Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

However, when Li Xinghe argued with Vance, he exposed this force to show that he was not left-leaning and that he had brought the Communist Party's fleet to Tokyo for a friendly visit.

The Pentagon won't be angry because the real name of the hypothetical enemy division is the 'MacArthur Planner,' a tool used to solidify Li Xinghe's position as the Five-Star Emperor. And before the incident, Li Xinghe had already communicated with the Pentagon.

But the White House will definitely be furious.

First, they were unaware of the existence of this unit; second, they only learned about it from CNN.

Third, American media reporters were not even allowed to enter the scene.

Unable to get in, the American journalists could only continue their attempts to save face outside, expressing strange and unusual emotions:

"On the far other side, in Yokosuka Port, which we cannot see with the naked eye, fifty kilometers away, are Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. But to our great regret, neither the USS Washington nor the USS Kennedy are in Japan."

"If the USS Washington and USS Kennedy were still around, Li Xinghe certainly wouldn't dare to act so recklessly."

They all tried to save face.

After mocking Vance for being so still that even Li Xinghe couldn't suppress him when he moved, the American reporter hurriedly defended himself:

"This does not mean that Japan has sided with China, but we must recognize that this young man who has just stepped onto the Japanese political stage is named Hoshikawa Lee. He was born in California, has American citizenship, his father is a Chinese businessman, and he has Chinese, Japanese, and Korean blood. We do not know how to define his position, but what we can be sure of is that he is more hardline and more reckless than all the politicians in Japan combined. He seems to be telling us that he will not listen to anyone's orders."

"He is the King of Japan!"

Even ordinary Japanese citizens can't see the world clearly after wiping their eyes, let alone Americans full of questions, and Vance throwing things in the White House.

Ordinary Tokyo residents followed the crowds in a daze, arriving at the red-themed park in a daze, visiting the Chinese-made VT4 tanks and other equipment in a daze, boarding the Liaoning aircraft carrier in a daze, and then going home to brag to their neighbors that they had seen an aircraft carrier.

At the distant Qingshan Command Post.

Li Xinghe, along with Maria, Enora, Ayman, Jill, May, and Scarlett, stood on the rooftop of the Qingshan Command building, watching the aircraft carrier slowly dock.

"You've gone a bit too far," Ayman complained about Li Xinghe's outrageous actions.

"It's alright, the other party is just a mere Vance."

Li Xinghe tossed his hair, his eyes filled with melancholy.

At this moment, Li Xinghe certainly couldn't personally go to greet the aircraft carrier, otherwise he would completely break ties with Vance, turning a short-term stalemate into an absolute split.

But in any case, getting to this point has already shown the United States Li Xinghe's attitude.

It was the United States that asked Li Xinghe to cover the rear in East Asia, not the other way around.

If you want to continue cooperating, then cooperate honestly.

The Liberal Democratic Party fears the United States, but Lee Sung-ha does not.

Armed helicopters drift over Tokyo.

Driving south for more than 20 kilometers from the Imperial Palace, Nagata-cho, and Aoyama Command Headquarters, you can reach the Reiwa Artificial Island and encounter the Liaoning aircraft carrier.

Fifty kilometers southwest of the Liaoning aircraft carrier lies Yokosuka Port, the base of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

The three locations are so close together.

But so close, yet so far.

The most incomprehensible, magical, and crazy scene of the 21st century appeared so easily, as if it were a natural progression.

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Author's Note: Thank you all for your support. Here's 4500 words. I was so busy watching the big production today, constantly revising the new chapter. After much revision, I decided to just enjoy it first. At this moment, let's all sing together: Giant waves, giant waves, ever-growing!

Chapter 713: Star River's Sneak Attack on Pearl Island, Vance's Bombing of Mexico (4600 words)

Chaos erupted in Washington, D.C.

Because of the hardline clash between Li Xinghe and Vance, the US stock market, which had been falling continuously and was reaping profits from retail investors in the repeated fluctuations, once again started its daily decline. What's even more worrying is that financial institutions in Japan and the United States have started their habitual mutual sell-offs.

The whole logic chain is hilarious.

Because of the very stable yields on Japanese bonds, they have long served as a safe haven in the US-dominated international financial landscape.

If the US economy encounters problems and a global stock market crash occurs, US financial capital will quickly sell off Japanese bonds, convert them into US dollars, and then flow back to the US to ensure its home country's safety.

At this point, the Japanese bond market would be crashed due to the US stock market crash.

In order to protect Japanese bonds, the Japanese government and major institutions, as the largest foreign holders of US bonds, had to urgently sell their holdings of US bonds, causing a sell-off in US bond prices.

