Chapter 556: Hirohito on the Run
After the completion of the landing in Kamakura, the two mechanized infantry brigades of the Ming army quickly marched to the battlefield, while the brigade's armed helicopter group arrived at the front line in the shortest possible time to provide support for the US troops who were fighting hard, and even more than a dozen Sea Harrier attack planes made their first appearance in actual combat.
At this time, the U.S. troops had been driven to the west bank of the Arakawa, and the howitzers of the Japanese army even bombed the palace. The lethality of this six-ton terrorist weapon is extremely brutal, basically a bomb falls, and it completely turns into white ground within a radius of 500 meters, and the power is comparable to that of the nuclear bomb at West Point, of course, the civilian casualties caused by it are also relatively serious, so it will only be used to wash the floor at the most critical moment.
After all, if it was really to be thrown uncontrollably, it would not be the Battle of Tokyo but the Tokyo Massacre, so only 32 of them have been dropped so far.
This number is easy to count, and there are several circular ruins with a diameter of five hundred meters on the ground from the sky, and then a few bombs have been dropped, as clear as the squid sucker imprint on the back of a sperm whale.
These 32 bombs caused at least 20,000 Japanese soldiers and tens of thousands of civilian casualties, but the latter would not be reported in the newspapers. Even the New York Times, which has always been at odds with Yang Feng, rarely praised His Excellency the honorable head of state and the Ming people under his leadership for their contributions to world justice and peace, and it can be said that praising the Ming army and the Chinese has become a political task.
Including Kennedy himself, they all specially held a banquet at the White House and invited Chinese celebrities in the United States. To thank them for their efforts in building the country over the past century.
And just when Kennedy and those Chinese celebrities were talking and laughing at the White House. Inside the U.S. Forces Headquarters in Yokosuka. The new commander-in-chief of the US forces in Japan, Admiral Westmoreland, was also chatting and laughing with Lieutenant General Han Xu, commander of the Eighth Army of the Ming Army, and a group of generals, who was supposed to take over Lieutenant General Davis's class as the principal of the West Point Military Academy at this time, but now he ......
Don't mention it now!
"General Han, how should the command of our two armies be coordinated?"
Westmoreland asked with a smile.
"Admiral, we are here to assist the U.S. military in the war, and of course we accept your command."
Han Xu said indifferently.
Since it was to give Kennedy face, it was good to give it enough. What's more, the Ming army is not familiar with the battlefield, if he is really replaced as the commander-in-chief, it is really easy to cause chaos, not to mention that the US army may not cooperate, and to be honest, if you talk about the campaign command ability of the large corps, Han Xu also knows that he is inferior to Westmoreland, this guy is still carrying bags at the dock when he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily!
Westmoreland smiled and nodded with satisfaction, and in this way, the two armies of Ming and the United States, which were still fighting on the battlefield of Najd more than a year ago, quickly became an alliance in the Wa Kingdom.
But this coalition is not just the Ming army. Soon His Royal Highness the King of Wa and His Royal Highness the King of Goryeo will each have a brigade to join. In addition, the 30,000 allied troops of the Holy Alliance in Southeast Asia and the 10,000 mercenaries of the ASEAN Rapid Reaction Force will also go north to the battlefield one after another. In addition to these two mechanized infantry brigades, the Ming army will also have an armored brigade and two mountain infantry brigades into the battlefield, and another airborne brigade will be on standby on Kyushu Island to reinforce at any time if needed, so that Yang Feng's subordinates are actually six brigades of the Ming army, two brigades of local defense forces, and eight brigades of servant troops, with a total strength of 16 brigades, a total of less than 100,000 combat troops, plus the navy and air force, which is almost 200,000.
And the U.S. army is five divisions, although now they are seriously attrition, but fortunately, their replenishment capacity is strong, with the arrival of the replenishment in the transport plane, it will soon be full again, in order to help the U.S. military transport soldiers, Yang Yuan even sent the Ming army's Kunpeng transport plane, after all, the main transport aircraft of the U.S. military is still C54, and the take-off weight cannot catch up with the Kunpeng load, as for the C141, it has just made its first flight at this time.
The actual total strength of these five divisions is about 100,000, of course, this is purely a front-line combat force, if you count the miscellaneous troops, the total strength of the US Army stationed in Japan is 150,000, plus the Navy Air Force has about 250,000, but because various bases have been captured, in fact, their air force has gone to Goryeo except for fighters.
In addition, they have two Korean divisions.
In this way, the actual total strength of this coalition army is about 500,000, and as for Lu Zi, who had already been disbanded by the US military at this time, the reason why they have fallen to the point where they are today is that Lu Zi is at least 60 percent responsible, and what is such an army still for? Will you stab yourself in the future?
And their opponent is the two million Japanese Liberation Army.
However, less than one million are really well-trained, and the rest are urgently expanded, and in terms of combat effectiveness, it is the level of more than 400 Japanese divisions and regiments in World War II.
