The port of Naha, which is not open, is full of charred and ruined scenes. Japanese ships that had been sunk and burned were lying in the harbor, and high-powered tugboats and lifeboats flying the Chinese Navy were towing them away to clear the blockage of the shipping lane. Landing ships and transport ships came and went along the passages and piers that had been carved out, unloading soldiers and baggage supplies in summer combat uniforms.

On the outskirts of the city, shells rained down on the mud like black drops. From 60 mm mortar shells to 305 mm assault and obstacle breaking shells, they are dense and uncountable. Waterway amphibious tanks, Army Type 31 tanks, half-track fire support vehicles, hounds wheeled armored vehicles, various self-propelled heavy guns, multiple rocket launchers, and nests are rampant like hornets. The Japanese army is very tenacious, they hide behind every building, hide in caves, woods, river beaches, gritting their teeth and launching a desperate charge, even many Japanese immigrants are armed, every time they see Chinese soldiers, they hold grenades, screaming, and want to die together. However, the Japanese army really never fought such a battle that relied entirely on steel piles. Except for the first few days, after the Japanese army, which was mixed with military and civilian forces, took advantage of the city and obstacles, and suffered several small losses, the Wehrmacht Ryukyu Campaign Headquarters immediately changed its tactics and used tanks and various types of combat vehicles to cover and directly wipe out all visible obstacles. Just like Zhuo Fan did in Alcarek, directly flatten the barrel of the self-propelled howitzer, rushed to within three or five hundred meters, and fired flat.

Japanese buildings were not very strong in the first place, and most of them would be razed to the ground if they were fired three or five times. However, it should be said that the Japanese army was very tenacious, and its fighting spirit was praised even by many Wehrmacht generals, but in the face of an old opponent who was armed to the teeth and was not weak in firepower, tactics, and individual soldiers' quality, it was completely inferior. Often as soon as one is exposed. They will be immediately shot by a variety of lightly armed weapons. The proud night attack charge was more like a suicide by hitting the muzzle of a gun, and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers died as a result of it in just a few days.

In the face of this high-intensity, high-firepower modern steel war, Umezu Yoshijiro, who had clamed for the destruction of the landing force on the beachhead, held out for only seven days, and then fled with his main force to the mountains to the north, surrendering the port of Naha to his opponent. In the face of the telegram asking for help, the Japanese Navy, which had lost its elite and exhausted, could do nothing but use the 'Tokyo Express' to increase troops at night on a small scale, not to mention that the increase in troops in this way was limited, and the destroyers and torpedo boats dispatched were basically meat buns and dogs that never returned.

"Toot toot."

A half-track command vehicle. Honk your horn wildly and drive down the broken streets. On both sides of the street, thousands of captured Japanese soldiers and Japanese soldiers were in the custody of the National Guard, cleaning up the wreckage. The Japanese soldiers who picked up the guns were fanatical and ferocious, but once they were discouraged, they were the best free labor after dropping the guns. "You see, the main city has been taken, and now the fighting is mainly concentrated in the suburbs. Especially in the area of Gyokusen-dong and Shurijo Castle, the resistance is still relatively strong. "Inside the carriage. Liao Changfeng briefed Chu Nan and Shen Honglie, who personally landed on the island to inspect the battle.

"We have already organized two small landings, the first in the southern city, about two infantry divisions. Yesterday morning, the four divisions departing from Ie Island also opened a gap on the main peninsula. So that we can head east from Nago Bay. It is cut along the Opo Bay and cuts off the north-south connection of the island. If it can be done, it will not be a big problem to complete the entire eradication within three months. "Ryukyu Island is not big, but it is not small. The island is high and densely forested. There are many caves, and if you want to take the city quickly, you can do it, but if you want to clear the whole island. It has to be a few months, so Liao Changfeng doesn't dare to boast. Fortunately, the sea route has been opened, and the troops have also gained a firm foothold on the island, and there is enough time to smooth the whole island little by little.

As soon as the vehicle turned around and drove to the side of the lake, a large group of soldiers suddenly appeared in front of it, and behind the soldiers there were thousands of crying people who fell to their knees. "Stop, what's going on over there?" The chaotic scene made Chu Nan, who came to inspect in person, shout to stop the armored car.

"It's a mass grave." After Liao Changfeng took the two of them out of the car and walked over, Chu Nan found that there was a huge mass grave by the river in front of him that had been turned over. Next to the big pit, dozens of military doctors and reporters are wearing masks, inspecting the corpses and taking photos, the corpses are densely packed, at least thousands, and most of them are directly beheaded with knives. The locals all fell to their knees and wept. "The Japanese did it!" After Liao Changfeng handed the two masks to Chu Nan and Shen Honglie, he said angrily: "After we went ashore, we learned that Tokyo had issued a 'jade crushing order', which was handled by Umezu Mijiro himself. This one is relatively small, and the mass graves in the suburbs are even bigger. According to locals, at least 150,000 to 200,000 Ryukyu locals have been massacred en masse in the past two weeks. ”

"These bastards!" Chu Nan scolded in a low voice.

After the Japanese invaded the Ryukyus, there were many organized massacres to eliminate the locals, and now they have slaughtered nearly 200,000 people, and I don't know how many will be left after the battle. "Rest assured, Chief of Staff, we have set up a local protection camp and asked them to help separate the migrants. These people hate Japan to death, so they are willing to cooperate with us. ”

The occupation is only the first step, and how to grasp the occupied zone and take permanent control of it, using the Ryukyus as an outpost for naval access to and from the Pacific Ocean, is the key. In order to achieve this goal, at the beginning of the war, the General Staff formulated a detailed relocation plan, preparing to collect all the Japanese prisoners of war and Japanese immigrants from Ryukyu, Nanyang, Micronesia and other places, and rush back to Japan at an appropriate time to completely confine Japan on the mainland. Therefore, this massacre actually contributed to the later de-Japanization of the Ryukyus.

