"Commander, the front army has broken through the Soviet defense circle. Several of our main forces are pursuing the enemy's remnants. The Soviet Union is defeated like a mountain. Even if Zhukov and Stalin come in person, it is impossible to save the defeat! Our victory in this Battle of the North Sea is a great encouragement to the morale of the people in China."

Lake Baikal has been replaced with its Chinese name - Beihai, which is the beginning of the Chinese army's regaining sovereignty over it.

In the headquarters of the North China Army command camp, several combat staff surrounded Wang Liwen and congratulated each other. Some people threatened to capture Rokosovsky and bring the enemy's chief general to Guangzhou but were tried.

This is actually very difficult. As a senior officer of the Soviet army, he must have strict protection, and the battlefield situation is so complicated that under the lack of reliable intelligence, the possibility of capturing the enemy's commander is extremely small.

However, Wang Liwen did not hit this passionate mood, because the current Chinese army does have this qualification.

Guangzhou is also celebrating the whole country for another victory in the Far East against the Soviet Union. This is a battle of army groups of millions. Victory in such a major battle that has a decisive impact on the national fortune can indeed greatly encourage the Chinese people.

Hundreds of years of oppression and shame, now, the snow has caused many people to burst into tears.

Especially the residents of the three northeastern provinces, they were most persecuted by the Russians and Japanese, and their hatred was the strongest. After the collapse of Manchukuo, most of the original puppet soldiers were redispersed and reorganized. They were classified into the newly formed legion and became the main force of this expedition to the Soviet Union.

At the official residence of the head of state in Guangzhou, Chen Jiongming and several senior military and political officials were reading the military newspapers sent back from the front line.

"His Excellency the Head of State, the protest letter from the Allied Command and the Far East China Military Discipline Inspection Report have been submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and we have been under great diplomatic pressure. Here are the details, please check it out."

Foreign Minister Liang Zhaohui handed over two documents in English. This was a document jointly signed by the United States and the United Kingdom. The content was mainly to protest China's private invasion of the Soviet Union despite the needs of the world's anti-fascism, and the corruption of the Chinese team's discipline caused great harm to civilians in the Far East.

After reading the document, Chen Jiongming was not in a good mood: "Minister of National Defense, the soldiers mentioned in this document privately plunder civilian finances and drive local residents out of their hometown. Is this really a matter?"

Li Shaojie didn't have to read this document at all. He just smiled bitterly: "The content of the Americans may be a bit exaggerated, but the truth is generally not bad. Because of the lack of military resources, we have recruited a large number of soldiers from the puppet Manchukuo. These soldiers are too far from the main force of the Chinese army in terms of discipline and combat quality."

As the Minister of Defense, Li Shaojie did not hide the discipline in the army, but he did not object to this approach. He then added: "For hundreds of years, since the morale of Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union has committed countless bloody crimes in the three eastern provinces. We should also be considerate of the hatred of soldiers from Hailanpao, Jiangdong Forty-sixtun, and Northeastern soldiers towards the Soviet Union."

In fact, Chen Jiongming did not accuse the military of not being strict in discipline, but was afraid that racial hostility would lead to such a thing, which would have a great negative impact on the Chinese army's operations in the Soviet Union.

There are also countries such as Britain and the United States. Now most of China's iron ore and oil depend on Australia and Vietnam. If it turns against the Allies because of this kind of thing, it may be very unfavorable to the next strategic plan.

"Does the Ministry of Civil Affairs have any suggestions on how to effectively manage the territory we recaptured from the Soviet Union?" Chen Jiongming changed his tone and asked Li Jiansan beside him.

"The Ministry of Civil Affairs proposed to start with the complex ethnic composition of the Far East. The Russians have adopted a suppression policy for other ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union. We can win over these people and only exclude the Russians."

Li Jiansan's answer made Chen Jiongming's eyes lit up. Differentiation and disintegration, this strategy is really not clever, but it is simple and effective. The key is to see how the Ministry of Civil Affairs operates so that this policy can be effectively implemented and achieved results.

