Japan's cabinet and military ministry have officially rejected the Allied ultimatum and have no choice but to carry the war to the end. This is actually exactly what Zhong Yi wants to see, otherwise he would not have urged Japan to surrender when the navy had just won and the Japanese army had not suffered major damage.

"What kind of surrender, Lao Tzu still wants to fight under the majesty of Tokyo!" At the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission, the loudspeaker of the whole country expressed His Majesty's heart.

In addition to the first batch of Qingzhou Corps to land in northern China, the second batch of Yuzhou Army has also arrived in Qingdao to land. A few days ago, Chen Shukang, chief of staff of the Northern Group Army, was stationed in Yantai, and Lieutenant General Lin Weiguo, commander of the Qingzhou Army, led the troops of the two armies to attack Qingdao by land via Laiyang and Jimo.

In Fushan, Lin Weiguo concentrated more than 100 cannons with a caliber of more than 105 mm and bombarded them for four hours in a row, completely blowing up the front-line positions of the Japanese army at Gushan and Fushan. The 16th Army simultaneously attacked Weixian and took control of the Jiaoji Railway, turning Qingdao into an isolated city.

After three days and nights of shelling and bombardment, the Qingzhou Army continued to fight and captured Taiping Mountain, Shuishui Mountain and Qingdao Mountain, and the defenders of Guanxiang Mountain, who had run out of ammunition and food, raised the white flag. For the recalcitrant Japanese troops in the central fortress, Lin Weiguo personally ordered to plant explosives and send them to the western sky! The Japanese army collapsed on all fronts, and the 50th Division of the 17th Army was stationed in the urban area, and since 1987, after Germany forcibly occupied Jiaoao under the pretext of "Juye Teaching Case", after more than 50 years, the historical city of Qingdao was finally reborn.

Subsequently, Lin Weiguo swung his army north, stormed Jinan, and after a week, in the arduous street fighting, cleared out the only remaining wing of the Japanese 59th Division, and the division commander, Lieutenant General Fujita Shigeru, was killed in the chaotic army.

With the establishment of the Jinan Command of the Royal Air Force, especially the arrival of the Army Aviation Division and the Armored Division of the Second Army of the Royal Guards, the confidence of Lieutenant General Chen Shukang, chief of staff of the Northern Army, was greatly increased, and the time was ripe for launching a large-scale battle in northern China.

Chen Shukang sent a plane to pick up Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the Northern Group Army and chairman of the Chongqing National People's Congress in Yuncheng, one of the "tiger generals" of the "Five Tiger Generals." In the case of the vacancy of the commander of the Northern Army, Wei Lihuang was the nominal supreme commander.

In Jinan, the two "tiger generals" discussed and formulated a plan for the Yuzhou Army to attack Shijiazhuang from Dezhou and Hengshui and cut off the Japanese army's northward escape route, while the Qingzhou Army and the Chongqing Army's Second Theater troops attacked Luoyang, Zhengzhou, and Kaifeng on two routes to liberate Henan, and the northern counteroffensive campaign began.

In southern China, the 77th Armored Corps and the 1st Guards Division, with the cooperation of the 101st Air Cavalry Division of the Army Aviation, gave full play to the air-ground joint tactics, and the Japanese troops south of the Yangtze River fled. Wang Yizhe did not rush to cross the Yangtze River north to capture the three towns of Wuhan, but aimed at the richest Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in China. His Majesty said at the meeting of the Military Commission that the top priority in the Chinese battlefield is to attack the economically developed areas and mining areas occupied by the Japanese and wean the little devils as soon as possible. Then, the liberation of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and even Shanghai, was the heaviest blow to Japan's "weaning".

Knowing the plan of the Southern Group Army, the "cadre" Chen Cheng hurriedly sent a telegram to report to the chairman of the committee, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, that is the place where the descendants made their fortune! In the official residence of Zeng Jiayan in Chongqing, the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, dressed in a five-star general's uniform, was receiving Wells, the special envoy of US President Roosevelt, when he received a secret telegram from Chen Cheng, and his bald head couldn't help but scold him three times!

