After flying to Jeonju in North Korea, Song Biao first held a small-scale internal meeting with Cai Yi and Liu Gengyun, commanders of the Northeast National Defense Forces, to listen to the analysis of the front-line war by commanders at all levels, and then arranged time to meet with Ri Kyung-hoon, president of the provisional government of the Republic of Korea.

Li Qingxun graduated from the Army Command Department of the Far Eastern Military Academy, and was selected by the Central Military Intelligence Department to secretly arrange for further study at the Central Military Academy and the School of Political Science and Law of the Central Imperial University, and briefly worked as a translator at the North Korean Embassy in China, and served as the instructor of the infantry regiment in the Northeast Military Region for several years, and returned to North Korea in 1933 to be responsible for the formation of the North Korean Free Political Axe and the Korean Free Army.

Although the so-called royal family of the Korean Empire was in Tokyo at this time, the empire had already supported Yi Kyung-hoon's North Korean political axe to rebuild the new Republic of Korea, set the capital Pyongyang, and systematically promoted the accession of the Republic of Korea to the Asian League.

This plan is very important, because once the Republic of Korea joins the Asian League, it will not only be diplomatically recognized by the majority of countries in international diplomacy, but will also receive the full support of the Asian League, and all military actions of China and the Asian Union coalition forces in the DPRK will receive real de jure support and the right to the full support of the Republic of Korea and the people.

At the ASEAN summit in Xi'an in September, the member states will formally accept the application jointly submitted by China and the Republic of Korea and formally become members of the Asian Cooperation Alliance.

At the same time, the empire will provide a ten-year, total 4 billion won friendship ex-gratia assistance program to the Republic of Korea to help the DPRK establish an effective political axe and modern economic structure, Incheon and Nampo will still exist in the form of special zones for China-North Korea economic cooperation, and the DPRK will also recognize the dual nationality bill of the Chinese Empire and give Chinese nationals with Republic of Korea passports and nationality.

Considering that almost all the main body of the Korean economy is controlled by Chinese businessmen, this is almost equivalent to allowing the Republic of Korea to continue to recognize this status quo, and in fact, among all the member states of the Asian League, there is no country like North Korea in which the entire economy is completely dependent on the Chinese Empire, especially after the confiscation of the political axe and personal property in Korea in the name of war reparations.

As the most important springboard for China's attack on the capital, the DPRK will build a large number of transportation projects in the next six months, not only to repair the railways during the period of the Japanese occupation, but also to build three major arterial roads and a number of branch roads, as well as to further improve the conditions of ports and airports, with the empire providing state and commercial loans, and through a multi-pronged combination of commercial contracts and military aid programs, to complete this series of large number of projects in half a year, laying a solid foundation for the empire's attack on the homeland.

With such a foundation, the empire will be able to ensure the continuous transportation of war materials and resources from northeast, Shandong, and north China to Korea, and from Korea to Japan, and ensure all the needs of the imperial expeditionary force, and this plan will ensure the large-scale expenditure of at least three million army forces.

Although the entire Third Sino-Chinese War has so far been very difficult, in this process, the empire gradually relied on the overall national strength and huge military reserves to build a large-scale military force that can adapt to the decisive battle in the mountains of southern Korea, and this armed force can also play the greatest military value in the future in the homeland, during this period, the mountain troops that originally accounted for only 1/5 of the total number of the imperial army jumped to 1/3 of the size, 174 army divisions, A total of 13 permanent mountain divisions and 44 new mountain divisions will eventually be transferred to the local territory to participate in the decisive battle.

This was the final plan of the Song Emperor.

The emperor actually had only two plans, one was to raze the book with nuclear weapons and not spare any city with war value; The second is to use an astonishing number of conventional troops to bulldoze the entire city, not to let go of any inch of land, and to use the scorched earth policy to drive the book back to the primitive society.

No matter which plan it is, the emperor can get long-term satisfaction.

After the Song Emperor negotiated with the provisional president of the Republic of Korea, Li Qingxun, Chen Wucai arrived at the Jeonju Command Headquarters by transport plane belatedly, and Chen Wu did not mean to slack off, and his outstanding performance in the campaign not only proved that he was a young general, but also made the Central Military Department happy to give him a heavy responsibility for the Fourth Army he led.

