Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 86 Reinforcements
It was no one else who invited Cheng Yi. It was Jiang Shuixiao, the commander of the Fifth Combat Unit, and Wang Xueping, the commander of the Eighth Combat Unit.
As the supreme commander on the front, Bae must be prepared for the worst-case scenario. The new address of this site has been changed to: In addition to the coo, please log in to read!
From the very beginning, Pei Chengyi knew that it would be difficult to win this war with only 4 combat units to challenge 3 countries on the licking front. When formulating the war plan, Pei Chengyi put forward a request to Li Cunxun for limited mobilization and for all combat units to be ready for war as soon as possible. The problem is that no one thought that Pei Chengyi would ask for more troops on the first day of the war. It is precisely because of this that Pei Chengyi did not get the third combat unit and the fourth combat section he wanted, and only got the fifth combat unit and the eighth combat unit. It's not that these two combat units aren't strong enough or that their commanders aren't strong enough, but they can't get to the battlefield in time.
Strictly speaking, the 3rd Combat Unit deployed in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and the 4th Combat Unit deployed in Naha, Ryukyu, are more suitable for fighting in the Middle East. The reason is the same: These two combat units are stationed overseas, and the officers and men know how to handle foreign-related affairs, are able to tolerate and accept different folk cultures, and know how to handle dangerous incidents under the condition of language barriers and different customs. All in all, combat units stationed overseas are much better than those that remain at home. To put it another way, in a republic with a particularly serious idea of face, there is no reason not to send the best troops. More importantly, the 3rd and 4th combat units are both deployed in the harbor city, and both have strategic projection fleets or amphibious assault fleets to serve them, which can rush to the front line after receiving orders without too much delay.
The problem is that the top leadership of the republic cannot take into account the needs of only one strategic direction.
From the point of view of the strategic defense deployment in the surrounding areas of the republic, the 3rd combat unit stationed in Sihanoukville plays the role of bridging the two major theaters. In the area of mission of the Third Combat Unit, it not only had to cooperate with the Second Combat Unit stationed on the west coast of the Bay of Bengal to defend the northeastern Indian Ocean region and cover the sea route from Sri Lanka to Malacca, but also had to work with the Eighth Combat Unit stationed in Guangdong to deter the areas around the South China Sea and suppress the Philippines, which had long taken refuge in the United States. What's more, the Third Combat Unit will have to face south alone, deter Indonesia from vacillating and deal with a strategic threat from Australia.
It can be seen from this that the task of the third combat unit is very heavy, and the task of the third combat unit has become even heavier when the second combat unit has already been sent to the theater of operations and the United States has sent troops to the war. In a sense. Only as a last resort will the 3rd combat unit leave the South China Sea. When reinstating Pei Chengyi, Li Cunxun clearly mentioned that the United States has deployed at least one division of ground troops in Australia, and coupled with Indonesia's political transformation in recent years, the third battle must remain in the South China Sea region.
As with the 3rd combat unit. The tasks of the fourth combat unit were also heavy.
As the only ground force in the Western Pacific Theater, to be precise, the only land force. The Fourth Combat Unit had only three missions, one was to threaten the United States-controlled Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, the second was to deter the Philippines, and the third was to prevent Japan from posing another threat to the Republic. Because the United States has enough strategic depth in the Pacific Ocean, in addition to the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, there are a large number of islands to the east. So the practical significance of the first task is not obvious. At most, it was only to ensure that the East China Sea, west of the Ryukyu Islands, was under the control of the republic. Although the Philippines has fallen to the United States and has become the only country in Southeast Asia to confront the Republic, as the poorest and weakest country in Southeast Asia, the Philippines has many domestic problems and basically poses no threat to the Republic. Relatively speaking, the last mission, that is, the Weizhen Japan, is the main reason for the long-term deployment of the 4th Combat Unit in the Ryukyu Islands.
