The vanguard army had already beaten the Japanese to a little nervous and excessive.

Even the most optimistic Japanese top brass had to acquiesce that Japan was no match at all in the competition for the army.

The prestige of the tens of millions of national defense forces slowly spread, which not only made the Chinese people proud, but also made the Japanese scalp tingle.

According to the secret statistics of the Japanese, the Chinese National Defense Force did not have 10 million in time, but definitely exceeded 8 million, and all of them could fight with guns. And now the Japanese have only requisitioned 7 million heads, and the number will no longer be able to rise.

At this time, the total population of Japan was only about 70 million, and 7 million strong men were dispatched, which exceeded the limit of 10 soldiers per soldier.

Now even many jobs in Japan are held by women, and without those slavery in China, there is a shortage of labor in Japan.

After the exchange of Chinese labor and Japanese prisoners was rescued by the vanguard army, they had to rely on increasing the enslavement of Koreans to maintain some of the labor demand in the country.

Among the rules that both sides acquiesced to China, the Japanese did not dare to enslave the Chinese in Taiwan and Hainan on a large scale, because they were worried that China would turn its face too soon and make their overall strategy passive.

They knew that even if the Japanese army exceeded six million, it was inferior to the Chinese army in terms of both quantity and quality.

Think of the vanguard army's all-colored Suomi submachine guns, the armored units armed to the teeth, the Japanese coaxed.

There is no comparison at all, so knowing that there is a shortage of labor, they only go to exploit the Koreans more brutally and endure the lazy Nanyang natives. Even with whips and wolfdogs to expel the white prisoners of war for servitude, they still did not touch too much of the taboo explicitly set forth by the vanguard of enslavement of Chinese laborers.

Just as they had endured not to touch the wealth of the Chinese in Nanyang, the Japanese had been patient, and had been accumulating strength for a better opportunity to retaliate.

At least until the skies on their home turf were fully defended against the vanguard of long-range bombers and massive paratroopers, the Japanese did not intend to turn their backs.

Even after China declared a full-scale war on Japan because of the Chinese incident in Nanyang. did not touch the bottom line of the Japanese, and the Japanese still endured and did not completely turn their faces.

"The wealth of those Chinese and Chinese people will not run away there, just as fattening sheep!" The Japanese had no choice but to console themselves and continue to work hard to develop their air power.

In the face of China, it is not only the army but also the air force that makes them sad. Although Japan does not have an air force, it is either an army or a navy. All of them have carried a big heel in the hands of the vanguard army.

Correspondingly. The Japanese suddenly put aside all those despicable navys, which were far superior to those of China, and became more and more arrogant.

They did not admit that the Japanese navy had suffered losses in the Yellow Sea at the beginning, and those defeats could only be attributed to the powerful coastal defense of the pioneer artillery, and could not be regarded as the strength of the Chinese navy.

The Japanese, who often looked down on the Chinese navy as novices, had the lowest degree of embankment for the Chinese navy, and were far less sensitive than the army and air force.

"Found a fleet of Chinese near the Ryukyus?" Koga Mine groaned slightly. He took the telegram from the staff officer.

In the past, most of the Chinese Navy ships were found to be within 100 nautical miles of the coast. Only 12 nautical miles of territorial waters can be guaranteed from violation.

The Japanese who came over on the tour were only outside the territorial area, showing off their might with empty artillery.

Even when they blockade shipping, they don't get too close to the coastline.

The Vanguard Army would not have sent the navy to engage them in a one-on-one naval duel at all, and directly sank the Japanese warships that had attacked several times with army fighters and seemingly countless Vanguard cannons.

The Japanese Navy, having lost one cruiser and two destroyers, was much more well-behaved.

The vast majority of the navy that can keep the vanguard army in their homes is at home. It is still something that makes the Japanese Navy proud, and it is often honored when attacking the Japanese Army.

Even after the Japanese Army turned over the two large-scale cruises of the Chinese Navy in the South China Sea, the Japanese Navy was able to use the target at that time to prevaricate on the British and American Navy.

Indeed, the battleships dispatched by the Huaxia Navy at that time were only to deter the British and Dutch colonists and the local natives at that time, and when Japan launched an offensive to the south, the main warships of Huaxia did not continue to sail far.

Before those navy rookies under his command grew up. Meng Xiang will not let them take risks easily.

Both sides are trying to refrain from going off the rails and confined themselves to petty conflicts.

"A Zhenyuan-class battleship. What are the two aircraft carriers doing near the Ryukyus without going to the South China Sea to deter? Koga said to himself.

This is a rare big move by the Chinese Navy, and the previous time was to deal with the Soviet Russians in the Sea of Whales. That time, the Chinese navy appeared in the whale sea out of nowhere, which surprised the Japanese. For this reason, the Musashi led by Koga Mine has been guarded in the north.

