~Date: ~October 13th~

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Forrestal, South Australia.

The faint sound of cannon fire drifted from the Great Australian Gulf. It was a Polish Legion-class armored ship of the Chinese and an Admiral-class heavy cruiser bombarding the Japanese positions for a while.

Field Marshal of the Asakanomiya Palace, dressed in military uniform, with a group of subordinates, stood on the roof of the roof of his former enemy headquarters, holding a telescope and looking motionlessly at the direction of the battlefield to the west.

The imperial uncle of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito was crowned marshal because of his previous great military exploits in the conquest of Eastern Australia, but before he could savor the joy of being a marshal, a huge crisis struck the "new Japan" that had just raised the sun flag! The full name of the so-called New Japan is the New Japan State of the Great Japanese Empire, which was formerly British Australia. And this King Asakanomiya is the first governor of New Japan, and he is also the last governor. Because, the squadron that occupies Western Australia has launched an attack on Forrestal, an important town in western New Japan, since the end of last month!

As soon as the battle for Forrest began, King Asakanomiya immediately moved the former enemy's headquarters to the front line and personally supervised the battle. At the same time, a large number of troops and supplies were also transferred from Shinkyo (Sydney), the capital of the new state of Japan, to this inconspicuous small city day and night, and the entire "new Japanese garrison army" put on a posture of fighting to the death on the "Sino-Japanese border" to keep the enemy out of the country. However, just when the new Japanese garrison was busy dispatching troops and preparing to start a major war, some contradictory news and orders came from the Japanese side, which made King Asakanomiya and his headquarters staff feel a little at a loss.

Plan A in the "Special No. 1 Operational Plan" originally drawn up by the military headquarters called for the new Japanese garrison to deploy its main force on the long and narrow Berana Plain, south of the Victorian Desert and north of the Great Australian Bay. The deployment of the Japanese garrison was also planned to attack Chinese Australia÷ which was also planned. However, on 19 October, the day after the Japanese base camp announced the news of the victory of the "South China Sea-Philippine Voyage," the military headquarters issued a guiding opinion on "taking the B case to defend the new Japanese state and repel the squadron in the border defense battle."

However, what made King Asakanomiya a little confused was that the original battle plan of the New Japanese garrison in the "B case" was to retreat the main force to Flinders Ridge in South Australia and wait for reinforcements. Instead of fighting against a squadron with powerful armored forces in the undefended plains of Berana and the Great Desert of Victoria!

For this reason, King Asakanomiya sent telegrams to the General Staff Headquarters in Tokyo, explaining the disadvantages of defensive operations in the Berana Plain and the Victorian Desert. However, Tokyo was slow to reply, and it was not until 12 November that a briefing was sent to the new Japanese garrison in the name of the new Chief of Staff of the Army, Prince Kanin Miyazahito, in the name of the new Chief of Staff of the Army.

In a statement of the situation, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace informed the new Japanese garrison headquarters that the base camp was judged on the basis of the actual information it had in its possession. The main forces of the Chinese armored forces have been secretly transferred to Manchuria and are preparing for an invasion of the Korean Peninsula. And the Chinese armored forces in Australia are likely to be just bluffing doubts, so with the strength of the new Japanese garrison, it is completely possible to repel the squadron in the defensive operation on the Berana Plain. However, in the second half of this briefing, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace of Kanin asked the new Japanese garrison to prepare for the defense of Flinders Ridge, and at least two or three divisions should be transferred to defend Flinders Ridge first÷ and heavy troops should be deployed around Flinders Ridge and completely fortified, and if the situation changes, the new Japanese garrison will use Xinjing as the last stronghold for defense. In addition, all major ports in Eastern Australia, with the exception of the port of Xinjing (Port Jackson), must be completely destroyed. In case the squadron lands......

In the end, Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace told King Asakanomiya in an extremely solemn tone that the new state of Japan was the last elimination of the Japanese Empire! If the war on the Korean Peninsula fails, His Majesty the Emperor may also leave Tokyo and come to Shinkyo to take command. At that time, the new Japan will be the base for the revival of the empire!

After seeing such an explanation of the situation, Marshal Asakanomiya had already vaguely felt that the future war situation was quite bad, and at the same time, he also knew that he and the new Japanese garrison had a heavy responsibility. However, after counting the troops in his hands, he felt that he was really uncertain, so he asked for reinforcements like the base camp. But what he didn't expect was that his request for help was quickly rejected. The base camp instructed him to maintain the situation in New Japan as much as possible with his limited forces. Wait for the situation in the world as a whole to turn in favor of Japan.

