The strategic meeting in the Tokyo Imperial Palace was successfully concluded, and although Furujo Michiro's final request for war was rejected, in order to take care of his patriotism, His Majesty the Emperor had promised that when Ishihara was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in half a year, he would also be given the rank of general.

In any case, Lieutenant General Guzhuang Ganlang failed to command the 21st Army to attack Hainan this time, and as the commander-in-chief, not only was he not blamed, but he was also given a chance to be promoted to a senior general because of a blessing in disguise, and Guzhuang Ganlang was still very happy.

After the meeting was dismissed, Guzhuang did not stay in Tokyo for long, immediately took a special plane back to Guangzhou, and began to command the 21 st Army's strategy of comprehensively and actively attacking other areas of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Although Hainan seems to be powerful, Haimian Island is located in the southern part of China, and it is surrounded by the sea, so it does not have a strong war potential.

At the meeting presided over by the emperor, everyone could see that although the Hainan Escort Force had a complete army, navy, and air force, and a large number of them, and had a strong attack power, it was more than capable of self-preservation and insufficient to attack.

Therefore, the Japanese are still very relieved about the precautionary work of the Hainan Escort Army, but all this is not the reason for the Japanese to rest assured in the South China Sea.

What really reassured Japan about Hainan was that Nanzao Yunzi sent back an important message from Nanjing, and the actual leaders of Hainan, Li Tie and Wang Yaqiao, personally called in the hope of exchanging the more than 1,000 prisoners of war captured by the Hainan Escort Army for the Hainan pilots captured by the Japanese army and the 5,000 soldiers of the Republic of China government.

In view of the fact that the return of the Japanese prisoners lost in Hainan would greatly boost the morale of the 21st Army, after intense discussions, His Majesty the Emperor had agreed to Li Tie's request.

and ordered Nanzao Yunzi to go to Hainan in person to contact Li Tie about the exchange of prisoners, and Nanzao Yunzi was also very outstanding, not only took only three days to pick up all the captured soldiers of the Taiwan mixed brigade, but also welcomed back tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers on the condition that he would not take the initiative to attack Hainan within two years.

His Majesty the Emperor personally ordered the promotion of Nanzao Yunzi to the rank of major general of the imperial intelligence department, and commanded the intelligence and information work of the whole of China.

When Lieutenant General Guzhuang Ganlang, who was sitting in Guangzhou, heard the non-aggression pact signed between Nanzao Yunzi and Li Tie, he looked at the plan for attacking the inland areas of Chinese mainland, and at the same time thought viciously: "Good you Li Tie, you really deserve to be a merchant, and you are really good at calculus, and you actually exchanged a ratio of one to four for Chinese prisoners of war." The corpses of soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire were also exchanged for a brief period of peace.

It's a pity that what you don't know is that the empire has long decided on the policy of first the north and then the south, and it does not want to use troops against Hainan in the short term. No matter how cunning you are, you still fell for the trick of Nanzao Yunzi's little girl. However, although Li Tie expressed his sincerity to the empire that he wanted peaceful coexistence, should our 21st Army send military forces to monitor Hainan's every move? ”

However, considering the empire's strategy of first north and then south, and then considering Hainan's strong naval and air force strength, Guzhuang Ganlang finally decided not to worry about Li Tie's Hainan, let them be the king of the mountains in Hainan with peace of mind.

In March 39, when the detailed steps of the Hainan Escort Army's victory over the Japanese 21st Army were learned by the intelligence services of various countries, the reactions of various countries were very different.

Far away in the capital of the German Führer in Europe, Hitler was happy that Li Tie was able to defeat the Japanese 21st Army, but on the other hand, he felt guilty that as Li Tie's good friend, he had to sign a secret cooperation agreement with the Japanese behind his back.

After all, for so many years, the Nazi Party has been receiving funding from Li Tie. However, he thought that for the revival of the Germanic peoples, he had to take the step of dominating Europe. He had to sacrifice his personal feelings.

Because Hitler knew very well that if he wanted to dominate Europe, he urgently needed to find a powerful ally in Asia to hold the Russians back for him.

Originally, a few years ago, because of Li Tie, he wanted to win over China, because China has a vast land and resources, and has countless human resources, and more importantly, China and Russia have land disputes of several million square kilometers.

At the same time, because of Mongolia, which caused the two sides to be filthy, in Hitler's view, China and Russia could not become sincere and good friends.

However, in the past two years, China's millions of troops have made hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops unable to fight north, so Hitler has to carefully consider the possibility of forming an alliance with China, and at the same time, once an alliance is formed with China, whether China can accomplish the strategic task of holding Russia back.

After much deliberation and argumentation, Hitler's reason prevailed over emotion, and he finally positioned his allies in Asia over the Japanese. After all, in the Tsar's era, the Japanese had defeated Russia, while China had been bullied by Russia since the Qing Dynasty.

However, Hitler had already decided in his heart that once Li Tie's life was threatened, he would definitely do his best to save Li Tie.

At least in Germany, there is no problem in choosing a good fief for Li Tie. Moreover, Karl and hundreds of naval officers have been serving by Li Tie's side, and Hitler has already handed over his secret orders to Karl and other German officers. I believe that they will do their best to do a good job in Li Tie's safety.

Thought-provoking Hitler looked at the map of Europe in front of him, and he was planning the next target for Germany to attack, and Hitler, who had just captured parts of the Czech Republic, had finally set his sights on Poland.

However, Poland is a very important country in Europe, which is not only rich in resources, strategically located, but also relatively large in population, and has hundreds of thousands of regular troops.

