Just as Zhang Zhaoxian thought, as soon as the request to send military observers was raised, the Japanese side began to push back and obstruct it. Because the dispatch of military observers is now not a mandatory rule of the League of Nations, but only an unwritten practice that exists among the countries of the League. For example, if the two countries have formed an agreement or an alliance, it depends on the relationship, whether they can be sent or not.

The Japanese side seized on this reason and reasoned that although the two countries had signed a secret treaty, it was not a formal and open alliance after all, and it was inconvenient for them to send military observers to each other. If observers are sent to each other, it will be tantamount to revealing the secret cooperative relationship between the two sides to the outside world.

Xiang Xiaoqiang directly asked the military attache stationed in Japan to say to the Japanese Military Command Department, if this is the case, then it is easy to do, we will send it, if you don't send it, won't it be called "mutual dispatch".

This sounds like rogue language at first glance, but Xiang Xiaoqiang still said. He said to the military attaché in Japan:

"You told the Japanese Military Command Department that this is to show the outside world that this is not a diplomatic action between the two countries, but only a unilateral act of our country. Because theoretically, the whole of North China is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese army is now fighting on the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Even according to the secret agreement between the two countries, Mukden is within the scope of the Ming Dynasty.

"In any case, now it is the Japanese army fighting on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty definitely has the right to send people to see it, and they can see it wherever they like. If we want to take into account the international view, then we should not be called "observers", but "inspectors". On behalf of the Ming government, our inspectors inspected our own territory. Neither you in Japan nor in the world can say anything. ”

The military attache stationed in Japan also thinks about it, although such a set of rhetoric is not kind, at least it cannot be faulted from the legal point of view.

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On the morning of the 29th, the Ming fleet and the 6 flotilla of Deng, totaling more than 50 ships, anchored in the sea off Jiaozhou Bay. The muzzles of two battleships, an aircraft carrier, four cruisers, and eighteen destroyers were all pointed at the Qingdao Battery. The aircraft carrier is also sailing against the wind in the open sea and is flying bombers. In the Qingdao military port, you can clearly see the dive bombers in formation in the distant sky.

The Ming fleet gave a signal, and the county ordered the Qing army Qingdao 6 Navy to surrender within half an hour, otherwise the artillery bombardment and strong attack were launched. The defenders of the Qing battery did not reply to the signal, but the battery on the hill kept firing artillery, setting off columns of water one after another in front of the Ming fleet.

At present, the main force of the Northern Qing Navy has a total of seven cruisers, five heavy cruisers, and two light cruisers, all of which were eliminated by Japan and sold to it at a high price. Although he is a little older, Nan Ming really wants to capture these cruisers and refit them, so that his fleet can grow a lot without spending money.

Now there are two "Kangxi-class" heavy cruisers in Qingdao Port, namely "Kangxi" and "Yongzheng". The Ming fleet was ordered not to shell the harbor as long as the two heavy patrols in the harbor could not come out to meet the battle, for fear of damaging the two heavy patrols and damaging the port facilities, which would affect the use of the 6.

Minutes and seconds passed, and there was no signal back from the battery, just shells in vain, and it was impossible to hit the opponent at this distance. The Ming army also knew that the Qing army guards were probably hesitating now, but they did not dare to stop the shelling before making a decision. Only in this way can he show the court his determination to "resist to the end".

The half-hour deadline has arrived. The Ming fleet counted and began to fire a salvo. The large and small naval guns of the Ming army roared together, and the sea suddenly billowed with gunsmoke, black smoke wrapped in fireballs from the barrels, and then drifted away. In the distance, the mountain at the entrance of Jiaozhou Bay suddenly fell into a state of landslide and ground cracking, and large pieces of mountain rocks broke down, carrying mud and trees and rolling into the sea, like a volcanic explosion.

Although the Ming fleet also knew that this would not necessarily be able to bomb the Qing battery, it still poured shells on the mountain. If it was the Japanese army who was defending the fort, it would definitely not work. But now the forts are guarded by the Qing army, which may be very effective. Because experience shows that the software (spirit, will to fight) of the Qing army always collapses before the hardware (weapons, fortifications).

Sure enough, after an hour of artillery preparation, the fleet commander had just ordered a ceasefire and the smoke had just cleared a little on the hill when a bright spot flashed in the firing window of the huge cement fortifications on the mountain.

The fleet commander smiled as he held the binoculars and silently read the flashing signals in the distance.

The Qing army was willing to surrender.

……

A Ming cruiser sailed into Jiaozhou Bay, followed by a troop transport. The guns of the cruiser pointed to the military harbor and escorted the troop transport into the harbor.

In the Qingdao military port, two heavy cruisers of the Qing army were moored there intact. There were six destroyers, ten torpedo boats, and a dozen or so other auxiliary ships parked in the harbor. On the wharf, the sailors, infantry, and workers of the Qing army were already crowded, and everyone stretched their necks to look at the cruiser outside the harbor and the legendary Ming Navy.

The Ming troop carrier approached the dock, and before the boat could be lowered, the navigator of the Qing army on the shore had already crowded to the slipway, shouting and gesticulating, asking them to go directly to the dock and throw down the cable.

The situation went more smoothly than expected. The Ming troop carrier simply leaned directly on the pier and threw down the cable. The Qing sailors below caught the cable and tied it to the bollard. The 6th Naval Brigade of a regiment of the Ming Army disembarked directly and rushed to the pier. The sailors of the Qing army on both sides gave way to both sides, and they all looked at the 6th Naval Brigade of the Ming Army in the middle with excitement and awe.

Ten minutes later, the Ming army completely controlled the entire port of Qingdao. Then, all the other troop carriers, transport ships, and auxiliary ships sailed into Jiaozhou Bay. The 6th Army of the Ming Army went ashore one regiment after another, and after the whole team was formed, it marched to the urban area of Qingdao to control the Qingdao headquarters of the 6th Army of the Qing Army.

The Ming army began to climb on a large scale on the Shandong Peninsula.

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Just when Qingdao Port was in full swing, just outside Jiaozhou Bay, there was a Ming army cargo ship that did not enter the bay, but just quietly dropped anchor and anchored on the sea. It was only after the Ming army was sure that they had taken full control of the port of Qingdao that the ship lowered a dinghy and went to join up with another destroyer. Ten minutes later, the people in the dinghy boarded the destroyer.

Then, the destroyer turned around, spewed black smoke, and sped northeast. The destination is the Changshan Islands, located off the coast of Liaodong.

The people on board the ship will board the Liaodong Peninsula there, and as Ming military observers, or "inspectors", they will inspect the real situation on the Liaodong Peninsula and learn about everything that is happening there.

Of course, this is only a unilateral act of the clear side. When he came out, he didn't get a word of promise from the Japanese side. This act fully shows that the Ming Dynasty is very confident in Japan on this issue. At least Xiang Xiaoqiang is very confident about Japan, and has put on a posture of "let me see it, I want to see it, and if you don't let me watch it, I will watch it".

The news of the Ming army's successful landing in Qingdao immediately reached the headquarters of the Central Plains Corps of the Qing Army in Xuzhou. At this time, the airport on the outskirts of Xuzhou was still under the control of the Qing army, and the commander of the Central Plains Corps was still in a dilemma between "flying back to Beijing" and "surrendering to the Ming army". As soon as he heard the news, he finally made up his mind and reached an agreement with his colleagues in the headquarters - to surrender quickly.

On the evening of the 29th, the headquarters of the Central Plains Corps of the Qing Army announced that the entire corps had ceased resistance and surrendered to the Ming army.

In this way, the Ming army finally controlled the entire south of the Yellow River in January 1937.

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