In the etiquette culture of the Chinese, one pays attention to a thousand glasses of wine and a thousand glasses of confidants, and the feelings are deep and boring. Whether it is in this era or in later generations, the friendship between business and various social occasions is cultivated in wine. Although this is not a good tradition, there is some truth to it. Once a person is drunk, some of his true temperament is easily revealed. As the saying goes, look at the character from the wine.

Moreover, after drinking, the brain is short-circuited, and getting along with each other will be less taboo than usual. On weekdays, it may take a long time to communicate and run in before the truth will be revealed, at the wine table, it will be thousands of times faster, the distance between the two people will be shortened, and then when the eyes are drunk and the ears are hot, tell the truth, and quickly close the relationship between the two people.

Moreover, this way of bringing ties closer is not unique to China. The Chinese wine table culture has been stripped away in European and American culture. The place where Europeans and Americans drink and exchange feelings is a bar, not a restaurant. Of course, this is also related to the fact that European and American countries do not have as many delicacies as China. Steak can be paired with wine, but what about whiskey and brandy? Do you want fries or salad?

The rest of his life drank averagely, and he didn't mix much on the wine table. However, this life is different, and it is a mess with good physical fitness. The amount of alcohol has also increased dramatically. Also, I drink whiskey blended with green tea. So, it lasted much longer than Hamer. And Hammer, after drinking a few glasses of pure whiskey, became a little drunk, and what he said to the rest of his life became presumptuous.

The two of them talked about the world, and when they talked about the changes in the international situation, they were no different from the drunken virtues of the old king next door. Hammer has a wealth of experience, has traveled almost all over the world, and is a medical doctor himself, so his knowledge is naturally extraordinary. As a later generation, he lived in the era of developed networks and information explosion for the rest of his life, and his knowledge system was also very rich. The two of them chatted. is actually a chess opponent, not only can he get insights from his own life experience told by Hammer for the rest of his life, but Hammer can also get some ideas from the rest of his life that he has never thought of before. It was a very good negotiation.

This old and young became confidants. It wasn't until I couldn't hold on for the rest of my life and got drunk that this was over. The friendship between the rest of his life and Hammer can be regarded as established.

Of course, this is also intentional for the rest of his life, this old man who has lived to be nearly 100 years old in the next life, has unlimited resources and connections in his hands. And the uniqueness of its vision is also breathtaking. I have a friendship with Hamer, and there are not too many opportunities to make money in the future! Not to mention anything else, it is the case of Occidental Petroleum Company, if Hammer can take the rest of his life to play together, the rest of his life will make a lot of money!

Time flies, and the various projects that I have been operating for the rest of my life are finally on full track. Inadvertently. It was 1945. This year, the scales of World War II were officially tilted in favor of the Allies. The dawn of victory is already looming.

Within China, the Japanese are already bogged down. Areas already occupied by the Japanese. Resources have been almost plundered, and there is no way to get rich overnight. Although the Japanese forced Lao Chiang to be unable to move, he could only huddle in the southwest of China. However, the anti-Japanese contingent behind enemy lines. But after several years of development, it has gradually grown. Inadvertently, the strength is not much worse than Lao Jiang! And a large amount of materials donated for the rest of his life. So that these troops have no worries.

As long as the Japanese have the slightest intention of backing down. What is coming is a counter-offensive with hatred. Therefore, the Japanese can only hold on.

In Europe, the Soviets, after the huge war potential was fully stimulated, began a major counteroffensive. On January 17, 1945, the Soviets occupied Warsaw, and on January 27, the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz. On 13 February, Soviet troops occupied Budapest. At this time, the Germans were too busy to take care of themselves, and the Japanese could absolutely not count on this ally.

In the Pacific theater, the Japanese were no longer able to attack, and all that remained was to shrink their defenses and keep the pace of the US troops out of the mainland as much as possible. Moreover, the trapped beast is still fighting, and the fierceness of the Japanese and the madness precipitated in the bones are manifested when the US military is about to set foot on the Japanese mainland.

In January 1945, U.S. troops landed in Inyain Bay in northwest Luzon, and the Japanese used kamikaze agents to carry out suicide attacks on U.S. forces in the process of stopping the Americans!

