On October 13, the 98th Army restored Fengtian City.

If it were normal, people would be extremely excited about this news, but now it was overshadowed by the light of the news that the 98th Army suddenly captured Zhengzhou and Langfang.

At first, people's first reaction to the news was that the civil war was about to start, but the development of the matter was beyond their expectations.

The 98th Army almost only held a press conference at the fastest speed, and then condemned the Kuomintang with the most intense words, claiming that their behavior was a complete betrayal of the cause of the war of resistance.

If the KMT Central Committee cannot give a satisfactory explanation, the 98th Army will reserve the power to take further military action.

Faced with the 98th Army's behavior of being good at taking advantage of the situation, the Kuomintang Central Committee was of course furious.

Although they did make some tricks there, the 98th Army should not have captured these two cities.

They immediately made the most severe accusations of the 98th Army's military operations and claimed that it was absolutely unforgivable act of treason.

If Lu Mingxuan did not withdraw his troops from these two places, they would condemn the 98th Army with the most severe condemnation.

Of course, Lu Mingxuan would not take the threat from the Kuomintang seriously. Now he is strong and strong, he still hopes that the Kuomintang will take the initiative to attack him.

So he ordered his troops to enter a first-level combat readiness and should be mercilessly attacked on any enemy who dared to threaten them.

Faced with this severe situation where a national war is about to break out, the big bosses from all sides finally jumped out to do peace.

Yan Xishan, Li Zongren, Sun Zhen and others all issued national statements, hoping that the 98th Army and the Kuomintang can each take a step back and not break out in such a critical moment in the spirit of thinking about the overall situation, so as to avoid the pain of the relatives and the enemy will be happy.

Of course, the top leaders of the Kuomintang who are timid and weak are just sluggish. They know that there will be no good results when they have conflicts with the 98th Army at this juncture.

However, they still made a lot of harsh words, threatening that they would sooner or later make Lu Mingxuan regret it.

Of course, Lu Mingxuan was disdainful of these harsh words. If it was useful to make harsh words, why would the army do?

On October 16, the 98th Army officially announced that after a arduous battle, they officially restored Lushun and the Northeast war officially ended.

During the war in the entire Northeast, they wiped out more than 400,000 enemies and seized countless rifles and artillery.

However, the heroic 98 soldiers also made great sacrifices.

A total of more than 8,000 soldiers fell on that land forever. 16,000 soldiers had to retire due to serious injuries. More than 30,000 soldiers were injured in various minor injuries. The number of casualties in the entire 98th Army reached more than 50,000.

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Although all the soldiers of the 98th Army made great sacrifices for this war, their sacrifices were exchanged for the restoration of the Northeast, and all these sacrifices were worth it.

In order to commemorate this great moment, Lu Mingxuan officially announced three things.

The first thing was that on November 10, the 98th Army decided to hold a grand military parade and military exercises in Jiyuan to commemorate the victory of this battle.

At that time, they will send invitation letters to major forces and well-known people across the country, and welcome them to visit the military parade and exercises.

The second thing is that Lu Mingxuan decided to exempt the agricultural taxes from the three northeastern provinces forever in the future. If someone dares to collect agricultural taxes from the northeastern future, all the Chinese people of Lu Mingxuan made a poisonous oath, and everyone can do the opposite.

The third thing is to promote the development of China's industry. The 98th Army will hold the first national industrial expo from November 1. The expo will not only show people from all walks of life the various goods produced by the 98th Army, but also they will

They sold a large number of industrial production lines and processing machine tools to patriotic compatriots across the country at extremely low prices to promote the development of China's industry. They warmly welcomed patriotic compatriots across the country to come and participate at that time.

When the 98th Army officially released these news, it caused a stir across the country.

Paying tax on growing grain is a tradition in China for thousands of years. The 98th Army actually planned to exempt the agricultural tax from Northeast China? Is this possible?

Although most people don’t believe it, they are full of confidence in Lu Mingxuan, because Lu Mingxuan made a swearing that if they collect agricultural taxes in Northeast China in the future, everyone can do the opposite.

Faced with this situation, the Kuomintang was both happy and worried.

What is worrying is that if the 98th Army can really do this, then more than 300 million farmers will undoubtedly stand on their side.

What's good is that if the 98th Army will not be able to obtain the Northeast's finances and taxes, they may even fall into financial collapse.

In addition, the 98th Army's military parade and military exercises also attracted a lot of attention.

Why did the 98th Army conduct a large military parade and military exercises?

At this critical moment, the only purpose of Lu Mingxuan doing this is probably to show off his muscles and force to the major forces, and warn them not to make wrong choices.

As for the industrial expo, although it attracted the attention of many people, it did not attract many people's attention. Of course, no one realized that this was an olive branch Lu Mingxuan had to national capitalists.

So in the following period, Lu Mingxuan began to prepare for the military parade. In addition to major forces and celebrities and gentry across the country, various ambassadors to China also received invitations from Lu Mingxuan.

They were still very interested in this military parade.

