“…… Nowadays, some leftists from Europe and the Americas often ask me the following question: Was the Great East Asian Unification War of 1936 a war of aggression launched by China against Japan?

Although we in Japan have consistently held that the War for the Unification of Greater East Asia was a war of aggression for more than 20 years. But personally, it is indeed inappropriate to describe this war of aggression as a war of aggression. Because at that time, the ideal of our Japanese GCD was also to liberate Greater East Asia and liberate all mankind. Therefore, we have always called the Second World War the First World Revolution, and at the 9th National Congress of the Japanese and the G, three months before the outbreak of the First World Revolution, the Japanese and the G. also passed the resolution of "leading and waging the Greater East Asian Revolutionary War". It can be seen from this that at that time, we regarded the entire Greater East Asia region as a whole, or as a country that was bound to be unified, and represented the interests of the entire Greater East Asian proletariat, and the Japanese GCD was competing with the bourgeois ruling clique of the Great China Federation for the right to rule Greater East Asia! So there was no war of aggression or counter-aggression -- at least not until we lost the war for the unification of Greater East Asia. Some of them are only struggles between the Greater East Asian proletariat and the Greater East Asian bourgeoisie, and this is a life-and-death struggle between the revolutionary dictatorship and the counter-revolutionary dictatorship, not between the Japanese nation and the Chinese nation.

In fact, the criterion for distinguishing the camps of the enemy in the war for the unification of Greater East Asia is not the nation or the state, but the class! The Japanese bourgeoisie in exile in China in 1924 had become a member of the bourgeois ruling circles of the Federation of Great China, and the party they supported, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, was the most powerful promoter of the Great East Asian Unification War. And the biggest reason why we lost this war. It is not in the military aspect, but that we have not mobilized and united the Chinese proletariat. In other words, the war for the unification of Greater East Asia was actually a war between the Greater East Asian bourgeoisie and the proletariat of Japan and the South Sea Islands. The strength of the Greater East Asian bourgeoisie as a whole must far exceed that of the proletariat of Japan and the South Seas. So we lost the war.

It is regrettable that in the more than 20 years since the defeat of the Great East Asia Unification War, we in Japan have not learned our lessons, and we still do not realize the importance of uniting and mobilizing the entire Greater East Asian proletariat, and still position ourselves as the party of the Japanese proletariat. I think this is the most important reason why our business has not made any breakthroughs in the past 20 years. The above is an excerpt from the memoirs of Yasuo Yasuda, later chairman of the Japanese GCD, "Memories of a Revolutionary".

Two years after the publication of this memoir, at the 20th National Congress of the GCD in Japan, under pressure from Yasuo Yasuda, the famous resolution "The Proletariat of Greater East Asia Unite" was passed on by Yasuo Yasuda. It was renamed the Greater East Asia GCD, and from then on it positioned itself as the vanguard of the Greater East Asian proletariat, and no longer pursued the efforts of armed struggle to separate Japan from the entire Great China Federation......

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Let's turn our attention back to the Greater East Asia Theater in mid-February 1936. On the day after the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Federation of Great China passed the "Greater East Asia Unification War Bill". Chen Gongbo, the ambassador of the Great China Federation to Japan, handed over an ultimatum to the acting Japanese People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Ryuo Nishiri, demanding that the Japanese GCD end the dictatorship within 72 hours, hand over the Japanese Combined Fleet, and allow the Chinese National Defense Forces to provide "protection" to Japan. The Japanese authorities ignored the ultimatum to China. Seventy-two hours later, at 10:30 a.m. on February 14, 1936. The War for the Unification of Greater East Asia has officially broken out!

Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Busan, in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, several four-wheel-drive military off-road vehicles sped along the improvised highway, rolling up dust and falling onto desolate fields. A few idle North Korean farmers raised their heads and looked at the flag of the Great Chinese Federation fluttering in the front of the car with envy.

