The Japanese ** finally breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, at least Tokyo is safe for the time being. At this time, two divisions came to reinforce, which brought the troops to reinforce Tokyo to 4 divisions. In addition, the original garrison troops in Tokyo, the total force guarding Tokyo has reached 10 divisions.

News of the People's Army's retreat, Yama Prefecture breathed a sigh of relief and said to Hirofumi Ito: "Ito-kun, this time I finally blocked the People's Army's attack."

Hirofumi Ito nodded and sighed: "It's really not easy for Yama Prefecture!" Although Hirofumi Ito was a civilian official, he had participated in the military when the curtain fell, so he was not an outsider. Moreover, it was the urgent moment for Japan's survival, so he also accompanied Yama Prefecture's friends for two days and two nights without closing his eyes. However, Bi Jing of the People's Army retreated and his spirit was still able to withstand it.

At this time, Shanxian Youpeng said, "Where is the 45th Division? I will send someone to send an order to garrison them on the spot. They can retreat for a certain distance, but they must not advance rashly and wait for the command headquarters' orders."

It turned out that Yutoto Yama Prefecture knew very well that the Japanese army did not really defeat the People's Army. It was just because the 45th Division threatened the People's Army's retreat that the People's Army had to retreat on their own initiative. However, if the People's Army defeated the 45th Division, it would make a comeback at any time. Therefore, the most urgent task now is to ensure that the 45th Division maintains its power over the People's Army. This time, the People's Army was a raid after all, and it did not have a solid position like the Non-Terminal Peninsula. As long as the counter-attachment is held for a long time, more reinforcements will be added to Tokyo, and the People's Army's support will not keep up, and it will automatically retreat.

However, the combat effectiveness of the People's Army must not be underestimated. If the battle is head-on, the 45th Division is definitely not an opponent of the People's Army. It can only be arranged immediately and stand firm and wait for aid. It can last a few more days. Tokyo also has enough time to organize and mobilize the army, launch a counterattack, and form a pincer attack on the People's Army with the 45th Division. There is great hope that the People's Army can defeat the People's Army. In the past few days of fighting, the Japanese army has suffered a lot of casualties. If you want to launch a counterattack, it will take some time to reorganize the troops. In addition, when counterattacking, you must also ensure the safety of Tokyo. After all, it is not easy to deal with the People's Army.

Just as Aritomo Yama Prefecture was thinking about how to counter the People's Army, Hirofumi Ito said: "Yama Prefecture Lord, let's go to the palace together to report this good news to the Emperor, and let the Emperor issue an edict to announce this victory."

Yama Prefecture Yuto was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that Hirofumi Ito's intention was to take the initiative to retreat this time, boasting that the Japanese army defeated the People's Army's attack and achieved a victory. Although Yama Prefecture Yuto felt that it was a bit unbearable to do this, he also knew that Japan really needed all victory to effectively boost the Tokyo army. The morale and confidence of the residents are now a good opportunity, because no matter what, the People's Army has indeed retreated, so it can be regarded as a victory. On the other hand, it is also to appease Emperor Meiji. After all, the emperor was so scared that he was about to run away, and now it should be safe.

Thinking of this, Yama Prefecture Akito nodded and said, "Okay, Ito, I'll go to the palace with you."

Sure enough, after the two entered the palace to report the victory of repelling the People's Army to the Emperor, Emperor Meiji was also very energetic. He had always been worried, but now he can finally let go. So Emperor Meiji issued an edict on the spot, announcing the victory of the Japanese army in defeating the People's Army, and commended the various armies that resisted the attack of the People's Army. Of course, Keitaro, Yuto Yama Prefecture, Hirofumi Ito, Masahito Desunuch and others, and also expressed that he would report a group of middle and lower-level officers and soldiers who performed bravely in the battle to commend them. However, Yuto Yama Prefecture refused on the grounds that although the People's Army was defeated, it had not yet been withdrawn, and there was still a high possibility of making a comeback. Therefore, it was not appropriate to celebrate the victory with great fanfare at this time, and he refused.

However, despite this, after the Emperor announced the victory, the morale of the Tokyo military and residents suddenly increased, and finally wiped out the tense atmosphere for several days. The atmosphere in the Japanese army and the army department also eased a lot.

And at this moment, another division rushed to Tokyo to reinforce, allowing the Tokyo area to concentrate the forces of 10 divisions. This gave a new force, which also increased Yama Prefecture's confidence and was ready to launch a counterattack against the People's Army immediately.

But just one day later, Youpeng of Shanxian received news that the 45th Division was defeated by the People's Army, with more than 5,000 casualties. It turned out that after the People's Army retreated from the battlefield in the offensive and defensive valley, it immediately launched an attack on the 45th Division. The Bijing division poses too great a threat to the People's Army's rear route.

