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Today, April 1, 2000, I set foot on Japanese soil again after 60 years. It's just that unlike 60 years ago, I no longer came on a landing ship of the Combined Fleet, but like a tourist, I came to Madagascar's cherry blossom port on a Chinese ocean liner – which was not a pleasant thing for a veteran who had participated in the last war.

Today, I can only refer to 'Dongying' as 'Madagascar' to express my inner persistence. I did not betray my comrades who died in the war.

Even so, I still had to look like an old man on the surface, because the government that organized this trip wanted to show goodwill to the Japanese, so they organized a group of veterans of the Third World War who could still move, and they came to Toei for a tour. What I'm doing now is not just about myself, it's about the whole of the UK.

- Who made me the only officer alive to this day who led [a battalion] to land on the Falklands in the last world war, and was still able to stand up and walk and speak clearly.

Although I don't know what the point is, but a mission is a mission, and a former colonel of the Marine Corps of the Kingdom of Great Britain would not refuse a mission from his homeland. Even though I retired from the military 30 years ago, I haven't paid attention to the military since I retired.

I retired in a major disarmament, and I admit that I am saddened. This sadness is not only because the government has chosen to give in militarily to China in order to better develop the economy - to cut the army, but also because I know that Great Britain has really abandoned the heart to confront China. So one of my hearts as a soldier died.

Not bad, the Chinese and Japanese paid enough attention to the British delegation's visit, and when I stepped off the passenger ship, I saw Japanese senior officials, Chinese envoys in Dongying, and several Chinese and Japanese generals waiting for our group.

This is not the treatment that losers deserve. Perhaps, just like Britain now, for the sake of the economy, for the sake of money, the Chinese and the Japanese have also left the past behind. After all, they are victors, and their wounds heal more easily.

"Colonel Bell Cruise?"

"Yes."

"Former commander of the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion of the 3rd Marine Brigade of the British Royal Navy?"

"Yes."

"Then I'll also introduce myself, Ozawa Heisai, the former corporal of the Toei Fleet Wind and Snow Sailor. Because of the naval battle in the early stage of your landing on the Falklands, the Blizzard sank in the waves of the Hanhai Sea, but I was lucky to survive. Then, when you landed on the Falklands, I was ordered to participate in organizing the militia forces in Sakura Port. I participated in the battle of the entire Sakura Port. "Naturally, I had a lot of games with the British Marines.

Although Bell Cruise was a major battalion commander at the time, and Ozawa Pinsai was only a corporal, the equivalent of a second lieutenant in the Western army.

"So we're old rivals?"

"Haha, saying that it is an old opponent really lifts me up. And sixty years have passed, and peace is the mainstream of the world today. Isn't our presence here today a symbol of peace? On behalf of a person, I would like to welcome you to visit Dongying. ”

"Thank you." I shrugged my shoulders and felt a little awkward in my heart because they were the winners in the previous war. Only the victor will be able to say such words: put aside confrontation, maintain peace, and look forward to a better future for all. What a light word.

After a series of welcoming ceremonies, we got into their car, accompanied by a Japanese officer. Along the way, he accosted us from time to time and talked a lot, and the Japanese officer's knowledge and fluency in English diluted my slight dissatisfaction with them. Soon, some of us were sent to the hotel where we lived, and the veterans lived in very good conditions. We were also told that we could move around without restrictions in the company of an interpreter. It's really treating us as tourists.

The next day, I woke up in a daze, and after a typical Japanese-style breakfast, I went out into the street, accompanied by an interpreter, to see the city I had visited sixty years earlier.

Although the person accompanying me was dressed in civilian clothes, I could still smell his military temperament, and it was more likely that he was also a navy. His name is Teru Takeda. This is the habit of many Japanese names, I don't know that I think he is a Chinese, and now more and more Japanese names are called three characters.

I wasn't full, the Japanese breakfast was not to my taste, there was a burger joint not far from the hotel, I asked for a french fries and he asked for a fried chicken. When it comes to Japanese food, Teru Takeda and I share exactly the same opinion – too bland, too little.

But in other ways, he and I have a lot of differences.

He was indeed a Navy and a Navy carrier-based pilot, and he had an accident while a plane was landing, after which he was transferred to the government department. Every pilot is a rare elite, and the Japanese government will definitely take good care of them.

I have no doubt about this, but the Japanese navy today has only one aircraft carrier fleet, and 90% of the Japanese naval force is deployed by the Chinese in Madagascar to protect the still important strategic waterway of the Cape of Good Hope. Teru Takeda served on the aircraft carrier Musashi. Here are some of the materials I looked through after participating in this operation.

