As an overseas Chinese who was 'evacuated' from Nanyang, Zhongjiang Zhaomin was relatively lucky, he returned to Japan safely and soundly, and on the journey back to Japan by boat, he did not get sick, nor was he killed or injured by the 'evacuated' people in the same cabin.

Although his family property was almost confiscated by the security forces, his wife, his children, and he arrived safely in the port of Kobe. Nakae Zhaomin did not dare to make a public appearance in Kobe, he asked his friends to send his wife and children to the countryside, and he stayed in this small hotel alone, just in case the Tokyo government would not be ashamed and put him in prison. That would also save the wife and children!

Anyway, Nakae Zhaomin is one of the 100 people who look down on the Japanese government in Tokyo, and he also hates the arrogant Southwest Military Government. He has already decided to act on the opportunity, and if Ito Hirobumi and others can tolerate him, he will stay in Kobe and continue to spread his ideas. If the Tokyo government can't tolerate itself, then go west to China, to Shanghai, to Tianjin!

However, people whose 'life realm' has reached the level of Zhongjiang Zhaomin have always considered problems towards the country, and even small families have to be placed after big countries. Nakae Zhaomin has a place to stay, but he can't help but think of those Japanese expatriates who wept bitterly on the sea, those Japanese expatriates who jumped from a boat and jumped into the sea in despair, and those Japanese expatriates who had no money or winter clothes after arriving in Kobe, and were living on the streets without food......

Thinking of these, Zhongjiang Zhaomin's heart felt a loneliness that he had never felt before. Looking at the depressed port of Kobe in front of him, the chaos two days ago still flashed clearly in front of his eyes. One hundred and fifty lives fell on the streets, and more than 500 people were arrested by the Kobe military police. But there's a for that. You don't let the common people have enough to eat. You don't let the people wear warm clothes, you don't let the people live in peace. If you want to be in Tokyo again, you should never want to be stable!

The chaotic situation was contained, but Zhongjiang Zhaomin was more convinced that it was the peace before the storm. Due to the near-interruption of trade between the Japanese government and European countries in Tokyo. Due to the severance of blood vessels between Britain and the United States in the past two years, Japan's domestic economy has been struggling to operate, and the government's day-to-day operations have been difficult. The small half of the Japanese market is completely overwhelmed by the products made in Japanese factories. As a result, a large number of Japanese factories had to close their doors or even close down. There is a shortage of daily necessities in Japan, and prices are soaring -- at this time, it is impossible for the Japanese industrial controllers to reduce the prices of goods, because in that case, they will buy more, and the more things they can buy, the more they will lose money. Only to pull up the price. Pull up, they are profitable. At the time of the economic crisis in Europe and the United States, civilians had no food on one side, and on the other hand, boatloads of grain, meat, and milk were destroyed. -- Boiling public resentment; The largest number of factories that have closed down or closed down are those in the light industry sector, and most of these factories are labor-intensive enterprises with a large number of workers. Now that so many workers are unemployed, have nothing to do, and roam the streets all day long, not long ago a large number of 'evacuees' have been brought in from the Kobe area. Taken together, these two situations led to the chaos at the port of Kobe two days ago.

Even yesterday, there was a riot of hungry people snatching rice in Dongtan District, and the military and police in Kobe had to arrest more than 100 people and put them in prison. Today, a large number of manpower is still being dispatched to closely patrol the entire Kobe.

Zhongjiang Zhaomin's heart only bleeds. Rice Sao and civil unrest have all happened in a place like Kobe, so what has become of the whole of Japan? The situation in Japan is rapidly spiraling out of control, seriously out of control! And the reason seems to be that southwest Japan has a deal with Chinese as bodyguards.

It turns out that Tokyo Japan has been vulnerable to this point without realizing it!

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Martinsburg. The third line of defense.

The offensive was launched at night. The forces of two divisions launched a fierce assault on the third line of defense at Martinsburg. The 3rd Janissaries Division was on the left, and the New 5th Division, the Infantry Artillery Armored Division, was on the right. An armored brigade and a mechanized division were in the rear guard.

The target of the attack is the joint forces of the US army guarding the third line of defense and the European Volunteer Army, and it may be that the number of European volunteers is increasing. It is now difficult to find a single enemy consisting of purely American troops. And it seems that the US and European armies are really treated equally, and the commanders of the US military like to mix them. I don't know if I can't trust the U.S. military? I still can't trust the European volunteers!

The distance between the positions on the two sides was less than 5 kilometers, and all the mines planted by the US troops had been detonated by the artillery fire of the expeditionary force, and the progress of the expeditionary force was not slow after the offensive was launched. Taking into account the superiority in the comparison of forces, and even more considering the number of heavy artillery, the expeditionary force of the night attack completely had the advantage.

John. Pike never expected that the expeditionary force would attack at night, and it would be a full-scale offensive of the large corps. This is completely contrary to the common sense of war. So the defenders, who were caught off guard, were in a passive position from the beginning.

