Chen Mingxiang no longer had much hope for the victory or defeat of the battlefield in Henan Province, and the beginning also showed that the First Theater Command simply did not have the determination to fight to the death to protect the territory and the common people, and it is very telling that a large brigade of the Japanese army could conquer such an important city as Shangdu.

Historically, in terms of tactics, there have been cases of first showing the enemy weakness or avoiding its edge, and then introducing an ambush circle to encircle and annihilate or occupy favorable terrain to block the attack, but the battlefield situation in Yu Province proves that this is purely thinking too much, losing a city and county a day, and look at how fast this is!

It cannot be said that the troops of the First Theater did not resist, in fact, many of the troops fought very bravely, but it is a pity that the command of the First Theater was too corrupt, and they wanted to run without fighting, completely ignoring the local people, and were robbed and killed by the Japanese army.

Chen Mingxiang concentrated all his energies on the work of collecting intelligence on the battlefields in Central China, but what he did not expect was that this time it would be much smoother than collecting operational intelligence on the North China Front, and the reason was very simple: The operational plans of the 11 th Army Headquarters were sent to the 13 th Army Headquarters and the Navy respectively.

In view of the importance of this war, when the 11th Army began its offensive, the 13th Army Command also had to take auxiliary actions, while the Japanese Navy needed to provide assistance for the logistics and personnel transportation of the sending army, and the transportation plan was obtained.

Chen Mingxiang is an acquaintance of the Marine Corps Command, and when he comes to the gate, he doesn't need to check his documents or report it, he can enter directly, he knows him from top to bottom, and he has to come to deliver things during the New Year's holidays.

As a matter of fact, the position of the current Japanese Navy's fleet in Huaxia is very embarrassing, and all the large warships have been evacuated, and even the notorious cruiser Izumo has been transferred back to China to become training ships, and the ships that remain in Huaxia at present are several destroyers and a number of gunboats, patrol boats, and demining boats.

Think about how majestic the Japanese navy stationed in Shanghai was now, and now, launched in the 23rd year of the Republic of China, equipped with three 120-mm main guns, nine 25-mm anti-aircraft guns, equipped with artillery electric commanders, sonar, radar and other instruments, with a speed of 20 knots and a displacement of 1,350 tons, the Uji gunboat has actually become the flagship of the river patrol fleet.

Not only warships, but also the 1st and 3rd Squadrons were downgraded to special base squadrons, and only the 2nd Squadron in the port city was retained.

The Marine Corps Command in Shanghai has also fallen into an embarrassing situation, it has no combat mission, and it will not be transferred to the battlefield by the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army.

"According to the instructions of the base camp, all the transport ships of our Huaxia fleet, including the few newly recovered from you, have been put into the work of transporting supplies for the army, and according to the regulations, the mission will be completed before 23 May."

"I judge that the attack time of the Eleventh Army should be around the twenty-seventh, which is the day when Marshal Heihachiro Togo of our Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Navy, and it is also Navy Day."

"In particular, the 22nd Division stationed in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, should be transported to Yangcheng by sea to participate in the coordinated operations of the 23rd Army, and launch an attack on Gui Province together with the 104th Division, the 22nd Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 23rd Independent Mixed Brigade."

"The time of the 23rd Army's offensive should be from late June to early July, and the 11th Army's offensive should be planned first, if the 11th Army cannot achieve victory in Tanzhou, and then take Hengzhou and Yongzhou, their offensive will be meaningless."

"Look at the navy of the empire, in terms of China, we have become the level of giving a hand to the army, it has only been five years, just five years!" Ono Osa said in a depressed mood.

Five years ago, the Japanese navy was on a rampage on the rivers and coasts of China, and the Yamashiro government's navy was completely lost, and there was no force that could match it, and the air force was in the same situation.

"Ono-kun, General Yamamoto 56 strongly opposed a war with the United States back then, and now the facts also prove that he was very far-sighted at the beginning, not that the Imperial Navy did not work hard, but that the difference in strength between the two industrial countries is too far, and you don't have to blame yourself so much."

"The strategic offensive of the dispatch army is basically carried out on land, and the gunboats and gunboats on the navy side cannot play a role, everyone is serving the empire, and it is good if they can do their best, which also shows that our navy still has an important role." Chen Mingxiang said.

Since the United States entered the wartime economy, the speed of building ships has been astonishing, especially the aircraft carriers, which determine the victory or defeat of the navy, and the fastest time is to launch one ship a week, which has made the Japanese navy desperate.

In fact, most of these aircraft carriers are the type of escort aircraft carriers, which are transformed with merchant ships, not aircraft carriers in the strict sense, and even so, Japan does not have such speed, and it has no ability to transform with merchant ships, which requires the support of the industrial base.

"Chen Jun, you don't know how much pressure we have, now the war situation is getting more and more tense, when the domestic marines are fighting with the United States, we are full every day and have nothing to do, and other marines call it the safest marine, which is a shame for the marines stationed in Shanghai."

"However, many officers and soldiers who submitted applications to go to the battlefield were rejected by the Military Command Department, and Shanghai is also an important part of the war, and our task is to guard this place and ensure the supply of military supplies for the war." Shimada Nakasa said.

Chen Mingxiang felt a deep atmosphere of frustration at the Marine Corps Headquarters, and he had lunch at the Headquarters with a happy mood, and then returned home, where he found that the Marine Corps relationship had been used to the extreme.

"In the future, the so-called Chinese fleet will no longer be able to give me much valuable things, or rather, they themselves will lose their value, without the fleet, without combat aircraft, and without the participation in military operations, they will wait for when Japan will be defeated and when their fate in China will end."

"As for the smuggling transaction between the Huatong Trading Company and the Guotong Region, I think we can hurry up the time to stock up the goods, and when the second phase of the war breaks out, the purchase and transportation of materials in various places will be greatly affected, and we must not offend the Japanese at this time."

"You send an order to the Intelligence Bureau, give me a secret investigation of the situation of Kodama's agency, especially where the wealth robbed by Kodama and Shifu in Shanghai is stored, these are all things from our Huaxia, and he can't be brought to Japan." Chen Mingxiang said.