956 Korean War Four Relocation Plan

Ishihara looked at the old prince with a wrinkled face, and suddenly remembered the nickname of "Prince Herald". Was it Prince Zaihito of Kanin Palace who encouraged His Majesty the Emperor to move to the country, or did His Majesty the Emperor create public opinion through this prince's herald?

"It is true that the relocation of the whole country can preserve a certain vitality, but the fall of the empire itself is probably inevitable." Ishihara's tone was slow, and he pondered: "Without His Majesty the Emperor in the homeland, I am afraid that the soldiers and civilians who stayed behind will not have much courage to fight, and ...... The empire's current transportation capacity is limited, and if it were to be moved, it would probably only take a small number ......of people with it, and most of the people would be abandoned.

In addition, there is the issue that China's ambitions for Australia are well known. They will not abandon their ambitions just because the empire has abandoned their homeland and moved to Australia, and when they occupy the Japanese archipelago, the Philippine Islands, and the Japanese East Indies, they will probably switch their main forces to Australia. Therefore, moving to Australia cannot fundamentally solve the problem, it can only be ......" Speaking of this, Ishihara gritted his teeth and spit out four words: "Linger!" ”

"Ishihara-kun!" Toshiro Obata reprimanded loudly: "What nonsense are you talking about! As long as there is the leadership of His Majesty the Emperor, the Imperial Army will be able to keep New Japan and build it into a base for the re-emergence of the Great Nippon Empire, and will counterattack the mainland from there in the future! ”

Seeing Toshiro Obata's attitude, Ishihara was even more sure that the mastermind behind this trend was Emperor Hirohito himself. Since this is the case, I am afraid that the plan of moving the whole country will soon become a "national policy", and Nagata Tetsuyama, Gangmura Ninji and others have no power to stop it.

Thinking of this, Ishihara took a deep breath and bowed to Toshiro Kohata: "Please forgive the gaffe of the lower official." However, the relocation of the whole country must not be done hastily, and must be considered in the long term. Moreover, in order to successfully complete the relocation plan, the Korean army still had to be strengthened, because the resistance of the Korean army could buy the empire time to relocate. Furthermore...... The entire migration operation must be carried out in the strictest secrecy. ”

Hearing that Ishihara had given in, Toshiro Obata's attitude also softened, and he smiled and said: "What Ishihara-kun said is exactly what I want, but at present, there is still one biggest obstacle to making the relocation of the whole country a national policy, and I hope Ishihara-kun can solve problems for Your Majesty." ”

Speaking of which, it was almost clear that the person behind the relocation plan was Emperor Hirohito, and Ishihara had no choice but to stand up and solemnly salute Prince Zaihito and Toshiro Obata of the Kanin Palace, with a panicked look on his face: "Please rest assured that His Royal Highness the Prince and Obata Jun will definitely do the work of Admiral Nagata." ”

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When Ishihara left the Army General Staff Headquarters and came to the Ministry of the Army, Nagata Tetsuyama had just returned from the Prime Minister's Office, and he was joined by the Minister of the Navy, Senior Admiral Shigetaro Shimada.

"That dejected guy isn't Ishihara!" Shimada, who was born in the navy, had sharp eyes, and immediately saw Ishihara Wanji who was pacing with his head down in the hall of the Ministry of the Army.

"Oh, what's going on with that guy today? Could it be that he touched a nose of dust at the staff headquarters? Nagata Tetsuyama muttered, and shouted loudly: "Ishihara-kun! ”

As soon as Ishihara Wan'er turned around, he saw the two ministers, Nagata and Shimada, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and then said, "Your Excellency, the lower officials have just come from Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace, and they have something to ...... with him" As he spoke, he glanced at Shigetaro Shimada out of the corner of his eye.

"Let's go to my office and discuss it together, I just happen to have your opinion on some things." Nagata Tetsuyama beckoned at Ishihara and walked to the second floor with Shigetaro Shimada.

"Do you want to listen to the opinions of the lower officials?" Ishihara was stunned for a moment, and then carefully looked at the faces of the two ministers, as if they were gloomy and terrifying.