The off-road vehicles drove into a large military airfield that had just been built, and similar airfields and military bases with large numbers of Chinese officers and soldiers were stationed in almost the entire southern coastal area of the Korean Peninsula, and there was also a steady stream of troops and supplies coming south by rail and road.

A group of Chinese pilots playing soccer stopped their ongoing movement and turned their eyes to the speeding off-road vehicle. Because they noticed the flag of the lieutenant general of the Air Force with it on the front of the car. The car stopped beside them, and Wang Shuming, the tall lieutenant general of the 3rd Air Army, stood up. Waving his hand to greet the pilots who were playing and watching the football to gather over, and then tear his Shandong voice open and announce: "Good news! The War for the Unification of Greater East Asia has begun! We're going to bomb Japan this afternoon, and I'm going with you!" From now on, the 3rd Bomber Aviation Division will enter emergency combat readiness, and all captains and navigators must go to the conference room at 12 noon today to attend an operational meeting. ”

After Wang Shuming finished speaking, Lieutenant General Tian Yuchen, commander of the 3rd Bombardment Aviation Division, who was sitting on another off-road vehicle, also stood up, held the window with both hands and said to the pilots: "From now until 12 noon, you can move freely, hurry up and make a will and write a letter to your family. ”

Although Tian Yuchen's words were not auspicious, the air force pilots present couldn't help but cheer. Most of them are veteran pilots with more than two years of combat experience, and they have dropped thousands of tons of bombs on the Central Asian battlefield, the Siberian battlefield, and the Indian battlefield, and it can be said that all of them have their hands stained with the blood of the people.

However, the premise is that the Type 93 and Type 96 fighters piloted by the Japanese red pilots can buy the H-7 heavy bombers that have just been equipped with the 3rd Bomber Air Division. According to intelligence, the ceiling of Japan's Type 93 fighter is only about 7,000 meters, the ceiling of the Type 96 fighter is only 9,000 meters, and the practical ceiling of the H-7 is as high as 10,800 meters!

Moreover, according to the plan, the 3rd Bombardment Aviation Division will first use the tactics of high-altitude penetration to bomb Japan's military industry, steel industry, shipyards, naval ports, and ships in military ports. The method of attack is to bomb the target with high-explosive and napalm.

"This time, let little Japan understand the power of the bombardment!"

Wang Shuming pointed to the more than 200 behemoths neatly arranged on the tarmac, and said to Tian Yuchen with a smile: "It is only two or three hundred kilometers from Busan to Kure Port and Sasebo in Japan, and this distance is above. Each H-7 can carry at least 8 tons of bombs, 240 H-7s are 1920 tons, and they can fly at least three times a day, and a total of 5760 tons of bombs can be dropped. ”

Kure Port and Sasebo are not only Japan's naval ports, but also important shipbuilding and steel industry bases. After three days of bombardment, nearly 16,000 tons of bombs and incendiary bombs were dropped, and Kure Port and Sasebo were in ruins. Moreover, the Chinese army will use far more than 240 H-7 heavy bombers for air strikes!

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Kanto State. Lushunkou Sun Ditch, the headquarters of the Japanese Front in China.

Lu Yixuan stood in front of a large military map wearing a crisp general uniform and shiny high-end military boots. Enough of a hundred famous generals. His Chief of Staff. Lieutenant General He Yingqin, who had studied in Japan and graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, stood beside him and whispered to the map to explain to him the latest progress of the war.

"According to the plan, the first to start was an air strike on Japan's important military and industrial targets in the northern part of the Japanese island of Kyushu, the western part of the island of Honshu, Tsushima Island, Jeju Island, Itodai Island, Goto Island, and other places. At 2 o'clock this afternoon, more than 3,000 combat planes belonging to eight division-level aviation combat units, including the First Bomber Aviation Division, the Third Bombing Aviation Division, the Fourth Bombing Aviation Division, the Fifth Air Division, the Sixth Air Division, the First Air Force, the Second Air Force, and the Fourth Air Force, will all take part in the ......."

