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It was July, and in the early morning, thousands of rays of sunlight shone through the towering trees near the headquarters in the courtyard, making the already hot and dry weather even hotter.

Zhang Xinghan sat on a Taishi chair with a puff fan in his hand, and was drinking tea under the tree.

At this time, a rush of footsteps came from outside, and Zhang Xinghan looked up when he heard the sound, only to see Jiang Baili, chief of staff, and Zhao Zhenfan, commander of the Fourth Army, striding in.

Zhang Xinghan took a sip of herbal tea, put the blue and white porcelain teacup on the table, got up and greeted him with a smile: "Baili, Guoping, you are here!" ”

Jiang Baili and Zhao Zhenfan stood up at the same time and saluted: "General seat, Guoping has been ordered to come and report!" ”

After the two sides shook hands, Zhang Xinghan turned his head and shouted, "Zhongzi, move two more chairs!" ”

"Yes." Guo Zhong, the personal attendant adjutant and commander of the guard battalion, happily responded and walked out with a chair in one hand.

put it on Zhang Xinghan's left side, and said respectfully to Jiang and Zhao: "Please sit down." ”

After the three of them sat down, Zhang Xinghan said in a good time: "Baili, the Jiaolong task force recently sent back the news that they have sunk more than 30 Japanese ships in the past half a month, including merchant ships, fishing ships and warships. A brilliant victory was achieved in destroying the total tonnage of the enemy's ships and materials, which amounted to millions of dollars. ”

Jiang Baili and Zhao Zhenfan were both excited and happy when they heard this.

"Great, in this way, it will inevitably cause immeasurable losses to the Japanese invaders, if such a result can last for half a year, then the entire country of Japan will be destroyed." Jiang Baili's eyes flashed with excitement.

"What Senza said is that Japan is an island country with few resources, and all strategic materials need to be imported from overseas, and if we can block their sea lines of communication, we will be able to choke them. There is nothing to worry about! Zhao Zhenfan nodded.

"The two of you are reasonable, but to achieve this strategic goal, our strength is far from enough for the time being." Zhang Xinghan shook his head slightly and said.

"Oh? What do you mean by that? Jiang Baili and Zhao Zhenfan looked at each other and said.

"Because the main island of Japan is located in the Pacific Ocean, which is different from the Atlantic Ocean, if we blockade the United Kingdom and other European island countries, we only need to blockade the Atlantic Ocean, because they all have fixed shipping lanes in the Atlantic.

And the waters off the coast of Japan are close to the vast North Pacific, and they can change their course at will to avoid a possible attack by our submarine forces.

Unless we now have a thousand XXI submarines, it will be difficult to really block Japan's foreign trade and communications.

And we now have only 50 XXI submarines, which can only be said to be as threatening and losing them as possible. There is no risk of increasing the cost of imports for Japanese people. Zhang Xinghan explained briefly.

In fact, these are not what Zhang Xinghan is most worried about, he has no shortage of submarines, what he lacks is the sailors who can skillfully manipulate submarines, and it takes time to train them.

Therefore, in time, it will be a matter of time before his submarine force breaks 1,000.

But. If Japan is really blocked by the encirclement of the submarine forces of the Northeast Border Army, who knows if there will be any movement from Europe and the United States?

You know, the Americans now have the largest war potential in the world, although their navy is still inferior to the British. However, its ability to sustain war has long surpassed that of the British Empire, becoming the world's number one power in fact.

Neither Britain nor the United States wants China to be truly unified and strong.

Because a complete and strong Chinese nation is not in their interests in the Far East, in Asia.

That's why there has been the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the present. The British, American, French, and Japanese countries each supported warlords in various parts of China, to the point where they continued to divide China and plunged it into chaos for a long time. A sinister strategic purpose in the quagmire of civil war.

Therefore, Zhang Xinghan was worried that once China was discovered, to be precise, the Northeast Frontier Army headed by him himself was becoming extremely powerful, and whether Britain, the United States, France, and other European and American powers would intervene sideways to help the Japanese fight against the Northeast Frontier Army.

You must know that Zhang Xinghan now sits on the Goryeo Peninsula, the Liaodong Peninsula, the five northwestern provinces, as well as Pingjin and Baoding Cangzhou, with a base area of millions of square kilometers and a population of tens of millions.

The strength has become a hegemon in Northeast Asia, and in order to recover the railway rights in China, the Northeast Frontier Army has also formed a great enmity with Lao Maozi.

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhang Xinghan is now a vast territory, with millions of men with armor under his command, strong soldiers and strong horses, and has the potential to sweep the world south and unify China.

If the Anglo-American-French powers would support Japan, it could not be ruled out that they would support the Northeast Frontier Army with the central and local powerful factions such as Chairman Chiang, Yan Xishan, and the Xingui faction to counter Zhang Xinghan.