Nagata Tetsuyama brought Shigetaro Shimada and Ishihara into his office, which was on the third floor of the Army Ministry building, and was simply decorated and not large, with walls covered with military maps of several major battlefields and desks piled high with papers. Nagata Tetsuyama and Shigetaro Shimada sat down separately, but Ishihara stood there respectfully and did not move, he has always been a non-beredient who is not very rude in the hierarchical Japanese army, even in front of Nagata Tetsuyama, but today there are big figures in the navy, and his every move represents the army, so he can't be too unparticular.

"Ishihara-kun, sit down." Nagata Tetsuyama nodded at Ishihara, but his eyebrows were still tightly furrowed.

"Hay." Ishihara bowed slightly to the boss, and then found a chair and sat on half of his ass, like an obedient elementary school student, and did not ask questions. At this time, Nagata's secretary walked in and brought tea to the three people in the office.

Nagata instructed his secretary to stay outside and not be disturbed. Wait until the secretary turns to leave, and at the same time carefully closes the door to the office. Nagata Tieshan looked at Ishihara Wan'er and sighed slightly: "Ishihara-kun, how long do you estimate that North Korea can hold it?" ”

"Three or five months is the most." Ishihara took a sip of the teacup and smiled bitterly: "The enemy situation is serious, China's Marshal Luo Yaoguo personally went to Shenyang to supervise the battle, and China's elite troops are continuously gathering in Manchuria, but what about us here?" Alas......"

Nagata Tieshan sighed slightly and shook his head: "Three or five months is too short, at least you have to keep ...... 12 months, if you really can't do it, you have to keep it for 10 months, Ishihara-kun, can you keep it for 10 months? ”

"10 months?" Ishihara raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked, "Your Excellency, is there any turning point in the fate of the empire in 10 months?" Did the German side give any promises? ”

"It would be nice if that were the case, but unfortunately it has nothing to do with Germany." Nagata Tetsuyama paused and said with a wry smile: "Ishihara-kun, have you ever heard of the 'Asahika Palace' and the 'National Relocation Plan'?" ”

"Nationwide migration?" Ishihara was stunned for a moment, and then saw the faces of Nagata Tetsuyama and Shigetaro Shigetaro Shishida, and understood that some important person must have talked to them, and it is estimated that it is either Konoe Fumiji or the Minister of the Interior, Koichi Kido! He nodded: "I heard a little wind in North Korea, and just now I heard Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace and Lieutenant General Toshiro Obata mention it at the General Staff Headquarters. This thing seems to be ...... Rakuchu (referring to the emperor) means. ”

"And what do you think?" Nagata Tetsuyama asked lightly.

Ishihara Wan'er shook his head and said with a wry smile: "How dare the lower officials criticize Luozhong's decision, the only way to make it possible to properly implement it and retain a little more vitality for the empire." ”

Nagata Tetsuyama sighed heavily, but Shigetaro Shimada spoke first: "The relocation of the whole country is completely delusional, now Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Islands are still under the control of the US military, New Zealand is still under the control of the Free Britain, and more than half of the islands in the South Pacific are still under the control of the Free Britain or the United States. British and American submarine planes used these islands as bases to frantically attack our transport lines, and without the close protection of the fleet, the transport ship regiment would not have been able to reach New Japan safely!

And how much merchant tonnage is left in the empire now? How much richer can it be to maintain the minimum transportation volume of several major battlefields? It takes more than a month to make a trip to New Japan...... How many trips can North Korea make for 10 months? How many people can be transported? ”

Listening to Shimada's whining words, Ishihara could only smile bitterly, it was the emperor's intention to move the whole country, and they who were courtiers had to obey. Besides, no matter how tight the current transportation capacity is, it will always be able to send the royal family, the public family, as well as those big chaebols, big bureaucrats, and high-ranking generals of the army and navy and their families out of Japan that is about to sink by land...... On this basis alone, the nationwide relocation plan will be supported by most of Japan's top leaders, and it will probably be the middle and lower rank officers and ordinary soldiers of the army and navy who oppose it. This is the main reason why Emperor Hirohito did not dare to openly propose a relocation plan, but tried to do so in many ways, because he did not want to make any mutiny.

