"Including the losses of the Red Army's special attack team, the Combined Fleet lost a total of 471 combat aircraft in the Battle of the Coral Sea, and 742 flying warriors sacrificed their lives for the country! However, we sank at least three U.S. capital ships and the USS Saratoga, and heavily damaged four more U.S. capital ships and the USS Essex! ”

The Black Island Turtle Man looked faint and said the final results and losses of the Coral Sea Sea Battle as counted by the Combined Fleet. Of course, this statistical result is wrong, because the American aircraft carrier Saratoga did not sink, but barely sailed back to Port Jackson, Sydney, with a complete loss of combat capability and most of its power. However, this result is no different from the sinking of the war, because the Yankees, who have too many aircraft carriers to use up, do not intend to repair the Saratoga, but simply abandon it. At the same time, a dozen ...... were sent Uh, twelve Essex-class aircraft carriers coming to the South Pacific to support Spruance! And it is also intended to send ground troops to Australia.

At the same time, a combined German-Italian fleet sailed across the Indian Ocean to the west coast of Australia under the cover of aircraft carriers sent by China's Western Fleet. Prior to that, more than 500 German Ju.88 and He-111 medium bombers flew directly from Singapore to Darwin, northern Australia. There was also a German-Australian regiment that was also organized at the first time, three German panzergrenadier divisions and three Italian infantry divisions, which had already come to Australia with the combined German and Italian fleets on twenty fast troop transports to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance...... In short, there is nothing to do with the Japanese in Australia's War of Resistance against Japan, and it is entirely the United States and Germany who play the leading role there.

As for the high-ranking officers of the Great Japanese Red Army in the Kyushu headquarters, no one cares about Australia now. Everyone gasped when they heard about the losses of the Combined Fleet in the "Great Victory in the Coral Sea". 471 planes is definitely not a small number for the current Soviet Japan, but what makes the Japanese officers in this room feel even more distressed is the 742 pilots! This number is almost equal to all the pilots owned by the Japanese Red Army Air Corps! In this day and age, the cost of producing one aircraft was not very high. Even Japan, where the aviation industry is not developed, can easily produce nearly 2,000 aircraft a year. However, the selection and training of pilots in Japan lags far behind that of aircraft production, and the number of pilots that can be trained each year is less than 1,000, and the number of pilots is generally not high. In fact, the skills and plain skills of the pilots of the Japanese Red Army in this time and space were far inferior to those of the pilots of the Imperial Japanese Army in history. If it weren't for the Soviet Union's sponsorship of a group of experienced Soviet pilots in the early years, the Japanese Red Navy might have been on the verge of going to sea during the First Battle of Hawaii.

There are two main reasons why Japanese pilots are not high, one is that the selection criteria for Japanese pilots are very ...... High. Well, pilots are an elite class. It is normal for the selection requirements to be a little higher. But after all, Japan is a Soviet state led by the GCD, and although it does not engage in political activities at the top level, the political censorship of pilots is still very strict.

For example, the aforementioned Yamaguchi Shuko couldn't even go to high school because she was born in a bourgeois family and had overseas connections. I had to go to the Forestry Bureau as a lumberjack. By analogy, I don't know how many ordinary Japanese youths with excellent character and learning (those born into the Wagan Army family, of course, don't care about their earlier family backgrounds) have been excluded from the pilot's school, the army military and political cadre school, the Etajima Naval Academy, and all sorts of other promising schools because they were born into samurai families, bourgeois families, landlord class families, rich peasant families, or have overseas connections.