After the end of the Japanese War, the United States spent a lot of effort on this almost completely abandoned country in order to contain the republic. At the beginning of the captivity, the US Congress passed a Japanese-related bill called "Humanitarian Assistance," formally deciding to lease the "nine northern islands" of the Northern Mariana Islands under US trusteeship to Japan from north to south, namely, the Maug Islands, Asunción Island, Agrihan Island, Pagan Island, Aramagan Island, Guam Island, Sarigan Island, Anatahan Island, and Meenilia Island. Just two months later, the first Japanese immigrants landed on Agrihan Island, the largest in terms of area. Because the Northern Mariana Islands were authorized by the United Nations to be entrusted to the United States after World War II, the United States does not enjoy the sovereignty of the Northern Mariana Islands, has no right to dispose of the Northern Mariana Islands, and more importantly. There are more than 80,000 indigenous people on the Kuiza Islands leased to Japan by the US Congress, so after the "Humanitarian Assistance Act" was passed by the US Congress, the Republic took the lead in protesting and appealed to the Security Council, demanding that the United Nations decide whether to lease the Northern Mariana Islands to Japan, instead of a unilateral ruling by the United States. There is no doubt that as long as the United Nations is provoked, the Republic has the means to turn the bill approved by the US Congress into an illegal action, so the United States did not hand over the matter to the United Nations. In other words, the United States' act of leasing the nine northern islands of the Northern Mariana Islands to Japan has no legal basis in itself.
This is because the U.S. authorities have not given a reasonable solution to the problem of resettlement of indigenous peoples, but have only asked the indigenous people of the nine northern islands to make a choice between moving to the southern islands and obtaining U.S. citizenship, and have not given the people the space to make their own decisions to survive. Therefore, in the early days of the era, the indigenous people of Beiwu also went to the international court to sue the United States, and organized several catties abroad. One of the most influential societies of the "Salvation Society" operates in the Ryukyu Islands, which are controlled by the Republic.
From an objective standpoint, the US authorities have no choice but to do so.
Before the outbreak of the war in India, the United States had been actively assisting Japan in its post-war reconstruction. "More than 100 million Japanese will die of tuberculosis in a few years, so when it comes to helping Japan rebuild after the war, the first thing the United States should do is to save the endangered "Japanese." In fact. The Japanese are also saving themselves. It is a pity that the efforts made by Japanese Prime Minister Murakami before the end did not make a big difference. By the end of the war, less than 10,000 Japanese had been transferred to the southern outer islands, and there were about 10,000 basically healthy Japanese on the mainland. Other words. If Japan wants to recover, it must pin its hopes on persuading all people. Because of the strategic blockade, the Ryukyu Islands fell into the hands of the Republic again, and the infrastructure of the outer islands was very imperfect, not to mention accommodating the Japanese who had been transferred, and it was a problem to ensure that the transferred Japanese could survive normally.
It was against this background that the American authorities, playing the role of God, began to save Japan.
Although the northern nine islands of the Northern Mariana Islands are not very large in size and the infrastructure is not very good, it is undoubtedly a paradise for the Japanese people who are waiting to be transferred.
By the end of the year, the transfer was basically completed.
While providing living space for the Japanese refugees, the US authorities also provided the Japanese refugees with all the materials and labor tools they needed to help themselves and produce themselves. Among other things, by the beginning of the year, the U.S. federal government and state governments had handed over ugly distant-water fishing vessels to Japanese refugees, and the U.S. Navy stationed in Guam provided fuel and normal maintenance for these fishing boats.
According to a survey published by Greenpeace in the Year of the Milk Beater, in the year of the blade alone, the Japanese killed more than four whales. Obtained about 10,000 tons of old whale meat. This food is enough to feed 40,000 Japanese people. If you count the fish caught, there is enough food for about 10,000 Japanese people just through the marine industry.
In fact, to four. Japan has become a net exporter of marine industries.
