China and the United States jointly attacked the Japanese mainland and jointly carried out a war of hunger, first blockading Japan's military ports, dropping more than 3,000 mines on Sasebo, Kure Port, Shimonoseki Strait, and other places, sealing all these ports.

The second phase of the blockade focused on the Seto Inland Sea, which is the most important industrial area in Japan, surrounded by important cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe.

The third step was to throw mines at Hokkaido and other places, and the action of throwing mines at Japan lasted a total of two and a half months, with 3,528 sorties of bombers and 22,053 mines laid by the Chinese and US air forces, including 7,900 magnetic mines, 6,500 acoustic mines, 4,900 hydrostatic mines, and 2,700 low-frequency acoustic mines.

The mines also achieved fruitful results, sinking and damaging more than 670 ships, including 65 warships, including the "Sea Hawk" and Chiyoda aircraft carriers.

Among them, 431 ships were sunk or severely damaged and could not be repaired, with a total tonnage of more than 1.4 million tons, equivalent to 75 percent of the total tonnage of Japanese ships at the beginning of the campaign.

Moreover, the results of this operation were large, but the losses were small, with an average of 1 Japanese ship sunk for every 21 mines, and the losses on the Allied side were extremely light, with only 15 aircraft lost.

The biggest result of this operation is to completely divide the four islands of Japan, and the waterways between Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido have a staggering number of torpedoes, blockade, Japan has been dismembered, and the next step is to eat meat and gnaw bones.

In addition, it has also achieved remarkable results in overseas theaters. China has successfully taken the islands of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Micronesian Islands. As a result, China's hand has completely extended to Oceania, and the islands in the Pacific Ocean are no longer the so-called island chains that restrict China, but have become springboards for China's progress.

The United States, of course, does not want China to expand its influence, and they are also actively acting. The Marshall Islands, the Mariana Islands, the Ogasawara Islands and other places were seized, and the entire Pacific Ocean was divided equally between China and the United States. Before the war, Britain also had many interests in the Asia-Pacific region. But now there is nothing left, and the two countries have a very tacit understanding that nothing is left for Britain.

The hunger war is also carried out in Borneo, but here is China's unilateral dominance, without the participation of the Americans, China has long been preparing to annex it, and naturally it will not release such a toxic thing as Agent Orange. The South China Sea Fleet used four large aircraft carriers, plus eight escort carriers, to completely blockade Borneo.

Then there was a heavy air attack on the Japanese on the island, but the Japanese in Borneo were also very stubborn, and they defended the island to the death. They definitely don't want to give up easily, and the Japanese people's attachment to territory can be seen.

Nor did the Chinese government expect Japan to be so tenacious. China simply surrounded this place without fighting, and focused its attack on the Japanese mainland, as long as the four islands were settled, Borneo would naturally surrender without a fight.

China has randomly proposed to the United States to set up a joint landing command center, and the two countries will draw capable troops to form a powerful force to launch an amphibious landing operation against Japan. The United States also responded enthusiastically, with the United States appointing Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, as its representative and planning to send 1.5 million troops to participate in the landing operation, while the Chinese side mobilized more than 3 million troops, mainly hoarded in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, which is the closest to the Japanese mainland and the most suitable place for landing.

The landing operation of nearly 5 million troops was absolutely unprecedented, and the scale was even larger than the Normandy landings that were in the making, and it was also a great test of the command and coordination capabilities of China and the United States.

According to Qiao Yu's plan, the entire preparation period will be close to half a year, so as to ensure that the allies can hoard enough supplies, and the soldiers can also receive enough training to ensure the smooth progress of the landing, and the most important thing is that there will be another half a year, and it will be the harvest season.

According to the estimates of Chinese and American experts, Japan's grain output is bound to be seriously reduced, and the scale of the reduction may be nearly half, and this is already the second year of great famine since the beginning of the war. In the first year, Japan's production was reduced by nearly 20 percent due to China's release of Agent Orange, and more than 1.5 million Japanese died of hunger in one year.

If this year's famine were to be even larger, the number of people starving to death in Japan would have increased exponentially, and 10 million starvation deaths was not a delusion, but a staggering number. The Nazis used crematoriums, gas chambers, etc., and in the end they only slaughtered five million Jews, so it can be seen that there was no horror of hunger in any means.

If tens of millions of people starve to death, Japan will inevitably collapse in a situation, not only will production collapse, but even the morale of the army will be difficult to guarantee.

