"Along the Yangtze River, there are the most Chinese troops, and they should be attacked all the way!" The commander of the fleet on the Chinese side, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, nodded also.

He said that his aircraft carrier was not as powerful as it was later. At present, only five ships are Fengxiang, Akagi, Kaga, Ryuchamp, and Canglong, and four are under construction, the Feilong, which began to be built in 36, the Xianghe, which was built at the end of last year, and the Zuihe and Chongying, which just started construction last month.

But now it's a sink and a wound. The sinking of the Soryu made Emperor Tieqing's face gloomy for a few days. The Kaga's serious injuries also require at least half a year to repair.

For this matter, Hasegawa Kiyoshi was almost dismissed, and many people were replaced within the navy. Now, even if the navy is allowed to attack the vanguard, it is a little weak.

Most of the territory of the vanguard army is inland, except for the aircraft carrier, other ships have limited attacks, and at most they will retaliate against the Shouguang and other areas of the vanguard army. But if you attack the banks of the Yangtze River, you can quickly accumulate wealth, and maybe you can build a few more aircraft carriers.

"But the vanguard army is behind us, and it is our henchmen! The vanguard army is getting stronger, and after a while, he will not be able to deal with it by five divisions! King Higashihisa, the official of Tohisa, said worriedly.

"It is already difficult for the vanguard army to use five divisions now!" Terauchi Shou spoke at the beginning.

"Their strength is now estimated to be close to 140,000." In fact, the number of the vanguard army at this time had exceeded 170,000, but half of them were new recruits. There are 30,000 or 40,000 who have not even finished their three-month recruitment period.

"After they absorbed Han Fuyu's army, there were great internal changes, and they recruited a lot of new soldiers, and the actual number of combatable people was about 60,000. But their weapons are very advanced, and with the same number against the enemy, the soldiers of our empire are not elite troops, and they may suffer. In addition, they have more than a hundred advanced aircraft, as well as a large number of artillery. As well as probably more than a hundred more tanks. "Terauchi's guess is still some distance from the actual situation, but the vanguard army is not a central army full of loopholes, and some information is difficult to gather.

"Imperial intelligence agents have been tracking down the origin of their weapons. Because the quantity of Shandong steel is limited, the possibility of their own production can be ruled out. Those advanced tanks and airplanes will never be produced by the people of China. Even the submachine guns they used, after the Imperial Research Institute imitated them, they found that the surname was not as good as the ones they used, which was definitely not something that the people of China could make. They may be producing ammunition, the currency they use is also made of copper, maybe they have rich copper resources, and even they have discovered a large copper mine in Shandong. "The intelligence officers of this book are exploring the location of the big copper mine, and according to the situation, it is likely to be in Shandong.

"Although the Vanguard had dealings with the Germans, according to our investigation, many of the weapons were not provided by the Germans. On the contrary, there is a copycat company in the world, which buys and sells arms, and may have a close relationship with the Vanguard. It is likely that the Vanguard munitions were supplied by this copycat company. The Germans seem to be in contact with the copycat company as well. The Germans didn't reveal much about the copycat company, which made Yue himself very annoyed.

"Now we are going to find their transport line, so many weapons are definitely not formed by previous accumulation, they definitely have a transport line that we can't find yet, and it is likely from the sea."

"The soldiers of the Imperial Navy have been dutifully defending the surrounding seas!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi said with a straight face, Terauchi Shouichi's statement was already accusing the Navy of not being effective in blockading the Vanguard.

"Those planes may have flown over, but how did those heavy artillery and combat vehicles get here?" Meryu Mijiro asked directly, the army and navy have always been incompatible, and there is no need to save face at all.

"If it was night, their transport might not have been detected by the Imperial Navy. In China, the naval strength of the empire was too small. It can't be blocked as much as a sea area. Hasegawa Kiyoshi said instead. At this time, there is really no good way to transport at night. At this time, the vast majority of planes could not fly at night, so they could only intensify the inspection of patrol boats.

Terauchi Shouichi nodded slightly, then leaned on the conference table, stretched his arms and asked, "If we fight the vanguard army, our analysis is that we will use at least six or seven divisions. Where do we get our people from? ”

At this time, the number of people available in North and Central China was limited.