"Then you have to take the most important people away." Nagata Tetsuyama was silent, and asked Shimada again: "Shimada-kun, give the navy 10 months, how many people can be transported?" How many tons of supplies can be transported? ”

"Two million people at most." Shigetaro Shimada thought silently in his heart and reported a number. "This figure is not the result of this official's words, but the result of careful calculations by the staff officers of the Navy Command Department and the Combined Fleet." Shigetaro Shimada stood up and walked to the wall, picked up a map, took it to his desk and spread it out, and Ishihara found that it was a chart of the Pacific Ocean. Shimada picked up a red and blue pencil, sketched on the map for a while, and said: "This is the transportation route designed by the Navy, one is the new Tokyo Port from South America to New Japan, which is to transport supplies; One is to go from the Japanese mainland to the port of New Tokyo, and when the fleet departs from Japan, it will load the people or materials to be transported by the 'relocation plan', and then bring the supplies from South America back to Japan when it returns from the port of New Tokyo...... This is the most efficient way to transport, with an average of up to 200,000 people and 200,000 tons of supplies being transported to New Japan every month. At the same time, the transportation of materials from several battlefields such as Korea, the Philippines, and the East Indies can also be maintained. ”

"There are only 2 million people, can't it be a little more? It's really not good to transport less materials, and it's good to load a few more people. Ishihara frowned slightly, only 2 million people, plus 600,000 troops and 12 or 30,000 pioneers who have already arrived in Australia, as well as 150,000 troops and 100,000 pioneers on the Hawaiian Islands, and less than 100,000 Japanese troops and nearly 200,000 Japanese in the Japanese East Indies, even if another 3 or 400,000 are transferred in the future homeland defense war, all of them will be added together, and the future new Japan will only have a population of more than 4 million, and the remaining 60 million can only be ravaged by the Chinese......

Shigetaro Shimada sighed: "I'm afraid not, the materials sent to New Japan are not only civilian materials and machinery and equipment, but also weapons and equipment for the New Japanese garrison." Ishihara-kun, don't forget that the Chinese still maintain more than 600,000 troops in Western Australia, and Luo Yaoguo's brother-in-law, Marshal An Sihua, is the commander-in-chief of the Chinese and Australian Fronts, don't you think that this Marshal An will do nothing in the next 10 months, right? ”

"What is the current situation in the new state of Japan? The Chinese seem to have attacked, right? Ishihara asked rhetorically.

Nagata Tieshan smiled bitterly and replied, "The situation there is better than imagined, otherwise Luozhong would not have used his brains to move the country...... The Chinese offensive was clearly contained, and it is estimated that they, like us, bluffed in Western Australia while bringing the armored units back home. ”

"If that's the case, there's still a chance that the relocation plan will be successful." Ishihara lightly tapped the map with his finger, pondered for a while, and then said: "Judging from the current overall situation, the main direction of Chinese attack is the Korean Peninsula, followed by the Philippines, and then the East Indies...... The reason for this may be related to last month's naval battle in the South China Sea-Philippines, where the main forces of the Combined Fleet are still there, the Sunda Strait is blocked by imperial forces, and the logistics supply lines of the Chinese-Australian Front are not open to launch a large-scale offensive.

Therefore, there are three key points to realize the 'relocation plan'. First, the Korean battlefield will hold out for at least 10 months; Second, the Navy will ensure that at least 200,000 people will be transported to New Japan every month; Third, the island of Java must be held in order to strangle the logistics line of the Chinese and Australian fronts.

In this way, there was hope that the new Japanese state could hold out until Germany defeated the United States. At that time, Germany will be asked to intervene. The empire reached an armistice with China by abandoning its homeland, Korea, and the Philippines, and China allowed more than 60 million citizens of Japan mainland to move to New Japan. After that, the Empire of Japan ceased to be an Asian country......"

