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Chapter 901 Stalemate

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    Faced with the People's Army's successive victories, Japan has the intention to continue to move south. However, Japan's current army strength in North Korea is no longer able to resist this pace.  An atmosphere of disappointment and pessimism gradually enveloped Japan.  Therefore, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters's army expansion proposal is extremely tempting.

    But first of all, it is not tolerated by the political party forces.

    As we all know, Japan's political party politics has not been established for a long time. It was basically established during the "Taisho War". Its foundation is not solid, and militarist forces are constantly using various means to obstruct or infiltrate power.  among the various parties.  If the military is expanded, it means that the country will return to the old path of military group control, which is related to the life and death of party politics.

    Therefore, both the Constitutional Friendship Association and the Constitutional Democratic Party have suppressed this.

    Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi, the president of the Riken Seiyukai, clearly expressed his opposition.  His reason is: the fierce war has stretched the few foreign exchange reserves, and most importantly, the steel and oil related to the national economy and people's livelihood have been completely consumed.  The war cannot continue without a large amount of replenishment, and expanding the war means that Japan's trade lines may be completely broken.

    Because according to the rules of international law, if two countries declare war, a third country cannot provide strategic materials, which also means participating in the war.  The United States can use this reason to impose an embargo on Japan. This is what the U.S. Navy has been trying to do for many years.

    It¡¯s not that the Japanese political circles don¡¯t want to accept Zhang Hanqing¡¯s olive branch, but how much benefit can diplomatic negotiations after losing troops and generals have to Japan?  Japan, which is good at this, has always used the prestige of victory to seek bargaining points in diplomacy. Now under such circumstances, who can guarantee that it will gain benefits from bargaining?

    The Japanese military and political circles had an in-depth discussion on this, and finally came to the conclusion that negotiations must be accepted, but only after a great victory.  In view of the fact that the Army's standoff cannot be decided for a moment, deterrence against China from the sea is gradually accepted by all parties.  Unlike on land, where there are changes in terrain, transportation, and various battles, at sea, equipment and training speak for themselves.

    In order to contain the People's Army from moving south, the military department has also re-emphasized the naval power gap between Japan and China.

    The war continues.  In order to ensure Japan's last base on the Asian continent and its strategic springboard for advancing into Asia, the Japanese military has planned a nationwide military mobilization.  In the past few days, the elite First Fleet of the Japanese Navy has been arranged to attack the Chinese coast, especially the Bohai Bay, in order to threaten the important areas in China's Gyeonggi Province and to contain the Korean People's Army.

    In the recent competition in the Bohai Bay, the young Chinese Navy showed off its capabilities and caused the Japanese Navy to suffer a heavy loss. The Chinese Marine Corps captured the crucial Changshan Islands.

    Taking this as an opportunity, the Chinese navy blocked the channels in and out of the Bohai Bay.  Without obtaining this line of communication, Japan's huge naval power cannot pose a substantial threat to the Chinese army.

    Changshan Islands is located in the southeast of the Liaodong Peninsula and the north of the Yellow Sea. It has a total of 114 islands, covering an area of ??about 155 square kilometers and a total population of about 80,000.  The Changshan Islands control the northern part of the Yellow Sea and protect the Liaodong Peninsula. They have very important military value in defending Northeast my country and have always been a battleground for military strategists.

    In 1894, the Battle of the Yellow Sea during the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 was fought in the northeastern waters of the Changshan Islands. The Japanese army first controlled the Changshan Islands and then landed at Huayuankou, Zhuanghe.

    In 1904, during the Japan-Russia War, the Japanese combined fleet anchored near the Changshan Islands, fought with the Russian fleet, and then landed on the coast of Liaoning.

    From 1931 to 1941, the Japanese army captured Changshan Islands twice.  In the anti-aggression war to build the Yellow Sea defense line, Changshan Islands has important strategic significance.

    After the last encounter in the Bohai Sea, the Changshan Islands were already under the control of the Chinese navy.  After simple repairs, a heavy artillery regiment landed on the island, backed by the main force of the Bohai Fleet stationed in Lushun Bay and the naval aviation from Dalian, which seriously threatened the Japanese navy's activities in the West Korea Bay.

    With this heavy artillery regiment, the weak Bohai Fleet can harass lone Japanese ships or transport ships at any time without risk of defeat within the range of the artillery.

    As for the deep advance to Beijing and Tianjin, it has been quite difficult after the loss of Dalian. The reason is that the Chinese Navy also uses the Miaodao Islands as a defense line and relies on heavy artillery to defend the waterways from the Yellow Sea to the Bohai Bay.  The Japanese navy is powerful, but they are not so stupid when warships approach and confront shore batteries.

    The Miaodao Islands are located in the Bohai Strait at the junction of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. They are the bridge between the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, the throat of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, and the gateway to Beijing and Tianjin. They are composed of 32 large and small islands, covering an area of ??52 square kilometers.  It belongs to a hilly area with many islands in the south and buffered bank slopes. The northern shore is steep and the water is deep. The western islands are mostly rocky shores.??Eight generations of our ancestors have been scolded so much that they got up in public.

    From top to bottom, Chinese people are really suppressing Japanese products!  So much so that foreign observers have published articles one after another, believing that China has achieved a major reversal in the past fifty years by trampling Japan under its feet: national strength, morale, and popular support.

    This is also one of the reasons why the Japanese government is hesitant to expand the scale of the war with China, because Zhang Hanqing issued a shocking statement on behalf of the People's Party and the People's Government: "If Japan insists on dividing the Korean battlefield,  Victory or failure, if Japan adds more troops to the Korean battlefield, the Chinese government will not hesitate to launch military mobilization. There is news that Japan will expand its troops by 20 divisions. What kind of threat is this! Do you think you can increase our troops?  "?" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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