In the face of the stalemate, Okamura Ninji fell into deep introspection, although the current overall shape is still within the controllable range, but for the strategic vision of the Kuaideng 6 raid on Jinan, this battle has failed suddenly.

Now he will face a difficult choice, one is to withdraw the army, abandon all plans, the other is to persevere, take Ye County to clear the back road to Jinan with a dignified and upright army, the general of the branch will inevitably mobilize men and horses to deal with him, and the people of the army of the branch are limited, if they are more contained by themselves, the direction of the Yellow River and the army defending the south will be reduced accordingly, so that the strategic plan of the general of the temple is not a failure, and his own troops will not lose their meaning.

Of course, in this way, his role in the normal battle will be fundamentally changed, from a protagonist who pierces the enemy's heart to a supporting role that completely cooperates with the protagonist, but as a soldier of the 6th Army of the Imperial Kingdom, there is still the consciousness of sacrificing himself for the emperor at any time.

Moreover, he was originally crippled, but it was the general of the temple who gave him the opportunity to re-lead the army to fight with the general of China, and dared to fight without serving the death.

"Immediately telegraph to the Beijing Command......"

Okamura Ninji shouted, and the staff officers around him were all startled by his sudden gaffe.

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The headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army in Beijing, Terauchi Shouichi pinched the telegram from the direction of Shandong, frowned tightly and fell into contemplation, there was an accident in the occupation of Shandong, Lieutenant General Gangcun did not advance as promised, raided Jinan, and attacked the enemy's center with lightning speed The initial strategic plan failed several times, he did not blame Okamura Ningji, if General China was defeated so lightly, then he would not be a general of China, if he was defeated by a light one, up to General Shirakawa, down to Miyake Koji, Tsukada Attack is ridiculous when these people were defeated in the first place.

Terauchi Shouichi did not blame Okamura Ninji, he only thought about one thing, immediately sent more troops to Shandong, for which he had made up his mind from the moment he received the telegram, and he hesitated about who to send.

The cabinet had now made up its mind to completely conquer China, a large number of reservists had been transferred to active duty, and every day steamships carrying thousands of Imperial soldiers from the mainland were coming to China, and at the same time, he had been informed that the General Staff Headquarters had decided to separate the command system of the Imperial Sixth Army south of the Yangtze River from the North China Dispatch Army Command and establish the Southern Dispatch Army Command, which would be commanded by the newly promoted Sixth Army General Shigeru Honjo.

Honjo Shigeru is a strong competitor to Terauchi Shouichi, this is a general of the 6th Army who grew up from a civilian, although there are countless civilian generals in the 6th Army of the Imperial Kingdom, but few are promoted to generals, and the superior background at this time from Terauchi Shouichi's psychological advantage has become his burden, because of this he can't afford to lose, and even in military operations compared with Honjo Shigeru, who is also a general, a full half beat is also an unbearable failure.

And Shandong's general Zhina's frontal defense line is almost impeccable, if the forced attack loss and outcome are unpredictable, although the probability of victory is very large, but even if he wins this battle, it must be extremely ugly, which is why he agreed to Okamura Ningjijian's move to the edge of the sword at the first time, at this time he is already ready to move forward and has no way to retreat, and it is necessary to increase the troops in Shandong by Hai 6, and there is no room for retreat.

In the end, Terauchi Shouichi determined the candidate for reinforcement of Ye County, Shandong, he is the newly reorganized 6th Army Lieutenant General Division Commander Matsui Shigen, this person is far better than Okamura Ningji in terms of work experience and qualifications in the 6th Army, and more importantly, this person's personality is rare in the Imperial 6th Army is not arrogant, presumably he will go all out to fight with Okamura Ningji, of course, for the position of commander of Okamura Ningci's task force, Terauchi Shouichi does not want to move, and changing in battle will be a taboo for soldiers, not to mention that he is still very optimistic about this junior, Therefore, with the always steady Matsui Ishine, he should be the most suitable person.

After deciding on the candidates to send troops, Terauchi Shouichi still has a headache to solve, that is, how to persuade the navy people to send a fleet to escort him again, he has learned from a lot of sporadic intelligence, some combat ships from the north of Suidong from time to time are harassing the imperial country's sea supply lines, but these are all clowns, in front of the powerful fleet of the imperial country, these guys who are not self-sufficient will be bombarded into powder by large-caliber naval guns in an instant.

Coordinating the Navy was an almost impossible task for many of the 6th Army generals, but not for Terauchi Shouichi, who had good personal relationships with the generals in the Navy Staff Headquarters due to his father's political resources, so coordination was not an impossible task.

After several telegram negotiations, the Naval Staff Headquarters readily agreed to dispatch a naval fleet to escort troops from North China, but to Terauchi's surprise, in addition to the two high battle cruisers "Haruna" and "Kirishima" of the Kongo-class, there was also the No. 2 ship "6 Oku", one of the Nagato-class battleships known as the manhood of the Imperial Navy.

Unlike the old battleships used as escorts in the previous time, this time it is almost elite in and out, the Kongo-class battlecruiser is the product of the "84 Fleet" proposed during the First World War, and its ship Kongo-class is transformed by the British according to the "Lion" class battlecruiser, and its subsequent three sister ships "Hiei", "Haruna", and "Kirishima" are built on the Japanese mainland based on the "Kongo", these four battleships can be described as brilliant and prominent in the history of Wu Xiaoliang's original time and space, The 12 battleships of the Japanese Navy fought in the south and the north in World War II, and it was not the "Yamato" and "Musashi" that were claimed to be the strongest in the world that survived and made outstanding achievements, but the four Kongo-class ships that were already old at that time.

The Nagato-class battleship is the ultimate product of the "88 Fleet" formed on the basis of the final expansion of the "84 Fleet" in the 9th year of Taisho, that is, in 192o AD, the Nagato-class battleship almost represented almost all the most advanced technology of the Imperial Naval Industry in the Showa 4 year, the huge hull has a full load displacement of 40,000 tons, and there are four 45 times the diameter of the 4o6 mm caliber twin turrets on the deck, in other words, it is the largest caliber of naval warships in the world at that time, there is no one.

Of course, one thing Terauchi Shouichi may not be very clear about, although Japan has a strong military industry, but its technology has not reached the world's advanced level, so its local production and other countries generally use 38o mm caliber naval guns are not enough in power, so the caliber is increased, so the direct consequence of increasing the caliber is that if the 4o6 mm caliber naval guns of the battleship fire at the same time, the strong recoil will tear its deck.

This, of course, was a highly classified military secret at the time.

Only a day later, the fleet, which had been departing from the port of Yokosuka before the order to escort the convoy, arrived in China.

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