Chapter 310: Waiting

At this time, the main reason why Nanhan was a little overwhelmed was that it was related to many things, Xue Ru's injury and coma had passed for a few days, although Zhang Donglin presided over the affairs of the whole country with the power and position of the prime minister, but Xue Ru practiced the separation of military and government, and the prime minister had no military power, so he could not command the troops.

Although there is a Ministry of Defense in the cabinet, the command in wartime is in the General Staff, and the most important thing is that the shock caused by the battle of the Southern Han Dynasty can be said to be great. The Japanese army concentrated 400,000 troops and launched an attack on Southeast Asia in a large battle of land, sea and air, and swept through Southeast Asia in a short period of time. American, British, French, and Dutch forces were swept out of these areas. The Philippines, the most fortified region controlled by the United States, also fell, and MacArthur led the withdrawal of American troops from Manila.

British troops retreated to India in large numbers, Hong Kong and Macao were also occupied by the Japanese army, and orders were issued to all units in Japan to take over the concessions of the Western Allies in China. The North China Front and the Central China Army launched a large-scale offensive against the guerrilla base areas in the liberated areas, and at the same time launched an offensive into the areas controlled by the Kuomintang in order to contain the Chinese army. Not to mention China, the world was in chaos, Germany was under the city of Moscow, carrying out a fierce attack, and Italy also cooperated with the German army to occupy North Africa.

Although more than 20 countries of the Central Powers signed a joint declaration to form a world anti-fascist alliance, they repeatedly failed militarily. The Axis powers were triumphant. Looking at the world battlefield, the Southern Han Dynasty is outstanding. The Japanese army not only did not capture an inch of territory in the Southern Han Dynasty, but also lost as many as three divisions, and the Southern Han Dynasty created a glorious record of destroying more than 60,000 enemies at one time.

The Japanese army invested a total of 400,000 troops on land, sea and air, and the Southern Han Dynasty itself destroyed 60,000. In just a few days, representatives of Britain and the United States, as well as representatives of France and the Netherlands, flew to Syracuse to hold talks on the issue of military operations and military cooperation in Asia.

It's a pity that Xue Ru is unconscious, she is the queen, there are no regents left, and no arrangements have been made, and the cabinet cannot deal with the issue of military cooperation. As the Ministry of National Defense, it does not have this right, the General Staff is the war command organ, and Ouyang Sari is the deputy minister. In the past, there was only the army when Snow Fox was there, and the supreme commander could decide on the spot, but at this time it was the navy, land and air force, and at the same time there were coast guards, border guards and marines.

No one is qualified to say that they can decide, Xue Ru suddenly had an accident and became leaderless, and the Southern Han Dynasty fell into a crisis. It is obvious that Xue Ru did not formulate an emergency plan, and the sudden appearance of the situation made Nanhan fall into a passive and unable to decide.

A country, a polity, is most likely to split at this time, and it is possible to fall apart. Since the cabinet is running smoothly, it is not visible to the outside world. But the cabinet members all know that the Southern Han has come to the most dangerous time. Zhang Donglin wanted to propose that military issues should also be dealt with by the cabinet, but he didn't dare, the army generals of the Southern Han Dynasty were all from the young lady's subordinates, and no one would listen to them, and now it is still stable, and everyone has a common goal "Japan"

In addition, the four army commanders control the same number of troops, in addition to the officers and men of the naval combat fleet, there is also a marine corps, the air force has an airborne division in its hands, the garrison force has garrison brigades from various provinces and cities across the country, and there are quite a few troops, and the border guard Bai Wuyu also has his own army, and at the same time, there is a large part of the guerrilla armed forces from Ma Biao around Liangshan, and the Southern Han army cannot be subordinated, forming a kind of check and balance, and no one dares to move against each other.

The meeting lasted for several days and could not be decided, but the crisis could not be left unresolved, and the rest of the world could not fail to respond. If it does not participate at this time, the international status of the Southern Han Dynasty will be reduced to the lowest point.

