Chapter 235: Impulse is the Devil
The chairman of the NPC National Committee refused to lease the Ledong Airport on Hainan Island, and Zhong Yi was furious and sent marines to land in Yinggehai and Yulin respectively, occupy Sanya and Ledong County, and forcibly stationed the air force. Even in the ports of Hachisho and Yulin, several destroyers and amphibious combat ships were arranged.
This gesture of forcibly annexing Hainan Island has caused many controversies. The Nanjing government expressed strong protest, and even the Beiping side sent a letter of inquiry. "Ta Kung Pao", "Wen Wei Po" and "Declaration" and other well-known domestic newspapers have published articles questioning the Han Emperor, is it for temporary borrowing or forced robbery if he is so aggressive? Is it a neighbor or a thief? Could it be that the Han Empire also coveted the great rivers and mountains of China like the Japanese invaders?
Of course, Nanjing Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui will not miss this opportunity to play on the topic, and he has enumerated the various kinds of Han interference in China's internal affairs, "In the name of the same ancestor and the same ancestor, he concealed the ambition of bandits to dominate, and called the righteousness of friends and brothers, but he is really a barbarian of evil neighbors!" β
These remarks were upright, and when the domestic people were talking about the Han army's forcible entry into Hainan Island, they also won the approval of some people. In Shanghai and Nanjing, some anti-Han demonstrations even broke out to protest against the Han army's brutal occupation of Hainan Island!
This kind of scene caught Zhong Yi a little off guard, and His Majesty also admitted that he always unconsciously thought that China was his motherland.
But the facts made him understand that in this world, for China, he is an "outsider" after all. Even if they share the same ancestry, even if they are related by blood, and even if the Nanjing government, which was provoked by the Chinese people to start the civil war, has a lot of dissatisfaction, they still have the same hatred for the enemy and unite with the outside world.
When Wilson came to Weiyang Palace to ask for instructions on how to deal with the diplomatic protests of the Chinese side, His Majesty pinched his nose and smiled bitterly: "I still want my son to be one year old, take him back to recognize his ancestors!" This time, it seems that our grandfather is not popular in China! Forget it, Wilson, explain to the Beiping side, we will withdraw our troops on Hainan Island after fighting these monkeys in Southeast Asia, or we can wait for them to liberate the entire continent and return them after defeating the bald heads! As for Nanjing, let them be scared, I want to see what tricks the chairman can play! β
Zhong Yi became a father. In the festive days when the Han people bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, good news also came from the Jinhua Palace, Director Qin gave birth smoothly, His Majesty had an eldest son, and the Han had an heir.
This is a big deal, not just for the royal family, but for the entire empire.
The ancestors have a saying: there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great.
Although His Majesty has not yet reached the age of thirty, it is too early to talk about the inheritance of the empire, but with an heir, everyone feels more solid. This kind of mentality is not only shared by millions of soldiers of the Imperial Army, but also in the hearts of ordinary people, who also feel that the royal family has been added, which is gratifying!
In the South Seas, in the East, in the Pacific Ocean, the island kingdoms in the Pacific Ocean, and other countries of the Grand Alliance, enthusiastic activities were held to celebrate the birthday of the Han prince. Except, of course, China!
In China, Zhong Yi firmly established the title of fascist emperor.
Anyway, Your Majesty is still quite happy! Having a son means having real concern in this world. Compared with the hegemony of any dynasty, the son is the biggest trace he has left in this world.
At this point, the Han Emperor is no different from other ordinary people!
When Zhang Hanqing came to Chang'an by special plane, he was just in time to drink the full moon wine of His Royal Highness in Weiyang Palace. In this regard, he was much luckier than the generals of the Han Dynasty who were fighting in foreign commands.
Ye Weixun, Long Zhou, Hans and others were not able to rush back to share His Majesty's happiness. Although the offensive on the Siberian battlefield has been suspended, the construction of logistics bases in the three eastern provinces is in full swing, and the Soviet Red Army is also ready to move in winter.
