In this way, it is a foregone conclusion that Yang Feng will bring the Japanese crown, of course, the follow-up Zen throne ceremony and the like still need some preparations, mainly security work, Emperor Yang doesn't want to bring the crown on his side, someone over there threw bombs at him, to say that there are few patriots in Japan, that is nonsense! Captain Yuan personally led a large number of guards and even some soldiers of the Guards to Japan to carry out various preparations before the ceremony. The Chinese and Japanese governments are also beginning talks on some details of the union between the two countries, of course, mainly the disbandment of the Japanese army and the Chinese garrison in Japan.

At present, Japan still does not have a navy, but there are 100,000 army forces, but because there is no money, this army is very poorly equipped, and the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Japan or used the Japanese textbook to write the Eight-Nation Coalition Army into Japan, in addition to the destruction of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese military industry is still at the level of making some Murata 22-year-old rifles, plus there is no steel plant of its own, even steel must be imported from China, which makes it even more difficult for the Japanese government to add new equipment to the army, in this case it has to rely on training to strengthen combat effectiveness, Therefore, these 100,000 individual soldiers of the Japanese Army are very good.

Now that China is also employing people, of course there are such 100,000 excellent soldiers, all the Japanese troops are integrated into the Imperial Army, and as for the middle and senior officers, these guys are sent to the army academy for training, and by the way, they are re-washed and nao, and then distributed to the troops after the training is over.

In fact, the Japanese government originally wanted to build a separate local defense force for them like Austria-Hungary, but this naïve idea was naturally opposed by the Chinese government.

Except for the army, everything else is very simple, Japan is originally a constitutional monarchy, with mature organizations at all levels, and there is no need for reform, the main thing is the number of members of the Japanese Diet in the Imperial Diet. At present, apart from the Chinese Empire, there are a large number of members of the Korean Kingdom, and there are 11 seats in the Imperial Family. After Japan lost Hokkaido and Kyushu Island, plus a large number of laborers went abroad, the total population at this time was actually only more than 20 million, which was not much different from Korea, plus Korea has always been a vassal, and Japan has the old evil of provoking the First Sino-Japanese War, so the number of seats is the same as that of Korea, except for the hereditary members of the old Imperial Family. Ten seats will be awarded to the Japanese Diet, and although this makes some Japanese people unhappy, there is no way to be dissatisfied in this situation.

In the Central Asian battlefield, the seventh, tenth, and eleventh armies have already occupied Tashkent and Kokand, and the Chinese Tenth Army has also captured Dushanbe on the southern front, and the remnants of the Russian Sixteenth Army are currently less than 100,000 people trapped in Samarkand. This lone army has reached the point where it has no way to advance and retreat, and it can be said that there is no other choice but to annihilate the whole army or surrender, even if the Russian army in Europe arrives, it is impossible to save their fate.

To the north is the desert. Afghanistan to the south and desert to the west, the only option is to attack Persia, but the result is certainly a dead end.

And the Ninth Army, which captured Ayaguz. The offensive to the Irtysh River valley had already begun, and because there were improvised roads built by the Russians for the front line, Miao Haining's attack was very rapid. Now the shelling of the main stronghold of the Russian army in this area, Ust-Kamenogorsk, has begun. The frighteningly named city was an ancient fortress, the throat of the Irtysh River for navigation, and along this great river that originated in China, Russian river flats were able to sail all the way to Burzin, the northwestern corner of China, and the same military supplies that were transported to Burzin along the Usu-Altai road could also be carried down the river to supply Miao Haining.

In addition to this fortress, the Russian army has another Semipalatinsk fortress downstream, but although it is a fortress, in fact, there is only one regiment of garrisons, and there are several ancient fortresses, in front of the Ninth Army, which dragged 280 mm howitzers, the name fortress is like a joke, and after only a dozen shells were fired, the frightened Russian commander picked out the white flag. As for the Russian army in Semipalatinsk, they were even happier, after surrendering here, they specially sent people to take the initiative to contact the surrender, and the only request of these people was that for the sake of their knowledge, they should not be sent back to Russia, so that they could continue to live here.

After consulting his superiors, in order to reward them for this behavior, Emperor Yang specially authorized the Russians in these two settlements to continue to live here as Chinese citizens.

