The situation was much better than Xie Niancheng had predicted.

Fast forward to seven years later.

In recent years, the world situation has generally remained peaceful, because the British and French navies were completely wiped out in the last world war, and although warships have been built continuously in recent years, they must guard against the rapid expansion of the German navy and guard against the dominance of the US navy, resulting in the main energy of the two navies being on the Atlantic Ocean, and insufficient control over the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

In addition, in order to ease relations with the European powers, the revolutionary army withdrew its troops from the Indochina Peninsula and Nanyang in a high-profile manner, and handed them over to the local people for "autonomy." In fact, it was the governments supported by the revolutionary army before the withdrawal that controlled the political situation of various countries, and the armies of each country were almost all "their own people", but they blocked the excuse for the comeback of the European and American powers.

Japan, on the other hand, had just annexed Goryeo, Taiwan, and the northeastern part of China, and was unable to expand for the time being, so the situation in East and Southeast Asia suddenly eased.

Under such an environment, more than a dozen provinces in the southwest and western regions under the control of Xie Niancheng have developed at an astonishing rate, and the oil fields in the Yumen, Bagan, Renanqiang, and Naga hilly areas of Gansu have begun to produce oil in a steady stream, especially the discovery of large oil fields on the right bank of the Caspian Sea in the Western Regions, which has made up for the last short board in the development of the southwest and western regions.

As early as the fall of 2021, Xie Niancheng became close to Yang Yuwei and Zhao Ke, and at the same time, under the acquiescence of the second daughter, he maintained a lover relationship with Su Wanyun, Lin Xiaoqiu, Zhou Xintong, Qingzi, Athena and other girls, and now he is already the father of several children.

On the European side, Mandrian became emperor of the German Empire two years earlier. The German Empire was ready to fight again.

This time the German Empire fully absorbed the experience of the last war draw:

In the last world war, the German Empire did not have outstanding allies. After quickly defeating France and annihilating the main British navy, the unexpected American and Japanese navies firmly grasped the sea supremacy, and finally could not achieve a complete victory, so they could only retreat from France and Russia in shame and sign an equal peace treaty.

In this preparation for the war, the German Empire chose the Chinese Federation and Italy as allies.

In the minds of the staff officers of Mandrian's General Staff Headquarters, the army of the Chinese Federation with the Xie Niancheng group as the main body. Japan and Russia could be contained, and Italy could attack Africa and cut off the ties between Britain and France and their colonies. And the Great German Empire, which had successfully annexed Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and other countries in the last European war, could deal with Britain, France, and the United States wholeheartedly.

Only Germany in the world believes in the strength of the Chinese Federation.

June 2028 in the Han calendar, Japan's Supreme Imperial Council. The Chief of the General Staff of the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army is analyzing the strength of the Chinese Federation:

"Your Majesty the Emperor, colleagues. China does have a glorious history, but with the collapse of the Han Empire, it is only a piece of scattered sand now, according to the news fed back by the intelligence network of the Great Japanese Empire in China, the Chinese army is definitely not the opponent of our Imperial Japanese Army. ”

"The elite of the China Army is the Central Army with Chairman Jiang as the core, with a strength of about 400,000 people. In addition to the Central Army, the relatively effective Gui Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Northwest Army all had only about 300,000 people. Even if you add the other warlords, the total strength of China. The army has only 1.5 million men. The navy and air force of China were vulnerable in front of the navy of our great Japanese empire. Even the existing 1.5 million troops of the Army will not be able to oppose our Empire Japan. ”

"I can proudly tell you that the Imperial Japanese Empire has successfully rebelled against a number of officers of China, and the troops of these officers will not be the enemy of our Imperial Japanese Army. If the Great Japanese Empire begins to attack China, we are confident that we will conquer China within three months! ”

After Prince Daihito Miyaya, chief of the army's general staff, finished speaking, the other high-ranking Japanese officials looked excited one by one.

With a population of 100 million, the island nation of Japan is in great need of "living space" on land. Although after getting rid of the control of the Han Empire, Japan achieved reform under the support of the British, and with the growth of its national strength, it annexed the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Hawaiian Islands and Alaska in one fell swoop, and took advantage of the outbreak of the world war more than ten years ago to annex Goryeo and occupy Northeast China, but most of these territories are icy and snowy, difficult to develop, and do not have much practical significance.