"What does Wang Yizhe want to do? He didn't fight Wuhan, but wanted to engage in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Zhong Yi, this kid is a little too greedy, isn't it enough to occupy Taiwan and take Guangzhou? Still want Shanghai? ”

"Oh, Mr. President, please stop your anger!" Wells's Chinese dialect is quite slippery, "You have an old Chinese saying, people's hearts are not enough for snakes to swallow elephants, and when it comes to catching cicadas, mantis catches cicadas." His Majesty the Han Emperor is very greedy, but the orthodoxy of China is here, as long as you send an army to act with the Han army, the captured cities will not be managed by officials of the Chinese government? ”

Jiang Guangtou scolded in his heart: Zhong Yi's kid is greedy, you Americans are not greedy? Lao Jiang is quite an excellent politician, and he maintains a kind smile on his face, "Our army is still too backward, and we still need a lot of assistance from your government!" "It's useless to say anything else, it's only right to ask for real money to help.

"No problem, Mr. President, as long as our two countries are aligned, America's friendship will be priceless. Material assistance, military advisers are not a problem. I was authorized by President Roosevelt to do this. ”

"That's good, as long as our army is strong, the Japanese army in China will not need the help of the Han army, and we can drive the Japanese out ourselves! Well, Mr. Special Envoy, we need artillery, planes, food, medicine, and if possible, we need to rebuild the Navy as soon as possible......"

A cold sweat broke out on the head of US Special Envoy Wells: Could it be that this President Chiang regarded us as two fools? Wells suddenly understood why there was a problem with the cooperation between the Han Emperor and the Chongqing government.

Regarding Chen Cheng's request to act with the Han army, Wang Yizhe had no way to refuse, after all, on the surface, everyone was still an ally, and Chen Cheng was still the deputy commander of the southern army of the allied army. Wang Yizhe didn't intend to refuse, the little chairman is an expert in holding private goods, at most, the 18th Army has five divisions, and half of the equipment of the Germans to support China fell into the hands of the 18th Army, plus the 15th Group Army of Chongqing, which showed considerable combat power in the Battle of Changsha, there are too many troops without a commander, right? It just so happens that the water system in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is developed, which is not suitable for the movement of armored group troops, and there is one of the five main forces as a cannon...... Well, it's a vanguard, and Commander Wang can't ask for it.

When the battle plan was in Chang'an, it had already been formulated by the General Staff: Fujian's Bingzhou Army went north to Cangnan and captured Wenzhou, Lishui, and Jinhua with the help of the navy; Youzhou Military ...... Uh, by the way, now with the 15th Group Army and the 18th Army in Chongqing as the main force, from Nanchang to the east out of Yingtan and Shangrao, after resting in Jingdezhen, bypassing Huangshan, amassing troops in Xuancheng, and looking at Hangzhou in the east and Nanjing, the headquarters of the Japanese invasion of China in the north.

The period before the liberation of Nanjing was beautiful, but the reality was cruel. Chen Cheng objected to this plan, "We are going deep alone like this, is the force too thin?" ”

As early as the Northeast Army era, Wang Yizhe had a lot of dealings with Chen Cheng, and knew that the celebrity in front of the chairman was a military ...... Scumbag, for his question, Commander Wang smiled, "Deputy Commander Chen, you're right. In the Battle of Songlu, your 700,000 or 800,000 elite **** are not enough, and now we only have more than 200,000 people to attack Jiangsu and Zhejiang, of course there will be insufficient troops! ”

"You're ......!" Chen Cheng wanted to say, what kind of thing are you, dare to make fun of me like this? Zhang Hanqing is still under house arrest in Yangmyeongdong, Qianbei! However, after thinking about it, this is a secret, if these people know about it, maybe some demon moth will be made, and it will be reprimanded by the principal at that time, which is quite worthless. But being ridiculed by a local warlord general, Chen Cheng couldn't swallow this breath, grabbed the armed belt on the table, and turned his head away.

Often in contact with the people of Captain Lin and Qian across the country, Wang Yizhe also learned badly, looked at Chen Cheng's back, and said "hehe" twice, "I will tell you, will we still have troops to land in Hangzhou Bay?" ”

On the Taiwan side, because of the inadaptability and many defects shown by the army during the landing and operations on the islands during a series of battles on the islands, under the arrangement of the General Staff Headquarters, all members of the Yangzhou Corps were transferred to the Marine Corps, and all the equipment and training were on par with the First Marine Division.

The Sea Lion series amphibious Spitfire tank is an artifact for tackling fortified and digging holes; Poseidon amphibious self-propelled howitzers will greatly increase beach firepower and provide more accurate support firepower for the landing force; The scribe-class amphibious dock landing ship, with a full load displacement of 7,600 tons, can carry 1,000 heavily armed fighters, 10 tanks and four infantry fighting vehicles, and four air-cushion landing craft, and also has a helicopter landing field on its deck, and four armed helicopters can provide air fire support for the landing force at any time.

