Chapter 483: Surrender Ceremony
It is impossible for China to include Japan in its national territory, as it is a regional power with a population of tens of millions and has its own unique form of civilization, and its inclusion in the national territory is only to make trouble for China. How to get the most out of the surrendered Japan was what Lu Liang needed to consider, so the provisional government represented by Inuyang Yi had to exist, and it was the main tool for Hua to control Japan. In view of this, the Japanese Provisional Government received a commitment from the Chinese state, and they had a part in the post-war division of interests. If you have a housekeeper dog, you have to give it some bones.
And those conglomerates and the big bourgeoisie will inevitably be weakened, and most of Japan's gold reserves, gold and other wealth controlled by the upper echelons such as conglomerates, factories, mines, and fishing grounds will be taken away by China.
The feud between China and Japan was finally separated because of a big war, and the Chinese people had the last laugh. In this battle, the Chinese army mobilized 2.5 million soldiers, including the Korean Army, the Philippine Army, the Taiwan Army, and the Ryukyu Division. 3,500 tanks and various armored vehicles, more than 5,500 artillery pieces of various calibers and self-propelled guns were used. Two thousand one thousand aircraft were dispatched, including fighters, bombers, transport planes, and so on.
In order to support the above-mentioned huge corps in battle, Huaguo mobilized a logistics support team composed of more than 3,000 transport ships and more than 200,000 people.
China's industrial strength did not fully break out in this war, China did not even enter the wartime system, and there were almost no problems with economic operation and material support during the war. The looting of Japan after the end of the war would supplement a large part of the war expenditure, which would stimulate a considerable part of the people's enthusiasm for the war.
There were 7,600 Chinese soldiers killed or wounded in the war, of whom 1,900 were killed, and the rest of the wounded soldiers were properly treated. The perfect and advanced field medical and health system has allowed Chinese soldiers to enjoy the best medical conditions in the world, and has also minimized the number of deaths.
Comparatively speaking, the Japanese have a much harder time. The war broke out on their soil, a large number of young and middle-aged people were drafted by the Japanese government, and millions of soldiers died in the war. The Japanese army mobilized 2.3 million standing troops and more than 9 million reserve troops, and almost all the young and middle-aged people on the islands were looted, and more than one-third of them could not return to their hometowns, leaving their lives on the battlefield. The Japanese army used more than 600 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 500 planes and more than 3,000 artillery pieces, and most of these heavy equipment did not play their due role and were extremely unfairly wiped out by the Chinese army.
The number of wounded soldiers and dead and wounded civilians was innumerable, and for a long time the Interim Government did not have an exact statistic, or could not make it public. The Japanese government also said after the war that the population was due to unnatural deaths caused by starvation, not by the civilized Chinese army.
The population of Kyushu, which was the most affected by the war, was 3.35 million in 1911, compared to more than 9 million before the war began.
In addition to the massacres of the Chinese army, especially the Philippine Legion, the death toll from hunger and disease far outweighed the casualties from bullets and shells. After the war began, the Japanese archipelago was tightly sealed off by China, and grain and other strategic materials could not be transported to Japan, and domestic grain was hoarded and looted by the military department, the big bourgeoisie, and the big landlords, resulting in a lack of rice in the hands of civilians with sufficient food and clothing. For more than half a year, the Japanese archipelago was littered with starving civilians, who even incorporated leaves and grass roots into their recipes, resulting in a desolate summer of what should have been greenery.
After Japan's unconditional surrender, the lives of Japanese civilians did not improve much. The ecology of the whole Japanese society is such that young women become the wives of Chinese singles, and almost become the main force of the red light district, they are the second largest source of wealth in Japan. Most of the strong labor force became the main force in the construction of major mines, construction sites, railways, and water conservancy projects in China, and was the third largest source of wealth for Japan. Most of the highly polluting Chinese companies moved here to cooperate with local Japanese companies and use the workers to become part of the industrial system. This is Japan's main source of wealth, and chemicals, papermaking, and power generation are the three pillars of Japan's industry, and these three industries will occupy the dominant position in Japan for the next 100 years.
After the war, when talking about Japan, the first impression was that gentle and virtuous woman, and the second big impression was the Japanese mercenaries all over the battlefield. More than a million Japanese soldiers were hired by the Chinese to fight the hardest battles with the most rudimentary equipment, with unimaginable casualties and a pittance pay. Even so, the Japanese regiment was also the part with the highest combat effectiveness among the overseas regiments of the Chinese army, and it was also the favorite unit of the Chinese generals. Those Japanese soldiers mechanically obeyed orders, worked hard, and were not afraid of death and hardship, and they were simply the best soldiers.
