Yang Qiu needs to go beyond the war, think, prepare, and adjust, and prepare in advance for the post-war national economy, people's livelihood, and world pattern. But the war will not stop because of his adjustment, on the contrary, the snowball of war is still rolling bigger and bigger with its own laws.

The world after the Lunar New Year can be described as a thunderstorm of electric lightning, when the Soviets and Germans joined forces to knock on the peninsula of Asia Minor, and the Ankara defense line became a concern for all of Europe and even Yang Qiu, and the Chinese defense forces also launched a series of offensives in the Far East. From the distant Truk to the nearby Southeastern Peninsula, the "Chinese storm" that has been building up for several years has swept in!

On the southeast peninsula, soon after the end of the Singapore Campaign, 200,000 freed up Chinese defense forces and Asian Alliance troops quickly moved north along the Malay Peninsula, and in less than a month, they successively liberated Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang and other places. In early March, the National Defense Forces made another landing at Songkhla and Pattanii in Siam, successfully encircling the remnants of the Japanese 4th and 5th Divisions with less than 30,000 men in the narrow rainforest belt between Kota Bharu and Songkhla. The Chinese navy and army also deployed hundreds of frigates, small river gunboats, and landing craft to take advantage of the rising waters of the rainy season to move deeper into the peninsula along the Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers, and the 30,000 Japanese troops in the Khmer were also defeated and driven into the primeval jungles of the Bien Tan Mountains.

Dong Hao then returned to Sumatra as the commander-in-chief of the Sumatra garrison, and under his organization, a total of six divisions, including the National Defense Force and the Asian League Sumatran Division, launched an attack on the port of Lampung in early March, seizing the seaport holding the Sunda Strait in one fell swoop. Not only did they drive the Japanese and Indonesian troops back to Java, but they also began to liquidate the pro-Japanese elements in Sumatra, confiscate their guns, and fight the guerrillas and bandits that spread throughout the rainforest. Faced with Beijing's obvious desire to completely split Indonesia, Sukarno repeatedly said that he would lead 50 million Indonesians to fight to the end to defend the country's independence.

The battlefield in Myanmar is also progressing smoothly, with the cooperation of the APA Burmese forces led by Aung San. The Southwest Army, which was attacking from Yunnan, joined forces with the Indian Army Group in Mandalay on March 5, killing Japanese Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida and wounding more than 20,000 Japanese troops in Burma. In order to speed up the clearance. On March 15, Li Zongren also sent three infantry divisions to land in Rangoon and flank the remnants of the Japanese army from three sides.

In the Southwest Pacific Ocean. The Southern Expeditionary Force under the command of Dai Anlan, totaling 8 divisions, launched a general offensive on Saipan and Truk Atoll immediately after the Lunar New Year. Because the Japanese troops trapped on the two islands had been cut off for more than a year, and they had been repeatedly bombed by the navy and air force for a long time, they had already run out of ammunition and food, so the main fighting between the two islands ended in only three weeks. On March 15, Dianlan quickly turned back and dispatched two infantry divisions to land in Manado, Sulawesi. Preparations were made for an attack on the Philippines and East Timor. At the same time, after liberating Brunei and Sarawak, Zhang Zizhong also turned to Samarinda and Balikpapan in East Borneo. Just when the Japanese were overwhelmed by the fierce onslaught of the two, a landing force of 5,000 marines and a successful sneak attack on Puerto Princesa in Palawan on March 19, protected by the French battleship group of the Third Fleet. By March 25. All 700 Japanese troops stationed on the island were killed, and Palawan was liberated.

On March 25, the day of the liberation of Palawan, a drastic change broke out in Siam!

After the conclusion of the Sino-Siamese Treaty of Mutual Assistance and Friendship with Yang Qiu, King Rama VIII of Siam publicly announced in Beijing that he authorized the Chinese National Defense Forces to use all necessary means. Help Siam escape from the Nazis and restore order to the country. In the early morning of the second day after his speech, the 2nd Airborne Division of the Chinese National Defense Forces and the Marines used airborne landing and other means to raid the Siamese Army's temporary headquarters in Sinburi, located north of Bangkok, and in one fell swoop surrounded the city and arrested or killed Luang Phibun Songkhan and hundreds of his henchmen! It was learned that the prime minister and senior generals had been arrested. More than 10,000 Japanese troops and Siamese troops stationed in Siam were ready to fight to the death, but at this time, King Rama VIII suddenly returned to Bangkok under the heavy protection of the Chinese Navy, and submitted a surrender to the Chinese government as the country's top leader, announcing his withdrawal from the war!

