In the early morning of February 15, 1936, Lushun Sun Gully, the headquarters of the Wehrmacht Rì Main Front.

With a "snap", a sunspot gently landed on the chessboard, Lu Yixuan blinked, looked at He Yingqin who was sitting opposite him with some pride, and said with a faint smile: "Brother Jing, you big dragon can't run away." ”

He Yingqin helped his small round glasses, threw the white piece in his hand on the chessboard, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Zixiu, it's not that I'm not as good as you in chess, but my heart is not as good as you!" At this time, you can still calm down and play chess, I don't admire it, little brother. ”

"Why can't you be still?" Lu Yixuan raised his eyes and looked at He Yingqin, who was frowning slightly, and smiled: "Brother Jing, the front is a battle array, and the sea and air are overwhelming, not to mention the army, and our side has the absolute upper hand." There was no military suspense in the First World War, it was just the size of the casualties...... You and I are indispensable for destroying the country. ”

He Yingqin shook his head and smiled bitterly, looked at Lu Yixuan, who was still engrossed in studying the chess game, and sighed: "Brother Zixiu, I am not worried about the military, but the battle of the conquest is three points of military and seven points of politics...... It may not be difficult to completely annihilate the rì army and occupy the rì archipelago, but if you really want to complete the annexation, it will be even more difficult to turn the rì into a part of Greater China! ”

"Why?" Lu Yixuan asked while cleaning up the chessboard.

He Yingqin said: "Brother Zixiu should know, the younger brother has been studying in this book for many years, and he still knows the temper of the rì people. The rì people have always been brave and ruthless, and they have no faith at all. It's hard to convince ......"

"Why should you obey it with virtue?" Lu Yixuan packed up the chessboard and took the battle report that had just arrived from the pile of papers on the corner of his desk, and flipped it up.

"What can you do if you don't obey it with virtue? Can't you just use it strongly? Our Great China Federation has come to this day, and it seems that no one has been forced to join? ”

Lu Yixuan shook his head and smiled: "This is the Prime Minister's business. We can't take care of it...... The prime minister asked us to beat us hard, let's just recruit and beat the little rì to death! By the way, have you read the battle report sent by the Air Force? ”

"I've seen it." He Yingqin picked up the teacup on the side and took a sip of tea: "Xiao Rìben's plane does not show up, and the ground target will be bombed with us, I think even if we bomb Osaka, we may not be able to force their plane out...... Brother Zixiu, I think it's better to start the landing operation ahead of schedule. First lay Jeju Island and Tsushima Island. Then attack Yitai Island and the Goto Islands. I don't believe it, seeing our army approaching step by step, Xiao Rìben's plane can still hold back and not come forward. ”

"Hmm. In this way, I told Bo Fuping and Chen Shukang that I would give them 48 hours to prepare, and the military operation to land on Jeju Island and Tsushima Island in the early morning of February 17 rì was officially begun. ”

"Okay. I know. He Yingqin recorded Lu Yixuan's order. Ask the other party to sign and prepare to leave. Lu Yixuan stopped him when he opened his mouth, and handed over a pink leaflet: "Respectfully, look at this." ”

"This is ......" He Yingqin took the leaflet and looked at it, the content of which was to publicize the war of reunification in Greater East Asia, that is, to "beautify" the war of aggression of the Federation of Great China against the Soviet Union into a war of reunification...... It doesn't seem to be the same, it's a public admission to annex Rì Ben! I don't know what this kind of propaganda can be used for?

"This is a leaflet prepared by the Propaganda Department, and the first batch of 100 million has been sent to Busan to give an order to Commander-in-Chief Yang of the Air Force. Now you can start bombing large and medium-sized cities, and drop leaflets and bombs together. And also. Let the Air Force attack during the day, and let the H-7 carry out high-altitude bombing, and there is no need to pursue the bombing overly and not use too many incendiary bombs...... Sooner or later, these big cities will fall into our hands, and if they are all blown into ruins, we will have to spend money to repair them in the future. ”

"Okay, I'll go." As soon as He Yingqin left Lu Yixuan's office, the sound of the report rang out outside the door.