In the Pacific Theater, after the Navy SEALs joined the battle, the eradication of sporadic resistance by U.S. forces on the Hawaiian Islands was much faster. In the battle between the banana grove and the volcano, the American GIs were not Navy SEALs at all, and even the organized resistance in Pearl Harbor was opened after the infiltration of 500 frogmen, and more than 1,000 American sailors were almost all killed! Of course, another theory is that the Royal Navy's Indian Ocean Commander Mao Quartz, wanting to avenge the Marine Corps soldiers who were sunk by American submarines, issued an order to leave no prisoners.
Around the New Year, in the Pacific theater, both China and the United States maintained a certain degree of restraint. The fighting was basically focused on the air force -- bombing and counter-bombing, somewhat similar to the British air battle in the English Channel on the western front of Europe, except that the "strait" here was too wide, from Hawaii to the west coast of the United States, a full distance of more than 3,000 kilometers.
The bombing of the Helleye strategic bomber force did not cause much damage to Los Angeles, San Francisco and other large cities on the west coast of the United States, and its own casualties were heavy, but as His Majesty said, the deterrence of this strategic bombing is far greater than the actual losses! Faced with the threat of airstrikes, a large number of wealthy people have moved away from the West Coast, the affluent areas of Los Angeles have been emptied, and even major Hollywood companies are considering moving.
But Long Zhou has also had a headache recently, and that is about the restoration of Hawaii. After the death of Hawaii's last queen Liliukalani at Washington Palace in 1917, there is no news of her descendants. Commander Long asked His Majesty several times to send another Hawaiian governor, but His Majesty insisted on finding the descendants of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
In fact, in Zhong Yi's view, no matter what you do, you must always have a group of supporters. Whether it is a kingdom or a republic, it is just a political model, tearing away the disguise, and its essence is centralization and domination. If kingdoms have hierarchical differences, then is a republic really equal for all? Isn't there a hierarchy for Americans? It's just a different way to paint the appearance more brightly.
Kingdom rule has its advantages, and there is no shortage of supporters. At the very least, the kingdom model is more suitable for empires to control or unite these small nations. As for saying that the colony is not long-lasting, even if Zhong Yi can change the outcome of World War II, some historical trends are unstoppable, at most it is to delay the time of its appearance. Rather than be overwhelmed by the rush to put out fires after the tide of independence emerges, it is better to start planning now and forge a wider alliance around the world.
No matter how small a country is, it is still a country. Zhong Yi, who is well aware of the way the United Nations operates in later generations, how could he not know the model of the United States in responding to every call to squeeze out China!
Playing hooligans/hooligans, which is not a whole bunch of entourage! It never hurts to build more small nations, especially those that are economically, militarily, and even on the throne of the empire!
On the African battlefield, Major General Shui Mo, who had a deep longing for Michiko, turned his resentment into a terrifying combat force, and the Sixth Guards Army slaughtered all sides in Ethiopia, and in the decisive battle of Northeast Africa in Addis Ababa, it continuously attacked the Gobesa and Asella defense lines on the southern front, and advanced the front 300 kilometers within a week, and directly erected the artillery outside the city of Debrezet, the gateway to the capital of Ethiopia.
On the northern front, the Third Army of the East, which had not long arrived in the African theater, surrounded and annihilated more than 60,000 black troops at Mekelle, captured the Eritrean capital Asmara, and burned the war to Port Sudan, controlling most of the western shore of the Red Sea.
The Coast Corps came out at Djibouti, bypassed Mount Ayelu, and joined forces with the Sixth Guards Army to encircle Addis Ababa in the north and south, and soon launched a general attack. As long as the 120,000 black troops in the city were eliminated, the British influence in Northeast Africa would be wiped out, and the 400,000 Han troops in Africa would be free to fight with the German-Italian forces led by Rommel to flank the British Eighth Army in Egypt. Montgomery urged Churchill to immediately strengthen his forces in North Africa, otherwise Egypt would not be able to hold on.
Compared with the situation in Africa, which is very good, the Yanzhou and Yizhou armies in the Gulf region and the Indochina Peninsula are much more difficult.