At this time, King Asakanomiya and the staff officers of the new Japanese garrison had heard some rumors that there was considerable disagreement among the top leaders in Japan about the future of the country. Some of the high-level opinions were that Prince Kanin Miyaehito mentioned in that fact note that the so-called new state of Japan should be the last base of the empire, and in the event of defeat in Korea (which is a very high possibility), Japan would be relocated! Not only will the emperor and the government move to Australia, but a considerable number of people will follow the government to move to Australia and settle down, even ...... Large-scale migration operations should begin immediately so that they are not caught off guard. High-ranking Japanese figures who hold this view are also known as the "New Japan School."

This is a great idea, but it is not so easy to implement. Let's not talk about anything else. The large-scale relocation of tens of millions or even tens of millions of people alone is not something that can be completed by Japan's combined transportation capacity at present. Moreover, the current Eastern Australia is not able to provide food to feed tens of millions of Japanese, because the massacre of white Australians carried out by the Japanese army in the process of conquering Eastern Australia, most of the white Australian residents either died unexpectedly, or fled to Western Australia as refugees or Chinese. Eastern Australia, on the other hand, is now a scene of desolate fields, abandoned cities, and almost complete cessation of social production, and the only human beings in the vast land of millions of square kilometers seem to be the heavily armed Japanese Army and the Japanese "pioneers" of less than 100,000 people.

As a result, most of the high-ranking figures in Japan are the so-called Old Japan School. They advocated that after the Korean army was defeated by the squadron, the surrender of the new state of Japan could be considered as a condition for suing for peace with China, so as to preserve the security of the Japanese mainland. However, if we want to use New Japan as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations with China, we also demand that this territory be thinned for the time being. It's just that the importance of the new state of Japan has greatly decreased, and there is no need to maintain military superiority over the Chinese and Australian fronts, and it is only necessary to delay the opponent's attack to achieve the goal...... At least judging from the current offensive intensity of the Chinese team, this goal does not seem to be difficult to achieve.

It is not known whether it was because the Sunda Strait was blockaded by Japanese troops on the island of Java, which caused logistical difficulties for the Chinese and Australian Fronts. The squadron's attack seemed to be a little weak, and after almost a month of fighting, the Japanese troops on the Forrester front did not see the Chinese planes that covered the sky and the sun, nor were they crushed into pulp by the legendary invincible No. 4 tank, and even the squadron's artillery bombardment was not very fierce, and the shells of various calibers that fell on the Japanese defense zone did not exceed 10,000 rounds every day. It was not until noon yesterday that a Chinese fleet suddenly appeared in the Great Australian Bay and began to bombard the forward positions of the Japanese army with large-caliber naval guns, which made King Asakanomiya and the Japanese troops on the front line feel a little pressure.

"Your Excellency, Marshal."

Behind him came the voice of Sawada Shigeru, who was now the deputy officer of the General Staff Headquarters, and was sent by the Chief of Staff, Prince Miyazahito Kanin, to inspect military affairs at the front line of New Japan. King Asakanomiya did not look back, still silently looking at the west, Sawada slowly walked over and stood beside King Asakanomiya. This time, he traveled thousands of miles to see King Kuhiko of Asakanomiya, but in fact, he was a lobbyist for Prince Zaihito of Kanin, the chief of staff, in order to win the support of King Kuhiko of Asakanomiya. To help Prince Kanin Miyakihito's "New Japan faction" to win the struggle against the "Old Japanese faction".

"Your Excellency Marshal, it now seems that the military department's previous analysis of the deployment of the squadron has made a major mistake, and their main force is deployed in Manchuria instead of Western Australia." Sawada Shigeru couldn't tell the thoughts of the imperial uncle in front of him. I had to try it around the bush.

"Your Excellency, Xia Guan also agrees with Sawada-kun's opinion, the main force of the squadron is not in Australia, and their armored units have not shown up until now. Luo Yaoguo's wishful thinking seems to be to seize Korea, and then use Korea as a springboard to invade the empire itself, forcing Tokyo to cede the new state of Japan! ”

Speaking was the commander of the Japanese Second Army, General Tani Toshio, who was commanding 8 divisions of 200,000 troops, responsible for defending the Sino-Japanese border in southern Australia, ← a line of defense stretching from the Victoria Desert to the Great Australian Bay. In more than 20 days of fighting, his second army actually lost a major position, and the casualties were less than 10,000! Of course, such a result was publicized by the Japanese authorities as a great victory, and Tani Shofu himself was a little triumphant.

"Oh, do you have any ideas?" King Asaka asked unhurriedly.

