At about 4 hours and 7 minutes after the Iranian Navy's cruiser Rasht was sunk by the British, the aircraft carrier USS Ussuri in the Persian Gulf sailed into the waters east of Qatar under the escort of two Changchun-class cruisers.

Two flying squadrons, 2 J-5D Tiger Shark patrol aircraft, accompanied by 6 J-303 fighters, took off from the deck and flew into the waters of Qatar, where the cruiser Rasht was sunk.

At the same time, in order to deal with the threat of the British Navy, the Imperial Central Navy redivided the fleets, with the Central Headquarters Fleet, the Far East Fleet, the Southeast Asian Fleet, and the Pacific Fleet, and the rest numbered fleets as needed, such as the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, the Sixth Fleet in the Gulf of Aden, the Seventh Fleet in North Madagascar, and the Eighth Fleet in the Andaman Naval Base.

The Central Headquarters Fleet, the Far East Fleet, the Southeast Asian Fleet, and the Pacific Fleet are the four permanent fleets of the Imperial Navy, and the bases of the Central Headquarters Fleet are located in Qingdao, Sanduao, and Keelung, and the headquarters is located in Qingdao, which is responsible for the coastal defense of the eastern waters of the Empire, as well as the monitoring of the Imperial Navy; The Far Eastern Fleet, based in Vladivostok, is responsible for supervising the Bering Strait, as well as supervising the Bering Strait, and as needed, the Far Eastern Fleet will also enter the waters of the Arctic Ocean to conduct military and scientific reconnaissance work; The headquarters of the Southeast Asia Fleet is located in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, and is responsible for the maritime security and defense of the entire Southeast Asian seas; The headquarters of the Pacific Fleet are located in Guam and Port Vila, Vanuatu, and are responsible for maritime security in the entire South Pacific waters, with the maximum scope of activities being Midway and Johnston Atoll, which have been agreed between China and the United States.

In the Indian Ocean, the Empire has an Indian Ocean Naval Command Headquarters, which is planned to be located at the Ghatif Military Port in the future, and in view of the fact that the British Navy still has military bases in the Persian Gulf, the Empire is still at this stage to set up the Indian Ocean Naval Command in Kuwait to coordinate the four fleets in the Indian Ocean.

Unlike the four permanent headquarters fleets, the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth fleets are all relatively small in scale, of which only the Fifth Fleet has one aircraft carrier formation, and the rest are only small and medium-sized fleets with Harbin-class command cruisers as their flagships, and their supervisory role is greater than that of operations.

Although the Empire's naval strength in the Indian Ocean is not strong and there is no rush to threaten the British Navy, as long as there is a need, the Central Headquarters Fleet of the Imperial Navy and the Southeast Asian Fleet will reorganize the Indian Ocean Fleet as soon as possible, and more than half of the current capital ships of the Imperial Navy are concentrated in the port of Bandar Seri Begawan, and the current strength of the Southeast Asian Fleet alone is enough to compete with the British Navy.

Neither China nor Britain had too strong intentions to provoke their opponents, the capital ships of the Imperial Navy did not enter the Indian Ocean, and the main forces of the British Navy stayed in the Atlantic Ocean and South Africa.

In order to balance the lack of aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, the British stationed two Royal Air Force Flying Combat Regiments in eastern Oman to provide air protection for the British Navy in Aziman.

Iran has had a territorial dispute with the British colonial Arab Emirates since then, and the two sides have disputes over a number of islands in the middle of the Persian Gulf, the most fiercely contested of which is Abu Musa.

The island was effectively occupied by the British before 1890, and the Iranian Navy has had several conflicts with the British Navy since the establishment of the Asian League, and the Iranian Navy's cruiser Rasht was torpedoed and sunk by a British Navy destroyer in the waters west of Abu Musa Island.

Imperial Navy aircraft soon arrived at the area of the incident to monitor two British Navy warships, and the destroyer that sank the Iranian Navy cruiser Rasht had also suffered severe injuries and had now returned to port, replaced by a British Navy battleship and another destroyer.

With the arrival of the Imperial Navy carrier-based aircraft, the two British warships urgently retreated, and the British Royal Air Force also sent fighters to respond, confirming that it was the Imperial Navy and the famous Sea Serpent fighter J-303, and the British army was also fiercely nervous.

If you were to ask the British if they were afraid of China, they would be arrogant enough to say that they didn't care about the Asians, that they could not pose any threat to the British Empire.

This is a question that only the officers and men of the British army themselves can answer.

The Chinese in their hearts are annoying, dirty, and terrible.

