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    Three weeks have passed since the end of the North Atlantic Naval War. The ups and downs of the naval war, apart from giving the domestic people more to talk about at the dinner table, have had minimal impact on the war in the Far East.  The General Staff's eyes are still focused on the South China Sea.  Hitler's loss of the navy will inevitably lead to him strengthening his army and placing more emphasis on the Soviet Union, so the situation in the Middle East has become increasingly dangerous.  At this time, it is urgent to completely open the Strait of Malacca and ensure multiple transportation lines on land and sea.  Compared with the army and the air force, which are constantly gathering forces in the South China Sea, the navy is more active. By the beginning of December, the number of ships of various types deployed in Cam Ranh Bay, Gulf of Siam, Natuna and Andaman has exceeded 400, of which  The aircraft carriers alone include 2 "Liaoning" class and 3 "Sichuan" class fleet aircraft carriers, 6 "General" class escort aircraft carriers, 2 "Dunkirk" class battleships, 2 "Anhai" class battleships,  2 "Beijing" class battleships, 11 heavy cruisers, 57 destroyers and frigates, 40 submarines and 2,972 naval aircraft of various types.

    There are many reasons why the navy is so vigorous. It is not only to conquer Singapore and the Malay Peninsula as soon as possible, but also to deter Southeast Asia and explain the importance of the navy to Congress and the cabinet.  Because as the main forces of the Japanese and German navies were wiped out one after another, it was already arousing criticism to continue to maintain such huge naval expenses for a few remaining enemy ships.  You know, the emergency wartime shipbuilding plan formulated at the end of 1939 alone included 1,260 planned ships including level 2 aircraft carriers, level 3 cruisers, level 3 destroyers, level 5 escorts, level 4 landing craft/ships, etc.  (Including low-end such as torpedo boats and landing craft).  At present, these are just at the peak of construction. If you want to complete them all, you will need to invest at least 8 billion yuan.  Therefore, even a cabinet that supports naval construction requested the Navy Department for the first time after the North Atlantic Naval War to sort out the fleet and submit a complete report on the ships under construction and future situations in order to reassess maritime threats.

    Of course, these are only internal issues within the military, and ordinary citizens have no idea about them before they are declassified.  So what they talk about the most is that millions of troops gathered in the South China Sea and Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo officially resigned.  The North Korean central government's return to Seoul and the wedding of the president's eldest son are seemingly trivial but important news.

    In fact, as early as the end of the Ryukyu Battle, Tojo's throne as prime minister was already shaky. However, because the Peninsula Battle began immediately afterwards, he waited until the news of Seoul being breached came before resigning.  Hirohito did not retain him, and only let him supervise the cabinet for a few days before kicking him out and allowing Kuniaki Oiso to reorganize the cabinet.  On the first day after the unlucky Koiso Kuniaki took office, China and North Korea dispatched 20 ships to escort the Korean wartime government from Sinuiju to Seoul.  North Korean President Choi An-in also officially moved into the former Japanese Governor-General's Office, which means that North and South Korea are finally reunifying after decades of division.

    Later that day, against the background that the last hundreds of thousands of Japanese and Korean troops had been divided and surrounded inland, Zhu Peide, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Theater Command and deputy chief of staff of the Chinese National Defense Forces, formally declared the situation during the Peninsula War in front of dozens of reporters.  Command was transferred to Commander-in-Chief of the North Korean Army Park Eun-sung.  This is the first time since the war began that China has handed over wartime theater command to an Asian country.  In this way, the 12 divisions of the National Defense Forces, 15 divisions of the Russian People's Liberation Army, 50 divisions of the North Korean Army and 10 Chinese Air Force mixed wings remaining on the peninsula will all be under the full command of North Korea.  Of course, the overall command of the entire Southwest Pacific and Asia, except India and the Middle East (excluding the Persian Gulf), is still under the jurisdiction of the Beijing General Staff.  Subsequently, Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Zeng Qi also signed a package of military assistance loan agreements totaling 500 million yuan to North Korea on behalf of the Chinese government.  According to the agreement, the loan will include the reconstruction of damaged major cities such as Seoul and Pyongyang, and the purchase of the heavy cruiser "Changsha", the light cruiser "Changjiang", six "Changfeng" class destroyers, and 220 second-hand "Li Feng" aircraft from China.  and "Hua She B" fighter attack aircraft, 100 H-5 bombers and H-10 attack aircraft.  And once again 210 U-series armored vehicles and 5 infantry divisions of army equipment were provided free of charge.

