"We really have two million troops?" Zhou Bai was surprised. Some time ago, it was only 1.5 million, but in two or three months, it was already 2 million.

"Two million regular troops, to be exact! There are also 1 million armed police and national guards, and 2 million reservists have participated in the militia's short-term training. Fan Chong said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Recently, there have been a lot of new teams in the team, and there are more recruiting points. Recently, there have been more teams recruited. Meng Xiang also smiled, after all, with two million troops, he was much more at ease in his heart. At this time, don't talk about the Japanese, even if the Russians come, they won't be able to ask for any benefit. It's just that the 500,000 newly recruited out of these two million are still in the boot camp, and it will take two or three months for them to become qualified recruits.

"The construction corps is included in the two million?" Zhou Bai asked.

"Yes, half a million construction corps. In fact, they were selected by various units, but their combat effectiveness was not strong. Fan Chong shook his head slightly, "However, we still have 1.5 million army combat troops left, and these are selected qualified soldiers. ”

The Construction Corps still maintains the establishment of regular troops, which is also because some of the personnel who have been brushed down are those who have been promised by the vanguard army to enjoy the treatment of the army. It can only be a slow transition, and it is impossible to push to the National Guard all at once.

"The construction corps can be separately organized in the future, but it still needs to be adjusted after a period of stability." Pharmacist Tang interjected.

Now more and more people are coming to join the vanguard army, especially the central army and some local warlords, and their soldiers have defected to the vanguard army because of the name and treatment of the vanguard army, and many of their unqualified soldiers need to have local arrangements and can only be placed in the construction corps. With the establishment of the Construction Corps, the vanguard army swept down 500,000 people at once. Among the 500,000 recruits, 200,000 have already been set to join the construction corps.

"One and a half million is not a lot!" Zhou Bai sighed, he knew Meng Xiang's plan, the rest of the army would expand the size of the motorized force. The economic pressure is suffocating.

"It's not enough, in the next step, we need to recruit 1 million troops, of which 500,000 will be incorporated into the construction corps, and 500,000 elites will be incorporated into combat units, making up for 2 million regular combat troops." Meng Xiang said categorically, compared with the strong teams in World War II that constantly appeared in tens of millions, these horses are still too few.

"The size of the reserve needs to be doubled to familiarize itself with discipline, platoons, and general techniques and tactics in advance, and four million reservists need to be able to train for less than one month this year, and at least one million of them will be guaranteed three months of training. It is possible to pass qualified training in the boot camp in the shortest possible time. Meng Xiang raised a finger and said.

"Eight million?" Zhou Bai gasped and said coldly.

The reserves also need to be smashed out with money. Although there is an obligation to serve in the military on the territory of the Pioneer Army, militia training also needs to be subsidized a little, so that everyone can train with peace of mind. Do you really think that everyone has a high level of consciousness? Fortunately, there is no shortage of labor in China, the cost of this subsidy is small, and the supply of weapons and ammunition for the vanguard army has always been non-existent, so these four million reservists have saved a lot compared with the regular army. Zhou Bai was surprised by this scale, from ancient times to the present, even if the population of China, there has never been a regime with so many troops.

Even if preliminary statistics on the territory of the vanguard army were based on the population of 200 million at this time, and there was a population base for allocation, the cost of feeding the army was an astronomical figure, and it was far from being supported by the finances of the joint theater at this time.

"Northside?" Zhou Bai knew that this piece must be supported by a special fund. But it still made him feel a little distressed. However, he also knew the purpose of the money, and some of the money had to be spent.

Meng Xiang nodded solemnly.

Zhou Bai sighed and didn't say anything more.

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"The vanguard army may already have two million troops at this time!" Kenji Tohihara bowed his head.

The guard next to him closed his eyes and was silent, and only after a long time did he open his eyes slightly and said, "There are quite a few non-combatants among them. ”

"Excluding those non-combatants, we estimate that the Vanguard Army has more than a million combatants." Kenji Dohihara said bitterly, "According to our intelligence, they may have more than eight hundred planes, and there are definitely more than a thousand combat vehicles. But judging by our comprehensive information, the strength of the vanguard army should be even stronger than this. ”

Of course, this was just his guess, and the strength of the vanguard army was much stronger than his guess.