In this sea area, the pilots of the two sides have had many close battles, and the British flight officers know very well how strong the J-303 Sea Serpent fighter can be, and the flight officers of the opponent are also at the level of elite instructors.

After all, the Chinese Navy is not Iran, as long as the opponent provokes, it can give a counterattack, and in the face of the Chinese Navy's aviation, it is the best choice to avoid it.

After a dogfight in the air, the four British Spitfires tried to get out of this close-range struggle, and if the opponent did not have a lightning fighter nearby, a quick lift was always the best way, but at the same time as two of them pulled up and flew upward, a number of J-303 carrier-based aircraft occupying a favorable position in the rear suddenly opened fire.

This really took the flying officers of the British army by surprise.

It was not the first time that the two sides had fought in close quarters, and in the past six months, this had happened almost every month, but it was the first time that they had been attacked by their opponents, and the next time the British flying officers realized that a world war had broken out.

After the two Spitfires were shot down, the other two were bitten tightly by the other four J-303 fighters before they could even pull upwards, and in a 6-on-2 situation, the last two Spitfires were quickly shot down.

Watching the four planes fall from the sky, the British admiral above the sea was completely shocked.

…… The incident of the cruiser Rasht was in fact the responsibility of the Iranian Navy, which took the initiative to shell a British destroyer in order to assert Iran's ownership of Abu Musa Island, which was then counterattacked by the ship, only to be sunk by the well-trained British Navy instead.

The Indian Ocean Asian Union Naval Command is essentially equivalent to the Indian Ocean Fleet General Command of the Imperial Central Navy, which not only governs the four small and medium-sized naval fleets of the Imperial Central Navy in the Indian Ocean, but also has the right to assist the naval fleets of Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Asian Union member states.

In the past six months, the British Navy has been more disciplined than the Iranian Navy, and it is basically impossible for it to be a provocateur, but before the formal investigation, the Asian League Navy Command reported the situation to the Central Military Department and received an order from the Central Military Department to severely punish the ship that caused the accident.

This made Vice Admiral Chen Yawu, the commander of the Asian League Navy Command, very embarrassed, because the soldiers regarded obedience as their destiny and knew that the British Navy was unlikely to be the real culprit, but Vice Admiral Chen Yawu still ordered the Navy to make a limited counterattack.

After shooting down four British Spitfires, the Imperial Navy did not continue to attack the British Navy's battleship Prince of Wales and another destroyer, but sent the two warships back to the British military port in Ajman in the form of "escort" by multiple carrier-based aircraft.

Even though the front-line military units on both sides deliberately limited the scale of the battle in order to avoid the outbreak of Sino-British war, the news caused an uproar when it was transmitted back to the two countries, and the British people finally stopped emphasizing pacifism and war-weariness, and strongly demanded a formal war, annihilating the Chinese navy, and sending China back to the Stone Age, as was the case with the two Opium Wars.

The same is true of the British media.

The popular craze did not make Winston. Prime Minister Churchill blindly lost his mind, he knew very well that China had basically ended the Sino-Chinese War and the Sino-Soviet War, this time period was different from a few months ago, it was completely unfavorable to Britain, once China and Britain went to war, before the British Navy arrived in the Indian Ocean, the British army located on the South Asian continent may have been completely annihilated, and the main force of the Chinese Navy may also gather in this sea area, waiting for the British Navy lacking aircraft carriers and air force to send it to the door.

Two weeks before this happened, Winston. Prime Minister Churchill sent Minister Arthur Murphy to the Ministry of Minister. Greenwood visited the United States and France, hoping to reach an agreement on the current Asian affairs and jointly force China and the Asian League to make concessions, but the result was a pity that although the United States and France have colonies in Southeast Asia, France and China have always been special strategic allies, and France cannot go to war with the empire on the Indochina Peninsula for the suzerainty of the Vietnamese colonies, while the United States has just reached the "Sino-US Pacific Equality Pact" with China, and has obtained a commitment from China and the United States to recognize each other's equal interests and status in the Pacific. It is impossible to tear up this compact.

This means that Britain is isolated on the issue of Asian colonies, and is even excluded by China, France, and the United States because it holds the largest number of colonies, and from the perspective of actual national interests, the United States and France are actually more willing to see Britain lose these colonies, which will not only help weaken Britain's position, but also help expand the opportunities for commercial investment, development, and expansion of the United States and France in these colonies.

For example, India is so large that it is almost impossible for the United States, France, and China to have enough business opportunities to be compared with Britain, which is a situation that the three powers are unwilling to accept in terms of Britain's current strength.