Moreover, this political examination is not to check the parents' generation, but to check more than three generations, until 1867, when Emperor Meiji came to power! And the "samurai status" in Japan at that time was not worth much at all. It can be said that it was a time when the samurai were flooded. Take the Satsuma Domain, one of the four strongest feudal clans of the fallen shogunate, as an example. Of the more than 700,000 men registered in the domain, more than 200,000 were samurai, and it can be said that any Japanese who mixed a little better had the status of samurai at that time. This "samurai class family origin" alone can basically include about one-fifth of the current population of Japan (the proportion of samurai commoners in each Japanese domain varies greatly, and generally speaking, the proportion of samurai in each domain whose territory was drastically reduced at the end of the Warring States period or after the Battle of Sekigen is very high, because these feudal domains did not drastically reduce their samurai after the reduction of their domains, especially did not deprive those low-ranking samurai who had no merit and hard work). If we add in the other reactionary classes and those Japanese who have overseas connections, we almost wipe out the entire elite of Japanese society. The rest of the cadres who can apply for the pilot school are the children of cadres who can apply for the pilot school. It is the children of the working people who suffer and have a deep hatred. The former has a wide range of paths, and most of them will not go to the dangerous pilot school. And the latter is mostly not too high...... So the pilots of Soviet Japan lagged behind their opponents, China and the United States, at the initial stage.

In addition, in this time and space, the Japanese pilots did not have such a bitter opponent as the Kuomintang pilots as "sparring partners" to allow them to accumulate experience in actual combat bit by bit, but they encountered the United States as soon as they came up and started a bloody battle against the "pilot power" of the United States (before the outbreak of the war, there were about 100,000 people in the United States with pilot licenses). Moreover, except for the Soviet-made I-18 fighters that they had at the beginning, the performance of the Japanese fighters has always been inferior to that of the United States, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger. Under the combined effect of the two, the loss rate of Japanese pilots on the battlefield was naturally astonishingly high, and it was simply impossible to accumulate a group of ace pilots with rich experience in actual combat.

In contrast, the pilots of the Chinese Navy and Air Force are much luckier, because they have always had fighters with superior performance and numerical superiority over their opponents, so the loss rate of China's first-line pilots is very low, and they have accumulated a large number of ace pilots after several years of war. Moreover, the lower loss rate of front-line pilots also gives the rear flight schools ample time for the flight cadets to undergo more rigorous and longer training, so that the Chinese pilots who have just left school are better than their opponents. Therefore, the current Chinese Navy and Air Force not only have more advanced fighters, but even the pilots are far superior to their Japanese opponents. Even the Japanese officers in this combat conference room understood this - it was simply unrealistic to rely on the air forces of the Combined Fleet to seize air supremacy off the coast of Kyushu. And without air supremacy, three or four thousand Chinese planes can definitely blow up and sink all the warships of the United Fleet!

Hence the "Red Flag No. 2 decisive battle" scheme proposed by the Combined Fleet. It's basically a broken can and a broken death plan. Although the current prospects of the war situation have been extremely pessimistic, even defeat has become inevitable. However, several chief officers of the Kyushu headquarters still did not make a big deal and buried the combined fleet that had cost the Japanese people countless hard-earned money to build. Therefore, everyone was more inclined to "battle with the trumpet", and when he heard that Ishihara was opposed to both the "decisive battle of the Red Flag No. 2" and the "battle with the trumpet", he cast his eyes with a hint of expectation hidden in several puzzles.

"The decisive battle of Red Flag No. 2 is to send to death, and the battle of the tour number is to wait for death." Ishihara unceremoniously defined the two operational scenarios proposed by the Combined Fleet. However, the Black Island Turtle Man did not refute, but nodded with a wry smile: "Actually, I think so too." Although the prospects for this war are very bleak, I think we should try to be as good as possible, right? Ishihara-kun, if you have anything better, please bring it up. The Combined Fleet will definitely cooperate as much as possible. ”

"It is true that there are some preliminary ideas," Ishihara pondered, "I think that before formulating a plan for the decisive battle of Kitakyushu, we should first clarify the overall strategic objectives of Japan...... With the current situation of Japan and the world war, it is absolutely impossible to achieve a final victory. No matter how much victory we have in the Battle of Kitakyushu! I think the best thing Japan can achieve now is to become a highly autonomous dosier under the Federation of Greater China. Like the relationship between Australia, Canada and the British Empire. ”

