605 conciliationism has reached a dead end!

March 19th.

Wuhan, Military Council.

In the room of the Military Council, hearty laughter was heard from time to time, and whoever was hiding his worries and anxieties deeply at this time, and showed the joy of a victor. In fact, the battle in the Taiwan Strait seems to have been won so far. Yesterday, March 18, a "Battle of the South China Sea" broke out, which was said to be of decisive "sexual" significance, and the result was naturally a landslide victory for the Kuomintang Navy.

At least Luo Yaoguo, who was holding a baton and pointing to the map to report the battle situation to Hu Hanmin, Xu Chongzhi, Luo Yiqun and others, said so.

"In the naval battle that broke out yesterday, our Nanyang Fleet gave full play to its air superiority and used the carrier-based aircraft of aircraft carriers to launch continuous air strikes against the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet. The results that can now be confirmed are the sinking of the aircraft carrier Akagi and the sinking of the aircraft carrier Kaga; A Miao-class heavy cruiser was sunk, a Myo-class heavy cruiser was heavily damaged and the rudder was damaged; In addition, three light cruisers were sunk, and several destroyers were sunk. And the loss of our troops was only the battle cruiser Selim Sultan was heavily damaged by Japanese ships with torpedoes; The light cruiser Changsha sank, and the Fuzhou and Hangzhou were heavily damaged; In addition, two destroyers and two torpedo boats were sunk...... At present, the Second Fleet, including the damaged heavy cruiser Selim Sultan, has returned to the Zhanjiang Military Port, and the First Air Fleet has moved to the southern part of the South China Sea. ”

"The attack on the island of Taiwan is also going very well, and two infantry brigades of the 2nd Infantry Division arrived in Kaohsiung yesterday, along with the 2nd Engineer Brigade and some engineering equipment. In addition, the 1st Marine Brigade, which had landed in advance, had already advanced to the vicinity of Tainan and was making preliminary preparations for attacking Tainan. In addition, Jinzhou reported that the Japanese army had already given up Jinzhou and retreated, and it was estimated that Jinzhou might be recovered the day after tomorrow. ”

"And when will the First Air Fleet return? And where is the Japanese Combined Fleet now? As soon as Luo Yaoguo's words fell, Xu Chongzhi was the first to ask.

"Ru Gong, the First Air Fleet can't return for the time being." Luo Yaoguo frowned slightly, and considered the words: "Although we have won a decisive victory in the naval battle of the South China Sea, the Japanese navy is still stronger than us in a short period of time. Therefore, after the 1st Air Fleet sank two Japanese aircraft carriers, it could only choose to retreat south and hide in the deep sea. ”

"Why are these navies not divided into southeast, northwest, and northwest? Isn't retreating south farther and farther away? ”。 Xu Chongzhi shook his head lightly in confusion.

Luo Yaoguo smiled and said, "The navy has its own naval style of play, and it's not for us to figure it out." For example, yesterday, in order to gain the opportunity to sink the Japanese aircraft carriers, the First Air Fleet turned to the southeast and circled the flank of the Japanese fleet. As he spoke, he used his baton to draw an arc on the map and the northern part of the South China Sea: "Because of this turn, the First Air Fleet is in the south of the main fleet of the Japanese army, and after successfully sinking the Akagi and Kaga, there is no way to return for the time being, so it can only retreat south." ”

"After a big victory, there is no way to go home? This navy is still really funny, but it's not a way to keep retreating south like this. ”

Hu Hanmin, the "chairman" of the national "government", also seemed to hear the problem, and he helped his nose and glasses to ask, "Fuwen, let's talk about the plan to see the navy." ”

Yaoguo nodded, used his baton to draw along the South China Sea, Jawa Sea, and Sulawesi Sea on the map, and said: "The Navy plans to let the First Air Fleet go around in a big circle, sail ** thousand nautical miles, and then go back to Shanghai, in addition, the Navy also plans to send two supply ships to the Pacific Ocean to supply the First Fleet under the escort of light cruisers." ”

"The South Seas are the sphere of influence of the British, American, French, and Dutch powers, so won't there be any problem for our fleet to sail like this?" As soon as Luo Yaoguo finished speaking, Hu Hanmin took a deep breath and his brows tightened.

