The sudden appearance of the Jiashen task force in the South China Sea, and Wang Huzi's ingenious and inhumane shelling of the small crabs with teeth and claws, obviously poured another basin of hot oil on the already boiling huge oil field incident in Sumatra.

The first attack was the British Empire's Far East Fleet, two old battleships, five armored cruisers, and seven cruisers stationed in Hong Kong and Singapore were all dispatched to the South China Sea. ”

What is a drill? When the British Empire played this set, the Chinese Navy was still using sails!

So Vice Admiral Aina, while ordering the fleet to move on, contacted Whitehall and hoped that the Hood and the Counterattack, which were sailing around the world, would reach the Far East as soon as possible, and he even used the word "about to explode" in the telegram. At the same time, the Netherlands, known as the little overlord of the South Seas, also panicked, and 2 Dutch-class protective cruisers with 3 gunboats hurriedly rushed to the sea off Batavia to be on alert, and at the same time, the harbor fortress also hurriedly contacted the British army, hoping to send new propellants.

Europe is all swept up! The Dutch parliament immediately issued a statement condemning the Chinese navy for creating regional tensions, and reaffirmed that the Netherlands is a neutral country and that the East Indies are its legal colonies and are recognized by all countries in the world. After issuing the statement, he probably felt that it was unreliable, because the United States, which rose more than 20 years ago, defeated Spain in the naval battle between the United States and the West, and since then has entered the ranks of naval powers, so the Dutch Prime Minister and the Admiralty hurriedly asked Lord Decor to send troops. Check whether there are any deliberately stranded Chinese ships in the harbor, in case they blow themselves up, it's not child's play! After the troops inspecting the harbor were dispatched, they stuffed two other Dutch-class protective cruisers with sailors and hurriedly set off from Rotterdam. But the Netherlands also knows that its own little money is not enough for a Taiwan island-class plug. But what's the solution? The best Javanese-class light cruisers are only similar to the Tumenjiang-class light cruisers, and they are still grinding in the dockyard to this day. In the end, he had no choice but to make a big killing move and send an envoy to Britain to ask for help.

Britain certainly can't just watch the Netherlands being bullied. Moreover, the Strait of Malacca is a choke point that must be defended. But now is the gap period for the British Navy, and the Hood and the Counterattack are still on vacation in Peru. It takes at least two weeks to cross the Pacific, and the fleet in the Far East is not enough to defeat the Chinese navy with such a cutting-edge Anhai class. I could only ask about the attitude of the United States and France first, and then picked up the friendship between Britain and Japan, and tried to pull people into the water.

France is clearly unwilling to wade into muddy waters. Not only did they not express their position, but ordered the fleet stationed in Vietnam to only monitor and not participate, and the United States had little interest in oil fields after winning a large refinery contract, and the recent scandalous between Britain and the United States, especially the fact that Britain leased German Guinea and Rabaul to Japan for 20 years, directly led to a crisis in the eastern route from the United States to the Far East. What's more, Shell itself is a thorn in the side of Mobil, and if they get this oil field again, it is estimated that Mobil will have to retreat from the Far East and the South Seas, which have a population of more than 600 million! Therefore, the president's office lazily made a statement that "I don't want the situation to escalate, and the countries concerned should sit down and discuss the future of Nanyang" after half a day of discussion, and then used the humanitarian disaster in Japan after the earthquake and the United States has more important things to do. Continue to be an ostrich.

Of course, the U.S. government didn't really want to be an ostrich, but the serious isolation in the country, and the fact that it was not an earth-shattering event, made it impossible to send a fleet to set off, but it still quietly ordered the navy stationed in Luzon to be on guard.

Sumatra's giant oil fields have once again shown the world the desire of the upstart China to go abroad. When the world was drawn to the whirlpool in the South China Sea and there was a lot of talk about whether to accept the upstarts, the first thing Whitehall did was not to roll up its sleeves and prepare for a fight, but to contact the ambassador to Japan. However, the British ambassador to Japan is now recuperating in the hospital, and the terrible earthquake almost razed the British embassy to the ground, and all foreign communication was cut off. So not only did the ambassador not receive the telegram, but he also wrote about what he saw and heard during the earthquake, and later this diary of the aftermath of the Kanto earthquake helped him win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.