"What are you going to do?"

"The first part is to publicly publicly proclaim that we are just trying to regain the territory that belongs to China, so that we can gain public support at home, and even the Allied forces cannot accuse us of your invasion of the Soviet Union."

Li Shaojie was a little worried: "This may not work. Our army has tried our best to enter the Tungus area. If you say that our army must withdraw from these areas, and the soldiers will never agree!"

After hearing this, Chen Jiongming frowned, and the military's emotions must be considered properly, but for the country, diplomatic stance is also crucial. For a moment, he was a little hesitant, which was a dilemma.

Li Jiansan smiled and put forward his own opinions: "I don't think this is a problem at all. With our current population and industrial strength, as well as limited transportation conditions, even if we occupy a large piece of land in the Soviet Union, it cannot be effectively managed. Migrants going to settle down will waste national strength and be worth the loss."

"What is your opinion?"

"Since that's the case, fortunately we gave up there and gave it to others!"

"Isn't that the same?" Li Shaojie was very annoyed when he heard this, and thought Li Jiansan was happy to find him.

"Marson Marshal, this is completely different. We do not hand it back to the Soviet Union, but to the local pro-China forces. We can completely support ethnic minorities who live in the local area and are hostile to the Russians. Even if there is no contradiction, we can create contradictions."

"This is a means to imitate the Soviet Union and Russia to divide our Mongolians, and to use their own ways to cure others!" Speaking of this, Li Jiansan's eyes were also full of glory. Although he was not good at his appearance, he also gained extraordinary talents and abilities through his years of political experience.

"I think this is feasible. I will build up several mutually exclusive regimes in the Soviet Union and then ask them to make a request to let us stay in the local area. In this way, we can carry out military operations there with just a legitimate reason. In essence, our national enemy is only the Russians. Besides, the West advocates democracy and freedom. I think the local non-Russian ethnic group also has such freedom."

Li Shaojie is not a fool either. After thinking about it carefully, he fully understood Li Jiansan's ideas. Following this strategy, he immediately thought about it, and a basic architecture came out.

"Since that's the case, let's decide this way. The next details. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Defense come up with a plan. As long as it is passed in the parliament, the cabinet will not object." Chen Jiongming is not a pedantic person, and the Russians' life or death are not what he is responsible for.

He is the head of the Hualian League, and he only needs to be responsible to 480 million citizens.

The war situation in Southeast Asia. As the weather gets hotter and hotter, the muddy environment in the jungle area seriously affects the soldiers of the US and Japanese armies. Among them, the impact on American soldiers is the most huge. These soldiers who do not have many war traditions cannot compare with the Japanese veterans who have experienced a long battle.

Whether it is discipline or patience, even in terms of spiritual belief, those spoiled master soldiers in the United States cannot adapt to the harsh environment of the tropical rainforest well.

In the Allied Command camp, Swiddie, who had just rushed back from Myanmar, was discussing the recent counterattack with MacArthur.

After the Pearl Harbor incident, the United States joined the war. Stilwell was promoted to lieutenant general in 1942 and was sent to China. He served as chief of staff of the Chinese theater, commander-in-chief of the US military in the China-Myanmar-Indian theater, deputy commander of the Southeast Asian Allied Command, commander of the Chinese army in India, and was assigned to the head of US aid to China and other positions. He was later promoted to four-star general.

The United States spared no effort to assist the revolutionary party because they urgently needed to curb Japan's expansion ambitions in Southeast Asia. But because of his military personality, Swifty was incompatible with the politician Jiang Ruiyuan, and the two had many disputes.

"General MacArthur. When I was in Myanmar, I felt the unusual aura coming from the Japanese army. I'm afraid they are planning a counterattack."

After listening to Swaydy's words, MacArthur also felt the same. He mentioned with concern: "I also have such concerns. I'm afraid this has a lot of connection with the Chinese. I always feel that they have made many shameful deals with the Japanese behind their backs."

