A few days later, whether intentionally or not, Tojo issued a declaration in Washington that the Japanese government-in-exile would continue to fight to the end, and at the same time announced the establishment of a Japanese government-in-exile in the United States. In fact, there were only a few dozen Japanese politicians who fled to the United States at that time. In order to flesh out this government-in-exile, Tojo also recruited a large number of Japanese-Americans in the United States.

The proclamation of the Japanese government-in-exile was channeled through the international public channel, and the news soon reached the empire. When Japan established a government-in-exile, the reaction of the people of the Tang Empire was not very strong. In the history of the Tang Empire, several opponents formed government-in-exile after defeat.

In the 1o century of the Tang calendar, the Kingdom of France had a government in exile, so the people of the Tang Empire were not surprised by this.

The Tang Imperial government also reacted quickly, and the day after Tojo made the declaration, the new Japanese government announced that it was the representative of Japan and would march to Honshu Island to liberate the Japanese mainland and free the Japanese people from the clutches of the militarists. The Tang Empire, the Kingdom of Korea, and the Kingdom of Thailand first recognized the legitimacy of the new Japanese government, and within two days, the other members of the Central Powers also recognized the legitimacy of the new Japanese government. If a government doesn't even have its own territory, how can it have any legitimacy?

The struggle of politicians is a bit like a farce, and Tan Renhao has always felt like he was watching the excitement, watching a few shrews scolding the street. Perhaps, the people of the Tang Empire also think so, Tojo has fled to the United States, then Japan is finished, and the new Japanese government is a lackey raised by the Tang Empire, and there is no threat to the Tang Empire, just a tool. But in reality, the situation in Japan is not so simple.

After Tojo made a declaration to the United States, Okamura, the general of the 6th Army who remained on the Japanese mainland, announced that the 5 million Japanese troops would continue to fight to the end. Tan Renhao was a little confused, where did Japan get the five million troops at that time? The population of the two islands of Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan is certainly no more than 350,000, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, even if the women in the prime of life are organized. I'm afraid it will be difficult to raise an army of five million! Japan did resist, and the new Japanese government forces had a lot of trouble on Shikoku Island, and the landing on Honshu Island 6 was postponed several times.

Among the 350,000 Japanese people, the most tragic thing is the tens of thousands of Japanese "talents" concentrated in several ports in Hokkaido. On the third day after Tojo left Japan, more than 30 Japanese submarines left the port with the first batch of evacuated "talents" ready to "smuggle" to the United States. Waiting for these Japanese submarines in the open sea were hundreds of maritime patrol planes, dozens of submarines, and more than 20 destroyers that rushed to the scene. The results can be imagined. The submarines had not yet completed a quarter of their voyage before disaster struck.

Under the joint encirclement and suppression of destroyers and anti-submarine patrol planes, three of the 34 submarines were forced to return to sea due to a malfunction shortly after leaving the port, which saved the lives of hundreds of people on the submarines. Of the other 31 submarines, 12 were sunk by the anti-submarine patrol planes of the Tang Empire, 13 were killed by destroyers with depth charges, and four submarines were unable to hold their breath after three days and nights of lurking under the sea. Forced to surface. Captured by a destroyer. In the end, only the two luckiest submarines escaped to the island of Attu, taking 4oo so-called talents. More than 1oo submarine officers and men, and a batch of documents were sent to the United States.

This was Japan's only large-scale evacuation of personnel, and as a result, of the 68oo Japanese "talents" and more than 2ooo Japanese submarine officers and men who boarded the submarine, only 5oo successfully escaped to the United States, another 7ooo returned to Japan, more than 1ooo Japanese were taken prisoner, and the rest were all buried in the sea. In addition, Japan lost 29 submarines. And this basically means that Japan no longer has the ability to evacuate people to the United States by submarine.

