“…… On January 12, 1936, I left Yokosuka Naval Base on a Chinese-made Ju.52 seaplane and headed for the Mariana Islands to the Truk Islands, an important Soviet Japanese stronghold in the southern western Pacific. The Truk Islands are actually a 'lagoon' made up of a series of coral islands in a circle, which form a natural haven because of the surrounding coral islands. Moreover, the climate around the Truk Islands is also relatively special, and there is a dense fog all year round, if you are not particularly familiar with the sea conditions there, I am afraid it is difficult to find the Truk Islands in the vast Pacific Ocean. Therefore, after this archipelago fell into Japanese control, it was immediately built as an important stronghold of the Japanese Navy in the Pacific Ocean, and even after the revolution and regime change, it did not affect the construction of Truk Island. So by the time I became the political commissar of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Red Navy and the secretary of the Pacific Bureau of the Japanese Army, the Truk Islands had become a real sea fortress and the base camp for our southward expansion into Australia.

The first thing I did after answering the Truk Islands on January 12, 1936, was to gather the Red Admirals concentrated in the Truk Islands and announce the official start of the military operation to move south into Australia, the New Japanese Plan. This southward march to Australia was called the last straw for the Japanese GCD by some later historians, and although this statement is a bit mean, it is true in terms of facts.

At that time, the top level of the Japanese GCD had already realized that China would not give up its dream of unifying Greater East Asia. After defeating India, they may soon launch an invasion of Japan. And we, Soviet Japan, do not have the strength to defeat the United States, China, and the two hegemons on the east and west sides of the Pacific at the same time, and the only way is to open up living space to the south. At this time, our situation is somewhat similar to the predicament before the Jin army's three-way attack on the Song Dynasty in 1219 AD. China in the north and the United States in the east are like Mongolia and Jin, and there is no way to defeat them. The only way out is to go south to Australia and create a new living space. Although it didn't work out in the end, we at least tried. - The above is an excerpt from Yasuo Yasuda's memoir "Memories of a Revolutionary".

Although the theory of the straw sounds a little funny, it is also human, after all, no ruling group is willing to be eliminated by history, so when facing the end of the road, it will always come up with all kinds of strange ways to save itself. Even if this approach seems to the discerning to have no hope of success, the ruling circles in distress will do their best to implement it. Of course, while firmly grasping the life-saving straw, the problem of the back road must also be well arranged. Otherwise, where would they have the heart to serve the Japanese people wholeheartedly?

In the luxurious officer's room of the battlecruiser Akagi, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto and Yasuo Yasuda stood by a porthole and whispered about whether or not to transfer their property and family out of China -- after all, Sino-Japanese relations are becoming more and more tense now, and who knows if there will be a fight in the end? But apart from the Great China Federation, where can their property and families go? The USSR and the People's Republic of India certainly could not go. Pakistan and the East Indies and the Arab Empire are now too chaotic. And it's all been fostered by China. It seems that they can only go to Europe or the Americas, but fortunately, Yasuda and Yamamoto's families now have passports from the Great China Federation, one of the three major imperialists in the world, so it is not difficult to get a visa to enter European and American countries (of course, things like the Chinese Exclusion Act have long been gone)......

At this time, other officers and staff officers in the Combined Fleet Command were engaged in war games in front of the sand table, trying to find a perfect strategy to guard against China on the one hand, resist the United States on the other, and attack Australia on the other. Although many of their family members have already obtained passports from the Great China Federation, no one is thinking about letting their families move to Europe and the United States again at this time. Because these people are small, most of them have not done any fat shortage. Therefore, financial resources are limited, and it is already the limit of their ability to arrange for their families to go to China. As for whether their families will be taken hostage after the Sino-Japanese war, they are not too worried, because this kind of indiscriminate deeds are generally only done by the side that jumps over the wall in a hurry, and the Great China Federation will definitely be the victorious side, so they will definitely show hypocrisy.

After eliminating their worries, the cadres of the Japanese Red Navy were finally able to devote all their energies to revolutionary work. The war games went on for several hours, and finally the staff officers of the Combined Fleet finally reached an agreement.

