Chapter 186: The Palace Dinner

The plan to export "ghosts" to Germany was determined, and Zhong Yi handed over the relevant affairs to Ye Weixun, so he no longer had to worry about it. Don't worry that Germany won't buy it, it's almost designed for the shortcomings of the Luftwaffe, if Goering doesn't even have this vision, he, the commander of the Air Force, is really in vain. The mustache lowered his high head again, for sure!

And with the addition of the "ghosts", the outcome of the air battle in Britain will surely give Mustache more confidence, thereby delaying his decision to postpone the "Sea Lion Project", and there will definitely be a more fierce eagle battle in the sky over the British Channel.

It didn't take much time, as long as the "Barbarossa" project was still the same as in the previous life, and it would start again in the second half of 1941. This is also the reason why when the situation on the Chinese battlefield was still unclear, Zhong Yi began to organize a landing operation against Japan. The "Covering the Sky" plan must be completed as soon as possible, forcing Japan to surrender, giving the Han and the alliance more time to prepare, including some problems within the alliance, which always need to be solved!

Zhong Yi firmly believed that as long as the Allied forces could open a second battlefield against the Soviet Union in Siberia and advance east and west with Germany, would there still be the Battle of Stalingrad? And winter in Moscow? And the great rout of the German army on the Don River? None of this will happen, not to mention the sea of tanks of the Soviet Red Army flooding Berlin, there may still be a sea of tanks, but it will be a tiger flooding Red Square.

"The speed of covering the sky should be accelerated, I don't ask about the process, I just want you to occupy Tokyo!" This is Zhong Yi's latest order to Jiang Yunzhi.

"Don't ask about the process, as long as Tokyo" was deeply engraved in Commander Jiang's mind, "Lao Quan, in January, can the Kyushu landing begin?" ”

"No problem, Lao Jiang, you are deliberately not letting me have a new year! Around the 20th, the navy will launch artillery preparations, and the Yangzhou army can start landing in a week. In response to Jiang Hei's vigorous urging, the whole loudspeaker had planned to let the troops rest before the Spring Festival in vain.

The landing of the Pacific Fleet and the Taiwan Front on Kyushu was not sufficient, and there were still occasional sporadic Japanese attacks on Okinawa. In the most serious case, a group of Japanese troops hiding in a cave attacked Kadena Airport, and although all six Japanese soldiers were killed, a large amount of supplies piled up at the airport were ignited and the losses were great. This incident completely angered Dong Chengbin, the commander of the Yangzhou Army stationed on Okinawa. Commander Dong suspected that the Japanese troops who participated in the attack had received help from local residents, and the "gendarmerie", a common tactic used by the Japanese invasion of China, was adopted by Commander Dong. Gendarmes armed with automatic rifles knocked on the doors of the residents, searched and distributed leaflets, and announced the order to sit down, that is, if one person was found helping the Japanese soldiers, the whole family would be shot; Some Japanese soldiers were found to have failed to raise their knowledge and shot their entire families.

The only difference from the Japanese army is that these gendarmerie members do not harm the people and do not rob things. But the bloody word "kill" was written on the rocks, on the trunks of trees, on the walls.

In the era of war, the fate of small countries and widows was destined to be sad, and the Ryukyuan people are the best example. Japanese troops were stationed, and they were brutally ruled; The Japanese army was defeated, and they were forced to commit suicide. The Japanese army was finally caught up, but the Allies were attacked, and they still suffered.

The bloody policy brought Okinawa a swift and stable situation, and an infantry corps of the Ikju Regiment landed in Okinawa, where they were responsible for the garrison of Okinawa. The Royal Air Force's land-based Wyvern, Howler, and Cerberus fighters were transferred to Naha, Kadena, Yomitan and other airfields. Landing materials were also transported by sea and air to the island.

