Unlike Chiang Kai-shek, who happily returned to his official residence to rest, on the night of 28 July, General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front Army, did not close his eyes and stayed in the war room all night, his eyes almost piercing the map.

That night, General Terauchi Shouichi took several measures, one was to strictly order the troops stationed in Cangxian, Dexian, Jinan, and Tai'an to be on high alert, and to defend the city to the death, and not to send reinforcements to Luzhong without an order. The second is to order the garrisons of Gaomi and Jiaoxian to defend tightly, and pay attention to receiving the retreating troops of the Qingdao garrison and the Shandong Autonomous Allied Army. The third is to order the troops left behind in Qingdao and Jimo to heighten their vigilance and report quickly when they discover the enemy's situation. Fourth, the Second Army was required to keep in touch with the Qingdao garrison and urge it to speed up the withdrawal of troops and return to Qingdao as soon as possible. If the difficulty is greater, it is also possible to return to the high-density line to stick to it.

At this time, Gaomi, Jiaoxian, and Jimo counties were all controlled by the puppet army, and after receiving the telegram from the Second Army, they all reported that no enemy situation had been found. The Second Army promptly reported this situation to General Terauchi Shouichi, who was a little relieved, because at this time he was most afraid that Liu Yimin, a guy who did not play cards according to common sense, would take advantage of the situation to attack Qingdao, which was an important base of the imperial army, not only hoarding a large number of arms and materials, but also the financial capital of the empire.

Since there was no hostile situation in Gaomi, Jiaoxian, and Jimo, General Terauchi was a little more relaxed in investigating the situation in Qingdao, and after receiving two reports of the invincibility of the Qingdao defenders at 8 o'clock and 9 o'clock in the evening, General Terauchi Shouichi did not ask any more questions, but only told them to strengthen their defense.

The only things that made General Terauchi Shouichi uneasy were the Qingdao garrison led by Oshima Daisa and the Shandong Autonomous Coalition Army aided by Zhang Zongyuan. After receiving the order to retreat, Oshima sent a telegram back, reporting that it would be carried out immediately, and then reported that he had encountered a small force of earth and eight roads at the Weihe Highway Bridge, and was determined to retreat quickly after occupying the highway bridge. The contact was interrupted for more than two hours, and when the contact was restored, Oshima Dazuo reported that Zhang Zongyuan's autonomous coalition army had fallen into the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, and the Qingdao garrison led by himself had all withdrawn and was rapidly retreating towards Qingdao. The troops were exhausted from the continuous march and had fallen behind, and now they had to rest for a short time, and planned to continue their departure and return to Qingdao after resting for an hour.

After Terauchi Shouichi received the report from Oshima Daisa, which was forwarded by the Second Army, he thought about it in his heart, Liu Yimin taught Tutor to fight continuously, and after solving the Eighth Division and Zhang Zongyuan's Shandong Autonomous Coalition Army, he had to rest even if he was an iron man. What's more, Qingdao is more than 300 miles away from Fangzi, and the railway is not passable, so Liu Yimin's troops just want to attack Qingdao continuously, and it will take two days to arrive. It's just that the Oshima Department is too close to Liu Yimin's troops, and in case of an accident, it will be troublesome, so Oshima Dazuo is strictly ordered to rest for only half an hour and return to Qingdao quickly.

It wasn't until dawn that Oshima reported that he was heading towards Gaomi, and it was estimated that he would be able to go to Gaomi for breakfast in the morning, that General Terauchi Shouichi really relaxed and began to think about how to deal with the current battle situation.

If it weren't for this hateful Liu Yimin, the current battlefield situation would not have been better for the army. Although the Battle of Xuzhou freed the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's Fifth Theater, after all, it completed the strategic task of opening up the Jinpu Road and realizing the convergence of the Central China Front Army and the North China Front Army, expanded the area occupied by the Imperial Army, and compressed Chiang Kai-shek's living space. In particular, General Terauchi Shouichi stood out for his strange troops, destroying the airfield and military base of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop, which restored the trust of the people of Yuben in the North China Front. Newspapers and radio stations are clamoring every day, touting General Shouichi Terauchi as a peerless general who is not lacking in heaven and on earth. Some ignorant girls also gather at the door of the Earl's Mansion in the temple every day, hoping every day that General Shouichi in the temple will return to Yumoto by chance, so that they can have a chance to meet the earl and dedicate the jade body.

