Chapter 540: The Great Transformation of Go
On the evening of June 18, 1942, the large courtyard where Qin Yan Saburo lived. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As negotiators, Qin Yan Saburo and his subordinates were treated very well and lived in a large courtyard. The food and drink were very good. Except that you can't move around freely, everything else is fine. At night, you can see the outside movement through the crack in the door, and you can often see cannons covered with cannons firing through. Yesterday, I also saw a neatly dressed unit driving by. It took an hour for the troops to walk clean.
Qin Yan Saburo felt very entangled. After a few days, he felt more and more that Anshan's decisive victory was not a big deal. was struggling in the house, and heard a few questions and answers from the sentry outside the door.
The door opened, and a man entered, Commander-in-Chief Lu.
Qin Yan Saburo: "It's so late, I'm bothering you to come over and cause you trouble." ā
Xiaolu said: "I came this time mainly to understand the real thoughts, not to negotiate. ā
Qin Yan Saburo: "Please speak." ā
Xiaolu said: "I believe that the idea of the Kwantung Army Command is to negotiate first, and after gaining time and opportunity, in the counteroffensive. Right? ā
Qin Yan Saburo: "We mainly want to suspend the war and recuperate on both sides. If you continue to fight, there is no benefit. ā
Xiaolu said: "You don't want to tell the truth, and I don't care, after all, you are here to negotiate." There is a question, do you think our Chinese army still has a dispensable supporting role in the world war? Or someone else's pawn? ā
Qin Yan Saburo: "What do you mean by asking this question?" ā
Xiaolu said: "In the past, the plans for China formulated by your army were very clever and risky. Because you don't see the Chinese army as an opponent at all, but as a lamb to the slaughter. ā
Qin Yan Saburo: "I admit that our plan is not well thought out. Not thoughtful. ā
Xiaolu said: "Can thoughtfulness lead to victory?" ā
Qin Yan Saburo: "I think so. ā
Xiaolu said: "Now, do you think you can still reoccupy the northeast?" ā
Qin Yan Saburo: "It's almost impossible. ā
Xiaolu said: "Why? ā
Qin Yan Saburo: "Our military strength is insufficient. ā
Xiaolu said: "Why is the military insufficient? ā
Qin Yan Saburo was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Because the battlefield is too big, we should eat little by little." ā
Xiao Lu said: "Do you play Go?" ā
Qin Yan Saburo was stunned again and said, "Yes, I play Go." ā
Xiao Lu said: "Two opponents with similar chess strength, when one side collapses, can they still turn defeat into victory?" ā
Qin Yan Saburo knew what he meant, and he was unwilling to answer according to the other party's meaning, so he kept silent.
Xiaolu said: "In Go, there is a situation called conversion. ā
Qin Yan Saburo said: "Conversion? ā
Xiaolu said: "One side lets go and attacks the opponent's territory, while the other party gives up its own territory and also fights the opponent's place." In the end, the two won each other's turf. That's the conversion. ā
Qin Yan Saburo said: "What do you mean, to make a switch in Asia?" ā
Xiaolu said: "We occupy the Northeast, you occupy the Far East, occupy the territory of the United States. ā
Qin Yan Saburo was confused by his thoughts and said, "The United States? ā
Xiaolu said: "Yes, the territory of the USSR and the USA. Japan left the territory of China, and the proud Japanese soldiers would not admit defeat. However, you must admit that you can fight, but your losses will be too great to outweigh the losses. It's like a kendo master who enters a swamp with no value. Saying this, everyone can accept it. ā
Qin Yan Saburo said: "Do you mean the islands in the Pacific Ocean?" ā
Xiaolu said: "No, the American mainland. I know that the Japanese Navy is constantly harassing the U.S. mainland. Japanese submarines are often seen off the coast of the United States. ā
Qin Yan Saburo still had something to say, and said lightly: "Your war in the Pacific Ocean is going well, what does this mean?" It shows that the Pacific Ocean is too big, and the logistics of the US military mainland cannot keep up. Now, the U.S. Corps of Engineers is working Pearl Harbor and bases in Australia. A year later. What will happen to the war in the Pacific? What about two years? Is Japan's oil enough for two years? ā
Qin Yan Saburo still had something to say, and Xiaolu said: "What can you get in Manchuria?" There is no oil, no grain, no steel, nothing. Accept it. Farewell. ā
Qin Yan Saburo: "Wait a minute."