"The commander of the 4th Army of the Army, Guan Linzheng, reports to Commander-in-Chief Lu!" Pushing the door in, it was Guan Linzheng, the hero of the capture of Delhi, who had now been promoted to army general and became the commander of the army's 4th Army, whose 4th Army (consisting of the army's 9th, 10th, and 2nd mountain armies) had also been transferred from the Indian battlefield to Korea, ready to act as the vanguard of the invasion of Rìben!

"What about the 10th officers and soldiers? Is morale high? Lu Yixuan and Guan Linzheng exchanged two words and asked about the situation of the 10th Army, more than half of the officers and soldiers in this army were from the He clan, and they were originally from their hometown, and they didn't know if they could accept the task of "going back to their hometown".

Guan Linzheng replied: "Please rest assured, commander, the morale of the 10th Army is fine, and everyone is just waiting for the day when they land in Rìben!" To be honest, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the He clan in the 10th Army is much higher than that of others! ”

Lu Yixuan nodded, but he didn't doubt it, in the Great China Federation, the dúlì issue of a certain federal subject can be openly discussed, and naturally there is no such thing as being convicted for words, so the citizens of the federation are usually more honest and not good at falsifying - in a society where saying the wrong word will lead to prison or even disaster to the family, people with the extremely dangerous quality of honesty are destined to be ruthlessly eliminated by history, and in the end, the rest are a new generation of people who come with lies and empty words......

"Commander, can the head of this landing battle be given to Zhang Yaoming's 10th Army?" Zhang Yaoming and Guan Linzheng were fellow villagers in Shaanxi and classmates at the Zhōngyāng Military Academy, who were originally deputy commanders of the 10th Army, and he took over as commander after Guan Linzheng was promoted to commander of the group army.

Lu Yixuan shook his head, and then said to Guan Linzheng with a smile: "Yudong, your troops have just arrived in North Korea, and they have not been trained in landing warfare, so forget about this head formation...... Let the second group of the Fourth Army go ashore. ”

Guan Linzheng nodded with satisfaction. Although the first formation was not grabbed, it was not too late for the second batch to go ashore, and looking at the current posture, Rì himself was likely to give up the beachhead defense, and the real tough battle should be launched in the deep area, and then his Fourth Army would show its strength.

However, he probably didn't expect that Lu Yixuan had already told several group armies or senior generals at the army level. Among them are Chang Ruiqing's two brothers-in-law, Pan Wenzhao and Zhao Zongyang. The two of them are now the chief and deputy commanders of the Sixth Armored Group Army (under the jurisdiction of the First Armored Cavalry Army, the Third Armored Cavalry Army, and the 38th Infantry Army), and Zhao Zongyang is also the commander of the First Armored Cavalry Army.

The Sixth Panzer Army arrived about two weeks earlier than the Fourth Army, and after meeting Lu Yixuan in Lushun, the two men left for Pusan. February 15 rì in the morning. is being "summoned" in the villa where Chang Ruiqing is staying, and accepts some special tasks. In fact, Chang Ruiqing, the chief and deputy commander of each group army on the Korean front, summoned them one by one, which was also one of the purposes of his visit to Korea. This conquest of Rìben was not only the most crucial battle for the unification of Greater East Asia, but also related to the long-term unification of the country after Rì. However, some things are not convenient to be arranged in the form of written orders, so some arrangements can only be made through face-to-face interviews.

"There are many people who think that military conquest is easy, and political unification is difficult, but I don't agree with that. The War for the Unification of Greater East Asia is also a war, and since it is a war, the most crucial victory or defeat can only be decided on the battlefield, as long as you fight it well on the battlefield. The affairs of the government are easy to arrange. Of course, the political victory still has to be arranged, otherwise it is impossible for the military victory to be transformed into the unification of the political government. There is a kind of ** outside, saying that the conquest of rì is originally seven points of politics and three points of military. I think that's an exaggeration. It should be three points of politics and seven points of military.