"That is to say, the plan for the Chinese counteroffensive is not suitable?" Fumiro Konoe seemed to be very casual. I don't know if it's because of the lack of heart or brains, some Japanese were stimulated by the rise of the vanguard army and planned to do their best to suppress them again. For this reason, they hoped to make an armistice with Soviet Russia, so that the Kwantung Army could also attack North China with all its might. He even planned to join forces with Soviet Russia.

Kenji Dohihara was silent, but that already showed that he had a negative opinion about it. If nothing else, let's just say that the hatred between Japan and Russia can be restrained by a blank sheet of paper. The confrontation between the two countries is an urgent reality, unlike the vanguard army, which is only potential. The navy was not strong, and the Vanguard was not yet able to pose much of a threat to the Japanese mainland.

"And what about going south?" Konoe Fumiro said suddenly.

"The Americans are cunning, and there are too many uncertainties in going south." Kenji Dohihara is aware of the recent domestic disputes. Although the plan to go north was shelved, the plan to go south was not accepted by everyone. With more than a million troops in the vanguard army by their side, it was difficult for the Japanese to be stable. But at this time, the strength of the Japanese was not enough to destroy the vanguard army, but they could not watch the vanguard army continue to rise. If you want to stop the rise of the vanguard army, you must have stronger strength. But at this time, Japan lacks this strength.

Resources and wealth are all constraints on Japan's continued development.

However, the vanguard army, which occupied almost half of China, developed like a balloon, and if this continued, in a few years, the vanguard army would even be able to threaten the Japanese mainland. Therefore, Japan needs to be stronger, but at this time, the resources and wealth of the colonies can no longer meet the development and expansion of Japan. Touring around, only Southeast Asia is the most suitable,

Only by obtaining the resources and wealth there can the Japanese become stronger, overwhelm the vanguard army, and then make a move against China.

Kenji Dohihara said so, but he actually supported going south.

"Before, our plan was to go to China first, then Indochina. However, now that we have the Vanguard, we need to adjust the order. After all, the empire has consumed too much. Fumiro Konoe sighed.

After a long time, he stared at Kenji Dohihara and said, "I heard that Nanjing has been a little timid recently?" ”

"Just a little assassination warning." Kenji Dohihara knew that he was asking about the traitor being sniped.

"They are still of some use, don't the vanguard army still have territory in Jiangsu and Zhejiang? Let them go and exterminate there, and don't stop. Although Nanjing is very weak, there are still a lot of people. It's going to be dead for a while. In short, the vanguard army must be dragged nearby, otherwise in less than two years, the entire Jiangnan will be the vanguard army. "Konoe Wenlu is also very annoyed by the development of Jiangsu, Zhejiang rats and their development at this time. When the vanguard army was first developed, it was because the Japanese never cared too much about it and missed the opportunity to stifle them. Now they can't afford to make such mistakes again.

The strategy of using China to contain China thrown out by Konoe Wenlu is not unusual, but when the puppet army faced the vanguard army, it was obviously not full of confidence. The devils have tried to fight the rat a few times, but they have all been defeated. At this time, order the puppet army to go up at any cost, who is willing to sell their lives to those puppet soldiers who are just to eat and mix up the way to live?

Even if the devil threatens his family members in the back, he can't stop the puppet army from having other tricks. They first contacted the vanguard military, and then in the anti-bandit activities again and again, a large number of puppet soldiers were "killed".

The Japanese are not fools, they naturally know that they can't trust the puppet army, but with the consumption of the puppet army's bandit moths to the fire, it can be regarded as being able to drag down the rapid expansion of the vanguard army. Moreover, among the groups of people who defected to the vanguard army, the Japanese also mixed in a lot of spy agents and laid a secret chess.

These measures of the Japanese are only to buy time for their own development.

Any small country understands the helplessness of a small country and wants to become stronger. But to become a big country, you need land, population, resources, and so on. These will not fall from the sky out of thin air, but can only plunder and strengthen themselves little by little from the hands of others. Japan was strong at this time, and it has gone through nearly 100 years of development to get to where it is today. They understand that they can't stop gambling because they're afraid. They won many times in a row from Huaxia during the first day and 918. I also won a bet in the Russo-Japanese War.

Accustomed to gambling their lives, they may need to gamble again. At this time, their eyes were focused on Europe, waiting for the clarity of the war situation.

The weather in Europe seems to be getting hotter and hotter with the arrival of May. The Norwegian war continues to scorch the skies of Northern Europe, but the cold metal light of the sword soldiers does not make people's blood surge. Whoever thinks of the huge army facing off on the Franco-German border at this time will feel more trepidation.

