Chapter 288: National Prestige (2)

Several people in the office were a little worried, the opponent of the Snow Fox battle has always been the Japanese army units, whether it is armored troops or cavalry, it can be said that they are invincible and experienced. But he has never had the experience of fighting with the navy, and in all previous operations, the snow fox has always tried to avoid the aircraft, and in front of the army, the air force aircraft has a congenital advantage. The Snow Fox Army was forced to fight at night, and it had to end overnight, and sometimes they had to give up the results they had received.

It can be said that the Snow Fox Army has a fear of aircraft, and now it is facing the Japanese Navy and Air Force, so not to mention Li Wenxiu and Liu Yuanshan, even Qiao Han is a little worried. It's something that floats on the sea and flies in the sky, and it can't be touched or touched, even if it is faced with several times the Japanese snow fox, it won't care, but fighting with the navy and air force, I really don't have the bottom in my heart.

Ouyang Sari and Li Wenxiu, who had just been transferred to the General Staff Headquarters and promoted to first deputy chief of staff, studied for a long time, but they were unable to draw up a corresponding battle plan. In particular, this will be the maiden battle of the navy and air force of the Southern Han Dynasty, and the two people who have no choice but to consult Xue Ru for instructions.

Xue Ru did not give any instructions, but notified the convening of an operational meeting at the level of the commander of the arms. Wen Shaodong and Huang Jianxiang, the commanders of the Southern Han Navy and the Air Force, and the army commander Qiao Han came to the Hanoi Palace together.

Although Xue Ru became the queen, it was no different from before, and it was just a matter of name and system. According to Xue Ru's instructions, Zhang Donglin formulated the constitution of the Southern Han Dynasty in detail through the parliament on the one hand, and on the other hand, constantly studied and formulated relevant laws.

The elite military operations of the four divisions of Snow Fox against northern Vietnam, including northern Laos, coupled with the voluntary retreat of the French army, basically did not fight, and only unified northern Vietnam and northern Laos in the shortest possible time, and the Laotian king's initiative to abandon the territory accelerated local stability. The Southern Han Dynasty was a country that directly established a constitutional monarchy, and for some politicians, they really couldn't understand why Xue Ru did this. If you want to monopolize power, why don't you call yourself an emperor, and if you want to take the road of democracy and republic, why don't you just establish a republic, and if you have to get a queen out and then implement a constitutional monarchy, isn't that just an empty of your own rights? What's the point of that?

Xue Ru agreed to Zhang Donglin's proposal, in fact, there are several reasons, the first is that Xue Ru needs absolute concentration of power for a certain period of time, and the social system of the king makes it easier to concentrate power and form absolute authority. Second, in such a hasty state, it is impossible to have a complete legal system and administrative system, and from the central to the local level, there will be a complete lack of institutional personnel. If the republican system is implemented, it will take time to perfect these things, but Japan has sent troops to occupy the port of Haiphong, and there are still a large number of navy, land and air forces rushing to Taiwan at sea, and they are gathering towards Taiwan, and Xue Ru will not be given time at all, so the Southern Han Dynasty needs to stabilize as soon as possible. In order to prevent the occurrence of illegal phenomena and prevent excessive personal power, Xue Ru set himself as the queen and carried out a constitutional monarchy, which actually put herself in the position of the constitution.

Third, it is also true that as analyzed by the Japanese side, creating such a nondescript country will make the countries of the world unclear about their intentions, and strive for a period of internal stability for the Southern Han Dynasty, make adjustments, and prepare for war.

Xue Ru quickly ordered the newly established Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sun Zheng, to inform the French Governor-General's Office, the Vietnamese Emperor Paula, the King of Thailand, the British government, and the Chinese side to demand that the border issue be determined, which was to reassure them. It is equivalent to telling them that the Southern Han has no intention of expanding again, but only wants to occupy northern Vietnam and northern Laos.

Xue Ru achieved these goals, and although several parties did not reply and no one responded, they all remained silent, only sending a certain number of troops to the border area to guard and no further military action. In this way, Xue Ru can focus his energy on Japan.

In fact, in the same way, whether northern Vietnam is independent or not, except for the French, even Britain does not care, as long as Xue Ru does not attack Thailand and Burma, Britain will not interfere for the time being, their goal is to aggressive Germany.

Hitler, who was bent on washing away the shame of the Pharma Treaty, showed his fangs and would not spare France and Britain, and his ambition to dominate the world was fully revealed. As long as Xue Ru is not too excessive, Britain will not have any overreaction.

But Japan is different, they have the ambition to dominate Asia, they want to swallow and destroy China, and in order to move towards hegemony, Japan must continue the war. Attacking Southeast Asia to obtain oil, rubber, and grain strategic materials here was what Japan had to do. If you want to occupy these places, Vietnam is undoubtedly the best base for advancement, so Japan will not let go of Yuebei, thus forming Xue Ru's biggest enemy, not France, but Japan.