Due to the backward communication methods of this era, the 45th Division had not received the order from the command center and arranged positions to garrison on the spot. As a result, they encountered the People's Army unexpectedly. The two sides immediately launched a fierce battle. The 45th Division was established after the war in East China. Its combat effectiveness was not as good as the 37th Division. It was an opponent of the People's Army. It was defeated by the People's Army and retreated more than 40 kilometers. It was temporarily unable to pose a threat to the People's Army. However, due to the communication problem, the Tokyo Command only received the news a day later.

And less than two hours after Yama Prefecture received the news that the 45th Division was defeated by the People's Army, the People's Army's maritime strike also came. The People's Army dispatched a fleet of two battleships and two armored cruisers as the core to launch an attack on Tokyo Bay. Fortunately, Japan had already strengthened its coastal defense, and with the assistance of two more armored cruisers, it finally blocked the attack of the People's Army fleet. After more than three hours of coastal battles, the People's Army fleet retreated to the south.

Although Japan made selective reports on the war, only announced the maritime attack to defeat the People's Army fleet, and concealed the news that the 45th Division was defeated by the People's Army, Yuto Yama Prefecture still gave up the combat plan of counterattacking the People's Army. After all, without the restraint of the 45th Division, Yuto Yama Prefecture also lost confidence in taking the initiative and defeating the People's Army, and did not dare to take risks. Moreover, Japan now has no capital to take risks. However, the Japanese army is still quite sure to defend Tokyo.

Moreover, Yutoto of Shanxian had formulated a new combat plan, which was to wait for the People's Army to launch another attack on the Gugu. In this way, while the Japanese army was stationed in positions, they sent troops around the rear of the People's Army and threatened the People's Army's retreat. In this way, they would attack the two lines, striving to defeat the People's Army, or forcing the People's Army to retreat from the sea on their own initiative.

However, after waiting for five days in Yama Prefecture, the People's Army did not launch another attack on Tokyo. During this period, another division rushed to Tokyo to reinforce, bringing the total Japanese army in the Tokyo area to 12 divisions, and Yama Prefecture could directly command 11 divisions. With more troops, Yama Prefecture's confidence was much more confident, so he decided to launch a tentative attack on the People's Army. It turned out that Ishioka was just an empty city. The People's Army obviously gave up Ishioka, so the Japanese army recovered Ishioka without bloodshed.

After Yama County received the report, he immediately felt something was wrong. Gan immediately sent someone to the Mito area to inquire about the People's Army. He found that the People's Army had evacuated Mito a day ago and left all the way.

After learning that the People's Army had retreated, the Japanese army was extremely excited. Although it only took only 10 days to ask that the residents of Tokyo, the royal family, and the royal family were under tremendous pressure, and the threat was finally completely lifted. No matter what, Japan won the final victory in defending Tokyo, and its nervousness was immediately vented. Many people took to the streets to celebrate. The emperor planned to hold a grand celebration to celebrate the victory.

But only Yama Prefecture Akito felt that this battle was a bit wrong, because now looking back, there were many unreasonable aspects of this war. From a common sense, after Mito landed, the People's Army either established a solid foothold in Mito to make a long-term solution; or it would attack Tokyo immediately and fight quickly.

As a result, the People's Army did not do anything, and only attacked Ishioka on the third day of landing. If Ishioka attacked Ishioka because of the landing of the army, it was understandable that it was delayed. However, after the People's Army captured Ishioka, it did not march immediately and continued to attack Tokyo. Instead, it stopped and went back to attack Naka, Ibarakicho and other places around Mito. It took several more days before launching an attack again. Although it was captured Naka, Ibarakicho and other places, it can be said that it was necessary to protect Mito's Zhou. In the border area, but that is a tactic to be determined to defend Mito. The People's Army should do this from the beginning of the landing, rather than attacking Ishioka first and then turning back to defend its foothold. Moreover, after the People's Army captured Ishioka, it could almost directly launch an attack on Tokyo. As long as Tokyo is taken down, the fleet can even sail into Tokyo Bay and join the landing army. There is no need to care about Mito's gains and losses. Therefore, this way of using troops is too incomprehensible.

In addition, after nearly 10 days of delay, the People's Army launched an attack on Tokyo again, but the number of troops invested less than 30,000. You should know that the People's Army invested a total of about 100,000 troops this time, and delayed so many days, but only gathered less than 30,000 troops to finally attack Tokyo. In any case, it would not seem like he had to do his best to raid Tokyo. If the People's Army could gather about 50,000 troops and attack Tokyo from two lines, then Tokyo would probably have been lost now.

However, due to the emergency of the war, Yutoto Yama Prefecture only thought about how to defend Tokyo and did not notice these unreasonable places. Now that the People's Army has withdrawn, Yuto Yama Prefecture has calmed down and thought about it carefully, it found that there are too many doubts in it.

So what was the People's Army planning to do this raid on Tokyo? Yutoshi Yama Prefecture couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
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