The battle for the Kyushu landing was about to break out, but in the other direction, based on the airfields of Jeju Island, Tsushima Island and even Zhonghuadong, the Royal Air Force's combat bombers bombed major Japanese cities all day long, especially Tokyo, almost three bombs a day, and the Japanese in Tokyo were used to looking at the sky before eating, "Well, Mr. H from Han is here, and when they leave, they can have dinner!" ”

The long-disappeared Indian Ocean Fleet suddenly appeared in the Philippine Sea, and cooperated with the Air Force to carry out a large-scale bombardment of Saipan and Tinian in the Northern Marianas, and the submarines of the Han Navy also began to blockade the waters near the Ogasawara Islands, and two ships transporting supplies to the Northern Mariana Islands were sunk.

"Could it be that the Han army discovered that there was no suitable landing ground in the western part of Honshu, and turned to attack the Northern Marianas, and then landed on the east coast?" Ishihara, who had been promoted to chief of the general staff of the Japanese army and was promoted to army general, put the pencil in his hand to his mouth, which was a habit he developed when he was studying, and he liked to put the pencil to his mouth and bite it every time he thought!

Due to the geographical characteristics of the four islands of Japan, there are only two suitable locations for traditional landing battles, one is the Hyuga Beach in the south of Kyushu, and the other is the beach in the southern Kanto Plain of Honshu Island. But the Han army first captured Jeju Island, which was a harbinger of landing on the west coast, could it be that the command structure of the Han army changed its mind?

"It seems that the garrison on the Fangzong Peninsula cannot be reduced! In this case, there will only be two divisions of troops transferred to Kyushu, and two divisions can be transferred out on the west coast, and the vacancies will be filled with new divisions! The pencil shaft was bitten apart, and Admiral Ishihara finally made a decision. In fact, the biggest headache for the Japanese base camp was not the lack of troops, but the lack of weapons. In the newly formed divisions, one rifle per person is not bad, and the rifles are still varied, and the 38 type in the arsenal is simply not enough for one gun per person. As for the 20 million national volunteer combat teams organized by Prime Minister Tojo, there were no weapons at all, kitchen knives, axes, hoes, bows and arrows, and they were simply a peasant army in the shogunate era. "Maybe it can cause some trouble for the Allies after the landing?" Ishihara wasn't sure about this, the only thing that was certain was that they would definitely have a large number of casualties, or even ...... Slaughtered.

Unlike Ishihara's difficulty in judging the landing site, the Han Emperor in Chang'an was also in trouble, but Zhong Yi's difficulty was an assessment report provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau. The agents of MI2 Japan transmitted the situation of Japan's frenzied preparations back to the headquarters, and the General Staff made an assessment of the Allied landing in Japan on the basis of this.

Victory was inevitable, and it would not be a problem for the Allied forces, who had absolute sea and air supremacy, to defeat the Japanese forces defending on the coastline, but if we judged the ratio of battle losses between the two sides in the Battle of Okinawa, the Allies would pay a great price for the landing operation. Okinawa Island 140,000 Allied troops, Japanese defenders 100,000, the final casualty ratio was 1:2, all the Japanese were annihilated, and the Mosu Army also suffered 50,000 casualties.

By analogy, the nine divisions of the Japanese army stationed on Kyushu Island will cause 150,000 casualties to the Allied forces. The complete conquest of Japan, considering the result of the large number of Japanese civilians participating in the war, the Allies would eventually pay between 1.2 million and 3 million casualties, which the Reich or even the entire Allies could not afford.

The cruel assessment results did not frighten Zhong Yi, and Zhong Yi did not plan to use a million or even millions of troops to fill the big hole in Japan, how many troops are there in the entire empire? The 13th Legion of the Han Dynasty was only 1.5 million.

However, this assessment report is still relatively objective, even if Zhong Yi has follow-up means to clean up Japan, there will inevitably be a large number of casualties in the early landing campaign. In this regard, the General Staff gave an assessment that even if the "covering the sky" plan was successfully implemented, the allied forces would have to pay nearly 300,000 casualties.

