In order to capture the Japanese archipelago, China and the United States committed a total of 6.35 million soldiers, 5,600 tanks, more than 13,000 combat aircraft, 43 aircraft carriers of various types, and more than 7,000 landing ships.

The entire battle lasted almost eight months. The Chinese side paid 270,000 lives, the United States lost 150,000 soldiers, more than 300,000 soldiers were seriously wounded in both countries, and the Japanese Free Army, the Korean Expeditionary Force, the Nanyang Revenge Army and other servant troops also suffered heavy losses.

According to the original estimates, it would take at least 300,000 lives to defeat the whole of Japan, and this was only the loss of the frontal battlefield. In order to stabilize the whole of Japan and eliminate all the resistance forces, the Allies will have to pay a lot of sacrifices, and it is conservatively estimated that the losses of China and the United States will be more than one million.

This scale has surpassed the Normandy landing operation, and it is definitely the largest amphibious landing operation in the world, and in the whole process, the Chinese army that led the landing operation has also gained valuable experience and has been greatly tempered.

However, due to Hirohito's unexpected arrest, the second half of the war ended early, and when Hirohito's speech was broadcast nationwide, resistance from all over Japan disappeared in an instant. Only a few stubborn soldiers still did not believe this to be true, and they continued to resist to the death, and these people were undoubtedly mantis arms as carts, and they were all quickly cleaned up.

Japan's four islands gradually stabilized. After Qiao Yu got the battle report from the front line, he was also very happy. Qiao Yu only returned from Yalta half a month before the attack on Tokyo, and the four giants quarreled fiercely in Yalta for their own interests.

However, it was more Churchill, the big fat man, who provoked the quarrel, and the other three powers maintained considerable restraint, in fact, it is easy to understand that the war was fought to this point, and the pattern of the three countries re-dividing the world has been formed.

China swallowed the South China Sea and extended its influence into the Indian Ocean and the Southwest Pacific. The layers of island chains that originally constrained China's development have become unsinkable aircraft carriers guarding China. China's maritime living space has been greatly expanded. It has become a powerful country on land and sea.

The Soviet Union swallowed Eastern Europe and, through Turkey, intervened in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, greatly improving its strategic position.

As for the United States, it is in the Pacific region by virtue of the advantage of two oceans. A successful series of islands, and the successful intervention of Japan, Australia also fell to the United States in this war. In the Atlantic direction, the Americans gained even more, and all of Western Europe fell into the hands of the United States. In addition, the United States has also established some fulcrums in North Africa, and the next step is to prepare to intervene in the Middle East.

From this layout, it can be seen that China, the United States and the Soviet Union have all reaped the benefits of the war, and the three countries also have a strategic depth beyond normal, and the three countries will not have too serious conflicts until these achievements are digested. Moreover, among the three kingdoms, Qiao Yu wanted to continue to cultivate his glory and quietly digest the entire South Seas, while Stalin was violent, but the Soviet-German war caused the Soviet Union to suffer too heavy losses, and the polar bear also urgently needed to recover from his injuries.

Among the three parties, the attitude of the United States is the most important, and Roosevelt was not a reckless guy like Truman. He had a clear grasp of the international situation, and what Roosevelt wanted to do was to bring both China and the Soviet Union into the new world pattern through peaceful cooperation. Therefore, some compromises are perfectly acceptable.

None of the three major powers had the intention of rashly opposing each other, and only one Churchill instigated in the middle could not set off a storm at all, and in the end, the Yalta Conference was successfully concluded in accordance with the wishes of the three major powers.

The Soviet Union obtained the sphere of influence in Eastern Europe as it wished, and Qiao Yu's proposal to convene a Pacific Conference to decide on Asia-Pacific issues was also agreed to by the United States, but in order to accommodate Britain's feelings, Roosevelt proposed to set up a Far East Commission under the framework of the United Nations, including Britain.

As for the question of whether France, which is the most controversial member, will become a permanent member, Qiao Yu proposed a compromise plan, that is, to give France a permanent membership, but not to give France the right of veto, France cannot use the veto like the other four powers, this proposal made de Gaulle furious, but there was no way.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that in order to get rid of the embarrassing position of too few seats in the United Nations, the Soviet Union took the initiative to ask for Ukraine and Belarus to be members of the United Nations, and the Soviet Union was able to obtain two votes steadily, which in Stalin's view could not be found with a lantern.

For the sake of fairness, China was also given the same power, China could choose two provinces as members of the United Nations, but this proposal was directly vetoed by Qiao Yu, the Soviet Union was willing to let Ukraine and Belarus become member states, that is their freedom, but China will never agree to any province to join the United Nations, as for the problem of too few votes Qiao Yu did not take it seriously at all.