"Ishihara-kun......" Sadao Araki interrupted with a frown, "This is what Chairman Takeda meant?" ”

Ishihara nodded noncommittally, and then continued: "Although such a conclusion is difficult to accept, it is the best result. Although the world war is still going on, anyone with a little common sense should have seen that the goal of China, the United States and Germany at present is not so much to defeat us and the Soviet Union as to lay out for the post-war world, because in their view, there is no suspense about winning the war...... In practice, this is also the case. Now there is only one suspense. It is what the power structure of the post-war world was, and what was the ranking of the power of China, the United States and Germany.

At present, the basic situation of China, the United States and Germany can be determined. Germany's core sphere of influence is Europe and Africa, the United States' core territory is North and South America, and China's base is Greater East Asia...... It's a pity that our Japanese archipelago is in the middle of it, so China can be said to have ambitions for the Japanese archipelago!

However, judging from the current situation, the contradictions and conflicts between China, the United States and Germany have begun to appear, for example, the United States and Germany have launched an open and covert struggle around Australia, the Germans deceived us into going south just to find an excuse for them to enter Australia, and the United States has also taken a-for-tat approach to increase troops in Australia, obviously trying to turn Australia into its own sphere of influence. And the Chinese probably don't want Australia, which is on the doorstep of the Federation of Great China, to become the territory of the United States and Germany, right?

The struggle between China and Germany was played out in the Middle East and North Africa, and the Chinese formed a close alliance with the Arab Empire and the Muslim world, not only controlling most of the Arabian Peninsula, but also extending their tentacles into Egypt and Sudan in North Africa. Germany, on the other hand, supported the establishment of a greater state of Israel by European Jews in Iraq and Kuwait, and although China and Germany did not directly fight in front of the stage, the Arabs and Jews they supported were already in tension.

Such an international situation is indeed very advantageous to Japan, so we should make use of it as much as possible, adopt the tactic of seeking peace through war, and strive for the status of the autonomous territory of the Great China Federation......"

"Since the contradictions between China, the United States and Germany have emerged, why should we in Japan be willing to become the autonomous territory of the Great China Federation? Why not contact Virtue to maintain complete independence? Sadao Araki wondered.

"Maintain complete independence...... Ishihara shook his head with a wry smile: "There is no such state!" Even if Virtue is willing to accept Japan's surrender, he will not allow Japan to maintain complete independence, and will try by all means to completely control Japan's political and economic affairs. For the sake of such nominal independence, is it worth it for us to act as the vanguard of the United States and Germany in the confrontation and containment of China? Speaking of this, he suddenly lowered his tone and said: "And the United States and Germany have not expressed their willingness to accept us Japan as their subordinates so far?" I don't think the United States and Germany are willing to completely tear their faces with China for the sake of Japan......."

Oh, yes. Japan has long wanted to change its court to be the younger brother of the United States and Germany, but the problem is that the contradictions between the United States and Germany are also very large, and there is no reason for the two bosses to share a younger brother. This also means that no matter who "takes" Japan between the United States and Germany. They will tear their faces with China, thus breaking the situation of checks and balances between China, the United States and Germany, and turning it into an unfavorable situation of one-on-two. More importantly, will China abandon its attack just because the United States or Germany provide security guarantees to Japan? This is obviously impossible, and will the United States or Germany go to war with China to protect Japan? This, of course, is even more unlikely. At least not until the fall of the Soviet Union, Germany could not do so. And the United States ...... First of all, they don't seem to be able to defeat China, and secondly, after more than two years of fighting the Pacific War, the Americans have long hated Japan to death. How is it possible to fight China in order to defend Japan? Ishihara, who once served as commander of the Hawaiian Front, could not have understood this idea of the Americans, so in his opinion, the only way out for Japan was to take refuge in China.

