Chapter 1039: Departure

This is not the first time that the Soviet Union has been anti-Semitic, and there were mass murders and persecutions during the Civil War, so when cold words popped out of Stalin's mouth, the fate of more than 3 million Soviet Jews was sealed. In the other world, there were about 9 million Jews in Europe, 6 million were killed by the Nazis, and the vast majority of the rest were in the Soviet Union, of which 550,000 Jewish soldiers died defending the Soviet Union, including such good generals as Malinovsky, Krivoshein, Katukov and Mikhail, but many of them were liquidated after the war. This parallel world, with the drastic changes in the world power map, the fierce geopolitical collision, and the reality of Anglo-American capitalism, gave Stalin no choice. He needed German technology, workers from Eastern Europe, and even high-grade gasoline to get planes flying, and he could only sacrifice a small part in exchange for most of the country's survival.

Yang Qiu also had a dislike for Jews, and in the early days of the country's founding, he hoped to borrow Jewish capital to build the country's basic industries, but the "Silver Act" made him more vigilant against the pervasive power of capital. In retaliation, he also took advantage of the Spanish Civil War to betray the Jews to Germany. Although there is no evidence, the Zionist organization has always suspected him, and as China has actively intervened in the Persian Gulf, the two have become increasingly strange, and some militants have even threatened to assassinate him several times.

So for him, he will not take the initiative to win over, but he does not mind using the excuse of "uniting all anti-fascist forces" to stand behind and push behind.

This seemingly contradictory strategy actually had a deeper purpose, that is, the Jewish state-building movement that would surely emerge after the war. Although Arabia is China's ally, the geopolitical contradictions between China and the United States, China and Britain, Britain and the United States, Europe and the United States, and Central Europe have all been exposed in this war, and there will certainly be fierce confrontations after the war. However, the cruelty of war and the emergence of nuclear weapons have made the major powers deliberately avoid direct confrontation. Therefore, unless Britain and the United States send troops openly, it is impossible for China to directly interfere in the Israeli statehood movement, so there will definitely be many proxy wars in the Middle East and Africa. Secondly, from the bottom of his heart, Yang Qiu also hopes for the establishment of Jewish statehood, the reason is very simple, with the current international pattern, the Soviet Union will never become the pillar behind the establishment of Israel, and the power of France is too weak, so the shrewd Jews will definitely cling to the thighs of Britain and the United States. In addition, Britain and the United States have been excluded from the Arab oil cake, and the trend of the settlement of oil in the yuan is becoming more and more obvious, and China and the United States will confront each other for a long time even if there is no cold war in the parallel world. Once such a situation arises, the United States will need to set a few nails in the Arab world, and then Israel will become a very important pawn. At that time, China can take the opportunity to divert its attention and thus reduce its own pressure, after all, an Arab without enemies will not reassure him. Otherwise he would not have been in the early days of statehood. Let Cai Ye and Yue Peng successively sit in the northwest to kill their hands, and then use the "Cheng Cheng Act" to relocate millions of people, and also organize the construction corps to be stationed in the frontier to forcibly promote the only Chinese language teaching. Even after the outbreak of war. They also took advantage of the serious population shortage of the Central Asian countries to provide loans as bait and let them take away nearly one million people in the northwest under the pretext of land and pastures, so that the proportion of Han people in the northwest frontier increased from less than half in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. to the current more than eighty percent.

But he is not yet at ease, and must also put up a few targets for Arabia. So for the future of China, anyone can be wiped out. That is, we cannot take the initiative to divide and destroy India and Israel, release the contradictions within Argentina and India, Arab-Israel, and Arabs, and even take the initiative to let India take refuge in Britain and the United States, and then make it a pressure relief valve for Sino-Arab contradictions through the Muslim League and the Arab League behind it, and at the same time ensure the equality of all ethnic groups in the country and strengthen the construction of the Han cultural circle.

He's doing these things, and he's been doing them for decades, but he's not going to publicize them, because he doesn't know what's right or wrong. Maybe he will raise tigers for trouble, but this is the only way he can think of during his reign, after all, he is not a god, and he only hopes that future generations can come up with a better strategy for national balance. Of course, these are the core secrets of the state, which only a few people know, and they will never say it.