In order to prevent China from completing unification and moving towards rejuvenation.

Seeing that Zhang Xinghan's eyebrows were full of worry, Jiang Baili asked tentatively: "Boss, do you have something on your mind?" ”

Zhang Xinghan lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and said the worries in his heart in a serious tone.

After Jiang Baili and Zhao Zhenfan listened, they lightly bowed their heads and said: "It's not impossible for the general seat to be far-sighted, but I don't know how we should deal with it?" ”

"If we wait for the Americans and the British to make a decision to support Japan, and then we want to land on the Japanese archipelago, it will be very difficult to reach the sky, and it is very likely that it will be far away." Zhang Xinghan said resolutely.

Jiang Baili and Zhao Zhenfan were slightly startled, and said: "However, the strength of our navy is still weak at the moment, is it too early to cross the sea to fight at this time, and the risk is too great?" ”

"Of course I know this, but it's just not time to wait for me." Zhang Xinghan said: "I have decided to move troops against Japan in the spring of next year, and all naval ships should be mainly developed transport ships, and our army air force and submarine Jiaolong troops should escort and cover the landing force.

As long as we are able to devote two or three motorized infantry divisions to the landing in the first batch, supplemented by the uninterrupted air fire cover of the air force, open the landing ground, and hold out for one night, wait for the second echelon of troops to arrive the next day, and then plunge into the depth of the Japanese defense. As for our submarine and naval forces, we must go all out to resist the attacks of the Japanese naval fleet in order to ensure the safety of the rear and flanks of our army's landing force.

In the next few months, we must step up preparations and quietly begin to transfer our army's strategic materials to Pusan, and at the same time strengthen the training of the main forces, especially the navy, air force, and airborne troops.

It should be noted that all of the above operations must be kept confidential and must not be leaked before we start the operation. ”

Jiang Baili and Zhao Zhenfan nodded at the same time, and Zhang Xinghan did not forget to add: "In this landing operation, the main forces are still transferred from the South Manchurian region of our Fourth Army, plus the main force of the First Army, as for the Second and Third Army, if it is not necessary, it will not be transferred as much as possible, so Brother Guoping, your responsibility is heavy!" ”

Zhang Xinghan's arrangement was naturally reasonable, because in the past year or so, the Second and Fourth Group Armies of the Northeast Frontier Army have given priority to replenishing troops, and all the reorganized divisions have been fully equipped, and the total strength of each division has exceeded 30,000.

The strength of the Second and Third Armies had already surpassed that of the Second and Third Armies, and of course this was due to the importance of the areas where the First and Fourth Armies were stationed.

Zhao Zhenfan stood up and said solemnly: "Please rest assured, the commander-in-chief, the 300,000 soldiers of the Fourth Army will do their best to complete this combat mission!" ”

After speaking, Zhao Zhenfan wanted to say goodbye and leave.

"Okay, we still have plenty of time, and we still have more than half a year to prepare, so you don't have to rush it." Zhang Xinghan got up and waved his hand to stop him, and said, "It's rare to come here, stay and go to my house for a light meal, and you can go too, Chief of Staff." ”

Zhao Zhenfan and Jiang Baili said with a smile: "Then the humble rank is better than obeying the fate." ”

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Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan.

Emperor Hirohito was furious, and Prime Minister Minoru Saito was kneeling on thin ice at the moment.

The Emperor's wrath terrified the current ruler of the Great Japanese Empire.

"Saito-kun, you must give me an explanation, an explanation to the tens of millions of people of the Yamato nation, in less than a month, the imperial army has lost thousands of warriors, millions of tons of goods and ships, if this continues, won't our naval fleet soon be exhausted?" Emperor Hirohito roared angrily.

Saito's heart trembled, and he said with sincere fear: "Your Majesty, the minister has strictly ordered all the departments of the navy to strengthen their defense, and there should be no more such heavy losses." ”

"Yaga!" Emperor Hirohito was furious and said, "The vast majority of the empire's annual military expenditure is given to the navy, why are they so vulnerable that they can't even deal with the underwater troops of the Shina Army that caught up later?" What do they eat? ”

Saito said bitterly: "Your Majesty, do you know that the underwater submarines of the Shina people are advanced, and our imperial warships can't detect them at all!" ”

"What? And what's going on? How's that good? Why did the people of China have such advanced submarines? Emperor Hirohito's face was full of surprise.

"There is no way to know this, and none of the imperial intelligence departments are aware of it!" Minoru Saito bowed his head.

"Baga, what do our intelligence departments do for food? A bunch of rice buckets. Emperor Hirohito was furious: "The imperial army must have more advanced warships to deal with the submarines of the Shina people, Prime Minister Saito, you must solve it as soon as possible, I don't care what method you use, do you understand?" (To be continued......)