At this time, Chen Wuzheng had plans to double the size of the entire Fourth Army according to his own intentions, and would serve as the main force on the front line of the Yueben landing battle, and the first wave would follow the amphibious troops and the marines to land at Xiaguan and directly leap to the Yueben mainland to fight.

His current work is not to encircle and annihilate the 6th Division of the Japanese Army in southern Korea, but to organize a large-scale landing operation exercise in Pohang to prepare for the follow-up battle plan, and the Admiralty has also sent an experienced staff officer to serve as his deputy chief of staff.

After Chen Wu flew to Quanzhou, Song Biao just ended his talks with Li Qingxun, and immediately arranged for Chen Wu to come over with Cai Yi, Liu Gengyun, and Wei Lihuang to discuss the follow-up battle plan.

Cai Yi and the three of them had actually been waiting in the general operations command room, just waiting for the arrival of Chen Wu and Emperor Song, and after Chen Wu, who had resumed his rank of general, arrived, Wei Lihuang got up and saluted first.

Among the four, he is already the only one who has not been promoted to army general, but it is widely recognized that it is only a matter of time before he is promoted to army general, unless he stumbles like Fu Zuoyi, and another problem is that he is likely not to participate in the follow-up operations against the Yue army, and will be directly transferred back to the Yanjing Military Region as the commander, because Zhao Tingzhu has already gone to the Northwest Military Region, obviously preparing for military work against the Soviet Union or Germany.

Chen Wu, who finally regained the rank of army general, also had a lot of emotion in his heart at this time, and after returning the salute with Wei Lihuang, he continued to shake hands with Cai Yi and others with great emotion, and when shaking hands with Wei Lihuang, Chen Wu praised with emotion: "Jin Daoling fought a very beautiful battle, and the enemy was one step ahead of the enemy to realize the possible surname of the outbreak of a big war here, this sense of smell is very important." ”

Wei Lihuang was still very happy to be praised by Chen Wu, but he only replied very modestly: "Mr. Chen praises it." ”

Chen Wu laughed very calmly, sat in his seat, and continued to ask Cai Yi: "How is the emperor feeling this time, he didn't blame us, right?" ”

Cai Yi wiped the back of his head, and sighed helplessly: "It was originally a good game of chess, and the advantages were all in our hands, but in the end, the Central Military Department was forced to help, and even forced to use strategic troops to assist, which really makes me feel embarrassed." ”

He did not explicitly state the emperor's blame, but it was clear that even if the emperor had not criticized it at this time, it was obvious.

Chen Wu comforted Cai Yi and said: "You have done your best, the war, the victory or defeat is undecided, Fu Zuoyi's loss, there are losses and gains, and now the army has been cut into two parts is also something we expected, although the arrows are lost, the overall will continue to be conducive to the follow-up battle." ”

Cai Ye was silent and took a sip of tea.

He can only say that fortunately Fu Zuoyi made a mistake, after all, Fu Zuoyi is a person that the emperor focuses on cultivating, and the Central Military Department is not suitable for too much criticism.

Cai Yi's mood is also very heavy, and the pressure is quite high, but it is not as difficult as Fu Zuoyi's client.

At this time, a general order came from outside, and the royal car was coming.

Hearing the shouts of the inner attendants, who were only a few dozen steps apart, Cai Ye hurriedly led the other three to stand up at the same time, waiting for the emperor's arrival again with a solemn expression.

In just a moment, Emperor Song Biao, who was wearing a marshal uniform of the Imperial Central Defense Army, strode in.

The emperor always has a lot of different sides from the world.

In the solemn salute of the four generals' subordinates, Song Biao walked past them silently and calmly, and also sat quietly and calmly on the chief seat of the conference table, took off his gloves and threw them on the table, so that he let these four mainstay subordinates sit down.

Song Biao first looked at Chen Wu, pointed at him, and agreed: "You have fought very well in these recent battles, and you should prepare well for the landing operation on the native land of Yueben." ”

Chen Wu is quite grateful, his heart is excited and extinguished, several ups and downs, several sinking, life is the best, the husband is not like this!

