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Chapter 419

Warring States period

The beheading operation that lasted for a week was finally won by the Chinese Emperor**. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe imperial family and key government officials of the Wa Kingdom were captured by the Chinese Emperor, which made the Wa State a state of sorrow, not only paralyzed the entire national command system, but also dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the entire Yamato clan, and also accelerated the surrender of the Wa State.

The Japanese army deployed 150,000 regular troops in Tokyo, as well as hundreds of thousands of reservists and militiamen, and originally planned to fight a large-scale battle to defend Tokyo, but with the news that the Taisho Imperial Family and key officials in Kyoto had been captured, the Japanese army suddenly fell into chaos. Although Prince Chihito claimed that it was a rumor, the Imperial Chinese Air Force soon published photos of war criminals such as Taisho and Gonbei Yamamoto in newspapers, hyped them, and distributed leaflets over Tokyo, which immediately damaged the morale of the Japanese army.

Under the fierce attack of the Chinese Emperor ** in the following three days, Tokyo was razed to the ground, and after paying a huge price of 100,000 troops and 300,000 civilians, the Japanese army abandoned Tokyo and retreated to Nagano, the capital of the country.

On 5 April, Feng Guozhang forced Emperor Taisho of Japan and the cabinet of Yamamoto Gonbei to sign the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Kanagawa in Kanagawa. The treaty stipulates that the Emperor of Japan shall be demoted to the rank of vassal king of the Chinese Empire, that all organs of power and influential persons who will deceive and mislead the Japanese people and who will embark on the road of threatening the extremely vassal state of the Chinese Empire shall be eliminated at any time, that the appointment of the King and Prime Minister of Japan shall be consulted with the Chinese Empire, that Japan's sovereignty shall be limited to Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and some small islands as determined by the Chinese Empire, that the Japanese army will be completely disarmed, and that only the police force for maintaining law and order will be retained, and that there shall be no offensive forces such as the navy and the air force, A serious judiciary will find out all ** war criminals and ban all ** speech. Compensate the Chinese Empire for the war expenses of 3 billion dragon coins, in the form of borrowing from the Chinese Imperial Bank, with customs and fiscal revenues as guarantees, and repay it in installments of 99 years. Japan's 21 naval bases, including Sasebo, Kure, and Yokosuka, were taken over by the Chinese Imperial Navy, and the Chinese Emperor had the right to station troops in various parts of Japan.

The treaty was very harsh, and basically the purpose was to make it impossible for Japan to turn over and accept the rule of the Chinese Empire for a hundred years.

Taisho and Yamamoto had nothing to do, especially right-wingers such as Yamamoto Gonbei, who were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 100 to 800 years and deprived of political rights for life as war criminals.

After Feng Guozhang received the treaty documents, he immediately sent them to the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao for approval.

On 8 April, after studying with the cabinet, Wang Chenhao believed that Feng Guozhang had handled the issue of Japan very properly, so Wang Chenhao ratified the treaty.

Since Tokyo had been razed to the ground, the Chinese Empire moved King Taisho and the newly established Katsura Taro cabinet and parliament to Kumamoto, Kyushu, with Kumamoto as the capital of the Wa Kingdom.

All officials who had supported the war against the Chinese Empire or were hostile to the Chinese Empire were not removed, and all the remaining Japanese officials swore allegiance to the Chinese Empire.

Since Wang Chenhao and the National Assembly believed that the strategic purpose of the war against Japan had been achieved and there was no need to spend money on it, Wang Chenhao had already issued a holy decree that no matter whether it was successful or not, the war would end after the capture of Tokyo, and the imperial decree could not be changed, so Feng Guozhang, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Empire's war against Japan, stopped the main military operations after signing a treaty with Taisho and Katsura Taro to end the war.

On April 9, Prince Chihito of the Arisugawa Miya, who was in Nagano, refused to recognize the treaty signed between King Taisho and the cabinet of Katsura Taro and the Chinese Empire, calling them Japanese traitors and scum of the Yamato clan. In order to continue the resistance to the Chinese Empire, Prince Chihito proclaimed himself emperor, proclaimed himself emperor, established Nagano as the capital of Japan, and continued to fight.

However, most of the remaining Japanese troops did not want to fight any longer, and in addition to the fact that they would die if they continued to fight, the emperor and the entire government officials were captured, and they had no fighting spirit at all. Moreover, the Treaty of Mizujinagawa had been signed to end the war, and the Japanese people were no longer able to help the Japanese army fight, and more than half of the people who wanted to end the war were responsible.