Then it turned into Japanese and American bonds attacking each other and dumping their holdings. In order to protect themselves, they would even resort to sneak attacks and see who could run away the fastest.

So while Li Xinghe and Vance were still arguing, the institutions holding US and Japanese bonds were already locked in a fierce battle, each blow hitting the nail on the head.

Therefore, even if it's not about making steamed buns, Vans is determined to fight Li Xinghe to the death.

Vance personally went to the Pentagon to express his dissatisfaction with Chief of Staff Grady, who was bald.

"Why don't you dare to mobilize the troops and fight him!"

"We do not have an army."

The Pentagon is quite helpless about this.

What are you doing?

Do you want to check how many troops Japan has left?

This is the most shameful thing about the United States right now.

Throughout Japan, the United States, and the Pentagon, there isn't a single unit capable of mobile operations on land. The thousands of civilian officers at Yokota Air Base—let alone beating Li Xinghe—have already been beaten twice by him with military rods, let alone actually fighting him. Furthermore, the entire Yokota Fifth Air Fleet is within the special operations threat range of Li Xinghe's forces. How can you expect the Fifth Air Fleet to cause trouble for Li Xinghe?

There used to be a Third Expeditionary Force from Ryukyu throughout Japan. Now that Ryukyu has been destroyed, the Third Expeditionary Division has become the G Brigade stationed on Jeju Island.

Vance, still indignant, persisted in asking:

"What about the Japanese army? Did the Japanese army obey his orders?"

Chief of Staff Grady had to explain this:

"Li Xinghe has annexed and destroyed the Japanese 1st Division and 12th Brigade. Now he has formed the 1st Combined Division, the 2nd Combined Division, and the 1st Combined Mech Division on the same spot. In other words, his armed forces have exceeded four or five divisions, totaling more than 20,000 men. Even if all of Japan's troops were to be deployed against him, let alone a portion of the Japanese army, they still wouldn't be able to defeat him."

At least Li Xinghe's troops were all mechanized heavy brigades. Although their artillery and tanks originated from the Soviet era, they were still far superior to the ordinary self-defense forces passing by on small motorcycles.

Not to mention Japan, the Pacific Ocean

The 25th Infantry Division and the 11th Airborne Division, the main forces of the theater, were remnants whose organization had been almost wiped out. Li Xinghe released these people, but the problem was that the United States did not have the ability to take them home. So they wandered around doing odd jobs and eventually went to China to seek refuge.

Are we really going to send a few more Marine divisions from the U.S. mainland, 25,000 miles away, to Japan to die?

After learning about the current situation, Vance was furious but helpless.

Turning around, the Pentagon's information was leaked to Li Xinghe.

Will Li Xinghe let them go?

He immediately summoned his subordinates, including Hu Zhantian, who was from Changde, Hunan, and secretly instructed him on the battle plan.

……

As evening fell, while the Americans were still asleep, Hu Zhantian led a battalion of men in assault boats toward Yokosuka Port.

In order to provoke the Americans, Li Xinghe dispatched Fuji TV's helicopter live broadcast team, ostensibly to conduct live tracking of the Liaoning aircraft carrier, but actually to follow the team:

"Now we bring you a live aerial view of the Liaoning aircraft carrier. We can see some very beautiful and impressive Chinese carrier-based aircraft, it looks like a J-15... Wait, something seems amiss. There's activity at the bases of the 1st Combined Division and the 1st Combined Armored Division... They seem to have dispatched an infantry engineering battalion, preparing to head to Yokosuka City. Currently... they are using small boats to attack Azuma Island?"

The live broadcast team in the air watched in astonishment as the speedboat sped towards the small island dozens of kilometers away.

Their aggressive demeanor doesn't look like they're going to a social gathering at all.

Azumajima, located in the center of Yokosuka Port, bisects the port in two. To the left of the island is the port base of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, and to the right is the headquarters of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Coast Guard.

Therefore, this island is roughly positioned in the center of the main islands of both the US and Japanese fleets.

The island's location was so advantageous that the Tokugawa Shogunate and later the Japanese Empire built the Hakozaki Battery on Azuma Island to protect the port.

After World War II, the island became a storage area for various fuels and supplies for the U.S. military. The island was filled with U.S. military fuel, so the Japanese could not easily land on it.

While everyone was sound asleep, Hu Zhantian, commander of the First Joint Division, led his troops to land on Azuma Island.

Upon seeing a large group of Combined Division Army soldiers land, the U.S. Seventh Fleet command immediately became agitated.

