It is impossible for the news to be blocked by the Japanese military headquarters, and the Chinese military planes that are all over Japan alone can spread the news to every corner, and more than 200 B25s are not carrying bombs, but tens of millions of leaflets. These leaflets contain not only the news of the demise of the emperor and other high-ranking officials, but also photographs to corroborate it, and when they are not denied, the news becomes more accurate.

As a result, there was a suicide frenzy among the Japanese army, and those soldiers and die-hard civilians committed suicide to pay tribute to their emperor, and also used this way to express their despair and confusion after the collapse of faith. Under these circumstances, the Chinese offensive became smooth, and there were fewer and fewer Japanese soldiers who resolutely resisted, and in some local battlefields, even the soldiers of the Korean Army were able to go head-to-head with the Japanese army.

The effect of killing the emperor was surprisingly good, and the Chinese army sent more troops to land on the Japanese islands, and the desire to end the war against Japan as soon as possible was undoubtedly revealed, and the reality was also developing in the direction that the Chinese army expected. On the Fukuoka battlefield on Kyushu Island, the encircled 550,000 Japanese army groups surrendered to the Chinese army, which was the largest surrender of the Japanese army since the beginning of the war, and the trend of collapse was inevitable.

Of course, there were still many Japanese troops who were unwilling to give up resistance, this force was no smaller than the force that was willing to surrender, and the military headquarters was controlled by the recalcitrant resistance, and most of the orders could be transmitted to the grassroots troops, and in the coastal core area from Kobe to Urawa, millions of troops declared that they would resist to the death and avenge His Majesty the Emperor. On frontal battlefields, many Japanese soldiers proved their loyalty to the emperor with decisive assaults, although such attacks were more effective than suicide deaths.

Most of the ammunition and food were concentrated on the front line from Kobe to Urawa under the orders of the military headquarters, which was the last force of resolute resistance, and the Chinese army would not be relented by their resoluteness. Defeating the will of the Japanese to resist and making them realize who is the master is one of the main purposes of this war, and not more than a quarter of the Chinese army has experienced the battlefield, and the continuous expansion of the army has created a large number of new soldiers, and they also need to experience the first actual battle on the Japanese battlefield.

In the Americas on the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean, the United States still unswervingly adopted a strategy of violent troop flow, and the Military Research Council in New York flowed out a steady stream of new technologies, which were quickly applied to military manufacturing. The information sent back by military observers on the battlefields of Japan and Europe has given the US military a reference object and has been reorganized in accordance with the actual conditions of the US military.

At the Chicago Tank Factory, worker Capone tightened the screws of the machinery on the console, and then looked up at the brand-new M3 tank in front of him with pride.

Capone is responsible for the final process of assembling the tank, and there are more than 100 skilled workers in this tank manufacturing workshop, who do not need to be too skilled because they only assemble the tank parts one by one. Parts including tank turrets, tank armor, bodies, engines, tracks, etc., are produced in different factories and then shipped here for assembly, which is much more efficient than manufacturing them in a single factory.

This is the industrial manufacturing process that commercial spies learned from China, and the Americans applied it to their own industrial production after research, and after more than two years of exploration, this process gradually became mature. This production method has been applied in tank building, warship building, aircraft building, etc., which not only improves efficiency, but also reduces costs a lot. Nowadays, this process has been applied to all aspects of industrial production in the United States, greatly improving the industrial level and production efficiency.

More than fifty M3 tanks have piled up in the open space not far from the tank factory's workshop, waiting for the army to transport them. This tank is not original to the Americans, but is based on the Chinese T01 tank, the Japanese Type 08 tank and the French Renault II tank, absorbing the strengths of each family, and installing more advanced tank guns, observation and sighting systems, and equipping the tank crew with radios. More advanced tank engines have made their mobility, armor thickness and gun caliber have been greatly improved, and in the more than half a year since the beginning of production, American tank factories have provided the army with 550 M3 tanks.

However, the army was still not satisfied, both in terms of the quality and quantity of the tanks. Judging from the feedback from the European war and the Japanese battlefield, the M3 tank is at most similar to the German No. 3 tank, not to mention the top level, let alone compared with the Chinese T01 tank and the Leopard tank. The army's requirement is to have a new tank that can penetrate the frontal armor of the Leopard tank at 600 meters, can resist the penetration of the armor-piercing shells of the Leopard tank, and has excellent maneuverability.