The trail stopped.
Qin Yan Saburo: "Commander-in-Chief Lu, may I ask, what is your real purpose?" He was a little confused, and Commander-in-Chief Lu had been pointing out the next strategic direction for Japan. What is clear is that these strategic directions are very tempting. It's not clear why he pointed out this direction? Is it just so that Japan does not continue to occupy Manchuria?
Xiaolu looked back at him and said slowly, "I said that in order to create a peace-loving Japan, do you believe it?" I say for a peaceful world, do you believe it? After Japan's defeat, think about what I said today. ā
The trail left.
Qin Yan Saburo saw that Commander-in-Chief Lu had left a paper bag on his chair.
Defeat! What did this Manchurian think? If you can win a battle on a local battlefield, you say that you want to defeat Japan!? Hey, what's on the chair? It's impossible for Commander-in-Chief Lu to be careless and drop something. There must be something in the paper bag, the price of the other party? What do they want?
Qin Yanzaburo muttered in his heart, picked up the paper bag, opened it, and saw a bunch of photos inside, large-sized photos, five inches, or even eight inches.
All the photos are in a group of two, pick up a group, look at the first chapter of the photo, it turns out to be an aerial photo, it seems to be a street, a suburban village town. Is it the United States? Yes, there is English, it is the United States. There are also numbers on it.
The second photo shows a huge factory.
This factory is very coordinated with the surroundings, and then look at the original photo, which suburban villages and towns border city factories?
Look at the back of the photo, it is written in English: "Lockheed airfield." "What about the west longitude, what about the north latitude.
Qin Yan Saburo understood what the other party meant.
After looking at a few photos, he couldn't stop. Look again, start to look at the details, compare the photos yourself, the more you look at it, the more surprised you are, the more excited you are, slowly, you are deeply attracted by these dozens of photos, time passes unconsciously, and when you hear the rooster crowing outside, you know that you have watched it all night.
He has understood the value of these pictures, which is enough for the Japanese army to wipe out the military factories in the west and even the central part of the country at the minimum cost: as long as these factories are blown up, then the country will go back decades. Even if it can't eliminate the United States, it can make the United States completely defeated in the Pacific Theater.
He saw a bigger picture.
Originally, Japan, neither its navy nor its army, had any intention of attacking the US mainland and taking it for itself. The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor a few months ago was also a tactical approach, and there was no intention of occupying Hawaii.
Now, however, he sees hope of occupying the United States itself.
He even thought of a plan, a battle plan. The best strategy is to occupy the United States, and the middle strategy is to destroy the United States and make the United States give up the Pacific theater. The next strategy was to attack the United States, put the United States in a difficult position in the Pacific theater, and give the Japanese army more possibilities to win victory in the Pacific.
The origin of these photographs begins in the spring of 1942. In the spring of 1942, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy spotted a Japanese submarine in the waters adjacent to San Francisco. A few days later, another Japanese submarine appeared off the coast of Santa Barbara and attacked an oil depot.
The United States is once again in an uproar.
The United States remembers the tragedy of Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941, and now the continental United States is threatened with invasion.
Lieutenant General John () is the commander of the western defense of the United States. His task was to implement passive defense measures for all important strategic facilities on the west coast. He gave the task to another John.
Colonel John Fohmer made a plan. He leads a camouflage training camp. This camp is located 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
Later generations commented that Colonel John was a pioneer of American camouflage and strategic and tactical misdirection during World War II, and some people even believed that the British camouflage before the great counterattack also benefited from his tactics.
