Just when Beijing and other cities are in a frenzy of celebration, the battlefield in Linglong Town, Shandong Province, is covered with a strong smell of gunsmoke.

What should have been an open space between the Wehrmacht and the Japanese positions was already covered with corpses. On top of the corpses, many Wehrmacht soldiers with white cloths on their arms were carefully searching among the corpses...

From time to time, a few soldiers would make a noise of 'here' or 'bring the stretcher over', and then you could see some medics running over and treating the soldiers lying on the ground, or simply asking someone to bring the stretcher over and get the person on top of the stretcher...

Of course, they were treating the wounded belonging to the Wehrmacht, and the Japanese soldiers in the Japanese position, not far away, turned a blind eye to this, as if they had seen nothing.

This was also a small agreement reached between the Wehrmacht and the Japanese army in the course of the war.

Generally speaking, the combat capability of an army mainly depends on the people, otherwise, it is not impossible for tens of thousands of well-equipped troops to be killed by hundreds of militia-level armed people, and even thousands of people are captured―――――― just like what is happening in a country called Iraq in Yan Shao's era...

Of course, this person does not only refer to training, but also the will to fight, etc., after all, if the morale of a unit falls to the extreme, no matter how good its training is, it is useless.

However, if the two armies are of the same level, or not far from each other. Then equipment will be very important...

At present, the Wehrmacht can overwhelm the Japanese army in Shandong, and in addition to the numerical superiority, the most important thing is the superiority in equipment. That's right. In terms of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers alone, perhaps except for a few elite Wehrmacht, most of the Wehrmacht are inferior to the Japanese army. But if we talk about equipment, as well as firepower ...

Ten Japanese troops may be a bit exaggerated, but it is still more reliable to say that three or five Japanese troops are not comparable to one Wehrmacht―――――― and this is after counting the firepower such as machine guns and mortars.

As mentioned above, the combat capability of a unit is first and foremost judged by people, and then by equipment.

On top of the man. The Japanese army was a little stronger than the Wehrmacht, but in terms of equipment, the Wehrmacht was several times stronger than the Japanese army. In addition, the Wehrmacht is fighting on home soil again. The time, the location, and the people, in addition to the time, are basically all accounted for, and Cai Ye and Jiang Baili are not incompetent. It was the best commander in China of this era.

Nature. In terms of command ability, Jiang Baili is a little more theoretical, but with Cai Yi on the side, the ability of the two is definitely not as simple as 1+1. And the personal relationship between the two is very good, and there is no need to worry about conflicts with each other, leading to some other problems...

In addition to this, there is a gap in strength between them, and there are constant setbacks during this time. All of them were extremely harsh and dealt a blow to the morale of the Japanese army.

Having said that, Masashi Terauchi is not an incompetent person after all. What's more, there are still 70,000 or 80,000 Japanese troops under his hands. These Japanese are not greedy for life and afraid of death, after falling into this desperate situation, their inner madness has been brought into play, and they are not afraid of death when fighting, but they have created a lot of trouble for the Wehrmacht.

Moreover, although the national defense force has a lot of advantages at present, a considerable part of the more than 100,000 troops and nearly 200,000 troops have to be stationed in various parts of Shandong, and there are only more than 100,000 people who can really use it to deal with Terauchi Masatsuki.

In the past few days, although the Wehrmacht has launched many offensives, the Japanese army has not failed to counterattack. It's just that after getting into trouble, the number of times is slightly reduced.

Then, the question arises...

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First of all, there will definitely be casualties in a war, and the difference is only how many.

For example, on the Shandong side, the casualties of each other after fighting for so long are about forty or fifty thousand. Although it was not like the Battle of the Marne, which produced nearly 500,000 casualties at once, it was still a war of considerable scale in the Far East.

Speaking of which, the strength of the two sides is not small, but it is obviously much worse than the Battle of the Marne. After all, Britain, France and Germany had concentrated nearly two million troops on the Marne, while China and Japan together were only 250,000, which was not even one-eighth of that in Europe.

In addition, both sides fought very carefully, unlike Europe, which is a matter of life and death, and the casualties are much smaller.

But no matter how small it is, it can be forty or fifty thousand casualties after all.

