On August 25, 1941, the people in the rear had not yet been separated from the joy of Suiyuan's recovery, and another news came - Quancheng was recovered, so far, Lu Province has been recovered except for more than a dozen county seats.

The deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army issued an order in Quancheng, urging all units of the Eighth Route Army not to slacken, continue to fight, and thoroughly carry out the province, so as to draw a perfect end to the first phase of this counteroffensive operation.

On the same day, the Sulu Theater and the Eighth Route Army took out all their family resources and launched an attack on the two Japanese Goryeo divisions that were still entrenched in the Luxi area, and hundreds of thousands of troops, under the cover of hundreds of barreled artillery, led by nearly 100 tanks and armored vehicles, pounced on the Japanese army.

In the face of the tsunami-like attack, the Japanese army did not panic, let alone the uprising of the Goryeo soldiers expected by the political workers, but resisted more stubbornly, fearless of death, and never retreated even if they were killed together, but their enemies were too strong.

In just a few hours, the Chinese army crushed these two Goryeo divisions, and after this battle, except for a small number of Japanese troops and armed expatriates who fled into the mountains to continue their stubborn resistance, there were no more formed Japanese puppet army units in Lu Province.

Well, the fact is that almost all the puppet troops in Lu Province have been absorbed by the Sulu Coalition Army, looking at the 200,000 "Tiger Ben" in his hand, Chief Yu of the Sulu Coalition Army is almost grinning to the root of his ears, sitting on Northern Jiangsu and Southern Lunan, holding 200,000 troops, as if he can already sit on the card table, you must know that Chief Yan only has 200,000 troops in his hands.

However, Commander Yu's mood soon became bad, because the Jin Sui army had already exceeded 300,000 after absorbing the puppet Mongolian army and elite bannermen of King De, and it was fully loaded, thanks to the Mongolian army, in the end, they were not willing to destroy the weapons and ammunition they had hoarded in Guisui, even if the spoils were equally divided with the Eighth Route Army, the equipment level of the Jin Sui army had also been greatly improved.

On the night of 25 August, the special plane of the highest authority, escorted by 12 P-39 fighters, arrived at Quancheng, and after landing, despite the obstruction of Commander Xu, he joined hands with the deputy commander-in-chief to enter the city on foot, where gunfire was still heard, personally greeted the Nationalist troops who were cleaning up the ruins in the city, and ate a meal of meatloaf and instant noodles with the commanders.

Subsequently, the highest authorities went to a courtyard on the outskirts of Quancheng, and together with the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army and commander Yu of the Sulu Theater, they met with Tojo, a special Japanese envoy who had flown from Tokyo.

After three hours of repeated consultations, the two sides finally agreed to implement a temporary ceasefire on the basis of the current Line of Control for a period of 10 days, during which the two sides would no longer seek to seize cities or eliminate each other's forces in formation.

On August 26, the highest authorities made a speech in Izumijo, expressing their willingness to hold constructive talks with the Japanese side on the complete realization of peace in Asia.

In order to further release its sincerity, the Nationalist Government coordinated the Second War Zone and the Sulu Theater to return more than 20,000 Japanese wounded captured to the Japanese side, and nearly 10,000 Japanese corpses were handed over together, and the remains of hundreds of thousands of Goryeo soldiers were buried at sea to the highest standard.

On August 27, the puppet Nanjing government issued an amnesty decree, amnesty for more than 10,000 political prisoners and prisoners, and said that it would clean up the remains and relics of the martyrs who had died to resist the war.

In an interview with a Bald Eagle reporter, Emperor Kant said that Manchukuo would not recognize any peace agreement without the participation of the Manchukuo government, that the 400,000 Manchukuo troops were capable of defending the country's territorial and sovereign integrity, and that the Manchukuo army would not hesitate to fight once the Japanese government harmed Manchukuo's interests.

On August 28, Umezu Yoshijiro began to transfer troops to Rehe, Liaonan, Binzhou and other places, according to the incomplete statistics of the Military Command Bureau, at least six full-fledged Goryeo divisions, two Japanese divisions, and 500 tanks were transferred south.

On August 29, the two sides held their first press conference, saying that the scope of the negotiations was limited to the areas occupied by the Japanese army after the 26th year of the Republic of China, and that the questions about Manchuria, Goryeo, Wanwan, and Ryukyu were temporarily suspended.

On 30 August, the Nationalist Government's negotiator, Uncle Dai, left the table in anger because he was dissatisfied with the economic policies of the Japanese army, and the negotiations between the two sides reached a deadlock.

At the same time, Li Yunlong, commander of the New First Army and a second-class admiral of the Navy, published an article in the "Central Daily," saying that only peace obtained through war can be a long-term peace, that the 8 million national army absolutely cannot be ashamed of the tens of millions of martyrs who sacrificed their lives, and that any compromise with the Japanese militarist government is a disguised surrender.

On the same day, an assassination attempt was carried out in Tokyo against the Japanese land minister Tojo, and although the attackers were repelled by Tojo's own guards, the impact was still huge, and the locust urgently convened an imperial council to demand that Tojo must eliminate the impact as soon as possible and reassess the response plan after the failure of the negotiations.

On 31 August, Japanese Prime Minister Konoe urgently returned to Tokyo to report the negotiations to the locusts, and the plane was ambushed by two Type 97 fighters off the coast of Japan.

In the early morning of 1 September, the Japanese army took the initiative to provoke incidents in many places, and at noon, a Zero fighter of the Japanese Army Air Corps crashed into the Luojia Mountain Residence, completely destroying the fortified official residence built by the British, and even the air defense fortress located on the third underground floor was affected.

When the news reached the front line, the generals of the national army were indignant, especially some grassroots officers, and the officer death squad deployed on the periphery of Jiujiang in the Ninth Theater disobeyed the order, infiltrated the urban area of Jiujiang through the septic tank sedimentation well, launched a surprise attack on the headquarters of the Japanese 11th Army, and finally stormed the office of Lieutenant General Ishihara Waner and captured Ishihara Waner.

When the news broke, the units of the Japanese Eleventh Army began to mobilize, and a new major war seemed inevitable.

On the Huaxia side, Commander Li and Commander Feng, who had been under the close supervision of the Military Command Bureau, disappeared and their whereabouts are unknown.

Chairman Wang, the puppet government of Jinling, also mobilized the only warship in his hands and seemed to be preparing to march west to Wuhan.

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