Later, Japan also organized several evacuation operations on a much smaller scale, including the gradual delivery of personnel to the United States using airplanes, small fishing boats, and all other conceivable air and navigation vehicles. Probably, the Japanese were also aware of the danger of mass evacuations, so each subsequent evacuation operation was very small, evacuating a few hundred people at a time, or even a few dozen people. By the end of the war, less than 20,000 Japanese "people" had arrived in the United States. More than 40,000 people went to dinner for sharks in the North Pacific, and more than 10,000 so-called "talents" were left in Japan and participated in Japan's restoration work after the war, some of whom became envoys of friendly relations between Tang and Japan, some became high-ranking officials of the post-war Japanese government, and some became high-ranking Japanese scholars. Many of them wrote about their experiences in the interior during this period in the form of memoirs or biographies after the war, in which they all condemned the frenzied militarists who pushed the Japanese nation to the brink of extinction, and all thanked the Tang Empire for its help, which allowed Japan to get through the most difficult period. Of course, that's all for later.

"The principal has already given the plan to transform the aircraft carrier to the prime minister, so it shouldn't be much of a problem." Gan Yongxing is also very happy these days, "Recently, you have read the newspaper, have the latter listened to the radio?" ”

Tan Renhao and Jiang Zhongmin both shook their heads, they were all busy dealing with the things at hand, except for reading the newspaper when they squatted on the toilet, how could they have time to read the newspaper?

"Tojo is lobbying in the United States for the U.S. military to arm a Japanese army and let him fight back to Japan." Gan Yongxing laughed as he spoke, "Tojo's ambition has not been extinguished, he has dozens of people in his hands, and he still wants to organize an army. I heard that he also went to lobby among the diaspora, hoping that the Japanese expatriates in North America would join his army and then come back together, and as a result, there were many responses and few registrations. ”

"What is the attitude of the U.S. government?" Tan Renhao asked, this must be big news, but more often than not, it is just a topic of idle conversation among the people of the Tang Empire after dinner.

"The United States? The United States is in a lot of trouble now, what to use to arm the Japanese? Gan Yongxing lit a cigarette, "The burden on the United States is already very heavy, and they themselves have a lot of reserve troops that are not armed, and they also have to provide strategic assistance to Britain, France, Russia, Spain and Italy, and Britain and France alone will consume 20% of the industrial capacity of the United States every year." In addition, Russia has also begun to complain, how can the United States still have the ability to help Japan? Until they seized sea supremacy in the Pacific, the plan to counterattack Japan could only stop on paper. ”

"It seems that Tojo has eaten the closed door."

"That's not going to happen. At least Japan is still an ally of the United States, and even if there is only a government-in-exile, the United States will not easily tear its skin for the sake of the alliance. "Gan Yongxing gave Jiang Zhongmin a cigarette, he didn't go to the right to talk about Renhao smoking, and his own quitting plan seems to have been aborted." Hearing that the President of the United States had decided to settle the Japanese government-in-exile on a small island in the Gulf of Mexico, Tojo could not easily lobby the Japanese-Americans. Tojo had no choice. He must have a foothold, and he will definitely go to Britain and France and other countries, even if he can get some benefits, but he is more likely to eat closed-door soup. ”

"Lost dog!" Tan Renhao sneered.

"Yes, Tojo is a lost dog, and now he doesn't even have a country, and he is clamoring all day long to counterattack the Japanese mainland and recover Japan, what will he do to recover?" Gan Yongxing also sneered, "But." He still has a few loyal subordinates. That Okamura had been stubbornly resisting on the mainland, and I heard that he had also ordered the establishment of three lines of defense in the southwestern part of the island. I don't know what he did to build these three lines of defense. As for the situation in Japan itself, I don't need to say more, you can imagine that after they have gnawed off the bark and dug up the roots, they will have to eat their own flesh, and when they have eaten all the human flesh, it will be up to them what they eat. ”

"The new government is not ready to land on the 6 Honshu islands?" Jiang Zhongmin frowned slightly.

"The plan was there, but now it's stranded." Gan Yongxing hesitated, "Initially." We plan to support the new Japanese government forces in landing on Honshu Island in June and to resolve the Japanese issue as soon as possible. Now it seems that there is basically no need for this, and Tojochi's actions have largely left us with no choice. Perhaps, the Japanese could swim across the Shimonoseki Strait on their own and take refuge on the island of Kyushu, or go to Shikoku. Without our support, the new Japanese government forces would not even have the ability to gain a foothold in Kyushu and Shikoku, so what would they do to land on the 6 Honshu islands? ”

"Why did you do that?" Tan Renhao was a little puzzled. If the Japanese problem can be solved well, it will also be good for the empire.