It was not until the recent winter, seeing that the ice blocked the Chinese Far East Navy, which had been stable and unmoving, that he led the Musashi fleet through the Korean Strait and into the East China Sea.

The Bohai Sea was already a training ground for the Chinese Navy, and the submarines cruising around in the Yellow Sea also made Koga Mine dare not venture closer.

In March of this year, the Yamato once showed off its giant ship cannons 50 nautical miles from the mouth of the Yangtze River. At that time, a certain type of submarine in Huaxia surfaced directly less than 1,000 meters away from it, signaling that it was strictly forbidden to violate China's territorial waters.

Fortunately, under the banner of inviting German envoys to visit the ship, the two sides restrained themselves and did not go off, but the haunting appearance of the Huaxia submarine left a deep impression on the Japanese.

Therefore, Koga did not dare to easily approach the Yellow Sea, the backyard of the Chinese submarine, and kept cruising around the East China Sea from Jeju Island to Taiwan.

On weekdays, in addition to the occasional detection report of the Chinese submarine, it is all kinds of smuggling ships and the fleets of the Axis countries leading to China.

But the appearance of the Huaxia fleet seems to mean that a meritorious service has arrived.

"The Imperial winds have changed again!" Koga Mine said in one heart.

In the past, perhaps the Japanese top brass would have considered provoking China and drawing retaliation from the Chinese army and air force, but now the intentions of the Japanese top brass have changed.

Almost a week has passed since the naval battle between Japan and the United States in Sydney.

Both sides are evenly matched, but both sides are promoting themselves as winners.

In contrast, in the Battle of Fiji, which lost one battleship, the Americans sank two Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser this time, and the Nagato-class Shubo and the most senior heavy cruiser were severely damaged, and most importantly, they also seriously damaged the flagship of the Japanese Navy, the Yamato.

The Japanese in the back deliberately ignored that the damage could be repaired anyway, but they were proud of sinking three American aircraft carriers and seriously injuring one.

Of course, Japan ignored the comparison of the losses of fighters on both sides, and the Japanese had already suffered a loss. Not to mention the heavy losses of the elite of the Zero War, even the elite crews of bombers and torpedo planes were completely damaged.

The Japanese did not worry too much about the replenishment of pilots, and after suffering losses at the hands of the vanguard, the Japanese had already increased the training of pilots, and besides, the majestic posture of the battleships at sea was still there, and the Japanese, who were still full of passion for the guns of giant ships, were not afraid at all.

What's more, they had already achieved their set strategic objectives, and the Japanese Army, with the assistance of the Japanese fleet that had rushed to support, had already occupied Newcastle. The guns of the Japanese battleships docked in Newcastle could even fall directly to Sydney.

The flames of war in Sydney had already begun, and even though American aid arrived, the defensive line there was crumbling under the fierce Japanese offensive.

Also on the verge of conquest is the war-torn Canberra, which has seen the final dawn of victory as the Japanese army gathers and the logistics are quickly replenished.

A series of victories also inflated the confidence of the Japanese. When the jungle defense line laid out by the shrinking and converging of the Indochina Peninsula army was also ready, the Japanese strategy towards China began to slowly adjust.

"We may not be able to defend against the Korean Peninsula, but we have a greater hope of leaving the Chinese in the southern jungle!" Opinions in the Japanese base camp gradually tended to converge.

"I can hold them off on the Korean Peninsula!" Although Okamura Ninji, who was seated on the Korean Peninsula, was not sure to fight against the four million Chinese army in the north, he already had a devastating plan in his mind, which was enough to delay the Chinese occupation of the Korean Peninsula.

"Our courage can completely overwhelm the people of China in the jungle!" Terauchi Shouichi is confident that there will be a decisive battle in Indochina and Huaxia.

"Our new fighters have already begun to be built, which can not only defeat the fighters of the Vanguard Army one-on-one, but also fly to an altitude of more than 12,000 meters to intercept the bombers of the Pioneer Army. We have also developed a 150mm anti-aircraft gun, which can completely protect our skies! "The air force, which held back the vanguard, became a booster for the expansion of Japanese ambitions.

"We need more wealth to buy new ships!" The Japanese experienced the victory in the naval battle, but they also had a headache with the huge emptiness of the finances, and the wealth of the Chinese was something they had never forgotten. This has become another important lever for Japan's policy change in China.

However, there are still many Japanese bigwigs who think that the time is not ripe, at least until Australia gets their hands on it, and relieves the Americans' worries.

The two sides have their own opinions and are at loggerheads.

"Perhaps, we need a victory over Huaxia more now to make more people change their minds!" Koga Feng, who had always wanted to wash away the shame of the Yellow Sea's defeat at the vanguard army, didn't mind pushing it now.