After receiving Luo Yue's report, the Military Commission attached great importance to it and immediately organized a special person to study and analyze the combat plan proposed by Luo Yue.

In fact, it is very common for frontline commanders to make modifications to the combat plan formulated by the headquarters, whether to push it back or start over. In the history of war between China and foreign countries, there are many examples of changing combat plans due to the opposition of frontline commanders. Because frontline commanders are on the frontline and are most familiar with the situation on the battlefield, the comparison of enemy-to-wealth strength, etc., the combat plan proposed by frontline commanders is generally the most suitable.

Of course, the front-line commanders are not correct at all times. This is because the front-line commanders are limited by their position and can only consider the local battlefield where they are, and lack full control over the overall situation of the entire battlefield. The headquarters considers the overall situation of the entire battlefield, and sometimes even sacrifices the interests of a local battlefield in exchange for a great victory in the overall battlefield. Therefore, whether the front-line commanders' opinions are adopted will be finalized by the headquarters.

However, after careful discussion by the Military Commission, it was finally believed that Luo Yue's plan proposed was more practical and more implementable. Because the Marine Corps had a total strength of only about 50,000, and the formation of a Russian mercenary army was less than 100,000. Although Japan suffered heavy damage in the previous war and had a great loss of strength, it was still a country with a population of 40 million and should not be underestimated.

Moreover, after the Poetsmouth negotiations broke down, Japan expanded its army. According to the situation in the East China government, Japan has now formed 10-12 divisions, with a total strength of more than 200,000. Although the new recruits lack combat experience, they are huge. Moreover, Japan fought a battle of defense this time. Coupled with the unique crazy and shattered character of the Japanese, it must be even more fierce and crazy. It is indeed a bit difficult to ask the Marines to land in Japan for at least 6 months, and to create huge damage in Japan and capture a large number of people. Then it is completely appropriate to add 2-3 divisions of the Marines to the Marines.

Of course, when the Military Commission was formulating its combat plan, it was because the war in the Northeast War Zone had not yet ended. The Russian army could make a comeback at any time based on Manzhouli and Hulunbuir. Therefore, four armies must be stationed in the Northeast, accounting for about 60% of the People's Army's army's forces, so it is naturally impossible to send more troops to land on Japan's operations.

Now that the Battle of Manzhouli has ended, the People's Army has achieved a comprehensive victory. The Russian army has retreated to Chita and has basically withdrawn from the Northeast War Zone. Moreover, after the previous stage of bandit suppression, the People's Army has absorbed and appointed local armed forces such as Zhang Zuolin, Feng Linge, Ma Longtan, and the bandits in the Northeast have also been significantly improved, and the social order has basically stabilized. Therefore, the pressure on war in the Northeast has been greatly reduced, and almost a single army can be freed up, so the People's Army will also have enough troops to reinforce the battle landing in Japan.

In addition, from the plan formulated by Luo Yue, landing on the Noidun Peninsula and the Izu Peninsula will enable the two peninsularities to form a linkage situation, cooperate with each other, and then send troops to land in other parts of Japan to restrain and mobilize Japan. This is indeed a very good combat plan. It can effectively attack Japan and consume the last little military force left by Japan.

Of course, in this way, the scale of the war will inevitably expand. The resources, manpower and material resources consumed by the East China government to launch the battle to land on Japan will also increase exponentially. However, the East China government can still afford it, and it is not enough to completely defeat Japan as soon as possible, consume Japan's final combat power, and finally honestly accept the compensation request from the East China government. The manpower, material resources and financial resources consumed by the East China government must be compensated in the compensation.

So three days later, the Military Commission replied to Luo Yue, agreed to Luo Yue's third plan, and decided to add two divisions and two regiments to Luo Yue. The added troops will arrive in Shanghai within 15 days to join the Marine Corps. The time for launching the Japanese landing battle is controlled by Luo Yue himself. After the increase of troops arrives, the army can then launch action war; or start action war, and the increased troops arrive in the battle.

After receiving the reply from the Military Commission, Luo Yue immediately negotiated with the senior commanders of the Marine Corps and finally decided to launch the battle to land in Japan immediately. Because the landing operation was put into the army in batches, and the Marine Corps first fought. After the landing was successful and a stable land near-shore defense line was established, other troops would gradually be put into the battlefield. Therefore, even if the increase in troops arrived, they would not go out immediately, and they would still have to wait for a while.

