Saito Minoru looked embarrassed, but after noticing the awe-inspiring coldness in Emperor Hirohito's eyes, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and respond: "Hai, I will do my best in this humble position!"

After kneeling down to say goodbye to the Empress of Japan, Saito Minoru left the palace by car and went straight to the residence of his cabinet prime minister. He ordered people to notify Prime Minister Lu, and Prime Minister Hai and other cabinet ministers rushed to convene an emergency meeting.

On the Korean Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula, Zhang Xinghan's secret order was issued to the Fourth and First Army.

More than 500,000 soldiers of the Northeast Frontier Army, Army, Navy and Air Force began intensive beach landing operations drills, and the logistics departments of each army also began to secretly mobilize and transport grain, ammunition and other military supplies.

After nearly a month of sailing, Task Force Jiaolong began to return to the secret base at Lushun Military Port to replenish fuel and ammunition in preparation for another attack.

For a time, the four northeastern provinces and the Korean Peninsula were full of large-scale military training scenes, which were unprecedentedly grand.

The morale of the officers and soldiers is high. With the training day after day, the cooperation between the new recruits and the veterans becomes more and more tacit and skillful.

The combat power is improving little by little.

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Jilin City, Northeast Frontier Army Headquarters.

Zhang Xinghan and Jiang Baili were standing next to the map discussing military affairs. Although the strategic plan to attack Japan in half a year had been finalized, the specific implementation, troop input and other matters still required careful discussion and deliberation by the two heads of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force.

At this time, Zhang Xinghan's Northeast Frontier Defense Force had four army groups, one naval fleet, and one reinforced air force division.

As mentioned earlier, the formerly directly subordinate units, such as tanks, chariot units, and heavy artillery units, have been divided into four group armies according to actual needs.

As for these four group armies, due to the needs of the garrisoned areas and the situation, Wang Yizhe's First Group Army and Zhao Zhenfan's Fourth Group Army received priority in the supply of soldiers and advanced equipment.

Among them, the total strength of the Fourth Army has exceeded 300,000, and the strength of the First Army has also expanded from the original 120,000 to more than 250,000. In addition, there are puppets supported in Goryeo.

The regime's Goryeo puppet army numbered more than 60,000 people.

Not counting the air force and navy, the total strength of the two armies plus the puppet army has exceeded 600,000.

Jiang Baili pointed at the map and looked up at Zhang Xinghan and said: "Among our 600,000 troops, at least 100,000 troops should be stationed on the northeastern border, the border areas of the Koryo Peninsula and Soviet Russia respectively.

In other words, the army field troops that can be used to land and attack the Japanese mainland can reach 400,000 troops.

Together with the 60,000 Goryeo puppet troops, navy and air force, the total troop investment will reach 600,000."

"Six hundred thousand people?" Zhang Xinghan shook his head slightly and said: "The six hundred thousand army is a lot less, but if you want to truly conquer Japan, it is still insufficient!"

As a time traveler from modern times, Zhang Xinghan certainly knew that it would not be enough to truly conquer the entire Japan with just these 500,000 people.

Because Japan's population at this time is approximately 70 million people, if the Japanese come to fight on the mainland, the number of troops that can be mobilized will be at least 4 to 5 million (without affecting the operation of industrial production). This is

This does not include the elderly, women and children.

Jiang Baili nodded with deep understanding and said: "Yes, I also feel that it is too difficult to conquer Japan with only these 600,000 troops, and it might turn into Japan, and the consequences will be disastrous."

Zhang Xinghan stared at the map without saying a word. After a long time, he made up his mind and said: "Since we cannot eat the entire Japan in one bite with our current strength, let's cut off one of its arms first!"

"Break off one of his arms?" Jiang Baili said with a stern look, "Do you mean to adopt a cannibalization policy?"

"That's right. I have decided to set the strategic goal of this time as using this landing attack as an opportunity to severely damage the Japanese naval combined fleet. And quickly launch the 400,000 main force to land on Kyushu Island, which is across the sea from the Koryo Peninsula.

force.

Although the 600,000 land, sea and air force is not enough to capture the entire Japan, it is more than enough to capture a mere Kyushu island!" Zhang Xinghan made a final decision.

Jiang Baili lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and then said happily: "The chief is wise. Kyushu Island is the third largest island in the Japanese archipelago. If it can be captured, it will be equivalent to causing the Japanese to lose one-third of their territory and nearly 10 million people. Absolutely

Can inflict heavy damage on Japan!"

Zhang Xinghan said with a fiery look in his eyes: "Moreover, Japan's considerable military and industrial industries are gathered on Kyushu Island. Nagasaki, Fukuoka and other places are all important industrial bases in Japan.

Kumamoto, Miyazaki and other places were Japan's troop supply areas, and its most powerful Sixth Division came from there.

The most important thing is that Kyushu Island and the Koryo Peninsula face each other across the sea and are completely within the effective strike range of our air force.

The landing troops can take full advantage of the air force fire support.

In addition, after capturing Kyushu Island, the forward bases of our navy, army and air force can be located on the Japanese mainland.

From then on, the entire Japanese mainland and the surrounding sea areas of hundreds of nautical miles are covered within the strike radius of our navy and air force.

It can further effectively block, attack, and weaken Japan."

Jiang Baili said: "After this, we should also expand our military as soon as possible to increase the total number and combat effectiveness of our military. At the same time, we should strengthen training and develop our heavy industry and military industry.

Under this ebb and flow, Japan will collapse soon, and that will be the time when we all capture the four islands of Japan."

"The capture of Japan is just the beginning to relieve the Chinese nation's biggest border trouble. If we, the Chinese nation, want to truly achieve rejuvenation, we must compete with the European and American powers again.

Morality, fairness, and possessions are all in the hands of the party with the strongest fist. This principle still applies from ancient times to the present.

A country's territorial integrity, sovereign independence, and inviolability cannot be achieved by just shouting slogans, but must be fought with real swords and guns.

Only by completely defeating China militarily and frightening the surrounding European, American and Soviet powers so that they dare not spy on China's vast mountains and rivers can we talk about construction, development, and realize the great rejuvenation of our Chinese nation.

In a word, if China wants to rise, stand on top of the world again, and regain the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it must first strengthen its army."

"Well said, only a strong enough army can ensure that the motherland is not invaded!" Jiang Baili nodded repeatedly with empathy.

"That's it. We'll conquer Japan first, gather all our strength for development, and then we'll have a showdown with the old guys, the Yankees, and the British. We have the final say in the Far East, we have the final say in the Pacific, and we have the final say in Asia.

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If possible, we have the final say in the whole world." Zhang Xinghan paused and changed the subject: "However, in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan to attack Japan, starting from today, we should immediately start operations in the base areas of our nine provinces and four cities.

A large-scale recruitment campaign was launched again.

We strive to form ten more reorganized divisions in half a year, with a total of 250,000 to 300,000 people.

After these troops are mixed with the active troops of the Second and Third Army, there will be at least 200,000 more fresh troops, who can join the battle as a reserve force in case of a critical moment of the invasion of Japan!"
Chapter completed!