Therefore, when Chiren proclaimed himself the Empress of Heaven, more than 100,000 Japanese regular troops, reservists, and militia mutinied and fled to the area actually occupied by the Chinese Emperor. In addition, the Japanese army and the local government in the southwestern part of Honshu and Shikoku also pledged their allegiance to the Chinese Empire and surrendered to the newly established government of Wakuni Ketsutaro.

As Chiren continued to rebel against the Chinese Empire, the General Staff had an excuse to keep 300,000 troops in the Wa Kingdom and continue to wipe out the remnants of the Japanese resistance.

However, the anti-war members of the Imperial Chinese Congress quickly thought of a strategy to deal with the General Staff, and they established the Imperial Cooperative Army system in the Japanese State, and like the Korean Imperial Cooperative Army, the new Japanese Imperial Cooperative Army will be used to fight against the remnants of the Chiren Resistance Army, and use the Japanese to fight the Japanese, which will not consume the strength of the Chinese Emperor, but will further weaken the national strength of the Japanese State.

In this way, under the operation of the Chinese Empire, an imperial army of 200,000 people was established in the Wa Kingdom, which was specially used as a cannon fodder unit for the Chinese Emperor ** to deal with the Chiren ** army.

This strategy of killing several birds with one stone was approved by Wang Chenhao, so the General Staff had to cancel the plan to garrison 300,000 troops in the Japanese state, but on the grounds that the Japanese country was newly settled and the people's hearts were unstable, it still retained 100,000 garrisons.

However, Chiren is not orthodox, and if it were the emperor, it would not be his turn, but Prince Nengjiu. In addition, all the treasury of the Japanese State was intercepted by the Chinese Emperor**, and Chiren's finances were tight, and he was repeatedly defeated in the confrontation with the Chinese Emperor** and the Japanese Imperial Army.

Soon after, Prince Nohisa and his descendants opposed Emperor Chihito and left Nagano a month later and withdrew all the way to Hokkaido, where he proclaimed himself emperor in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

After Nohisa split with Blahito, he further weakened the resistance of the Japanese army, and as a result, the Chinese Emperor ** and the Japanese Imperial Allied Army soon captured Nagano, forcing Akahito to lead his men into the mountains and began a long guerrilla war.

It was in the national security interests of the Chinese Empire to maintain a divided Japan. The Imperial Government of China was pleased to see Japan split into three regimes, and the Japanese archipelago would never be at peace. Therefore, although the Chinese Empire had the power to destroy Chiren and Nengjiu at the same time, it let it go, and the Chinese Emperor ** no longer directly went to battle, but let the Imperial Alliance Army fight with the Emperor Chihito Army and the Emperor Nengjiu Army. Compared with the losses and casualties caused by the Japanese nationals of the Chinese Imperial Army, the three Japanese regime armies attacked each other, and their ruthlessness far exceeded that of the Chinese Emperor**, causing countless Japanese civilian casualties, and the entire Japanese archipelago fell into dire straits, as if returning to the darkness of the Warring States Period in Japan.

The Third Sino-Japanese War ended with the victory of the Chinese Empire and the defeat of Japan and the tripartite situation of the Three Kingdoms. The Chinese Empire launched a war against Japan and consumed 1.5 billion dragon coins in war expenses, and received a total of 2.9 billion dragon coins in war compensation from Japan. After the war, the Chinese Empire completely eliminated the Japanese threat and cut off one of the hands of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, both at the strategic and tactical levels, and the Chinese Empire won the game against the United States.

The United States deeply regrets the loss of Japan as an ally, and there are only two strategic bases left in the Asia-Pacific region, the Philippines and Hawaii, and without Japan's barrier, the United States will face the military threat of the Chinese empire head-on, and there is no way to retreat.

Although the United States lamented the loss of Japan, the situation in Europe was very unoptimistic for the Entente, so that the United States did not have the energy to play games with the Chinese Empire. Therefore, during this period, the United States was at a disadvantage in the confrontation between the United States and the Chinese Empire.

The smell of gunsmoke in the European sky has been going on for three years, and it still has no intention of stopping.