"I don't like Jiang Ruiyuan, a cunning and unscrupulous politician, but the information he provided to me was pretty good. Hualian has been in ambiguous with Japan after recapturing the three northeastern provinces and Taiwan. I also received news that Japanese supply ships and troop transport ships can freely pass through the waters controlled by Hualian. If this issue is true, should our government consider its current China policy?"

Swifty and MacArthur are both pure soldiers, and they are not unaware of politics, but more often, they tend to show tough attitudes.

"Hmph! Hualian refused our fleet to enter the Chinese waters and also refused our planes to enter their airports along the coast. Now, they allowed the Japanese to safely maintain the logistics supply line. I even suspected that they were secretly providing strategic supplies to Japan!" As soon as MacArthur talked about these things, his face was full of anger.

The US military's progress in Southeast Asia was not smooth, except that it used naval advantages to drive the Japanese army away from the coast with naval guns and aircraft. But the problem also arises. The US military is not good at fighting in the jungle and cannot exert its mechanization advantage. Many tanks can only dock on the shore and cannot penetrate deep into the jungle.

The war began to stalemate, and MacArthur, as the main general, naturally would not feel much better, and he hated the Hualian government, which had an ambiguous attitude towards Japan.

The war situation in Southeast Asia was chaotic, and Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam were successively occupied by the US military. As a last resort, Yamashita Fengmoto led the remnants to retreat to the Marshall Islands.

This place is located in the Central Pacific Ocean, with an area of ​​181 square kilometers, about 3,200 kilometers southwest of Hawaii and about 2,100 kilometers southeast of Guam. It consists of more than 1,200 islands and reefs of large and large, distributed in more than 2 million square kilometers of sea areas, forming two chain island groups in the northwest-southeast direction.

The Latak Islands in the east and the Lalik Islands in the west, with 34 main islands and reefs. It was originally occupied by the Germans before World War I, but now it is under the jurisdiction of Japan and has become a barrier against the US military.

The simple port is now full of Japanese cargo ships. The war has continued until now, and Japan has reached its limit. Even transport ships have to be served by private merchant ships and cargo ships. Some are even old antiques from the Meiji Restoration era.

Hiroyao Ikeda was the person in charge of the handover of supplies. Tomofumi Yamashita personally received him at the port. As soon as he got off the ship, Hiroyao Ikeda saw the ragged Japanese soldiers, and many of them even had terrible scars on their faces.

The guard of honor who came to greet him could not even get all the clean and tidy clothes, and they were patched and ragged, and the dirt that stuck together could not be washed clean no matter how hard they were washed.

"Has the empire fallen to this level?" Hiroyao Ikeda sighed secretly. Although the situation of the Japanese army had long been unoptimistic, he did not expect that the situation had deteriorated to this point now.

"Ikeda, I welcome you on behalf of the loyal and brave soldiers of the Imperial Kingdom." Yamashita Bongfu was wearing a wrinkled military uniform, and even had faded in some places. He looked haggard and the scene was indescribably funny.

However, Hiroyao Ikeda and other people from China were no longer able to laugh. The Emperor* team, which once arrogantly wanted to fight for the world, has now almost turned into a beggar. This is not a funny thing.

Many people accompanying him were secretly wiping tears behind their backs, and some sailors on the boat were also excited. At the call of the emperor, they fought bravely. However, they did not expect that Japan had reached the end of their lives. How could these young and passionate soldiers calm down?

The naked Japanese workers worked hard, using relatively primitive manpower to unload the cargo on the ship. Boxes filled with weapons and food were full of Japanese militarism's last dream.

"General Yamashita, this is the weapons and supplies prepared by the Army Agency for the next counterattack plan, which is enough to support the next counterattack plan." Heiyao Ikeda took out a brand new AK-47 assault rifle, which is the weapon provided to them by Zhong Yang. It is specially used in jungle terrain with many obstacles, and can effectively restrain the US military's ground forces.