“…… The Navy's Nanyang Fleet has formed a Japanese task force under Vice Admiral Bo Fuping, which is equipped with six Canton-class battlecruisers, 21 Nanjing-class air defense cruisers, 60 Nanhui-class destroyers, four seaplane carriers, 54 Borneo-class landing tank landing ships, and 10 fast transport ships. The Japanese task force has now left Port Arthur and is preparing to break into the Korean Strait tonight and enter the ports of Busan, Mokpo, and Yeosu......"

“…… The landing headquarters led by Vice Admiral Bai Swen has been formed, with the exception of the Japanese task force. The landing headquarters also has four landing fleets, with a total of more than 1,200 transport ships and more than 100 escort ships. The total tonnage is close to 6 million tons. At present, about 400 warships have arrived at Busan, Mokpo, Yeosu, and other ports on the south coast of the Korean Peninsula, and the rest of the warships are deployed in Qingdao, Weihai, Yantai, Tianjin, Dalian, Lushun, Yingkou, and other ports......

“…… The 1st Airborne Division and the 2nd Airborne Division have been assembled at the designated locations, and all 30,000 officers and men can be engaged in airborne operations at any time. According to the plan, they will be the vanguard of the invasion of Japan's Kyushu Island, and carry out airborne landing in the northern part of Kyushu Island, control all major intersections, and cut off communication between the main port cities of Kyushu. In addition, the Airborne Forces Command also recruited elite officers and soldiers from the Wehrmacht and clan to form a task force of Luogan, which was intended to be used in an airborne raid on Shimonoseki Port in the western part of Japan's main island of Honshu......"

"According to the information we have so far, the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet is still far away in Port Moresby in the South Pacific, and there is no sign of returning north to the mainland. The base camp believes that the idea of Japan's own defensive operations is likely to lure the enemy into depth, resist on the beachhead, and fight a decisive battle inland. According to intelligence, Japan has formed a general defense force at the end of November last year, and has carried out a comprehensive general mobilization on the Japanese mainland, claiming to have mobilized 5 million army forces and 10 million Red Guards......

He Yingqin was a representative of the "non-commissioned officer department" in the early years, and their department was led by Jiang Jshi and Xu Chongzhi, and the "Baoding department" with Chang Ruiqing as the leader was a former opponent, so after Chang Ruiqing took power, the career of the officers from the non-commissioned officer department has not been good, otherwise with He Yingqin's qualifications and talents, how could he have the rank of general. However, in the face of the absolute strength of Chang Ruiqing and the Baoding department, these non-commissioned officer generals who have been treated unfairly for many years dare not have any more serious intentions.

And even if there is dissatisfaction. It is also powerless to return to the sky, the system of the national army of the National Defense Force has long been unbreakable, and the current squadron is no longer the "personal dependent" warlord army in the early years. There is a set of strict rules and regulations for the training, promotion, and post arrangement of officers and men -- basically referring to the model of the original Japanese Army, which uses grades and seniority (of course, the Central Military Academy and the Army University) as the basis for promotion in peacetime, and emphasizes battlefield performance and meritorious service in wartime. In short, it is to minimize the personal preference factor of the commander, although it is inevitable that there will be the defect of "one examination for life", but it is the fairest military personnel management method that Chang Ruiqing can think of. Under the management of this set of methods, not to mention the non-commissioned officers who have no real power like He Yingqin, even the military bigwigs such as Bai Chongxi, Wu Shi and Zhao Zhen who are in power. It is also impossible to cultivate many "private individuals".