The exorbitant demands made American engineers complain, but these complaints would not be answered, and everything in wartime had to make way for the military. In a secret laboratory on the East Coast, engineers have come up with a prototype of a more advanced tank engine that, after testing, is almost as good as the T01 tank engine. Of course, this result of political orders is bound to have its drawbacks, the engine is crumblingly unreliable and has frighteningly high fuel consumption, and it will take a long time to mature and be applied to new tanks.

The development of battleships, battle cruisers, and aircraft carriers on the naval side, and fighter planes and bombers on the air force side cannot be accomplished overnight, and the military can only meet their quantitative needs first, and then consider improving the quality.

Arriving in the locker room, the young Capone took off his overalls and showed off his strong muscles. It's one thing to love tanks, it's another to hate work, and he just can't stand the repetitive, non-stop boring work, which is torture for the young man. Jobs are now easy to find, factories and farms need a lot of workers, and countless British and French transports have arrived on the east coast to bring huge quantities of supplies to Europe. Capone wanted to quit his job, and he felt that it was better to do something else than to waste his life in a factory.

After submitting his resignation to the boss, Capone was not ready to come to work, but the boss tried his best to keep him, and mature workers were in high demand, and the newspapers were full of job postings. I heard that a cruise ship from Marseille would dock tomorrow, and the boss decided to send someone to New York to see if there were many skilled workers among the French who had fled the war.

After resigning, Capone first went to the bar for a while, and instead of seeing the tall cutie behind the bar, he accidentally found his elementary school classmate Krone. The two lived in the same neighborhood, but after graduating from elementary school, Krone worked at his father's grocery store, and the two had less contact with each other, and Capone didn't know anything about Crown.

"Hey, Krona, do you look like you're in the army?" After a moment of silence, Capone spoke first, the strangeness of not seeing each other for many years made some distance between the two, and they were both trying to find a topic to break the awkward situation.

"Well, my uncle was an officer in the War Department, so I went to him, and now he is a statistician in the Logistics Department, so he is not a real soldier, and he just eats with his mouth."

"There are a lot of people who go to join the army now, and there are many young men in our community, either in the navy, or in the army, what marines, armored troops, sitting in tanks and firing artillery, it's really enviable to think about it!"

"If you want me to say, there is nothing to envy, the tank is a large iron coffin, we are destined to fight with the Chinese, and in the face of their tanks, we are vulnerable." Krone knew more, and his words made Capone stunned for a moment, and then his expression dimmed, he didn't expect that the tank he was proud of and sent off the production line was so unbearable!

After a few beers, the two became more and more relaxed, and with the same topics of interest, the previous embarrassment disappeared.

"Krona, how about you say I'm going to join the army too? It should be a great feeling to shoot legally and take out the Oriental monkeys! Besides, I've quit my job from the factory and need a place to go. Capone asked.

"Don't, you are my good friend I just said this, our equipment is far from the Chinese army, if there is a war, the sky will fall apart, I don't know how many people will die!" When Krone finished speaking, the atmosphere fell again, and Capone lowered his head, drank his beer, and grumbled with the strength of the wine.

"It's boring to death in the factory, with back pain all day, but joining the army is exciting, and it's likely to die. I really don't know what to do! ”

"Me too, I work in the office all day in the logistics department, and the salary is low, you say we can do something together!"

"What for?" As soon as Capone finished asking, he heard a "bang" of gunshots, and he and Krone quickly lowered their heads, and the two gunmen in the bar shot at the fat man behind a table one after another, and then quickly turned and left. It's a gangster vendetta and it's not uncommon in some Chicago neighborhoods.

"I know what I'm going to do!" Krone suddenly shouted to Capone after the incident had subsided.

Three days later, Capone found an Italian, a gang leader in a nearby neighborhood who was stealing a cotton business with a Chicago native gang. Capone vaguely said that he had a large number of guns in his hands, the quality of which was reliable, and there was a steady stream of follow-up stock. The Italians were interested, and his war with the opposing gangsters needed a large amount of arms, and his relatives and friends on the east and west coasts also needed a lot of arms. The two hit it off, and a large amount of arms was sent to the American gangsters through Krona's internal line in the logistics department and outside Capone's campaign. (To be continued.) )