The full end of the Battle of Songhu marks that the Chinese nation's war of resistance has entered a new situation. The whole country is full of joy. All Chinese people have walked out of their homes. The sound of firecrackers celebrating victory is everywhere on the land of China...

The Chinese nation has thus entered a short opportunity for recuperation and peaceful development.

From 38th to 42nd, in addition to the Northeast, Outer Mongolia and other areas on China were temporarily under the iron hooves of the invaders, and other areas showed a prosperous and gratifying scene.

Moreover, due to the extremely rare peaceful scene in mainland China, ethnic minorities such as Jews and other European countries that have been shrouded in the dark clouds of war have begun to implement large-scale immigration to China.

As the Chinese Union Government continued its consistent open and preferential immigration policy, under the secret operation of Botao Company and other underground forces controlled by Zhou Tao, mainland China attracted more than two million migrants from scientific and technological and technical talents from Europe and other regions in the following years.

This has led a large number of scientific and technological personnel and technical workers in Western countries to the mysterious and beautiful land of the East, and found suitable employment opportunities and enjoyed a beautiful peaceful life on the East.

Of course, the arrival of these people, together with Western scientific and technological personnel and technical workers who have immigrated to China in three to five years, has made indelible contributions to the scientific and technological progress of the Chinese nation, industrial upgrading, and comprehensive development of the Chinese nation in all aspects.

After the war, the vast majority of people also chose to stay in China and become part of the powerful Chinese nation. This multi-ethnic country once again added a powerful national branch.

Similarly, because of their existence, the level of industrial workers in my country has been rapidly improved, laying a solid foundation for China's vigorous development of comprehensive modernization.

Now, almost everyone in the world believes that the Chinese nation is an invincible force.

Similarly, in the face of such powerful combat power of the PLA, the Japanese invaders should now consider how to allow their country and army to escape the attack of the PLA, rather than sending troops to China again to provoke the war.

The disastrous defeat in the Battle of Shanghai once again triggered violent turmoil in Japan's political situation and the military. All cabinet resigned, and many senior military officials also chose to commit suicide by cesarean section to end their shameful lives.

With a series of shocks in the Japanese political and military circles, some people finally made a pledge for this tragic war for Japan. After this turmoil, Yamamoto Iroku, the second-ranking official of the former Japanese Navy Minister Nagano, stood out. Not only was he not affected by this military turmoil, but he was pushed to the stage of history in advance and officially took office as the Japanese Navy Minister and the commander of the Japanese Navy Joint Fleet, and began his most glorious military career in his life.

When Yamamoto Iroku officially became the Japanese Navy Minister and commander of the Japanese Navy Joint Fleet, he spoke a classic speech that was called a stunning quote by later generations:

"The Oriental Majesty of the Republic of China has completely awakened. Now, the world has become his prey. Faced with this terrifying awakened majesty, other nations either choose to surrender or die. Any force that dares to resist will be torn to pieces by his iron claws."

Therefore, Yamamoto Izuru argued that Japan should immediately engage in peace talks with the Chinese government and try its best to meet the requirements of the Chinese government in order to reach a comprehensive understanding with the Chinese government, avoid its edge, and preserve its strength.

Japan's future way out lies in the ocean, and it will never be on the beautiful and rich continent that is never reachable.

In fact, after the two battles between North China and East China, the Japanese army lost nearly 800,000 troops, Yamamoto Izuru's proposition already represents the mentality of most people in the Japanese military, Japanese politics and even Japanese citizens.

What really scares Japan is not only that our army annihilated nearly 800,000 Japanese troops, but in a very short period of time, using various unimaginable strategic and tactical means, can solve the Japanese army's very elite and powerful military strength. What a terrifying and powerful force.

Moreover, the PLA only deployed part of its power in each battle, far from all its power, and now it has been successfully supplemented by hundreds of thousands of troops from the Kuomintang. Such a powerful PLA, coupled with the support of a huge population and resources, is simply something that Japan has a resource-scarce island country.

At this moment, as Yamamoto Izuru said, if you choose to confront China unwisely, it is equivalent to choosing death.

Not many people, before they had time to turn their relationship, Yamamoto Iroku used sharp words to tear the last layer of gauze that covered Japan's bare body to pieces.

Therefore, after the Battle of Songhu, Japan had made partial adjustments to develop to the north and south after the Battle of North China, and its military strategy for intermediate defense was completely determined.

After the Battle of Songhu ended, no one dared to clamor for the destruction of China any more arrogant Japanese militarists.

At the same time, the newly-employed Japanese cabinet and the Japanese military began to study how to reach an understanding with China and ensure that Japan will not be torn to pieces by this rapidly rising Eastern power.

After fierce debate and secret discussions between multiple parties, the top Japanese leaders finally reached a consensus that the requirements put forward by the Chinese government are conditionally met. Even if a comprehensive reconciliation cannot be reached with the Chinese government, the time for the Chinese government and Japan to be delayed as much as possible. We will gain time for Japan to develop the strategic policy on both sides of the north and south.