In isolation, Britain could not challenge the new hegemony of the Chinese Empire in the world naval field alone, let alone challenge China's absolute supremacy in the army and air force.

Fortunately, shortly after the Rasht incident, His Majesty published an editorial in both the Central Newspaper and the Orthodox Faith in a rare situation in the last decade. Prime Minister Churchill and the British saw hope for a peaceful solution.

A lot of people don't understand the reason behind this.

On April 1, 1941, Nazi Germany took only 4 hours to annihilate the military forces of Denmark and Norway, this military action was opposed by the whole world, with the raw materials and resources controlled by Germany in the Soviet Union, enough to cope with it to fight a world war, and the reason why Germany wanted to occupy Norway, in addition to expansionist greed, its goal was to occupy Norway's hydropower system and the Vimok chemical plant, which could produce heavy water, and half of the shares of this chemical plant were controlled in Tongzhong[***] Ministry of relations and its special Zen Chen company in the hands.

Although the Central Military Intelligence Department had blown up the plant's main equipment and destroyed the existing heavy water before the German lightning attack, this situation still aroused special concern of His Majesty the Emperor.

…… Compared with the four hours taken by the German army to attack Denmark and Norway, the results of the Central Defense Forces of the Chinese Empire in the war with Ben that took two years to capture Tokyo are extremely bleak, and they are completely incommensurate with the overall strength of the Imperial Central Defense Forces.

There are many reasons for this, first of all, the military power of Ben is many times stronger than that of Denmark and Norway, and it is fully qualified to rank among the top ten powers in the world, and its naval scale was the second or third level in the world before the war; Second, the military strength of the Reich Central Defense Army in the early stage of the war was too scattered, and the Reich Army was only as large as the Nazi German army in general before the war, but the area that needed to be defended was more than 25 times that of the Nazi German army, and the scattered military deployment was completely unfavorable to the Reich concentrating sufficient forces to launch a large-scale offensive against the Japanese army.

These situations have gradually changed with the continuous development of the war, especially after General Chen Wu replaced General Cai Yi as commander-in-chief of the Northeast National Defense Forces, and this series of situations has been greatly improved; in the field of military tactics, General Chen Wu has also made a large number of adjustments in the establishment and equipment of the Korean and local battlefields, and the breakthrough in the field of air-ground integration and the tactical field of composite battalions is even more advanced than the world's military level.

After capturing Nagano Prefecture, Zhang Zizhong's Third Army captured Tokyo within 12 hours, and on March 28, before the Northern Coalition ended the Ural Campaign, the 4th Airborne Division of the Northeast Defense Army occupied Urashi Prefecture and captured Emperor Showa and other members of the Imperial Family, as well as most of the high-ranking officials of the headquarters of the army and the political axe of the war, basically ending the two-year war.

That's just it.

Emperor Song Biao can basically understand now that for the US military at that time, it was not impossible to conquer the homeland, and what the United States lacked was only the opportunity to use nuclear weapons to prove its world hegemony.

Senior Admiral Chen Wu, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Defense Forces, is also watching the situation of the cruiser Rusht, because it will mean the question of whether China and Britain will officially declare war, but for him, the most important task at the moment is to accept the unconditional surrender of the company.

After the occupation of Tokyo, the front-line headquarters of the Tohoku National Defense Force was relocated from Busan to the former Army Staff Headquarters in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, where the former army headquarters was located.

Chen Wu had sufficient occupation rights to allow him to conduct all kinds of affairs in the way he saw fit, for example, he approved and agreed to return the royal family and members of the imperial family to live in the palace for a while, and in order not to cause problems for the imperial family in the future, he also rejected the proposal of the inner court to take the palace into the possession of the central imperial family of the empire.

At present, the ownership of the Imperial Palace and other political axes and military organs is unified under the post-war maintenance department of the Northeast National Defense Force.

After holding a half-hour meeting with Mitsumasa Yonechi, Chen Wu agreed that Mitsumasa Yonechi should continue to serve as prime minister of the Provisional Political Axe, and on the request of the representative to accept the unconditional surrender of the prime minister, Chen Wu vetoed the proposal of Prime Minister Yomoto or the chief of staff of the military department, and insisted that Emperor Yomoto surrender unconditionally to him as the commander of his own country.

In order to avoid this, both Emperor Showa, Prince Minoru Higashikurenomiya, Chief of Staff of the Imperial Army, and Interim Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonechi are actively asking for forgiveness.

