Tanabe Moribu nodded and said, "Although this decision is helpless, it is indeed our most wisest decision to take the blame for the two powers."

Ai Mo Jing San said, "Yes, I have to admit that without air supremacy, the Imperial Army could not fight head-on with the Hu Ben Army. The fanatical Bushido spirit alone is not enough to help us eliminate the powerful Hu Ben Army. We must learn to endure."

Reality has taught people that although Tanabe Moriwu and Youmo Jingsan were unwilling to accept their desire to destroy the damn Chinese Hu Ben Army, they knew that even if they didn't care about the price and tried everything to fight hard, it would be impossible to achieve at present.

"Soga! That's what it's decided!"

Shimomura nodded.

Although Shimomura Taki didn't have much military command ability, he was a "full of poetry and books". He started to study at the Japanese Army Central Academy of Young People's School since he was a child, and graduated from a series of famous military schools such as the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, the Japanese Army University, and the French Army University.

Before taking office as commander of the North China Front Army, Shimomura spent most of his time working in the General Staff Headquarters and engaged in military research, so he has a lot of research on current world military theory and the Tiger Army.

After some difficult discussions and discussions, Shimomura made a very pragmatic decision to implement a larger siege and layer-by-layer defense circle against the Hu Ben Army.

Instead of implementing the orders issued by the headquarters, we should take advantage of the fact that the Hu Ben Army was not yet stable in its foothold, retaliation of the Northern Shandong Plain, protect Jinan City, and drive the Hu Ben Army back to the south bank of the Yellow River again.

A huge fleet is heading westward in a sea area of ​​the Indian Ocean.

In the past three days, the fleet sounded several alarms at night and discovered several enemy submarines cruising nearby to attempt to attack the fleet.

Fortunately, under the full alert and powerful anti-submarine countermeasures of the frigate, the enemy's submarines failed to attack, and several were sunk.

As for whether it is a German submarine or a Japanese submarine, it is still unknown. Of course, the answer to this question is not important to the fleet.

Yang Fan stood on the deck of the warship, holding a Cuban cigar in his mouth and a glass of red wine in his hand. He was looking at the calm sea level and the fleet sailing side by side with interest.

Wu Juan and Xia Yu were dressed in military uniforms, but they did not keep smoking and drinking like Yang Fan. Although they were just standing on both sides of Yang Fan empty-handed, the two women were in a very good mood and chatting with each other while talking and laughing.

It has been three days since we left Yangon Port. For this vast sea without any characteristics, three days are enough to make people tired of it.

But Mr. Yang, who was riding a boat across the ocean for the first time, had a sense of freshness that he never got tired of watching. He was in a good mood and brought his beautiful wife and concubine to the bow of the boat to blow the sea breeze and bask in the sun, and forced the boring and traversing the ocean to interpret the beauty of a beautiful yacht.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong, just as Yang Fan was feeling at ease, a burst of rapid footsteps came from afar.

Yang Fan subconsciously turned his head and saw that it was Huang Hong, the intelligence officer, who came to report the news again, and it seemed that things were still a little anxious.

Sure enough, after a moment, Huang Hong stood in front of Yang Fan and saluted: "Report to the General Officer, Shandong urgently."

Yang Fan turned around and leaned against the side of the boat, shook the red wine in his hand with his hand, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and a word popped out: "Read!"

"yes!"

Huang Hong responded, then took the telegram and said, "More than 300,000 Japanese Kwantung Army reinforcements have arrived in Hebei one after another and are heading for defenses on the front lines of Cangzhou, Hengshui, Xingtai and Handan.

At present, the total strength of the Japanese North China Front Army has reached more than 600,000, and it has two flight divisions and three armored divisions,…”

"These Japanese came very quickly!"

After listening to Huang Hong's report, Yang Fan raised his eyebrows and said, "Call back to Deputy Commander-in-Chief Miu, don't care how many Japanese people have come. Take down all the Luxi Plain first. The occupied areas should consolidate their defenses as quickly as possible and establish a solid line of defense to prepare for the tug-of-war with the Japanese army."

"yes!"

Huang Hong responded quickly.

Yang Fan then said: "Don't force the siege of Jinan Prefecture too quickly. Still adopt the strategy of siege three and one. It is best to force the Japanese to give up Jinan voluntarily and minimize the damage to Jinan to the greatest extent."

"yes!"

Huang Hong nodded again and replied.

Yang Fan took a sip of red wine and changed the subject: "What's the situation in Henan now?"

Huang Hong's face suddenly dimmed and he said in a deep voice: "The situation is getting worse and worse. Since the second half of this year, the famine has become more and more serious. Henan should have been a season of abundant rain, but it has not even rained a drop, but the sun is scorching.

In the wild dance of the drought, the once fertile land has cracked into pieces and finally turned into sandy land, which is completely unsuitable for cultivation.

Huaxian, which was originally known as the Henan granary, has no grain harvest this year.

Coupled with the man-made disasters caused by years of war, many people in Henan are already on the verge of life and death."

Speaking of this, Huang Hong paused and said with great sadness: "Official staff, although we have tried our best to save the victims, we have been rescuing the victims through various channels over the years to our Shandong Peninsula.

But it is still a drop in the bucket. The yellow flood area caused by the broken dam of the Gardenkou has been severe droughts and locust plagues. Coupled with the man-made disasters caused by the war, more than 10 million people in Henan have been tragically damaged!

If it is not effectively improved within two or three months, the consequences will be unimaginable, and people will starve to death and cannibalism will inevitably be... "

As a time traveler, Yang Fan naturally knew very well how terrifying and tragic the Great Famine in Henan in 1942 was.

Therefore, in order to minimize this disaster, Yang Fan began to do his best to rescue the affected people from various disaster areas and settle down in the Shandong Peninsula as early as after the Huayuankou broke the dike.

In two or three years, Yang Fan has introduced millions of people from Henan, Hebei, Anhui and other places to the Shandong Peninsula through various channels and methods.

Although such efforts have achieved great results, not only allowed millions of people to escape, but also caused the population resources of the Shandong Peninsula to expand rapidly, and in a short period of time, all walks of life have become extremely prosperous and developed.

But later the Japanese army gradually realized that when they understood that these victims who seemed to be burdensome in their eyes would not only not bring trouble and difficulties to Yang Fan, but would become the powerful war resources of the Hu Ben Army, the actions of the Hu Ben Army to cross the border to rescue the victims became extremely difficult.

At present, there are still more than 12 million people suffering from disasters stranded in Henan, which is a suffocating astronomical figure.
Chapter completed!