Although Japan exports aquatic products. Most of them are in exchange for wheat, rice, corn, potatoes and other crops, and their basic food production can still only meet their own needs, but the overfishing behavior of millions of Japanese has seriously damaged the marine ecology, and international organizations such as Greenpeace have repeatedly exploded
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In a sense, the International Ocean Ecology Law, adopted by the United Nations, is a reference to "scientific whaling." "It is aimed at the indiscriminate fishing of the Japanese and the protection of rare cetaceans such as blue whales and fin whales, which are much rarer than the Japanese.
While helping the Japanese refugees to solve the problem of eating, the U.S. authorities are also actively helping the Japanese to clean up their homeland.
In the year of drowning, the first clean-up team landed on the mainland of Japan, and the clean-up work officially began.
Although the clean-up team encountered many problems when dealing with the remains of war refugees, nearly a third of the first clean-up team members who landed in Japan had a nervous breakdown. But this is realistic, not filming, and there are no monsters that only appear in movies.
In fact, the effects of radioactive contamination are far less horrific than in the movies.
The contamination is mainly caused by radioactive fallout from the explosion, which is barely visible to the naked eye and returns to the surface with precipitation, then penetrates into the ground and eventually leaves the surface. Because Japan is located in the northern temperate zone, it is affected by the Kuroshio current all year round, the temperature is higher than that of the Tongweidu area, and the rainfall is relatively abundant, so it takes about 2 to 3 years. The radioactive contamination will be reduced to the point where it will not be lethal, and the mussels will return to normal levels by 3. In other words, this is much shorter than the previous prediction by some scientists that Japan will need to come out of the year to recover.
The main task of the first clean-up team was to determine whether post-war construction could be carried out.
It was concluded that, with the exception of radioactive contamination in the vicinity of the ruins of the nuclear facility, which remained significant, contamination in other areas had been reduced to normal levels. Because the last group of Japanese who remained on the island were finished before the end of the year of the blade. The surviving animals and plants on the island were given more room to exhibit, so by the time the clean-up team came ashore, Japan was almost 100 percent forested.
Because the Kanto Plain has the best geographical conditions, and because it is affected by many rivers, the environment is also the best, so the clean-up work was carried out in the Kanto Plain first.
At the end of that year, the United States provided Japan with the first batch of strategic aid materials and reconstruction equipment. The address of this site has been changed to: Bigu, please read the law!
It was also at this time that the Japanese authorities proposed that within the first five years, "the Kanto region should be built into a granary that can meet the living needs of all Japanese people, and that Tokyo should be built into a big city with a population of 10,000 people."
As after World War II, the Japanese began to rebuild again.
Unlike the reconstruction after World War II, because the heavily polluted areas are too distributed, "we and the non-heavily polluted areas are not suitable for long-term human habitation." Therefore, the reconstruction of the bloody sunset began by cleaning up the ruins, and the raw materials needed for reconstruction, including the most basic raw materials such as cement, had to be imported from abroad, and the only thing that could be found in Japan was fresh water, and it had to be fresh water from the least polluted rivers in those days. Exactly. After the reconstruction work began, the Japanese authorities did not immediately relocate to the mainland, but sent construction crews back to the mainland to carry out the reconstruction project on a rotational basis. As if to laugh at themselves, the Japanese authorities claim that by doing so, they will be able to build the new Japan into the most beautiful, civilized, and beautiful country in the world, like drawing on a blank sheet of paper.
It is very unfortunate that the good days of the Japanese are only past the year and a half of thugs.
With the outbreak of war in India, Japan's main source of reconstruction materials was wiped out, and the supply of materials was far from keeping up with the demand for reconstruction, and the reconstruction work was forced to slow down. Although the Japanese authorities foresaw that India would be unlucky sooner or later, they planned Shinjima, which is very close to the mainland, as Japan's first industrial zone when it came time to rebuild. It was also the first industrial zone to produce reconstruction materials, and the infrastructure was completed before the outbreak of the war in India, but it was impossible for a single industrial zone to produce enough materials for all the reconstruction work, and the labor cost of the United States was too high to help Japan produce primary industrial products such as cement and steel.