During the Chinese Empire's war against Japan, the Battle of Jutland between the Allied Germany and the British Navy led to the breaking of the balance of power in the European sea, and the German High Seas Fleet entered the Atlantic Ocean and cooperated with the advanced submarines obtained from the Chinese Empire to launch a powerful engagement in the Atlantic, which far exceeded the scale and destruction of the Sino-British War during the Sino-British War, and severely damaged the Allied countries.

Beginning in March 1915, and before that, the German submarine forces sank a total of 4 million registered tonnage of Allied merchant ships in two and a half years, inflicting $4 billion in losses on the Allied countries.

But since the Battle of Jutland, the German Navy entered the Atlantic, which exacerbated the losses of the Entente. From 200,000 tonnes in March to 1 million tonnes in April, it soared to 2.5 million tonnes in May and 3.85 million tonnes in June. In just three months, the Allied merchant ships were sunk more than in the past two and a half years combined, and the Allied maritime supply lines were severely damaged.

On average, 1 out of every 3 British merchant ships went to sea was sunk. The German High Seas Fleet and German submarines sank a total of 5,566 Allied merchant ships, of which British merchant ships accounted for one-half and American merchant ships accounted for one-third. In 1915, the total tonnage of British shipbuilding was only 2.7 million tons, which can be described as a heavy loss.

At the beginning, in order to defeat the German submarines, the British Admiralty consulted a number of mathematical experts, and according to probability, mathematicians pointed out that group navigation was the best way to reduce losses. Therefore, in order to maintain the sea lines of communication, the British Admiralty took emergency measures in the form of a "fleet escort system". That is to say, a dozen or dozens of merchant ships were formed into a fleet, escorted by destroyers or cruisers, and traveled between the United States and Britain. Due to the fact that the escort ships were equipped with depth charges, it was possible to counterattack the German ships, which greatly reduced the losses of the merchant ships. After the convoy began to be escorted in accordance with the above methods, the losses of British merchant ships were greatly reduced. With the continuous development of anti-submarine tactics, the losses of German submarines gradually increased. In two and a half years, although German submarines still sank 2,283 Allied merchant ships with a registered tonnage of 3,992,000 tons, they lost more than 300 submarines.

And with the entry of the German High Seas Fleet into the Atlantic, the sea lanes were completely blocked, and the merchant ships of all other countries, except for the merchant fleet of the Chinese Empire, were not able to enter the Allied waters at all, and were either sunk or captured. At this time, Germany's economy was quite tense, and the navy adopted the tactic of feeding the war by war, and some of the plundered merchant ships and goods were supplied to Germany, and most of them were sold cheaply to the Chinese Empire in exchange for the supply of arms and strategic materials from the Chinese Empire.

This tactic of directly robbing the merchant ships and goods of the Entente countries was a heavy blow to the strength of the Entente and at the same time capable of making a lot of war profits. The German Navy tasted the sweetness and lamented the huge war profits that the Chinese Empire had robbed of the British merchant fleet many years ago. The Chinese Empire also obtained the "stolen goods" from the German navy, and although it paid a fee for the sale of the stolen goods, there was no doubt that it would make money. The German navy had no bases in the Atlantic, so in order to get rid of it as soon as possible, it was generally sold to the merchants of the Chinese Empire at a low price, for which the merchants of the Chinese Empire made a lot of money.

Although only one-third of the merchant ships sunk by the United States were sunk, the merchant ships were all large, carrying a huge amount of cargo, and most of them were arms and strategic materials urgently needed by the Entente countries, and the German High Seas Fleet broke the battle for three months, causing direct economic losses of $2.5 billion to the United States.

The U.S. government was furious about it, but it couldn't do anything about it. It turned out that after China and the United States signed the Hawaiian Non-Aggression Pact, the US Navy could be transferred to Europe to stop the German Navy from breaking the engagement. But the Chinese Empire did not make the United States any better. In order to guard against the Imperial Chinese Navy, almost ninety percent of the main fleet of the US Navy was concentrated at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii. When the US Pacific Fleet moved as far as Europe, trouble came. The Chinese Empire's refusal to develop the Panama Canal for the U.S. Navy on the grounds of external neutrality made the U.S. Navy have to go around Cape Horn in South America and spend three months returning to the east coast of the United States.

As a result, the U.S. Navy procrastinated until July 1915 when it officially entered the Atlantic to fight the German High Seas Fleet.

And during this time, the British Navy was blocked by the German Navy at home and beaten with heavy losses.