For most Japanese, the former suzerainty of Huaxia is a godsend, and now taking advantage of China's weakness and not taking the opportunity to take it down, it is really a shame to the ancestors.

Japanese Prime Minister Ryūji Oda asked, "Is the information from the General Staff Headquarters and the Military Command Department reliable?" At present, the goods circulating in the market of China are not the goods of our Great Japanese Empire, and most of the industrial products are produced in the southwest and western regions of China...... Can a country that can produce so many industrial goods be easily conquered? ”

War Minister Takasugi Yong said: "Xie Niancheng, the warlord of Sichuan, is a person with a very background, and he has the shadow of the Germans and Americans behind him in the construction of the southwest and western regions. Our spies have been lurking in the southwest for a long time, and through a tight intelligence network, we can basically be sure that if we attack China, the Sichuan army will not oppose us. ”

At this time, Emperor Nahito, who was interested, asked: "Why won't this Xie Niancheng go against our Great Japanese Empire?" ”

"Through a consortium in the United States, our agents got in touch with Xu Wenchang, an important figure in the Xie Niancheng Group. Presumably, everyone knows that more than a dozen provinces in the southwest and western regions of China are the territory of the National Salvation Association led by Xie Niancheng, and they are not of the same mind as the Socialist Party headed by Jiang Wei at all. They revealed that as long as the Japanese Empire pledged not to attack the Southwest, the Western Regions, and the Indochina Peninsula, they would remain neutral in future wars. They also demanded that the Empire of Japan recognize Xie Niancheng as the emperor of the new country. ”

When Isamu Takasugi said this, all the Japanese present burst into laughter.

This Xie Niancheng's brain is too insufficient, right? If Japan occupies other parts of China, will the southwestern and western regions provinces be able to stop the iron hooves of the Imperial Japanese Army?

At this time, the Confucian family mansion in Shanghai. Through cooperation with the southwest, the Kong family and the Song family, who have earned a huge amount of money, also held meetings together.

"Ling Ying, what do you mean?"

"Uncle Song, father. I would recommend moving to Sichuan. ”

"How so? According to reliable sources, Japan is about to launch an attack on China, and if the Japanese take the initiative to provoke a war, the Russians are likely to take action as well. Britain and France may also send troops to the Indochina Peninsula and the South Seas, is it a good choice for us to go to Sichuan at this time? ”

Kong Lingying said: "The Japanese don't know Xie Niancheng's true strength, don't we know yet?" If Japan dares to attack the Chinese Federation. That's as much as you come, you have to die. Russia, Great Britain, and France are now busy preparing for war with Germany, and even if they send troops to the Far East, it will not be too many. If you don't come, you will just die with the Japanese. ”

"Then why can't we move to the United States?"

"Father, if the Chinese Federation unifies East Asia, the next target is likely to be the United States. If there is a war between China and the United States. Can Chinese Americans in the United States have a good life? In my opinion, we should move to Sichuan. At this time, the importance of our two families to Xie Niancheng can be reflected. ”

When the Song family and the Kong family were preparing to go to Sichuan, several staff officers of the German General Staff Headquarters were also chatting.

"You say, if China and Japan go to war, how long will it take Japan to destroy the Chinese Federation?"

A German staff officer asked.

"Hmph, you, that's the question. It should take how long it will take for the Chinese Federation to destroy Japan. Wilhelm, who had been transferred to the headquarters of the German Imperial Staff as a major general, shook his head.

There was a secret treaty between the German Empire and Xie Niancheng, which was a secret belonging to the upper echelons. The general staff officers of the General Staff Headquarters were unaware. They are only looking at the problem from a military point of view.

"William, we all know that you have been to China, but you must be emotional. Japan has 1 million people in the modern army alone, and although the Chinese Federation has 1.5 million people, its combat effectiveness is really too far behind, not to mention, Japan still has an air force and navy, and the Chinese army, which only has light weapons, what can it do to fight with the Japanese? ”

William naturally knew more than these staff officers, but he wasn't stupid enough to say what he knew.

"If I don't talk to you more, we'll take a gamble, how about it?"

"Okay, old rules, three months' salary."

"Deal."

