You were tasked with guarding the Sihang Warehouse, and you brought out a Tiger tank?

As Lin Feng launched his general offensive against the Japanese 5th Division, the entire planet Blue was in complete chaos.

Qingcheng Port.

Hans Consulate.

Military attaché Major von Steinheim stood by the window, holding a report he had just received from the telegraph operator.

His fingers were trembling slightly.

"What's going on here...?"

The major muttered to himself.

Based on the intelligence they gathered.

In Lin Feng's troops, in addition to the "three-piece set of national weapons" commonly seen in the Republic of China army: the Chiang Kai-shek rifle, the Czech light machine gun, and the Maxim heavy machine gun, there were also other weapons.

They were even equipped with large numbers of Mauser 98K rifles, MP-40 submachine guns, and MG-34 general-purpose machine guns.

These are all active-duty equipment of the Hanseatic Wehrmacht.

Even more outrageous, during the previous battle to liberate Qingcheng Port, frontline observers discovered a brand-new, high-rate-of-fire general-purpose machine gun in Lin Feng's troops.

That tearing, loom-like sound was even more terrifying than the MG-34.

There's also the armored unit under Lin Feng's command, designated the First Honorary Brigade.

Its equipment is clearly the Panzer III medium tank, which just entered service with the armored forces of the National Defense Forces last year.

Moreover, its main gun is even more advanced than that used by the National Defense Forces themselves. From a distance, it is clearly larger and longer than the 37mm main gun.

As for the aircraft flying in the sky, they were clearly BF-109 fighters and JU-87 Stuka dive bombers.

They're all Hans-made!

All of them!

"Could it be...?"

A fine layer of sweat appeared on Von Steinheim's forehead.

He recalled the way the Führer in Berlin operated.

That person has always liked to go against the traditional Junker officers and enjoys carrying out unexpected secret operations.

Could it be that the leader has a top-secret "X Plan" in the East?

Could Lin Feng, this suddenly rising warlord of the Republic of China, be the secret ally in the East chosen by the Prime Minister?

Otherwise, how do you explain the batch of new weapons in his possession that even the Hanswehr had not equipped on a large scale?

"Major."

At that moment, Hans, the consul in Qingchenggang, pushed open the door and walked in.

His expression was equally solemn.

"Regarding Lin Feng's previous public claim that his air force annihilated a main artillery fleet of the Japanese navy over the Yellow Sea."

Many newspapers in Great Xia reported that at least three 10,000-ton heavy cruisers had been sunk.

"What?!"

Von Steinheim turned around abruptly.

Is the news true?

"It's mostly true. The Japanese side has remained tight-lipped, insisting that the Oikawa fleet only suffered minor losses and shot down several Daxia fighters."

But based on a comprehensive analysis of various intelligence reports, this is indeed the case.

The consul paused, then lowered his voice:

"I think...we should get in touch with Lin Feng as soon as possible."

What if... I mean, what if that person in Berlin has some special interest in Lin Feng? Should we...?

Trying to please him?

Who says Hans people are rigid, inflexible, and lack social skills?

In reality, at a certain level around the world, all that's left is interpersonal relationships and social niceties.

Take the consul himself, for example. Now that Hans is the head of state, if he wants to advance, he will naturally have to cater to his preferences.

Not long after, Zhao Yushu, who was left behind in Qingcheng Port, looked at the stack of invitations in his hand with a look of bewilderment.

Consul Hans sent a visiting card, intending to host a banquet for General Lin Feng.

Several bigwigs from the Hans Chamber of Commerce also sent invitations.

Several managers from Hans & Co. even personally visited the company, expressing their desire to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with the 33rd Army Corps.

"Why are these Hans suddenly so enthusiastic?"

Zhao Yushu scratched his head, then picked up the phone and reported the situation to Lin Feng at the front-line command post.

After listening to the report, Lin Feng was first stunned, then burst into laughter.

"What kind of dramatic scenario have they come up with in their minds?"

He laughed so hard he slapped the table.

"Ignore them, and don't bother explaining."

Remember, explanation is just a cover-up.

Let them keep guessing, the more outrageous their guesses, the better.

