most looking forward to now is the alliance between China and Tang to jointly resist Japan, he is counting on the economic and military assistance of the Tang Empire, and even directly sending troops to the war.

Daming Palace Xuanzheng Palace. After a few days of negotiations between Zhang Meng and Song Meiling. An agreement was finally reached.

According to the terms of the agreement, the Tang Empire concluded a military alliance treaty with the government of the Republic of China, but only against Japan, not against third countries. The Tang Empire was to send its navy and marines to fight against the Japanese invasion along with the Chinese army. At the same time, the Tang Empire will provide the Republic of China government with free assistance such as weapons, equipment and medicines worth 10 million Tang Yuan, as well as 50 million Tang Yuan interest-free loans for the purchase of relevant military supplies and daily necessities from the Tang Empire.

The weapons and equipment that Zhang Meng promised to provide to the Nationalist army were very powerful, including M1 submachine guns, M2 heavy machine guns, SRA tanks, 75 infantry guns, 105 field guns, and FC-1 dive bombers used by the Tang Army. There are even various military jeeps, military trucks, and much more.

Zhang Meng did not care about providing advanced weapons and equipment to the Nationalist Army, because the agreement stipulated that the Nationalist Government would not allow imitation and self-production of ammunition. All ammunition must be supplied by the Tang Army, so that the Tang Army knows how much ammunition the National Army uses, and if it is used in the civil war, the Tang Dynasty will immediately suspend the supply.

At the same time, the Tang Army sold weapons and equipment to the National Army at almost a cabbage price, which seemed to be losing money on the surface, but in fact it was pinch the supply of ammunition, but in the long run, it was profitable.

Only a future person like Zhang Meng will understand the business experience and strategic military use, I have to say that he is cunning like a fox, and he never suffers a loss, and everything is naturally in his calculations.

The Tang Empire has a huge strategic reserve of medicines, many drugs will expire after a long time, Zhang Meng does not like to waste, so he took advantage of the fact that the earliest reserve of drugs has not expired and hurried to aid the national government, rescue colleagues in the mainland, and vacate the place to reserve new drugs that have just left the factory, complete the upgrading of the strategic reserve of drugs, killing two birds with one stone.

In return, the Nationalist government promised that the relevant military weapons obtained from the Tang Empire would not be used in civil wars, but only on the battlefield of resistance against Japan. Although Zhang Meng restrained Chiang Zhongzheng in the civil war, the national army was the main force of resistance against Japan after all, so it must be emphasized, so he alone allowed the national army to use the advanced weapons of the Tang Dynasty for self-defense. This article was actually a tough response to the Red Army's act of sending troops to attack the Nationalist Army during the 128th National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Zhang Meng specially added it to express his serious dissatisfaction with this matter, because it gave Jiang Zhongzheng an excuse to go outside and first settle down, and it was a complete failure.

At the same time, there is a secret provision in the agreement. This is one of the real reasons why Zhang Meng came to Chiang Chung-zheng's aid, that is, the Taiwan issue. The agreement stipulates that if the Tang Empire seizes Taiwan, it will have the right to rule over Taiwan, and the Nationalist Government should understand this. But at the same time, in order to appease the national government, Zhang Meng also said that Taiwan will be a special administrative region, and in the future, it will vote independently according to the will of the people.

Although the Nationalist government was cautious about the matter, Zhang Meng said that the matter could be resolved by future generations, and this proposal was immediately approved by the Nationalist government, and the agreement was reached.

In this way, Zhang Meng was ready to seize Taiwan on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was ready to send troops to participate in the Songhu War of Resistance, and the huge jihua in his heart took a big step forward. (To be continued......)