And on the way to the offensive, many soldiers fell on the way to the charge, and some of them did not die instantly, but were severely injured and unable to move. When the troops that launched the offensive withdrew, the wounded soldiers were left in place because they were not found or because the situation was inconvenient.

In the first offensive, many Japanese soldiers eventually died of their wounds.

Later, there were a lot of them on the side of the Wehrmacht, after all, the Japanese are not soft persimmons, although the equipment is much stronger than the other side, but it is not so easy to defeat the other side simply.

Coming and going, many soldiers on both sides were left on the battlefield for this reason.

At this time, the Japanese did not regard themselves as human beings as they did later, and Cai Ye and Jiang Baili were even more so. So after obtaining Yan Shao's consent, Cai Yi, Jiang Baili and others reached an agreement with Terauchi Zhengyi.

Every day at 12 o'clock at noon, there is a truce.

At this time, both sides are not allowed to open fire on their own initiative, and at the same time, they can also send people to the center of the battlefield to search for survivors, but the number of people must be limited, no more than 100, and they must wear special signs to identify themselves, and so on...

This kind of thing is good for both sides, after all, let the soldiers die in pain on the battlefield without being watched, neither Cai Yi nor Terauchi Zhengyi want to see this scene.

Therefore, although there were many people in the young Zhuang faction of the Japanese army who opposed it. However, this item was still carried out relatively smoothly.

Every time they saw a large number of wounded Japanese soldiers being taken down from the center of the battlefield by their own people, Terauchi Masayi and Kamio Mitsutomi were a little relieved. But even so, what to do next. Masashi in the temple didn't have a clue at all.

At the moment, what he hopes most is to withdraw to Japan as much as possible, but it is obvious that the Japanese mainland will not agree to his request―――――― maybe Okuma Shigexin can still think about it a little, but Yamaguchi Yutomo, if the war fails, it will be a big blow to these factionals.

As for the reinforcements, not to mention that Japan itself will not be able to organize as many reinforcements as Terauchi asked for for the time being. Even if they can organize it, they may not dare to send people over again. After all, there were thirty or forty thousand casualties at a time. Even for the Japanese, it is unbearable.

And according to the information they received from China, the Chinese fleet, which was originally stationed in Shanghai and Fuzhou, is now ready to move. It seems that after the Japanese fleet suffered two heavy losses, Sa Zhenbing, Liu Guanxiong and others already had the idea of reporting the 'Nissin Naval Battle' to the north.

It's just that out of a variety of concerns, he didn't get Yan Shao's permission―――――― Yan Shao knew. The current Japanese fleet does not have much strength. Except for one 'Hiei', which is basically an old ship, the future of the Japanese fleet lies in the two 'Kongo'-class battle cruisers and two 'Fuso'-class super dreadnoughts under construction on the mainland.

Unless these four ships can be cleaned up, even if the current Japanese fleet is completely wiped out, the Japanese will have the capital to make a comeback. What's more, in the hands of the Japanese, there is also a quasi-dreadnought ship 'Settsu', plus a 'Hiei', as well as other large and small ships and well-trained commanders and crews, even if they have the advantage on paper, Yan Shao is not willing to take risks.

On paper, after all. Liu Guanxiong: Their advantage is not particularly great, and the advantage is not even as great as that of the British Royal Fleet against the German High Seas Fleet. And there are many recruits in the fleet who have been in service for less than a year. If you really fight, let's not mention whether you can win or not, and losses will definitely be inevitable.

At the moment, the navy is his treasure, and he is not willing to make unnecessary losses for a war that must be won...

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"What will be the final outcome of this war?" muttered Masaki Terauchi, glancing at the sun overhead.

Maybe he has many ways in his heart, but in the face of the other party's absolute advantage, even if he has more methods, it is useless. After all, the available resources in his hands are too few, and he is trapped in a not very large place from Linglong Town to Longkou Bay.

However, compared with the confusion in the heart of Zhengyi in the temple, Cai Yi and their mood seemed good.

At the same time, although Europe and Shandong are fighting fiercely, they have not been affected much for cities such as Shanghai.

