Chapter 1087: On the banks of the Yalu River

After determining the construction base of the industrial and military industrial system, Qiao Youhua handed over the matter to Zuo Quan, after all, he was the commander-in-chief of a corps, and there were many things he needed to worry about, so he couldn't go into battle in person.

Moreover, Qiao Youhua is also responsible for drawing the design drawings, otherwise what would he trade with the Germans and Lao Maozi?

The Germans had a good relationship with the Soviets at this time, so the engineers and related technicians they sent passed through Lao Maozi, directly entered China from the northeast, and then started war construction work in Shenyang and other places.

It's all going on in an orderly manner.

At the same time, Japanese imperialism accelerated its imports from the United States in order to restore its damaged military strength as soon as possible, but after losing the Tohoku region, which was several times its own territory, Japan's economy was already extremely bad, and it could be described as worse.

In desperation, the Japanese thought of taking out loans from the Germans and sought cooperation.

Because the Japanese had a bargaining chip that the Germans could not refuse, that is, to send troops to Southeast Asia to attack the colonies of French Indochina and Britain and other European powers in Asia, so as to indirectly support the German army's fighting in Europe.

At this time, the Germans also faced a severe test on the European battlefield, that is, the British and French did not surrender to the death, and stubbornly resisted, so that the German army could not end the fighting in Western Europe and Southern Europe.

This made it difficult for the German army to digest the huge occupied area in a short period of time, so that it could be transformed into the war potential of the German army.

Therefore, the secret deal between the Germans and the Japanese devils this time is almost an instant hit. However, the devil saw that he succeeded, and also put forward an even more excessive demand, that is, to ask the German side to break off the transaction cooperation with Qiao Youhua and the Eighth Route Army.

This point was categorically rejected by the mustache group, the reason is very simple, the Germans still want to get valuable advanced design drawings from Qiao Youhua, how can they offend Qiao Youhua for the sake of a uncertain Southeast Asian battlefield?

In case Qiao Youhua turned to sell the design drawings to Britain and the United States and other countries, wouldn't the Germans cry to death?

Therefore, the Germans demanded that the devils either accept the fact that their two sides are cooperating, or they will terminate the cooperation.

At this time, Japan, anxious to restore its war potential, was humiliated, and had no choice but to accept the Germans' conditions.

Therefore, the Germans took out 200 million marks of funds as a down payment for the Japanese army to send troops to Southeast Asia, and if the Japanese army can capture Southeast Asia and exert greater pressure on Britain and France, then the Germans will also provide the Japanese army with 1.8 billion marks, a total of 2 billion yuan of financial support.

At the exchange rate between the Reichsmark and the U.S. dollar at this time, the money was worth about half a billion dollars.

500 million US dollars is a huge amount of money even if it is put into future generations, and in World War II, when materials were scarce, nearly 100 infantry divisions could be armed. Of course, the Germans will not take this money in vain.

After conquering Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, the Japanese Empire had to provide the Germans with strategic resources such as rubber and oil to offset the two billion Reichsmark loans.

Therefore, with the starting capital of 200 million Reichsmarks, it is enough for the devils at this moment to rearm ten A divisions and at least 300,000 army troops.

According to Japan's judgment on the deployment and combat power of Britain and France in their colonies in Southeast Asia, under the current situation of tight battlefields in Europe, the Japanese army only needs 100,000 or even fewer troops to sweep the entire Southeast Asia.

The only thing that made the Japanese army feel jealous was that if the Japanese army attacked the Southeast Peninsula, it would inevitably start a war with the United States, because everyone knew that Britain and the United States were almost one, and the Nanyang region was an old colony of the Western powers.

In order to obtain precious strategic resources such as oil and rubber, it is necessary to enter Southeast Asia.

After racking their brains, in the end Japanese imperialism decided to seize only French Indochina and Dutch Indochina, which is today's Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and the Indo-Nissi Islands.

For the time being, the Philippine Islands, Australia, and Burma, India, which are controlled by the United States, are controlled by the United States.

For this action, the Japanese army received another 200 million Reichsmarks in loan assistance, and began to prepare quietly in full swing.

First of all, the Japanese Empire took this batch of loans and wantonly imported strategic resources such as oil, rubber, and steel, in case the United States suddenly turned around and cut off the export of these materials.

It then carried out emergency conscription operations within its territory and in the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan under its control, recruiting new soldiers to form the Southern Expeditionary Corps.

At the same time, on the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese base camp secretly ordered the Central China Front to abandon the Jiangnan region centered on Wuhan and Changsha, and withdraw its troops along the Yangtze River to the line of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, mainly controlling the area from Zhejiang to Fujian, Liangguang and Hainan Island.

The devil's intention is obvious, that is, to shrink his forces and prepare for the invasion of Indochina.

In order to prevent the biggest threat to the empire, the Dragon's Tooth Corps went south to join the counteroffensive camp at this time, interrupting this strategic plan of the Japanese army.

The Japanese base camp ordered the Kwantung Army and the troops originally stationed in the DPRK to take the initiative to attack the Dragon's Tooth Corps stationed on the banks of the Yalu River, and made a posture of wanting to counterattack the northeast region.

It was July and August, the ice on the banks of the Yalu River had melted, and the river was surging, endless, rushing to the east.

The officers and men of the First Division and the First Regiment of the First Column of the Longya Corps, stationed on the banks of the Yalu River, patrolled along the riverbank as usual, and fired a few shots at the opposite bank from time to time, causing birds to soar into the sky and animals to scurry in the mountains and forests on the opposite bank.

Wang Erbao is a rifleman in a regiment, he used to be a hunter, so he is very talented in guns, and in the two years since he joined the army, his marksmanship has improved rapidly, and now he is known as a sharpshooter.

With a semi-automatic rifle in hand, a moving target within a range of 300 meters and a fixed target within a range of 500 meters can almost make a bullet without missing a shot.

Today was another day for him and his soldiers to patrol and be on guard, Wang Erbao wore a summer military uniform, followed the platoon commander with his Sun-Destroying semi-automatic rifle, and together with more than 30 soldiers, he patrolled along the trenches built by his side along the river.

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out from the other side.

Hook! A soldier who was patrolling with Wang Erbao was shot in the head and fell to the ground.

Including Wang Erbao, all the soldiers were taken aback and squatted in the trenches one after another.

"Damn, it's Sanba Dagai, the little devil's sniper, where is Wang Erbao?" The second lieutenant platoon commander who led the team was not only furious when he saw the tragic death of his subordinates.

"Platoon commander, I'm here." Wang Erbao looked at the comrade-in-arms who died tragically in front of him, and responded loudly with tears in his eyes.

"Kill his bitch-raised little devil for Lao Tzu!" The second lieutenant platoon commander gritted his teeth.

"Yes!" Wang Erbao answered, quickly opened the safety of the semi-automatic rifle in his hand, pulled down the bolt, and then ran in the direction where he came from with the gun on his waist, and then quietly showed his head and looked for the whereabouts of the other party.