They didn't understand what was going on, but they urgently dispatched dozens of soldiers to the island to confront them.

The two sides, separated by a road, first started hurling insults at each other, and then began pushing and shoving each other.

"Holy crap? What's going on?"

The anchor on the helicopter couldn't help but swear.

Hu Zhantian, who once commanded a T-72 tank and was the first to seize enemy positions in the civil war, threw his hat down as he looked at the American troops blocking his way:

"They've gone too far! This is fucking Tokyo, the ones who should get out are you Japanese and Americans! Brothers, follow me!"

While the US military was still wondering what was going on, the experienced Combined Division 1 on the other side had already pulled out all sorts of melee weapons, military batons, steel pipes, and golf clubs, and started smashing them down, leaving the highly educated officers of the Seventh Fleet covered in blood and completely unable to defend themselves.

The American soldiers, whose combat capabilities were limited to beating up ordinary Japanese passersby, immediately called on their comrades nearby to join the attack.

The island battle between the Combined Division and the Seventh Fleet is about to erupt.

While the fighting raged on the other side, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, perched atop the wall, watched helplessly as their two masters clashed, forced to offer their support from across the sea.

Lieutenant General Fred Katcher was still anxiously shouting from behind:

"Don't shoot! You can't shoot!"

Using a gun is absolutely out of the question.

"If he dares to fire, that kid will definitely find a way to take my general's hat off!"

Li Xinghe deliberately sent people to cause trouble so that he could eliminate him from Japan and consolidate his own power.

But precisely because of this, the US military was badly defeated by the Chinese, suffering heavy losses and fleeing in disarray, with many jumping into the sea to swim back to their home port.

After less than three hours of fierce hand-to-hand combat, the 3st Combined Division, which had landed, victoriously broke through the US military's restricted area and raised its own dragon flag.

Then, within a few hours, a makeshift military camp sprang up, occupying the northeastern part of the island. Cannons were set up on the camp, but instead of aiming at Tokyo Bay, they were aimed at the ports of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Seventh Fleet, and at the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Aegis destroyers.

Americans couldn't understand it, the Japanese couldn't understand it, and even the Chinese Liaoning aircraft carrier group and Chinese spectators next door were full of question marks.

Reporters flocked to the United Front Command to inquire.

However, the spokesperson for the Joint Operations Command, General Affairs Director Tawara Chikihime, stated publicly:

“We’re protecting our colleagues, preventing an attack by an unknown third country on the port’s most important oil reserves. Spies can’t come from the sea, so we’re aiming our guns at the land.”

Li Xinghe had no hostages and no sufficient missiles, so he could not bomb US military bases to demonstrate his power like the Iraqi resistance groups did.

However, once he controls Azuma Island, he can freely fire cannons on the island to intimidate the Seventh Fleet and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force on the island's side. When he wants to cause trouble, he doesn't even need to blow up ships; simply blockading the island's ship fuel and aviation fuel depots will suffice.

At this time, the US troops stationed in Japan seemed to be both Li Xinghe's subordinates and his prisoners and hostages.

Media outlets around the world have said that Li Xinghe's occupation of Azuma Island is no different from a replica of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

British media outlets are stirring up trouble, almost spreading rumors that Li Xinghe is the illegitimate son of a high-ranking Chinese official.

But the American media remained completely silent.

President Vance...

He was out of ideas.

……

At this time of war between the United States and Japan.

To Li Xinghe's surprise, there was an unexpected bonus.

That's Taiwan.

The news that Japan and the United States held an unrestricted fighting tournament in Yokosuka and that the Japanese military was utterly defeated terrified the Lai regime in Taipei.

Fearing that Li Xinghe had defected to the Communists, Lai, the eunuch, became even more frantic, and in extreme fear, he launched a new wave of green terror.

Previously, the pro-independence regime simply expelled mainland spouses and drove people from the mainland back home. Later, it escalated and became even more insane. Anyone born in mainland China, or suspected of being able to obtain a mainland ID card, would be arrested and expelled without any reason, regardless of their political stance.

And now, he has even started driving away ordinary netizens who speak ill of him online.

Anyone who dares to speak out will have their Taiwanese citizenship revoked and be deported.

Li Xinghe was overjoyed and happily opened the green door to this group of immigrants:

"Japan welcomes immigrants from Taiwan, and we will open a green channel for naturalization for Taiwanese citizens. We will welcome all heartbroken people."

Taiwanese Chinese are arguably the best source of immigrants for Japan.

Not only do they share many cultural similarities, but this is also a good thing for both China and Japan.