Now, unlike the Japanese army's continuous defeats on the Chinese battlefield, on the Far East battlefield where they fought with the Soviet Union, the Japanese army has achieved victory after victory, and has advanced the front of the Soviet Union's hinterland.

Moreover, in Europe, the Soviet Union is now facing the huge war pressure brought by German and other Western countries, and is also in chaos in the Middle East and the North-South Caucasus. Now is a great opportunity for the Japanese army to resolve the Soviet Far East battlefield in one fell swoop and occupy the Soviet Far East.

If the Soviet Far East can be successfully occupied, even if the Northeast and even North Korea are taken back by China in the future, Japan will find a good strategic point on the Eastern continent. With the support of huge oil and natural gas resources in the Soviet Far East, Japan's domestic economic situation will recover quite quickly.

At the same time, if the Japanese Navy can successfully go south to Southeast Asia and obtain a large amount of rubber, coal and iron and other resources in Southeast Asia such as Indonesia. Then Japan will develop into a powerful force no less than China. By then, it will compete with China, which is Japan's relatively safe and reliable long-term development strategy.

The development strategy of the north-south development and intermediate defense formulated by the Japanese cabinet and the military was also approved by Emperor Hirohito of Japan. At this point, Japan began to carry out a series of military and diplomatic actions around the new strategy.

Starting from the beginning of 1938, Japan formally sent a delegation to mainland China and began to seek peace talks on both sides to abolish the war situation and establish friendly relations.

However, we have set very serious prerequisites for the Sino-Japanese peace talks. According to the conditions set by our country, if Japan wants to hold formal peace talks with our country, it should first return it to our Taiwan and Ryukyu Islands. Otherwise, our army will lead its troops northward from now on, enter the Northeast, and completely annihilate the Japanese army entrenched in our Northeast and Far East.

Under our military and political pressure, after more than a month of preparatory sexual contact and consultation between the two sides, the Japanese imperialist China made a difficult choice and agreed to the prerequisites of our government.

It also agreed that the Japanese army and Japanese expatriates would evacuate Taiwan and Ryukyu Islands within half a year. Starting from August 1, 2018, the Chinese Union Government resumed its sovereignty over Taiwan and Ryukyu Islands.

Our side also agreed to Japan to evacuate more than 50,000 Japanese troops in Qingdao, which had been besieged by our army for more than half a year.

The first thing Yamamoto did when he came to power was to evacuate the Japanese army, mainly Japanese Marines in Qingdao, from China.

As for the Japanese army entrenched in Qingdao, Xunhuaizhou had considered arranging the Eastern Corps of the Fourth Field Army to encircle and annihilate the battles in North China as early as the stage of the development of the North China Battle.

Later, due to the great development of the battle situation in North China, especially when the Soviet Union and Japan officially fought in the north, Xunhuaizhou stopped the combat plan to annihilate the Japanese army in Qingdao, and instead transferred the Eastern Corps of the Fourth Field Army to encircle this part of the Japanese army without fighting.

After putting this part of the Japanese army in Qingdao for nearly half a year, the life of these part of the Japanese army was extremely miserable.

Since the Japanese army was in absolute disadvantage in Qingdao and was at an absolute disadvantage, they did not dare to attack our army, nor could they plunder the food supplement.

The military supplies are only replenished by some ships from the Japanese Navy, and they also have to be replenished according to the face of the besieged People's Liberation Army.

After the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese army had lost their last delusions about mainland China. It was meaningless to stay in Qingdao again. They were either wiped out or surrendered to them, and there was no other way out.

It was against this background that Yamamoto Irokuro sought to successfully withdraw this part of the Japanese army back to the country through diplomatic and peaceful means.

Although the Chairman also wanted to eliminate this part of the Japanese army, after many secret discussions with Xunhuaizhou, the Chairman and the Military Commission still made a strategy of siegeing and not attacking this part of the Japanese army.

Now this part of the Japanese army, which has been besieged by our army for many days, has become a wonderful move in our hands.

After the Japanese army officially recognized the prerequisites for peace talks proposed by us and promised not to dispatch these Japanese troops to our Northeast and North Korea, we also accused Japan of evacuating the 50,000 Japanese troops in Qingdao.

Yamamoto Iroku immediately dispatched a transport team from the Japanese Navy fleet. Without arranging escort, more than 50,000 Japanese Marines stationed in Qingdao, Shandong were urgently withdrawn to the Far East Sakhalin Island area and began to enter the Far East battlefield.

At this point, there are no Japanese troops stationed in Chinese territory, except for the Northeast, North Korea, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands and other places.

With Japan's first commitment, the two sides began formal negotiations.

Under our deliberate control, this peace talks started in 2018 and lasted until 2012, and the peace talks were not officially reached. However, it cultivated a tacit understanding between the two sides. It made Japan take a step by step to meet China's needs in the next few years almost in accordance with China's will. Of course, this is also a later story.
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