In addition, two days ago, the fleet of evacuated overseas Chinese in Java had already set off from Shanghai and rushed to Java. This was also a stimulation for the Marine Corps. Due to the victory achieved in the previous stage, the performance of the Marine Corps was quite eye-catching. Therefore, the morale of the entire Marine Corps is now very high, and the soldiers are eager to fight. Luo Yue believes that this spirit can only be boosted but not vented.

Another last reason is that the Russian mercenary corps had been organized at this time, and a total of 4 armies and 22 regiments were organized. Of course, the organization was only for the convenience of mobilization and command, and the commanders of the army level were all commanded by officers of the People's Army. Therefore, the actual combat units of the mercenary corps were regiment-level, and the regiment-level commanders were all Russians. However, the mercenary corps did not have a fire support force, and each regiment had less than 2,000 people, and the entire Russian mercenary corps had a total of about 42,000 people.

The weapons of the mercenary army are very simple. Each soldier is equipped with only one m1891 Mosinnagan rifle, 30 rounds of bullets, and a bayonet. The battalion-level officer can be equipped with a Type 96 pistol, 20 rounds of bullets, a set of paving and military uniforms. Of course, the military uniform is also the Russian military uniform. After that, other weapons are needed, such as machine guns, handbags, or additional bullets, etc., and you need to obtain work points on the battlefield before redeeming them.

However, what was unexpected to Luo Yue was that most of the Russian soldiers were very satisfied with such simple equipment. It turned out that the management of the Russian army was very chaotic, and ordinary soldiers had a very low status in the Russian army, and they were even regarded as gray animals by officers. Therefore, the equipment of ordinary soldiers was not enough to be fully equipped in many cases, and soldiers needed to find ways to make up for it themselves. Russian soldiers had long been used to using simple equipment to fight. At the beginning of the establishment of the mercenary regiment, many Russian soldiers even believed that the People's Army would not send them weapons and let them go to the battlefield to find a way. The weapons and equipment sent to them by the People's Army were actually not much different from the Russian army, but if we consider that the assembly of the Russian army would be short of weight, the assembly of the People's Army was genuine, and the assembly of the People's Army was better.

Moreover, mercenaries are basically soldiers with practical experience, so after the organization is completed, they can only be trained for a few days to get on the battlefield. However, since they are mercenaries, they cannot be strictly controlled like prisoners. They will definitely limit their freedom and always give them some space to move. However, these tens of thousands of energy-intensive and rough-minded Russian soldiers stationed in Shanghai are indeed a huge hidden danger. If something happens, it will be troublesome. Therefore, the sooner they are put into the battlefield, the better.

It is precisely based on these factors that Luo Yue decided to go to war immediately, and could not wait for the increase in troops to arrive, so as to avoid changes over time.

The Japanese combat fleet landed in two routes from Shanghai, one by the Huaihua ship leader, including the battleships Far Ocean, the Leyang, the armored cruiser Kaihai, the Takumi, the 5th Cruise Detachment, and the 2nd destroyer detachment. The mission of this fleet is to bombard Japan's coastal cities and monitor Japan's remaining fleets, attract Japan's attention, and create a more favorable condition for landing operations.

The other route is the leader of the Xiangyang ship, leading four Zhenyuan-class ironclad ships, armored cruisers, Baohai, the 4th destroyer team, 8 landing ships, and 8 warships. The landing forces include the 1st Marine Division, the 1st and 2nd Regiments, and the 1st Mercenary Army, and the mission is to land on the Neng Peninsula.

The Japanese combat fleet landed in and the 6th cruiser team remained in Shanghai for the time being, which provided escort for the troops that followed the Japanese combat.

Luo Yue boarded the Xiangyang ship and personally directed the landing operations. Since the speed of the four Zhenyuan-class iron-clad ships was too slow, they could only travel at a speed of 10-11 knots, which also dragged down the speed of the entire fleet. It would take 3-4 days to reach the Nong Peninsula, and the landing fleet would set off one day later than the artillery fleet. Therefore, when the landing fleet arrived at the Nong Peninsula, the artillery fleet would have 2-3 days to launch an attack.

The artillery fleet was commanded by the deputy captain of the Huaihua ship. After leaving Shanghai, it first arrived near Nagasaki on Kyushu Island in Japan and launched a shelling Nagasaki. However, Nagasaki is the base of the Japanese Navy and its garrison was naturally very tight. The shore-based fortress desperately opened fire to the People's Army Navy, so the People's Army fleet did not dare to force it too close.
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