Japan was like a fly that made Xue Ru sick and bored, and after thinking about it for a few days, Xue Ru decided to recapture Haiphong and complete the territorial unification he had announced. At the same time, it is necessary to use this war to deter the surrounding countries to achieve the effect of killing people and establishing prestige, and to set an example for the establishment of national prestige and the founding of the country.

Wouldn't it be better to have Japan as a leading bird, just after the establishment of a Juche state, even if there is nothing to do, so that those foreign forces that want to intervene will retract their hands? Therefore, as soon as the reorganization of the army and the establishment of internal government institutions were completed, Xue Ru handed over the administrative issues to Zhang Donglin's cabinet to deal with, and she devoted her mind and mind to the war against Japan.

Based on Guangzhou and Hainan Island in China, Japan concentrated more than 50 ships of the 3rd Fleet, including a light aircraft carrier, the Falcon, commanded by Vice Admiral David Qibei of the Japanese Navy, to transport the 33rd Division and the 55th Division into these areas, and at the same time used the 2nd Fleet to send the Nagasaki Marine Corps into Haiphong, maintaining more than 12,000 troops, and concentrating more than 300 planes in the surrounding airfields. The three armies of the navy, land and air force, under the command of Lieutenant General Jun Goemya, commander of the Southern Army, and Hiroshi Nemoto, chief of staff, set up their headquarters in Guangzhou, and Ando Jili was transferred back to China.

Xue Ru convened a meeting today to preemptively strike at the Japanese army, and buy time for Snow Fox to stabilize its internal strength.

With multiple objectives, this war must be fought, fought well, and deterred, because this is not only a question of destroying the Japanese army and recapturing Haiphong Port, but also showing the whole world that the emergence of a new regime will inevitably face interference from various forces. The establishment of the Soviet Union and the founding of New China were all carried out through one war after another before the determination of the national foundation was completed, which was the declaration of force and military strength.

Xue Ru's worries about Liu Yuanshan and Dai Zong can also be understood, and on the other hand, the Southern Han regime has just been established, there is no external channel, and only through trade with the Chinese side cannot solve the problem.

China lacks everything, lacks weapons, and can only export resources, but the Southern Han Dynasty has nothing at this time, and the British have ordered Burma and Thailand to close their borders and cut off ties with northern Vietnam. Emperor Bao of the South listened to the French, and it was impossible for Duke to deal with the Southern Han in order to protect himself, and Xue Ru and them were isolated. At the same time, the Japanese 3rd Fleet blockaded the coast, and Xue Ru's Southern Han became an isolated area. Taylor had already sent a telegram from Hong Kong that his fleet had entered the Philippines, and asked Xue Ru to determine the port to unload the cargo as soon as possible, otherwise he could not afford the loss.

Along with this batch of goods, there are also representatives of commercial companies from Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, Austria and many other countries, if it can go smoothly, it will open the foreign trade channel of the Southern Han Dynasty. Even if Britain and the United States did not agree to have official exchanges with the Southern Han Dynasty, the Southern Han Dynasty would be able to tide over the difficulties through non-governmental trade.

All of this is related to this battle, and Xue Ru set him as a battle of national prestige. With Xue Ru's explanation and tactical research, Huang Jianxiang and Wen Shaodong nodded again and again, and Qiao Han's eyes began to shine. When the meeting ended one day, the dullness of the meeting was swept away, it turned out that there were so many reasons for this battle, and it turned out that the sea battle and the sky battle could also talk about tactics, and the Snow Fox Army regained its confidence in this study.

As the meeting ended, the Snow Fox army began to make preparations, and Xue Ru had to command the army on the one hand, solve administrative problems on the other, and at the same time pay attention to domestic development. The Southern Han Dynasty was a blank slate, built from scratch, with nothing, so she didn't have any time at all.

Zhang Donglin was still very careful, and equipped Xue Ru with a team of attendants, thinking that Xue Ru was a woman, this time it was all girls, and several of them were women studying abroad. For Xue Ru, who has a serious ethnic complex, three of the four girls are Chinese and only one is American, and they are also a new type of women, and when the recruitment was announced, there was a long queue in front of the internal affairs department. This is the first time that Snow Fox has recruited people from the society, and there is no restriction on men and women, and there has been a frenzy.

Because a large number of officials were set up by France, with the withdrawal of French troops, there was a power vacuum in the entire Southern Han Dynasty, Zhang Donglin made full use of this, and appointed personnel regardless of race and origin, only based on talent and conduct. As long as those who are able and have moral character, many Vietnamese have entered government offices at all levels, thus reducing ethnic contradictions and enabling the Southern Han Dynasty to quickly enter a period of stability and carry out its work smoothly.

Although the people at the top are tired, everyone is full of energy because they are building their own place and the mood is different. Xue Ru, who knew the role of the news media very well and knew the role of propaganda, increased political propaganda and encouragement, so that the Southern Han Dynasty set off a construction frenzy.

At a time when politics, economy, people's livelihood, industry, and agriculture were developing rapidly, the first and second divisions of the Snow Fox Army under the command of Xue Ru quietly entered the periphery of Beijiang and Haiyang at night.

