As the CCP speculated, on the fourth day after receiving the telegram from the North Korean side, Zhao Zhi, who had been dormant in Jiaodong, suddenly sent troops to cross the sea, and took advantage of the Japanese warships and the US fleet to fight at sea, and stormed Jeju Island, and a full 10,000 troops directly drove the Japanese troops on Jeju Island into the sea and used them as fodder for fish. "Okay, okay." Mao Zedong, who learned the news, even claimed that it was good, and he ate the whole plate of fried chili peppers at lunchtime.

Mao Zedong was the only one who guessed Zhao Zhi's intentions, and taking control of Jeju Island meant that Thunder fighters could take off from Jeju Island at any time to bomb Japan, or directly land on the Japanese mainland by sea. Although the Japanese army is not as good as before, it is still a hundred-legged insect that dies without stiffening and will not be defeated for a while and a half, and if the thunder can burn the flames of war to the Japanese mainland, it is not a good way, and maybe it can accelerate the defeat of Japan.

Mao Zedong didn't know what Jeju Island was, and in order to send his 10,000 soldiers to Jeju Island, Zhao Zhi not only used the US Seventh Fleet again, but also sent almost all the fighters that could be mobilized as auxiliary firepower. The ammunition that took half a year to hoard in Jiaodong was almost exhausted, especially the incendiary bombs that were regarded as a big killer by the Japanese army were actually used out of stock.

"Tell all the ships on the dock to go to Jeju Island to transport supplies, and if we can't build an airfield before the U.S. fleet leaves, Jeju Island will be in vain." The 100,000 reserve troops recruited by Zhao Zhi for the 74th Army have been trained in Jiaodong, during which only 60,000 reserve soldiers were supplemented by Wang Yaowu into the expanded 74th Army, and the remaining 40,000 training recruits were pulled by Zhao Zhi to Weihai Port 24 hours a day to carry materials on board.

Cement and steel bars were the first materials to be transported to Jeju Island, which were necessary for the construction of the airport, and Rowling brought back the staff from the United States, as well as many steelmaking technicians and cement technicians. Myanmar itself has iron ore and lime mines, Zhao Zhi's large investment regardless of the cost and technology from Europe, Myanmar and Thailand now use most of the cement and steel products produced by Myanmar, although compared with similar products in Europe There is still a quality gap, but it is more than enough to build airports.

"Fortunately, Morun has a lot of inventory in the past few months, otherwise it would be really difficult for us to build 6 airports at once." Looking at the dense number of recruits carrying supplies on the dock, Ye Kong, who was standing against the window, sighed greatly. Zhao Zhi moved the temporary headquarters directly to Weihai Port, this small building was originally a command post of the Japanese army, and now it is used by Zhao Zhi as a temporary headquarters, Ye Kong and two mercenary guards crowded by the window and looked out, Zhao Zhi and his combat staff were discussing the plan of action.

Although the area of Jeju Island is not too small, it is still an island in the final analysis, and Zhao Zhi is now relying on the power of the Seventh Fleet to occupy Jeju Island, and the Seventh Fleet cannot stay in the East China Sea forever, so Zhao Zhi needs to take precautions in advance to deal with the possibility of the Japanese army attacking from the mainland. Moreover, before the troops under the command of Yan Wudao could not move south to Jeollanam-do, the Japanese troops entrenched in the south of Korea could cross the sea at any time to carry out a landing and attack on Jeju Island, and Thunder only had 10,000 troops on Jeju Island, and in terms of strength comparison, Thunder did not have an advantage.

"Sir, if it really doesn't work, let's just organize a Thai mercenary force to help defend Jeju Island, anyway, the number of those Thai people is a bit too much, and it is not a big deal to die more." A staff officer whispered his suggestion in Zhao Zhi's ear, Zhao Zhi vigorously recruited the Burmese to return to China to participate in the war under the banner of resisting the Japanese invaders, but these operational staff officers under him had already guessed Zhao Zhi's actual intentions, since the Burmese could be pulled up as cannon fodder, then the Thais could too.

"No," Zhao Zhi looked at the map and shook his head, "The distance is too far, even if you take the sea route, it is still slow, and without the help of the Seventh Fleet, relying on the ships we got from the Thais, we can transport up to a few thousand people in one trip, which is not useful at all." Zhao Zhi set aside three to four days for the construction of a temporary airfield, and if the troops were not in place during this time, Jeju Island would most likely change hands to the Japanese in the next battle.

"Sir" An operational staff officer under Zhao Zhi pulled Zhao Zhi to the window, pointed to the dock outside and said with a smile, "There are 40,000 trained recruits on the dock, or let's send an IOU to the Nationalist Government to pull these 40,000 recruits to Jeju Island for a try." The 74th Army is now rich and wealthy, and if you want to come for a while, you can't look down on the 40,000 recruits, anyway, you just transfer them to serve as defense, and his 74th Army has taken so many benefits from us, and it's time to pay the bills, right? ”

Zhao Zhi has a large number of Japanese-style heavy weapons in his hands, and what is lacking now is the soldiers who use these weapons, and Zhao Zhi does not want to waste these reserved heavy weapons in vain. However, if the 40,000 reserve troops of the 74th Army were to be transferred to Jeju Island, there would be no problem in the use of weapons, and besides, these 40,000 reserve troops were all Chinese, and it would be much more convenient in command.