For the past half a month, Emperor Showa personally walked to the General Headquarters of the Northeast Defense Forces first thing every morning to pay homage to General Chen Wu, but these things were of little significance, and as we all know, the prerogative to decide this matter was in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor Hua.

Although there seems to be a strong desire throughout the book that the emperor will not be put on the trial seat under any circumstances, the war investigation team sent by the Central Military Department has arrived in Tokyo two days ago and has begun to receive and investigate various official records to confirm the names of all the war criminals who are about to be tried.

According to His Majesty's proposal, the final military tribunal will be set up in Seoul, and the multinational judges appointed by the Asian League will be responsible for the operation of the international tribunal, and the specific sentences of the war criminals will be finally determined.

For Yueben, the past half month has been the most humiliating and peaceful half month for them, the entire Yueben has been far away from the war, and the war compensation they have to bear will be destined to be an astronomical amount.

It's all going to be over.

After witnessing the demise of Yuben across the coast of Vladivostok, Emperor Song Biao took a special plane back to Yanjing and began to deal with various post-war matters in earnest.

On the day he returned to Chuoguya, he received a draft of the "Edict of Unconditional Surrender" submitted by the Central Defense Military Commission, which would be sent by Emperor Showa himself to the world two days later, after which the Emperor Showa would also formally abdicate and be placed under the supervision of the Military War Crimes Administration.

No matter how he planned this, the will of the empire was firm and unshakable, and he said that the emperor's system must be ended, and whether or not to be dealt with as a war criminal will be left to the future to discuss.

The Sino-Soviet War and the Sino-Soviet War were basically over, and the only opponents that needed to be considered by the Reich were Britain and Germany.

It was already late, and Song Biao also felt a little tired after taking a day's flight during the day, but he still found time to deal with the matter at night.

In addition to the reasons for the revisions made by the Chinese side, the Chinese side has also proposed several corrections, but their opinions are basically invalid.

The draft of the announcement submitted to Emperor Song Biao had already been forwarded to the Chinese delegation before it was sent, and the Chinese side had also raised many objections that had been emphasized several times before, because the key to whether or not the amendments proposed by the Chinese side could ultimately be approved by the Chinese side depended on whether Song Biao could accept them.

At present, there are many objections to the book, and thousands of articles are gathered on one point, that is, he hopes to adopt the "Armistice Edict" drafted by the book, and Song Biao has seen two versions of the "Armistice Edict", although he directly vetoed the matter at the beginning, the book still worked very hard and was not diligent to revise the second draft and submit it to him.

There is basically no difference between the two versions, except that "I have made it my mission to liberate the Korean kingdom and want to promote peace in Asia...... The whole country is unanimous, the national body lasts forever, and Shenzhou is immortal...... vow to carry forward the essence of the national system, so as not to lag behind the culture of the world, and other subjects to their own self-restraint and self-will".

To say a thousand things and ten thousand, he said that he did not admit that he was the instigator of the war, and in the words of Mitsumasa Mine, China said that both sides were responsible for this war.

Fart.

Looking back to the pre-war period, although China asked the DPRK to give it the right to read, it did not have any plans to take military action on the Korean Peninsula, nor did it express any position in this regard, and the outbreak of the Third Sino-Chinese War was entirely caused by the risky attack on China's Sanduao naval base in order to secure its colonial rights in Korea.

Now that this is the case, it still refuses to admit its mistakes, it just does not admit that it took the initiative to provoke the war.

Two words to evaluate the book and the person -- shameless.

The Imperial Central Cabinet drafted the "Edict of Surrender" for Emperor Showa was much stricter, first acknowledging that Akimoto had waged war in order to seek colonial rights on the Korean Peninsula, and secondly acknowledging that Akimoto was the initiator of chemical warfare.

The "Edict of Surrender" submitted by the cabinet was very principled and did not care at all about all kinds of quibbles in the Edict, and Gu Weijun, who participated in the drafting work, had already signed the draft of the edict.

After carefully studying the full text of the edict of more than 500 words, Song Biao pondered for a long time in the imperial study alone, and finally signed his opinion -- "continue to fight if you are not satisfied." He immediately called Jiang Shoulin, who was accompanying him outside the door, and asked him to immediately send the draft of the approved edict back to the central cabinet, so that the cabinet could insist on the demands of the Chinese side.

If he does not admit to surrendering, then he will continue to fight until he destroys all the resistance forces of the company.

At this time, it was already very late, and Chen Jin happened to come to the audience and sent the post-war financial report of the central political axe, and the war was over, and the accounts had to be settled.