However, their German army was not very large, although privately it had already exceeded the 100,000 troops stipulated in the conditions of Versailles.

However, it must not have torn its face with Britain and France and other countries, but if you want to annex Poland in a short time, it is not possible to recruit troops in large quantities. And once there is an open conscription, Britain, France and other countries will definitely attack Germany en masse.

How can we safely annex Poland after the announcement of the implementation of the national conscription, while Britain and France are preparing themselves?

Hitler, a political genius, could not help but think of the Soviet Union, a country with a perverted desire for land, while thinking of showing the enemy to weakly paralyze Britain and France.

Hitler smiled slightly: "Dear Mr. Stalin, it looks like I have to pull you as a shield for my attack on Poland." Don't you want to get involved in Europe? Let's divide Poland together. ”

Just when Hitler was still calculating Russia's Stalin, Comrade Stalin, who was far away in Moscow, heard that Li Tie had defeated Japan's 21st Army in Hainan, and Comrade Stalin was also inexplicably happy:

"I really didn't expect that the little Li Tie could also defeat the Japanese monkeys, it seems that he will have to woo Li Tie more in the future, it turns out that the rocket artillery he told me last time is so powerful, I can let his bandit army find more trouble for the Japanese on the Sino-Russian border in the future, so as to save the trouble of the Japanese always looking for our Russians on the Sino-Russian border.

And he said a while ago that he wanted to sell me the design of this rocket launcher, but I haven't taken it seriously, it seems that Li Tie still has some good things in his hands.

It's just that Li Tie's ambition is too great, and he actually wants to lease all the land within 100 kilometers of the Sino-Russian border. Does he want to be a big landowner? Although there are few Russians on the land there, I am not comfortable handing it over to a Chinese.

And he was not ashamed to say that the latest tanks and airplanes, including light and heavy machine guns, designed by his Huaxing laboratory, had gone to the forefront of the world, and he wanted me to rent more land in exchange for the blueprints of these things.

Just kidding, we are the great Soviets, and our excellent people will not be able to design better planes, artillery?

I still don't believe it, I won't change Li Tie's drawings, I'm going to watch you put the drawings into the warehouse and rot. ”

Comrade Stalin, who put aside the information on the victory of the Hainan convoy over the Japanese, picked up the phone and prepared to make a call to the Governor-General of the Far East, asking them to pay more attention to the movements of the bandit troops on the Sino-Russian border. While whispering:

"A landing battle of tens of thousands of troops, an air battle of hundreds of planes is also called a battle? We Russians have to play on this scale with our children. ”

When Comrade Stalin was complaining about the results of the battle between the Hainan Guards and the Japanese army, it was also at this time, in the White House in Washington, D.C., President Roosevelt was sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the lawn in front of the office, and he said to the Secretary of State behind him:

"Li Tie's ability to defeat the Japanese 21st Army shows that the Chinese are still very combative, and as long as we increase our investment in China, the Chinese government will defeat the Japanese sooner or later."

"Yes, Mr. President, for more than a year, the Japanese have ignored the Nine-Power Pact and seriously damaged our interests in China. This is a great disaster for us in the United States. The secretary said.

"Yes, now that our economy has just recovered, China is our largest market, we in the United States have land and commodities, we don't need Chinese land, we just need China's market.

But the Japanese are different, they are just a poor island country, so they want to annex China, which is the vast territory.

However, I think that the ambitions of the Japanese are seriously out of step with their strength, and even if they can defeat China for the time being, they will eventually fall into the quagmire of the Chinese. There are as many as 40,000 Chinese, and if there are a few smart people like Li Tie, it will not be difficult to defeat Japan. Roosevelt said recklessly.

However, Li Tie did not seem to want an all-out war with the Japanese, he seemed to only want to hold his territory in Hainan.

Our intelligence learned that he had secretly signed an armistice agreement with the Japanese and exchanged prisoners with the Japanese. All this shows that Li Tie has no intention of taking on more responsibility, and perhaps he never wanted to govern China. The secretary said.

"As a great benefactor and friend of the American people, Mr. Li Tie, no matter what decision he makes, we must show our support, and it is a good thing that he has no intention of being in politics with his ability.

Just imagine, with Li Tie's shrewdness, if he becomes the leader of China, with only his economic talent, maybe in a few years, we in the United States will be surpassed by their China.

On the one hand, China can become the largest market for the United States, on the other hand, it can become a roadblock to contain the eastward and southward advance of Red Russia, and it is the best battlefield to consume the rising Japan.

Therefore, we must increase our investment in China for both public and private purposes, because China's war potential is huge, and as long as they can continue to fight Japan indefinitely, Japan will be dragged down sooner or later. President Roosevelt said confidently.

"However, the Japanese do not lack strategic vision, and sooner or later the Japanese will discover our intentions in doing so, and what if we ourselves change hands to the United States one day?" The secretary of state worried.

"You can rest assured, if the Japanese want to deal with us, they must first deal with the British and French colonies in Southeast Asia, we are far from them, and it will not be us who will be unlucky in any case.

What's more, we still have two years of trade agreements with Japan, and in two years' time, the Japanese will only want to get our war resources even more, and they will not dare to offend us.

Maybe China and Japan will have lost both sides by then, and at that time, we can still use our friendship with China for many years to reap more benefits. President Roosevelt laughed.

The secretary of state beside him admired President Roosevelt's wisdom, and he couldn't help but look through the bright window at the distance outside the office and asked in his heart: "Poor Li Tie, your most sincere friend in the United States, Mr. Roosevelt, is calculating you China, do you know?" ”