The ruthlessness of the Japanese is rooted in their bones, stemming from their special island culture. Since ancient times, Japanese culture has been deeply influenced by Chinese culture, but it is not because of how intelligent the Japanese are to maintain their own characteristics despite the tremendous assimilation power of Chinese culture. It's because of the natural environment in which it is located.

The island chain where the Japanese are located is at the junction of the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate, and the Japan Trench is located in the subsidence of the Pacific plate above the large mantle current, and the Japanese archipelago is a front that straddles the front of the mantle current. In addition, the island where the Japanese live is located in a latitude where the monsoon climate is intense.

For this reason, Japan has been plagued by earthquakes and climatic disasters since ancient times. And, since there is very little land that can be cultivated. So, survival is extremely difficult. But death is easy. Under such circumstances, the Japanese naturally do not regard life and death as the top priority in the cultural system, as the Chinese do.

For the value system established by Japanese culture, life and death are trivial matters. The goal is to pursue a kind of instantaneous brilliance. This is why Japanese people love cherry blossoms, which are beautiful but bloom for a short time. So, this culture has its own paranoid and unscrupulous attributes.

Moreover, in ancient Japan, whenever life and death could not be controlled by humans, various legends and gods appeared, and mountains were gods, water were gods, and wind was gods. In 1274, when the Yuan Dynasty sent a fleet to conquer Japan and was swallowed up by a typhoon, the Japanese believed that this typhoon was a divine wind sent by the heavens to save the Japanese. and bow down to it. kamikaze, which also became famous.

Most of the members of the kamikaze were sixteen or seventeen years old, who had delusional hopes of going down in history and had been brainwashed by the idea of loyalty to the emperor. These young men rushed at U.S. warships and aircraft carriers in planes full of explosives and never to return, exchanging one plane for one enemy warship. In 1944, when the Americans overwhelmingly fought a decisive battle with the Japanese navy in Leyte Gulf, the kamikaze forces sank two US aircraft carriers in a posture of fearlessness to death. Assisted Japanese warships in sinking four U.S. destroyers. The results are remarkable. To the great shock of the Americans.

In other words, as the saying goes, those who are horizontal are afraid of being stunned, and those who are stunned are afraid of dying. It's just that although the kamikaze has left a name in history. However, the Japanese teenager who died with the ambition of loyalty to the emperor did not go down in history. Their names, which disappeared with the defeat of the Japanese, are overwhelmingly unknown to future generations.

Of course, the fierceness of the Japanese is by no means limited to the kamikaze. February 1945. The Battle of Iwo Jima began, and the Americans, who were now invincible in the Pacific theater, finally tasted the ruthlessness of the Japanese character.

Because the Japanese knew that if the Americans took Iwo Jima and Okinawa, then the Japanese mainland would fall. So, on Iwo Jima, the Japanese defenders received an order to fight to the death! On the eve of this war, the Japanese realized that although the Americans had absolute superiority in naval and air power, but. The beachhead operations at the time of the capture of Iwo Jima were not what the Americans were good at.

Therefore, the commander of the Japanese, Kuribayashi, made the decision to focus on defense in depth, supplemented by the defense of the beachhead. Turned Iwo Jima into a fortified fortress. There are many fortifications of all kinds. Artillery positions were also mostly semi-underground. In addition, a large number of mines were laid in front of the beach.

Such a campaign. In fact, it has little to do with naval warfare, it is completely a contest between the army. In order to drag down the Americans and inflict as much casualties as possible on the Americans, the Japanese also changed their tactics. Suicide charges by soldiers are strictly prohibited. A variety of tactics were determined, such as close-range shooting, division of troops and mobile defense. Such tactics make this battle completely a collision between flesh and steel. Totally hard-hitting. As a result, the casualties between the American and Japanese armies were extremely heavy. The charge of the American army. It basically means death. And because the Japanese know that they will die, they are not afraid of death!

As a last resort, the U.S. military had no choice but to use flamethrowers against the Japanese soldiers hiding in caves. After learning of the war situation, the US press even strongly demanded that the US military release poison gas to the Japanese. Of course, for various reasons, the gas did not appear.