Walking out of the staff headquarters, William looked to the east, "Commander-in-Chief Xie, you will definitely give the world a big surprise, right?" ”

However, William doesn't know how much strength Xie Niancheng has in his hands, and there are only four people in this world who know the answer to this question: Xie Niancheng and his two wives Yang Yuwei and Zhao Ke, as well as his lover Ye Xiaoqiu.

This night, Yang Yuwei, Zhao Ke and Ye Xiaoqiu nervously counted stacks of reports in the bright study.

"Heh, it's finally finished...... It's been a long time since I've been so busy, and it's like going back to my days in Guangzhou. ”

After giving birth, Yang Yuwei, who was more feminine, yawned.

Ye Xiaoqiu picked up a piece of paper and handed it to Xie Niancheng, on this piece of paper, it is the most important achievement of Xie Niancheng's painstaking management over the years:

Weapons stockpile: 120 submarines; 7,000 tanks; 6,000 fighters and 3,000 bombers; 310,000 guns of various types; 48.6 million guns......

These stocks were produced by tens of millions of workers in three shifts over a seven-year period. Except for the four people in this room, no one in the world would have thought that Xie Niancheng, who only has 300,000 regular troops, would have enough weapons and equipment to equip 50 million people!

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On July 7, 2028 in the Han calendar, the Japanese army attacked the Lugou Bridge in Beiping and began a full-scale war of aggression against China.

The first Japanese army to attack the hinterland of China had 12 divisions and 300,000 men.

The 100,000-strong troops of the northwestern warlord Song Yuanzhe stationed in North China were defeated within a few days, and the Japanese army took only half a month to conquer the areas of Beiping, Tianjin, and Baoding.

Wang Wei, chairman of the Chinese Federal Government and president of the Socialist Party, launched a mobilization letter for the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to the whole Chinese people, and the warlords of all China reached an unprecedented consensus -- to put aside the civil war and unite their guns with the outside world, and all warlords began to expand their armies in a planned way and unify their armed forces.

In North China, the Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army united and went to the front line to engage in a bloody battle with the Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese army suddenly landed in Shanghai, Wang Wei had to mobilize the main force of the Central Army, and at the same time, the warlords of the Gui Army, the Guangdong Army, and the Hunan Army were also the main forces, and more than 700,000 troops fought to the death on the front line of Songhu and the more than 300,000 Japanese troops who landed.

The whole of China sang the anti-Japanese war song everywhere.

More than 2 million troops from China and Japan began bloody battles in North China and East China, but in the Southwest, Western Regions, Nanyang and Central South China, the territory controlled by Xie Niancheng was a little too calm.

Except for sending an anti-Japanese telegram to the whole country when the Japanese army provoked the flames of war, Xie Niancheng did not send a single soldier to the east and north, which made the people in other regions extremely angry. Even the people in Chengdu, Kunming, Lanzhou, Xining, Dihua, Tashkent, Ashgabat, Atyrau, Hanoi, Bangkok, Yangon, and Sin Chau under the control of the Sichuan army had opinions about Xie Niancheng.

Everyone can see the anti-Japanese telegram sent by Xie Niancheng to the outside world, and the content of the secret telegram he sent to Jiang Wei and other high-ranking officials of the Chinese Revolutionary Army was very different.

"Gentlemen, it will take about half a year for the various departments in my southwest to assemble and reunite, and in this half a year, I will send the air force to help in the war.

Naturally, the responses of those who received this message were different.

"Mother, Xipi! What does this Xie Niancheng want to do? Even if he can't all go out of Sichuan to resist the war, 200,000 people are always okay, 200,000 people can't, 100,000 people are always okay, so what does it mean not to send a single soldier? ”

"Lao Bai, what do you think Xie Niancheng wants to do? If you don't send a single soldier, is there really any deal with the Japanese? ”

"Lao Li, I don't think so, I think, he must have his plan, and the biggest possibility is that he wants to see Lao Jiang's jokes. But when he did this, he was a little angry. ”

"These Sichuan rats, they are spineless, and when they go to the battlefield, it depends on our Northwest Army!"

On July 20, all officers above the platoon level of the Sichuan Army received a telegram from the Sichuan Army's Supreme Command:

General Mobilization Order! (To be continued......)