They believe that the Combined Fleet should implement the strategy of going south first, because the distance between China and Japan is too close, and the Japanese mainland is almost all within the combat radius of China's land-based medium- and long-range bombers. Considering the huge number of medium- and long-range bombers in China, once China and Japan go to war, the Combined Fleet will not even be able to anchor in the ports on the mainland, and it is pure fantasy to rely on the strength of the Combined Fleet to defend the Japanese mainland. As for the Hawaiian Islands, if the full strength of the Combined Fleet is mobilized, it may be able to cope with it, but then it will have to abandon the southward operation. And only a part of the combined fleet can only be annihilated by the US Navy in the Hawaiian Islands operation, so it is better to hand over all the defense of the Hawaiian Islands to the army, and let them delay the time with flesh and blood.

"What? Completely ignoring the Chinese threat? This is not possible, although it cannot be defeated, but it is also impossible to implement a policy of non-resistance! Listening to the advice of the staff officers, Yamamoto Isoroku's head suddenly shook like a rattle, although the establishment of a new Japan in Australia and the abandonment of the old Japan were already the latest "secret national policy" of the Japanese G. However, under the current situation of increasing tension between China and Japan, no matter how you look at it, you will be suspected of breaking the tank and breaking the tank if you look at it without considering the issue of fighting with China! Yamamoto even wondered if the naval staff officers who put forward such opinions were already mentally prepared to be Chinese.

Yasuda Yasuo also echoed Yamamoto's opinion and said: "Comrade Commander is right, we can't afford not to consider the issue of defending China, at least a few aircraft carriers should be left to defend the homeland, right?" As he spoke, he turned his gaze to the newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet, Tsukahara 243: "Comrade Tsukahara, what do you think?" "Tsukahara 243 is probably the first batch of naval aviation in Japan. As early as 1921, he began to engage in naval aviation, and was also one of the first officers to serve as the captain of a Soryu-class aircraft carrier, and was a recognized aviation expert within the Japanese Navy. Even Yamamoto Isoroku admired his talent very much. He also asked, "Tsukahara-kun, you didn't participate in the war game just now, do you have other ideas?" ”

Tsukahara 243 frowned and shook his head: "Comrade commander, comrade political commissar, I don't have other ideas, but I have a question I want to ask the two of you. If before we succeeded in establishing New Japan, the Japanese had already fallen. Does that mean that Japan lost the war? ”

Yasuda Yasuo and Yamamoto Isoroku glanced at each other and nodded silently. Although the current Japanese Soviet Socialist Republic is composed of two major parts, the mainland and the South Sea Islands, Japan's industry is still concentrated in the mainland. Once the mainland falls, the remnants of the Japanese army and the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Nanyang Islands will be completely deprived of logistics and replenishment, and even if they barely resist for a while, they will definitely be defeated.

"Since this is the case, then once China and Japan go to war. Our Combined Fleet is not a lot of effort to defend the homeland. Instead, we should devote all our forces to defend the homeland, and even if there is not a safe port on the homeland for us to anchor, we must sail all the ships back! Because losing our homeland means total defeat, even if we keep the Combined Fleet, even if we enter Australia, it is meaningless. So now we don't need to talk at all about how much force to use to defend China and how much to use to go south. ”

After listening to Tsukahara's words, everyone in the officer's room suddenly felt that their eyes lit up, and their thinking had really gone into a misunderstanding before. Going south to Australia and defending against China are simply the same thing. All need a combined fleet to carry it out with all its might!

Tsukahara 243 continued: "I think, before the start of the Sino-Japanese war. The combined fleet's strategy was only one, which was to attack Australia with all its might. And in the event of a war between China and Japan, then the Combined Fleet should defend the homeland with all its might, and the rest of the targets must be abandoned at the first time. ”

Yamamoto Isoroku and Yasuo Yasuda looked at each other and said nothing. When Tsukahara said that, they had a feeling that they had been around for a long time and then returned to the same place. If the mainland can be kept, what other southward plans will Japan and G implement? The territory of the mainland and the South Sea Islands is so big, is it not enough to toss in the day? What are you going to Australia?