On the same day, he also announced the dissolution of the government, and at a press conference he severely condemned the actions of Nazis such as Luang Phibun-Songkhan for bringing Siam into the war, and then appointed Phanom Rong (Chen Ka Lok) as the prime minister of the transitional government, and appointed Lieutenant General Chathanarobo, the former chief of the army general staff, who had long been secretly defecting to China, as commander-in-chief of the three armed forces. In order to ease tensions, he also announced in his capacity as king that he would pardon the crimes of soldiers who participated in the war, saying that the government would continue to pay military salaries and pay pensions for war deaths and casualties. The proclamation played a key role in stabilizing Siam, and some 400,000 Siamese officers and soldiers, who had long since lost their desire to fight, defected and pledged allegiance to the king. Finally, King Rama VIII also announced that in view of the high domestic tensions and the possibility of civil war, and the serious lack of equipment and experience of the army, he had reached an agreement with the Chinese government to establish the Sino-Siam Military Management Committee to crack down on the remnants of the Japanese army, Nazis, warlords, drug traffickers and other criminals who endangered national security. In the two years that followed, hundreds of thousands of warlords, criminals, and pro-Japanese elements were executed or exiled in post-war liquidations.

Originally, such a large-scale liquidation operation would inevitably lead to riots and even civil war, but because the Siamese people were generally tired of the war, Rama VIII's toughness and the military's defection, coupled with Yang Qiu's ban on the Vietnamese army entering Siam, quickly providing loans and various economic recovery plans, assisting a large number of hand-held tractors and other production materials, and also starting the construction of the Sino-Siamese railway and other actions to promote Siam's economic development, the most worrying Siamese civil war or even the peninsula civil war did not appear.

The day after King Rama VIII announced the decree, Yang Qiu issued a statement in Beijing, welcoming Siam's return to the Asian family, immediately appointing Li Zhenzhong as the supreme commander of the Chinese side of the Sino-Siam Military Management Committee, and dispatching 10 divisions from the Southwest Theater to Siam to help King Rama VIII restore national stability. Finally, he urged the National Assembly to immediately pass a loan aid package totaling 100 million yuan to Siam in accordance with the China-Siam Treaty of Mutual Assistance and Friendship to help stabilize the Southeast Peninsula.

The news that Siam had become the first Axis country to surrender and withdraw from the war quickly spread throughout Europe and the United States, and both Roosevelt and Churchill responded positively, and also provided some loans and materials to the Siam government respectively.

In the two months after the end of the Battle of Singapore, the Chinese National Defense Force's navy, land and air forces, and the Allied forces in Southeast Asia, totaling 1.5 million soldiers, swept across the southwest with the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves. With the exception of Java, Rabaul, Guinea and the Philippines, the Japanese and Axis armies stationed in the South Seas collapsed on all fronts. Marshal Qiu Wenbin, who personally supervised the battle, made an optimistic estimate when he sent a telegram to Yang Qiu, leaving aside a few areas where heavy troops were stationed and the terrain was complicated. By the end of July at the latest, all the major fighting in the South Seas will be over.

The news of the defeat of the southbound troops, the withdrawal of Siam from the war, the large-scale liquidation of the Japanese heritage, and the arrest and massacre of Japanese ethnic and pro-Japanese elements made the whole of Japan feel that defeat was imminent for the first time. These two months after the Chinese New Year. Japan is in turmoil. While the Japanese government kept a tight seal on any reports of combat at home, Chinese bombers were flooding with leaflets. Let the blockade be a joke. The news of the defeat and surrender was secretly circulating in the press, and although no one dared to reveal a word in the newspapers, in the face of such a fierce offensive, Kuniaki Koiso, who had just come to power, had to repeatedly issue statements denying all leaflets and calling them "rumors" and lying that the army was "stubbornly victorious." In order to prevent changes in the country, die-hards such as Sugiyama Mototo and Umezu Yoshijiro also ordered the military to suppress riots and organizations such as Kokusha.

But no amount of brutal repression can extinguish the turbulent undercurrents in the country. Just before Hirota Hiroki's departure, the Nippon Kokusha organized an uprising in Kitami City, Hokkaido. About a thousand Japanese rebels quickly occupied Kitami City with the political slogan of ending the war and arresting prisoners of war. Although the Japanese were quickly dispatched to suppress it, the Chinese Navy's First Fleet used naval guns and bombers. Shelter was provided for the rebels. After three days of fighting, the Japanese suppressed the uprising at the cost of 3,000 dead and wounded, but the Kokusha rebels managed to retreat from Tokorocheon to Sakhalin under the protection of the Chinese Navy.