Stalin certainly couldn't see that far away, and even if he had the consciousness, he couldn't help it. The United States actually wanted to support the Soviet Union, but Roosevelt was facing heavy European pressure at the moment, and it was impossible to put pressure on China, which had already seized the strategic advantage in the Pacific. Churchill did not really want to start a war with the Soviet Union, although he declared war on the Soviet Union after the Cairo Declaration, so far not a single soldier has been directed against the Soviet Union, and even Denmark, a natural ally, has not been wooed, just for fear of intensifying the contradictions between Britain and the Soviet Union. But in the same way, British pressure also made it impossible for him to break with Yang Qiu at this time. Maybe they supported Stalin through smuggling, but after all, it was a drop in the bucket, so the only country in the Soviet Union that could receive advanced technology and large-scale support was Germany. Pushed into a corner, Stalin was determined to give it a go, and after handing over the task to the "experienced" Yenov, he let Motolov continue the rest of the negotiations, and sat in Moscow himself, in front of tens of thousands of assembled soldiers and masses on Red Square, vowed to fight with Yang Qiu in the Urals and the Caucasus, two battlefields with the harshest geographical environment in the world!

Yang Qiu didn't have time to talk to him, he was already on the battleship "Shanxi" heading to Naha.

The "Shanxi" is the second ship of the Shandong-class battleship, which was only officially commissioned in early June this year, so it did not catch up with the thrilling naval battle of Keirama. The era of battleships was coming to an end, but the 70,000-ton ship attracted all attention when it sailed into the port of Naha. The majestic and domineering posture, the wild and fierce lines, and the deceptive Pacific stripe camouflage are blended together, leaving behind an unprecedented majesty, which is to shock the four seas and stir up the ocean. People who have not seen it with their own eyes or have not boarded it cannot understand the beauty of the battleship, and even Yang Qiu, a "latecomer", feels that the battleship is a symbol of the power and hegemon of the times.

Since it was an alliance meeting on an equal footing, it was naturally impossible to go to the United States to hold it, and Britain and the United States did not agree to the Gulf countries controlled by China, so after consultations, the three parties decided that the meeting would be held in Cape Town, South Africa. The "Shanxi" was also chosen because of the long distance, and long-range aviation could not be 100 percent safe, and this was also an opportunity to show the strength of the country, so the General Staff decided to mobilize nine brand-new warships, including the "Shanxi" battleship, the Liaoning-class "Jiangxi" aircraft carrier, the Yarlung Zangbo-class light cruiser "Jinshajiang" and "Lijiang", as well as four destroyers and one supply ship, to form a visiting formation.

The main war in the Ryukyus ended a week ago, and since the typhoon plan in May, the navy has sent 530,000 marines and troops to the islands of Ryukyu Oshima, Miyakojima, Okinagabu Island, and Tokunoshima. 611 ships of various types and 1,500 aircraft were mobilized. During the three-month battle, dozens of islands, including Oshima, were regained at the cost of losing 39 ships, 110 aircraft of various types, and a total of 80,000 casualties (not counting the naval battles before landing). A total of 280,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, of which 230,000 were killed, and about 100,000 Japanese immigrants committed suicide or died in the war. It also sank 41 warships, 320,000 tons of cargo ships, and 372 aircraft, and killed more than 40 Japanese generals such as Ushijima, but the commander-in-chief, Umezu Mijiro, was injured by the explosion and escaped early on a Japanese submarine. So he escaped.

With the exception of some 20,000 Japanese troops on Iriomote Island, Ishigaki Island, and Anmi Oshima Island, who were still unwilling to lay down their arms, all the south of the Togara Strait had been occupied by the Wehrmacht.