"Let's make a specific battle plan according to Tsukahara-kun's ideas, at present, the only task of the combined fleet is to go south with all its might! In the event of a war between China and Japan, then, then go north to defend the homeland! Yamamoto was silent for a long time, and finally made a decision while lamenting in his heart.

Japan's situation is desperate to think about, and going south to Australia to establish a new Japan or something, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be deceiving yourself!

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"The Combined Fleet does not need to think about the defense of the homeland!"

Facing the latest battle plan submitted by the Combined Fleet, Takeda Heng, who had just been able to get out of bed and walk around, slapped the table and shouted loudly: "What do Yamamoto Isoroku and Yasuo Yasuda think? Do they think that Japan only has the combined fleet? Are they already transparent to the millions of officers and soldiers of the Japanese Red Army and the tens of millions of militia all over the Japanese archipelago? Sue Sù Yamamoto and Yasuda, the home defense does not have to worry about the combined fleet, they have only one mission, that is, to go south and seize Australia! Even if the country completely falls, it can't be changed! ”

Terauchi Shouyi, chief of the general staff of the Japanese Red Army, and Shusei Nagano, commander-in-chief of the Red Navy, who came to report to Takeda Heng, both stood opposite Takeda with their heads bowed, not daring to say a word. In fact, they also knew that there was nothing wrong with the plan submitted by the Combined Fleet, and that once the Japanese mainland was attacked by China, it would naturally be a critical moment for the survival of the Japanese nation, and they should concentrate all their forces to deal with it. And it is impossible for the Combined Fleet to capture Australia in the event of the fall of the homeland, so what is the point of seizing it? Without local backup, both the United States and China could easily wipe out the Australian and Japanese troops. But the two of them did not dare to tell Takeda Heng that the temper of this great Japanese leader was getting worse and worse, and he was angry and training people at every turn, and the day before yesterday, because of a trivial matter, he branded the secretary of the Osaka Municipal Party Committee of Japan, who was talking back to him, as a Chinese spy and ordered him to be arrested!

Takeda Lan was also in this ward, and she felt that the air in the room was a little oppressive, so she hurriedly took the initiative to intervene to ease the atmosphere: "Comrade Nagano, the chairman means that the army has enough strength to defend the homeland, so the navy can just go south to Australia, and there is no need to worry about the safety of the homeland." She turned her head to look at Shouichi Terauchi: "Terauchi-kun." Don't you say? ”

Shouichi Terauchi nodded stubbornly and said, "The army has been preparing for the defense of the homeland for the past two years, and now it is still certain to a certain extent. At present, the army has formed a total of 130 divisions, of which 80 divisions are deployed on the mainland. Become the main force of the general defense army of the homeland. In addition, the Homeland Defense General has 10 aviation divisions, 20 antiaircraft artillery divisions, and 68 coastal garrison groups or fortress garrisons, with a total strength of more than 2.6 million. In addition, the Revolutionary Military Council instructed every prefecture and city in the territory to form a headquarters of the Red Guards, and to organize all the inhabitants of the area under their jurisdiction who could take up arms to form the Workers' Red Guards or the Peasant Red Guards, and finally only in Japan itself. An estimated 15 million people could be armed. ”

After listening to Terauchi Shouichi's introduction, Takeda Heng's face looked a lot better. 15 million troops should be enough to deter the Chinese invaders, right? Chang Ruiqing's Chinese defense forces have a total strength of only about 10 million, and these forces still need to maintain the battlefields of China and the Soviet Union, India and the Middle East. It is also necessary to maintain the occupation of the colonies of the Republic of Indochina, the Far East, the Kingdom of Siam, the Republic of Burma and the Republic of Malays, and to suppress the tens of millions of working people of all nationalities in China who are living in dire straits.

