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"Mr. Zhang, I am Major General Ichiro Oba of the Shanxi Garrison Command!"

Inside the headquarters of the Subei Army Group, Zhang Tianhao sat behind a table, looking at Ichiro Oba who introduced himself in front of him with a calm expression.

"Major General Wei Yu, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Mr. Zhang, your people have caused too much trouble in Shanxi. I hope you can stop in time and give us some compensation. Otherwise, the imperial army will definitely not be rude to us easily."

"This is an opportunity given to you by our garrison commander. I hope you can seize this opportunity. Otherwise, if you cause unhappiness between the two families, all the consequences will be borne by you."

Major General Wei Yu raised his chin and said seriously, "We don't want the two families to be so far apart and cause unnecessary misunderstandings."

"Hahaha!"

When Zhang Tianhao heard the other party say this, the smile on his face suddenly grew wider, and even filled with disdain.

"I think you made a mistake, Major General Wei Yu. Now you are the ones who need to provide me with reinforcements because my people were in Shanxi, transporting a batch of supplies, and they were robbed by your people. Not only did you rob my supplies, but you also injured my people."

"Not only must you compensate us for our losses, you must also make amends to us. Otherwise, this matter will definitely not be resolved so easily. You must know that now it is not us who are begging you, but you who are begging me. I am only sending out a brigade of troops. My second batch of people will be two divisions of troops, and they will sneak directly into Shanxi!"

"In addition, I plan to provide air support and air strikes to the Shanxi battlefield. If that doesn't work, we will send tanks and artillery. These are all imported from Germany. I believe you will like them more."

"I don't have too many planes here, only one and a half flying squadrons, and not too many tanks, only one armored division. If three artillery divisions are not enough, I can send out another twenty divisions. If it is still not enough, I will give up northern Jiangsu and attack Shanxi directly. After all, I am attacked from all sides here. I think the Nanjing Garrison Command would prefer me to transfer the troops away!"

"As for my troops, don't worry. The troops here are definitely veterans who have trained for more than six months. The strength of a division is not too large. It's just a three-three system. Each division is only about 10,000."

"If that's still not enough, I still have a large number of reserve troops and about 500,000 militiamen. I think it shouldn't be a big problem to take over Shanxi. The most important thing is, how many Japanese troops are there in Shanxi? 30,000 or 50,000?"

Oba Ichiro on the side looked at Zhang Tianhao's arrogant laughter and was angry at first. After all, as Japanese, they were proud of their people. After all, Zhang Tianhao did not take them seriously at all.

But then, Zhang Tianhao directly revealed his trump card, which even made him breathe a sigh of relief. After all, Zhang Tianhao's trump card seemed too powerful.

With just the army and heavy weapons, they can definitely crush the Japanese troops in the entire Shanxi Province. You have to know what the militia is, which is what they call the Eighth Route Army.

But even so, although we are weaker than them, we are not that bad.

What’s more, Zhang Tianhao has more than 200,000 regular troops, which is a terrifying number.

"Mr. Zhang, there is no hatred between our two families. I think there is no need for us to be unhappy, right?"

"That being said, after all, you were the ones who made the mistake first, not us, right?" Zhang Tianhao smiled disdainfully, and then his tone became calm again.

"You can't stand the training of one brigade of my troops there. If I send two more divisions there to train, how can you survive?"

Although it may sound easy for Zhang Tianhao to command a division and a brigade, Oba Ichiro also understands that Zhang Tianhao really has the ability to do so.

"Mr. Zhang, are you trying to threaten us?"

After a while, Oba Ichiro looked at Zhang Tianhao with a gloomy face, with a hint of anger in his tone.

"Haha, that's a threat. I also told you that two divisions of troops have already set out and entered Henan. In addition, there is a brigade of troops in Shanxi. I didn't lie to you, and there's no need to lie to you. If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, then I don't mind causing trouble for you."

"In addition, I have said that if you do not give me a satisfactory answer, my planes will also launch crazy revenge on your Shanxi garrison in the coming time."

“You, you, you…” …

As the first round of negotiations ended without achieving any substantial results, Zhang Tianhao was not in a hurry, but the bomber still took off.

As a squadron flew directly to Shanxi and bombed important Japanese military strongholds in Shanxi, it instantly attracted the attention of a large number of Japanese troops and even the whole country.

Zhang Tianhao continued to do things step by step and began to investigate the problems in northern Jiangsu. During this period, he also went to Liu Yue's first female military unit in Yancheng.

This trip delayed the entire negotiation for a week.

However, the incident of Zhang Tianhao's planes bombing the Japanese army still attracted the attention of various domestic forces. Even Chongqing did not expect that Zhang Tianhao would have so many planes to directly bomb Japanese airports, garrisons, and important facilities.

As for the Japanese army's desire to retaliate, unfortunately, they never expected that Zhang Tianhao's Sudong Army, especially the front line and the Huaiyin garrison of the Sudong Group Army, were surrounded by countless anti-aircraft machine guns.

A Japanese flying squadron arrived as a squadron, but only two seriously damaged planes were left when they returned.

As the two sides fought in the air and even fought for air supremacy, the entire Japanese garrison in Shanxi was severely damaged by Zhang Tianhao's crazy revenge for a week.

Especially the Japanese troops on the front line, facing Zhang Tianhao's crazy revenge, the Japanese divisions on the front line were almost so angry that they cursed.

……

The headquarters of the Subei Army Group.

Zhang Tianhao sat there, looking at Zuo Mingming and Chief of Staff Zhao below, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily. It was obvious that he had no way to deal with the two people's complaints.

"Master, my eldest master, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are until you run the household. You have almost consumed all the bombs we have accumulated in this week. Our planes will really become decorations in the future."

"Yeah, let's stop this for a while. If we can't stop, we really won't be able to work, you know that."

"Yes, Master. We really don't have many of the bombs you have taken back. If we continue like this, we can't afford the losses alone, let alone the looting. You said that once the cannon goes off, it's worth a fortune."

"Now, if you keep building like this, we'll soon have to eat dirt."

"The most important thing is that we can't make these aerial bombs ourselves."

"Yes, my young master, why don't you go to the Women's Army and relax a little, don't go on like this!"

Zhang Tianhao had no idea what the other party was thinking, but he had no choice. He had to be tough this time, otherwise their Subei Army Group would be bullied by anyone in the future, really.

"Lao Zhao, Lao Zuo, I understand what you are thinking, but I have no other choice. I must hurt the other party and make those who have other ideas withdraw their claws. Do you understand?"

"It's not that I want to fight now, but it depends on whether the other side can stop and negotiate."

"Master, do you really want to negotiate?"

"Of course, I want the entire territory of Xuzhou, Yangzhou, the entire territory of Taizhou, as well as some laborers from Shanxi, and prisoners of war. After all, our population is still too small."

"So that's how it is, Master. Will they agree?"

"If you don't agree, then let's continue fighting. Anyway, the matter is not over yet! We can't fight a large-scale battle now, but we can still expand outward slowly." (End of this chapter)