At noon on January 7, Beijing time (corresponding to the afternoon of January 6, Hawaii time), Beijing Xinhua Palace, East Asia United Base Camp.

"The Marine Corps flag has been raised in downtown Honolulu!"

When the news came, the huge palace was filled with jubilation.

The detailed report was then submitted to the actual commander of the base camp, General Liu Bailiang, chief of the General Staff.

According to the Imperial Constitution and the Regulations on the Organization of the Base Camp, the Emperor was nominally the supreme commander of the armed forces of the whole country, and authorized the Prime Minister of the Reich to assume this command in peacetime, and the base camp as the supreme command in wartime, and authorized the head of the base camp, the Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Armed Forces, to act as the commander-in-chief.

The base camp consists of the General Staff, the War Department and the Navy Department, of which the War Department is the Army General Staff in peacetime, and the Navy Department is the Navy Staff in peacetime.

At the beginning of the war, the Minister of the Army was Senior General Wang Zhi, who was also the Chief of Staff of the Army and the Minister of the Army of the National Defense Headquarters, and the Minister of the Navy was Senior General Yan Fu, Chief of Staff of the Navy.

Two days ago, Wang Zhi boarded a train bound for Kulen and rushed to the northern front to take up the post of commander of the Mongolian Front; his post of chief of staff was taken over by Senior General Zhang Yaoqian, former chief of operations of the General Staff Headquarters, and his post of minister of the army of the National Defense Headquarters was taken over by Senior General Deng Jian, former commander of the Zhili Military Region.

The role of the base camp is naturally to plan operations, study operational strategies, and issue operational orders to various armies and fleets.

The base camp is an organization that deals exclusively with the affairs of the military commander and has no direct relationship with state affairs, so the cabinet ministers below the prime minister level may not be members of the base camp, but the minister of national defense and the minister of the army and navy of the national defense headquarters may, in their capacity as the head of the military administrative body, lead their attachés to attend the headquarters meeting.

In addition, when the Chief of the General Staff is temporarily unable to serve for any reason, the Emperor shall appoint an agent to preside over the headquarters meeting on his behalf.

The meetings of the base camp were divided into general meetings, enlarged meetings, and joint meetings of the Supreme Commanders.

A general meeting usually refers to a regular meeting of the Chief of the General Staff, the Minister of the Army and Navy of the Base Camp and their attachés, and is generally held every two to three days.

An enlarged meeting refers to an ad hoc meeting with the participation of the heads of other departments or the commanders of the front armies and fleets in addition to the above-mentioned commanders, and is convened from time to time according to the actual situation.

The Joint Conference of the Supreme Commanders is a strategic meeting that includes representatives of the allies in the base camps, the prime minister, the minister of national defense, the minister of the army and navy of the national defense headquarters, the emperor himself, or the attendant military attaché representing the emperor.

With the establishment of the base camp, a joint conference between the base camp and the government was established in order to carry out the unified adjustment of state affairs and the commander-in-chief, that is, political strategy and strategy, in other words, the general war leadership should be decided by this meeting, and finally submitted to the emperor for ruling.

The permanent members of the Joint Council of the Headquarters and the Government are six in the Cabinet: the Prime Minister, the Minister of National Defense, the Minister of the Army and the Navy of the National Defense Headquarters, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and in the base camp there are six Chiefs of the General Staff, the Minister and Deputy Minister of the Army and Navy of the Base Camp, and the Emperor's Attendant Military Attache in the Base Camp.

The Joint Council has an officer who is responsible for drafting and sorting out bills and handling the general work of the meeting, and is held by the Cabinet Secretary and the Director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Army and Navy.

Motions for the joint meeting are put forward by the government and the headquarters at any time as necessary, but in principle, the joint meeting is led and chaired by the Prime Minister, and in the event of a conflict between the government and the headquarters, the judgment of the Prime Minister takes precedence, or the Prime Minister submits a decision to the Emperor.

In principle, joint meetings are held weekly, and in the event of an urgent bill, they can be convened on an ad hoc basis so that the issue of war leadership can be discussed in a timely and flexible manner.

In order to adapt to the situation of all-out general warfare, the cabinet was reshuffled shortly after the start of the war.

In accordance with the "Wartime Government Law" adopted after the last Asian-Russian War, the emperor appointed Yang Zhengjin, the former Minister of the Interior, who had just been promoted to marshal, as the prime minister of the wartime cabinet and concurrently the Minister of the Interior.

The composition of the wartime cabinet was:

Secretary of State for Defense: Field Marshal Hook (53 years old)

Quartermaster: Marquis de Marquis Ma Feng (52 years old)

Minister of People's Livelihood: Marquis Tian Zhenghong (53 years old)

Chancellor: Marquis Han Lang (51 years old)

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: Baron Chan Si Kwong (aged 44)

In addition, a wartime economic committee was established to integrate the elements of production, transportation, distribution, and research and development throughout the country, and to maintain the operation of the national economy and cultivate and enhance national strength on the premise of maximizing the supply of military supplies.

The key members of the Committee include:

Quartermaster Ma Feng (Chairman)

Minister of People's Livelihood and Minister of Industry and Commerce Tian Zhenghong

Chancellor of the Exchequer Han Lang

Minister of Transport Jiang Wentao

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sun Wen

Minister of Science and Technology He Xin

Minister of Health Leong Kai Chiu

Committee members: Zhang Xiaoruo, Huang Hong

It also set up a wartime internal affairs committee to coordinate and guide the work of the whole country in the fields of internal affairs, justice, education, and culture, and to create a situation of unity in the country by cracking down on the evil businessmen and scoundrels who speculated and made war profits, punished the scum and thieves who sabotaged their work, corruption, collaborated with the enemy and treason, deepened patriotic education, and strengthened propaganda on the justice of war.

The key members of the Committee include:

Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Yang Jung-Kim (Chairman)

Attorney General Mourning

Minister of Culture and Education Zhang Zhigao

Minister of the Imperial Household Luo Sulan

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Let's say that today happened to be a regular meeting of the base camp, and Adjutant Liu Bailiang ordered the adjutant to read out the report and know it together with the army and navy minister of the base camp.

The content of the report is roughly as follows:

On the morning of January 6, Hawaiian time, Yu Dalong's Marine Corps Armored Corps, after conquering Pearl City and dividing the defenders into two, attacked in two directions, all the way to the southeast towards Honolulu, and the other to the west to sweep away the enemy on Eva's side.

In addition, a small detachment of 10 chariots and one infantry battalion on foot marched east along Route 83 from the landing ground at Sunset Beach to the northeast corner of Oahu and then south, sweeping the narrow coast east of the Waikulau Mountains.

At noon on 6 January, the East Route Army, with Pan Guochen's detachment as the vanguard, arrived at the outskirts of Honolulu, but encountered the enemy envoy waving a white flag to negotiate.

At about the same time, the Western Route Detachment captured Eva, basically annihilating about two battalions of enemy troops remaining around it, and capturing more than 1,500 enemy soldiers.

At this point, our troops basically pacified the whole island in less than 30 hours after the landing was launched, and captured about 12,000 men under the commander of the enemy, Admiral Scowley—a fabulous and glorious victory!