Thinking of this, he said to Nagano Xiushen again: "You heard all the words of the comrades in the temple, right?" We have 15 million troops to defend our homeland. So there will be no risk in the local area. Just let the Combined Fleet go south wholeheartedly. ”

Nagano Xiu hesitated, as if he wanted to say something, but after glancing at the first lady Takeda Lan and the chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, Terauchi Shouichi, and seeing the two confident faces, he stopped talking anymore, and snapped a straight salute: "Yes!" The Navy resolutely carries out the order! ”

Takeda nodded in satisfaction and waved his hand to send Shouichi Terauchi, Shusei Nagano and Hiroshi Kato away. Walking out of Takeda's hospital room, Nagano Shushen asked Terauchi Shou in a low voice: "Terauchi-kun." Are you sure? ”

Shouichi Terauchi sighed slightly: "It's not a question of whether you are sure or not, but whether you have tried your best." As long as you do your best and have a clear conscience, after all, the general trend is like this, and it is not human power that can be reversed! He paused for a moment, and then asked rhetorically, "Nagano-kun, is there any certainty that the combined fleet will win when it goes south?" ”

Nagano Xiushen didn't answer, just sighed slightly.

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"Are the Japanese ready to do it?" Chang Ruiqing asked the people around him in a low voice, and everyone nodded silently. Although Japan's GCD has once again lowered the Iron Curtain, China's intelligence services have been able to grasp the general policy of Japan and G because of the opening up in the past two years and the migration of a large number of high-ranking Japanese and G-level officials to China.

Chang Ruiqing turned her eyes to Sun Yuexun, and she smiled: "Prime Minister, please rest assured, all the federal political participants and legislators in our Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association will vote for the Great East Asia Unification War." ”

After Sun Yuexun finished speaking, Zhou Elai, the dean of the Senate and the leader of the Senate group, said with a smile: "Prime Minister, all the federal senators and legislators of the Senate have already greeted each other, and they have all voted for the war of reunification in Greater East Asia. ”

Vice Premier and Chairman of the National Socialist Party, Zhang Junmai, also nodded and said: "The parliamentarians of the National Socialist Party will definitely support the war for the reunification of Greater East Asia. Speaking of this, he paused slightly, looked at Chang Ruiqing and said, "Prime Minister, can we add up our excuses for war again?" It doesn't have to be so open-minded, right? ”

Hearing him say this, several people in military uniforms in the conference room of the Prime Minister's Office nodded frequently. The big guys who are in favor of destroying Japan to unify Greater East Asia or anything, but using the War of Great East Asian Unification as an excuse is a bit of aggression and expansion! Moreover, the procedure of declaring war first by the parliament and then officially starting the war seems to be too lacking in suddenness, and if we can create some kind of incident, wouldn't it be better to say that Japan will strike first, and then suddenly attack and hit the Japanese by surprise?

Chang Ruiqing snorted, smiled at Zhang Junmai and explained, "Why can't you be above board?" The reunification of Greater East Asia has always been our national policy, and it is also the consistent policy of the three parties, namely, the China and the G, the Co-Prosperity Association, and the National Socialist Party. In fact, Soviet Japan has always been committed to the unification of Greater East Asia, and did they not long ago complete the merger of Japan with the South Seas Federation? This shows that the reunification of Greater East Asia is the trend of the times, and the question is only what kind of political system will Greater East Asia be under which it will be unified, whether it will be the democratic constitutional government of the Federation of Great China or the dictatorship of the proletariat in Soviet Japan. As a matter of fact, the war for the reunification of Greater East Asia that is about to begin is not a war of aggression and counter-aggression, nor is it a war between China and Japan, two fraternal nations whose blood is thicker than water, but a war between two social systems, the democratic constitutionalism and the dictatorship of the proletariat. This should be made clear to the people of the world, including the Japanese people, when war is declared. Moreover, we should also tell all the Japanese people plainly that after we win the Great East Asia War, Greater East Asia will be completely unified and become the homeland of all the East Asian yellow races, and if the Japanese still consider themselves to be members of the East Asian yellow race, then the future Great China Federation will also be their homeland. ”

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