"Don't pay attention to other things, we have now withdrawn from the Chinese battlefield, and the affairs over there no longer have anything to do with us, as long as we fight the battle in front of us, the crisis over there will naturally be resolved." After receiving the war report from China, most of the mercenaries and officers under Zhao Zhi were worried, although they had already belonged to Thunder and their families had been transferred to Burma, but in the final analysis, they were still Chinese, and the domestic war situation was so tight, they would be somewhat worried.

"Sir, can we still call back?" The staff officer who questioned him obviously did not have much hope for the 74th Army, which was facing the enemy, but the Japanese army that went south had the strength of five Kwantung Army divisions, plus the two Kwantung Army divisions and those Imperial Allied troops that had already gone south to Shandong in the early stage, the strength of the Japanese army in Hebei, Shandong, and other places had exceeded 500,000. Although the 74th Army will soon be upgraded to a group army by the Nationalist Government, they have already suffered losses in the last battle with the Kwantung Army, and if it were not for the thunderous Jewish Legion trying their best to save them, I am afraid that the 74th Army would have been crippled by the Kwantung Army long ago.

"What are you going to do when you call back?" Zhao Zhi looked at the staff officer who asked him a question just now with some puzzlement, "As long as we cut off their back route in Japan, how long do you think the Japanese army at home can hold out?" The Kwantung Army is known as a million people, but they are not invincible, let's not beat the troops of the Kwantung Army all over the ground to find teeth. If we kill one more Japanese soldier here, there will be less threat to the people in the country, don't you understand such a simple truth? ”

Seeing that the staff officers in the headquarters were still puzzled, Zhao Zhi immediately summoned them to the map, "Japan is an island country, surrounded by oceans on all sides, and the closest to Japan are China's Shanghai and the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese army has troops stationed in both places, if they find that their territory may perish at any time, do you say that the Japanese army will still fight unscrupulously outside?" ”

"Sir, do you mean that you want us to turn Japan into a big battlefield, lure more Japanese troops back to their homeland, and if they don't send troops back to their homeland, then we will take advantage of the situation to defeat the whole of Japan?" The meaning of Zhao Zhi's words made the staff officers almost nervous. Although Thunder now occupies the dominant position on the battlefield, Japan is a country after all, and if Thunder wants to capture Japan, I am afraid it will not be as simple as Zhao Zhi just said.

"I didn't say that we could do this alone, don't forget that we still have the U.S. military to fight with." Zhao Zhi grabbed the headquarters and put it on a certain location on the map, and then said in a deep voice, "This is the northeast, the Japanese Kwantung Army is stationed here, the U.S. military deployment on the Philippine battlefield is getting closer and closer, and the Japanese army, which has exhausted its troop resources, can only mobilize the Kwantung Army from the northeast to fight south, but our Shandong cross-cutting tactics will force them to take the land route The decision will become more and more difficult, and in addition to our thunderous landing in Japan to fight, the Kwantung Army can only take the sea route back to the mainland, and North Korea will be their only shortcut." ”

"Yan Wudao and 30,000 Jewish troops are helping to train the Korean People's Army in North Korea at this time, although the Korean People's Army has only a few hundred thousand people, but the Kwantung Army will inevitably pass through the area controlled by the Korean People's Army when it goes south to the seaport in Korea. This layer of interception is down, even if it can't defeat them, at least it can make them take off a few layers of skin. When they board the ship and cross the sea, they will still have to face the attack of the American fleet, and you can calculate how many people will be left of these Kwantung Army when they land on the mainland. ”

"What's more, Kyushu Island and the small half of Honshu Island have been arranged by us like a meat grinder, and when the follow-up US troops come ashore, maybe half of Honshu Island will be handed over to our control. Therefore, everyone, it is useless to worry about the domestic battlefield now, and if you want to share the worries of the domestic battlefield, the best way is to fight the battle in front of us, and the more we fight, the more Japanese troops will come to the rescue, so that the pressure on the domestic battlefield will be reduced. ”

Zhao Zhi's staff officers listened thoughtfully, Japan and China are still separated by the sea, even if Zhao Zhi wants to transfer troops back to Shandong now, I am afraid he will not be able to do it, because all the ships of the Thunder have left Kyushu Bay with the US fleet. Zhao Zhi himself knew that the war at home was critical, and Chiang Kai-shek had sent him several telegrams in a row, all of which inquired about the war in Shandong. But in the face of the strong resistance of the Japanese army in Honshu, I am afraid that he himself will not be able to protect himself, where is there still the spare strength to send troops back to Shandong to participate in the war, not to mention that he is indeed beyond the reach of the whip in Japan.

If he hadn't had to transfer the Youth Army back to Shanxi for recuperation, how could the 74th Army, which was holding the Shandong East Road, be besieged by a large number of Kwantung Army. The battle has been fought to this point, and the bigwigs of the national government are still thinking about preserving their strength, so they will give the Kwantung Army a chance to take advantage of it, and it is for this reason that Zhao Zhi will strip the Thunder troops from the domestic battlefield little by little, and he doesn't want his soldiers to be cannon fodder for the bigwigs of the national army.