    The transfer of the Peninsula Theater has greatly reduced the pressure on the National Defense Forces in two-front operations. In order to get rid of the complicated neighboring countries as soon as possible, the new Minister of the Interior Murong Han also visited Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan, and reached an immediate agreement with the leaders of the four countries.  Negotiations on border demarcation were launched, a total of 1.5 billion yuan of loans were provided to the four countries with minerals as collateral, and nearly 400 commercial investment projects were signed, including railways, aviation, and a number of heavy industry facilities such as the restoration of steel and aluminum plants built during the Soviet period.  An agreement guaranteeing the gradual transfer of civil jurisdiction over the next three years.  This visit is considered a turning point in Central Asia's transition from war to recovery.  It will not only accelerate Central Asia¡¯s logistical supply capabilities, but also allow China to establish its northwest border as soon as possible and bring back 400 investment projects for domestic industry and commerce.  The most important thing is that Murong Han and the leaders of the four countries all promised to sign the "Central Asia Defense Agreement" as soon as possible, establish the defense status of Central Asia with China as the core, and once again promised to join the Asian Alliance to jointly build a peaceful Asia.

    This visit and the signing of a series of agreements.  It laid the foundation for the signing of the Talos Declaration that later stabilized Central Asia.

    As the Soviet Union was pushed back to the Urals, Japan successivelyRyukyu, Seoul, and Sakhalin were lost, and even the Sea of ??Okhotsk and the Chiba Islands were breached. Asia was on the verge of change.

    The pier in Sai Kung is crowded with people.  The ship handover ceremony is also taking place here.  The Chinese Navy mine-laying cruisers "Qujiang" and "Oujiang" that were injured in the Kerama naval battle have had their original hull numbers scraped off, and sensitive equipment such as radars have been replaced with the oldest models, replaced by "Hanoi" and "Saigon".  "After that, the flags were hoisted together with four second-hand territorial sea-class frigates, waiting for acceptance by the Vietnamese Navy.

    Bai Yutang, the chief of naval staff who came from afar, chatted and laughed with Hu Xuelan, the commander-in-chief of the Vietnamese armed forces, but he was far less happy in his heart than on the surface.  As two "Xin'anjiang" class small high-speed mine-laying cruisers that have only been in service for ten years, the Navy is actually reluctant to transfer them.  Because since the war began, the Navy has lost one "Xiangjiang" class, one "Yangtze" class, two "Xin'anjiang" class and five "Tumenjiang" class light cruisers. Recently, two more were lost in the Andaman Sea.  The "Tumenjiang" class was seriously injured, and it has basically been decided to sell or scrap it.  Coupled with the "Yangtze" just sold to North Korea, there are currently only 7 "Xiangjiang" class ships and 10 "Yarlung Zangbo" class ships left.  There are only 2 "Taiwan Island" class heavy cruisers left, 1 "Wuhan class" and 6 "Xi'an" class.  If the Japanese navy had not been blocked offshore, the president also promised that he would continue to build the remaining 6 "Yarlung Zangbo" class ships and 2 "Xi'an" class ships that have already started construction. The navy would not give them to Vietnam for life or death.

    On the surface, this delivery is to strengthen alliance relations, but it is actually a reward for the Vietnamese army's "outstanding" performance in India. Therefore, the six warships this time are truly free assistance.  For this reason, some people in the country complained, saying that the presidential office used taxpayers' money to do favors, but Yang Qiu just laughed at this.  Things that the Guangyue Army "digged" back from India.  It is enough for the Navy to add an aircraft carrier fleet.

    However, because Vietnam only has low-level sailors and lacks corresponding technical soldiers, the Navy needs to send some officers to help with training just like it supports the North Korean Navy.

    "Chairman Chen, thank the President for me for his support and help to Vietnam and the Vietnamese people. I believe that we in Asia will definitely defeat Japanese fascism under his leadership. I and the Vietnamese government are willing to make greater contributions. Send more troops together  Drive away the colonists from Southeast Asia." Ho Chi Minh specially changed into a Chinese Tang suit today, took Chen Guofu's hand and thanked him, and continued to call Yang Qiu "President President" when he spoke, making it seem that Yang Qiu was the president of Vietnam.  .

    Ho Chi Minh was really excited. The Vietnamese who had suffered so much in coastal defense were eager to own their own warships, so many young Vietnamese chose to join the French colonial fleet in the past.  But most of them were assigned to serve as low-level sailors.  So when Yang Qiu gave two captured Thai shallow-water heavy gunboats to Vietnam as a founding gift, the whole country was shocked. Even Emperor Bao Dai personally attended the delivery ceremony after the establishment of the constitution.  Although the two "Xin'anjiang" class fast mine-laying cruisers delivered this time are second-hand goods, their performance is very good even in Europe.  As long as reporters and newspapers report it properly, his position as prime minister will undoubtedly be strengthened.  More importantly, despite the fact that all 8 warships combined are not as powerful as a heavy cruiser of the Chinese Navy.  But it is already the third largest naval force in Southeast Asia after China and Japan, and it will also be of great help to the distribution of discourse power within the Asian Alliance in the future.

