The meeting, which came to be known in the Japanese as the "Tokyo 2.13 Decision," lasted five and a half hours. Officers and men of the Royal Japanese Marines, who were in charge of guarding the meeting, later recounted privately that there were more than one heated argument during the meeting, and at one point medical personnel were summoned in. In hindsight, an unpleasant brawl did take place at this meeting. For example, "Private Class" Hideki Tojo came out of the conference room with an extra bandage on his forehead, and the left eye of "Eight Cents" Yamamoto Isoroku became a panda eye.

Half a month later, the first hints of what kind of resolution the meeting reached and what kind of impact it had on Japan's military and political circles appeared. First of all, for the first time, the Japanese government officially put forward a plan for building a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and unexpectedly appointed Okamura Ninji, a defeated general, to the newly established chairman of the "Greater East Asia Alliance." Second, the "Greater East Asia Alliance" began to form its own army, and more than 100,000 Korean puppet troops, nearly 50,000 Chinese puppet troops, and about 20,000 Japanese troops were incorporated into the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-Glory Army" and began large-scale redeployment. At the end of the day, the Japanese Navy expanded the establishment of the Marine Corps and began to form the First, Second, and Third Armies of the Marine Corps......

These traceable big moves of the Japanese army were detected by the intelligence officers of the Cadet Army just beginning. A series of information was sent to Ouyang Yun's desk, which caused him to be highly vigilant. Not long ago, the Japanese army had just smashed its attempt to exterminate the student army in one fell swoop, and was busy raising funds to tide over the economic crisis caused by the successive wars, but an even bigger problem came. The new product of the "Greater East Asia Co-Honored Army" spread among the top echelons of the Cadet Army, and Li Tieshu, Ji Xingwen and others regarded it as a joke, believing that this was a move by the Japanese who were dying and struggling to seek medical treatment in a hurry. Their angle of looking at this matter is: Lao Tzu is not even afraid of genuine devils, will he be afraid of those second devils? Ouyang Yun didn't see it that way - he had to admit that the Japanese were indeed clever. Li Tieshu and others did not know the dangers of the Korean puppet army, but he could not have been more clear. The Korean puppet army belonged to the "private" in the Japanese military system, and was a product of the Japanese policy of enslaving in Korea. They dare to do evil in North Korea, and when they come to China, they must be even more unscrupulous. In the proper history, the crimes committed by the Korean puppet army against the Chinese people were more than those committed by the Japanese army.

"Okamura Ningji is a scourge, mom, we shouldn't have let that guy Xue Yue take over in the first place!" At a routine meeting, Chu Tiange, who had always been gentle, couldn't help but slap the table and scold his mother.

Li Tieshu: "It's useless to put these things in place now, let's think about how to deal with this so-called 'Greater East Asia Co-Glory Army'." Commander-in-chief, just take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Korean puppet army to take the initiative to attack him and beat him hard. ”

100,000 Korean puppet troops entered China, of which 60,000 entered Zhejiang and Jiangxi to be replenished to the Shangying and Wenzhou fronts. Obviously, the Japanese established the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-Glory Army" precisely to target the student army.

During the New Year, the Cadet Army played a majestic and imposing victory. The ensuing public trial meeting raised the morale of the people to a considerable height. The middle and low-level officers did not know what kind of predicament the army was facing, and they all thought that the Japanese army was in decline, and they were constantly calling for war and counterattack. Li Tieshu was somewhat affected by this, and he was not able to be on the front line in person after many battles, so it was inevitable that he had some other thoughts in his heart, which would make him so belligerent.

There were not a few people who had the same thoughts as him. Stern, the commander of the Sixth Army, also came to join in the fun, and then said: "I think we should also take the initiative to attack, just to expand the strategic depth." ”

Ouyang Yun thought of the recent period of time when there have been constant calls for counteroffensive in civilian and military circles, and according to Changne's investigation, there are some reasons for those with ulterior motives to add fuel to the fire, so he waved his hand and said: "A counteroffensive is a matter of time, because the purpose of the establishment of our Scholar Army is to expel the Japanese invaders and completely defeat Japan." But do you think the time is ripe? That's right, this time we have achieved a series of victories, annihilating more than 200,000 Japanese troops. But don't forget that we ourselves lost more than 50,000 men, and about two brigades of combat vehicles, three brigades of high-speed torpedo boats, and more than 60 warplanes were destroyed. In addition to this, we have committed a full year and a half of financial reserves. There are some things that I didn't want to tell you, for fear that they would distract you. But now it seems that you can't say it can't be done - Lao Li, you run Guangzhou the most diligently, haven't you noticed some changes? ”

Li Tieshu was stunned for a moment, while the others looked at Ouyang Yun in contemplation.

Ouyang Yun smiled bitterly, spread his hands and said, "Do you know what we can do for Lu this time, but we can win an overwhelming victory with fewer strikes and more strikes?" Stern, you say. ”

Ouyang Yun asked Stern to answer this question by name, which already had the element of taking the school exam. Stern stood up solemnly and saluted everyone, and said, "Some time ago, I convened officers at the level of brigade commander and above of the Sixth Army to discuss this issue. We agreed that the main reason is that we have an absolute technological advantage in weapons and equipment, such as self-propelled artillery, such as Mandrill' heavy tanks, and 'Thunderbolt' rocket launchers. The Japanese army simply did not have weapons that could match these equipment, so as long as we did not make strategic mistakes ourselves, we could say that this battle would continue to be fought, and we would still be the one who won. Commander-in-Chief, this is just a little immature idea for us to learn from the officer corps of the Sixth Army, and I would like to ask you to correct it. ”

"Nothing to correct, I'm already to the point. So I'm going to ask, do you know how much a 150 mm shell is worth? Also, how much is a 'Thunderbolt II' worth......" Ouyang Yun asked like a cannonball, and Stern was dumbfounded and unable to answer.

His white face turned red, and he said ashamedly: "I really haven't thought about these problems." ”

Ouyang Yun waved his hand at him: "Sit down!" Then he glanced at everyone and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I guess your views are the same as those of Commander Stern. So do you know how many shells our army consumed in the Battle of Fuding? And how much are these shells worth? Of course, I want to defeat the Japanese army as soon as possible, and I want to recover all the lost territory as soon as possible. But war costs money, and we're going bankrupt. ”

"Huh!?"

"I know that our finances are not well-off, but has it come to this point?"

"Commander-in-chief, our Min Yueqiong is very rich, what are you doing-"

After the crowd was stunned, they began to talk about it.

Ji Xingwen waved his hand to silence everyone, and said, "The commander-in-chief is discussing with President Jiang recently how to tide over the current difficulties, he didn't want to tell you this, but you forced him. Lao Li, didn't you notice? During this period, there were many fewer fish and meat vendors in the city than before, and the market in Guangzhou was significantly less vibrant than before. That was the reason why General Jiang mobilized all government staff to reduce the opening, and after discussing with the commander-in-chief, I also asked the various organs under the commander-in-chief to follow suit-hey, you don't know the price of oil and rice. ”