On the Japanese side, Admiral Terauchi returned to the Naval Operations Department, mobilized the 2nd Fleet to set off from Sanya Port, and concentrated six squadrons to drive to the coastline of Nanhan, and at the same time blockaded the area around Nanhan.

There was no way that the Japanese 2nd Fleet had 13 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, and 32 destroyers, and they were originally divided into six teams to support the landing operations in Southeast Asia.

The British fleet retreated to the area west of the Indian Ocean, and the US Pacific Fleet was heavily damaged, but it had not yet recovered, and only a task force composed of three aircraft carriers was engaged in the fight against the Japanese army, protecting the Hawaiian waters of Midway, and preventing the Japanese attack on the US mainland, and was completely unable to manage the Japanese navy.

The Imperial Japanese Navy with the flag of the rising sun fluttering to dominate the Pacific Ocean, how could Terauchi Shouichi swallow the defeat in the Southern Han at this time, he withdrew from Nanning from the Chinese side, but did not withdraw from Qinzhou, and used the 34th and 58th divisions to enter Saigon and Cambodia with the battlefields of South China and Central China, and attacked Burma with the Guards Division and the 55th Division, crushing the British army and cutting off the Chinese passage.

Although the Central South Passage is still there, but the South Han coast is blocked, this is not easy to do, the same is useless, according to Ouyang Sari proposed that it should attack South Vietnam, the Japanese army only has two divisions and a brigade, with the combat effectiveness of the South Han Army can quickly occupy Vietnam, Japan can not block such a long coastline, plus Cambodia, the South Han can not only swallow these places, but also can be replenished, once replenished and supplies can be attacked to Thailand and Burma, seize these areas, so that Japan's blockade is ineffective.

However, Zhang Donglin objected, Vietnam is a place of France, de Gaulle's Free French government has been recognized by the world, at this time do not reach a consensus with France to send troops to occupy Vietnam, the matter is not easy to handle, and Thailand and Burma are British, and the Southern Han Dynasty needs to use the US Lend-Lease Act to complete the necessary materials for the war, these problems are many, not just one issue.

He proposed to convene a plenary military and political conference and the leaders of all parties to jointly propose the election of a provisional consul or executive committee to jointly formulate the policy guidelines and lines of action of the Southern Han Dynasty.

After Zhang Donglin finished speaking, Qiao Han said, "What should I do if Miss is well?" Zhang Donglin knew what Qiao Han meant, Xue Ru's position today was pushed up by them by such means, if he did this again, he could deny Xue Ru's leadership position.

Zhang Donglin was very disgusted by Qiao Han's questioning, no wonder with his merits in the founding of the Southern Han Dynasty and the foundation laid by the strength to form the Southern Han Army, when the Snow Fox Army expanded into the Southern Han Army and became four armies, he failed to become a commander, just a military commander, and Chen Dong and Ding Fenglun were on the same level, and they really didn't have a little political acumen, and this kind of behavior of showing loyalty regardless of the situation made him disgusted: "Commander Qiao doesn't do this, what do you say?" Is that what we are looking at? ”

Qiao Han really can't help it, he has military talent but no political talent, I feel that even if Zhang Donglin does this, even if the young lady wakes up and recovers, I am afraid that he will no longer hold the power. Liu Yuanshan was also a little impatient: "Qiao Han, I think what Prime Minister Zhang said makes sense, of course, the most important thing in the Southern Han Dynasty is that someone will make a decision immediately to guide the operation of the entire Southern Han Dynasty." ”

Qiao Han has always been unpleasant to Liu Yuanshan, he feels that both Lai Changwen and Li Wenxiu are very capable, but Miss trusts Liu Yuanshan, every time something happens, everyone doesn't let Miss know, Liu Yuanshan will definitely return, if he doesn't make a report, Lai Changwen can't leave the army, Li Wenxiu won't either, Liu Yuanshan is that sycophant, he doesn't have much ability, he just will please and trust. At this time, he is the Minister of Defense and the leader of the Liberal Party, of course he is in favor of doing this, but Qiao Han is a soldier and a person without party affiliation, and if all parties are convened to study together, it will be either Liu Yuanshan or Zhang Donglin who has the final say.