    "Prime Minister is so polite, I will definitely convey it to you." Chen Guofu smiled slightly.  He had long heard from Yang Qiu that Ho Chi Minh was very ambitious. After coming to power, he actively implemented the "Chengcheng Act" in Vietnam to strengthen industrial and commercial construction.  Especially after embracing the thigh of the National Society, it regarded itself as China's most important ally in Southeast Asia, and also made territorial claims to Laos (today's Laos).  It was also particularly active on the issue of participating in the war. In less than a year, 30 army divisions were recruited to join the Asian Allied Forces.  It also exchanges grain for loans, sells 1 million tons of low-priced grain to China every year, and uses it to purchase machinery and equipment for domestic construction. It also privately talks about helping China manage the peninsula.  Yang Qiu saw all these things, but he still couldn't see that Hu Zhiming had other thoughts, so he let him go for the time being.  Chen Guofu pretended not to hear what he just said and continued: "Thank you, Prime Minister, for supporting us. But we cannot be careless now. Although our navy has basically blocked the coast of Japan, judging from the recent trends in the Japanese political arena, we still cannot see the coffin without shedding tears.  The Japanese government still has illusions. I am afraid it is because of the hundreds of thousands of foreign aid troops in the southeast, so the president means that the South China Sea cannot be delayed any longer. Prolonged delay will only increase the burden on the people."

    As Chairman of the National Socialist Society and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chen Guofu has silently stood behind Yang Qiu for decades to help him manage the affairs of the National Socialist Party.  So the outside world says that he is actually the real number two figure in China.  Because attracted by Yang Qiu's personal appeal and the reform capitalism proposed by the National Society, the National Society already has 80 million party members in China alone, far higher than the 10 million of the Democratic Party, and more than five million members in Southeast Asia and Central Asia.  Millions, and even have branches in Europe and the United States, so his every move can affect the entire Chinapolitical balance in the country and even in Asia.

    Although Ho Chi Minh is the chairman of the Vietnamese National Society, he is far behind Chen Guofu, so he nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, Chairman Chen, I will definitely obey the president's dispatch and send more troops to cooperate with the action."

    The look of him beating his chest and swearing made Zhang Zizhong, deputy commander of the Southwest Theater Command and commander-in-chief of the Borneo Military Region, who was standing not far behind, laugh secretly. Chen Ce, the vice-admiral commander of the Navy's Natuna base and the 25th Fleet beside Lala  , smiled and said: "Brother Zishuo, is your navy really willing to give a warship to this person?"

    After Japan moved south, Zhang Zizhong, a Shandong man, led the 15th Army to Borneo in the name of protecting the Chinese Autonomous Region, ensuring local security and stability.  After the war between China and Japan, although the Japanese army attacked the autonomous region from Sarawak and South Borneo many times, they were all defeated by him and the local Borneo Chinese Autonomous Army.  But since it is not a main battle zone, its reputation has not been very famous.

    Because Chen Ce led the fleet to be stationed in Natuna, he often traveled between the two places and became good friends over time.  The two came to Vietnam this time to participate in the preparation meeting for the South China Sea campaign that was about to begin. The military input for this campaign was not as good as that of Central Asia, but it was large-scale and involved, so the General Staff summoned all officers in Nanyang to the Kunlun Island base (  Also translated as Con Dao) meeting.  It coincided with the delivery ceremony of the warship, so Ho Chi Minh also invited them to celebrate.

    Although Chen Ce is short in stature, he is very capable.  He led a squadron and sank as many as 7 Japanese ships, 13 Japanese submarines and dozens of merchant ships, and thwarted the Japanese plan to attack Natuna several times.  Even the General Staff publicly praised him, saying that he was a rare tiger general in the navy.  The navy is a tough rooster. Of course, Chen Ce is not willing to hand over the two ships to Vietnam. After all, these two light cruisers have served as the flagships of the 25th Fleet, so he pointed at Bai Yutang and said angrily: "Who thought? You  I don¡¯t see Chief of Staff Bai still frowning.¡±

    "Haha, none of these Nanyang people are good. I heard from Du Yuesheng that this guy was boasting before, saying that he wanted to help the president manage the peninsula. Huh! He clearly wants to take the opportunity to become the boss." Zhang Zizhong has an upright temper and cannot see it.  Being accustomed to people like Ho Chi Minh, he simply turned around and asked about the Nanyang Campaign: "By the way, during the meeting in the morning, why didn't you see your 25th Fleet participating in the landing? Did someone give you some shoes?"

    "How can that be possible?" Chen Ce shook his head and lowered his voice: "I have a new mission."

    "What new mission is it for you to attack the Philippines or Batavia?" Zhang Zizhong was stunned. In his opinion, these two places were the only ones left unresolved around Nanyang.  Chen Ce glared at him: "If we want to attack the Philippines, we have to let the Americans get involved. Even if I want to, the people above are full and let me fight with Narumi Inoue, but then let the Americans watch the show?"

    Before Zhang Zizhong could ask again, Chen Ce had already narrowed his eyes: "Stop guessing. Siam, let's set off tomorrow morning."
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