"Please rest assured, I will instruct the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate with Britain, the United States, and the Netherlands. Besides, if we go around the South Seas, we will also walk on the high seas, and we will not infringe on the territorial waters of various countries, so we will not violate public international law. Moreover, this southbound route mainly passed through Lanyin, and the Netherlands was not a great power at the moment. Luo Yiqun is still full of spring breeze, and he looks even more indifferent when he talks about the former sea coachman Holland.

"How did I hear that Britain, the United States, France, and the Netherlands have recently expressed regret over our refusal to mediate a declaration of war on Japan, and that sanctions against Japan have all been lifted?" Hu Hanmin asked in a deep voice: "Looking at the current situation, Japan is only afraid that it will receive the support of these powers again, right?" ”

"That's for later." Luo Yaoguo smiled helplessly: "Britain and the United States and other powers have interests in Nanyang and East Asia, of course they don't want to see a great power in East Asia that can threaten their colonies." In the past, when Japan was strong, they supported us, but now that we are strong, they will naturally support Japan. ”

"Then will Japan ...... in the future?" Hu Hanmin looked a little worried.

"No, after this war, Japan will no longer have any wrong thoughts about the East Asian continent. Besides, if Japan wants to be the brother of Britain and the United States, it will have to sever its relations with Soviet Russia, and this will not harm us. Moreover, Britain and the United States are not mainly supporting us against Japan, but against the Soviet Union, and as long as the threat of the Soviet Union is not eliminated, they will still rely on us. Luo Yaoguo hurriedly explained: "However, we will focus on the north in the future, and it is not appropriate to expand the scale of the navy." In particular, at the London Conference on the Limitation of Naval Armaments, we must make relatively large concessions to Britain and the United States. ”

This plane, as in history, also has the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty. These two treaties were mainly promoted by Britain and the United States, among which Britain was the most enthusiastic. This was because Britain was so demoralized after World War I that it could not afford a new round of naval arms race, so it turned to treaties to limit the expansion of naval armaments by other powers. The current Chinese navy is, of course, one of the most wanted targets of British restrictions.

"And what have happened recently in the USSR and GCD?". Now when it comes to GCD, Hu Hanmin's old face is as old as Chiang Kai-shek.

"The main force of the descendants of Zhongg has now left Zhili and Lubei, and is expected to enter Jilin Province before the end of the month. At the same time, there was also a Red Army in Jilin that developed relatively quickly with the support of the Soviet Union, and after the Japanese captured Harbin, this Red Army also took the opportunity to enter the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Heilongjiang Province and opened up a base area. However, the attack on Mongolia by the Chinese and G. did not carry out as expected, and it is estimated that they were worried that the Youth Army and the Trotskyist Army would join forces to resist the Red Army in Mongolia, and that both the Youth Army and the Trotskyist Army had strong cavalry corps, and it was very beneficial for them to fight in the Mongolian steppe. Therefore, it is likely that China and G are now focusing on the two provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin in the northeast.

According to our estimates, it is very difficult to decide the outcome of the war between China and the Trotskyists, who control Mongolia and the vicinity of the Great Khingan Mountains, have a vast territory and great room for strategic maneuver. After the Central and G-China took control of Jilin and the eastern part of Heilongjiang, they opened up the lines of communication with the Soviet Union, and it was not something that the isolated Trotskyists could defeat. The war between them is likely to end up deadlocked. ”

"So, GCD won't be bothering us for the time being?" Xu Chongzhi asked with a smile.

"Yes." Luo Yaoguo nodded at Xu Chongzhi: "As long as the GCD does not defeat the Trotskyists, it will not have the strength to challenge us, and the workers' movement and the student movement in the south will also enter a period of relative calm, which is very beneficial to our steady progress in political discipline and constitutional reform." In addition, the war between the GCD and the Trotskyists was also very beneficial to us in terms of public opinion, after all, the people of the country were against the civil war and supported peace. ”

"But GCD is always a problem." Hu Hanmin said coldly.