He was angry in his heart and said, "Liu Yuanshan, are you in a hurry?" The Liberals are partisan, do you think your party can win? Miss said that the army is a country, he is not anyone's, don't dream. ”

He picked up the question, making the originally dull meeting tense at once, Lai Changwen has not spoken, and these days he is very silent and said: "Although I am not from the army, I am still a member of the cabinet, and I think Prime Minister Zhang is right and supports his decision." ”

As soon as Lai Changwen said this, all the ministers in the other cabinets agreed, after all, everyone in their hearts opposed the military taking power. Liu Yuanshan is the defense minister, and the ministers of other ministries are all cabinet members and expressed their approval together. Qiao Han glanced at Chen Dong, Ding Fenglun and Du Heng, and several people looked at Ouyang Sari together.

Ouyang Sari's heart is anxious, this obviously appears military and political confrontation, this situation has occurred in various countries and history, when necessary, the army can be controlled by force to seize power, the implementation of military management to establish a military regime, but those politicians and administrators will not be convinced, it will inevitably lead to a large number of official replacement, if such a situation really occurs, the Southern Han Dynasty will be dangerous.

Yamazaki Jun is a bastard, a special combat team of 1,000 people has put Nanhan in such a big crisis, but he knows that he can't help but speak at this time, he is the chief of the general staff, although he is the deputy, but Xue Ru is the biggest without him, if he doesn't care, things may be out of control. If they support Liu Yuanshan and Zhang Donglin, they don't have any soldiers or generals in their hands, and if they support Qiao Han, will they command a coup d'état?

His head turned around sharply and said: "The war is not over at this time, Dr. George from the United States is rescuing and treating Her Majesty, I think the Queen will wake up soon, our current enemy is the Japanese, the army is still fighting abroad, local government and political issues can be handled by the cabinet, this is my suggestion, let's see if it is feasible?" ”

When he said this, he still advocated the separation of military and government, that is, delaying time and waiting for Xue Ru to wake up. Zhang Donglin didn't want to deny Xue Ru's leadership from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't go on like this, what if such a situation happened again, what should I do if it was serious?

But looking at Qiao Han and Chen Dong's appearance, Ouyang Sari's opinion is also a good way, it seems that Ouyang Sari still has political acumen, so he said: "I have no opinion, but how can the representatives of various countries reply?" That's all about military issues. ”

Ouyang Sari smiled: "Prime Minister Zhang's military problems will be solved by the military department, and I believe that you should know how to do it to benefit the Southern Han Dynasty, since Miss has no new instructions, of course, it is still the original decision, and the operation will be commanded by the General Staff, and everything else will be as usual." ”

In fact, after a few days of meeting, nothing was decided, and it was still the same way. Seeing that everyone did not object, Ouyang Sari said to Qiao Han: "The navy, army, and air force will hold an operational meeting tomorrow, and army-level officers will hold a meeting at the general staff headquarters to study operational issues. ”

This is an order given by Miss, the command of the army during the war is in the General Staff, since Ouyang Sari said so, they can only carry it out, and disobedience at this time is to violate Miss's order and will become the target of public criticism. Besides, Qiao Han only stopped it when he saw that Zhang Donglin and Liu Yuanshan wanted to veto Xue Ru's status, and he had no political ambitions, so he nodded in agreement. He agreed that Chen Dong, Du Heng and Ding Fenglun also stood up and saluted, the four army commanders left, and Wen Shaodong and Huang Jianxiang, who had been silent, also left and returned to their headquarters.