Seeing that Chen Jin had already come, Song Biao asked him to sit down and wait for a while, while he opened the post-war financial report and carefully reviewed it.

After only reading about half of it, Song Biao had to admit that the words of the ancients were really empirical, as the so-called "although the country is strong, the belligerent will perish", of course, this is more suitable to describe the Great Empire.

The financial strength of the central political axe of the empire is unparalleled in the whole world, and no other country's political axe can be compared, even so, after the end of the two wars between China and the Soviet Union, the huge military expenditure of the central political axe also put a lot of pressure on the empire.

Driven by the prosperity of the war, the empire's current GDP has just exceeded the 300 billion yuan mark. It is about 1.8 times that of the United States, and in 1940 the total national tax revenue was 53.54 billion yuan, the total tax revenue of the central government was 32.26 billion yuan, the investment income of the central state-owned assets at home and abroad (including the income from the sale of state-owned assets shares by the four major national trust companies) was 11.853 billion yuan, the net increase in treasury bonds (newly sold treasury bonds minus the total amount of mature treasury bonds cashed) was 4.275 billion yuan, the central government sold 1.75 billion yuan of state shares, and the total revenue of the central government axe was 48.388 billion yuan.

In the same year, the total expenditure of the central government was as high as 48.13 billion yuan, the total expenditure on national defense and military expenditure was 13.25 billion yuan, accounting for 27.53% of the actual total expenditure, the total expenditure on education was 10.74 billion yuan, accounting for 22.3% of the actual total expenditure, and the total expenditure on scientific research and scientific institutions was 5.57 billion yuan.

Among the various expenditures, the education expenditure and national defense military expenditure are really the largest occupied, and the education expenditure is very fixed every year, while the military expenditure in peacetime, the normal annual expenditure is usually 10% of the total income of the central government, that is, about 4.5 billion yuan.

In the past three years, in order to make up for the 6 billion to 7 billion yuan more military expenditure than in previous years, and at the same time to ensure the central government's expenditure on education, scientific research, agricultural subsidies, infrastructure construction, and other normal matters, the central government has been forced to sell more treasury bonds, and the four major state asset trust companies have sold the shares of enterprises held by the central government and the fixed assets at home and abroad.

In the past three years, the central government has sold a large number of assets at home and abroad, cashing out a total of 21.55 billion yuan in cash, and selling an average of about 7 billion yuan of assets every year to maintain the financial balance of the central government.

Before the outbreak of the Third Sino-Japanese War, the Central Government held a total of 137 billion yuan of overseas creditor's rights and domestic and foreign trust assets through the four major national trust companies, and with the depreciation of assets and the reduction of assets caused by the outbreak of the war, by April 1941, the total amount of overseas creditor's rights and trust assets at home and abroad had dropped to 98.575 billion yuan.

Although the Imperial Central Political Axe is still the richest political axe in the world in the world, it is indeed a big discount compared to 1937.

If we continue to fight on this scale, for seven or eight years, the huge surplus assets accumulated by the central government in the past 30 years will be wiped out, so like Britain, before the outbreak of World War I, Britain was definitely the richest country in the world.

Although the country is strong, the belligerent will perish.

This is true.

Taking the Imperial Army as an example, before the war, the Imperial Army had a total of 14,000 tanks, of which more than 2,000 were left over from the Sino-Soviet War, which could only be used for regular training, and today, the total number of tanks in active service in the Imperial Army is 175,500, an increase of 12.5 times.

Before the war, the Reich Army had 200,000 military trucks of various types, but after the war, this number expanded to 1.54 million, and the number of trucks of the Nazi German army was only 2/3 of that of the Reich, and the number of infantry armored vehicles, armored reconnaissance vehicles, and self-propelled guns of the Reich Army was much more than that of the German army, which shows the degree of mechanization of the Reich Army.

Taking the Imperial Air Force as an example, before the war, the Imperial Air Force had only 1,700 large and medium-sized military transport aircraft and patrol aircraft, and by April 1941, the Imperial Air Force had a total of 33,000 aircraft, of which the S-15/110 series of large transport aircraft alone produced more than 10,000 units, known as the king of imperial transport aircraft, with a rated load of 3.5 tons of transportation capacity can be called an air train.

The total number of ace fighters of the Imperial Air Force J3\4\5 series fighters in service has been expanded from 7,500 before the war to 34,000 at this stage, calculating the battle damage, of which the J-3 series fighters have a total output of more than 28,754 from service to the present, which is the world's most produced fighter at this stage, followed by the J-4 series fighters, and the J-402 is the fighter with the largest output of a single model.

(To be continued)