Chapter 389: Only the East Wind is owed
When the destroyer in front of him was heading and was responsible for piloting the whistle, Liu Changxun noticed that the fleet was about to enter Dongdu Bay.
It was the first time he had left the Empire since he became Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.
Participating in the signing ceremony of the surrender of the Narrow Yi Emperor was proposed by Liu Changxun himself, but it was also the idea of stopping the war in vain, and regarded it as a sign of the victory of the empire.
To say, it is actually to make a show and let the newspapers, radio and other media carry out propaganda.
Even if it doesn't have the effect of deterring the enemy, it can be used to promote the upcoming war bonds, and it is not guaranteed that it will raise donations for the construction of several aircraft carriers.
Where did I think that this matter was highly concerned by the Holy Lord.
Although under the painstaking advice of Xue Yuanzheng and others, the Holy Lord finally gave up the idea of "coming in person", but insisted that the eldest prince represent the imperial family, and proposed that this was a way to declare the empire strong and let the 70 million soldiers and civilians below the narrow emperor surrender to the land.
In this regard, Xue Yuanzheng was also helpless.
The eldest prince has gone, can Peng Huaisheng and Situ Jingde go?
To say, even Xue Yuanzheng almost walked along.
That's high enough!
It was precisely for this reason that preparations for the surrender ceremony took more than a month.
On October 24, two days after the surrender of the Eastern Sagi regime, Sawasan, representing the Western Sagi regime, accepted the surrender of the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Sagi Army outside the castle of Kamiko, and then led the vanguard to open Kamiko and take over the city, which had not been captured for months of fierce fighting.
In the previous months, at least 100,000 officers and soldiers of the National Guard had fallen outside the city.
After taking Lake Kinko, the National Guard steadily advanced eastward, taking over the cities controlled by the Higashi-Saji army one by one, and disarming the Higashi-Saji army.
On November 10, the National Guard had already reached the Eastern Imperial Capital.
In order to be on the safe side, he sent Emperor Narrow and dozens of members of the imperial family to Chang Wai on the same day, and then used a transport plane to send the crown prince to the Liangxia Empire.
That's right, it's sent as a hostage.
Five days earlier, the National Guard had crossed the strait north of the island and landed on the North Island, marking the completion of control over the entire Sagami territory.
Yesterday, Niu Man officially announced that he had taken control of the entire Sayi Imperial State and moved from Chang Wai to the Eastern Imperial Capital.
In fact, at the beginning of its establishment, the Western Sayi regime declared that the imperial capital was the country, the eastern imperial capital was the administrative and legislative capital, and Chang Wai was the temporary accompanying capital.
According to the relevant report submitted by Niu Man, a total of 3.5 million soldiers in the Eastern Sasa have surrendered, of which 2.5 million have been disbanded and resettled on the spot.
These were all recruits recruited after the war.
The remaining 1 million or so will be temporarily housed in concentration camps around the country, where about 50,000 officers will be put on trial.
As for the time and place of the trial, as well as the composition of the court, it depends on the meaning of the Liang Xia Empire, which has not yet been decided, and there is no need to rush it.
However, not all of the Eastern Sayi soldiers have disarmed and surrendered.
At least 20 submarines escaped the Imperial State, and seven of them were sunk by Imperial Navy destroyers and patrol aircraft in the Northwest and Eastern Seas.
In addition, the whereabouts of the prime minister of the Eastern Sagi regime, Bunwei, are unknown.
Wen Wei disappeared on October 23, and several of his cronies left the eastern imperial capital at the same time.
According to rumors, Wen Wei escaped from the Narrow Imperial Kingdom on a submarine.
He did not appear until the end of the war.
Although there is reason to believe that he was sunk in the Northwest and Guia Ocean, the wreckage of the submarine has not been found, and there are no clues related to him personally, so the whereabouts of Wen Wei have become one of the mysteries that have not been solved in this war.
In addition, several cabinet ministers fled from the country, including the main instigator of the invasion of power by Minister Lu Yingxi, who assisted in the seizure of power by Bunwei.
He escaped by submarine and arrived at Jumbo Harbour in early November.
On 20 November, the British proclaimed a government-in-exile in St. Hu on the west coast of Newland, declaring themselves to be the rightful leader of the Narrow Empire.
Interestingly, he also took a prince!
Shortly thereafter, under his arrangement, the ten-year-old was enthroned in the city of Shenghu and declared himself to be the 125th Emperor of the Shoshuo.
Of course, whether it was the prince or not, no one could say clearly at that time.
Decades later, with the help of genetic technology, it was confirmed that this "125th generation of narrow emperors" was an imposter and had no blood relationship with the narrow royal family at all.
In addition, even in the narrow country, there are still many diehards.
On November 20, after the establishment of a government-in-exile was proclaimed and the Sashiki army and people loyal to Emperor Sashi were called upon to rise up against the invaders' enemies and the traitorous Nishi-Sagi regime, riots broke out on the main island of Sagi, especially in the major cities east of Lake Kinko.
It was the diehards, many of whom were disabled soldiers, who caused the riots.
Of course, it's all old soldiers.
The crackdown has been going on for several days, but the effect is not very good, and it is only barely under control in the eastern imperial capital, and the unrest in other cities is still very serious.
Of course, it is the narrow-minded people who suffer.
This riot gave the empire a reason to get out.
On the 21st, Xue Yuanzheng had announced that in view of the turbulent situation in the country, the Liangxia Empire would not consider providing humanitarian aid to the Sagi Empire for the time being.
The main reason is the fear that aid will fall into the wrong hands.
The Niuman authorities are unable to guarantee that aid will reach civilians in need, and they are unable to carry out relief work in various places.
Anyway, the matter of assistance was put on hold for the time being.
Suffering parochials?
I don't have enough of the suffering!
Otherwise, where will you have the strength to do things?
In Xue Yuanzheng's words, when the winter passes, it is too late to think about aid. When the time comes, almost all those who have the strength to do things will freeze to death.
When Liu Changxun was thinking about this, the destroyer had already completed its turn, and the fleet was about to enter Dongdu Bay.
It's only early in the morning, and it's still early.
If, as the White War had guessed, the Nuland aircraft carrier task force commanded by Sp was now to the east, 1,000 to 1,500 kilometers away.
Perhaps, the medium-sized bombing carried by the "Endeavour" has already risen into the air and is flying towards this side.
Pre-reconnaissance?
Not at all necessary.
The time for the signing ceremony of the surrender has been set a long time ago, and the weather in Dongdu Bay is sunny, so there is no possibility of temporarily changing the date.
According to the time, just send the bombers.
As long as one bomber successfully broke through and dropped bombs over the "Longxing", it was enough for only one bomb to hit the aft deck of the battleship.
Is it difficult?
Not at all!
There is enough reason to believe that the "Endeavour" really carried more than 10 medium bombers.
If I want to say it, it was this point that made Xue Yuanzheng make up his mind, and the battle plan proposed and drafted by Bai Zhizhan entered the implementation stage.
On 17 November, the Sixth Bureau provided accurate information that a consignment of about 20 B-25 "Mitchell" medium bombers arrived at Jumbo Harbor on the night of 16 November. The point is that the bombers disappeared from Ford Island in the middle of Treasure Harbour before dawn.
Not flying away, but just disappearing.
Ford Island is not large, and the air terminal on the island has only one runway, and there are no hangars or other buildings that can accommodate and hide more than 10 bombers.
Crucially, the "Endeavour" left Jumbo Harbor before dawn on the 17th.
There is enough reason to believe that these bombers are all on the "Endeavour"!