General Terauchi Shouichi is very good at building momentum, and took advantage of this opportunity to make a statement to reporters, covering up the truth of Xiangyue Qingsi's disobedience, saying that the 14th Division that was surrounded on the front line of Lanfeng in eastern Henan caught the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's first theater of operations, and the [***] team could not attack, could not stop, and fell into a quagmire, just waiting for the arrival of the imperial army, China's two communication arteries, Longhai Road and Pinghan Road, will be controlled by the imperial army, and the rich Central Plains will become the reclamation ground of the Great Yueben Empire. Moreover, the main force of the imperial army will take advantage of the situation to surprise and go straight to Wuhan, forcing the Chiang Kai-shek regime to surrender and basically ending the war in China.

All this could have been realized, but now, alas, the hateful Liu Yimin, has messed everything up.

Now that the war in eastern Henan is going well, the [***] team has stopped attacking the Tufei Yuan, and it is estimated that they have seen the situation of imminent encirclement, but what is the use of seeing it? Now the 14th Division has been replenished by the 27th Division, the tanks have oil, the heavy artillery ammunition is sufficient, and Kaifeng is like a ripe peach waiting for the 14th Division to pick!

The current situation put General Terauchi Shouichi in a dilemma, he already knew that the series of attacks of the Eighth Route Army was to cover Liu Yimin to solve the Eighth Division, and Liu Yimin to solve the Eighth Division was to delay the pace of the imperial army's offensive in eastern Henan and save the [***] troops in eastern Henan that were about to collapse.

As soon as he thought of this question, Terauchi Shouichi felt strange, when did the Eighth Route Army become so friendly with the Kuomintang, and the two battlefields in the north and south were simply tacitly compatible, as if one person was in command. Have they forgotten their blood feud with the Kuomintang?

Especially this Liu Yimin, he has simply become a firefighting team on the Chinese side, he will intervene wherever there is danger, and he always hits the vital points of the imperial army, which makes people feel painful to the bone marrow, and has to return to the army to rescue. Tianjin is like this, Jizhong is like this, and now Luzhong is also like this, damn Liu Yimin, who is determined to help Chiang Kai-shek, does it mean that sending you a woman has such a great charm?

General Terauchi Shouichi thought about it, and felt that he couldn't let Liu Yimin lead the nose, and he asked the imperial army to stop attacking wherever it stopped, so the army simply let him command. As soon as he thought of this, Shouichi Terauchi felt angry. Before Liu Yimin appeared, the imperial army in China did whatever it wanted, fighting wherever it wanted, fighting wherever it wanted, and everything was up to itself. It's good now, the battle plan that has been painstakingly formulated is always carried out in the middle, and it is worth it if it goes on like this?

We can't just bury the good situation on the battlefield in eastern Henan, and the 14 th Division can break through the encirclement and go straight to Kaifeng with more efforts today. The other divisions moved a little faster, and they could encircle the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's First Theater in the plain area between Shangqiu and Zhengzhou, such a good fighter is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! As for Liu Yimin, ignore him for the time being, Jinan has a 08th division guarded, Liu Yimin has the ability to let him attack and try, I think he still honestly rests and replenishes the troops, the eighth division is not so easy to gnaw, and his troops will inevitably be broken. The Qingdao direction is also easy to handle, as long as the Qingdao garrison is withdrawn, and then the Fourth Fleet returns to Qingdao, with strong naval support, Qingdao will have no problem.

However, it is still unknown whether the base camp's reaction to the Eighth Division will be believed, and it is not yet known whether the Emperor will believe that the Eighth Division's jade shattered due to Kazuki Kiyosi's disobedience. You have to destroy the lieutenant general of the Dongjuer Palace, his wife advanced to the palace last night, so he should be able to go early this morning, but don't delay the time, so that Empress Ryoko has no chance to say to the emperor.

