The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

After listening to what they said, Jiang Cheng withdrew his gaze from the map in front of him.

Looking around at the people who all looked at him with disapproving eyes, he showed a very cunning smile: "Oh, look at what you guys are saying. If I don't even understand this, I'd better quit as the head coach as soon as possible."

However, just as everyone was relieved, Jiang Cheng changed the subject and said, "But we also have to discuss this peace talk——"

Raising a hand to stop the strange looks from Zhang Tingshu and the others, Jiang Cheng continued with a cold face, "Don't be impatient, I just said that I understand what you are saying;"

"And according to the current situation, we have clearly grasped the initiative in the battle... In order to quickly make a breakthrough, the Japanese army fought desperately on the river beach. Not only did they use a large number of new fighter planes, but the amount of ammunition during the attack was basically saturated—"

"Just think about it. With the national strength of the Japanese, it would be like cutting off their own limbs. Given the temperament of their superiors and the Japanese emperor, they will definitely investigate this from top to bottom."

"So I guess that these little devils want to negotiate with us right now, most likely to delay time, and then go to other places in our China to open up a battlefield--"

Sun Zhengnan pondered, "In other words, they have suffered a loss in Ji'an, so they want to use their military achievements to offset their defeat? Oh, now that you mentioned it, I remember that Shang Yumingcheng, who negotiated with us in Siping before, was commended by the Japanese superiors for entering the Shanhaiguan battlefield."

Zhang Tingshu immediately responded, "Fighting inside the Great Wall also helps to relieve the pressure of fighting in Fengtian Province... Feilan, if, I mean, they put all their troops inside the Great Wall, then what about outside the Great Wall?"

Everyone heard the hidden meaning in his words: if the Japs cannot defeat them outside the Great Wall, and can rush into the Central Plains and gain the upper hand, then the Japs will shift the focus of their operations to the interior of the Great Wall!

"Haven't you always been thinking about the warlords fighting for supremacy in the Central Plains?"

Jiang Cheng sneered a few times, "The devils are here now, can they still continue?"

Everyone stopped talking.

"Reply to the Japanese army, we accept the peace talks. However, some details need to be finalized by the other side's commander in person!"

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When the highest-ranking Japanese commander, Watanabe Yuta, and his escort team arrived at Ji'an, Jiang Cheng issued the order for a general attack.

The Japanese commander-in-chief was greatly shocked. He was about to scold Jiang Cheng for not keeping his word and luring him here, but then he changed his face. The escort brigade rushed out together, took control of the scene in a lightning speed, and took control of all the devils including Watanabe Yuta, and rushed to the Yalu River.

"Let them see for themselves what a three-dimensional attack by land, sea and air is like!"

Jiang Cheng waved his hand and pointed to the riverbank in the distance, "Damn little Japanese, kill them all and throw them into the river!"

If they could think of delaying tactics, he would certainly use them too:

Not only can we use peace talks to "delay" the process, but we can also use them to trick these stupid Japs into coming and try out what it means to "treat them with their own tactics."

"Jiang Cheng, you are such an immoral bastard, the Empire will definitely punish you..."

Before he could finish his words, the irritable Li Shitou raised his fist and hit him a few times, then called on his brothers to drag him out.

At this time, the bombing had already begun, and the cruising warships fired their guns, instantly setting the entire north bank on fire;
With the sound of artillery and naval guns, the landing on the south bank had begun: engineers quickly built a pontoon bridge, and the entire army slowly crossed the river in a short time, and the battle was pushed to a white-hot stage in an instant. Bombers fired incendiary bombs at high altitude, heavy artillery destroyed fortifications at long range, and armored motorboats crossed the river in three dimensions, quickly forming a three-dimensional strike system;
The assembled troops had been holding their anger for a long time, and now with the support of the air and fleet, the steel torrent was like a steamroller, quickly turning the unsuspecting Japanese into a bloodstained pile of historical papers.

"Damn Jiang Cheng, he actually lied to us... He pulled Commander Watanabe over for negotiations, but he launched an attack at this time!"

As the three-dimensional attack continued, the Japanese army also decided to counterattack - there were even more guys who were not afraid of death and even thought about launching the human bomb tactic again, letting the suicide squad launch an offensive to reverse the situation.

But as soon as these words were spoken, they aroused the anger of the current "acting chief" Shirakawa Hidetomo.

He slapped several people in the face and cursed, saying that no matter what, every imperial warrior was precious, and even if you launched this kind of attack now, you would not be able to change the situation, so you might as well conserve your strength and lead the troops to withdraw quickly.

As long as they have soldiers on hand, they can still tear open a gap in other parts of China. If they can win the battle, will the higher-ups still hold you and me responsible?

Therefore, these bastards chose to desert the battlefield at the first possible moment and kept retreating towards the seaside port.

They ran, and the Northeast Army chased them, driving them all the way to a city far enough away from Ji'an.

After Watanabe's death, the entire division was taken over by Shirakawa Eitoshi.

He immediately told the navy to withdraw from here and look for a direction that could open up China... The vast coastline could become their battlefield everywhere.

Moreover, before leaving, these bastards burned, killed and looted everywhere in North Korea, causing extremely tragic damage to the local area.

As the Korean reinforcements to Feng Province failed, upon receiving the news, Mutō Nobuyoshi ordered the entire army to abandon the city and evacuate in the directions of Yingkou and the Liaoxi Corridor.

Obviously, the entire Kwantung Army also shifted its offensive focus to the interior of the country.

It is no longer realistic to start a war in the Northeast. The entire area outside the Great Wall is almost a solid block. There are also strong troops in Rehe and other places, and their numbers far exceed theirs.

As the attack pressure on Shanhaiguan suddenly increased, the Shandong coast also suffered fierce attacks from the Japanese army.

At dawn on November 31, 11, the fourteen warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet formed a crescent formation outside the Qingdao Fortress.

The naval guns tore the darkness before dawn into pieces. The shells landed along the beach near the pier all the way to the north and south. The exploding waves carried the stone chips from the coastal defense batteries, forming a pale wall of fog under the searchlights.

"The Japanese army is attacking... Yes, Master Hai, it's the Japanese army!"

The defenders immediately reported to Hai Rusong, the current governor of Shandong, who was in Jinan. But the Japanese bombing had already begun. A large number of fighter planes took off from the aircraft carrier and kept diving to drop bombs. Eighty incendiary bombs burned the defenders' reinforced concrete machine gun bunkers into red iron.

This was the most intensive shore bombardment by the Imperial Navy against China since the fall of Port Arthur.

Even if the defenders did not want to retreat, they all had determined eyes and wanted to fight the Japanese army... But they had almost no way to deal with this three-dimensional attack from the sea and air. (End of this chapter)