Fighting a war is about willpower and logistics, for Chiang Kai-shek's request for help, Zhao Zhi can only do logistics, 7 Zhao Zhi has a bullet production line of American weapons in his hand, and he has ordered Mo Lun to ensure the smooth supply of ammunition to the 74th Army no matter what, I believe that the 74th Army with absolute force should not and will not be easily defeated by the Kwantung Army. The low combat effectiveness of the national army is mainly due to two reasons, one is that the weapons are inferior to the Japanese army, and the other is that the team of its own people is not united and has poor ability to cooperate. Now that Zhao Zhi has solved the first problem for Chiang Kai-shek, the other problem needs Chiang Kai-shek to find the answer himself.

Zhao Zhi often said that Thunder can not be regarded as an arm, but should be regarded as a company or enterprise, as the boss Zhao Zhi naturally has to consider whether the pay and harvest are cost-effective, if he blindly only works without taking money, I believe that Thunder will close down if he can't even maintain it for half a year. Before the day of the formation of Lei Tingzi, he had not received a penny of military salary from the Nationalist Government, and Lei Ting's soldiers were all recruited by himself, and there was no number of the Nationalist Government on his head, so in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's request for help, Zhao Zhi refused very simply.

"China is now governed by the Nationalist Government, and of course it is the Nationalist Government's business to solve the problem." Zhao Zhi's reply to Chiang Kai-shek was only two short sentences, but he had already expressed Thunder's position very clearly, and if the Nationalist Army still wanted to get back to the feeling that it had fought side by side with Thunder in Shanxi, I am afraid it would not work. However, Zhao Zhi did not completely dissociate himself from the Nationalist Government, and the Japanese-style equipment and weapons captured by the Thunderous Jewish troops all the way north were given to the Nationalist Army by Zhao Zhi, where there were a lot of heavy equipment and weapons, and in the face of Zhao Zhi's refusal, Chiang Kai-shek could only scold in his heart those guys in the Ministry of Military Affairs who were full of food and did not do anything.

Zhao Zhi has decided not to participate in the quagmire of the domestic battlefield, so he can naturally spare a lot of time and energy to prepare for the plan that the Thunder is about to launch, only a very few people under Zhao Zhi know what the next plan is, and only the commander of the fleet on the US side is qualified to participate, for which Halsey complained to Zhao Zhi several times, complaining that Zhao Zhi even hid the captains under him. "General, this plan is too dangerous, you must know that the 5,000 people who lead the battle are the most elite soldiers under my command, so until the last moment of the operation, including you, has no right to reveal the content of the operation."

In the face of Zhao Zhi's repeated warnings, Halsey could only nod his head with a wry smile, and the first time he heard Zhao Zhi talk about this plan of action, Halsey's first reaction was that Zhao Zhi was crazy. Throwing the 5,000 of the Thunder's elite people into Tokyo Bay is like putting meat into a wolf's den, and there are not many wolves in this wolf's den. But after Zhao Zhi's step-by-step explanation, Halsey began to be interested in the whole operation, if this operation can be implemented smoothly as Zhao Zhi assured, it will be a model that will be enshrined in the tactical textbook.

In Halsey's view, Zhao Zhi's plan was too crazy, and as the commander of the fleet, he needed to get orders from the commander of the Pacific Fleet and the Department of Defense before he could decide whether to transfer the fleet under his command to cooperate with Zhao Zhi's actions. Knowing this plan earlier than the Ministry of Defense was naturally the Rockman family, Zhao Zhi was tired of serving as a decoy in Japan, and he wanted to decide the outcome with the Japanese.

"The more difficult it is, the greater the benefit of the output." The helmsman of the Rockman family, Old Rod, raised his hands in favor of Zhao Zhi's plan, otherwise he would not have sent the 5,000 mercenaries trained by the family to Japan to participate in actual combat, Zhao Zhi's plan seems to be bold, but in fact all the details have been taken into account, as long as Halsey's fleet is willing to cooperate with Zhao Zhi's actions, landing in Tokyo Bay is not an empty talk.

Thunder's strategy has always been to occupy a point by surprise, and then rely on this point to begin to radiate around, and finally the dots and lines combine to appear a wooden surface made of thunder. Coupled with the backing of Zhao Zhi's follow-up troops who have already walked halfway, Lao Rhodes is not worried that Zhao Zhi will mess up this plan at all, and believes that the overwhelmed US military in the Philippines will never sit idly by and watch this excellent opportunity.

Halsey didn't expect the Ministry of Defense's reply to come so quickly, just talked to Zhao Zhi about the plan in the morning, and received an order to his fleet to fully cooperate with Thunder to implement the plan in the afternoon, or Halsey, who was confused, was sent by Zhao Zhi to the warship that had anchored at night, and when Zhao Zhi explained the whole plan to his combat staff, the fleet commanded by Halsey had already sailed away from Kyushu Bay and disappeared into the vast sea, and now everything is ready, just waiting for the battle to start.