Chapter Ninety-Two: The War Ends
Those who grasp public opinion will grasp the voice of the world, this is an indisputable fact that those media tycoons in Zhao Zhi's previous life have proven, Thunder is to force down Japan's anti-Japanese forces, and naturally no one will talk about Thunder in China, and in the United States, the Rockman family controls a number of newspapers and radio stations, and after the end of the non-stop propaganda offensive of the staff group for a whole month, more than half of the Americans have regarded Thunder as a new force dedicated to maintaining peace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhao Zhi in the French battlefield also showed his goodwill in a timely manner, and he recommended the Thor revolver machine gun equipped with the Thunder Force to Patton, this famous general with a hot temper fell in love with the Thor machine gun at a glance, in his opinion, this powerful machine gun was simply a nightmare for the German army. Patton then united several U.S. generals to jointly apply to Congress for the configuration of the Thor machine gun, Patton's insistence made Congress have to increase another military spending, the Rockman family produced the Thor machine gun is not cheap, although the bullet can be used with the bullet of the Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun, the barrel can also be imitated, and the motor motor, battery box and rotating gun carriage that can be matched with the Thor revolver machine gun are only available in the arsenal of the Rockman family. Zhao Zhi's kindness allowed him to make friends with many hawkish generals like Patton, and also made the Lockman family's arsenal make a lot of money, 5,000 Thor retroducer machine guns and supporting ammunition supply contracts made old Rod laugh and couldn't even sleep.
The unsmooth situation in the European battlefield directly affected the United States, and the surprise attack on the Los Amos nuclear test base made President Roosevelt's health worse and worse, and when Zhao Zhi's mercenary troops attacked Saint-Etienne, not far from Lyon, Roosevelt, who was overwhelmed, finally fell ill. The president was ill, but the war still went on, and Zhao Zhi took the opportunity to privately sign a number of construction orders with the French government-in-exile to rebuild France after the war, which were enough to keep the 400,000 construction army in Burma busy for several years.
At the same time that the Kwantung Army in the northeast and the Korean Japanese army formed an alliance to recover Manchukuo, the Japanese army on the Philippine battlefield began to retreat one after another, and even if the god of war came to no avail of domestic supplies. On the third Sunday of April, MacArthur, who had been able to take a break from his busy schedule, finally entered the Japanese Imperial Palace, and after meeting with the newly succeeded Emperor Child, MacArthur sent a note to the United States to the new Prime Minister Rokuhara Roku, asking the new emperor to order the Japanese troops in the Philippines to lay down their arms and surrender immediately.
The US military has been trapped in the Philippine battlefield for a long time, and dozens or hundreds of American soldiers die in the jungle of the Philippines every day, MacArthur does not want to stay in the rainforest full of mosquitoes, he wants to roam the streets and alleys of Japan with dignity and accept the worship of the Japanese people. It has to be said that MacArthur was indeed a very good politician, and after meeting with Sekihara Roku one after another, the new emperor finally issued an edict ordering the Japanese army in the Philippines to surrender to the American army.
The U.S. military fought very hard in the Philippine battlefield, and the Japanese army also had a hard time, and when a person was extremely depressed, the so-called orders no longer worked for them. About half of the Japanese army accepted the emperor's order to surrender to the American army, but the remaining half of the Japanese army fled into the mountains and forests, and attacked the logistics and supply lines of the American army day and night like guerrillas, making MacArthur's plan to settle the war in the Philippines as soon as possible a distant disappointment.
The new emperor is trapped in the palace, young and ignorant, he just needs to be an obedient puppet, and Sekihara Liu's activity space can only be in Tokyo, by the beginning of May, when MacArthur returned to the Philippines, Tang Lei's mercenaries have already seen the industrial facilities throughout Japan, as long as the facilities and equipment that can be used by Vietnam's industrial base, all of them are packed by the mercenaries and ready to board the ship at any time.
The Japanese army snatched a lot of raw coal and ore from China, Japan's mainland Hachiman is a steel city, the steel mills here can produce high-quality steel, under the strong promotion of Tang Lei, the Yawata steelworks re-production, a large number of Japanese in order to support their families into the steel mills to consume those ores and raw coal, and the high-quality steel they produce are all loaded and shipped to the port, they will be transported to Burma by the Lockman family's fleet, and then sent to the large reserve that Zhang Lan spent a year to build for storage in reserve.
During World War II, how much material did Japan snatch from Southeast Asia and China and transport it back to their homeland, maybe even the US troops who occupied the Japanese mainland could not figure it out, Zhao Zhi recalled all his past life memories related to it and didn't know the answer, so Zhao Zhi handed over this important task to Tang Lei to solve. The Myanmar branch of Southwest Associated University sent 20 students who could read and write Japanese to Japan to help Tang Lei, and their only job was to consult all the materials and documents of the Japanese government that Tang Lei had sealed, and find out the materials and wealth hidden by the Japanese cabinet and those wealthy families.