"Yes," Gu Shoufu also walked up to the side of King Yuyan of the Asaka Palace, and said loudly, "The lower officials believe that the empire is currently unable to take care of the three battlefields of Korea, the Philippines and Australia at the same time. If the use of troops is scattered, it will only be broken by the squadron! Therefore, it is necessary to highlight the key battlefields and abandon the secondary ones. And the point that the empire must ensure is the new state of Japan! The total area of New Japan is more than 4.5 million square kilometers. Various resources are also 10 times more abundant than those of the empire itself and Korea. And it's far from mainland China, and there is no main force of the squadron ↓ It is the base for the future revival of the empire, even if you give up the mainland, you can't give up the new Japanese state! ”

Gu Shoufu has actually been persuaded by Sawada Shigeru, and now he has taken the initiative to act as a lobbyist, after saying this, he looked at King Asaka Palace with an expectant look, Asakanomiya still frowned and did not speak, and the staff officers of the New Japanese Garrison Command around him nodded in agreement.

"Your Excellency, Korea is only 200,000 square kilometers, the mainland is only 300,000 square kilometers, and the new state of Japan has more than 4,500,000 square kilometers! That's 9 times the size of North Korea and the mainland combined! How can an empire choose the big over the small? ”

"Yes, the defense of Korea should be aimed at delaying the offensive of the squadron, and the main force of the Imperial Army should be mobilized to the new Japanese side, and if possible, it should take the initiative to launch an attack to seize the entire continent!"

"As long as the Australian continent is in hand, the revival of the empire is only a matter of time! If New Japan is lost, the entire Yamato nation will be trapped forever in the barren and narrow Japanese archipelago! ”

"If you lose this opportunity, there will be no future for the empire!"

Everyone's opinions were neat, and King Yuhiko of Asakaya nodded slightly: "Although Shenzhou (referring to the mainland of Japan) is barren and narrow, it was left by the emperors of previous dynasties, and it was given to the Yamato nation by the great god Amaterasu. How can you say give up and give up? And we can't ship all 10,000 people to New Japan...... How will the outcasts survive? How they must resent us! Speaking of this, he let out another long sigh, and changed his words: "Of course, Your Majesty can't bear to abandon your ancestral business, and the princes of the country have not really seen the vastness of the new Japanese state, and naturally they don't know how important this land is to the empire. ”

"Your Excellency Marshal means ......," Sawada Shigeru asked.

King Yuhiko of Xianggong sighed again, he put down the telescope in his hand, turned to look at the northeast direction (the direction of Japan), and said slowly: "My opinion, the opinion of the Xianyuan Palace." The opinion of Prime Minister Konoe, as well as the opinions of Minister of War Nagata and Minister of the Navy Shimada are not the key. The whole country is moving to the problem, and only His Majesty the Emperor can make a Sacred Heart dictatorship! His Majesty the Emperor is so wise that when he sees the vastness and richness of New Japan, he will naturally make a decision. Rather than making a suggestion, we would like to invite His Majesty the Emperor to visit the state of New Japan. ”

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"Nagata-kun, Shimada-kun, what do you think of the new Japanese garrison army respectfully inviting His Majesty the Emperor to inspect military affairs in New Japan?"

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"Your Excellency, Prime Minister," Nagata Tetsuyama furrowed his brows. sighed: "Australia is good, but we can't send most of our citizens there, not even 10 million people." Moreover, Australia does not have an industrial base now, and most of the factories built by the British are now destroyed in the war, and we have no time to build them...... Even if the abandoned homeland really runs there, sooner or later it will be wiped out by the Chinese.

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"Not much." Shigetaro Shimada took a sip of the wartime coffee on the table, thinking about it in his heart. Only then did he say slowly: "At present, shipping is very tight, and the empire has a total of more than 2 million tons of merchant ships, and it is necessary to maintain the logistics of the five battlefields of Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Central America, and the Japanese East Indies, as well as the lifeline from South America to the Japanese mainland, and there is no wealth at all." And...... Since the start of the Sino-Japanese war on October 17, Chinese submarines have begun to make frequent sorties in the Pacific Ocean, sinking our 240,000-ton merchant ship in a month, so that by this time next year, the empire may not have the ability to transport sea. ”

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"Oh, that's good." The guard sighed softly and nodded.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister," Nagata Tetsuyama interjected at this time, "Has Your Majesty already received the new Japanese garrison?" Agree with their proposal to move the whole country? ”

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Nagata Tetsuyama also seemed to find that his question was very inappropriate, and said with a dry laugh: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, please forgive the gaffe of the lower officials. As he spoke, he accentuated his tone: "Now that the national fortunes of the Japanese Empire are all tied to a decisive battle with Korea, it is necessary to inspect the new state of Japan at this time, for fear that it will cause an unnecessary blow to the morale of the Korean front......" (,.

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