Terauchi Shouichi dragged his tired body and personally went to send a top-secret telegram to Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Higashijur Palace, asking him to hurry up and urge his wife to act, because something would happen if it was too late.

After sending the telegram, General Terauchi Shouichi saw that the sky was twilight, so he ordered the planes at the Beiping airport to dispatch to carefully search and reconnoiter the battlefield around Weixian, and if they encountered the small units of the scattered imperial army, they should provide air cover and escort the troops to retreat to Jinan.

Then, General Terauchi Shouichi strictly ordered the troops in eastern Henan to accelerate their advance and encircle the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's troops.

After doing all this, General Terauchi Shouichi went back to the bedroom to rest for a while.

Emperor Hirohito learned of the 8th Division's jade shattering when he was dining in the morning.

Although the emperor system was a backward political system, after the Meiji Restoration, he was single-mindedly Westernized, and even the imperial family was affected. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Ryoko can be regarded as a loving couple of childhood sweethearts, so the two basically eat and sleep together.

During the morning meal, Empress Ryoko's relatives came, that is, the wife of Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Higashijur Palace, and the aunt of Empress Ryoko, who entered the palace to invite her.

Emperor Hirohito didn't mind at first, the empress is the mother of a country after all, she has her power and status, and she can completely decide some things. Unexpectedly, Empress Ryoko soon returned to Emperor Hirohito's side, and tears were still evident on her face.

Emperor Hirohito didn't know what was going on and hurriedly comforted him. This comfort, Empress Liangzi couldn't help it, crying and disobeying Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi, which led to the 14th Division being besieged in eastern Henan and suffering heavy losses, and caused the 8th Division and Reading Power to be mixed into the 3rd Brigade Collective Jade Crush, Maeda Toshiwei Lieutenant General, Sasaki to the First Lieutenant General sacrificed their lives for the country.

When Emperor Hirohito heard this, he was so stupid that he didn't even notice that the chopsticks had fallen to the floor, and muttered to himself, "Shame, shame!" ”

Empress Ryoko looked at it, for fear that her husband would not be able to come up in one breath, and she was really scared stupid, so she called the female official, beat her back again, and stroked her chest, and she was busy for a long time before Emperor Hirohito relieved herself.

Emperor Hirohito, who had come to his senses, had gloomy eyes and did not say a word.

Empress Ryoko saw that there was no way, so she let the breakfast be withdrawn, helped Emperor Hirohito back to the palace, and rested for a while before Emperor Hirohito opened his mouth and said: "I have long said that the question is not what we have done, the key is how the countries of the world look at it." Now that a permanent division is broken, the countries of Europe and the United States will look down on the Great Army, and they will definitely laugh at the Great Army as a third-rate army. ”

When Empress Liangzi heard this, it turned out that her husband was not distressed that so many elite soldiers had died, not to hold anyone responsible, but to be afraid of losing face, and felt that the emperor was the emperor, and he saw the problem much more far-reaching than ordinary ministers and generals. It's like the roof of the palace is dusty and doesn't look beautiful, but after a heavy rain, it's immediately clean, as if it's new. How does the world know that dust has ever fallen on a roof?

Empress Yoshiko persuaded people, and Emperor Hirohito's mood immediately improved, and he ordered the convening of an imperial council to discuss the war in China.

At the meeting, Emperor Hirohito, who was in a slightly better mood, listened to the reports of Prince Zaihito Miyaji, chief of staff, and Sugi Sugimoto, the chief of staff, on the battle plan for the later stage of the Battle of Xuzhou, inquired about the history of the Eighth Division, the 3rd Brigade of the Reading Force, the 6th Brigade of the Reading Division, and the 10th Brigade of the Reading Division, and ordered that Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei and Lieutenant General Sasaki Toshiichi who died in the battle be commended, and that Maeda Toshibe be posthumously awarded the rank of Lieutenant General of the Army.

