Zhang Hua, who had already infiltrated Honshu Island, learned that the Japanese army was gathering troops, so he immediately sent a telegram to Zhao Zhi's side, saying that it was true that the Japanese army was assembling troops, but they were not ready to engage Thunder immediately, because the air units they had mobilized from the Chinese battlefield and Korea had not yet arrived, and without air support, the Japanese troops assembled on Honshu Island were not sure of victory over Thunder.

Zhao Zhi didn't pay attention to the Japanese army's troop build-up, the waters around Kyushu Island had been controlled by the Japanese army, and before the U.S. fleet arrived, what Zhao Zhi could do was to improve those armored vehicles equipped with Thor, once the Japanese army attacked, these armored vehicles would cause unexpected damage to the Japanese army. "Sir, another Kwantung Army division has landed, and this is already the third Kwantung Army division they have transferred." The face of the intelligence staff officer was already clouded, and there were still two days before the arrival of the US fleet, but the Japanese army had already dispatched three Kwantung Army divisions to land in Kitakyushu Bay.

Before Zhao Zhi could respond to the words of the intelligence staff officer, a telegraph soldier quickly walked in from outside the headquarters, "Sir, this is the news I just received, another Kwantung Army division has landed in Nagasaki. "The intelligence staff officer will really panic. The Japanese are crazy, in order to deal with the thousands of mercenaries on Kyushu Island, they actually transferred four Kwantung Army divisions at one time. If the 4th Division, which has been sluggish, and the two Korean divisions in Kitakyushu, the Japanese army on Kyushu Island will have more than 110,000 troops, and half of these 110,000 Japanese soldiers are veterans of the Kwantung Army.

"What's the panic? Isn't this that the Japanese army has not yet started fighting? Let's call everyone to a meeting and prepare for the deployment of the next stage of combat missions. Seeing that all the staff officers in the command headquarters were worried, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but reprimand the intelligence staff officer loudly, the big war is imminent, the enemy has not yet moved, but the command level of his own side is already in chaos, this is a taboo in the art of war. In fact, not only the intelligence staff officer was panicked, but also James and the liaison officers sent by the US military were also panicked, and the obvious goal of such a large-scale transfer of troops by the Japanese army to land on Kyushu Island was thunder.

Zhao Zhi ignored James's proposal to withdraw the troops, he didn't even have a ship, where would these people go? How to withdraw? Zhao Zhi himself also formulated that those armored vehicles alone were not enough to confront the 110,000 Japanese army, but in the history of Thunder's war, there has never been a retreat without a fight. Zhao Zhi drew a big circle with a pencil on the location of Fukuoka Prefecture, and then tapped the circle with his hand and said, "Fukuoka Prefecture will become our main battlefield, which is mountainous and hilly, which can effectively restrain the tanks, armored vehicles and heavy weapons and equipment of the Japanese army, which is very suitable for the activities of our mercenary troops." ”

Zhao Zhi's choice of Fukuoka as the main battlefield was not a whim, and since the mixed troops stationed in Kitakyushu, a sweeping team under Zhao Zhi has secretly infiltrated Fukuoka Prefecture and conducted mountain reconnaissance on all the mountains in Fukuoka Prefecture, and the detailed data recorded by those scouts has been distributed to the mercenary forces. When Zhao Zhi first learned that the 4th Division and the 12th Division had landed on Kyushu Island, he had already planned to set up a battlefield in Fukuoka Prefecture.

"What we need to do now is to hurry up and transport all our heavy weapons to Fukuoka Prefecture, and distribute the ammunition, so that the mercenary troops can set off to enter Fukuoka in the open." Facing the incomprehension of his staff officers, Zhao Zhi's words paused, and then explained, "Kyushu Island is only so big, you can't hide from it, rather than being chased and beaten by the Japanese army, it is better to call them directly, and start a good fight with them in Fukuoka County, so as to kill the prestige of the Kwantung Army." ”

Zhao Zhi obviously did not fully reveal his plans, and when the situation developed to this point, Zhao Zhi still pinned his hopes on the US fleet. There are still two days left before the arrival of the U.S. fleet, if it is really in Fukuoka Prefecture to open a posture and wait for the Japanese army to attack, the suspicious Japanese army may not dare to attack the Thunder defense line in one go, according to Zhao Zhi's understanding of the Japanese army, the Japanese army who rushed to Fukuoka will definitely complete the encirclement or gather troops before attacking the Thunder defense line, Zhao Zhi wants to rely on the old suspicious formation to win the last two days.

"Then what about the mixed troops we have deployed on the front line of Hita?" Someone in Zhao Zhi's operational staff reminded Zhao Zhi that there were still nearly 300,000 mixed soldiers on Kyushu Island who had not been assigned combat missions. The 400,000 mixed soldiers sent to Kyushu Island by Zhao Zhi in two batches have been fought repeatedly, and there are still almost 300,000 people, since these South Asian natives were sent to Kyushu Island as cannon fodder, how could this big battle in Fukuoka be without their place.

"You don't need to think about the mixed troops, your task is to arrange the mercenary operations, and I have my own arrangements for the mixed troops." Zhao Zhi had already issued a large number of weapons and equipment captured from the Japanese army to the mixed troops, and believed that those South Asian natives who had gone through several battles had a new understanding of the war. Fukuoka Prefecture said that it was not big or small, but it was extremely easy to hide 300,000 mixed soldiers, and Zhao Zhi was already ready to turn half of the mixed troops into pieces and devote themselves to the task of luring the enemy into depth, and the remaining half of the mixed troops would be stationed in Fukuoka County to serve as a peripheral defense.