More precisely, for the merchants in these cities, perhaps the war would have been fought more fiercely.

After a period of silence, Yushi Group has re-selected the direction of development.

Limited by what Yan Shao said in the past, we should not excessively interfere in the development of domestic capital. Therefore, in addition to maintaining the investment in the 'cotton textile factory', the investment in other aspects has been maintained on the original scale, such as cement and other industries with smaller investment and greater profits, Yushi Group has not been involved, and even not long ago, Elaline also took the initiative to sell a gray factory under the group―――――― that is, Yan Shao just founded a business in Anhui.

Even he himself has forgotten how much money Yan Shao spent on this ash chief (in fact, the British gave it by the way when he bought the equipment of the cotton textile factory), but although the benefits of this ash factory have been good over the years, the scale has not been expanded because of Yan Shao's restrictions.

Over the years, for Yushi Group, this ash factory has become more and more dispensable.

Followed by the same machine qì noodle mill and so on, so just a few simple words, these factories were sold to others at a more reasonable price.

However, as mentioned earlier, after discarding some dispensable projects, the Group has also chosen a new direction.

The first is the extremely important heavy industry, after the global share of Yushi Automobile has increased a bit. The production capacity of the car plant has also been expanded. Along with the expansion, there are also machine factories and engine factories, and the Xiangshan Iron Works in Ma'anshan has also entered the expansion again.

After that, there was the shipbuilding industry, although the scale of the original Wuhu shipyard was good. But after all, the restrictions are too great, and the Yangtze River waterway does not allow larger ships to sail, so the ships built by the Wuhu shipyard can only maintain a displacement of around 5,000 tons.

This number may not be a lot at the moment, but I am afraid it will not be in the future.

So after some consideration, Eleno also set up a shipyard in Shanghai and invested a huge amount of money. Construction of the shipyard has already begun and is expected to be completed within two years (24-hour operation). And once the shipyard is completed, according to the Elaline women's requirements, the shipyard will become the Far East. Even one of Asia's largest shipyards has the potential to be one of the highest in the world.

In addition to these, in addition to, for example, the factory for cotton looms, Elano has further expanded in other areas.

For example, the home appliance industry. Such as refrigerators, air conditioners, and washing machines, etc. In Yan Shao's era, although the home appliance industry is not as vigorous as in the past, but in this era, this is a new field, and it occupies a place in this field, and there is no need to say how big the benefits are, after all, there are no personal computers or mobile phones in this era.

In addition to this, there is optics, which is the camera.

Then again. These should actually be counted as luxuries in this era, after all, there are very few ordinary people who can afford this―――――― in a sense. These things are also equivalent to special exports.

In addition to these, others such as clothing, furniture, etc., Yushi Group has also begun to get involved.

In addition, under the instruction of Yan Shao, the automobile factory has begun to produce motorcycles, and Elaline has also set up a new bicycle factory to meet the domestic demand for bicycles. In the case that the per capita income in China is not enough to buy a car, the bicycle is obviously a good means of transportation.

Later, there were cosmetics, etc., and even the field of sports shoes began to get involved, such as ordinary sneakers (basketball, football, tennis, etc.), casual shoes and jogging shoes―――――― Yan Shao knew very well how profitable sports products were in later generations. Although the domestic market has not yet been cultivated, there will always be a day when it will mature.

In fact, in this era, sports brands have been born.

For example, the New Balance that we are all familiar with, that is, NB (NewBalance), was founded in 1906 by William J. Riley in Boston, the marathon city of the United States.

There is also Saucony, also known as SAUCONY, which was founded in 1898 by a shoe factory in the town of Kutz, Pennsylvania, USA, by a shoe factory named after a small river, which is called SAUCONY. But it was many years before he got involved with sneakers.

Then there's Brooks, which was founded in 1914.

By the way, these three are three of the four major brands of jogging shoes in later generations, and the remaining one is a Japanese brand called Asics, which will take many years to debut.

By the way, when it came to the trademark issue of sneakers, Elaline had been troubled for a long time. Yan Shao also had a headache for a while, at the beginning, he used to imagine that the Nike of later generations would make a '?', and then he was thinking about whether to get a clover or Li Ning or something.