The Japanese aircraft carriers, the Japanese carrier-based pilots, I will never forget how the group of planes that pounced like wolves in the sea battle swarmed and sank the Athletic God and the North Wind. The 1st Marine Battalion evacuated from the Falklands experienced that significant naval battle, in which the European Union Navy sank four aircraft carriers, seriously damaged three aircraft carriers, and the transport ship carrying the 1st battalion was lucky enough to escape the hellish catastrophe, but the scene of the sinking of the aircraft carrier, 60 years later, is still clearly engraved in my mind.

We used to be the most important member of the naval power of the Western world, and we once had the most powerful warships and the most powerful fleet in the world, but now we only have an aircraft carrier battle group.

The entire European aircraft carrier battle group taken together is not half as good as China's. In particular, when he proudly mentioned that China was building a 120,000-ton supercarrier, and planned to build ten at a time, to replace the aging 80,000-ton heavy aircraft carriers of the Chinese Navy's Central Fleet [stationed in the Pacific Ocean], I felt deeply alienated from him.

The British aircraft carrier is also 75,000 tons, and the service life is only three years less than that of the Chinese Chinese Ocean Fleet, and I have not heard any news that the Ministry of Defense is going to build an aircraft carrier.

I didn't want to argue with Takeda anymore, but I put my mind on the streets of Sakura Port, which were full of signs with Chinese characters, and I saw a lot of Europeans on the way to the shops, and even some of the shops were made by Europeans, and I chatted with them, and they didn't feel discrimination or hostility here.

Oh, yes. It's been 60 years, it's been 60 years. No matter how deep the hatred is, it has melted into the long river of time.

Like the once powerful Japanese Navy. Yes, 60 years ago, Japan's navy was definitely the strongest in the world, with five aircraft carriers, as well as a number of super battleships with sharp guns and large armor. Throwing aside the terrifying monster of China, whether it was Britain, France, Germany, or the divided Red Russia at that time, no one dared to say that they could steadily defeat Japan when they only talked about the navy.

But in the sixty years after the war, in the long time, the once powerful Japanese navy disappeared in this way, and it was not destroyed in one naval battle after another, but disintegrated and disappeared on its own.

The Japanese no longer want to be burdened with heavy military spending, they want lighter taxes and a more prosperous and comfortable life. The Tokugawa family could not prevent the demilitarization of Japan at all, and even the current aircraft carrier battle group of Toei would have solved it by itself if it had not been for Nanjing's careful request.

That's what Takeda told me.

In order to compete with Western forces and seize European colonies in Africa, Japan paid too much up and down.

The credibility of the post-war Japanese government was extremely low due to the heavy national debt, and if it had not lasted only one year for the Third World War, Japan's post-war economy would have collapsed completely. But even so, even if they were able to snatch a large area of land in West Africa, their own mess would make the Japanese suffer enough.

You must know that when the Europeans withdrew from Southwest Africa, they left behind a large number of weapons in the region, and a large number of military instructors active in the form of mercenaries appeared. The Japanese have paid a huge price in Southwest Africa, and the 20-year war of law and order has caused Japan to lose more than 100,000 outstanding men, spent a huge amount of military spending, and greatly delayed the recovery of the Japanese economy.

In total, Japanese rule in Southwest Africa lasted less than 40 years. It's a big loss.

More importantly, in Asia, there are also Mysore, Nader, Gubold, Bangladesh, Delhi, Bhutan, Siam, Phnom Penh, Vientiane and other countries that live a different kind of life under China's powerful wings.

Especially Siam. Not to mention the group of alternative people in India, since China made the indigenous princes of India become independent kings, the whole of India has become a big circus. For the Japanese, the only thing they can compare with is Siam, look at the lives of other people, even if an inch of land has not been opened for 200 years, but how beautiful their lives are.

When I heard this, I couldn't tell what it was like.

Times are changing so fast and incredible. Or in the thirty years since I left the military, the idea of war has completely changed? I was astonished that the Japanese were war-weary, and that there were a large number of Japanese who opposed the war.

You know, in my heart, the Japanese are a vicious dog bred by China, and they, together with the Gurkhas, are the most ferocious minions of China's foreign wars.

The Mongols and Kazakhs were also far inferior to them.

But now, the Japanese, who were once heroic and fearless on the battlefield and regarded death as their home, are actually disgusted and tired of war. It left me not sure whether to cry or laugh.

For an old man who has reached the end of his life, it is really too difficult and cumbersome to go through a large amount of information to verify this conclusion and understand this phenomenon. I have the right to take what Takeda said as fact.

This is probably the biggest reason why the government organized our veterans to come to Madagascar for 60 years.

Japan has changed, society has changed, and the world has changed.

The government told me that peace is the mainstream in today's world. I hope this is also true, and I hope that the world can really be at peace forever......