Is it worth such a big price, just to grab time to attack Lao Maozi with Germany? Or by means of siege and bombing, sooner or later Japan can be forced to surrender, and in that case, with the atmosphere in Japan, it will take two years, or even three or four years?

Another option is to requisition the natives of the colonies in larger numbers to form new legions, which again will take time to form and train. "Hebar is too busy, there should be a special person to handle the affairs of the Nanyang Colony."

After reading the report for a long time, His Majesty only said one sentence that was irrelevant. Ye Zhiqiu and the others looked at each other, but Captain Qian, who usually likes hippie smiles, looked solemn, "Your Majesty, have you decided?" ”

"Huh?" Zhong Yi raised his head, looked at Qian Zhihao and smiled! "Zhihao, how long have you been with me?"

Dizzy! What is this? "I joined with Commander Chiang...... The Imperial Army's should have been five and a half years! ”

"It's been so long!" After a sigh, His Majesty seemed to be caught in a memory, and he didn't speak again for a long time, and he didn't even raise his head again when Ye Zhiqiu and the others tiptoed away.

In the evening, several bigwigs in Chang'an received a call from Director Qin, and His Majesty held a banquet in Jinhua Hall to entertain everyone.

His Majesty was a little weird during the day, and at night he had to treat him, and everyone wondered, "Is there anything special going to happen?" ”

There are only six guests, Ye Zhiqiu, Hebar, Hans, Thayer, plus the commander of the First Guards Army, Zuo Shouzuo Fatzi, and the commander of the Second Army, Xiao Guoxing, are all old men in the era of the Red Police Corps, and Lin and Jiang Yunzhi are all on the front line, so there are only these people. After everyone sat down, His Majesty specially ordered Hai Ni to call Qian Zhihao over. Everyone served the food together, Zhong Yi picked up the wine glass and only said one sentence: "It's been more than five years, and you all still call me a commander at that time!" ”

Time goes by, time is like an arrow, this sentence seems to pull everyone back to the era when the main base was just unfolding, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and then Qianli Yue further laid down this empire. Hebal smiled and said, "Your Majesty wants to relive how I was captured?" ”

"And me!" Hans laughed too!

Everyone laughed, and of course the wine of memories had to be drunk in one go, and after drinking this one, there were three more glasses! No one asks why, a "more than five years" is worth getting drunk. Director Qin came over in time and stopped these men's nonsense!

"Your Majesty, drinking like this will hurt your body! You see, His Excellency Hebar's face is red! ”

"I didn't ...... Uh, Your Majesty, let's drink slowly! Hebal, who was on the rise, just wanted to say that it was okay, but when he raised his eyes and met the cold gaze of the cold beauty, he quickly changed his words.

"Hehe, Cher! It's okay, today Zhihao mentioned that we have all met, it has been more than five years, and I feel a little emotional! ”

Yes, as soon as Your Majesty said this, Qian Zhihao knew that it was not good, and sure enough, Director Qin's gaze immediately turned around, and Captain Qian almost stuffed his head between his legs, and everyone laughed again.

Your Majesty is also funny, the cold beauty has been melted for a long time, but occasionally the power is still undiminished! "Okay, Xue'er, you go, let's drink slowly, I'll talk to everyone about business!"

Retracting the cold eyes, Qin Yingxue, facing His Majesty, is like a snow lotus blooming on a snow-capped mountain, washing away the lead, holy and beautiful. The cold beauty nodded elegantly and obediently, and Shi Shiran left.

The bigwigs at the table all raised their heads at this time, Director Qin, who is known as the "Goddess of the Empire", is very powerful, far surpassing His Majesty's imperial might!

This meeting made His Majesty a little embarrassed, how could any hostess scare the invited guests like this. "Come, everyone drink, drink, if she dares to come over, I will cut her!"