Emperor Hirohito did not hold Prince Zaihito of Kanin Palace, Sugi Sugimoto, Terauchi Shouichi and others accountable, but only ordered the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi, to apologize for his guilt and appoint Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro as the commander of the First Army.

Unexpectedly, the emperor ordered Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi to apologize for his crimes, which caused the dissatisfaction of Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace and Sugimoto of the Ryū Xiang. The two of them kowtowed together, saying that Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi had made remarkable achievements, and this time it was an unintentional mistake, and his original intention was to capture Kaifeng and take the land of the Central Plains, with the purpose of making contributions to the emperor. The previous time I asked Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro to apologize for his crimes, it aroused the suspicion of the front-line generals, and caused the empire to lose a famous general who could fight well, and fell for the tricks of the Shina people. Besides, although the jade shattering of the Eighth Division is related to Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi's disobedience, it is not directly related. If Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei can make a decision on the spot, the Eighth Division has every chance to leave the battlefield and go to Changle County to hold on, in that case, not to mention Liu Yimin's instructor, even if the squadron mobilizes 500,000 troops, it will not be able to help the Eighth Division. In particular, Lieutenant General Sasaki to the First Lieutenant General was ignorant of the enemy's situation, and he couldn't even figure out the intentions of the Shina army, so he blindly asked for help, which led to the rescue of the Eighth Division. Therefore, fundamentally speaking, Sasaki to the first lieutenant general was the inducement to cause the jade shattering of the Eighth Division, and Liu Yimin's tutor was the culprit who caused the jade shattering of the Eighth Division, and the one who should be punished the most was the hooligan scoundrel Liu Yimin, followed by Sasaki to the first lieutenant general, and finally Lieutenant General Kazuki Qingsi.

How did Emperor Hirohito know that Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace and Sugi Sugimoto did not have much of a close relationship with Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi, and their intercession for Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi was actually interceding for themselves.

Since Liu Yimin led his instructor to join the North China battlefield, there have been two lieutenant generals and one major general who committed suicide by caesarean section, and three lieutenant generals and ten major generals were killed.

Before the Imperial Meeting, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace and Shanshan Yuan had already reached a consensus that if the Emperor ordered Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi to commit suicide by disembowelment, he must be admonished to death, and no matter what, this kind of thing that forced a senior general to commit suicide by disembowelment must be stopped from happening again. If you are ordered to disembowelment as soon as you fail, I am afraid that no one will want to go to war in the future. What's more, everyone knows that Xiangyue Qingsi is just a scapegoat? Of course, I am ashamed and embarrassed, and I am willing to disembowel, but I also want to commend his loyalty. If you can't save Kazuki Kiyoshi this time, then next time I'm afraid it will be General Terauchi Shouichi, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, Lieutenant General Higashijueriyaki King Tsukihiko and others, and it will be even more difficult to say who will be the turn in the future. What if one day the emperor sends himself or his own son into battle? Therefore, from Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace and General Sugi Sugimoto to General Shouichi Terauchi and Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Higashijur Palace, they just wanted Kazuki Kiyoshi to change his position, and they didn't want him to die at all, which was very different from the situation when he forced Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro to have a disembowelment.

Seeing that the chief of staff and the land minister were opposed to letting Lieutenant General Kazuki Qingsi commit suicide by disembowelment, Emperor Hirohito immediately understood their thoughts, this kind of thing was clearly explained by the emperor's mind in ancient China, and Emperor Hirohito was educated since he was a child, so he naturally understood the joints. However, he didn't think much of himself, and agreed with the opinions of Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace and Shanshan Yuan, because after all, he still had to rely on the front-line generals to fight bloodily, what should he do if he was disemboweled? Including General Terauchi Shouichi, Emperor Hirohito did not want to remove him, the key is that it may be worse if he is replaced.

Emperor Hirohito, who was a little angry in his heart, felt that he still had to clean up the army, so he made a decision to seize Wuhan with the navy as the mainstay, and the army recently concentrated its efforts on eliminating Liu Yimin, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, and restoring law and order in North China.