"What is this kind of rifle?" He took over the rough-working ak-47 from Hiroyao Ikeda. Yamashita Bongfu was so excited that he was unbelievable. This unique loading mode and novel shape were definitely not unfamiliar with it. As early as when he was fighting with China, the Japanese Army yearned for possessing a weapon like an assault rifle.

However, the Army Weapons Agency has always lacked funds and resources, and has not been able to develop a single-soldier rapid-fire rifle that meets the needs of the frontline. And isn’t the assault rifle that I have always dreamed of?

"This is a product that we have improved with reference to the German assault rifle, the Type 43 assault rifle." Hiroyo Ikeda lied to Yamashita Takamoto without changing his expression, but indeed the Japanese Army Weapons Agency had obtained drawings and was stepping up the production of this assault rifle that was almost a replica of the AK-47, and also changed its new name to Type 43.

The gun body is short and has a short range, which is suitable for combat at close range. It adopts the principle of air-guided automatic, and the rotary locking bolt is 7.62mm caliber, launches 7.62x39mm m1943 intermediate power bullets, and the arc-shaped magazine with a capacity of 30 rounds of bullets can supply ammunition. The backup magazine can carry up to 90 rounds of bullets, which is equivalent to 3 clamps.

Semi-automatic or fully automatic launching methods can be chosen. This weapon is not suitable for use in plains because it has obvious disadvantages in range and accuracy. However, in Southeast Asia, there are dense jungles and narrow industries, which is a good time to show off this weapon!

Hiroyo Ikeda stared at Yamashita's eyes with a serious face: "General Yamashita, the empire needs you to counterattack Southeast Asia and regain Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia, and create conditions for eliminating the American army entrenched in the Philippines!"

"This is not enough. We need a navy and a fleet!" Yamashita Tomoto pointed at the supplies beside him. He could not defeat the huge American fleet at sea with his army weapons.

"A new fleet is being prepared in China and will be back soon. You must reorganize the imperial army and be ready for a big war at any time!"

"If naval aid can be sent, nothing will be a problem!" After hearing the news of the counterattack, Yamashita's face finally showed a bright look. After being bullied by the Americans for so long, why didn't he want to beat him back?

After the Battle of Midway, the main Japanese fleet was almost completely lost. That naval battle changed the strength of Japanese and American aircraft carriers in the Pacific region. The Japanese army had only 2 large aircraft carriers and 4 light aircraft carriers.

From then on, Japan began to lose its strategic initiative in the Pacific battlefield, and the battle situation showed a turning point that was beneficial to the Allies. The characteristic of this naval battle was that the maritime combat formations of both sides carried out assaults with carrier-based aviation troops outside the range of naval guns.

The reason for the failure of the Japanese army was that they overestimated the combat effectiveness of their aircraft carriers and fought in two battle directions at the same time, and their troops were dispersed; the situation was wrong, and they believed that the US aircraft carriers had no time to assemble to the war zone; the communication technology was backward and lacked careful maritime reconnaissance, and the location of the US aircraft carrier was not determined until the critical moment; the battlefield command was improper and the determination was volatile.

Hiroyao Ikeda stood on the wooden bridge of the harbor's suggestion and looked at China far away. His eyes were mixed with doubts: Will those Chinese fulfill their promises and provide Japan with new naval warships?

And there is also such a debate within the Ancient Chinese Society.

"Yang, are you really planning to provide warships to the Japanese Navy?" Only Zhou Hua and Gu Yuejun are aware of this matter at present, and both of them have doubts about it.

"Japan's shrinking troops at the southern end of the Pacific so early will likely lead to the failure of our plan to attack Southeast Asia. With the current strength of the Hualian League, it is impossible to launch a war against the two behemoths of the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time on both north and south battlefields. Therefore, it is completely necessary to allow Japan to retain a certain strength and delay the United States' pace!"

Zhong Yang stood in front of the balcony, placing his hands on the railing, and also looked at the direction of Southeast Asia.

"Southeast Asia must maintain its balance of power as much as possible before we completely disintegrate the Soviet Union, and this is also a good time for us to drain Japan's national strength. If we want to obtain these warships, they must pay enough price!"

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