In Qingdao, surrounded by the encirclement, Kanwei Hiromon was like a rat in a light box. He thought of countless ways and wanted to escape, but he did not succeed. It has been 7 days since the northwest stabilized the outer defense line, and then dug trenches behind him, building a stable position, and then guarded there, waiting quietly for the Japanese who were besieged.

At first, Mitsumon Kamio was worried about the other party's sudden attack and excavated a large number of fortifications. In the first three days, the Japanese army in the encirclement was divided into two parts, resting and half were still digging trenches. However, no matter whether they were on guard or doing something else, the other party had no sense of attack.

After a long time, Kamio Mitsumon also realized that the other party had no intention of fighting, and just surrounded him. They were very clear about it. They were just waiting to get the advantage in the end. As long as their army supplies were all exhausted, even if Kamio Mitsumon wanted to fight, they could not fight.

In ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, whether in the cold weapons era or the hot weapons era, the logistics department and the logistics department are all important aspects. Now it is more important. A gun without bullets is not much different from a fire stick. As for food, it is even more important. A unit with strong combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced after three days of hunger. If it is 7 days, then there is no need to fight and collect the body directly.

At present, all supplies are consumed on the entire shore, so it will definitely not work if this continues. Logically, the Japanese base camp should have received news long ago, but there is no one at all, not even a single contact, let alone a supplementary supply. Food can be supported for 20 days, and there is no shortage of water. But looking at the 18th Division, Mitsumon Kamio knew that if there was no news in another 7 days, the entire army would probably collapse, even if it did not surrender directly to the other party, it would also launch a suicide impact on the stable defense line. Such suffering is definitely not something that people can bear, especially in desperate situations.

At this moment, it was not only Mitsumon Kamio who was suffering. In the base camp of Tokyo, Japan, Japan had been waiting for news from the front line. It decided to use a large army, 80,000 troops and the entire joint fleet. They were for victory. Shandong's sphere of influence and the outstanding port of Jiaozhou Bay have always been coveted. The Japanese joint fleet needs a stable military port, and there is no one that is most suitable than Qingdao.

Japan is not a lunatic. Unless it is a battle to bet on national fortunes, it will not send troops casually. It is not time to bet on national fortunes. Qingdao's German army has only a few thousand people and only a few small warships. It is not all in Qingdao. According to their expectations, it should not be difficult to win. Qingdao's fortress is very strict, and the German soldiers in Qingdao cannot exert all the strength of the fortress. With dozens of times the military advantage, plus the fleets of Britain and France, it is no problem to take Qingdao. But so far, when the frontline war reports have not yet come back, it is logical that the war has begun. There are traffic ships and special personnel. If you go to nearby cities with a little fullness, you can send a telegram, but there is no at all, nothing at all. What is wrong?

The most important thing is that the Telegraph Bureau sent a clear message from the Northwest. On the day they were about to attack Qingdao, their attack was 10 am, but at 8 am, Germany officially returned Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay to the Northwest, and invited many guests to attend the ceremony. Their Japanese diplomats and reporters also went there.

This news alarmed everyone in the base camp. All the plans made were seated in Qingdao in the hands of the Germans. If it were in the hands of the northwest, many things would have to be re-evaluated, and maybe even suffered great losses. There was no one in Germany, but there were many people in the northwest. In the war against Russia, at least there were more than 300,000 troops in the northwest were found.

The base camp is still not worried. After all, no matter how powerful the Northwest is, it is just a land power. The ships inherited by the Qing Dynasty navy were only more than 4,000 tons, and the main gun was only 203 mm main gun. Compared with the ships of the Combined Fleet, I don’t know how much worse it is. Not to mention battleships and battle patrols, one armored cruiser is enough to kill the opponent’s light cruiser one-on-three. With sea protection, if you suffer some losses, you can’t fight, and you will come back. If you suffer a little loss, use the navy to cover the army, and you will come back.

Next, the news of the declaration of war on Japan came after more than an hour. The top leaders of the Japanese military were almost out of anger. They did not expect that the Northwest would be so bold and did not even settle the account of designing Japan with the Northwest. Whether it was the cotton crisis or the rubber crisis behind it, the Northwest was the Northwest. Although Yang Yuanzhao was very secretive, behind Japan were the British and French powers. If they really made up their minds to come and find an opponent, they would easily find an opponent. By the way, they would tell Japan that Japan would hold a grudge and attack China behind their backs.