He stood up again and saluted, and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace." ”

Song Biao didn't have much expression and bowed slightly, and continued to ask the four people present: "This time, I summoned the four of you separately to talk about only two things, one is how to annihilate the remnants of the Yue army on the Korean Peninsula, and the other is to hold Fu Zuoyi accountable for his mistakes. Let's talk about the latter matter first, as to whether Fu Zuoyi violated military law, you know in your hearts that everyone should take a stand on how to deal with it. ”

When you heard this, you couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Chen Wu pondered for a moment, and then spoke first: "For the loss of Shangzhou, Lieutenant General Fu must bear the most important responsibility, and the arrogant army can be undefeated, but in view of the fact that he organized active defensive operations and positional warfare on the spot in Shangzhou, he avoided the main force being surrounded and annihilated by the Yue army, and at the same time attracted the main force of the Yue army, and created an excellent fighter for the Second Army to hit the roots of Matsui Stone on the southern front, and for our Fourth Army's six-hundred-mile leap into Pohang, so it is not necessary to impose heavy punishments, at least there is no need to degrade them." ”

Cai Ye also agreed: "What General Chen said is very true, Your Majesty, the loss of Shangzhou, and his subordinates should also bear its heavy responsibility, and the whole army should be criticized by Lieutenant General Fu, and we should continue to serve and make up for the merits." ”

Song Biao said: "You have no special faults, there is no need to criticize, the Central Military Department warned Fu Zuoyi by name once, demerit treatment, demoted to major general, and warned all departments not to be arrogant." ”

Chen Wu and the others were silent.

Demotion and forced retirement are relatively severe punishments in the army, especially in the war stage, this is the first case in the Central Defense Force, just think about it carefully, you can only say that Fu Zuoyi is self-inflicted, before Cai Ye repeatedly emphasized that you can not be proud, not alone in the depths, when the two armies work together, left and right containment, mutual support, Fu Zuoyi for the first credit and ignore Zhang Zizhong, the lone army went deep, in a vain attempt to defeat the main force of the army, but was surrounded and suppressed by the army, As a result, the entire Northeast Defense Force is in an extremely passive situation in the war situation, and its own casualties are also very serious.

If it weren't for the Central Military Department's decision to use strategic forces and the air force of the headquarters to support the operation, the empire's chaotic arrow plan would probably usher in an unprecedented fiasco.

Even so, because of the excessive retaliation in the chemical warfare, the Reichswehr has suffered a lot of criticism at home and abroad, especially in the international community, which has a very bad evaluation, and the Reich has been forced to withdraw from the international treaty of the Anti-War Act, and if it fights with the Soviet Army in the future, it will no longer be protected by the international law of the Chemical Weapons Limitation Treaty, and the two sides are likely to directly enter a new round of chemical weapons warfare.

Song Biao didn't have much to say about this matter, a mistake is a mistake, Fu Zuoyi's failure in this matter is well known, if it cannot be dealt with severely, the military discipline of all armies will be corrupted in the future, and everyone will fight as much as they want regardless of the battle plan formulated by the Central Military Department, then the outcome of this war will be very painful.

He decisively fixed the matter, and continued to ask Cai Yi: "Before the next battle plan is formulated, do you have anything else to add?" ”

Cai Yi could only no longer care about Fu Zuoyi's punishment, and proposed to Song Biao: "This time, the Northeast Defense Force has been expanded to 73 army divisions, close to 1.8 million troops, and most of them have been improved according to the special surnames of the Korean battlefield. At this time, there is nothing to be tricked into, everything is only in terms of strength, and the only thing to pay attention to is only logistics and supply, with artillery as the main force, artillery and infantry combined, and with the advantage of light weapon firepower, inch by inch. After the Second Army was cut off by a detour, the supplies of the Chinese army were consumed, and after the sea and air were cut off, the remaining troops of the Chinese army could neither retreat nor have follow-up supplies and support, and gradually attacked and gradually encroached, so as to eliminate the remaining strength of the Japanese army within a period of three months. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, and said: "Your thoughts are similar to mine, this battle is based on attrition, locks, and Qi is compatible, and there are no tactical skills and strategic techniques to speak of when fighting to this extent." In the next step, the Marines will end the Ryukyu Campaign, launch a larger-scale clean-up campaign in the Pacific region, and strip the Japanese army of its colonies in the entire Pacific Ocean, and the Northeast Military Region will directly land troops on Sakhalin Island to make preparations for landing in Hokkaido. At that time, your task will be to carry out a landing operation on the local territory of Shimonoseki. But before the landing operation, we expected a blockade war and a long bombing for about half a year. ”