The Germans placed 136 divisions there. The expeditionary forces of France, Belgium, Helan and the British also combined for a total of 135 divisions. Millions of armies are using the products of human civilization to engrave a legend on the epitaph of history.

The Allies were to be more confident, with the French Maginot Line and the Belgian fortresses on their side, how many soldiers could the Germans fill in with this? Music was still playing in the fortress of the Maginot Line of the French, and the British were concentrating on parliament to argue over who would be the new British prime minister. Chamberlain had been reduced to a laughing stock, and the flames of the Germans' guns had burned to his peace treaty.

Due to the unsuccessful situation in Norway, the Germans delayed the offensive a little, but caught up with the original historical trajectory.

In consideration of the weather and the reaction of all parties, especially when the British were still in a cabinet crisis, in the early morning of May 10, Hitler, who had been waiting at the front headquarters in the Eagle's Nest for most of the night, gave the order to attack. On a two-hundred-kilometer front from the North Sea to Maginow, the German 136 divisions split into three lines and began to attack. In addition to dealing with the old rivals of the French, they also directly attacked the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg without declaring war.

The three effects were in a hurry and asked the British for help, but the British prime minister had not yet been elected. They don't care about the battles at the front at all, where there are millions of troops, and they can't hold the Germans?

But they didn't know that the main German force had bypassed the Maginot Line from the Ardennes Forest at this time, and this time the Allied commander-in-chief of the old World War I hero Gammelin had already gathered the main Allied forces north to Belgium. The main German forces suddenly appeared behind the Allies, cutting off their rear at once.

In war, morale is crucial. The Allied forces had begun to panic a little after being cut off, and the chaotic management of the Allied forces made it impossible to effectively suppress this trend of demoralization. When the German tanks rushed over, the Allied forces that had been fighting separately collapsed all at once. The soldiers who had grown up in a peaceful environment for 20 years could not adapt to the baptism of war at once, and a large number of Allied soldiers were annihilated or captured.

When Churchill, the firefly, had finally gotten his lost appendix and had not yet taken away from his joy, the special telephone on his desk rang.

"We were defeated! We were defeated! ......" The French Prime Minister's excited tone was followed by some incoherent words, but the first two sentences were enough to pour a basin of ice water on Churchill's head, and Churchill, who felt that everything was developing in good aspects, could not have imagined that the French team, which was famous in history and had outstanding achievements, would fail on the fifth day of the war.

You must know that at this time, in the hearts of everyone, the French army is at least the second largest army in the world. Defeated in just a few days? Churchill was stunned for a long time, and his mind could not turn around.

It's a pity that this is not a brain teaser, and Churchill, who is full of disbelief, immediately rushed to Paris after giving an explanation. In the end, it was confirmed that the Allied forces had fallen into the encirclement of the Germans.

"Where are the reserves? Send out the reserves, open the passages, and rescue them! Churchill said urgently. The new prime minister, who was born as a naval minister, still understands military affairs.

"Not anymore!" General Gan Molin shook his head tiredly, his face full of guilt.

"What, no reserves?" In such a big battle, there were no reserves. Churchill could not believe his ears, and it was one of the most astonishing things he heard. The strategic reserve of the French had long been fatally weakened by the implementation of the Dale plan.

"Isn't the French army finished, then?" When Gammelin called his political ally, Defense Daladier, Daladier's surprise almost blew the phone up.

"Yes, it does mean the destruction of the French army!" Gan Molin said hollowly. The absence of reserves not only meant that there could be no rescue, but it also meant that large swathes of French territory behind the line of defense were unbuttoned to the last button.

After the horrors of war, defeatism spread in the hearts of the French, and these little roosters who had been nurtured in the fashion capital had clearly been frightened by blood. A large number of them began to abandon their weapons and flee, or even surrender without a fight.

"You say the French don't have reserves? Who said that Skynet could detect such information? Ridiculous, there will be no reserves for such a big battle? I know that Skynet was introduced by a copycat company, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily right! At this time, Hitler was also nervous about the army of reserves he imagined, and even though the Skynet intelligence company gave them free information that the French did not have reserves, he still couldn't believe it.

He ordered his troops to halt and prepare to meet the airy reserves, but by this time Guderian's tank-thrust wedge-shaped force had gone mad, and all that was left on their minds was to advance. And there is nothing ahead to stop them. The troops, who had replaced tanks No. 3 and No. 4, appeared on this plane with a stronger posture, greatly reducing the various troubles that caused trouble, and all they needed to do was crush everything in front of them, cover up all the way to Abbeville, and completely stab the Allied army in the heart.