The Southern Pioneer Army's Reading Division almost entered Hangzhou, and had to let the devils withdraw the 9th Division. The 101st Division, which had very weak combat capability, was also transferred back. The 101st Division has just had a scandal. When the officer Cao actually washed the feet of his soldiers, it was a very shameful thing in the highly hierarchical army. Just because that soldier is the boss of the underworld in Asakusa, and there are many similar things within the 101st Division.

The command, fearing that this style of work would have some bad effects on the morale of the front, also transferred them back. They may not be able to fight, but it is still okay to bully the common people in the wary places.

The people in the Lianghuai region are fierce, and with some remnants of the Central Army, there must be a division to suppress them.

There were three divisions in the Linyi area, which were to be suppressed there by the Central Army and the Vanguard Army, and Linyi was not captured. The Central Army there still remained there, and the Vanguard Army left only one division there, which was able to hold off three divisions over there.

There was the 110th Division to the east and the 116th Division to the north. In the west, if the 14th Division withstands the Central Army, the 16th Division can also be withdrawn.

In this way, it seems that there are six divisions. But the devils all know that these six divisions and regiments are either short of major generals, or reserve corps with weak combat capabilities. Used to deal with the vanguard army, I am afraid that the result will not be favored.

And the vanguard army also had a large number of combat vehicles and aircraft.

There may be more than a hundred fighter jets looted by the devils in North China and Central China. But the difference in surname can be a disadvantage for the vanguard army. The chariot troops of the devils were mostly defeated against the chariots of the vanguard army.

In this way, if you do not concentrate your forces on attacking the vanguard, the results will not be very optimistic.

But now in the face of the Central Army, how can we concentrate our forces?

At this time, the Kwantung Army could no longer be counted.

Because two days ago, a soldier of the Kwantung Army appeared on the border and opened fire on the Soviet and Russian patrol soldiers, and one of the soldiers on the other side immediately returned fire. The two patrol teams scuffled, and several people died on each side, igniting tensions on the border again. The order to transfer a division from the Kwantung Army has been cancelled, and the Kwantung Army is on full alert to prevent Soviet Russia from taking the opportunity to meddle in the affairs of China.

The most important thing now is to quickly deal with the affairs of the branch and make the political axe of the branch compromise as soon as possible, obviously it is impossible to entangle the vanguard army. If I delay the vanguard for three months, I will not only face pressure from abroad.

The Yangtze River valley has always been the territory of the British, who have been busy with European affairs, and in order to use themselves to deal with Soviet Russia, they have temporarily chosen to make concessions and turn a blind eye to their own actions. But it is clear that this is not the case for the domestic explanation, so this time should not be delayed for too long.

"The domestic economy is already in dire straits. After dealing with the vanguard army, we may not have much strength to deal with the central army of China. Shouichi Terauchi said. Indeed, it is said that he relied on war to feed the war and plundered the rich Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions to breathe a sigh of relief.

Fight the Central Army, the Central Army can still retreat, fight the vanguard army, can they withdraw? If you don't withdraw, you have to defend Shandong, and after the vanguard army is defeated, the vitality of this army will be greatly damaged. Without the Central Army, this doesn't matter, but the Central Army next to it is still conscripting a large number of soldiers, importing a large number of weapons from Soviet Russia and copycat companies. The Central Army, which had recovered after three months, would be even more difficult to deal with than the Vanguard Army.

The sharpness of the vanguard army is only due to its small scale, and the step-like development has a period of rapid development. But to a certain extent, development will be slow. Whether it is financial pressure or arms imports, there will be a saturation value. Of course, this is just the devil's speculation, so they can't figure out that there will be a crossing and a red police base if they want to break their heads.

"The vanguard army is buying weapons on a large scale, how long can they hold on? How much money can they have to spend? The general of the vanguard army is young after all! Shouichi Terauchi finally said. The Sommy of the Vanguard Army's equipment made them look hot, but it took a lot of money to pile up, and the money was spent? Relying on Shandong to support such an army, Terauchi Shouyi couldn't help but scold Meng Xiang in his heart.

