Just when Shandong was in a strange equilibrium, a long-lost war finally began.

To everyone's surprise, this time the Japanese army launched an offensive not from the three eastern provinces bordering Korea, but from the sea. The first to contact the battle turned out to be the navy in the northeast, which was too weak to be weaker.

In the northeast, Yingkou is in an almost enclosed inland sea not far from Yingkou, and the navy of the northeast is stationed in it. Now the navy in the northeast is still only those six gunboats. But the navy has expanded to 3,000 people, all of whom have been trained on rotation during this time. The naval base is located not far away.

"Report to the commander, discover the Japanese Navy!" An urgent telegram came from the watchtower.

"What!" Zhang Chaoqun, commander of the Northeast Navy, stood up all of a sudden.

"Pass my order, the first brigade will board the ship, and the remaining eight brigades will immediately set off for the north and go to the Southern Military Region!" Zhang Chaoqun made an accurate judgment that the enemy's navy was definitely coming for the navy in the northeast, and although the navy in the northeast was weak and had only six gunboats, there were already quite a few qualified naval soldiers. Now the Navy is just short of warships. In the past, the Northeast had neither the funds to buy ships nor the strength to guard warships. Now the Northeast has strength. But they did not have time to buy warships and develop their own navy. Although Northeast China occupies most of China's territory, there is a serious lack of shipbuilding enterprises in its jurisdiction. If you want to develop the navy, the fastest way is to buy it from abroad. It's just that the current army, where are there still warships to sell! The world war drew the attention of all the world's shipbuilding enterprises to the West.

Without a ship, no matter how much training naval soldiers are there, there is no way. On the contrary, it is useless to have the most advanced ships without qualified naval soldiers.

"Commander, are we going to fight them?" Navy political commissar Miao Qing said.

"No! We only have six small gunboats, which are not even the smallest destroyers of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Now we can only retreat first and save the seeds of the navy. Zhang Chaoqun said with a calm face. The development of the Navy is not achieved overnight, and it can even be said that it is not a generational thing. The size of the ships between Tohoku and Japan is not comparable at all. Staying is just a mantis arm as a car.

"I'll send a telegram to the young marshal right now! Little Japan is menacing! Miao Qing's face was very ugly. The forces in the Northeast have basically developed on the army. The Navy has never been expanded on a larger scale. It's not that Feng Yong doesn't want to, but he doesn't have a chance. After the war with Japan, Japan blocked almost the entire ocean. Naval training in the northeast can only be carried out quietly in this hidden inland sea. In this case, warships could not be bought.

Feng Yong is very clear about the financial needs of the construction of the navy, and at this stage, the purpose of the Northeast is to seek self-preservation, and the Japanese Navy is indeed strong, and there is no possibility of victory in the Northeast of China in a short period of time. But the Army is different. Japan is an island nation, and its army is inferior to its navy. Even if Japan strengthened its army building in order to invade China, and new weapons were continuously sent to the army, no one can guarantee how much combat effectiveness it would be able to exert in such a hurry. The current level of technology in Japan cannot be compared with that of the West. Finances have also been in a tight state because of the continuous expansion of the military department. The battle to gamble on the fortunes of the country forced Japan to be cautious.

"Yes! After sending the telegram, the commissar you go with the eight brigades on land. I will lead all the ships into the Liao River by water! As long as they enter the Liao River, there is nothing they can do about the little Japanese warship! "The Liao River is still in a frozen state, but in the event of a possible war with Little Japan in the northeast, a waterway has been carved out. Every day, there are dedicated people to clean up the waterway. It was meant to be just in case. After all, the hope of the Northeast cannot be lost, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now.

Offshore, the gunboats showed their agility and quickly left the almost closed inland sea through the waterways. Then head upstream along the river. Soon, this secret base of the Northeast Navy was empty.

Boom ——!

There was a loud bang. The naval houses on the shores of the inland sea turned into a sea of fire. I have to say that the technology of the small Japanese Navy, which has experienced several major wars, is really good.

Southern Military District.

During this time, Zhen Zhen was busy with the training of the troops. Like the Southeast Military Region, the Southern Military Region has also been trained by the Northeast Army, although its current scale cannot be compared with the more than 100,000 troops of the Southeast Military Region. But now the total number of troops is more than 80,000 people. Moreover, all kinds of new weapons are being delivered to the army in a steady stream. Involve soldiers in run-in training.

"Report to the Commander! Navy Emergency! The third detachment of the Japanese Combined Fleet appeared at the naval base and carried out artillery shelling of the naval base, destroying all the naval ground accommodation facilities. All personnel have fled, and there are no casualties recorded! The intelligence officer urgently sent the telegram to Zhen Zhen.

"Got it!" Zhen Zhen said in a deep voice. Then his face slowly turned gloomy.

"Commander!" Political Commissar Qian Zhuangfei got the news and rushed to the headquarters as soon as possible.