After the army basically lost control of the Ryukyu Islands and the Korean Peninsula, the aftermath of this war has become clear, and all that remains is to continue to encroach on the city step by step, so that the city will fall into a situation of complete loss of resource bases, and carry out large-scale bombing of the country to blockade the country's domestic economy.

There are no human rights to speak of.

According to the plan of the military headquarters, they planned to spray a large amount of defoliant on the farmland in the spring and summer after the circular blockade was imposed, and directly throw gasoline bombs during the autumn harvest season, resulting in a serious food crisis.

This plan has not yet been submitted to the emperor for review, but the emperor is more in favor of a comprehensive bombing of the industrial cities of the city, especially the military, electricity, steel, transportation, ports, and energy units of the city, so that the whole economy of the city is completely destroyed in a state of large-scale industrial unemployment.

Whatever means were used, the Empire's plan was to completely paralyze the economy and resources first, and then send troops to land and fight at the right time, gradually emptying and occupying the capital.

In principle, during the first year of the blockade operation, neither the Imperial Army nor the Marines would consider a direct landing operation, and the Imperial Navy and Air Force would undertake the main work of the circular blockade operation, so that the Imperial Army and the Marine Corps would be completely cut off from overseas.

With the Empire's strong navy and air force, it would not be difficult to do so, and such a plan would be much smaller in terms of military expenditure and loss of personnel and ammunition than sending a large number of troops directly to land in operation.

Relatively speaking, this is a very good plan.

As long as the book is placed in a circular blockade, the empire does not care how many years it will take for the war to be completely over.

Either you don't fight, or if you want to fight, you have to beat the book back to the primitive society.

The Empire clearly has such ruthlessness.

Always be fierce with your enemies.

After a detailed discussion on the issue of annihilating the remnants of the Japanese army in Korea, Song Biao felt that the remaining issues could be left to the Central Military Department and the Northeast Defense Force Staff Operations Department to continue to plan, and he planned to end this issue, which was not very worrying to him.

Unlike the problems faced by the United States at the end of World War II, the empire did not give Britain, France and the Soviet Union a large amount of lend-lease support, and the empire's economy in the past few years has been more inclined to the development of the Asian continent, and in the field of maritime transportation, the army that has lost its Ryukyu base will no longer be able to threaten the empire.

At this time, Song Biao, who was sitting in Jeonju in Korea, really considered and worried about the western frontier of the empire, and he was closely following the dynamics between the Soviet Union and Germany, the difficulties encountered by the Soviet Union were much worse than expected, and Germany could completely destroy the Soviet Red Army almost before the end of the year.

Does the Reich need to give the Soviet Red Army some necessary support, or will it send troops directly to the northwest to occupy the Kazakh region?

These are the problems that Song Biao needs to consider the most at this time.

In terms of technology and tactical structure, Germany also introduced a large number of armored fighting vehicles, self-propelled guns, tracked transporters, tank destroyers and other technologies from the Reich, of course, the Soviet Union also got some technical information from the Reich, and the Type 4 Leopard tank and T34 tank that competed with each other on the battlefield were affected by the MBT30 tank.

This made the Soviet Union and Germany urgently need the support of a large number of oil resources and petrochemical industries, and Germany's disadvantage was precisely this, and the advantage of the war situation made Germany divide its forces to attack the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union, trying to occupy the Soviet Stalingrad and Volga oil producing areas.

As for Germany's plan to divide the army into two routes, the benevolent will see the benevolent, and the wise will see the wise.

There are pros and cons.