As soon as this truth is spoken. A room full of high-ranking cadres of the Japanese Red Army all nodded their heads in agreement. "Now that we've established our overall strategic goals, we're now going to think about how to achieve them. My opinion is that we must win a battle only if the Chinese realize that they are not invincible. Japan is also not a weak country that can be annexed lightly. They will give up their intention to completely annex Japan, so that we can negotiate with China. ”

A battle must be won! It sounds like it's back to square one, but Ishihara's analysis still gave hope to a room of Japanese officers - although it is impossible to defeat China, a victory can always be sought, right? Thinking about the benefits that this victory could bring to them, the Japanese revolutionary soldiers, these people couldn't help but want to do a big job.

Seeing that everyone's morale was boosted by his own analysis that he didn't know how much accuracy he had, Ishihara smiled with satisfaction: "I still have a way to win a battle, let's talk about it for your reference." ”

He took a baton from a staff officer and clicked on the map of northern Kyushu. "The fence is tight enough, but behind this fence it is very empty. As long as the enemy takes a few more detours to land in the west or south of Kyushu, we will have nothing to do...... If the airdrop troops were to occupy the port cities in eastern Kyushu, and then the bombers were to completely destroy the ports of Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki, I am afraid that the main force of the 800,000 Red Army on the island of Kyushu would be surrounded. ”

Hearing Ishihara's analysis, Anda Twenty-three, who had previously formulated the plan for the decisive battle in Kitakyushu, suddenly felt a little overwhelmed. "Ishihara-kun, now that the sea and air supremacy have been lost, and the tyrant can land at any point in the Japanese archipelago, where is there a perfect defense plan?"

"Of course there is no such thing, but we should at least be sure where the decisive battle will be, otherwise there will be no chance of winning the battle."

"But how do you determine the location of the decisive battle?" Anda Twenty-Three shrugged his shoulders: "Then I'm afraid only the commander-in-chief of the violent invading army can be sure!" ”

"We can help him make sure." Ishihara Wan'er looked at Anda Twenty-three, and a grim smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Withdraw the heavy troops from all ports of Kitakyushu except for the port of Kitakyushu, and even the two divisions of Sasebo and Nagasaki will be transferred, and the gate will be opened to let the riot army go ashore!" ”

Well, now that the door is open, of course the Chinese Defense Forces will not take a long detour to climb over the wall and smash the side door. But with the Chinese army ashore, is there any hope of winning the Battle of Kitakyushu?

"It's going to take perfect land and sea coordination and a little bit of adventure." Ishihara looked at Kuroshima, the Navy's immortal staff officer: "Kuroshima-kun, has the Navy ambushed five new capital ships in the Seto Inland Sea while trying to divert the main force of the Navy's violent forces in the Korean Strait?" ”

"Ambush five capital ships in the Seto Inland Sea? Ishihara-kun, do you mean that after the main force of the Tyrant Navy left the waters near Kyushu, let these five capital ships protrude through the Kanmon Strait and destroy the airfields on Izaki Island and Tsushima Island with naval guns? ”

"There are also transport ships of the Riot Army in Busan, Yeosu, Mokpo and other ports to temporarily cut off the logistics line for landing the Riot Army."

The Black Island Turtleman was silent, his eyebrows tightened, and he felt everyone in the room staring at him with heavy eyes, expecting an affirmative answer. Ishihara's plan was of course not feasible, the naval fleet had no way to hide in the Seto Inland Sea, and the lookout on the Chinese reconnaissance plane was not blind. However, Ishihara's thinking is completely correct, the Second Fleet of the Navy can hide in the deep sea of the Pacific Ocean southeast of the Japanese archipelago, and when the main force of the Chinese Navy is diverted by the main force of the Combined Fleet, it can carry out a decisive assault with the cooperation of most of Japan's remaining air forces!

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