At this time, Meng Xiang was listening intently to the sports commentary translated next to him in the living room of the headquarters. Yes, it's sports commentary. It is a commentary about the first World Cup to be held in France. Because the Huaxia team has entered the quarterfinals, that is, the quarterfinals have been decided.

The clouds of the 38-year war have loomed over the World Cup in France, so much so that many good teams are unable to participate.

The French relied on their compatriot Remet, then president of FIFA, to win the right to host the third World Cup, much to the dismay of the Argentine, who refused to participate. The Spanish Civil War was in full swing and could not participate. The Americans' own players were in a state of flux, and the hired British players refused to play in the week, and had to quit. Austria was annexed by Germany and lost its quota. Uruguay and England, two old powerhouses, also refused to participate.

Hosts France and defending champions Italy qualified directly under the new rules. It was also this World Cup that the new decision of the host country and the world champion to qualify directly for the finals continued into the future.

The number of people was too small, and the National Football Federation began to seek other people from outside. The result was known to Meng Xiang, who was paying attention to the news in Europe, and Meng Xiang immediately sent someone to contact him, and only used a small sponsorship fee to add the name of the Huaxia team to the quota for the competition.

Together with Cuba and the Dutch East Indies, which FIFA found, a total of 16 teams made it to the finals.

After getting the exact news in May, Meng Xiang found Li Huitang and Chen Zhenhe, who were promoting football in Jixia School Palace.

Li Huitang, Meng Xiang had naturally heard of it a long time ago, but he was able to come over because of Chen Zhenhe's wooing. When Meng Xiang knew that Chen Zhenhe, who was in the flying team, was actually a football star who participated in the 36th annual football match, he was stunned for a while.

Compared with those star uncles in later generations, Chen Zhenhe, who is affectionately known as Little Black Carbon, joined the aviation school after the 128 Song Shanghai Anti-Japanese War in 32 years, and in 37 years, he was already the leader of the Air Force flight squadron.

His comrades-in-arms also include Ding Jixu, Feng Wenjie, Ye Pengfei, Fu Jiajie and others from the former Hong Kong and Guangzhou football teams. How can the blood on these people make Meng Xiang unable to see the appearance of football stars.

Chen Zhenhe also traded for a plane, but when Meng Xiang learned his identity, he proposed to let him stop the battle of the flying team and turn to football. At that moment, Meng Xiang only thought of the sluggishness of summer football in the later generations. Pilots can be trained, and the base can train one or two a day. Three aviation clubs for the public have also been built, and more will be added in the future. But football stars are a thing that is hard to come by. Chen Zhenhe, who is known as Meng Zhang Fei, is not measured by an ordinary pilot. But as long as it wasn't an emergency, Meng Xiang didn't plan to let him go out to fight.

But Chen Zhenhe only agreed to be a part-time instructor, and he still needs to fly. For this reason, he recommended Lee Hye Tong, who is promoting football everywhere.

Meng Xiang is more familiar with Li Huitang's name, but has not had the opportunity to contact, with Chen Zhenhe's recommendation, Li Huitang is also very interested in Meng Xiang's proposal to carry out football education in the sports academy of Jixia Academy, especially Meng Xiang's support for football, providing a large amount of money, so that he saved a lot of trouble.

As a result, at the beginning of May, he came to the Jixia School Palace.

Within half a month, I received the news of the World Cup. Meng Xiang fully supports their participation in the World Cup.

Li Huitang was also in a surging mood, and immediately greeted his teammates who had played the Olympic football match before. Meng Xiang directly provided the plane transportation and paid a generous settling-in fee to relieve their worries.

As a result, iron-legged Sun Jinshun, copper-headed Tan Jiangbai, Ye Beihua, Li Tiansheng, Bao Jiaping, Xu Yahui, Huang Meishun, Cao Guicheng, Feng Jingxiang and others were slowly summoned and began training.

Meng Xiang provided them with the best conditions to supply them for training, and even the confidential No. 1 nutrient solution was changed to a different package and taken out to supply them.

"I don't ask you to get any ranking, I only ask you to play the backbone of the Chinese people!" On May 28, Meng Xiang personally sent away the Chinese football team that went to the World Cup for the first time.