Emperor Hirohito's decision caused the sea to shout long live the emperor, but the land minister Sugimoto wilted like a frosted eggplant. But there is no way, who called the army so uncompetitive? The emperor was right, Shandong was the fundamental place of the imperial army, Jinan and Qingdao were much more important than Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, and Liu Yimin's troops were in the hinterland of Shandong, which was equivalent to besieging the imperial army on the Jinan and Jinpu lines, and it was necessary to open up the Jiaoji Road, eliminate Liu Yimin's troops, and restore the normal economy and public order in Shandong. In this case, the battle of eastern Henan had to be stopped.

This imperial meeting can be regarded as the most embarrassing imperial meeting in the history of this book, a permanent division was annihilated, so many people died, and not a single high-ranking general was responsible for this, and only transferred Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi, commander of the First Army, who had nothing to do with this matter, to the General Staff Headquarters. It is no wonder that when later historians studied the history of the army, they proposed that the decline in the combat effectiveness of the army began at this imperial meeting.

After the meeting, Prince Zaihito felt that he had interceded for Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi at the meeting, and that he had disobeyed the emperor and had to make amends, so he went to see Prince Akihito, the crown prince, and played with the children for a while before returning to his office.

After arriving at the office, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Gong originally wanted to send a report directly to General Terauchi Shouichi and the base camp Xuzhou Battle Liaison Group, ordering them to adjust their battle plans, stop offensive operations in eastern Henan, prepare to assemble troops, reserve supplies, and formulate a battle plan to completely eliminate Liu Yiminjiao's instructor. But after reading the report sent by the North China Front Army and the Second Army on the discovery of the Eighth Route Army's attack on Xuzhou from the east and west, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace felt that Liu Yimin was playing tricks again, Jinan was guarded by a 08th division, as well as military police, police and a large number of security regiments, Liu Yimin would not be unaware of the consequences of the troops under Jiancheng, it was nothing more than to create a situation of attacking Jinan and forcing the imperial army to withdraw from eastern Henan. Playing this kind of feint game of recruits in front of the old man, this Liu Yimin is too arrogant.

Since Liu Yimin wants to play, the old man will ask for his surname and wait to see what tricks he can play, if he really dares to concentrate the main force to attack Jinan, it is just right, mobilize a large army to solve it in a battle, and completely eradicate this scourge. Besides, the operation in eastern Henan is at a critical moment, and it is a pity to withdraw troops at this time, and it is easy to hurt the morale of the troops, what if major achievements can be achieved? Anyway, Liu Yimin's ministry will not really attack Jinan, ignore him.

At this time, the intelligence department of the base camp sent a top-secret report, and Prince Zairen of the Xianyuan Palace opened it and looked at the title, which was a report on the secret arms deal between the United States and the Eighth Route Army.

It turned out that Ni Hua's activities in the United States had all fallen into the eyes of the intelligence officers of the embassy in the United States. Originally, the special service thought that Ni Hua posed a threat to the security of the company, and wanted to get rid of Ni Hua several times, but due to the strength of US law and the New York police force, as well as the extremely strict protection measures of the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the special agent could not do it. Later, when the special service saw that Ni Hua was collecting a large amount of donations in the United States, they understood that she wanted to purchase materials in the United States and send them back to China, so they simply didn't ask, let her be busy, as long as the ship left the United States and went to the Pacific Ocean, it would enter the territory of the powerful Yueben Navy, and whether it was arms or materials, it was equivalent to the Chinese purchasing for Da Yueben.

When Ni Hua left the United States, he thought that what he was doing was very secret, but he didn't know that he had already been targeted by the special agents.

He said that he had planned to do it before Ni Hua's cargo ship arrived in Hong Kong, but considering that Ni Hua had hired an American merchant ship and that there were many Americans on board, once the secret of the operation was leaked, it would be worth the loss to cause the United States to counterattack. So, I decided to wait, anyway, Ni Hua is Liu Yimin's wife, the vice president of the Eighth Route Army General Hospital, and the materials she transported must be handed over to Liu Yimin and the Eighth Route Army, and the cargo ship can only sail to the port in North China and secretly transfer it through a private company, where it is the world of the imperial army, and when the goods arrive on the shore, they will be confiscated directly, and there is no need to be afraid that the Americans will not be willing.