When Hitler heard this, he was speechless with excitement.

"Let them turn around, turn back to the north, and tighten the encirclement." In the end, he still got the command to give the order. Lao Xi was unprepared for the sudden victory, and for a while he was not sure how to deal with it, but what was haunting his mind was to prepare a peace treaty, to give the Germans a complete reversal of everything they had lost.

At this time, the Allies were surrounded on three sides, one side was by the sea, and there was no hope of returning.

The news shocked the world.

The news of the vanguard army is one of the fastest to get the force. There were a large number of Vanguard observers on the battlefield, who had been observing the battle that had changed people's fighting philosophy from beginning to end. The news there was also transmitted back in a timely manner through the excellent communication system of the Vanguard Army.

"This is the French team?" Fan Chong's face was full of surprise, and his chin couldn't be raised for a long time. He didn't know what to say, only speechless.

"Open space coordination, coordination, lightning strike!" Meng Xiang said with a smile, he had known this result for a long time. History is still going on according to the original steps. The French army, like their football, has a lot of instability. There is no such thing as an invincible army. It is because the conservative forces in the army have turned the battlefield into a stage for performances in peacetime.

The greatest function of the army is to kill the enemy, not to be courteous and rehearsal according to the script. Whether it is the spiritual priest of Soviet Russia armed with doctrine on the Soviet-Finnish battlefield, or the border fortress complex that the French piled up with 6 billion francs at this time, it has become a joke in the pages of history.

"We can do that too!" Fan Chong said confidently after a long time. Meng Xiang also understood that he was not talking about defeating the Allies, but about many of the tactics of the Germans, which the vanguard army had already used. It's just that the scale is not so large, and the battle in China did not attract much attention from the Western world, only the Germans made the concept of blitzkrieg more mature in the battle with the vanguard army.

However, in Meng Xiang's mind, the British and French armies were not invincible. When the army of two million armed to the teeth was sharpened, he dared to raise his sword against any country.

"The French are too comfortable, born in sorrow and died in peace. Our ancestors have already reminded us. Meng Xiang smiled and said, "The army came out of the war, how can it grow without experiencing the war?" Those recruits also need to hone on the battlefield. ”

"Do we need to prepare our next battle plan now?" Fan Chong was also eager to try, and when he heard the strategic and tactical arrangements of the Germans, he was inspired more and wanted to try it. The plan that has been laid out for a long time also needs to be adjusted in some places.

"Don't worry, we need to wait a little longer for our old neighbors, and they can't wait." Meng Xiang smiled. He was afraid that once the war started, the Japanese would be timid and would not dare to make a big move.

The Japanese intelligence system is also spread all over the world, and they are more sophisticated in collecting information. With such a big movement in the European war, they naturally learned about it early.

"How can the French be like this?" The Japanese were surprised with a hint of disdain. The defeat of World War I and the mass surrender (the latest chapter of the martial arts) do not occur in the Japanese army. Even if defeated, they will drown all their shame with their own blood.

"The French are vulnerable!" The Japanese finally came to such a conclusion.

"They don't deserve so much rich land!" Many people began to clamor and agitated the cabinet to take the opportunity to occupy Vietnam. What they didn't know was that the military had long had plans to occupy Vietnam, and was only afraid of the British and Americans. If you provoke the French, it will be easy to bring out the British, and if you are not careful, the Americans will come to take advantage.

They weren't too worried about the Vanguard. In the plan of the Japanese, attacking Vietnam, only three divisions were sufficient, and did not involve the guarding units on the border with the vanguard army. According to the level of the French, even a division was needed to sweep away, and what was obtained was the rice of Vietnam and the wealth that the French had looted for many years.

"Wait, wait! Let's take a look at the development trend of the European competition! At this time, the Japanese suppressed their excitement and continued to listen to the news of Europe while they began to prepare their troops. If Britain and France had been hit hard this time, the British might have lost their enthusiasm for rescuing the French.

At this time, the British Expeditionary Force, France, and Belgium had nearly 400,000 troops surrounded by German troops in a small area. And there is only one ancient port, Dunkirk. This became their only hope of breaking through.

"Dunkirk, unforgettable Dunkirk!" In the distance, Meng Xiang also paid attention to this. RO！