Although the scale and influence of the "Kitami Uprising" were not large, it made the Japanese top brass faintly feel the huge pressure of contradictions in the country, and they were forced to do so. Hirohito had no choice but to send Hirota to negotiate and find a way to "end the war with dignity". However, at this time, the news of the Soviet-German alliance and the successive victories in Turkey rekindled hope for him and the Japanese army base camp, so he decided to stop negotiations and continue to wait for changes in the international situation.

For the repetition of Japan. Yang Qiu didn't care on the surface, but in fact, he was still very angry in his heart, so he decided to implement the "clear" plan early to help Tokuda Qiu clear the obstacles.

In Japan, on the sea outside Yamaguchi Prefecture in the ancient Nagato Province, three "hammerhead shark" ocean-going special submarines rose and fell with the waves in the night. Behind them, the radars of the two escort destroyers spun rapidly, watching vigilantly. Next to the submarine, several old sail fishing boats were docked, and with the help of Chinese sailors, tens of thousands of Stern submachine guns and ammunition were transferred ashore.

After the defeat of the Combined Fleet, Japan's coastal defense was almost paralyzed, especially in the Tsushima Strait and the western coast, which became the backyard of the Chinese Navy. Although the Japanese army deployed most of its troops along the western coast, it was unable to effectively maintain law and order in the area, and became a paradise for all kinds of crime and guerrillas.

"Mr. Nagano." In the submarine, a colonel of the Intelligence Department handed over the aid list and an encrypted radio station wrapped in an oilcloth to Nagano Harahira, and then took out a thin codebook from his personal pocket: "This is a codebook, you can call for air support and assistance, please be sure to turn it over to Mr. Tokuda." ”

Nagano Haradi was an important assistant to Tokuda Koichi and, like Tokuda, he was not a pure Japanese either. His father, an ordinary railroad worker sent to Manchuria, and his mother was Korean, so he was discriminated against from an early age. When Japan was forced to withdraw from Lushun, he also wanted to return home with his newly married Korean wife. But discrimination prevented him from boarding the return passenger liner, and in the end, his wife was raped to death by the rioting Japanese soldiers, and he was also injured and broke three fingers. This experience made him extremely hateful to the Japanese military government, so after returning to China, he resolutely joined the Japanese National Society, actively participated in the actions against the military government, and played a key role in events such as the rice riots. After reunifying and expanding the influence of the Japanese National Society with the help of Yang Qiu, Tokuda Koichi saw that he was capable well, so he secretly sent him back to China again for training, and finally after a special examination, he became one of the main officers of the Japanese National Agency guerrillas.

After Nagano put away the code book, the officer took out another plan and handed it over: "Mr. Nagano, this is a plan of action that we have formulated, you can take a look." ”

After the outbreak of the war, Japan's every move was led by Beijing, and most of its actions were carried out according to Beijing's needs and plans, so Nagano did not wonder that the other party showed him the plan. It was a plan to attack the Japanese granary in Hiroshima, and the plan required the Japanese Kokusha guerrillas to attack the heavily defended granary and find an opportunity to distribute the grain to the local population.

Nagano frowned after reading it, food is the core of Japan's biggest contradiction, and they have been using various means to seize food from the Japanese government and distribute it to the poor, which has received a lot of support. But attacking the army granary is not enough for them at present, after all, there are tens of thousands of Japanese troops stationed around the granary. So he asked frankly, "Colonel Yan, isn't this too risky?" Our strength is still very weak, and there will be a lot of casualties. ”

The colonel of the intelligence department surnamed Yan smiled slightly, asked someone to bring the granary reconnaissance photos and maps, pointed and said, "Mr. Nagano, we will not let you die in vain. The key to this plan is to incite the locals and create a civilian-military conflict, not limited to Okayama, but also in other places, the larger the better. Of course, we will send bombers to strike at the Japanese defenders in these areas during these two days, and it does not matter whether it is successful in the end. ”

"It doesn't matter." Nagano's eyes were full of contradiction and surprise.

"Yes, our goal is to make Japan's top brass angry and vigilant, and get them to meet to figure out how to deal with domestic problems!" The officer surnamed Yan explained the key to the plan.

Nagano had received rigorous training from China's intelligence services, as well as military training, so he quickly grasped the key word "meeting". You must know that since the Tokyo headquarters and other buildings were destroyed in the bombing, the vast majority of high-ranking Japanese officers and generals are usually scattered in refugee camps and temples all over Tokyo, and it is difficult to find them one by one, and they will only gather somewhere when something big happens.

The officer surnamed Yan was obviously a veteran of inciting emotions, held Nagano's hand and patted it gently: "Please believe in the party and organization, and believe in the president!" He promised to help you overthrow the old Japan and let the Kunisha come to power and lead the new Japan, and he will definitely do it. I can assure you that as long as this happens, all the obstacles that stand in your way will disappear and the date for a nationwide campaign will not be far off! ”