"Admiral, I think it is still necessary to let the Japanese people take on the task of defending freedom themselves."
Han Xu said.
"Of course, but we have to wait for their democratization reform to be completed first, otherwise if the people can't trust their government, even if they re-form an army, the result will definitely become a second army, such an army will be meaningless, of course, the first priority at the moment is that we must remove the danger from Tokyo and Nagoya, after all, no matter what the Japanese government wants to do, first of all, their control area must be able to support it."
Westmoreland said.
Han Xu was actually urging him to quickly fulfill another request of Yuan Yuan Yang, that is, to abolish the Japanese monarchy and establish a republic, and only by establishing a republic can a new army belonging to the Japanese government be formed.
But in the current situation, no matter what you want to do, you must first keep Tokyo and Nagoya, and then you have to keep Tokyo and Nagoya, and in fact, the officials and members of the Diet of the Japanese government who have not yet run away are waiting to run away at any time in the US military base at this time, and it only takes one sentence to do what you want them to do, but at present, the US military has such a big fart control area, even if the establishment of the republic has a fart, it adds up to less than 5,000 square kilometers!
Han Xu nodded.
At this moment, a Ming army officer hurriedly walked in and whispered a few words beside Han Xu, his brows immediately furrowed, and then he said to Westmoreland: "General, Hirohito has run away." ”
"Ran away?"
Westmoreland said stunned.
This officer was responsible for arresting Hirohito, which he had known for a long time, but he just deliberately pretended not to know, if they or the new Japanese government handed over Hirohito to Yang Feng in the future, it would inevitably disgrace him, but if the Ming army captured Hirohito himself after landing, then they didn't have to think about this problem, so the US military acquiesced to the arrest of the Ming army.
However, no one expected that Hirohito actually ran away and disappeared, and when the Ming army went to arrest him, only his wife and several children were in the residence.
Of course Hirohito is going to run, he is also an old fritter who has played politically all his life, as soon as he heard the news that the Ming army went north to join the war, he knew that he was sold by the rice people, as long as the Ming army set foot on the land of Tokyo, the first thing must be to arrest him, and the rice people will definitely pretend not to see it, everyone is a thousand-year-old fox, this little thing is still very clear, so after knowing that the Ming army landed in Kamakura, he immediately embarked on the road of escape.
"Find, we must find him!"
Westmoreland said with a gloomy face.
Of course, he is just putting on a show, even if he really wants to find the US military, he has no time, this is the work of the Ming army.
"Order the 6th and 7th Marine Brigades to transfer out the air cavalry battalions and immediately conduct a dragnet search around Yokosuka, and then order the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Defense Forces to board the plane and directly airlift them over to prepare to join the search."
Immediately afterward, Han Xu said to the officer.
The latter immediately saluted and went out.
The air cavalry battalions of the 6th and 7th Marine Brigades, which had soon begun to join the battlefield, hurriedly boarded the elephant helicopters that picked them up and airlifted them to Yokosuka, looking at the dozens of elephant helicopters in the sky, and in less than half an hour, more than 1,000 heavily armed elite soldiers were sent directly to him from dozens of kilometers away, and even Westmoreland couldn't help but be a little moved.
When these soldiers arrived, they immediately dispersed around Hirohito's residence, searched and advanced with the photos they had urgently produced, and searched and searched for the current theoretical supreme ruler of the Wa Kingdom from house to house.
In fact, in the current situation, Hirohito has nowhere to run, and the north will not want him, the government of the Japanese People's Republic has long listed him as a war criminal, and he is the first on the list of war criminals, although it will not cut him off, but it is certain that he will spend the rest of his life in prison. As for the current Kyushu Island, the first choice for the Japanese people to flee, he went to the net, and he didn't have the ability to go to the United States and Europe, so His Majesty the Emperor, the target of the escape was the mountainous area in the west, just find a small village that no one pays attention to, and use the gold jewelry he carries to make do with the rest of his life!
At this time, he was trekking hard in the mountains and forests.
Pity him is also the emperor, although there have been many disasters and hardships over the years, but after all, he is pampered in the palace, how can he suffer this kind of crime, plus he is also sixty, fleeing alone in the dark mountains and forests, and a shoe on his feet is lost, just like Bei Ye who survives in the wilderness, he is on a stick, carrying a burden weighing several kilograms, enduring the pain in the soles of his feet, in ......
Where is this?
Hirohito looked up blankly, looking at the dark and deep forest around him, and the strange cries of unknown people in the ghostly atmosphere continued to sound.
Well, he's lost.
"Hayama, it must be on Hayama, he can't run far away at this time! Send four reconnaissance helicopters over and use the infrared imager to give me an ultra-low altitude to shine on Hayama until he is illuminated! ”
Three kilometers away from him in a straight line, Han Xu said with a gloomy face. (To be continued.) )