But after plagiarizing for such a long time, Yan Shao also felt that he should be innovative―――――― should he always give those people in the future a way to live.

So in the end, Yan Shao chose the dragon in the 'Red Dragon Flag', the national flag of China today, which was made by Yan Shao, so it can be regarded as an innovation.

It's just that Yan Shao couldn't have imagined that many years later, this 'dragon' would actually become the trademark of Yushi Group. And Yushi Group has also become the only commercial organization in the world that can have this trademark, which has naturally caused a lot of criticism in later generations. However, considering Yan Shao's contribution to the whole country, in the end, Yushi Group and Yan Shao's descendants were given the permission and power to retain this trademark...

It should be noted that Yan Shao also served as a sneaker styling consultant for Yushi Sporting Goods Company. Over the years, he has some experience with this type of design. In addition, he has the eyes of future generations, so he is also competent to do this. And those sneakers designed by Yan Shao, although because of the war. There are not many people who are willing to buy, but there are many people who pay attention to it because of the novel shape, especially outside the windows of some stores, there are always many children who like to stand there and look at it with bright eyes―――――― just like Yan Shao did back then.

In addition to the above projects, Yushi Group's biggest investment should be 'aircraft'.

At present, the largest aircraft manufacturing company in the country is invested by Yushi Group. However, in addition to the ability to build fighter jets, the aircraft company has also invested heavily in emerging passenger aircraft. He has even begun to design the first passenger aircraft―――――― although in Yan Shao's eyes, it is still very simple.

In general, this first aircraft was no different from the biplanes of this era. At most, the volume is enlarged, and there are more people who can sit in the back seats.

And the range of the aircraft is also very short, which is no different from the aircraft of the same era. In Yan Shao's view, this plane is not so much a passenger plane. It's better to say it's a sightseeing plane.

But it's always good to have a start. And it is said that the people of the army are also more interested in this aircraft. It's not that the people of the army want to take this kind of plane to the sky for a walk twice, but some time ago, during the Shandong campaign, the people of the army aviation always liked to bring one or two shells of 105mm howitzers when they attacked, and they also achieved certain results.

So the people in the army are thinking about whether they can transform this kind of sightseeing plane into an aircraft that specializes in dropping 'shells', that is, the so-called bomber, and there is obviously a lot of interest in this aircraft company ...

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Fund. This is a problem that Yushi Group has never considered, because it relies on the oil fields in Mexico. There is also a car company that is simply a golden egg, Yan Shao and Elano have never considered the issue of money at all.

Therefore, after some planning and choosing a new development direction, Yushi Group has decisively begun to abandon all primary industries except for the 'cotton textile industry', and began to set foot in household appliances and luxury goods...

However, although the wishes are very good, in fact, these markets are not particularly mature even on a global scale, and it may take a lot of time to make money. Fortunately, Yan Shao had enough patience and didn't have to worry about funds, so he didn't worry at all.

Generally speaking, except for some of the original projects, none of the current new projects can make money. Especially in the current situation...

In Shanghai, because the European war required a lot of resources, many Europeans were waving their cheques to buy supplies from China that were urgently needed for the European war. The sheer number is simply staggering.

And because of the previous loan of 300 million yuan, China now has a lot more industrial capacity than in the original history. Therefore, the export of both primary industrial products and raw materials is larger than in history, and the new capitalists who were still worried about how to make money suddenly made a lot of money because of this war...

Many people in China who originally did not plan to invest in industry have also begun to invest in industry because of this stimulus, and even if the bank has stopped lending now, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to raise money to do it themselves...

Other factories that are under construction have also increased their investment in order to complete the project as quickly as possible, put it into production, and make money...

Only the new projects invested by Yushi Group can be said to have not made a penny during this period, and even slightly out of a state of loss. After all, you can't let the soldiers of the Entente wear sneakers to the battlefield, and it can be said that these 'luxuries' are the most useless for Europe today.

Many critics who follow the Rainstone Group also believe that it is unwise for Elano to invest money in industries that are urgently needed in Europe, and that some people do not even think that these industries have any potential at all...

Well, judging from the current situation alone, maybe it is...

But who can say for sure what the future holds? (To be continued......)