Ishihara made some very wishful calculations, and finally came up with a plan that was barely possible. After speaking, he picked up the tea cup in front of him and took a large sip of tea made from some leaves. The faces of Nagata Tetsuyama and Shigetaro Shimada looked a little better, and Ishihara's exposition included the content of negotiating peace with China through German mediation, and "abandoning" the mainland, Korea, and the Philippines in exchange for more than 6,000 nationals moving to New Japan.

Regardless of whether or not this plan can be realized, I can finally comfort myself and the abandoned people psychologically. Of course, if the so-called new Japan can really hold out until the day when the United States fails, Chinese should accept this condition for peace talks...... They don't want to feed 60 million Japanese people for a long time, do they?

"By the way, Ishihara-kun, there is one more thing, I would like to hear your opinion as well." Nagata Tetsuyama and Shigetaro Shirataro Shimada glanced at each other, and said, "Your Majesty wants to secretly go on a tour of New Japan in the near future, what do you think?" ”

"What? Secret patrols? Ishihara was stunned and stunned, and said in his heart: "Is it really just a secret patrol?" Isn't it going to be a secret escape? ”

"Your Majesty is very eager to see the vastness and richness of the new state of Japan, and you can return to Tokyo in two or three months at most, and the whole trip is completely confidential, except for a few high-ranking people and entourage, you will not know that Your Majesty is not in the capital during this time." Shigetaro Shimada lightly added.

Ishihara had already reacted at this time, knowing that this was Nagata Tieshan greeting the North Korean army, so he nodded solemnly: "Please rest assured, Your Excellency the two generals, Xiaguan and General Okamura will definitely block this news, and will never let rumors unfavorable to Your Majesty appear in the North Korean army." ”

"Then I'm relieved." Nagata stood up, left his seat, and stopped in front of a huge map of the North Korean military hanging on the wall. Ishihara hurriedly followed, but Shigetaro Shimada sat still and didn't move.

"In order to complete the relocation plan, the North Korean army will hold out at least until September next year, is there any difficulty?" Nagata Tieshan's tone was a little light: "If you need something, just ask it now." ”

"It needs to be replenished with 1,000 howitzers of more than 100mm, 1,000 anti-aircraft guns of more than 75mm, 800 anti-aircraft guns of 40mm to 20mm, 500 Zero fighters, and 500,000 troops." General Ishihara's request from the Army General Staff Headquarters was repeated in front of the Minister of War as it was.

"How much did Prince Zairen of the Idle Palace promise?"

"Except for anti-aircraft guns and Zero fighters, everyone else agreed." Ishihara replied truthfully.

"By the way, what do you North Korean army want so many heavy anti-aircraft guns for? Could it be for the air defense of Pyongyang and Seoul? Nagata Tetsuyama looked at Ishihara suspiciously.

"Of course not," Ishihara said with a wry smile: "The local country is going to give up, where can I take care of North Korea?" The North Korean army wanted these heavy anti-aircraft guns to be used against tanks. According to intelligence, the Chinese have assembled at least 10 armored divisions in Manchuria, with about 4,000 tanks and assault artillery! Of these, the No. 4 heavy tank was supposed to have 600 units, in addition to 600 No. 3 assault guns, which were no less combat-ready than the No. 4 tank. Our Zero assault tank and Type 97 assault tank cannot deal with it at all, and the infantry equipped with 57mm, 50mm and 37mm anti-aircraft guns cannot fight, and the only way is to use heavy anti-aircraft guns above 75mm. ”

"Oh, that's right." Nagata Tetsuyama nodded, he vaguely remembered that the Germans seemed to use 88mm anti-aircraft guns against tanks in European battles, and the main guns equipped with No. 4 and No. 3 assault guns were also modified from 88mm anti-aircraft guns. He thought for a while, and then said: "There is definitely no way to provide 1,000 heavy anti-aircraft guns, at most 300 will be given...... However, the strength of the army can be increased, give you 50 new divisions, almost 750,000 people, so that the total strength of the North Korean army can reach 1.75 million! In addition, you can also be allowed to recruit Korean volunteers on the spot, and raise the number of troops to 2 million first. ”

"2 million!" Ishihara was silent for a moment and nodded slightly. "Two million people shouldn't be easily defeated by Chinese, but ......"