As the supreme command body, it was still the first time to be so close to the battlefield, but he rejected the advice of the chief of staff and insisted on commanding nearby. Chen Dong, commander of the 1st Division, and Ding Fenglun, commander of the 2nd Division, were informed that they had no reason and that they had to completely annihilate the two Japanese troops in Haiphong. The total annihilation was used to tell the Japanese that the land of the Southern Han Dynasty was not allowed for the Japanese to set foot on it.

In Halong Harbor, Wen Shaodong and Jiang Haitong and Wu Xiaobo, captain of the cruiser Huaxia, and five captains of the Hanyang, Hanjiang, Hanri, Hanshui, Hanfeng, and Hanxing were in a meeting.

It's still Snow Fox's consistent combat style, Miss Queen is right, tactical use is not divided into arms. The Japanese say that the snow fox is cunning, and it has to be worthy of this cunning. If you fight to the death, is it still Snow Fox's army? The captains and first mates of the ship used their brains to study tactics, which in the eyes of others were not naval tactics at all, but just bad ideas and bad moves. In the Snow Fox army, a phrase prevailing in their young lady: "The victor is the prince and the loser is the thief, victory is the king, and the methods are auxiliary".

The Southern Han Naval Fleet, which had only five battleships and gunboats and one cruiser, wanted to challenge the 2nd Squadron of the 3rd Fleet, which had one heavy cruiser, two destroyers, and 30 large and small ships. At this time, the Japanese fleet was anchored at the port of Haiphong to serve as support from the sea to the land. In order to completely annihilate the Japanese Nagasaki Marine Corps and the Guards Detachment, it was necessary to destroy this naval fleet first, so that the Japanese army would lose support and the possibility of escape. The total tonnage of the six warships was only 15,000 tons, while the total tonnage of the 20 or so warships of the Japanese army was more than ten times that of the Southern Han Navy.

But the more they studied Wen Shaodong, the more confident they became, and in the end, these people came to a conclusion that their Miss Queen was definitely a real vixen, otherwise she could command the army to fight with great resourcefulness, and she could also propose these methods for naval tactics, which was too smart.

For a day, the plan for the battle at sea was studied, and the captains of the ships returned to their warships, refueled for final preparations, and waited for the order to go to battle.

Like the Navy, Huang Jianxiang was at the Air Force Headquarters at Heyang Airport, and he, Chief of Staff Davis, and three flight group leaders were also studying tactics. The Southern Han Air Force had seventy-two aircraft, of which only twelve were fighters, and the remaining were twelve reconnaissance planes and fifty-eight bombers, which were old Hawker fighters and were not more advanced than the Japanese Army's Type 96.

At the beginning of the second day, Ha Duong Airport, Hanoi Airport and Ha Long Airport began operations to make final preparations. When the Air Force pilots saw these planes, they couldn't help but want to laugh, such an idea can also come up with, and it is strange that the devil does not suffer.

Davis was a Frenchman who later became an American citizen. I like the Air Force Flying very much, when Ouyang Sari formed the Air Force Brigade, he had nothing empty-handed, so Zhang Donglin found a way to recruit people, so Davis came to Halong Harbor and participated in the Snow Fox Air Force Brigade. But he was also disappointed without planes. Fortunately, Huang Jianxiang, who came back from Nanyang, and he was able to get along, and the two of them first organized the students to study theoretically, and got a training plane for these students to study. Sometimes, through connections, money is spent on observation and learning in the French Air Force.

The Snow Fox Air Force was created under such conditions, and when they secretly took over the planes from the French, Davis and Huang Jianxiang got drunk, and this is the air force they built single-handedly. Not to mention Huang Jianxiang, even Davis sees these planes as his life. This American, who speaks blunt Chinese, has regarded the Southern Han Dynasty as his own country, and has vowed never to return to the United States or France, and the Southern Han also has his share, at least the Southern Han Air Force has Davis's hard work.

That small aircraft manufacturing city was built in the Sangn Mountains at this time, and I don't know when I will be able to build my own aircraft.

I heard that in addition to weapons and ammunition, the most of the materials Taylor brought back this time were machinery and equipment, Davis and Huang Jianxiang both knew about airplanes, and it was not so easy to build airplanes, so they didn't expect it. But they don't know why the Miss Queen said that it won't be long before they will have American P40 planes. It was Davis' favorite, and he vowed to take to the skies in the P40 and teach the Japanese a lesson.

Xue Ru believed that as long as he kept a low profile and let Japan touch the interests of the United States, they would fight, and the Southern Han Dynasty would develop at that time. In Xue Ru's heart, there is no American imperialist and Su Xiu, who can bring benefits to China, they are friends, otherwise they are enemies.

After preparing for many days, the company finally received an order from the General Staff, and the first to act was of course the air force of the Southern Han Dynasty, and with Huang Jianxiang's order, the planes of the three airfields broke through the pre-dawn mist and flew into the sky.