So what is this three-point military? In my opinion, it is one, those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish! For the enemies who dare to resist us, whoever they are, the most severe sanctions will be met! Especially the party members and cadres of the original GCD, if they are not willing to come out to work for us and accept the co-optation of the China GCD and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, then they don't need to be polite, and they will all be eliminated from the top! The same treatment was given to the captured cadres and officers of the Red Army!

But for the Rì himself who is willing to work for us. We still have to give full power and benefits...... In order to co-opt them as much as possible, I am going to take some special measures. For example, it is necessary to arrange for representatives of the Central G and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association to accompany the army, so that in the shortest possible time, they can establish contact with the people who are willing to support the reunification of Greater East Asia, and arrange their duties. ”

It is indeed an extraordinary measure for political parties to represent the garrison of the armed forces, but the Chinese National Defense Forces are not the Red Army, and they have always followed the path of separating the military from the government, and there are no political party cadres stationed in the troops, and in principle, they do not approve of military personnel joining any political party. Of course, Chang Ruiqing's current use of representatives of the GCD and the Gongrong Association with the army is not to form a party army, but to do his best to integrate the local political forces into these two political parties, so that they will not be co-opted by the Kuomintang or form a new local party.

Although the Great East Asia Unification War has just begun, and China's ground forces have not yet set foot on the land of Rìben, the various political forces of the Great China Federation have already aimed at the territory of Rìben and the Nanyang Islands. The present republics of the Soviet Socialist Union claim to have a population of 100 million! In fact, there may not be so many, but there are still 80 million to 90 million people, including the Nanyang Islands, accounting for about 13% of the total population of the Greater China Federation after the unification of Greater East Asia. Even taking into account that a part of the population would migrate to the East Asian continent after the war, the votes of the Rìben and the Nanyang Islands would still be a decisive force in the political arena of the Greater China Federation after the war! If the Kuomintang is allowed to take control, Chang Ruiqing's three-party alliance will be greatly shaken.

By the same token, if these votes were in the hands of China's GCD and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, Chang Ruiqing's reactionary rule would naturally last longer. Although Sun Yuexun and several leaders of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association all voted in front of Chang Ruiqing, saying that they could get more than 80% of the votes in their own country in the future, Chang Ruiqing still felt that it was not very reliable, so he summoned the senior generals on the front line one by one and personally arranged for representatives of the Co-prosperity Association and GCD to act with the army.

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At this moment, on the surface of the Korean Strait, it is the calmest time of the year. The sea is like an endless blue velvet, slowly shaking with the breeze. The huge Chinese army ship regiment that had just left the port set up a mighty formation on the surface of the sea supported by microwaves. At the same time as the air force and navy bombed yesterday, the navy also dispatched a large number of small and medium-sized warships to sweep the sea surface in the northern part of the Korean Strait, which is called the "Busan Water Channel," and scooped up thousands of mines. Cleared the way for today's landing operation. At the same time, the planes of the Chinese naval air force did not take part in the air raids on the northern part of Kyushu and the western part of Honshu, but circled over the Korean Strait in batches to provide air cover for the Chinese landing fleet. The warplanes and surface ships of the Rì Army are still nowhere to be seen. On the entire sea, only Chinese ships with blue sky and white flags flying all over the ground could be seen. However, this does not mean that this calm sea area is completely under the control of the Chinese Navy, and the Chinese army has been notified that the submarine is very likely to raid the Chinese naval regiment in the Korean Strait, and even use the "suicide man's torpedo" to attack (this jǐng complaint was later proved to be completely groundless)! Therefore, the lookouts and sonar soldiers on every Chinese warship are now gathering and carrying out their work attentively, and they dare not slack off in the slightest.