Zhang Lan, who was pushed by Zhao Zhi to become president, began a goodwill visit to China in May, and although some people in the Nationalist Government disdained the South Asian Five-Nation Alliance, they had to admit that China was not as good as the South Asian Five-Nation Alliance, or at least that people would not fight a war a long time ago. Now Zhang Lan is no longer the female guerrilla leader who is active in Shanxi, she is now the first president of the South Asian Five-nation Alliance, and she is a female president, so after Zhang Lan met with the people, except for a little excitement, Zhang Lan did not have anything else unusual.
Zhang Lan's visit to China was for Chiang Kai-shek's promise to Zhao Zhi at the beginning, the Nationalist Government hired Thunder to fight the Japanese army, but the cost of hiring has not been paid, Mo Lunwei had negotiated with the Nationalist Government once at this time, but did not get accurate results, so Zhang Lan came, bringing the same problem. The Nationalist Government was consulting and cooperating with them, and they planned to jointly deal with the Kwantung Army troops entrenched in the northeast, so Zhang Lan came at the right time to put this issue on the table for discussion.
The list brought by Zhang Lan contained detailed material consumption figures, as well as the casualties of Thunder in China, and Thunder's own soldiers alone suffered more than 30,000 casualties, not including the casualties of the indigenous mercenaries and thousands of sleeper members of the five South Asian countries. In the face of the data that Zhang Lan came up with, the most difficult person to speak in the Ministry of Military Affairs also closed his mouth, the Ministry of Military Affairs knew how much resources it took to train a Thunder mercenary, and the casualties of 30,000 mercenaries were obviously not a small amount.
After several days of negotiations, Zhang Lan promised to provide the Nationalist Government with enough Garand rifles and ammunition to equip 10 divisions, as well as 200 European-style tanks and armored vehicles, as well as fuel supplies, and the Nationalist Government and the Nationalist Government would jointly sign a written change of hands clause between Hong Kong and Macao. After the weapons and supplies provided by Thunder for China were in place, Hong Kong and Macao belonged to Zhao Zhi, and as for how Zhao Zhi took back Hong Kong and Macao from Britain and Portugal, the Nationalist Government and China did not have to pay attention.
Zhao Zhicai wanted Taiwan or Hainan Island, but the area of these two places is not small, and according to Chiang Kai-shek's character, it may be difficult to agree, so Zhao Zhicai secretly ordered Zhang Lan to use Hong Kong and Macao as bargaining chips, anyway, the ownership of these two places is still in the hands of foreigners, and the Nationalist Government will not care very much. The British royal family has signed the document that Hong Kong has changed hands, Portugal is just a small country, and now it is the honeymoon period between Zhao Zhi and the United States, and I think the United States will not refuse to take back the ownership of Macau for Zhao Zhi.
Jeju Island, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Macau, and the five countries of South Asia, Zhao Zhi actually controls a large area of land, and if you connect these places with lines on the map, you will be surprised to find that the places controlled by Zhao Zhi have actually faintly encircled China. Of course, Zhao Zhi did not do anything to China, neither in his past life nor in this life could avoid his Chinese ancestry, Zhao Zhi only did this to avoid China's embarrassing maritime position in the future, because until the day of Zhao Zhi's accident in his previous life, Chinese waters were still free to Vietnamese and Philippine ships to sail at will.
Jeju Island and Okinawa are at odds with sensitive waters, and any country that wants to make a provocation against China at sea will inevitably pass through the waters controlled by Thunder first. Thunder mercenaries are now synonymous with being unguardable, Zhao Zhi's old friend Hunter has been operating in Europe for many years, I'm afraid even he can't help but know how many intelligence officers he has, the huge intelligence network and the invincible thunder mercenaries, Zhao Zhi doesn't believe that there will be fools who will come to find his mold head in the future, not to mention that he has the biggest trump card in his hand, which is a trump card that can make the world tremble.
After taking over Okinawa, Tang Lei returned to Burma with a large number of materials collected from Japan, except for a 300-man mercenary force that served as the guard of the Japanese Imperial Palace all the year round, all of Thunder's troops in Japan have been withdrawn, and they were replaced by MacArthur's marines stationed in Japan. The war in Europe was in a stalemate, and it was not until the beginning of 45 that the American army was able to solve most of the German army in France and the whole of Britain, and the Soviet Union was really forced to the point of death by the German army.
On the first Saturday of February 1945, 5 brave Soviet flight crews piloted a German transport plane suddenly appeared over Berlin, when the German transport plane lowered its altitude 200 meters above the ground, a dazzling white light and a huge mushroom cloud appeared at the same time, Berlin was cleanly erased from the map, 2 hours later, the Soviet Union announced that they had built an atomic bomb and apologized to the civilians who lost their lives in Berlin, In March of the same year, Germany declared an armistice and peace talks, and World War II finally came to an end in April 1945.