The Yanzhou Army and the Anglo-Indian Seventeenth Army have been fighting fiercely in Baghdad for more than 50 days, and the entire Baghdad has been reduced to ruins, and carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carriers of the Southern Fleet in the Persian Gulf bomb the British and Indian troops every day, but the British and Indian troops can still insist on fighting the Han army in the ruins!
The inaction of the Italian navy allowed Britain to use the Mediterranean Sea to support the Middle East and North Africa theater at will. The British Crusader medium cruiser was no match for the Siberian Tigers, with a six-pounder gun (57 mm) and armor thickness of 24-49 mm, making it difficult to match the Siberian Tigers on both offensive and defensive ends! The only thing that can be commended is the excellent suspension system and high maneuverability of the Crusaders, but the higher failure rate makes the Crusaders crawl more nests due to malfunctions than they are damaged by Siberian tigers.
In addition, in the Battle of Baghdad, the British and Indian forces had been on the defensive, so in the later stages of the Middle East theater, Britain did not send Crusader tanks to Iraq, and a large number of Crusaders were transported to Egypt to increase the armor strength of Montgomery's Eighth Army.
In Baghdad, Iraq, the Anglo-Indian Seventeenth Army acquired a large number of Valentine six-pounder anti-tank guns, which were more portable and posed a greater threat to Han tanks than the Crusader tanks. Valentine showed his skills in the street fighting in Baghdad, destroying a large number of Siberian Tiger tanks, greatly delaying the Yanyan army's attack.
In Vietnam, the Yizhou Army, mired in the People's War, was also struggling, and the French had to leave a large number of weapons to the Vietnamese before retreating. Large-scale corps operations are not effective against Vietnamese monkeys at all, and they don't give you a chance to fight positional warfare at all, and an attack of a few hundred people is considered relatively large-scale! Guerrilla warfare and sparrow warfare are their magic weapons. Even though Wang Yizhe commanded the Yizhou army to capture Hanoi and capture important cities such as Vinh An, Yen Bai, and Tuyen Quang, the will of the monkeys in northern Vietnam to resist was not weakened in the slightest. Moreover, the soldiers of the Yizhou Army also found that the monkeys actually had more and more automatic weapons - Type 56 assault rifles.
Check the gun number, it is actually the batch that the empire originally aided China.
The information was transmitted back to Chang'an, and His Majesty was happy after reading it! "Nima, the Marine Corps beat up the Nanjing 28th Division in Hainan Island, it seems that he really didn't beat it wrong! This bald head is really idle, his Yangtze River defense line can't stand it, and he still has the leisure to block the Yizhou army in Vietnam! β
However, no matter what the situation on the battlefield is, the pace of time will never stop. In Nanhua itself, with the advent of the New Year and the birth of the Emperor's eldest son, the faces of the people on the streets were always full of smiles, because, as soon as His Majesty was happy, he decided to pay an extra month's salary to the people of the whole country out of his own pocket.
When Hebar submitted the total amount of the required funds to His Majesty for approval, there was also a smile on his face, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was certainly not happy that he could get an extra month's salary, it was a kind of schadenfreude laugh! There are a lot of zeros behind the numbers, even Hebal, who is a rich second generation, has a headache when he sees it.
Of course, His Majesty is not short of money, and many properties with royal names will bring countless wealth to Zhong Yi every day. With the assets that the Han royal family now has, if you talk about the richest man in the world, what Rockefeller or something, you have to throw him off eight streets. Even the Rothschilds...... Haman's eyes breathed fire, "Lao Tzu's money is not all cheated by you!" Aircraft carriers can send China, and the planes that sell Lao Tzu will be expensive! β
ββWhat do you think Zhong Yi has become popular? The handsome old Jewish man's Henan dialect was angry.
Pinched his nose, "Hebar, are you sure that the figures of the Ministry of Finance are not miscalculated?" One month's salary needs ...... So much? β
"There's no mistake! The accountants in the ministry worked overtime for three days! Hebal forced a smile and was secretly happy, "Let you rob my winery!" β
"Okay!" Your Majesty really pinched his nose and signed this time!
"Nima, impulsiveness is the devil!"