However, after occupying these two places, the next direction of action of the Ninth Army must be redetermined, the original goal of Miao Haining was to fight north all the way to Novosibirsk, but now the three armies of the Russian army are rushing to reinforce, if the main force goes north to Novosibirsk at this time, then the Russian army is likely to cut off the rear road of the Ninth Army from Omsk, so after re-analyzing the situation, the goal of the Ninth Army was adjusted to go down the Irtysh River and go straight to Omsk, Seize this hub of shipping and transportation ahead of Russian reinforcements.

On the Irtysh River, which had just thawed in early spring, countless rafts accompanied by inland river flat-bottomed boats, carrying countless soldiers and supplies were still visible from time to time among the ice floes that could still be seen from time to time, and at the same time, on the left bank of the river, chariots, off-road military vehicles, trucks dragging artillery and carrying supplies, countless war horses and carriages formed an equally mighty torrent, and the 200,000-strong army began an expedition of nearly 800 kilometers.

"Commander, this trick is very high!" On a requisitioned Russian domestic river merchant ship, the chief of staff of the Ninth Army said to Miao Haining with a smile that the problem of infantry attack speed and insufficient number of ships that he was most worried about was easily solved by Miao Haining. And these rafts don't even need to go upstream to reload supplies, the upper reaches of the Irtysh River are full of vast primeval forests, and they like to cut as much as they like, these huge and sturdy wood rafts are made into rafts with a capacity comparable to the largest flat-bottomed boats in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River.

The commander of the group army who was born as a Chinese logger in the United States smiled, and at this time a staff officer handed over a telegram, and Miao Haining couldn't help frowning after reading it and said: "Order the 6th Panzer Division to speed up, stop following the fleet, and take the 106th Division to advance at the fastest speed, and must rush to Omsk within three days, the advance of the Russian Third Army has already arrived in Yekaterinburg." ”

After receiving the order, the more than 300 combat vehicles of the 6th Panzer Division, which had been driving slowly on the shore, and the off-road military vehicles and trucks of the 106th Division, which accompanied them in battle, immediately accelerated, and a completely mechanized army left the main force and began to rush towards Omsk.

At the same time, in distant Yekaterinburg, the train of the Twelfth Army of the Russian Third Army had arrived for more than three hours.

"What's the matter, why hasn't the car left yet?" The army commander, General Petrov, yelled at the station commander in front of him. His corps, according to the orders of the General Staff, should have reached Omsk today, but it had just arrived in Yekaterinburg because of delays along the way. The telegram he had just received was that Omsk had lost contact with Semipalatinsk a week ago, which meant that it had fallen, and he had to get to Omsk as quickly as possible to set up defenses, but now that the Yekaterinburg station had been refueling his train with coal and water for more than three hours, and even the first train he was on had not left, it was difficult not to get angry.

"General, Your Excellency General is really sorry, I can't help the workers' strike, you don't know that we just cracked an attempted riot a few days ago, and now these chaotic parties have become more and more rampant." The stationmaster wiped the sweat from his head and said, his fat and oily face full of joy.

"These bastards, what do they want? Strikes every day, marches every day, what time is it, don't they know that the Chinese are invading our country? Petrov shouted angrily.

"They, they think the wages are too low, and they can't support their families anymore." The stationmaster said weakly.

"Unreasonable, now that the national crisis is at hand, they are still entangled in these boring problems, they can't starve to death if they eat less, they think the wages are small, so shouldn't those of us who are desperate on the battlefield also strike? Pay back the salary, the Chinese call and they all have to be thrown back as beggars! Petrov slapped the table and shouted, and the roast suckling pig in front of him was shocked and jumped.

"Your Excellency General, you are so right, these poor ghosts are just unreasonable and should be arrested and sent to prison directly, but the Yekaterinburg police are limited in number and simply cannot cope with so many striking workers, and the garrison has been transferred to Omsk for reinforcements, once they are forced to hurry, and then there are chaotic parties to provoke, it is easy to cause large-scale chaos." The stationmaster said with a smiling face.

"No police? There were no police, no troops, Vasily, ordered all the 34th Division to get off the train, and in one day all the rebels in Yekaterinburg must be arrested, and those who dared to resist should be killed, and those who dared to go back to work immediately, and whoever dared not to use a whip and no longer use a bayonet, in an hour I must see our train start. General Petrov yelled at his adjutant.

The stationmaster across from him, with his head bowed, immediately had a smug smile on his face. (To be continued......)