"We've done our duty, do we want to adopt tens of millions of beasts that are about to eat the same kind?" The more Gan Yongxing spoke, the more excited he became, "It was Tojo's actions that left us with no choice. At present, there is only one government in Japan itself, and this is the legitimate government, and as for how this government handles the domestic situation, it is their business. If you want to carry the black pot, it will not be our turn. In addition, now that several fronts are tightened, not only do we propose to cancel the plan to land on 6 Honshu Island, but even the 6th Army does not support allowing the new Japanese government troops to land on 6 Honshu Island. Whether or not we send troops to participate in combat operations, this will consume our war strength, and it will not be easy to feed the 20 million Japanese in Kyushu and Shikoku, and there is no need for us to devote more resources to it. The life or death of the Japanese is their own business, and if they want to blame, they can only blame Tojo for playing too badly, and the back road of the Japanese! ”

Tan Renhao smiled bitterly and shook his head. Tojo went to the United States to set up a government-in-exile, which really made the Tang Empire lose face, and now Germany, as well as several Western allies, are watching the joke, and even the Persian Empire is asking why the Tang Empire did not stop the lost dog from making this big joke. If nothing else, just for the sake of this face-saving issue, Prime Minister Xue Xiyue will be ruthless and use more severe methods to solve the Japanese problem. Just as Gan Yongxing said, without the support of the Tang Empire, the new Japanese government would not even be as good as bullshit, whether to land on the 6th Honshu Island, this is not something that the new Japanese government can decide, but a decision made by the Tang Empire.

"So what should we do now?" Kang Joong-min changed the subject.

"We captured four Japanese submarines and caught more than 7oo Japanese bullshit 'talents'." Gan Yongxing stood up, "These people have now been sent to Guam, and they will be sent back after their identities are identified." When the time comes, we will need to interrogate these people in order to extract some important information and clues. This is the specific responsibility of the Military Intelligence Agency, and we only provide cooperation, and the Military Intelligence Agency also asked us for some help, after all, they have limited personnel, and they have to interrogate hundreds of people, which is not a small workload. So, we have to make arrangements in advance. ”

"What can we do?" Tan Renhao sighed secretly, the country is finished, and those Japanese will naturally not end well.

"Prepare a camp, pick a group of officers, preferably all who have done intelligence work before, and then cooperate with the Military Intelligence Agency to interrogate these Japanese. I'll leave this matter to you. Gan Yongxing walked over, "Jiang, you are responsible for this matter, although it is a little cumbersome, but it is of great significance." These Japanese must have participated in military programs before, and they are the most valued talents in Japan, and if we can get something out of their mouths, it will be of great help to us. ”

"Okay, then I'll get ready now!"

Gan Yongxing nodded, not retaining Jiang Zhongmin. Tan Renhao also knew that this was a thankless matter, so the chief of staff did not let him be responsible.

"How was the cooperation with Jiang Zhongmin during this time?" Gan Yongxing sat on the sand opposite Tan Renhao.

"It's no problem, everyone does their own thing." Tan Renhao smiled reluctantly, "Then I'm still mainly responsible for the affairs of the United States." ”

"Yes, interrogating the Japanese is troublesome, and you know, the CIA gang is not easy to deal with." Gan Yongxing immediately laughed, "Actually, your task is more important. The U.S. counterattack will definitely start at the end of the year, and we need to be prepared, and you're familiar with that. ”

Tan Renhao nodded. "I've been working on intelligence for the past few days, and when I have some clues, I'll get a report out."

"That's for the best. The principal won't be back until the end of the month, so you'll have plenty of time. ”

"Then I won't bother much." Tan Renhao stood up, "I'll give you the report in a few days, and if it needs to be revised, we'll discuss it in detail." ”

Gan Yongxing sent Tan Renhao to the door. "The principal also asked about the relationship between the two of you, I know that you are a person who knows the general situation, do a good job!"

Tan Renhao laughed, maybe this was just the chief of staff's own words.