The Times later used the headline "A New Partner at the Table" to describe the game in Asian waters during this time.

Yohei Kono is an ordinary Chitose town guard soldier. The town guard mansion is different from the elite division, to put it bluntly, it is a place where the military headquarters stuffs garbage, and the officers who manage the town guard mansion are also disobedient or old, weak, sick and disabled. In the case of financial constraints and the need to ensure the expenses of sea and land first, one can imagine how difficult his life is, and his monthly salary cannot even support his family. Of course, if it weren't for the last rice riot, he would never have come to this day, but the two brothers who worked in the shipyard at the time of the rice riot were both broken legs by the police because of their participation in the strike, and although they recovered from their injuries, they were left with disabilities, resulting in the loss of their ability to work.

As a result, the whole family's life was even more difficult, and he even saw his sister-in-law being carried into the room by several ronins in Fireworks Alley.

Anger and disappointment with chaebol politics led him to join the Kokusha, but he did not dare to reveal his identity, knowing that in Japan, the Kokusha and the poor party belonged to the same suppressed society, and the military and police had been watching them closely. When he learned that he was going to Tokyo on a rescue and security mission, he was given the task of taking pictures of the aftermath of the earthquake with a miniature camera, and if he completed it, he would receive a 1,000 yen community relief fund. 1,000 yuan is unimaginable wealth for an ordinary Japanese family, so he accepted the task.

On the third day after the earthquake, the troop carrier slowly approached the port of Tokyo, and the once prosperous harbor was full of devastation, full of debris left by the earthquake, and a section of the sea mast was exposed to the water like a thorn, and corpses were floating with the waves.

Amid the shouts of the officers, Yohei Kono and his comrades walked towards the city with guns on their backs, and the more they walked, the more terrible everyone felt, and in the end, the whole team fell into silence! Because the surroundings are so terrible, they can't be described as messy, it's a hell on earth!

The newly completed 12-story Tokyo Tower was broken like a matchstick, the Diet building collapsed in half, and the customs bell was missing. Hundreds of thousands of houses are gone! In just two days, Tokyo became empty. In the worst Sumida district, when Yohei Kono was ordered to come to the rescue, he found that the ground had sunk several meters, all the buildings were burned to the ground, and many people who were imprisoned here by the fire and could not escape were suffocated or burned to death! Walking through the neighborhood, there are piles of corpses everywhere. There are old people, there are prime of life, and there are women with young children in their arms. Some of the corpses were quite recognizable, but many more were completely unrecognizable. Many bodies show signs of decomposition in the heat. Some even cracked their bellies, and the oily yellow intestines squeezed out of them like an explosion, causing the birds to peck vigorously.

Even if you don't look closely. I also know that there are tens of thousands of deaths here!

Later, he learned that tens of thousands of people had been burned to death not only in Tokyo, but also in Yokohama, the hardest-hit area. Last year, the 100,000 tons of oil that Japan bought from Shell were also leaked due to an explosion at the oil depot, and the oil was ignited after being injected into Yokohama Bay, causing the entire bay to burn up, and more than a dozen merchant ships, including two destroyers, and thousands of ships were about to be burned. Even the farther Kobe, Osaka and Kure ports did not escape. Personnel were lost, houses collapsed, and the keels of giant ships laid in the dockyard that the Navy would never forget were also shattered and rendered useless.

From Yokohama Bay to Tokyo Bay, to Sagami Bay and beyond, 8,000 ships of all kinds sank in one fell swoop! That one was made up entirely of large freighters. The trade fleet to Russia, which was pinned on high hopes and brought back countless precious metals and raw materials twice, also lost almost half!

In just one day, nature has turned Japan's richest Kanto region into hell, and both fanatical zodiacs and pragmatic constitutionalists have found that when they emerge from one shelter after another, the country has completely changed. Now don't talk about fighting for the South Seas, I'm afraid you have to be careful to guard against the sneak attack of the Chinese!