"It's still a hornet's nest." Luo Yaoguo smacked his lips: "The root cause of GCD's strength is the widespread poverty in our society and the huge gap between the rich and the poor, both of which are very serious in the jurisdiction of the national 'government', and they cannot be improved in the short term. As long as these two social problems are not resolved, there will certainly be room for GCD to exist, and GCD cannot be eliminated by military strength alone. Moreover, the use of force to solve the GCD problem will also affect the process of discipline and constitutionalism, which has been steadily advancing. ”

Hermes-Epitek nodded noncommittally, and the troubles encountered by the Nationalist 'government' in the "social problems of Zhili and Lubei" during this period had greatly reduced the voice of the party to solve the GCD by force. Including Hu Hanmin, all the top leaders of the Kuomintang did not know how to solve the "sequelae of land **" there. If the results of the GCD land ** were recognized, the capitalists and landlords, as well as the vast majority of the intellectuals, would oppose it; However, if the land in the hands of the peasants is confiscated and returned to its owners, then the 20 or 30 million peasants in Zhili and Lubei will be pushed to the side of GCD......

"What about Zhili and Lubei?" Hu Hanmin hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Do you have any good suggestions?" ”

"Now we are still negotiating with GCD, and the two sides have no objection on the issue of transferring the land of Zhili and Lubei, and the current disagreement is still the land and 'public property' of Zhili and Lubei. China and G want us to recognize the achievements of the socialist transformation of land and cities, and we also want us to ensure that the peasants and workers who participate in the socialist transformation of land and cities will not be retaliated against or sanctioned. Luo Yaoguo replied.

"GCD is really troublesome, why do you care so much when the land is handed over?" Hu Hanmin exhaled heavily.

The trouble is not that Yaoguo shook his head: "It's the acute social problems and class contradictions in our country, especially the rural problems." There are many people and little land, and the vast majority of peasants live in extreme poverty, and many people are unable to even meet basic food and clothing. Moreover, the power of our national "government" has not reached the countryside at all, and apart from compulsory education and the collection of local armed forces, we do not seem to have done anything useful for the peasants, who account for as much as one percent of China's total population, in recent years. Speaking of this, he paused and said coldly: "After the end of the training period in the future, these extremely poor peasants will use their votes to decide whether we will stay or not."

There is so much land in China, and there are hundreds of millions of peasant uncles, just pull the abacus beads to know that there are more people and less land, most of them are destined to suffer and suffer for a lifetime, these poor middle peasants who are destined to suffer and suffer poverty, although there are not many GCD members to lead them to fight the landlords and fight the local tyrants in this time and space, but they have been taught by the Kuomintang's compulsory education to have some culture, and know that the prince and the prince will have a kind of truth...... Moreover, according to the teachings of the former prime minister, the father of the nation, who has become a "great god", from 1939 onwards, the selection of local "governments" and parliaments in the southern provinces, as well as the members of the Legislative Yuan and the Supervisory Yuan at the central level, must pass the sacred vote in their hands. At that time, the GCD is only afraid that there is no need to make a fuss, and he can directly come to power with the votes of the poor middle peasants, right? Even if there is no GCD, there will definitely be some socialist party, people's party, labor party, fascist party, etc., taking advantage of the country's social problems to compete with the Kuomintang for power. When I think of this kind of problem, which is unsolvable no matter how you look at it, let alone Hu Hanmin, Xu Chongzhi, Luo Yiqun and other "old antiques", even Luo Yaoguo, a traveler, is numb.

When Luo Yaoguo just wanted to discuss with a few bigwigs whether to carry out some reforms to buy people's hearts, the door was pushed open, and Natalie broke in in the surprise of everyone, and said with a worried face: "Zhan Gong, Foreign Minister Wang just called, and the ambassadors of Britain, France, the United States, and the Netherlands jointly protested, demanding that we and the Japanese fleet not cross the 5th parallel to the south, and urging our country to negotiate with Japan to peacefully resolve the war between China and Japan."

"What"

This news caused a dead silence in the conference room, although everyone had vaguely guessed from the recent series of actions of the British and American powers that they had already intended to support Japan, but they still couldn't believe their ears when they suddenly heard the news.