In this battle, the US army suffered more than 28,000 casualties, of which more than 6,800 were killed. And the Japanese army, except for more than 1,000 people who were captured, the rest of the more than 20,000 soldiers were all killed!

If the Battle of Iwo Jima only surprised the Americans, then the following Battle of Okinawa made the Americans realize that if they attacked the Japanese mainland directly, then the American army would definitely suffer heavy casualties!

Only a few days after the end of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Americans began their campaign against Okinawa. By this time, the Americans had already devised several sets of war plans against Japan. Okinawa is an indispensable key to these plans. Okinawa is not only the best springboard for the U.S. military to attack the Japanese mainland, but also the only remaining channel for the Japanese to communicate with Southeast Asia. If Okinawa were to be seized by the Americans, the Japanese mainland would be completely isolated.

So the Japanese gathered the only remaining navy and air force and launched a suicide attack on the American navy. Of course, in the face of the US Navy and Air Force, which have absolute superiority, the final result can only be defeat. And the main content of the campaign is still the battle between the armies. If you study the details of the Japanese battles, later generations of Chinese will find that there are many stories of battles, which are basically copies of the Chinese's War of Resistance.

It's just that those who bravely took the right and blew up tanks with explosives bags changed from Chinese to Japanese, and those who relied on their superiority in weapons changed from Japanese to Americans. The Japanese relied on tunnels, natural caverns, and mountain anticline positions to weaken the Americans' firepower superiority as much as possible, and the close combat, night battles, and counter-attacks were fierce. The will to fight is extremely tenacious.

However, the Americans' land war was indeed not very good, although they controlled the sea and air supremacy, invested a total of 400,000 troops, and had sufficient logistical support, they also chose a favorable landing area. However, the Army's tactics were extremely rigid and struggled with night, melee and offensive battles. It is really a great shame, and if it were not for the support of the Navy and Air Force, even if the US military was superior in numbers, it was not yet known who would win and who would lose.

This is also an important reason why a few years later, the US army, which ranks first in the world in equipment and logistics, was stunned to defeat the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which had several years of combat experience with the Japanese.

The Americans fought this battle for nearly three months, and later generations called this battle the "Iron Storm", which shows the intensity of the battle. The 50,000 Japanese defenders on the island of Okinawa were isolated and inferior in weapons, and all but 9,000 were captured. In addition to the Japanese civilians on Okinawa who were affected by the war, a large number of Japanese committed suicide. After the war, there were about 100,000 people. In order to protect the Japanese mainland, Japan carried out an unprecedented war mobilization and drew up a plan for a decisive battle on the mainland.

In this battle, the Americans sank 32 ships, lost more than 700 aircraft, and killed more than 13,000 people. More than 36,000 others were injured. It became the battle in which the U.S. military suffered the greatest casualties in the Pacific War. At the same time, the Americans realized what a terrible price they would pay if they landed on Japanese soil. According to American estimates, at least a million American troops would have died if they had forced a landing. In order to avoid such heavy casualties on the US military, the Americans were ready to use the atomic bomb that had just been successfully developed.

The casualties of the Japanese and the intensity of the war soon spread to the Japanese troops stationed in China. Although the Battle of Iwo Jima had just begun, and most Japanese soldiers did not know what was going on, the officers at the top of the army and all kinds of civilian officials were clear in their minds. Naturally, I was worried.

However, despite the worries, these people still can't mess around. Otherwise, the news of Japan's defeat in the war reached the ears of the lower-level soldiers, and they didn't know what kind of mess would happen! In order to whitewash the peace, in 1945, when the Japanese were about to fall, Li Xianglan held a concert at the Shanghai Daguang Theater. The main track is "Night Fragrance", which is popular in Shanghai at this time!

"The south wind blows coolly, and the nightingale cries sadly,

The flowers under the moon are all dreaming, only the night is fragrant, revealing the fragrance,

I love the night, and I love the nightingale singing,

I love the flower-like dream even more, hugging the nightshade, kissing the nightshade,

Nightshade, I sing for you, Nightshade, I think for you,

Yes...... I sing for you, I think for you.

Evening primrose, night incense, night primrose ......" (To be continued.) )