If Song Biao was in command of this Soviet-German war, he would prefer to choose to break into Moscow alone, and at the same time send fewer troops to cut off the connection between Moscow and the Volga oil-producing areas, although Germany is better at offensive rather than positional warfare defense, but in different situations, a small number of troops for defense is also valuable, and can be conducive to strategic adjustment, when the strong attack on Moscow fails, you can also use the local area of defensive operations to fight a siege and reinforcements, depleting the morale and resources of the Soviet Red Army.

Of course, the ambitious Führer Hitler did not have such thoughts.

The Germans always conceived and planned for the war very straightforwardly, with a distinctly German toughness.

Song Biao raised his hand to make a stop signal, and asked Cai Ye if they had anything to add, but it was obvious that he did not intend to continue the discussion, Cai Yi understood the emperor's meaning, and he also felt that the discussion would be enough, and the work of supplementing the details should be handed over to the General Staff Operations Department.

At this moment, Chen Wu asked Song Biao for battle: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty hopes to continue to lead the Fourth Army to the south, advance east and west together with the Second Army, and cut off the retreat of the Yue Army, after all, according to the plan of the circular blockade war, the Fourth Army is likely to be in a state of preparation for the exercise in the coming year, and we have enough time to make up for the lack of experience, as well as some details of tactical execution." ”

Song Biao thought about it for a moment, and did not intend to veto this proposal, but said to Chen Wu: "You still have to discuss this issue with your Commander-in-Chief Cai and Chief of General Staff Jiang, and I will not ask too much about the specific tactical planning." ”

Chen Wu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is also a matter of Your Majesty's words, Your Majesty also knows that our military is extremely diligent in warfare, and our army is equipped with the largest number of assault rifles, and the mountain combat preparation is the longest. In my opinion, if according to the statistics of both sides, our army can only injure one soldier for every 75 bullets expended, then our army can wound about 3 soldiers per minute on average per squad in terms of small arms firepower at the squad level, while the Chinese army can only injure 1 of our army. In actual combat, this mutual loss ratio of our Fourth Army is obviously higher than the theoretical result, and this is the result of our army's strict training and thorough preparation, so if we can let our army participate in the war, it is completely the most advantageous choice. ”

Hearing this, Song Biao thought about it seriously, and instructed Chen Wu and Cai Yi: "The First Group Army has just fought a bloody battle and has suffered a great loss, so we can consider swapping the First Group Army and the Fourth Group Army, let the Fourth Army be responsible for attacking the rear of the Yue Army from the east and west with Wei Lihuang's troops, and the First and Third Group Armies will be responsible for the front line containment. ”

Cai Ye also nodded seriously in agreement, and said, "What Your Majesty said is very true. ”

Song Biao actually didn't like this situation very much, he was unwilling to interfere with the considerations of the front-line commanders, like Hitler, his one sentence could change all the initial plans of the entire military department, although he obviously knew more about war than Hitler, but the era of war had changed, and he could not continue to lead the group army on the front line as in the past.

War command is a profession, and every general must firmly remember the combat parameters of all weapons, and have in their minds a clear operational map, which type of artillery has a long range, how far the rifle range, and how dense the machine gun fire.

It's like being an engineer with a high spatial imagination.

Song Biao still has such imagination and sense of smell, but he is far away from the front-line troops and the war, and it is difficult to clearly construct an accurate deduction in his mind, in short, what he is not clear about now is that a squad of the Imperial Army can compete with several squad in terms of firepower, a company of the Imperial Army, a company of the German Army, and a company of the Soviet Red Army, what kind of differences do they have, how to use these differences, how to maintain these differences, and how to make up for these differences...... These are all things that he doesn't know very well anymore.

He regretted it.

The war is still on, but he is no longer able to command thousands of troops and horses to fight bloodily on the front line, and all he can do is make some major strategic decisions in the rear, and rely more on the General Staff and the Central Military Department to make more correct tactical decisions.

Song Biao also knew very well that it was of great significance for Chen Wu's Fourth Army to stay in Pohang for a long-term landing exercise, because the actual time of the landing was not fixed, and it could be a year or two after the circular blockade, or it could be an immediate landing.

Even so, he agreed to Chen Wu's proposal.

Many times, he felt that he owed Chen Wu a lot of things, even if he was so categorical and unhesitating when he dealt with Chen Wu back then.

(To be continued)