They quickly organized forces to reinforce the third line of defense, and as a result, the troops were subjected to heavy artillery bombardment by the Chinese as they moved through the surface, and the troops of the two divisions lost more than 7,000 men. As a result, the U.S. military had to move troops from the underground tunnels to reinforce the third line of defense. As a result, the progress of reinforcements was greatly delayed.

Surprise is always the secret of victory. Relying on these four words, the expeditionary force laid the final cornerstone of victory in this battle.

The battle has been going on for two years, and the division of the US army has gradually changed from the original three brigades and 12 regiments to two brigades and eight regiments, and even six regiments and two battalions, and the total strength has changed from more than 20,000 people on a par with the Chinese division at the beginning to more than 10,000 now. After a series of battles in the previous two defensive line offensive battles, the 64th Division of the United States and the 117th Division of the European Volunteers, which had not been fully replenished, immediately showed defeat in the face of the onslaught of the Third Janissary Division, and the more critical factor was that the attack of the expeditionary force was the weak point of the defensive line personally finalized by Liu Xian, and it was indeed penetrated by the Third Division.

The opponent -- the Praetorian Guard, which is the best equipped, the most rigorously trained, and the strongest soldier base among China's millions of national defense forces, surpasses the US and European armies in terms of individual firepower and long-range artillery, and in particular, the attacks of the Praetorian Guards fighting at night are completely different from the tactics of the European and American armies that rely on artillery support, which has caused the US and European armies to fall into a great panic.

The attack of the expeditionary force was launched suddenly at night, without the usual artillery preparation, but with elite troops quietly touched in detachments, and by the time the enemy found their presence at the front, the distance was already very close. When the guns rang out, the powerful artillery fire of the expeditionary force opened a fierce bombardment, directly covering the offensive of the vanguard of the expeditionary force, and after the vanguard troops approached the trenches, the artillery fire immediately stopped, and the troops on both sides soon entered a brutal hand-to-hand combat.

The expeditionary force's attack was not spread out on the whole line, but concentrated on a few junction points, and when the vanguard broke through the American position and tore a small hole, the follow-up troops swarmed in and continued to attack in depth along this opening.

Night warfare has always been a specialty of China and the military, and it is a regular training subject with a complete set of mature tactics, while the European and American armies are seriously unsuitable. The artillery could not provide effective support, and it was also necessary to pay attention to the suppression of the opponent's firepower, there was not a trace of moonlight in the night sky, and the stars were all hiding under the gloomy black curtain, and the airship troops could rise into the air to fight, but their effectiveness was limited. The success or failure of the battle depends entirely on the duel between the infantry of the two sides!

Fierce night battles raged until 5 a.m., and the expeditionary forces attacking from the left and right flanks tore apart the American lines. John. Pike was anxious to prevent the ground movement of his troops from being bombed again, so he hurriedly transferred all the 30,000 reserves in his hands to reinforcements. Then a call was made to the command of the third line of defense, where the troops must hold their positions. But by this time the defenders had fallen into complete disarray, and every battalion and company was entangled with the superior expeditionary force, and communication with their superiors was almost cut off. Not to mention the order to resist to the end, even the order to retreat, the commander can't convey it.

The battle ended around nine a.m., and at least three divisions of the defenders were largely annihilated, except for those who had fled the fourth line of defense. More than 5,000 troops from the United States, France, Italy, Spain and other countries were captured.

On the sixth day of the battle of Martinsburg, John . Pike was shot in the chest during the frontline resistance, and before he could be carried to the operating room, he took his last breath. His death also marked the fall of the battle curtain on Martinsburg, and at 10 a.m. on the seventh day, the remaining 30,000 European and American troops fled northeast, leaving only more than 10,000 wounded soldiers in the city of Martinsburg.

Ten days before and after, the east gate of Washington's Columbia District was brutally kicked open by the expeditionary force.

The gains of the campaign were enormous, and in terms of materials alone, a large amount of grain, meat, non-staple foodstuffs, oilseeds, and military supplies were stored in many permanent warehouses and underground warehouses in Martinsburg, which were now in the hands of the expeditionary force. These things are also urgently needed by the expeditionary force. In particular, the seizure of a large number of refined oil products has greatly eased the logistical pressure. The fact that the fleeing European and American armies did not destroy these may have something to do with the garrison commander John Murphy. Pike's sudden death has a lot to do with it.

The consequences of the campaign were devastating for the European and American world. This is by no means just a question of the loss of more than 100,000 troops, but a question of whether there is any hope for the war to continue to stalemate.

In this contest between spear and shield, the Americans worked hard to build a large shield with new style and countless material resources, but the effect was not ideal.

"It's another Washington battle, and the United States will definitely lose Florida soon; In this regard, the two countries made peace talks, the expeditionary force of the Southern Theater of Operations retreated, and the United States could still maintain its last state in the South. ”

"The choice is in New York's hands."

Liu Xian said this to the British envoy who came from New York, the former British ambassador to the United States.

"The United States can no longer afford to fight. How peace can really come, it will be blessed by the whole world. ”

"It's time to end the two-year war!" (To be continued......)