Therefore, Chang Ruiqing's opposition in the army is now either like Jiang Jshi and Xu Chongzhi, taking off their military uniforms and going to be politicians to conduct elections; Or just like this He Yingqin. Stay in the army and slowly work on seniority and other opportunities -- waiting for the opportunity to serve Prime Minister Chang Da and die for his life! And this war for the reunification of Greater East Asia is obviously an opportunity for the non-commissioned officer department. The reason is also very simple: In the past 10 years or so, the Chinese National Defense Forces and Army have never regarded Japan as an opponent. All eyes were on the USSR. They are all figuring out how to beat this red roller. Therefore, when the issue of attacking Japan was placed in front of the Wehrmacht, Chang Ruiqing, Zhao Fatzi, and Wu Shi naturally thought of the non-commissioned officers and generals of the "Zhiri faction" who had been sitting on the cold bench for more than ten years. Therefore, He Yingqin got the high position of chief of staff of the front army, and of course the No. 2 person in the history of the Kuomintang also knows how to firmly seize the opportunity. Leading a group of elite staff officers of the Wehrmacht, who knew almost nothing about the Japanese mountains, rivers, characters, and folk customs, they stayed up several sleepless nights and finally worked out a plan for occupying Kyushu after the landing. One of the things he was most proud of was the formation of the "Japanese Task Force" to pretend to be the Japanese Red Army to raid the port of Shimonoseki.

"Raid on Shimonoseki Port?" Lu Yixuan's eyebrows raised slightly, and he really showed interest. Although he didn't know much about Japan, he could tell the importance of Shimonoseki Port just by looking at a map. Shimonoseki City and Kitakyushu City, across the sea, are combined to hold the Kanmon Strait at the junction of Kyushu and Honshu. And Kitakyushu will definitely be controlled by the landing force of the Chinese army, if it can take Shimonoseki at the beginning of the landing operation in Japan. According to intelligence, Japan's Honshu coastal areas close to the Sea of Japan are extremely well defended and there are few good harbors, while the coastal areas of the Seto Inland Sea, which have many good ports, are empty, and as long as they can seize a few ports among the many deep-water ports along the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, the powerful armored forces of the Wehrmacht can be deployed on the soil of Japan's Honshu!

Thinking of this, Lu Yixuan turned his head to look at He Yingqin: "Jingzhi, tell me carefully how to seize Xiaguan?" According to the intelligence, the Japanese army was extremely well fortified in Shimonoseki, and a fortress was built to block the Guanmen Strait. ”

He Yingqin smiled slightly, and said in a low voice: "Junzuo, the plan of the department is like this......"

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"Ladies and gentlemen, the air raid plan has been sent to you, it is not complicated at all, it is to drive a bomber to Japan to drop bombs and make a way for the landing force to blow up!"

At this time, in a large military airfield on the outskirts of Busan, more than 200 captains of the Third Bombardment Aviation Division had already gathered in the base war room. The flight chart is hung on the wall, and the flight plan and signal contact plan have been sent to each captain. It's really irresponsible at all, that is, the soldiers went to bomb Wu Jungang and Sasebo in two ways. These two targets are only two or three hundred kilometers away from Busan, and they are attacking in broad daylight, so it is impossible to get lost at all. And in order to ensure the success of the first battle, all H-7s will adopt the tactics of high-altitude penetration and drop bombs at an altitude of 9,500 meters. Japan's Type 93 and Type 96 fighters could not fly to this altitude at all, and even most of the anti-aircraft guns equipped by the Japanese army could not reach the H-7 planes at an altitude of 9,500 meters, so today's mission was almost no danger, so none of the pilots present showed the slightest nervous look.

"Everyone, now let's go and drop bombs with me in Japan!" Wang Shuming, commander of the 3rd Air Army, stood up, waved his arm vigorously, and announced the start of the air raid operation with a simple single sentence, and the atmosphere in the war room was instantly ignited.

Most of the pilots who took part in this air raid, including dozens of Japanese pilots, grew up after 1924 and were brainwashed by more than 10 years of "leftist revisionism." They have long regarded the reunification of Greater East Asia as their sacred mission, and none of them have realized that they are engaged in a war of aggression. And those Japanese pilots even called this invasion of the Japanese mainland a Great East Asian Holy War!

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