While everyone was not paying attention, Yohei Kono took out a small camera and kept pressing the shutter, and when the miserable pictures around him were frozen, the sound of shouting and running suddenly came from the street on the right. He hurriedly rushed into a dilapidated house and looked out, only to see dozens of army soldiers and ronins chasing a group of ragged men. He's weird. Why is there a chase at this time? But the shouting made him understand who was fleeing.

"Catch these renegade Korean mongrels!"

"By killing them, they are offending the gods."

"Despicable and filthy North Koreans should be killed!"

"Kill him!"

Amid the shouting, the soldiers quickly caught up with the North Koreans. Seeing that he was surrounded and unable to escape, the trembling North Korean man simply grabbed a wooden stick on the ground and blocked the woman and child behind him in an attempt to resist. But how could the wooden sticks block the bayonets, especially the ronin and the Black Dragon Warriors who were mixed with the soldiers, wielding their swords and cutting off their hands and feet! Chopped off their heads, then killed the frightened crying children, and finally even grabbed the hair of North Korean women, stripped them naked and insulted them, and then kicked them to the ground and dragged them through the streets with hemp ropes.

In just ten minutes, more than 20 North Korean men, women and children were executed in this way, with bloody heads everywhere, and the woman who was dragged all over her body was already dying, only blood stains told the evil after the earthquake.

The horrific slaughter was recorded at the shutter press, and the bloody and horrific scene made Yohei Kono almost throw up, waiting until the soldiers were far away to show their heads again. Later, he learned that after the earthquake, the fanatical militarists had shifted all the blame to the Koreans, the Chinese, and the Communists, and they bewitched and even convinced some Japanese who were afraid of the gods that they had offended the gods that caused the earthquake, and then drove them together to mock and insult them in all kinds of ways, and then carried out the so-called "street trials", and finally pushed them to the earthquake survivors and beheaded them for public display.

The officers and fanatical militarists who had taken advantage of the opportunity to incite the massacre of Koreans and Party members were now gathered around the Imperial Palace, where they set up camp and shouted "Prevent cholera in the aftermath of the disaster, and defend the Emperor and the Crown Prince with their lives." ”

Inside the Imperial Palace, the sturdy Akasaka Imperial Palace has become an earthquake island, and the young Hirohito climbs the tower with the help of his guards, and raises his binoculars with trembling hands. He didn't dare to look at it, but he knew that if he wanted to become the true emperor, he would have to face it, but when the lenses were projected into the distance and the city was closer, it was endless desolation and numb national cheeks. Behind Hirohito's stunned back, there is the figure of tens of millions of Japanese people in a frenzy, hundreds of thousands of casualties, a full $30 billion in economic destruction, massacres and turmoil!

Doomsday, the corners of young Hirohito's mouth twitched. The achievements made since the Meiji Restoration were almost completely destroyed, the dream of leaving Asia and joining the rich countries of Europe was facing an abrupt death, the soldiers and the army who regarded death as if they were at home fell into impatience, took up arms and slaughtered Koreans and party members who had nothing to do with each other, and the Meiji spirit finally completely changed its course after the defeat of the war, the rice riots, and the earthquake, and all that remained was mania, anxiety, and the rhapsody of finding a quick recovery for Japan.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Nagata Tetsuyama walked behind Hirohito with a telegram. The whole of Japan fantasized that this young man would lead the country out of its shackles, but this earthquake really didn't come at the right time. He bowed his head and respectfully handed the telegram to the guard: "It's a telegram from His Excellency Minister An Zhen in Singapore. He reported. The Chinese fleet has already arrived off the coast of Batavia, asked. ”

Hirohito knew what Minister Yasusada wanted to ask. The huge oil fields of Sumatra can almost be pinched in your hands! But it was destroyed by this earthquake!