However, Vice Admiral Shi Zhongcheng, commander of the Chinese Marine Corps (equivalent to military rank), and Major General Song Xilian, Major General Han Jun, Major General Wang Yaowu, and Major General Song Bin, chief of staff, and other major generals of the four Marine Divisions under him, as well as Major General Fang Xianjue, chief of staff, and others. But there is not much to worry about the threat from underwater. In their view, even if Rìben's "suicide torpedo" was successful, it would be just a matter of sinking a few transports or light warships. It is impossible to inflict too many losses on the entire landing fleet and the landing force - the world war is now in its fourth year, and even the Chinese Defense Forces, which did not suffer too many setbacks in the war, have already paid the price of more than three million casualties! Therefore, these lieutenant generals and major generals of the Wehrmacht have already trained themselves to be hard-hearted, and they don't care too much about the casualties of their subordinates. In their view, ordinary soldiers are just as many sacrificial consumables as they want. The so-called mercy is not only against the enemy. It is also for his own people, including the Premier Chang who often goes to the Nanjing Martyrs' Shrine to participate in various memorial activities for the memorials of the fallen soldiers, deep down in his heart, he would not care about the lives of soldiers, otherwise he would not have launched this war of reunification in Greater East Asia.

Now they are concerned about only one thing, that is, how many heavily armed soldiers are waiting for Jeju and Tsushima Islands. Due to the unique efficiency of GCD in counter-espionage work, the top brass of the Chinese army did not have much information about the deployment of the army, only that Rì himself had mobilized at least 5 million regular troops and 10 million Red Guards! This is not a small number for the Chinese National Defense Force, which has a total strength of only 2 million, almost seven and a half! And the opponent is still Rì himself, who has always been more able to fight.

Report. Telegraph from the battlecruiser Canton! A Marine Corps staff officer walked into the operational command center aboard the USS Borneo tank landing ship with a copy of the telegram that had just been translated.

The Borneo tank landing ship was the lead ship of the Borneo-class tank landing ship, which had just been put into active service, and entered service in July 1935. It was developed to fight against the rì. This type of tank landing ship is 120 meters long, 17.3 meters wide, 4.2 meters draft, standard displacement of 2,000 tons, full load displacement of 4,800 tons, the main engine is two Type 1934 diesel engines, the total power is 2,400 horsepower, the maximum speed is 14 knots, the ship can carry up to five landing craft, can carry 1,000 marines, or 17 hunter tank destroyers, or 32 trucks, self-defense weapons are two 75mm single-barreled naval guns, four 37mm double-barreled high-barreled guns.

For this landing on Tsushima Island and Jeju Island, the Chinese Navy dispatched a total of 54 Borneo-class tank landing ships, and 90 percent of the nearly 60,000 officers and men of the four divisions of the Chinese Marine Corps were seated on these tank landing ships. The remaining 10 percent of the officers and men and a large number of heavy weapons and equipment were carried by transport ships, and they were not brought ashore until the beachhead was consolidated.

"Commander, the artillery detachment has begun to bombard the Tsushima fortress." Fang Xianjue took the telegram and looked at it, and handed it to Shi Zhongcheng, who was studying the map of Tsushima Island. "However, Rì's own battery did not return fire, and it seems that it was completely destroyed in yesterday's air raid."

"The 26-year-old fortress of the Meiji Tsushima Fortress is equipped with cannons that were also products before the Russian War, and even if they are not bombed, they can't help the four Cantonese-class ones." Shi Zhongcheng did not reach out to receive the telegram, but still buried himself in studying the map of Tsushima. According to the plan, he would personally command the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Marine Divisions to occupy Tsushima Island, and Wang Yaowu would command the 3rd Marine Division to occupy Jeju Island. Compared to Jeju Island, which is mainly inhabited by North Koreans, Tsushima Island, which lies in the middle of the Korean Strait, is obviously a tough nut to crack. On the one hand, Tsushima is known as the gateway to Kyushu, and after the cession of South Korea, it is the focus of coastal defense, so it is inevitable that heavy troops will be deployed; On the one hand, the terrain of Tsushima Island is complicated, the island is densely hilly, and there is almost no flat land, but it is better if Rì himself really wants to shrink into the mountains and not come out, anyway, the responsibility of the Marine Corps is only to seize the key locations of Isukuhara Port, Mitsushima Airport and Mitsushima Port on Tsushima Island, and the drudgery of clearing the entire island of the remnants of the enemy is the ...... of the Army)