The Japanese Legion serving the Chinese army was the fourth largest source of wealth, and their figure accompanied all the foreign wars of the Chinese army after that, from the icy Siberia, to the hot and humid tropical jungle, from the vast and magnificent Australian continent to the Middle East, a sea of sand.
The root cause of all this is the Japanese people's extremely humble respect for China, and Lu Liang's goal has been achieved. The Japanese finally recognized the reality and completely succumbed to the obscenity of the Chinese, and the worship of the strong bent their spine to the extreme. The performance of this nation did not reassure the Chinese people, this is a terrible nation, good at forbearance, good at gathering minions in front of the strong, and extremely patient and serious to learn everything about the strong, this is the most terrible enemy. Therefore, this time, China must completely lose the foundation for Japan's re-emergence and make it the most docile neighbor by China's side.
On August 15, 1910, the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Japan, Inukai Takeshi, issued the "Armistice Proclamation" through radio, announcing the unconditional surrender to China and demanding that all Japanese soldiers who were still resisting lay down their arms and surrender to the Chinese army. The Sino-Japanese War, which lasted more than eight months, officially ended with the destruction of Japan.
On the same day, Chinese President Lu Liang delivered a victory speech on the radio, which was not a simple speech for Lu Liang. Japan, the country that did the most harm to China, has finally been duly punished in this time and space, and Japan, a bad neighbor, will become history, replaced by a docile and friendly country.
On 25 August, the battleship Taishan, the flagship of the Chinese Pacific Fleet, slowly sailed into Tokyo Bay, flanked by an escort of fifteen cruisers and destroyers. After the Japanese Provisional Government announced its surrender, with the cooperation of the Japanese side, the Pacific Fleet dispatched 30 minesweepers, and it took nine days to clear some of the mines and blocking nets in Tokyo Bay, leaving a wide waterway for Chinese warships to enter.
In the afternoon of the same day, the surrender ceremony was held on the battleship Taishan, and the Japanese Provisional Government's Prime Minister Inukai Takeshi signed the surrender agreement under the watchful eyes of the Chinese sailors, the fleet commander Lu Hai signed the surrender agreement on behalf of the Chinese country, and Kim Jong-yu, the commander of the Korean Army, also signed his own name.
Japan's surrender made the United States and the Entente Britain extremely nervous, and they also expected the war to last for several years, but they did not expect it to end in just over half a year. The Americans can only step up their arms expansion and warfare, and they are far away from the ocean, and they have no means to restrain China's expansion.
The British are obviously much more delicate, and without the containment of Japan, India and Southeast Asia will face the military peak of China. At a time when most of their energy was being consumed by the war in Europe, the British used their strength, the-stirring sticks, to try to continue to delay the pace of China's foreign expansion.
A military base somewhere in northwestern South Asia, where the 65th Infantry Division of the Anglo-Indian Army was stationed. According to the recent agreement between the British and the Indians, the end of the war would give the Indians more autonomy if India helped the British win the war. From the beginning of the war to August 1910, the British had expanded the size of the Anglo-Indian army to 65 infantry divisions, 4 cavalry divisions and 15 independent brigades, of which six infantry divisions went to the Middle East and Egypt, five infantry divisions went to the British mainland, and the rest of the troops were all deployed in eastern India and Burma, obviously to guard against the attack of the Chinese army.
According to the plan, the size of the Anglo-Indian army will reach 1.5 million, and it will not be difficult to reach the target in terms of numbers, the problem is equipment and training. In order to completely arm the Anglo-Indian army, the British took advantage of India's industrial base and built many military factories, and many materials including rifles, machine guns and bullets could be produced locally in India, reducing the pressure on local transportation. In addition, the British colonies such as Burma and Malaysia are also in the process of expanding their armaments, and more than 30 divisions of colonial troops are stepping up their armaments.
However, this military base is not full of Indian Asan, more than 200 yellow-skinned middle-aged people are trained here, and every few months, a group of yellow-skinned Orientals will appear in this base. What the Indian soldiers didn't know was that the British, in addition to providing training, also had weapons and military supplies.
PS: That's all for these two chapters today, think about how to write next. (To be continued.) )