When the "Shanxi" entered the port, it was the busiest season. Since the livelihood facilities on the island were destroyed by the war, the supplies of the troops and local residents had to be transported from the mainland. The Ministry of Communications has specially mobilized more than 100 cargo ships to maintain the Ryukyu route. In addition to supplies such as food, the fleet also brought in many building materials and equipment to prepare for the reconstruction of the Ryukyus. The remaining troops will not leave for the time being, let alone be transferred to the northwest, and most of them will be corrected. will be invested in the South Seas region. The fleet did not leave empty, and the Japanese immigrants stranded on the islands were temporarily sent to Miyakojima and other islands for detention, and everything related to Japan was dismantled or taken away. According to Yang Qiu's opinion, it's not just the Ryukyus. Such de-Japanization efforts were also underway in occupied territories such as the Mariana and Micronesia, and 300,000 Japanese immigrants were repatriated to the mainland after the war, excluding Nanyang.

There were also many homeless Japanese women who were carried on board alone. Yang Qiu knew that they would be sent there. War is brutal, and how to maintain morale for a long time is a test for all countries. Of course, he would not condone it. So there will be no such thing as a Japanese comfort station, but these single and homeless women will be sent to a special field bar, and as for how the soldiers spend money to hook up, it's their own business. In short, even if you find a local woman, you have to pay for it, or military tickets, or rations, and so on. In short, there is an exchange, at most a sanction, but if violence is used to cause a bad effect, then it is the gendarmerie and the military court that await him.

"You see, Iwo Jima and its surroundings are already under our control, and the Chiba Islands in the north have landed on them. We have already begun minelaying Japan's main sea ports and seaports, and we expect to cut off most of Japan's sea routes by November. ”

"What about the rest of Japan's navy?" Yang Qiu did not get off the ship and directly inspected the work on the battleship. Bingwen stood next to him and introduced the battle situation to him and Chu Nan and others, who accompanied him to Cape Town.

"The remaining ships of the Combined Fleet were scattered, and as soon as we spotted the Musashi off the coast of Aichi last week, we carried out an air strike, and it was determined the day before yesterday that the Musashi was injured and stranded in Ise Bay. The remaining Japanese fleet was divided into two groups, one was Inoue Narumi's Third Fleet and the Sixth Fleet, which operated mainly in the vicinity of the Philippines, Batavia and Rabaul, and only a few special cruisers, destroyers and submarines remained off the coast of Malacca. Another wave in the country, including the Yamato and Mutsu, were scattered in shelters along the coast. According to intelligence, the total number of ships that Japan can dispatch is less than 100, and most of them cannot be moved due to lack of fuel. It is worth noting that in recent weeks, Japanese submarines in the Philippine Sea have become more active, and excessive oil spills have occurred when they are sunk, and it is suspected that they are using submarines to smuggle oil from the South Sea. ”

"The troops have begun to recuperate, and there will basically be no more major battles in the east this year, except for Korea, and the main thing is to seize the Ogasawara Islands, Izu Islands, and Chiba Islands, recover all the islands south of the Osumi Strait, and settle Truk and Saipan Islands, and strive to empty all the Japanese troops east of Guam by the end of the year, and further compress the encirclement of the main Japanese island. The south is the focus of the second half of the year, and the current situation shows that the Japanese navy is no longer able to protect the waters west of Malacca, so the time is ripe for an attack on the Andaman and Burma. We are prepared to wait for your meeting to have the Third Fleet seize the Andaman Islands first, and then use this as a springboard to flank Burma, Malaya, and Singapore, and try to clear the Strait of Malacca before the New Year, so that we can advance into the Philippines and Rabaul next year. ”

"Rabaul?" Yang Qiu raised his eyebrows slightly, and glanced at Bingwen, who was not paying attention.

Rabaul is the last strategic node in the Southwest Pacific, but it is also a veritable ghost gate. Unlike parallel worlds. As early as after the European War, Britain handed over the then German colonies of Rabaul and New Guinea to Japan out of the need to balance China. In the decades that followed, the Japanese resettled the area, clearing wasteland, exploring mines, and building military installations. Intelligence said that there were more than a million Japanese immigrants in Rabaul and New Guinea, 100,000 regular troops, and even more concealed fortifications of all kinds, and many mountains had been hollowed out. In addition, Japan has also shipped a lot of machinery and equipment from Southeast Asia and the mainland, and it is said that the local ammunition has become self-sufficient. It also produces airplanes and even a small shipyard. At a time when Japan no longer has the strength to counterattack, gnawing on this hard bone can only show that the navy has other intentions.