Originally, British naval aviation could also protect British capital ships repaired in ports and dockyards, but every time German naval capital ships approached, they were beaten away by British naval aviation.

But that changed in April. Germany successively obtained a large number of H1N1 bombers and cat demon fighters from the Chinese Empire, and the German army built a large number of airfields in the occupied northwest coastal areas of France, so that a large number of bomber groups and fighter groups in Germany could be transferred to the English Channel and the North Sea.

This would allow German air power to strike directly at the Scapa naval base in the northwest of Britain.

On April 13, Germany dispatched 300 Cat Demon fighters, 2,100 Fokker (J-5) fighters, and 130 H1N1 bomber groups to bomb Scarpa fiercely. At the same time, the German High Seas Fleet also took the initiative of 22 main battleships to shell the port of Scarpa.

British naval aviation urgently dispatched 320 Cat Demon fighters,

800 Camel fighters took to the skies. Fierce air battles broke out over Scarpa. In the end, because the British Cat Demon fighter was a shrunken version exported by the Chinese Empire, and the performance of a batch of Cat Demon fighters copied by the British was not up to par, in the face of Germany's 300 genuine Cat Demon fighters, it was suddenly out of disadvantage. The British self-developed camel fighter, although it can compete with the German Fokker fighter, but the number is at a disadvantage, the British main air force fighter group is no longer home, but on the front line in France and Italy, as a result, because the number is weak, the air battle finally failed with the British loss of 643 fighters, Germany won the 4.13 air battle, only 401 fighters were lost.

The British 413 air battle was lost, and the consequences were catastrophic, because the Luftwaffe covered 130 H1N1 bomber groups to carry out heavy bombardment of the Scarpa naval base, and under the heavy bombardment of 22 capital ships, all British naval facilities in Scapa Bay, docks, oil depots, granaries, barracks, ammunition depots, harbor batteries, and warships anchored in the harbor lost 45 ships, including 7 battleships such as the Sovereign, the Queen Elizabeth battlecruiser, and 14 first-class cruisers, Twenty-three destroyers were sunk or stranded with heavy damage, and a large number of auxiliary ships were destroyed.

In the following week, the German navy and naval aviation successively carried out fierce air raids and bombardments on the Scapa base, and the British navy was almost completely wiped out in the harbor, and more than seventy percent of the capital ships were sunk.

It can be said that the German navy was able to attack the next supply ship in the Atlantic, but also blocked the British ports and bombarded them fiercely, causing heavy damage to more than 100 ports, including the port of Portsmouth along the British coast, and destroying a large number of ships and dock facilities, causing incalculable losses to the British.

During this period, the French Navy dispatched 29 warships to support the British, but due to the limitation of France's national strength, the quantity and quality of the construction of the superbow-type capital ships in the later stage of the large naval arms race were far inferior to those of the German Navy, so the French Navy basically took the French coastline and relied on coastal fortress guns to confront the German Navy.

But the German navy was not attracted to the French navy, ignoring the fact that they had been attacking the British coastal ~ cities. In three months, from April to July, when the U.S. Navy arrived, more than 100 cities along the British coast were severely damaged, economic losses exceeded $5 billion, and the country was on the verge of collapse.

On July 3, 1915, the main force of the U.S. Navy Expeditionary Fleet entered the Atlantic Ocean to escort 100 large merchant ships to Britain. The German High Seas Fleet, under the command of Scheer, tried to fight a battle with the U.S. Navy, but the U.S. Navy's expeditionary fleet was too large, and Scheer tried it once and found that it was not cheap, so he gave up the decisive battle and continued to fight at sea to break diplomatic relations and attack the Allied supply lines.

The U.S. Navy left a powerful battle cruiser detachment and more than 200 destroyers to maneuver with the German battle cruiser fleet and submarine fleet in the Atlantic, escorting the U.S. merchant fleet and preventing the German Navy from breaking the engagement.

Due to the U.S. Navy's very large superiority over the German Navy in terms of the caliber and number of main guns, forcing the German Navy to greatly reduce the fleet that could be attacked, the disruptive engagement operation encountered difficulties.

In this way, the American expeditionary fleet arrived in the British port of Portsmouth in mid-July and drove away the German navy that was attacking nearby. The arrival of a hundred supply ships solved the British need, allowing the British to be rescued before they were about to run out of gas.

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