Whether it is the cotton cloth crisis or the rubber crisis that followed, Japan's losses are huge. China's industrial development, especially light industry, almost blocked Japan's pace of moving to the world. Japan is good at, China is also good at, and with the support of the powerful industry in the northwest, it is better than Japan. The Japanese use the cost of squeezing workers and frantically producing the reduced cost. Faced with the upgrading of the Northwest industry, the cost of machine efficiency is too far inferior. Labor occupies an important aspect in inefficient production. However, when the efficiency of the machine is 10 times, 100 times, or 1,000 times that of ordinary labor, the labor cost can almost be ignored so that it is not necessary to calculate. What restricts the price of the product is always the cost of the raw materials itself.

In this way, with the help of the low cost and quality of machine production, while China was popular all over the world, it also caused a large number of bankruptcy in Japan's handicrafts and textile industries. That is, after the outbreak of the European War, it got a little order from Britain and France. The Japanese government was holding back the fire. This time, the attack on Qingdao was also to suppress the Northwest, and even contact the Beiyang and the Revolutionary Party. Who would have thought that another person was put on the ground. The Northwest declared war on Japan unilaterally, and declared war, which proved that the other party would almost certainly start a fight.

I don’t know what the situation will be in Qingdao, but I am not worried about the Japanese base camp. With the joint fleet in it, the South Manchuria and North Korea and Taiwan immediately notified the Japanese soldiers located in the Northeast, North Korea and Taiwan with telegram to be prepared at any time. Maybe the war will come next.

The major event of declaring war was that China was close to me. Japan has always regarded China as its target. Its purpose of entering the mainland and occupying the mainland has never stopped. Not to mention Japan now, even during the Warring States Period, the once magical Taige, after unifying Japan, thought of going to the mainland to show off its power, but was beaten by the Ming Dynasty at that time, and it could not even be said to be the Ming Dynasty, but it was just a northeastern border army. However, the spirit of yearning for the mainland in its bones was left behind.

This time, with the acquiescence of Britain and France, Japan occupied the power of Shandong. Compared with the Northeast, Shandong is a little far away from Japan, but it is the most suitable. You don’t have to enter the Bohai Bay and go down directly along the Yellow Sea. Compared with the cold and harsh Northeast, the climate conditions are better. The most important thing is that it is close to the core area of ​​China, close to Zhili and Anhui, and not far from the rich areas of Jiangnan. In terms of the purpose of occupying the mainland, it has taken a big step forward.

Since this telegram started, no good telegram has been sent. It has been an hour since the war started for so long. What happened? Did Qingdao take it down or was it a fierce battle? All the personnel in the rear were a little scared, and even the General Staff kept ordering spies in China to investigate clearly what happened in Qingdao.

Unfortunately, China had prepared for the war zone, and the control of the war zone was quite tight. On one night, dozens of special training officers were sent away. Next, hundreds of thousands of troops of the entire First Army were blocked from guarding the outside. When Lukaka was in charge of all aspects, it was almost impossible to know the situation in the core area. For this reason, the General Staff ordered the spies to rush inside at almost no cost to figure out everything.

Countless spies rushed towards Qingdao like rabbits, but were left unsuccessful by the layers of defense of the Northwest Army. The previous method, money, and faced with strict discipline and patriotic beliefs, there was no use at all. It would be better to say that there was no bribery, at most it was regarded as a mistake, but once bribery was taken as a tyrant, it was immediately taken down and sent to the intelligence agency.

After Yang Yuanzhao's personal care and a lot of money was cultivated, the intelligence agency was so professional and amateur. The spies who grew up with Japan's development had very low professional skills, that is, the chaotic China gave them the opportunity. During World War I and World War II, the Japanese intelligence department had no performance except China and was almost beaten by Britain and the United States.

It was thousands of miles away, and the sea was separated from the middle. In this era, it was very difficult to figure out everything ahead. However, there were still wired telegrams on the land, but the nearby ones were controlled by the northwest. Although Britain and France received information from the soldiers who escaped from Japan, they did not inform Japan. It was almost one day later, that is, five days after the war started, and there were also telegrams from the 18th Division. These two were divided into sequences. The 18th Division was about 2 hours earlier, and the British and French were two hours later. They were sent directly by the ambassador to Japan. (To be continued.)
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