Hirohito returned the binoculars to the guards, and the sharp-eyed Nagata Tetsuyama saw that his hands in his cuffs were white. As if there was no blood at all. Hirohito took a deep breath and brought up the last trace of fantasy: "Nagata-kun, you are the most outstanding officer in the empire. Please tell me, Nanyang. ”

"I'm sad, Your Highness the Prince." Nagata Tieshan lowered his head and looked serious: "The situation is very bad, the most important thing now is to appease the people, stabilize order as soon as possible, and prevent a post-disaster riot." Migration to colonial islands such as Guinea should also be accelerated, especially those families who have been hit hardest, and you should bless them to send them to the New World to start a new life, so that they will be grateful to you and the Empire. As for the rest. Our country has no energy, not only should it not interfere, but it should also immediately send a foreign minister to visit China, and the DPRK must not be disturbed! ”

Hirohito has infinite fantasies of taking the South Seas and building a big Japanese empire, but the reality is like a basin of ice water poured directly on Japan's head. It was a moment before he looked at it. Take a deep breath and make up your mind: "Please ask Foreign Minister Hikoyoshi of Ijiin to go to China immediately on behalf of my father, and you can go with you." Please take me to convey to His Excellency Yang Qiu that I believe that the Sumatra oil fields belong to our property in Asia and ask him to keep them as much as possible. Other than that! Please tell General Shotaro Fukuda that for the sake of the peace of the Empire, military control will be imposed on the whole country immediately. Punish those who riot and loot! ”

"Hey!"

Nagata Tieshan focused on his size, and even had a hint of joy in his heart. From the decisive support for China's acquisition of Sumatra oil fields in exchange for Korean stability, it can be seen that Crown Prince Hirohito has finally grown up.

When Hikoyoshi Ijiin and Tetsuyama Nagata rushed to Nanjing as fast as they could on a naval cruiser, Bernard also had a headache. Seeing that he would be able to step down in a few months and return to the United Kingdom to enjoy his blessings, and then serve as a parliamentary expert on Asian issues, he encountered this unfortunate thing at the last moment.

After pouring himself a cup of milk tea, he raised his eyelids and asked his assistant: "Is the United States really indifferent?" ”

The assistant said, "Yes, Your Excellency, Ambassador. The U.S. ambassador told me that he didn't want to see unrest in the South China Sea, but he felt that governments should not interfere in the normal conduct of private trade and business, but should let the businessmen negotiate on their own. ”

"Damn the door is open!" Bernard scolded thoughtlessly, surprised why the United States was not interested in such a large oil field. The assistant answered his doubts: "Obviously, they were bribed by the Chinese to sell the 5 million tons of North Sea refinery project to them. ”

What else is there to say about an oil refinery with an annual processing capacity of 5 million tons? Damn America's nouveau riche apparently compromised with the oil fields and a market of 500 million people, choosing the latter. Bernard picked up the teacup and continued to ask, "That's it." I really shouldn't have asked their opinions, but what about Japan? How severe is the earthquake? ”

The assistant spread his hand and shook his head: "I'm sorry, the communication to Japan has been completely interrupted, and there are no detailed damage reports yet." Major Ute said he had tried to enter the Uraga waterway to check on the situation, but was stopped by the Japanese navy. It is clear that Japan does not want us and other countries to enter the chaotic zone now. But from these anomalous signs, I think it could be worse than we thought. ”

Bernard sighed again. The earthquake in Japan had the advantage of forcing Japan to give up its peep into the South Seas, but the downside was that the last bit of tacit understanding between Britain and Japan was gone. If Japan's losses are too great, it will definitely have to abandon all strategic drastic contractions, and it will not be possible to threaten the Chinese Navy with the Japanese Navy and eventually force them to abandon the oil fields.

The United States is not interested, Japan is powerless, and France may support Chinese weapons in the hope of a war between China and Britain. Now the only ally left in the South Seas is the Netherlands, but when he thinks of the broken ships of the Dutch Navy, he has a headache.

Why is Yang Qiu's luck so good every time? Is the British Empire really going to be isolated from the world? "I need to make a comprehensive judgment to find out how to figure out Japan's losses as soon as possible." Bernard cursed to himself and waved, but before the assistant could leave the office, the door was pushed open again.

"Your Excellency, you should take a look at it at once!"

The military attache put the newly published Nanjing Daily on the table: "This is the newspaper that has just been published, and the situation in Japan may be very bad!" ”

Bernard hurriedly opened the newspaper, although the square words on it were like a book from heaven to him, but the pictures couldn't help but gasp! Blackened houses, piles of corpses, slaughtered mobs, and completely faceless cities!

"What is this?"

The military attache pointed to the newspaper headline and said two words with certainty: "Tokyo!" ”

"God!" …… (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )