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

Upon hearing this conclusion, all the high-ranking Japanese officers present gasped in shock.

If it were only the Great Xia Kingdom resisting, or only Lin Feng, a local warlord, putting up a last-ditch effort, then the Empire would naturally be confident in slowly wearing down the enemy with its immense national strength.

However, if Western powers begin to secretly and deeply intervene in the Great Xia battlefield.

They not only provided a large number of advanced fighter jets, but also directly provided advanced warships?!

That would completely change the nature of the war.

Could Lin Feng be an agent of the Western powers, used to drain the empire of its last drop of blood?

Sugiyama Gen and Yonai Mitsumasa exchanged a glance and resolved to immediately order the intelligence department to conduct an in-depth investigation into Lin Feng upon their return. They wanted to find out everything about him, from his ancestors to his ancestors, including what kind of women he liked and what color underwear he usually wore.

Indeed, even at this point, the Army and Navy still had not coordinated a unified intelligence department, but instead each controlled its own intelligence department and fought independently.

"The United States has recently adopted an increasingly hardline stance towards us."

Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu sighed upon seeing this:

"They not only protested our actions in Bactria diplomatically."

They are also secretly restricting the export of scrap steel and oil.

If they really start arming Lin Feng, the Empire's situation in North China will be unimaginable.

The Japanese-style room fell silent once again.

Everyone was mentally considering this terrible possibility.

They had no idea that Lin Feng possessed a system that allowed him to exchange for troops.

In their narrow-minded understanding, they can only use this conspiracy theory to explain Lin Feng's endless stream of advanced weapons.

"In that case, the navy should deploy the main force of the Combined Fleet to send this enemy ship to the bottom of the sea!"

Sugiyama Gen gritted his teeth and broke the silence:

"Regardless of where this warship came from, it is now anchored in Qingcheng Port, threatening our shipping lanes in the Bohai Sea!"

This is a disgrace to the Navy, and it must be washed away by the Navy!

"Send capital ships to the narrow Bohai Bay?"

Mitsumasa Yonai looked at Gen Sugiyama as if he were an idiot:

"Are we going to be targets for Lin Feng's torpedo bombers?"

Before we figure out Lin Feng's background and gain air superiority.

The navy will never act rashly.

This is the Navy's strategic bottom line, and it cannot be changed.

The rift between the Army and the Navy is widening.

The fear of that mysterious destroyer was like a seed planted deep in the hearts of the Japanese high command.

They were unaware that just a day earlier, the royal treasure ship "Fuji Maru," laden with national treasures and gold, had also fallen into Lin Feng's hands.

However, despite the arguments and insults...

After venting their emotions, the bigwigs at the Japanese headquarters had to face a harsh reality.

The Bohai Sea route was originally the most convenient and largest logistics artery connecting the mainland with the front lines in North China.

Now it has been abruptly cut off by Lin Feng.

"Since a single warship cannot provide escort, then we should form a large formation."

Army Minister Gen Sugiyama placed his hands on the table and presented the Army's proposal:

"Gather all the transport ships together."

The combined fleet will deploy multiple ships and aircraft carriers to provide full cover throughout the operation.

Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai laughed in exasperation upon hearing this proposal.

"Lord Sugiyama, do you even understand naval warfare?"

Mitsumasa Yonai refuted him mercilessly:

"The Imperial Navy currently has a limited number of aircraft carriers, and each one is a vital national asset."

The Bohai Bay is shallow and narrow, leaving no room for fleet maneuver.

To sail an aircraft carrier into those bathtub-like sea areas?

Lin Feng has even built destroyers now, so who can guarantee there aren't any submarines underwater?

In case the aircraft carrier is targeted and damaged by Lin Feng's land-based aircraft or submarines.

Can your army shoulder this responsibility?

The Navy strongly opposes this absurd plan!

Sugiyama Gen was rendered speechless by the rebuttal.

The army also knew that the navy valued those capital ships more than their own lives and would never use them as bodyguards for transport ships.

"How will the supplies be transported?"

Sugiyama Gen gritted his teeth and asked:

"The daily consumption of the hundreds of thousands of troops in the North China Area Army was an astronomical figure."

Without supplies, how can the Battle of Pengcheng be fought?

A long silence fell over the meeting room.

Finally, the headquarters had no choice but to reluctantly issue a painful "detour plan".

All military supplies and reinforcements destined for North China will no longer be shipped directly to Tianjin Port.

Instead, it was first transported by sea to Busan Port at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula.

Sugiyama Gen was unwilling to give up and tried to fight for it:

"It's too far to transport it to Busan."

Could we ship them to Jinzhou Port or Lushun Port on the Liaodong Peninsula, which are closer to the port?

It has well-developed port facilities and is close to North China.

Mitsumasa Yonai laughed without any restraint:

"Jinzhou and Lushun?"

Those two ports are also located on the edge of the Bohai Bay.

How far is it from Qingcheng Port?

Lin Feng's bombers flew over, dropped bombs, and flew back, without even needing to carry auxiliary fuel tanks.

If the army is willing to bury its head in the sand and send supplies to Lin Feng for bombing, then let them do it.

In any case, naval transport ships will definitely not go near that dangerous area.

The army's top brass was completely exasperated.

The final route could only be set in Busan.

After the supplies and troops were unloaded at Busan Port, they were all transferred to trains.

Traveling north by rail, we then transferred to the Beining Railway, also known as the Pingfeng Line.

Finally, it can be transported to the front lines in North China.

This unavoidable change had a profound strategic impact on the overall anti-Japanese war situation in Daxia.

First, timeliness has plummeted.

The supplies, which were originally loaded onto ships in the mainland, could have reached Tianjin in just a few days.

Now the cargo will drift at sea, be unloaded at the port, be loaded onto a train, and then travel along the railway line.

It will take at least another half month to make the round trip.

Secondly, there is the critical bottleneck of transportation capacity.

In the thirty-eight years since then, railway transport capacity in Northeast and North China has been extremely strained.

At this time, the anti-Japanese guerrilla forces in Northeast China were still fighting in the mountains and rivers of Northeast China, and would occasionally blow up a section of railway track and overturn a military train.

Now there is a sudden surge in the volume of military supplies and troop transport missions.

The entire railway system will be overwhelmed and frequently paralyzed.

The most direct consequence was that the North China Front Army was about to face a crisis of food shortage.

Terauchi Hisaichi's hundreds of thousands of troops will face shortages of ammunition and supplies in the upcoming Battle of Pengcheng.

Lin Feng launched this air and sea commerce raiding campaign.

They not only firmly controlled the sea control of the Bohai Sea.

Furthermore, at the strategic level, it greatly supported the overall national war of resistance against Japan.

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A few days later, in a meeting room at the Japanese Army Headquarters, the head of the Special Higher Police walked in carrying a thick file folder.

"Sirs, we have the results of the background investigation into Lin Feng."

The head of the Special Higher Police distributed the documents from the file folders to the generals present.

"We deployed high-ranking spies who were lurking in Jiangcheng and Zhejiang Province."

They finally obtained Lin Feng's complete academic transcript from the Whampoa Military Academy, along with detailed information about his family background.

Sugiyama Gen eagerly picked up the report card and quickly scanned it.

He had assumed that a general capable of achieving such remarkable feats must have been a genius who excelled in every subject during his time at military academy.

As a result, the more Sugiyama Gen looked, the wider his eyes widened.