"Haha, this Zhao Boyuan's tone is really big enough, and he actually forced the Japanese emperor to urge the Japanese army to surrender at the front." Zhao Zhi's letter of persuasion to the Japanese emperor has been spread in Chongqing, this is the suggestion of Zhao Zhi's staff, anyway, it is just a small means of delaying tactics, Zhao Zhi does not mind continuing to play propaganda with the Japanese army. Of course, those who believe in Zhao Zhi are full of praise for Zhao Zhi's boldness, but the guys in the Ministry of Military Affairs who have many complaints about Zhao Zhi and Thunder say in private that Zhao Zhi is unclear.

At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were countless debates within the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Nationalist Government on whether or not to declare war on Japan, and the Japanese Government's division and co-optation obviously played a certain role, and the Japanese army had already reached the Lugou Bridge, and there was still a proposal within the Nationalist Government to hold peace talks with Japan; if it were not for the popular will and the offensive of public opinion, Chiang Kai-shek's declaration of war against Japan would probably have dragged on for some time.

The birth of the thunder gave Chiang Kai-shek and the people hope of victory, but at the same time, it also made the troops under the command of the Ministry of Military Affairs look disgraced, because all the limelight was taken up by the thunder. Therefore, when the Thunder transferred troops to the north in the next few times, the Ministry of Military Affairs would privately order their troops to secretly make a mistake and delay the speed of the Thunder troops going north as much as possible.

Now that Thunder has left the domestic battlefield and burned the flames of war to the Japanese mainland, it stands to reason that it should be okay with the Ministry of Military Affairs, but people are the most complex animals in the world, Zhao Zhi has gone far, but the private scolding of those guys in the Ministry of Military Affairs has not stopped. Of course, Zhao Zhi, who was far away on the island of Honshu, could not have known these things, because he was very busy right now, he had to deal with the swarming Japanese blocking forces, and he also had to coordinate the landing force of the American army, which had landed 8,000 ground troops in Kitakyushu Bay just a day earlier.

"Zhao, I have to admit that your soldiers are the best fighters, and the boys of our Marine Corps are indeed not their opponents." Halsey, commander of the Third Fleet of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, nicknamed the Brute Bull, stood beside Zhao Zhi and sighed with emotion, the commander who first proposed to bomb the Japanese mainland in the navy was called the Brute Bull because of his combat bravery. Bombing the Japanese mainland was the first tactical idea he proposed, but he didn't expect that there would be a crazier guy in this world than him, Zhao Zhi only relied on less than 10,000 regular troops and 400,000 rabble to land on the Japanese mainland to fight, and also controlled the entire Kyushu Island.

"General, your lads are also very good, they just lack some actual combat grinding, I believe they will eventually become excellent fighters as well." After receiving the cigar cigarette handed over by Halsey, Zhao Zhi did not hesitate to give Halsey a high hat. The ground troops of the US fleet have landed on Honshu Island, which means that the US side has made up its mind to intervene in Asian affairs, and Zhao Zhi certainly does not care about these things, as long as the US military does not interfere with Thunder's actions and does not rob Thunder's resources, otherwise Zhao Zhi will not mind driving all these big American noses into the sea to feed the fish.

The mercenaries under Zhao Zhi were exhausted by the continuous operation for more than half a month, and the arrival of the US army was just to replace the mercenaries for a short rest, and Zhao Zhi now also needed the naval guns and aircraft of the US fleet to help in the war, not to mention that Halsey's fleet also brought a large number of ammunition supplies, Zhao Zhi naturally welcomed their arrival very much. "General, thank you very much for being there in time, so that I can proceed with the next step with confidence." As the commander of the U.S. fleet, it was impossible for Zhao Zhi to hide Thunder's next move from him, because Zhao Zhi also needed the cooperation of the Third Fleet.

There were only Zhao Zhi and Halsey in the slightly empty headquarters, and then there were several operational staff officers under Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi's English was very good, and he and Halsey didn't even need a translator before. "This is Tokyo Bay, do you want to land here and then make a surprise attack on Tokyo?" Halsey looked at the place marked by Zhao Zhi on the map and was shocked, and after receiving Zhao Zhi's affirmative answer, Halsey, who was shocked, even called Zhao Zhi an out-and-out psychotic if he was not a madman.

"Zhao, are you crazy? Did you know that the Japanese monkeys have a large number of troops in this area, and your troops may not be able to get ashore at all, and they risk being swept to pieces by their heavy machine guns? Halsey pointed to Zhao Zhi's marked Tokyo Bay and shouted, seeing that Zhao Zhi still looked like an old god, Halsey had to lower his tone slightly, but the negation in his words was obvious. Zhao, I admit that your soldiers are the best, they landed on Kyushu Island and controlled the whole of Kyushu Island, but Tokyo Bay is different, the Japanese army's firepower here is too strong, even if it is implemented at night, your soldiers may not be able to take advantage. ”

"General, when we thundered down on Kyushu Island a month ago, no one thought we would succeed, but we did it anyway. Now that our troops have read that Kyushu Bay has gone up to Honshu, the Japanese are now busy sending troops around to intercept us, and the other direction of Tonkin Bay, and it is precisely because of their tight defense that they would not have imagined that we would suddenly land there and launch a surprise attack on Tokyo, which is a bold tactical attack, and I think we may be able to give it a try. Zhao Zhi, who was holding a cigar, had a calm face, so that Halsey couldn't find a reason to refute Zhao Zhi for a while.