During the Battle of Britain in the late 1940s, the Nazi Air Force wanted to bomb England until it surrendered. Colonel John had been to England and had seen for himself how well arranged camouflage worked. The Nazi Air Force wasted thousands of tons of bombs on practically empty targets.
Colonel John's plan was carried out thanks to the tremendous help from Hollywood, Warner Bros., MGM, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and Universal Pictures all participated in this huge project.
Who said that Hollywood has nothing to do with politics, who said that Hollywood has nothing to do with the military.
Their designers, painters, landscape artists, carpenters, gaffers, prop masters, etc., were all present to defend the country. They use camouflage nets to camouflage and cover facilities such as airports, factories, etc. They camouflage themselves with various materials. The trees are painted green with chicken feathers and stand on wooden stakes.
That is, aerial pictures of ordinary residential areas are modeled on, disguising military facilities on the ground as ordinary residential areas. This kind of camouflage can deceive the plane, but it cannot deceive the ground personnel. Up close, the large area of camouflage nets is clear. The camouflage net covered the factory and parking lot, and then arranged fake houses, fake shrubs, and fake roads.
That is, they completely turned the military facility into something different, from the sky, completely different.
Sometimes, on the street, there is often a chimney on the side of the road.
They used Hollywood technology to camouflage 34 air bases, grow fake plants, and set up fake buildings. And only a rich country like the United States can do this.
The photos that Qin Yanzaburo got were the pictures of these dozens of military targets, before and after camouflage.
Later, they took the pictures back to their Tokyo base camp.
In future generations, this is just an ordinary historical picture, available everywhere. But in this day and age, it's an absolute secret. Xiaolu used a camera to shoot it on the computer screen, processed the computer graphics on the baseplate, and then developed it to become information.
After the negotiations broke down, Qin sent the photos back to the base camp.
The base camp was of great interest, especially the Navy. The Navy received such important information, as if it had received a good guy card sent by the Army, and its bad feelings towards the Kwantung Army were reduced a lot.
Because of the attack on Pearl Harbor, there was a strong rejection of the Japanese in the United States, and on February 19, 1942, the President of the United States issued Executive Order 9066 to isolate the military area. Soon after, the United States issued a series of decrees that imprisoned Japanese on the West Coast of the United States in concentration camps.
There are a lot of Japanese people on the west coast of the United States, and they have a lot of economic power. During the war, many of them were Japanese spies, and most of them were not. The Americans, for the sake of ease of management, put all the Japanese in concentration camps.
As many as 110,000 Japanese were imprisoned. Although 60 percent of them are already U.S. citizens, they remain in detention. It was not until the end of the war that the United States disbanded these concentration camps.
Because of the concentration of Japanese detention, the intelligence of Japanese spies could not be sent, and the security of the West Coast of the United States was improved. Now, such detailed information has reached the hands of the Japanese, which is greater than the achievement of a hundred spies.
Later, the Japanese base camp immediately organized submarines off the west coast of the United States to go to several locations to investigate, and sure enough, the accuracy of the intelligence was confirmed.
In the following year, the Japanese Navy dispatched several aircraft carrier fleets to attack the west coast of the United States, resulting in the destruction of the production capacity of the American army, resulting in a shortage of supplies for the United States, so that the American army was pressed and fought by the Japanese army throughout the Pacific campaign in 1942.
This intelligence led to the defeat of the United States in the Pacific theater, and at the same time, several Japanese sneak attack aircraft carriers were annihilated by the American forces on the west coast of the United States. For a time, the United States was attacked for the first time, and people were panicked.
Japan was pleased with the victory brought about by this intelligence, and some people detected the intention of the Chinese, that is, to use Japan to weaken the United States, and use the United States to weaken Japan. But this is, after all, the opinion of a few, and the majority are comforted.
That's an afterword.