The Japanese have had a hard time lately. The unprecedented large-scale strategic bombing of the Ming Army and Air Force www.biquge.info brought unimaginable losses and disasters to the Japanese. This loss was enough to bleed the hearts of the Japanese.

However, in just a few months, the strategic bombing almost destroyed many large factories that the Japanese had painstakingly built for many years with the blood and sweat of the people. In addition, a large number of basic industrial facilities, such as power plants, hydroelectric power stations, transportation hubs, and important large material warehouses, were heavily bombed.

The Japanese have no secrets in front of the Ming Dynasty. As a century-old vassal of the Ming Dynasty, there are too many people in the Japanese who are willing to stand on the side of the Ming Dynasty. Whether it is those who, for their own benefit, want to rely on selling their country in exchange for the future. Or those Japanese who hold the idea of martyrdom, believing that Japan cannot fight against the Ming Dynasty and that surrender as soon as possible is the only way out.

They will all provide valuable information to the Ming Dynasty. Within a few months of the war, the Japanese had already captured hundreds of spies, most of whom were pure Japanese, which made the Japanese high-ranking people very angry and frightened.

In addition to having Japanese people as internal responses, Daming has a huge investment in Japan. Even many large-scale projects in Japan, such as the main railway line that runs through the whole country, were built and operated by Daming. Where the Japanese factories, warehouses, railway stations, power plants, and so on were built, Daming is very clear.

Stimulated by the horrific strategic bombing, the Japanese began to shift production capacity to rural artisan workshops.

However, this method is of little significance, as long as the Ming Dynasty does not end the strategic bombing of the Japanese mainland for a day, and does not end the submarine attack on the waters around Japan for a day. The Japanese, who were small and weak, and whose material reserves were extremely scarce, could not hold out for long at all.

The Japanese were very poor, and the foreign exchange they had relied on exporting grain, timber, coal, cloth, handicrafts, women, and processing of various incoming materials was basically used in the construction of the army. Japanese men want to get ahead, if they are not from aristocracy and merchant, then they can only join the army and work hard. Even a lot of money and material aid from the Americans could not support a brutal war of attrition with a behemoth like the Ming Dynasty.

How fierce was the fighting? Before the start of the war, the Japanese Army Aviation had about 3,000 combat aircraft, and this figure does not include transport planes, training planes, special operations aircraft, and so on.

By the beginning of 1940, that number had dropped to 2,100. Don't look at the fact that it took more than half a year to start the war and lose about 900 planes, but in reality, the situation is that basically all the planes in the pre-war reserve have been shot down. Now these are supplemented by subsequent production, and some units have been replenished more than once.

When an entire country enters a wartime system, it will erupt with a terrifying force unimaginable to ordinary people. Even a small country like Japan was able to explode production capacity in a very short period of time, producing more than 6,000 aircraft of all kinds in more than half a year, which is almost equivalent to producing 1,000 aircraft a month. That's definitely a staggering number. But compared to Da Ming, it is a small thing.

The Ming Dynasty did not carry out wartime production control, because all factories basically belonged to the power of capital. Before Zhang Cheng made his move, no one would agree to military management to weaken his own interests.

However, the Ming Dynasty had money, capital, a large number of industrial areas and technologies, as well as workers, as well as all kinds of inexhaustible raw materials.

Ships from all over the world transport large quantities of raw materials back to the country for processing, and then send them to factories to make various industrial products. Airplanes are a big one.

The army has provided a large number of orders, and the various aircraft factories in Daming are able to produce more than 3,000 fighters of all kinds every month, and the output of the engine factory is even higher!

And this was without the start of a full-scale wartime production system. Once all the resources are integrated and the production starts in full swing, the output will definitely blow up any opponent. Even the United States, which claims to be able to wrestle with the Ming Dynasty in terms of industrial production, is far from comparable.

In this completely unequal attrition situation, the pilots trained by the Japanese Army Aviation in the early days have basically been lost, and most of the reserve pilots have also been consumed. And this was only in the early stages of the war. Although the losses of the Daming Army Aviation were relatively greater, the reserve forces of the two sides were completely incomparable.

From the beginning of the war to the present, the fighters equipped by the Japanese Army Aviation before the war have basically been shot down. Now they are using the new Zero War and the Zero War reform that has just been introduced. The performance of the fighter has become better and more perfect, but the ability of the pilot has decreased rapidly. A large number of science and engineering students were rushed to the battlefield after months of intensive training, and many did not survive their first air battle.

Zhang Cheng's design of the Army-specific version of the Fighting Falcon fighter has two major advantages. One is that the defense is strong, which can greatly improve the survivability of pilots. Another advantage is that it has a long range.

Unlike the HNA Fighting Falcon, which does not have high requirements for range. The Army Aviation equipped with the Fighting Falcon has enlarged the fuel tank and optimized the internal structure. With the addition of auxiliary fuel tanks, it was possible to escort strategic bomber units all the way to Tokyo. In this case, fierce air battles between the two sides are constantly staged almost every day.

The Japanese Army Aviation became weaker and weaker in the continuous brutal air battles, and they even put aside their prejudices and took the initiative to ask for strong support from the Hainan Airlines.