The military people left Zhang Donglin and said: "Chief of Staff Ouyang, Dr. George said that the situation of the young lady is not optimistic, and it is dangerous for the bullet to hit the chest, so it is not a way to drag it down like this." ”

Ouyang Sa's heart sank, what he was most worried about was this situation, he thought about it and said: "The task and duty of the army is to fight, so I will arrange the battle plan, delay it for a while, you do your best to find a way to save Miss, if I want to solve it quickly, Miss is gone, Qiao Han has no political ambitions, he is just maintaining Miss's status, the most dangerous thing is to make a decision at this time, I think you should know how to divert contradictions and attention." ”

Zhang Donglin said admiringly: "No wonder you trust Miss so much, well, I listen to you, we will communicate with each other if there is anything." Ouyang Sari smiled: "Prime Minister Zhang, you have forgotten a person, I think he can solve many problems by coming forward, I will solve the matter in front of me first, you can discuss it with him!" ”

"Who?" Zhang Donglin asked puzzled, Ouyang Sari glanced at him and said, "There are people who can help you at the Military and Political University." “

"Dai Zong?" Zhang Donglin thought about it for a while, the only one who could be equal to Liu Yuanshan and Lai Changwen in terms of prestige and qualifications was Dai Zong, but he left everyone's sight and prepared for the establishment and management of the Southern Han Military and Political University in a very low-key manner, making everyone forget his existence, right! If Dai Zong came out to help, the people in the military would not be able to say anything, and the young lady could hand over the place where she cultivated her power to Dai Zong, which showed her trust in him and nodded: "Thank you." ”

Ouyang Sari shook his head: "Don't thank me, I'm helping Nanhan, this is the country founded by Miss, I don't want him to become a tool for some people to gain power." ”

Zhang Donglin was a little awe-inspiring, it seemed that the prestige that Xue Ru had established in the army was unparalleled, thanks to the fact that he had nothing else to think about, otherwise he would be destroyed if he couldn't do anything.

Cabinet members held a meeting to study how to deal with the representatives of various countries, and the way was to delay, and at present, there was no major policy in the Southern Han Dynasty, and at the same time, the members of the advisory group and the Ministry of Justice accelerated the formulation of the constitution of the Southern Han Dynasty.

All crises were temporarily suppressed, in order to divert the contradictions, the cabinet stepped up propaganda, and the whole country of the Southern Han Dynasty, even abroad, knew that the Japanese army sent troops to attack the king of the palace of the Southern Han Dynasty at the cost of the lives of thousands of soldiers on seven transport planes, and Xue Ru was injured.

For the first time, the newspaper of the Southern Han Dynasty appeared terrorism, this term, a country like Japan has lost the qualification of a country, and there is no difference between this despicable means and bandits, even if it is a country at war, it is too much, the plane crashed into the building and caused civilian casualties, from then on the Southern Han will carry out indiscriminate attacks on Japan, including their Emperor's Palace, the same means can be used in the Southern Han.

With the intensification of propaganda, the Japanese side was nervous, Emperor Hirohito had a bad feeling, and the number of troops in the palace increased more than ten times, and from this kind of assault action alone, the Southern Han Dynasty was more powerful than Japan.

The political signal was released, and Ouyang Sari held a military meeting the next day, and the four armies of the army launched an operation, sending small units into Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and China to strike at the Japanese army, and the border guards were integrated into the national defense force, and they were unified under the command of the general staff to carry out infiltration operations. At the same time, the Southern Han Dynasty informed all countries that the Southern Han Army was only fighting against Japan and had no intention of other countries' territories, and that once Japan surrendered unconditionally, the army would withdraw to the Southern Han Dynasty.

As a result of this commitment, an agreement was reached between China and the Southern Han Army on the issue of fighting in China, and the United States proposed that the establishment of an Allied Command in Asia was also approved. Britain, France, China, the United States, and Yugoslavia signed a joint agreement to establish the Asian Allied Forces Command, with its headquarters in Kunming, with Chinese President Chiang as the commander-in-chief, Alexander as the deputy commander-in-chief, Major General Stilwell of the US Army as the chief of staff, and Ouyang Sari, the deputy chief of the general staff, to jointly command the armies of the Allied countries in Southeast Asia and Asia.