At the beginning of its establishment, Thunder was famous for its surprise operations, whether it was entering Shanxi or going south to Burma, the rapid attack of the Thunder mercenaries made their opponents frightened, Halsey had carefully studied Thunder's tactics before coming, so if Zhao Zhi said that he was sure of landing in Tokyo Bay, Halsey had no reason to doubt how sure he was of success. "General, I need your fleet to transport supplies and soldiers for me, and after my troops land in Tokyo Bay, I hope that your fleet can carry out an armed strike on the Japanese strongholds on the line from Chiba to Sendai to attract the attention of the Japanese army for my troops."

After listening to Zhao Zhi's entire battle plan, Halsey was silent, just looked down and carefully looked at the location of Tokyo Bay on the map, he really couldn't think of where Zhao Zhi got such courage to dare to send a full 5,000 well-equipped Thunder mercenaries into Tokyo Bay. Halsey had been on the battlefield in the Philippines and had seen the weak marines who had been tossed by the Japanese army, and he knew that the Japanese army was not easy to deal with, and Zhao Zhi's troops landed in this time were only 5,000 people, although the so-called thunder mercenaries under him were indeed powerful and strong, but they might have to face several Japanese divisions and even more Japanese troops at the same time.

"Zhao, there is no problem in helping you transport supplies and soldiers, but you must know that once these young men land in Tokyo Bay, we will no longer be able to help them, and once they are surrounded by a large number of Japanese troops, what awaits them may be all killed or captured." Halsey turned his head to look at Zhao Zhi, he still wanted to persuade Zhao Zhi to change his plan to land in Tokyo Bay, and it was the same to take the land route along Honshu Island, it was nothing more than to spend more time.

Zhao Zhi just smiled slightly and said, "General, I admit that you have good intentions, I have to know that we are now in Honshu, Japan, and the arrogant Japanese will not allow us to stay here all the time." If we had only carried out a conventional attack on Honshu by land, it would be possible for them to mobilize troops to confront us first, and then, in the event of a confrontation, they would quietly send troops from other places to encircle us, until we were left alone, and then they would have trapped us here. ”

"My troops, plus your marines, have a maximum of 110,000 soldiers, so that we can resist up to three times the strength of the Japanese army, waiting for the Japanese army to come to fight, this is not our thunderous combat rule, we are mercenaries, our creed is to attack and take the initiative, to beat your enemy to death, we can gain the dominance of the battlefield, so it is imperative to raid Tokyo, I believe that my soldiers can complete this task." Zhao Zhi's resoluteness made Halsey unable to say anything, but before he set off, he received a direct order from the Congress, requiring him to act with a thunderbolt.

Landing in Tokyo Bay is indeed an extremely dangerous mission, but Zhao Zhi did not tell Halsey that Thunder had already laid out a secret in Tokyo Bay, and the lurker shark team responsible for receiving the landing force had not only stockpiled a large amount of ammunition and weapons, but also a large number of Japanese military uniforms and documents. As long as Zhao Zhi's 5,000 mercenaries can successfully land in Tokyo Bay, it only takes half an hour, and after changing their clothes, they can transform into a local defense force that pursues the attackers, fluent Kyoto accents and those forged documents can provide them with the best cover.

The 5,000 elite mercenaries who followed Zhao Zhi for more than half a month were the key to this operation, and Tang Lei's Qingfeng troops were among them, and the poison gas bombs they carried with them were their last talisman, Zhao Zhi did not believe that the Japanese defense forces in Tokyo would dare to use force against their emperor and cabinet ministers, unless they were willing to watch the whole of Tokyo shrouded in poisonous fog.

In fact, Zhao Zhi was not naïve enough to think that controlling the Japanese emperor indirectly controlled all the Japanese troops, he sent mercenary troops to raid Tokyo and capture the imperial palace, the biggest intention was to exert pressure on the Japanese people, and use this matter to break the fighting spirit of the Japanese army. The emperor is equivalent to the status of a god in the hearts of the Japanese people, and the Japanese army will not sit idly by and watch their emperor be controlled by the mercenaries, but Zhao Zhi can delay time by proposing peace talks with the Japanese army, as long as the 200,000 reserve mercenaries and a large number of heavy equipment from Burma arrive safely on Honshu Island, the Thunder and United States forces will begin to strike at the entire territory of Japan.