As for the fact that China has no value in one veto, the United Nations has never been a place to look at the number of votes, and rashly allowing a part of the country to have the power that only the state has is absolutely the way to get rid of chaos.

Isn't this artificially creating divisions, where the sense of superiority of the regions that have won the seats increases, while the regions that have not won the seats are indignant, and how can they still manage the country if they continue like this? In Qiao Yu's opinion, although Stalin is shrewd enough, this steel man is still full of Russian thinking, and he can swallow it typically, but he doesn't care whether he can digest it or not. It can also be seen from this that the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union is also excusable, and the root of the bane has been planted at this time.

In any case, the successful conclusion of the Yalta Conference is tantamount to the final coordination of the attitudes of the four major powers before the victory comes, and it has an important impact on the international community.

As soon as Qiao Yu returned to Beijing, he got the news that Hirohito had been captured, and then the large-scale battle in the Japanese archipelago was completely over, and Qiao Yu and all the high-ranking people showed joy. Since the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, Japan has become a regional power with the corpse of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and since then the small Japan has overwhelmed the old empire, which is a unique event in the history of exchanges between China and Japan for thousands of years.

Moreover, this has had a fatal impact on China's national self-confidence, and since then China has produced a serious situation of admiring foreign countries, everything foreign is good, even the moon is rounder than China, this situation is not an isolated case, and almost all of them have become a national mentality.

In particular, some bullshit literati have lost their independent thinking, and even put forward absurd ideas such as abolishing Chinese characters. They continue to slander the Chinese and carry out self-harm, as if they cannot show their superiority without proving that the Chinese are inferior.

These literati have been so poisonous that they have influenced later generations, and their titles have changed from masters to public knowledge, but in short, they are just a bunch of foreign slaves who kneel in front of Western civilization.

However, in the middle of this time, the Chinese army invaded Tokyo, completely crushed the Japanese island nation, and at the same time participated in the Normandy landings, defeating the powerful German army. Behind these victories are both tangible political interests and invisible popular influences.

The vast majority of Chinese are finally able to straighten their waists, they are still proud descendants of Yan Huang, still standing proudly above the world, and those beam-jumping clowns have lost room to perform. Although the Chinese are not rich enough, everyone firmly believes that the future is good, and the Chinese will sooner or later restore the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties.

Restoring people's morale and regaining self-confidence in Chinese culture is of great value to China's move towards a more brilliant future. Qiao Yu, Jiang Baili, Yan Xishan and other high-level officials also clearly saw this impact, and they were also very pleased.

What to do now is how to concoct Japan, a defeated country, Qiao Yu handed over this matter to Yan Xishan to deal with. Yan Xishan is usually known for his shrewdness and calculation, and he does not suffer losses in anything, and this is the time when Yan Xishan shows his ability.

Yan Xishan was not polite, he organized a large number of people, and soon formulated opinions on the handling of Japan. The first was to deprive Japan of all the islands it had illegally occupied, and that Japanese sovereignty would be limited to Honshu Island, as well as other islands designated by the Allies; Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has had to return all illegally looted property, and at the same time, 20 percent of its annual revenue must be paid for reparations for a period of 99 years.

Yan Xishan's two propositions showed enough ruthlessness, and he cut off three of Japan's four big islands at once, and as for whether or not they will be returned to Japan, it depends on the mood of each country. The indemnity is a pioneering act, not set the total amount of indemnity, but based on the fiscal revenue as the standard, and the period is as long as 99 years, this is another trap, the speed of economic development often exceeds people's estimates, and now the astronomical amount of reparations is required, and it may not be so much after a few decades, so it is very in line with the long-term interests not to set a specific amount.

In addition, the most important third article is the treatment of Japanese war criminals, in Yan Xishan's plan, the first to push Japan's crime of aggression to the Meiji Restoration, of which the First Sino-Japanese War was the beginning of Japan's foreign aggression and expansion.

This definition of time is actually very crucial, and the original historical definition of Japanese aggression began with the September 18 Incident, so the Japanese saw their Meiji era expansion as innocent, and even many people in China regarded the Meiji Restoration as a successful reform.

However, if you know a little bit about history, it will be clear that since the Meiji era, Japan's aggression and expansion have been in the same line, and the policy has been consistent, but it is in different steps, so in order to completely liquidate Japan, it is necessary to start with the Meiji Restoration.

One of the most crucial points in Yan Xishan's plan is the definition of the scope of war criminals, who should be the dominant group of all those who support the act of war and gain benefits through war. According to this definition, Japan's military, government, and chaebol forces are all included, and even some Japanese scholars who advocate aggression and expansion are defined as war criminals.

After this argument was put forward, it showed a murderous side, and all the Japanese elites from all walks of life had the possibility of becoming war criminals! (To be continued.) )