Of course, if the cargo ship sails to Fuzhou and Guangzhou, which are ports controlled by the Kuomintang, then arrange for people to set fire to the ports and turn them to ashes, so that the Chinese bamboo baskets will be empty, and the Americans will not say anything, just not burn his ship.

All in all, at this time, he did not want to provoke the United States, and the spies did not consider using warships to intercept or bomb when they designed their course of action.

Unexpectedly, Ni Hua arranged for the cargo ship to go first, and only after he finished handling his personal affairs in the United States did he take a plane to Hong Kong, and after arriving in Hong Kong, he was entangled by the people sent by Chiang Kai-shek to greet him and could not get out, which was equivalent to being placed under house arrest. Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling didn't know that Ni Hua came back with the cargo ship, but they just wanted Ni Hua to go to Wuhan to reunite first, and indoctrinate her so that she could restrain Liu Yimin. It wasn't until Liu Yimin met Chiang Kai-shek in Xuzhou that the two of them glared at Ni Hua's question that Ni Hua was free.

This back and forth delayed time, and the agent was a little impatient with waiting, and wanted to kidnap Ni Hua in Hong Kong and disguise himself as a Kuomintang spy to sabotage the cargo ship, but Ni Hua immediately contacted Pan Hannian and Liao Chengzhi in Hong Kong after he was freed. These two people are masters, and the agent immediately lost the trace of Ni Hua and the cargo ship, so in desperation, he had to report to the Intelligence Department of the General Staff Headquarters for support.

As soon as the Ministry of Intelligence saw that it was for the Eighth Route Army to transport the materials purchased from the United States, it directly reported to Prince Zairen of the Imperial Palace, asking him to send naval planes to reconnoiter and patrol to search for Ni Hua's cargo ship. At the same time, he was asked to order the garrisons of the ports in North China to pay attention to the seizure of this cargo.

Of course, this information was discovered and followed up by a special agent under the command of the military attache of the embassy in the United States, and the report to Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace took into account diplomatic issues, specifically indicating that the cargo ship was American, and that there were some Americans on it, so please be sure to order the naval air force not to blow up and sink the cargo ship, and when it comes to the port to confiscate the goods, it must also be done after the cargo ship has been unloaded, and the cargo ship must be protected and the Americans on the cargo ship must not be harmed.

After reading the report, many mysteries in the mind of Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace were solved at once, such as the problem that there were Americans among the pilots of the Eighth Route Army who attacked the North China Airport several times, the problem of the equipment of the Eighth Route Army's power plants, steel plants, and arsenals, the problem of the gradual change of Americans' attitude towards Yu, and so on, and even why Liu Yimin took the initiative to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek's troops in fighting was counted on Ni Hua's head, and he felt that if he could catch Ni Hua, he would grasp Liu Yimin's weakness, and he could also cut off the channels for the Eighth Route Army to obtain American supplies. It's a godsend.

According to the original intention of Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace, in order to prevent accidents, he could order the air force to blow up and sink the Ni Hua cargo ship directly after discovering it, so that the Eighth Route Army, which had worked so hard to make the air force happy. But as soon as I saw that Ni Hua was the cousin of Mrs. Liu Yimin and Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek mentioned in the report, I felt that catching Ni Hua was more valuable than blowing her up, and I could threaten Liu Yimin and even Chiang Kai-shek. Besides, the cargo ship belonged to the Americans, and now the United States is the main importer of the Great Empire, and the oil, steel, and rubber are all obtained from the United States.