You must know that the most difficult days for the navy have passed when the main ships of the Japanese Navy have sunk and sunk, and they have not even been able to scrape together the fuel for sailing. Given the increasing attrition in the Northwest, Congress is also unhappy with continuing to maintain naval investment. It was believed that naval spending should be cut. Even the General Staff and the military were divided, and the army and air force strongly demanded reductions. But the Navy believes that the end of the war is still far away, and there is no reason to shrink early. In addition, the three main ships of the Yamato, Mutsu, and Musashi still have the possibility of recovery. Japan has not given up its efforts to continue building aircraft carriers such as the Taiho, so it is too early to talk about reduction. On the other hand, a significant reduction in the post-war military budget was predictable, and the construction of naval equipment required a certain period. Therefore, the navy hopes to take advantage of the east wind of the world war to build a few more main ships to prepare for the winter after the war. For this. On the one hand, Bingwen and the Admiralty have reduced the number of old ships and even decommissioned more than a dozen damaged ships early, and at the same time stepped up the construction of equipment such as the three supercarriers that have already been laid keels and the battleships "Fujian" and "Yunnan," which have been completed by 80 percent. In the end, they drew up a plan called "3+1". In other words, in the case of securing the three major fleets, a small training/mobile force should be reserved, and a total of 228 ships including 12 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, and 40 light and heavy cruisers should be retained.

Yang Qiu had heard Chu Nan say about this plan, but it had been vetoed by the General Staff because the General Staff didn't want to talk about the post-war period now. At this time, Bingwen re-mentioned Rabaul, hoping that Yang Qiu would pay attention to this plan.

Although Yang Qiu did not raise objections on the spot, he also knew that as the war entered a mid-game stalemate, some things needed to be sorted out as soon as possible. So after everyone had finished reporting, they closed the report and changed the topic and asked about the population of the Ryukyus: "Have you counted it, and how many locals are there in the Ryukyus?" ”

"Less than 80,000." Liao Changfeng, the commander-in-chief of the typhoon plan and who had just been promoted to the commander of the Marine Corps, took out the statistics: "There are about 20,000 people in Japan, mainly laborers. I propose to immediately move from within the country, as in Siberia, as in the case of Siberia. ”

"Nope." Murong Han shook his head. Gu Weijun and Yue Peng had to stay in China, so he, Shi Zhaoji, and Chief of Staff Chu Nan accompanied Yang Qiu to Cape Town. "The protests in Europe and the United States are secondary, mainly because the neighbors of our country have not yet fully resolved their doubts about the last merger. It is no longer the era when there was no food or drink at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and few people are willing to come here without using state orders. If it is mobilized, there will be problems in the construction of the Asian League. ”

"What then? You can't give up such a good naval base, right? Several naval officers were excited.

Yang Qiu also felt that it was not good for the government to intervene, but it was impossible to give up the Ryukyus, and one of the topics on the agenda of this trip to Cape Town was to determine the ownership of the Ryukyus. Seeing Murong Han's confident appearance, he asked, "Do you have a good solution?" ”

"Hmm." Murong Han nodded: "The implementation of government immigration will definitely not work, and it will destroy the construction of the Asian League." I propose that it would be better to simply contract the restoration and reconstruction of the area to a domestic construction company, and that the Ministry of Justice could pardon a group of criminals with less serious circumstances and let them come here to work instead of sentences. It will take two to three years to rebuild the Ryukyus, so the family will definitely have to bring it, and no one else can object to us helping the Ryukyus restore the people's livelihood, right? Then, when the time comes, it will not matter whether it will merge or something else after we have made a public statement to our neighbors and to the Asian League to convince them that we will not continue to make territorial claims on the mainland. ”

"You have a lot of ideas." Yang Qiu smiled and agreed to this plan.

Because of the proximity to Japan, it was not safe for the visiting fleet to stay overnight, so after a short five-hour stay, Yang Qiu began to set off for Cape Town. As soon as the sailors untied the cable, a sedan drove over quickly, and Yan Baohang took Li Zhenzhong, Zhuang Meisheng and Du Yuesheng, the chairman of Borneo Autonomy, and stepped on the gangway that was just about to be retracted...... (To be continued......)