"Immediately send electricity to the villa on the south bank, and contact them about renting the 40,000 reserves, it is best to receive a reply today, and the lease period is half a month." Zhao Zhi nodded and agreed to the operational staff officer's proposal, but what he just said was renting rather than transferring. After the incident in the Northeast, Zhao Zhi had begun to slowly distance himself from the Nationalist Government, and the plan to land on Inchon and Jeju Island did not materialize with Chiang Kai-shek, if it were not for Rowling acting as a lubricant in the middle, I am afraid that Chiang Kai-shek would not have known about this at all.

Regardless of how Chiang Kai-shek and the bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs discussed it, four hours after Zhao Zhi sent the telegram, he finally received a reply from Chongqing. The Nationalist government broadly agreed to Zhao Zhi's request, but instead of the entire 40,000 reserve army, the leased army was reduced to 20,000. This time, Chiang Kai-shek no longer wanted weapons and ammunition, but the real air support of the Thunder fighter troops, and the 74th Army itself could snatch weapons and ammunition from the Japanese army, as long as there were fighters to help in the war, Chiang Kai-shek thought that the 74th Army might be able to recover the whole of Shandong.

"Call back, agreed." Zhao Zhi didn't have time to bargain with Chiang Kai-shek, so he directly ordered to open the arsenal and carry heavy weapons onto the ship, and as a shipload of supplies was transported to Jeju Island, the selected 20,000 reserve troops were also sent to Jeju Island in batches. Zhao Zhi is now in a race against time, the order is passed out in an orderly manner, the 30,000 troops on Jeju Island are desperately stepping up the construction of the airport and fortifications according to Zhao Zhi's order, no matter how lively the sea is, it has nothing to do with them, and holding Jeju Island is also their main task.

"Send a telegram to Molun, dispatch all the trucks and mobile forces, and ensure that the 50,000 Jewish troops can smoothly go north to Jiaodong, and send a telegram to the Nationalist Government, asking them to do a good job of receiving the Jewish troops going north along the way." The telegram sent by Zhao Zhi to Moren was a bit sudden, and Molun, who was nesting in Mandalay to eat and drink and take care of Rowling, was busy on all fours. Fortunately, Morun had a trick up his sleeve in logistics, and it only took two days to complete the assembly of 50,000 Jewish troops, not to mention almost all the trucks, motorcycles and bicycles in the hands of the Thunder.

Mo Lun first transported the Jewish troops to Kunming in batches by train, then opened the warehouse of the arsenal, and used the inventory of armored vehicles and tanks to send away a part of the Jewish troops to contact the national troops along the way, and then scattered silver dollars to collect a large number of civilian trucks as a transport force, and when the first batch of Jewish troops entered Shanxi, the last batch of Jewish troops leaving Burma had also entered Sichuan. "The wolf is coming" Zhao Zhi from Burma to the north, the Japanese army was shocked, the landing in Inchon has made the Japanese army base camp anxious, and then Zhao Zhi occupied Jeju Island, although after taking Jeju Island, Zhao Zhi, who was stranded in Jiaodong, did not move, but the Japanese army did not dare to be careless.

Now that Zhao Zhi suddenly transferred troops north, it was like the Japanese army base camp analyzing Zhao Zhi's relevant intelligence all day long, and they couldn't figure out what Zhao Zhi wanted to do for a while. The special high school has learned that there is a gap between Zhao Zhi and Chiang Kai-shek, which is great news, and the split between the Thunder and the Nationalist Government is not exactly the result that the Japanese army wants to see. But less than a month has passed since this incident, why did Zhao Zhi start to transfer troops north to enter the war zone again? Could it be that the news that there was a gap between him and Chiang Kai-shek was fake, in order to confuse the smoke bombs released by the Great Japanese Empire?

The Kwantung Army, which had been guarding the northeast, was reluctant to go south to the Nanyang battlefield, and Zhao Zhi's landing at Inchon just gave the Kwantung Army an excuse, and the war in China gradually began to be unfavorable to Japan, coupled with the fact that the U.S. army began to increase its investment in the Nanyang battlefield, and the Japanese army was defeated again and again in the first half of the war. "We can't just be beaten passively, we have to take the initiative, otherwise what awaits the empire will be destroyed." Hardliners in the cabinet began to lobby the emperor to continue conscription, and only by increasing the investment of troops could the Japanese army, which was gradually losing the initiative, regain dominance of the battlefield.

The age of conscription in Japan has been lowered from young men at the beginning of the war to high school students, and now even veterans over the age of 45 and under the age of 55 are spared, and some able-bodied women have also been drafted into the army. The conscription seemed to go smoothly, but the officer in charge of the conscription soon discovered the anomaly, and many of the conscripts were in poor health, and even the simplest load-bearing march of the infantry could not be completed, and these people were precisely veterans who were pinned on by the military department.

"How could a veteran's physical fitness be so bad?" The officer in charge of the conscription did not know what to do, and if he knew that these people were now addicts, perhaps there would be no such doubt. Zhao Zhi's "extermination plan" did not bear fruit until this time, and the foreign mercenaries who smuggled drugs from Florida into Japan were the heroes, and once there was no supply of drugs, these British gentlemen would become a destabilizing factor in the Japanese army.