In order to open up the channel of assistance as soon as possible, the Southern Han Army and the Chinese Army were jointly organized into the Guangzhou Group Army, with Qiao Han as the commander of the group army, Song Xilian as the chief of staff, and the 71st Army, the 74th Army, and the Southern Han Guerrilla Brigade of the Chinese Army of the First Army of the Southern Han Dynasty were also group army units, mainly fighting against the Japanese troops in Guangxi and Guangdong, with the goal of recapturing Guangzhou.

At sea, the British Pacific Expeditionary Fleet, the US Pacific 5th Fleet, and the Southern Han Naval Fleet formed the Southeast Peninsula Fleet on the sea, which fought against the Japanese and lifted the naval blockade. There was no joint air force, because according to the proposal of the Southern Han Dynasty, the various countries provided 600 free assistance planes to the Southern Han Dynasty, 100 British planes, 100 French and Dutch planes, and the United States independently provided 400 planes to form the Southern Han Air Force to fight against the Japanese army.

Xue Ru didn't know that the Pacific War was unrecognizable, it was fundamentally different from what she knew, and the United States was dragged into the war, but the battlefield became plausible, and no one knew what it would be like in the future?

At this time, in a very safe underground air defense hospital in Nanhan, the ward was quiet, only the low sound of air conditioning came, and Xue Ru was pale as if he was asleep on the bed, his big eyes were tightly closed, and the infusion bottle was dripping medicine.

Leng Qiji was already the attending physician, but he once again became Xue Ru's special doctor, sitting quietly beside Xue Ru, touching Xue Ru's forehead with his hand, but he didn't take it back, his hand went down to the somewhat cool cheek, he didn't know when this queen, who was known as an iron-blooded warrior and a fox spirit, would wake up. For several months, Xue Ru has been in a coma and sleeping.

"Mr. Leng, how is Her Majesty?" The door was gently pushed open, and Dr. George came in from the outside, asking in stiff and non-standard Chinese.

Leng Qiji withdrew his hand and said, "No reaction, Dr. George, if Your Majesty is injured in the lungs, the injury is completely healed, and you also say that she is recovering well, but why is she still in a coma?" ”

George is not young anymore, but said with a smile: "Doctor Leng, you are also a doctor, this should not be asked by you, I have answered it more than a thousand times, I'm afraid that all of you people in the Southern Han Kingdom have asked me this question, right?" I saw a soldier standing guard at the door today, and he asked me the same thing. ”

Leng Qijian smiled bitterly, he is a doctor, of course he knows why, Xue Ru's most serious injury was the shot in the chest, but the reason that kept her asleep was the injury caused by her head hitting the ground when she fell. At that time, he only dealt with the injuries on his body, because the doctor judged that Xue Ru was in a coma because of excessive blood loss and too serious injuries. After George came from the United States, he found that after the head was hit without rapid surgery to clean up the bruising, it had been compressing the brain nerves for a long time, although the operation was to remove the bruising, but he was still unconscious, that is, he was in a vegetative state, and he didn't know if he could wake up. The brain surgeon who was called in said that recovery would take time and that he could only hope for a miracle.

Leng Qiji was a little sad, and George patted him on the shoulder: "Child, God is fair, the queen will be fine." ”

Leng Qiji was helpless, he knew again that Xue Ru was injured, and when he was so seriously injured, he took the initiative to take care of it, Dean Huang thought that Xue Ru was so seriously injured that the nurse was no longer competent, so he arranged for Leng Qiji to take care of Xue Ru. Since then, he has been working hard and boring.

One day, two days, one month, two months...... Leng Qiji never saw other patients again, and took care of Xue Ru wholeheartedly, as her injuries improved, but people did not wake up, Leng Qiji can only pray to God now.

Xue Ru had a dream, a long, long dream, and when she woke up, she had forgotten most of the contents, but she felt that the sunlight was a little dazzling.

She seemed to be waiting for something, waiting for what? She couldn't tell what it was, or what it was, or who it was.