"It's time to come! It's okay, let's fight a good battle, so that little Japan can also see how powerful we are. A hint of murder appeared on Zhen Zhen's face. Because of the blockade of Little Japan, the development of Tohoku was greatly suppressed. Whenever he saw his own weak navy nesting in the inland sea, whenever he saw the merchant ships flying the American flag busy in the harbor, and whenever he saw the Japanese Combined Fleet showing off its might on the sea, Zhen Zhen felt a faint pain in his heart. But they did not have the strength to rush to the sea, and at present they could only nest on land and wait for the enemy to attack.

"Commander! How could Japan choose to attack our navy? Fortunately, we maintain the waterway of the Liao River, otherwise the navy would be really dangerous. Qian Zhuangfei had palpitations, everyone in the Northeast knew that Japan might have to fight with the Northeast. But no one expected that the Japanese navy would attack the weakest navy in the northeast.

"Who knows! But little Japan has a move. And so the war began. Order the troops to enter the first level of alert and wait for the order to attack at any time! Zhen Zhen said in a deep voice.

"Sortie? Commander, where are we going to attack? Qian Zhuangfei was stunned. They are facing the sea! Do you want the army to go to the sea to fight the navy?

"Lushun! If the Japanese moved, Lao Tzu would send troops to attack Lushun. Grandma's, what bullshit Golden State! Lao Tzu feels disgusted every time he hears this title! Zhen Zhen said viciously. When the war begins, don't expect Commander Zhen to play his cards according to common sense. As long as he can strike at the Japanese forces, Commander Zhen does not mind doing anything.

"Commissar, the ideological problems of the troops will be handed over to you! As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, we have been training comfortably for so long, and it's time to show the blade! The young marshal handed over so many advanced weapons to us, and even for the sake of secrecy, he did not even equip the front-line soldiers fighting in the country. We carry too much hope for the young marshal, and we must not fail! Zhen Zhen said in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, commander, I guarantee that when the war breaks out, the soldiers of our Southern Military Region will have high morale and will not be afraid of death!" Qian Zhuangfei said confidently.

Northeast Marshal's Mansion.

"Are you coming? Navy, it's really unexpected! Feng Yong said in a deep voice. Japan's choice of point of attack was indeed beyond his expectations. However, he was relieved that the navy had escaped successfully. If Zhang Chaoqun had the slightest hesitation at that time, I am afraid that the navy soldiers who had worked hard in the northeast would have suffered huge losses. The fact that the Northeast is unable to build a navy now does not mean that it will not be able to do so in the future. Northeast China controls most of China's territory and has a population of more than 100 million, so Feng Yong has no fear of any force due to such a huge war potential.

"Order the ministries to carry out Plan A!" Feng Yong ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

The so-called Plan A is a war plan prepared by Feng Yong based on the possible war between Northeast China and Japan. The regular strength of the Northeast Army is about 500,000. Because of the vast territory, it is impossible to put all of them into the battlefield. Among them, the troops of the Western Military Region are scattered over a huge territory in the northwest and are unable to provide support for this war. The main forces of the Southwest Military Region were in Shandong, maintaining the situation in Shandong, and at the same time guarding against the Japanese troops in Qingdao. The main force of Zhang Zuolin's division of the Northern Military Region has been transferred back to the Tianjin area to protect Beijing's security. The Northwest Military Region has already begun to dispatch, and the main force of 60,000 people has entered the northeast from the steppe as a general reserve for operations against Japan. At the same time, Liu Hei, commander of the Northeast Military Region, also led more than 30,000 people of the main third division to the south, and with the help of the South Manchurian Railway, it could support battlefield operations in various places at any time.

Both the South-Eastern Military Region and the Southern Military Region have entered the first level of combat readiness and are ready to engage the Japanese army at any time.

For the Japanese navy, Feng Yong was powerless to deal with, and the army units could only withdraw from the enemy's fire range in the coastal areas. The heavy artillery on the Japanese warships was very terrifying. Feng Yong didn't want his soldiers to make senseless sacrifices. The only way to deal with Japan is to trade space for time. Then a decisive battle with the Japanese army in the interior area. For the coastal county, Feng Yong also issued an order to avoid trouble. There is no guarantee that little Japan's navy will not take action against some coastal cities.

"Young Marshal, is the national mobilization order launched?" Li Yang asked. The so-called national mobilization order is the government issuing that the whole country has entered a state of war, and all manpower, material resources, and resources are moving closer to war! Originally, it was not called a national mobilization order, but a wartime system. It was only after the establishment of the Beijing government that Feng Yong renamed the entire system the National Mobilization Order.

"Not yet! The more than 200,000 people in the two military regions that we have been preparing for so long and spending a lot of energy to build are finally about to bear fruit. If the two military regions can resist the attack of the Japanese Army, there is no need to launch this system. "The wartime system was established by Feng Yong based on the wartime system in the early days of the establishment of Soviet Russia. It was used only in the most difficult moments of the Northeast Army. Feng Yong knows the benefits and harms of that system. Administrative directives replace specific business laws and can concentrate the power of the entire system on the greatest scale. At the same time, it will cause the rigidity and withering of business practices. The wartime system was rationed on all sides. It is also a heavy pressure on the people under the system. Speaking of which, the system in the Northeast is not pure socialism. Nor can it achieve the absolute control of socialism.

(To be continued)