But for those items from Hans & Co., buy them with foreign exchange as soon as possible.

Rubber, seamless steel pipes, lathes—buy as much as you can.

He hung up the phone and shook his head.

The Hans's self-sufficiency in Dihua saved him a lot of trouble.

Meanwhile, in the far west...

Military experts from White Eagle, John, and Gaul received various messages.

From the intelligence that was sent back, they learned the details of the Yellow Sea naval and air battle.

Hundreds of land-based dive bombers and torpedo bombers took off from land-based airfields without an aircraft carrier.

They traveled hundreds of kilometers and precisely sank three 10,000-ton cruisers.

"This is a milestone event in the history of naval aviation operations."

Colonel James Richardson of the White Eagle Naval War College wrote the following comments in an internal report.

Lin Feng proved:

Land-based bombers equipped with torpedoes and armor-piercing bombs can pose a deadly threat to capital ships sailing at sea.

Air superiority will determine sea superiority.

He paused, then picked up his pen and added:

"The era of massive battleships and heavy artillery dueling during World War I is probably coming to an end."

At the Pentagon, this intelligence was marked as the highest priority.

The Navy Secretary issued an urgent order to accelerate the improvement of the country's aerial torpedoes.

Meanwhile, the next generation of aircraft carriers, which have already begun design, are required to enhance their deck protection capabilities.

In London, the Admiralty was equally stunned.

"Our intelligence personnel in East Asia have confirmed that the three Japanese ships that were claimed to have been sunk have not been seen in port again, and that the Japanese naval hospital is overcrowded."

Lord Chatfield, First Lord of the Navy, sighed, puffing on his pipe.

"Lin Feng is a person we must study carefully."

His armored assault tactics, his urban warfare strategies, and his use of air power.

Every detail is worth studying.

The atmosphere is tense right now. We need to prepare for the upcoming war; these are valuable lessons.

In Berlin, the reaction from Hans' top brass was more complex.

On the one hand, they were excited about the outcome of the Battle of the Yellow Sea, as the various equipment manufactured by the Hans demonstrated extremely impressive combat effectiveness in actual combat.

On the other hand, they were also very curious about Lin Feng.

"We have not provided him with any military assistance of this level."

But the Han equipment he had seemed to be better than what we ourselves were using.

A senior Han Chinese general who had personally attended the relevant meetings wrote with considerable emotion when recalling the events to Allied interrogators after the defeat:

Nobody expected this at the time.

That young man who rose to prominence on the coast of Jiaodong will become the key lever that drives military transformation across the world.

After that naval and air battle, everyone understood one thing…

My lord, times have changed!

Meanwhile, at the salvage site off the coast of Qingcheng Port, a nameplate of the Izumo armored cruiser that had been floating on the sea surface was retrieved.

It was placed on the deck of a small fishing boat, bobbing with the waves.

The few lines of text are still faintly visible, faded and peeling away under the rust of sunlight and seawater.

Soon, the news that all three of the Japanese Navy's 10,000-ton heavy cruisers had sunk to the bottom of the sea was confirmed.

White Eagle Naval Shipyard has begun working overtime to equip naval warships with rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns.

The Royal Navy urgently revised the parameters of the Illustrious-class aircraft carriers under design, strengthening the protection capabilities of the flight deck and enhancing the configuration of anti-aircraft firepower.

In Hans, Air Marshal Goblin proudly announced to the media that the Hans' Air Force's dive bomber force was the ultimate solution to naval warfare in this era, and stated that the production of more Stukas would be accelerated.

A global arms race between naval and air forces was accelerated by the sudden emergence of a young general from the Republic of China era.

All of this was just another storm that Lin Feng stirred up on Aquamarine Star.

He was standing next to an armored command vehicle, looking at the increasingly smaller positions of the 5th Division marked on the map.

The communications soldier poked his head out of the vehicle.

"Sir, good news from the front! The vanguard regiment of the First Guerrilla Division has already stormed into Tangtou Town."

Lin Feng nodded and flicked the half-smoked cigarette away.

"Let's go. It's time to deliver a wreath to that old devil Itagaki."