Because Lu Mingxuan told them that all the advanced weapons of the 98th Army would be unveiled in this military parade, including the mysterious weapons that defeated the Japanese in the naval battle of Qinhuangdao. In addition, Lu Mingxuan would also announce a very important thing.

After learning the news, the ministers were of course very excited, and they wanted to hurry up on November 10th.

There has been a big quarrel about the mysterious weapons of the 98th Army abroad. Some people say that the 98th Army has absolutely no mysterious weapons. The reason why the Japanese failed is that they are all stupid Japanese monkeys.

Of course, some people disagree with this because merchant ships from other countries also rescued Japanese naval soldiers who fell into the water. Many of the soldiers were shouting about the mysterious weapons of the 98th Army.

Now that they have the opportunity to witness the mysterious weapons of the 98th Army with their own eyes, they certainly don’t want to miss this opportunity.

So they took telegrams from their countries, sought their consent, and rushed to Jiyuan with their respective military officers stationed in China.

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On October 22, in the office of Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan.

Chiang Kai-shek walked around the room with his frown. From his thin face and gloomy expression, it should be seen that his recent holiday was not easy.

Chen Cheng and Dai Li stood aside and carefully accompanied Chiang Kai-shek.

Due to tension with the 98th Army, Chiang Kai-shek's temper became very bad during this period.

In addition, the 98th Army kept creating monsters such as agricultural tax exemption and military parade, which made it impossible for Chiang Kai-shek to smash the precious porcelain in the room, so Chen Cheng and Dai Li were unwilling to touch it at this moment.

His bad temper.

"You said we should send people to this Luosh parade?"

Chiang Kai-shek said, looking at the three invitation letters on the table.

This invitation letter was sent by Lu Mingxuan yesterday. Only with this letter can you watch the parade and military exercises of the 98th Army up close.

"I think we should go. According to our information, not only celebrities from all walks of life across the country decided to visit this military parade, but even the ministers from all countries were no exception. If we don't go, wouldn't we be afraid of him?"

Chen Cheng thought about it and said.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded, thinking that Chen Cheng's words were very reasonable.

"And we can take this opportunity to touch the bottom of the 98th Army and see how strong his strength has developed."

Chen Cheng continued.

"You are right, and it is said that he will have a very important decision to announce after the military parade. What decision do you think will be?"

Chiang Kai-shek said with a gloomy face.

"Is this..."

After hearing his words, Chen Cheng and Dai Li looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Although they all had a very bad guess, they didn't dare to say that guess.

"Yunnong, I ask you, how strong is the 98th Army now?"

Chiang Kai-shek said to Dai Li with a calm face.

"According to our intelligence, even if the Northeast War began, the recruitment of the 98th Army never stopped. Although their recruitment was greatly resisted because we stopped it. But now they have obtained the territory of the Northeast, so

Their recruitment work has made rapid breakthroughs."

"According to our spy report in the Northeast, because people are grateful to the 98th Army to the Northeast, coupled with their generous rewards, the enthusiasm of the Northeast people to join the 98th Army is very high. And some time ago, they announced that they would permanently exempt Northeast China from being exempted from the Northeast.

Agricultural tax, which has led to a surge in the number of people who signed up to join the 98th Army. Every day, a large number of cars and trains came to Jiyuan with new recruits. According to our estimates, the 98th Army can now participate in the combat force at least 400,000.

With those recruits, the number is likely to be more than 700,000."

"700,000! How is this possible? How could he afford to support so many soldiers? Where did he get so much money?"

After hearing his words, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't help but be surprised.

"Reporting to the Chairman, the 98th Army had very developed military production. It is said that even the Germans bought him a large number of weapons, which gave him a large amount of funds. And in addition to this, they also owned a number of quite powerful factories.

enterprise."

"Take their steel mills as an example, they now have 4 blast furnaces of 2,000 cubic meters, 3 blast furnaces of 1,000 cubic meters, and 500 cubic meters of blast furnaces. Their annual steel output may be around 2 million tons."

"This is absolutely impossible! Are you mistaken? Take Japan for example. Even if they have developed for so many years, their annual output during their heyday was only more than 5 million tons. The 98th Army has only been developing for more than a year.

, How could they achieve such high yields?”

After hearing his words, Chiang Kai-shek said incredible.

"Director Dai, are you mistaken? Even European and American countries may not have a blast furnace of 2,000 cubic meters. How could they have such a good blast furnace?"

Chen Cheng also stood up and questioned.

"I know you don't believe it. At first I didn't believe it, but several of my subordinates worked in the steel mill, and they all used their lives to guarantee that there would be no mistake in this matter. And they also reported it

This situation is due to the lack of raw materials and steel workers in the 98th Army, otherwise their steel output would be higher."

"It is also said that the 98th Army has built a blast furnace of more than 4,000 square meters. If this blast furnace is put into operation, its output can reach more than 10,000 tons, and its annual output will be more than 3.5 million tons."

After hearing his words, Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng were both shocked.
To be continued...