More than a dozen orders were sent out of Zhao Zhi's temporary headquarters one after another, and they were told to act according to orders, regardless of whether the troops who received the orders were happy or not. How could Thunder hide such a large-scale transfer of troops from the eyes of the Japanese army, after receiving a report from the front line, Okamura Ningji judged that Zhao Zhi should have known the news that the Kwantung Army Division had landed on Kyushu Island again, and this should be Zhao Zhi's dog jumping over the wall to make the last stubborn resistance.

Okamura Ninji, who knew that Zhao Zhi should not be taken lightly, did not gloat, but stepped up the deployment of troops to Kyushu Island, and after the fourth Kwantung Army unit landed in Nagasaki, Okamura Ninji transferred two more local divisions from Honshu Island to cross the North Kyushu Bay and march towards Xingqiao. Knowing that Zhao Zhi had gathered his forces and retreated to Fukuoka Prefecture, the top level of the Japanese cabinet was very happy, as long as the local division that marched to Xingqiao continued to move south to block Zhao Zhi's retreat to the south of Kyushu, the Kwantung Army Division marching north from Nagasaki and the Korean division heading south from North Kyushu could block Zhao Zhi in Fukuoka Prefecture, and only the last blow was needed to destroy Zhao Zhi, the demon of Zhao Zhi, on the island of Kyushu.

The confident Japanese army completely got rid of the shadow caused by the thunder on Kyushu Island in the early stage, and the 4th Division, which had been cowering, was carried all the way north by the Kwantung Army Division that landed in Nagasaki, and it was only when it reached Saga that it was able to stop, and they were waiting for the North Kyushu Korean Division to go south to Tagawa. Zhao Zhi's mixed troops can only play a role in beating the upper Kwantung Army division, but the 140,000 mixed soldiers who have the advantage of numbers have a fight against the Korean division, so Zhao Zhi deployed 140,000 mixed soldiers in Jiama, preparing to block the Korean division and regiment moving south.

All the Japanese troops who had already entered Kyushu were strictly ordered by Okamura Ninji not to delay the speed of their march, and the 140,000 Japanese troops finally completed the siege of Fukuoka Prefecture on the morning of the third day when Zhao Zhi learned the news and responded, and Zhao Zhi was surrounded in Fukuoka Prefecture along with his 3,000 mercenaries and 150,000 mixed soldiers. Several mountains in Fukuoka Prefecture were set up by Zhao Zhi's mercenaries to set many traps and ambushes, and only when the Japanese army attacked in a big way, the mercenaries could have a real battle with the Japanese army.

"Two days, we only need to hold out for two days, and the US fleet can sail into the waters of Japan, so these two days are the key for us, and everyone must be up to the spirit of the next battle." Zhao Zhi's pre-war mobilization is only a few words, the big war is imminent, everything is false, only the actual battle results are real, Zhao Zhi and his mercenaries are ready to deal with the battle, and now it depends on how the Japanese army organizes their attack.

The battle curtain suddenly broke out at lunchtime, and a mixed unit arranged by Zhao Zhi on the periphery took advantage of the Japanese army's lunch time to suddenly attack, killing most of the Korean Japanese squadron that confronted them and returning victorious. Before the mixed unit could report its results, the Japanese retaliatory artillery fire smashed like hail, and in the continuous artillery bombardment, two Korean infantry wings frantically smashed into the defense line of the mixed unit and engaged in a melee battle. The Japanese troops who went south to Korea had artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, and airplanes to assist in the battle, and the mixed troops who fought fiercely for two hours were finally defeated by the opponent, and the Japanese troops took the opportunity to launch a pursuit.

The outer defense line of Fukuoka, which was composed of mixed troops, collapsed like dominoes, and the hundreds of thousands of mixed soldiers could only be routed all the way to the mountainous area where the Thunder mercenaries were stationed. The Japanese troops besieging Fukuoka Prefecture naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity, and more than 100,000 Japanese troops swarmed up and tried their best to shrink the encirclement in accordance with the plan of action that had been formulated long ago, in a vain attempt to squeeze the living space of Thunder and force Thunder's mercenary troops to take the initiative to engage themselves.

Zhao Zhi, who was regarded as the main target by the Japanese army, was in Fukuoka, as the founder and supreme commander of Thunder, it was impossible for Zhao Zhi to leave his mercenary troops and flee alone at this time, not to mention that the battle had just begun, and it was too early to say who would win or lose. The Thunder was so vulnerable to the outer defense line in Fukuoka that the commanders of the Japanese divisions were suspicious, thinking of the words that Okamura Ninji had told them before the war, and the commanders of these divisions and regiments all chose to assemble a large force and stand by, and only sent wing-level troops deep into Fukuoka to pursue the remnants of the enemy.

Of course, Zhao Zhi will not be stupid enough to put himself in danger, there are only 3,000 mercenaries in the Japanese encirclement, and the other mercenaries are all arranged by Zhao Zhi outside the Japanese encirclement, as long as the time comes, these mercenaries who are cruising outside the Japanese encirclement will become strange soldiers who can influence the situation of this battle, in other words, Zhao Zhi is using himself as a bait to lure the Japanese army to gather in Fukuoka Prefecture.