It's just that Yamamoto 56 resolutely did not allow aircraft carrier pilots to be used to protect the Japanese mainland, and consumed a large number of elite pilots in fierce air battles.

At the same time, most of HNA's forces were engaged in foreign development operations. Large-scale recovery would mean the complete abandonment of previous gains and established battle plans, which no one would allow.

Under these circumstances, if it were not for the fact that the Americans hastily sent their own warplanes to protect the Japanese skies, and at the same time increased the intensity of material assistance to Japan and the escort force of the transport fleet, the Japanese would probably have completely lost their war potential by the end of the year.

Most of the raw materials are not produced by Japan, and the strategic bombing and submarine blockade of the Ming Dynasty will cause the Japanese to lose raw materials and factories. In that case, they would have to fight the Ming with hand-crafted katanas.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to mention the operational thinking of the Japanese Navy. Because the country is small and weak, every battleship is extremely valuable to the Japanese. They are not willing to waste their precious combat power on transport ships that are useless against the battle situation.

The Japanese Navy did not send attack ships to attack the transportation lines of the Ming Dynasty, nor did it send its submarines to attack civilian ships. They persistently set their sights on attacking warships. The idea of the Japanese Navy was simple, combat power could not be wasted.

This approach of not threatening enemy transportation lines may seem incomprehensible, but the Japanese Navy also has its own problems. It's not that they can't see the significance of a strategic blockade. Even if you can't see it before the war, you can always see clearly that your sea route is attacked by the Ming submarine force at this moment, right?

The helplessness of the Japanese is that they know the strength of the Ming Dynasty very well, after all, everyone is so close. The Ming Dynasty, whose industrial production capacity is terrifying, will launch ships every day. These boats, which are produced using the segmented assembly line process, are produced in batches like cars. And how many submarines and assault ships does the Japanese Navy need to increase its sinking capabilities to a point that surpasses the construction capabilities of the Ming Dynasty? If the Japanese Navy really had this kind of strength, this war would not have been fought.

And once the damage to the warship is caused when attacking the transport ship, it will be the real gain for the Japanese Navy.

In terms of their ship production capacity, it would take a long time to replenish the loss of the most ordinary destroyer. But Da Ming was able to launch an escort destroyer almost in a day.

The huge disparity in production capacity, the absolute disadvantage in the supply of raw materials, and the strategic bombing, which was increasing in intensity every day, directly forced the Japanese, who had been waiting for the Americans to make a big move, to go into battle shirtless.

After paying a heavy price, the Japanese took full control of the island of New Guinea, opening the door south to mainland Australia. And then a fierce quarrel broke out in the Japanese military headquarters over the direction of the next operation.

According to the original plan of the Japanese military department, their first goal was to go south to Australia to open up new living space. The Japanese navy's surprise attack was also aimed at removing obstacles to the south. But I didn't expect that because of my performance, the results achieved were far beyond my imagination. While greatly boosting the morale of the people and enhancing Japan's status in the eyes of other countries, it also greatly increased the expectations of all parties for the Japanese army.

The Japanese, with their inflated ambitions, began to reach out to the vast continent that they had dreamed of for thousands of years. They were carried away by the victories in the early stages of the war and gradually began to lose themselves. The full-scale expansion in all directions occupied a larger land area than Japan mainland in a matter of months. The whole of Japan, which had been poor for many years, fell into madness, and countless Japanese people dreamed of leaving the earthquake-prone island country and landing on the land of the mainland to become colonists and live a prosperous life.

But then, Da Ming, who was a little dizzy from the sneak attack, shook his head and came to his senses. The Ming Dynasty, who was much more burly than the Japanese, crippled one of the Japanese Army's hands on the Korean Peninsula with a single punch, and then the Navy inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese Navy, which was the vanguard of Japan's invasion in the Battle of Java. This directly led to a great loss of the strength of the Japanese Navy.

In the first few days of the year of 1940, the whole world was paying close attention to the changes that took place in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. On the coast near Ulsan, Busan, at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, countless officers and men of the Japanese and Korean dispatch forces are frantically snatching everything that can go to sea.

They threw away their weapons, took off their boots, and threw away everything except personal belongings. Then they scrambled to crowd the small sampans one by one, and rowed towards Tsushima Island.

The Japanese-Korean dispatch was defeated. The positions they had built on the Ulsan front line in Busan were breached, counterattacks were repulsed regardless of casualties, and the loss of most of the officers and men and almost all of the heavy equipment led to a total collapse. The hand of the Japanese reaching out to the mainland was cut off.

The end of the Korean War left the Japanese with a dilemma. As the starting position of the Daming air raid, North Korea must be controlled in its hands no matter what. However, going south to Australia is an established national policy, and the previous investment of troops in North Korea has greatly weakened the power of going south.

In this case, all eyes were set on the national heroes of all of Japan, bringing them endless glory Yamamoto Isoroku.

Countless people have speculated about what choice Yamamoto will make. After all, whether it is to return to North Korea or go south to Australia, the navy will bear the brunt of the attack. (To be continued.) )