With these equipment, the Yangzhou army immediately engaged in high-intensity training. The use of new equipment, familiarization with new tactics, and even adaptation to a new combat environment. Under the guidance of the training plan drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters, all kinds of training were carried out in an orderly manner.

Swimming, weight-bearing training, counterattack without fortifications, group fire suppression, and even parachuting and individual assembly and blasting, the training of the Yangzhou army can no longer be described as devilish, will the devil eat raw meat and be soaked in water?

What is more cruel than training is elimination, and it is a great shame to be a soldier not to die on the battlefield, but to be eliminated on the training ground. After three months of training, only 80,000 of the Yangzhou army, which had a full strength of 120,000 men, were eliminated, and one-third of the soldiers were forcibly transferred to logistics because they failed in training.

"We are a troop that walks on the tip of a knife, we are a troop that fights on the brink of death, and we eliminate unqualified soldiers because we don't want them to die in vain on the battlefield." Dong Chengbin, commander of the Yangzhou Army, who passed the training and assessment with the soldiers, said. After training in physical, psychological, and combat skills, Commander Dong, who is over 40 years old, has become much darker and thinner, and the taste of old-fashioned Chinese soldiers has disappeared, replaced by coldness, calmness, and ...... Cold-blooded!

"Your Majesty has given us the best equipment, the best treatment, and the best conditions, and we can repay Your Majesty's ......" Commander Dong suddenly raised his voice at the end of the training camp, "It can only be ......"

"The strongest army of the Great Han!" The neat answers of tens of thousands of soldiers were deafening like a tiger roaring in mountains and rivers.

The redress and transformation of the Yangzhou Army made Navy Commander Zhang Zheng ecstatic, and this time, the navy's shortcomings were made up. In the increasingly arduous battle to seize the island, the original two marine divisions were really stretched thin. However, the order of the General Staff poured cold water on him: the Yangzhou Army was still under the direct jurisdiction of the General Staff Department.

In this regard, Commander Dong Chengbin once said with a smile that although we are equipped with amphibious weapons, we are still an army establishment, so we should be called the Yangzhou Army and the Navy!

No matter which department the Yangzhou Army belongs to, in Zhong Yi's eyes, they are all royal troops of the empire. The completion of the training of the Yangzhou Army means that the next battle can begin!

Wei Qing Pavilion, the conference room of the Military Commission.

Ye Zhiqiu, chief of the General Staff, was talking eloquently: "There are four routes for landing on the four Japanese islands. The first one, to seize the Northern Mariana Islands and directly attack the east coast of Honshu Island, this one, because we have already captured the island of Taiwan, has little strategic value! ”

Zhong Yi frowned, it's not worth much, and he said? Ye Weixun (Ye Tingzhi's name changed) on the side saw His Majesty's expression, and he couldn't help but laugh. It is said that since coming to Chang'an, joining the Han Imperial Army and being appointed as the deputy chief of staff of the Han Army, General Ye has become more and more fond of the atmosphere in the Weiqing Pavilion, here, the emperor is not like the emperor, the general is not like the general, everyone is more like a group of like-minded friends or ...... Brothers, in the General Staff, in the Guards, in the Guards, and even in the east of Weiyang Palace, Ye Weixun really felt brotherly relaxed. When he saw the blonde little princess hugging his five-year-old daughter Xiao Yang, he really couldn't believe his eyes. This is a world of difference from the mutual distrust and faction that I had when I was in China.

"We didn't come at fault! This decision to come to Nanhua may have been the most correct decision since following Mr. Zhongshan to participate in the revolution. Privately, General Ye and his wife Li Xiuwen said this.

Li Xiuwen agreed, "I didn't plan to enjoy any happiness when I married you, and I never planned to be a broad wife, but here, life is stable and much more comfortable, at least the children go to school regularly, and even raise their eyebrows and enter kindergarten." ”

"Hmph, a woman's opinion knows these trivial things!" Although he says so, his wife and children can be happy, what man doesn't want this?

"What do you think of these routes?"

"Huh?" His Majesty's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, Ye Weixun was startled, he was so fascinated by his thoughts that he forgot that a military meeting was being held.

"Huh!" Seeing Ye Weixun's face flushed and embarrassed, His Majesty grinned, "What do you want to do well?" Although our empire does not have a famous rule that prohibits concubines, as the deputy chief of the general staff, you can't take the lead in making mistakes! ”