Although Roosevelt knew that Americans were eager for revenge, he did not want to see too many Americans die in Japan, and the parents and families of those young people all represented the votes, and Roosevelt absolutely did not dare to offend the voters easily, and the life or death of the Japanese was not a matter for China and the United States to consider.

The war entered the counteroffensive stage, Qiao Yu's affairs did not ease at all, and the allies would work together to win the victory in the early days of the war, but once the dawn of victory appeared, the intrigue between the countries was completely presented, and in order to compete for the interests after the war, all countries were acting frantically.

However, in the final analysis, the competition between countries is still a competition for strength, without enough strength, it is not to get its own fruits of victory, just like the current Britain, although it is also a victorious country, although it is also known as a giant, but there is no doubt that Britain's interests are ignored by the other three countries, which is the best proof of the decline of national strength.

In order to enhance international strength, the most fundamental thing is the progress of science and technology, Qiao Yu formulated a lot of long-term plans for scientific research and development before the outbreak of World War II, the most important of which are nuclear weapons, rocket technology, and computer technology, which are representatives of the new technological revolution after World War II.

In addition, Qiao Yu has also invested heavily in marine technology, new material technology, and electronic technology. After a period of accumulation, the scientific researchers trained in China in the twenties are now generally in their thirties and forties, which is the age when they are in their prime, and they are the most capable of producing results.

Thanks to the impetus of these outstanding talents, China's large-scale scientific research projects have finally made breakthroughs, and the most exciting thing is that nuclear technology has finally begun to mature, and Chinese researchers have calculated the full situation of atomic weapon explosions. All that remains is to accumulate enough highly enriched uranium, then assemble and test it live, and with enough first-hand data, China will have a complete grasp of this powerful weapon.

At this time, the United States was actually frantically carrying out a nuclear weapons program, and they wanted to produce nuclear weapons before Germany, which was a race of life and death. In fact, many European and American scientists have pointed out that they should build nuclear weapons as much as possible before Germany, and there are only two countries in the world that have this possibility: China and the United States. Western scientists, out of contempt for Chinese technology and ethnicity, naturally chose the United States.

In fact, these people simply do not know that in the East, China's program for the development of nuclear weapons is much earlier, more systematic and more scientific. China has built dozens of power stations using the southwest to build hydropower resources, which are then used to refine the heavy water needed to build reactors.

The biggest difficulty in the development of nuclear weapons is actually the separation of uranium-235, and Chinese scientists have found three methods, namely gas diffusion method, electromagnetic separation method, and gas centrifugal method. Qiao Yu knew that the United States had historically adopted the gas diffusion method, so he was also ready to use this method, but the six scientists involved in the nuclear program jointly wrote a letter suggesting the use of gas centrifugation.

Their reasoning is simple: the gas diffusion method requires a lot of energy, even half of China's power generation capacity, which is definitely a dizzying number. In fact, their estimates are not wrong, in history, the Americans used one-third of the electricity generation of the United States in order to separate enough uranium, and if it were not for the great business of the Americans, they would not have been able to afford it.

Chinese scientists, given the time they had given and argued, proposed the use of gas centrifugation and suggested that the Chinese government should include nuclear power plants in its plans.

Nuclear power plants require only 3 to 5 percent uranium concentration, and using low concentrations of uranium to generate electricity, the energy produced is supplied to centrifuges to produce high-concentration enriched uranium, which can save a lot of energy. At the same time, nuclear power plants are capable of producing another raw material for the atomic bomb, that is, plutonium!

This idea is undoubtedly very attractive, but there are also two huge dilemmas, the first is whether the centrifuge technology can meet the needs, and the second is whether the nuclear power plant will be so easy to build.

The Chinese government has also received information that it is very likely that Germany is also carrying out a nuclear weapons program, and if China cannot develop nuclear weapons first, will it be attacked! No one can bear this responsibility, and in the end, the matter came to Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu is also very interested in this plan, if according to the process of this plan, China can produce nuclear weapons with very little money, and at the same time can bring other important technological breakthroughs, such as nuclear power plant technology, this is definitely a very good deal, and Qiao Yu also knows that Germany has no hope of getting nuclear weapons, so he did not hesitate to approve this plan.

Contrary to the Chinese government's expectations, Chinese scientists were clearly better than expected, and in about three years they broke through a series of technical problems, China's nuclear weapons finally saw the light of day, and the first nuclear power plant began to operate in the first place! (To be continued.) )