After summoning the Minister of Intelligence, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Gong inquired in detail about Ni Hua's true identity, his activities in the United States, and his true relationship with Liu Yimin, and then ordered the Third Fleet in Shanghai and the Fourth Fleet in Lianyungang to stop all combat missions, and all warships were dispatched at once, and all warplanes were taken off, and they were divided into sections, so as not to let go of a piece of the ocean, and to be sure to find the American merchant ships on which China's No. 1 general, the instructor and division commander of the Eighth Route Army, Mrs. Liu Yimin, and Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek's cousin, Ni Hua, were boarding. After finding it, it was immediately escorted to the destination port of the cargo ship, and in addition to placing Ni Hua under house arrest and confiscating the goods, no harm was allowed to the Americans on board, and the cargo ship was returned to the United States intact. After catching Ni Hua, it must be properly protected, and no one should be offended.

Thinking about it, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace ordered the North China Front Flight Group to immediately dispatch planes from various coastal airfields to assist the navy in the search.

At this moment, not only did the warships and carrier-based planes of the Third and Fourth Fleets of the Chinese Army all go into action, but planes from the Tianjin and Xuzhou airfields of the North China Front also dispatched reconnaissance planes, and the skies over the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea suddenly became lively.

The planes of the Fourth Fleet from Xuzhou and Lianyungang spotted a cargo ship flying the American flag on the sea not far from Qingdao, and the pilot ordered the cargo ship to stop sailing and wait for inspection by radio, and the reply was that "this is a great merchant ship of the United States of America, engaged in legitimate commercial shipping activities, and this is not the surface of the sea, and the navy has no right to inspect American merchant ships." Please contact the Embassy of the United States of America in Japan or the Embassy of the People's Republic of China if you have any questions. Please do not obstruct the proper navigation of American merchant ships, otherwise it will be regarded as an infringement on the United States of America, and the mighty US Navy will come to negotiate with the United States Navy! ”

The pilots had no choice but to hover over the cargo ship, monitor the course of the cargo ship, and inform the Fourth Fleet that the cargo ship was about to sail for Qingdao Port, and asked the fleet to pursue it quickly.

After receiving the report from the Fourth Fleet and the North China Flight Group, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace was in a very good mood, and felt that he had finally grasped the weakness of Liu Yimin and the Eighth Route Army, as long as he caught Ni Hua and captured the materials on the ship, he could not only give Liu Yimin a fatal blow and avenge so many jade broken imperial warriors, but also make the Eighth Route Army's attempt to smuggle supplies from the United States and improve the level of equipment completely ruined, and also let those Yankees who were friends with Da Yuben on the surface and secretly supported the people know how powerful the Da Yuben Empire is. The vast Pacific Ocean is the world of the Great Said Warship, and if you want to sneak around here to do some smuggling, smuggling and other things, you must first ask the Great Lord Empire if it agrees. Aren't Americans sympathetic to the Chinese people? Aren't they willing to donate money and goods? If they knew that all their donations had gone into the pockets of the Imperial Army, what would their expressions be?

Thinking of this, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace couldn't help touching his gray beard, and a few childlike smiles appeared on his old face like orange peel.

After the triumph was over, a thought suddenly sprung up in the mind of Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace, Ni Hua's cargo ship was a very bad signal, indicating that the attitude of the Americans towards the Sino-Chinese war had fundamentally changed, and it was no longer neutral in the past. If this is the case, the Great Holy War will be difficult, and maybe it will really be necessary to compete with the Yankees to see if the Great Imperial Army is powerful, or the clumsy American GIs are powerful.

With this thought, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Gong felt afraid, and after thinking about it, he had to arrange for someone to prepare a war plan against the United States as early as possible, and in case the two sides fought in the future, he would also be prepared to fight unprepared and completely knock the Yankees unconscious.

Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace didn't think much about it anymore, because it was not early, and it was impossible for the plane to follow the cargo ship all the time, and the Fourth Fleet would not be able to catch up with the cargo ship for a while, since Ni Hua's cargo ship was going to Qingdao, then inform the Qingdao garrison to prepare to accept the goods and detain Ni Hua!

Just as he was about to give the order to send a telegram to the Qingdao side, Prince Zairen of the Xianyuan Palace remembered that he had been busy for so long and had forgotten to inform the commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi.

(To be continued)