After leaving the mass grave, Shen Honglie continued to introduce the situation: "At present, there are about 40,000 Japanese prisoners of war and more than 190,000 immigrants of all kinds. Before the landing, Umezu Mijiro brought everything he could take into the mountains, leaving hundreds of thousands of immigrants and Ryukyuan people. The weather is hot, and there is a lack of food and medicine, and there have been several signs of epidemics. So we've emptied Isina Island and prepared to gradually transfer prisoners of war and immigrants. ”

"How big is Isa Island and how many people can be detained?"

"About 15 square kilometers, full of 200,000 is not a problem."

"Two hundred thousand?" Chu Nan frowned, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not enough." Marshall and Gilbert are almost over, and I want to transfer all the prisoners of war and immigrants over there to you. Saipan and Truk also have little resistance, and they will definitely end by early July at the latest, and there should be 20,000 or 30,000 people. Nanyang and India are too far away, and they are not suitable for long-term detention, I estimate that you must be able to contain at least about 500,000 people here. ”

Everyone likes to win battles, but the issue of prisoners of war is troublesome. Nearly four million Soviet prisoners of war and immigrants of all kinds were collected in the country, and now Japan is added, not only is there a great pressure on food, but also security is a problem. Therefore, the General Staff wanted to open up an 'island prison' to concentrate Japanese prisoners of war and reduce potential safety hazards. Hearing this, Liao Changfeng was also taken aback, the battle is not over yet, and he must first deal with hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and immigrants, isn't this asking for trouble for himself. Fortunately, Chu Nan also wanted to hear their thoughts, so he didn't give a direct order and gave him room to turn. So Shen Honglie thought about it and said: "Yi is a famous island will definitely not work, so I can only find a way on the big island." But I'm a little puzzled, why do you want to be detained in a centralized manner? ”

"I'm not hiding it from you, centralized detention is a decision of the president, the cabinet and the general staff. Yesterday afternoon, the president had already agreed to a plan for a counteroffensive against North Korea. At the latest, the army will enter Korea to fight. The Navy's 12 aircraft carrier battle group will go north to support Sakhalin Island and the Chiba Islands, the 21 aircraft carrier battle group will attack the volcanic islands, and the 23 aircraft carrier battle group will return to the South China Sea to cooperate with the Third Fleet. As a result, our general offensive against Japan this year can be regarded as a comprehensive start. Therefore, the president hoped that through centralized detention and screening, a group of people from the Ryukyu locals and Japanese immigrants could be trained and handed over to the Japanese national society guerrillas. ”

"The Guerrillas of the National Society?" Shen Honglie and Liao Changfeng glanced at each other, a little surprised by this term.

Chu Nan said as he walked: "It is the armed forces of the Japanese National Society, which is mainly composed of Japanese who oppose the Japanese emperor, Koreans living in Japan and a small number of Ryukyuan, and the commander is Tokuda Koichi, the chairman of the Japanese National Society. Judging from the information provided by Yan Baohang, the resentment in Japan is growing, so the president hopes that they can launch a movement for the liberation of the lower strata and pry open the Japanese emperor system. ”

"So, you're not going to land on the Japanese mainland?" Shen Honglie immediately captured the meaning inside.

Chu Nan nodded: "The cost of landing on the mainland is too great, and it may also arouse the emotions of the Japanese people." That's why it's necessary to attack the volcanic archipelago and the Chiba Islands as soon as possible in order to completely blockade Japan. After the blockade, Japan became a pressure cooker, and the president hoped to destroy external forces and food production through the Ryukyus, Korea, and the South Seas, and then, through a year or two of continuous bombing and internal agitation, to drive discontent from below, forcing the pressure cooker to explode on its own. The president believes that the emperor is a symbol of Japan, a spirit! If the emperor system is not destroyed, Japanese militarism will resurge, and only by truly abolishing the emperor system and allowing Japan to follow a chaotic multi-party constitutional government can we better control the country. But precisely because the emperor is a symbol, it is inconvenient for us to do it directly, which will provoke hostility from top to bottom in Japan, so we have to force, keep pressing, forcing ordinary Japanese people to have no way out, unable to survive, and promote change from the bottom up. ”

The two understood that Yang Qiu wanted to once again promote the traditional Japanese spirit of 'following the kage'!

"In addition to this, the president wants us to train a group of Japanese volunteers from Japanese prisoners of war and overseas immigrants. Anyone who is willing to join the volunteer army can immigrate to Central Siberia with his or her family, and we will give corresponding resettlement conditions and distribute the means of production according to the 500 mu of cultivated land per household. In this way, on the one hand, the disintegration of Japan could be solved, and on the other hand, the independence movement in Central and Siberia could be promoted. The referendum east of the Yenisei River is almost ready, and as soon as the Sea of Okhotsk begins, a voting procedure will take place. The migration of a small number of Japanese and other populations to the region of Central Siberia west of the Yenisei would help to achieve a balance of the peoples of Central Asia, to ensure our interests, and also to realize the post-war plan for an Asia-Europe barrier east of the Urals to the Yenisei River. ”

In Chu Nan's 'presidential' speech, Yang Qiu's determination to use war to transform the geopolitical landscape of Asia gradually became clear...... (To be continued......)