Affected by the war in India, it was not until the middle of the sword power year that Japan's goal of the first five-year plan for fighting was basically achieved.
Yo, at the end of the year, Japan began to systematically emigrate to the country. To be precise, immigrants to the "new Tokyo city". Because the U.S. authorities have given the greatest help in the construction of the "New Tokyo City," the Japanese authorities are preparing to name the "New Tokyo City" as the "U.S.-Japan City" at the city naming ceremony to be held on the city's naming day in July of the year of the opening of the city, in order to symbolize the deep traditional friendship between the United States and Japan. The new address of this site has been changed to: Regret the heart, please log in to read!
In any case, Japan, which was defeated many years ago, is getting back on its feet.
Although, according to the most optimistic estimates, it is unlikely that Japan will threaten the republic until the end of the year, after all, population recovery is far from being as simple as urban reconstruction. In the last two to three generations, even if some of the overseas immigrants who have returned to Japan are included, it is difficult for Japan's total population to exceed 10,000. In view of the strength of Japan and the Republic, the Japanese authorities basically should not consider acting as a pawn of the United States when the size of the population has not been greatly achieved. Not to mention anything else, under normal circumstances, the population of Dangongwan can only support a standing army of Tianwan at most, and such a military scale is simply impossible to pose a threat to the republic. But the republic has shown an intolerable attitude towards Japan's resurgence. On the anniversary of the outbreak of the Japanese war, the authorities of the Republic rejected the American proposal to return the Ryukyu Islands to Japan, or even to return to Japan the northern part of the occupied Turgara Islands. Rather, it means that after the occupation period is over, it will be up to the Drifters to decide whether to stay or not.
In any case, the revitalization of Japan is not a good thing for the republic.
Affected by this, after the start of the third military reform, the first thing Xiang Linghui did was to set up the Western Pacific Theater Command in Naha, and before leaving office, he sent the newly established Fourth Combat Unit over, and also assigned a commander to the combat unit that he trusted deeply, that is, Lieutenant General Li Jixian. Although the headquarters of the 4th Combat Unit was located in Naha, the unit was actually deployed in the Tugara Islands, and its main forces were stationed on Tanegashima and Yakushima Islands, less than 4,000 kilometers from the Japanese island of Kyushu.
It was precisely because of the presence of this unit that the Japanese authorities abandoned the island of Kyushu, which was in more ideal conditions, when it came time to rebuild.
There is another thing that Pei Chengyi does not know, that is, the authorities of the Republic of China have drawn up a strategic plan for Japan as early as the year of the return year, that is, when the pollution situation in Japan's Benshi is much better than expected, and the reconstruction work of the Japanese authorities is progressing much faster than expected, they will send troops to occupy Kyushu Island, control at least a few deep-water ports, and establish Japan's southern regime in a way that supports the pro-Chinese regime. Because the plan was too large, and after Gu Weimin came to power, the foreign policy of the republic tended to be relaxed, so this strategic plan formulated by the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense was locked in a safe, and even the newly appointed chief of the General Staff did not know its specific contents.
All in all, the authorities of the republic never ignored the threat from Japan.
Under such circumstances, Pei Chengyi naturally could not count on the support of the Fourth Combat Unit. In fact, in the absence of a solution to the question of the Philippines and the beginning of the budding of Japan, the authorities of the Republic will certainly have to take into account the impact of the war in the Middle East on the situation in the Western Pacific.
The problem is that the Middle East theater definitely needs more ground forces.
Li Cunxun is not an unreasonable person, nor is he unaware of the situation on the battlefield in the Middle East. The intention of the United States to increase its troops is already very obvious. In the end, it will definitely be more than 2 Marine Divisions and 2 Army Divisions that will be sent to the Middle East, and there may be a use of Blade Ground Forces. In any case, Pei Chengyi must be provided with more combat equipment as soon as possible, so that Pei Chengyi can grasp the initiative and turn the initiative into victory.
In this case, there is nothing strange about the appearance of Jiang Wancheng and Wang Xueping.