Hu Hanmin was the first to react from his astonishment and asked in a deep voice: Fuwen, where is the First Fleet now?"

Luo Yaoguo gritted his teeth and took a few deep breaths before saying: "I don't know that the First Air Fleet has implemented radio silence now, and no one knows their specific location, only in this way can they hide themselves so that the Japanese can't find them." ”

……

March 19, 15:50.

Deep in the South China Sea, about 300 nautical miles from Manila.

"50 meters"

The deck of the destroyer Shimakaze was in a hurry, and the soldiers quickly turned the depth charge on the depth charge, and then quickly threw the small oil drum-shaped depth charge into the sea with a launcher.

At the same time, a kamikaze-class destroyer coordinated by him also dropped depth charges.

"Boom ......" twice, the originally calm sea water suddenly turned up and down like boiling water in a pot, and countless terrifying waves appeared on the sea in an instant.

"One more round."

Seeing that the sea water was still clear, several destroyers began a new wave of depth charge attacks, and four battleships and one mother ship and two heavy cruisers slowly circled around the side at a speed of 5 knots.

This was the second anti-submarine operation carried out by the main force of the Japanese fleet today, and just now a lookout on the battleship Nagato reported that a huge black shadow had been spotted under the water...... I don't know if it's a submarine or a whale, or maybe it's an unknown underwater monster. However, Kanji Kato did not dare to take it lightly, and hurriedly ordered to throw depth charges into the water.

The rumbling explosions carried the water column and flashed on the surface of the sea, but there was no oil to be seen.

On the bridge of the Nagato, 10 nautical miles away, Shigetaro Shimada, the chief of staff, shook his head: "It looks like another false alarm, and everyone has been a little nervous recently." ”

Kanji Kato nodded lightly and asked, "Is the reconnaissance plane back?" ”。

"Not yet." Shigetaro Shimada sighed: "Shouldn't the China aircraft carrier have slipped back to Zhanjiang Port?" After all, the South China Sea ......" At this moment, a telegram handed over to him interrupted him, and after Shimada glanced at it a few times, his eyebrows tightened, and he reported: "The telegram from the seaplane, about 200 nautical miles northwest of Palawan, found that the China aircraft carrier is about 150 nautical miles away from us. ”

"Oh, they're so fast."

"Yes, their speed is far above ours, and they still have about a hundred carrier-based aircraft at their disposal, and our heavy and light cruisers do not dare to break away from the main force to pursue them during the day."

Kanji Kato wrinkled his eyebrows, after the destruction of the Akagi and Kaga, the Combined Fleet is now almost suffering from aircraft carrier phobia. After all, the Akagi and Kaga ships used the hulls of battleships and battle cruisers, and their anti-aircraft firepower far exceeded that of ordinary battleships. However, the Chinese aircraft carriers completely destroyed the two aircraft carriers with only two rounds of air attacks and two hundred sorties, and although they were not sunk, they completely lost their mobility and combat effectiveness, and finally Mitsumasa Minai had to order the destroyers to sink them with torpedoes with tears in his eyes, so as not to capture the two behemoths by the Chinese.

"Your Excellency, it looks like the China aircraft carrier wants to enter the Sulu Sea through the Balabac Strait and then through the Philippine Islands to the Pacific Ocean." Shigetaro Shimada rubbed his hands and said, "Although Britain and the United States did not allow the Shina people to cross the fifth parallel to the south, they did not prohibit them from passing through the Philippine Islands, which is really ......."

"They did it on purpose" Kanji Kato gritted his teeth and looked up at the sea in the east: "Britain and the United States did not allow the Shina Navy to cross the 5th parallel, but they were just knocking on the Shina, which does not mean that they have abandoned the Shina." Especially the Americans, in their eyes, China is a democracy, the empire is a monarchy, China is the front line against the USSR, and the empire is an ally of the USSR"

"Then we ......"

"Order the Zhenming, Fengxiang, and Haguro to take two light cruisers, and four destroyers to enter the Sulu Sea through the Karamian Islands, and be sure to intercept the China aircraft carrier."

"Hail"

605 conciliationism has reached a dead end!

605 conciliationism has reached a dead end! to the URL