Chapter Seventy-Five: Sneak Attack on the Philippines
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wanted to work hard to get the identity of a foreign adult, but now this identity has become a burden that they can't get rid of. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info those who went out early are not at a loss, that is, those who ran outside before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China thought that China was going to fall into a civil war, and their intestines were repentant.
We can ignore one or two of such situations, but when he becomes a problem, the Prime Minister's Cabinet is already thinking about how to solve him.
The biggest problem we face now is not that we are unwilling to accept it, these people are Chinese, just like children who have left home, and we can open the door for them whenever they want to come back.
And we are going to emigrate to the Far East, and we are going to North Korea soon, how can there be no place for them? The key problem is that other countries do not release people, even if you have Chinese blood in your body, but our government cannot apply for Chinese identity for a person who has not yet left French nationality or British nationality.
Although Situ Meitang ran back from the United States specifically for this matter, he was afraid that China would not pay attention to them, the Chinese overseas, so he lived in the prime minister's cabinet for half a month and spent a long time grinding with Yang Xiaolin, but it had no effect.
In a country governed by the rule of law, some things just don't work.
Seeing that the war in Europe is getting closer and closer, and various taxes are constantly increasing, the people around him are rushing to the battlefield one by one with excited looks. It is the leaders at the top who make the decision to war, and what induces them to make this decision is definitely not fairness and justice, but interests.
As for the people, they are just used to fool around. It is a very simple thing for the people to embrace the war and let the people follow themselves, as long as you tell them who threatens the security of the Motherland, and then call those who oppose it unpatriotic, or say that these people betray the interests of our country.
In Europe. Both the Central and Entente powers had fooled their people into battle, and the French said: "At this moment there is no more partisanship, no more nation, only peace-loving France, a fatherland worthy of all our lives to defend!" Come on Germans, we're ready! ”
Do you hear that? At this time there were no nationalities and no partisans, the French seemed to have forgotten about racial discrimination overnight, there was only one France, and as long as you were a French citizen, you were obliged to fight.
The Allies, for their part, were not to be outdone. They had mobilized for war, and the propaganda apparatus trumpeted the strength of the German forces, and according to them, they would fight the French as easily as they did against a group of medieval natives.
Wilhelm II met with the German recruits in Berlin, and he personally walked to the middle of the procession to shake hands with the soldiers, shouting a loud slogan in the German newspapers: "All the virtues of the Germans can only be manifested in war, and the bones of the French will make you brilliant!" You will surpass your predecessors! ”
The powder keg of war seemed to have been ignited, and the sound of the fuse burning seemed to reach everyone's ears, and everyone was listening attentively. Wait for that loud bang to come. Those overseas Chinese should be really anxious.
It's not because they're timid, it's just that as Chinese we're different from those gentlemen, we've experienced too much artillery fire, and we know what the war will bring to ourselves. European gentlemen are accustomed to hearing the moving music of bullets hitting others. But we have seen too many helpless tears when the artillery fire destroys our homes.
The gentlemen are also excited, but our overseas Chinese are trying to find a way to escape, as the motherland that has also been ravaged by war, we really have to leave a door for them.
Tang Shaoyi has already sent a note to the envoys of various countries in China, asking them to give us the greatest convenience on the issue of the return of overseas Chinese. At the same time, Yang Du also communicated with the negotiators of various countries on this issue in The Hague, hoping that they could simplify all unnecessary procedures at this time.
The gentlemen once again showed their robber nature, and they made a big fuss about the normal behavior of overseas Chinese returning to China. It's okay to go, you have to leave all your possessions behind. They say that the money is a contribution to the country by the citizens who have left the country, and at the same time to ensure that the property is not transferred to the empire.
Although it is said to be a temporary escrow, everyone knows that this escrow is easy, and it is not so easy to come back. In other words, if overseas Chinese want to return to China, they must give up their struggle for several years or even decades, which is no different from the Ming robbery.
The Chinese government also has nothing to do about it, who made you a person from someone else's country, even if you rob others, you are robbing your own people, we really can't say anything.
On January 23, the fifth year of the Republic, the Chinese Prime Minister's Cabinet suddenly convened an emergency meeting, at which Tang Shaoyi put forward the idea of amending the regulations on immigration management, amending some of the provisions, and giving them appropriate living allowance policies for those overseas Chinese who have returned to China, as well as foreign scientists and technicians who want to immigrate to China because they yearn for stability.
The idea was quickly adopted by the Cabinet and submitted to the Legislative Council for discussion. There's only so much we can do.
It was also on this day, as if before every big battle, there was always one or two unexpected episodes, like appetizers before the feast began. The Japanese Navy suddenly attacked the US naval base in the Philippines.
There really was not the slightest warning in advance, and even Japan and the United States did not even have friction, and little Japan did not even find an excuse to fight.
At five o'clock in the morning, the Americans did not notice anything unusual at all, and their main battleship, the heavy cruiser "York", was still leisurely sailing out of the harbor as usual, ready to patrol the nearby waters, and an hour later two medium cruisers of the Japanese fleet suddenly appeared behind the Americans' buttocks and began to follow the York.
At first, the Americans were a little surprised, they didn't realize what the Japanese were trying to do, and after sending a signal to ask for no answer, they fired two symbolic shots.
It wasn't until 8:15 a.m. that the York suddenly received an emergency signal from the harbor that Japanese warships were found moving outside two large U.S. ports in the Philippines, and it was only at this time that the Americans became nervous.
In a panic, the York hurriedly sent a telegram to the five US ** ships in the Indonesian military port, asking them to hurry over and make peace with them, and at the same time speed up and rush forward, trying to get rid of the two Japanese warships.
At 10:40 p.m., the warship that had arrived from Indonesia joined forces with the York, but before the Americans' hearts could be relieved, more than a dozen Japanese warships appeared next to them, and there was even a search battleship.
The Americans signaled that they wanted to negotiate with Japan and ask why Japan was provoking a conflict, but Inoue did not pay any attention to them at all, and there was no reason for Japan to attack first.
Moreover, Japan did not play any tentative firefights with the US ** ship at all, and what came up was a salvo of 10,000 guns, which directly blew an American destroyer into pieces.
All the ammunition used by the Japanese Navy this time was provided by China, and the power of those shells was much larger than the shells they used before, and the US ** ships could not withstand the one-on-one bombardment of Japanese warships, not to mention that the number of Japanese warships participating in the war was twice that of the Americans!
On the one hand, it has been planned for a long time, on the other hand, it is in a hurry, and the number of shells in the Japanese fleet is also more than that of the American fleet, and the Japanese are here to fight, and the Americans are here to cruise, so such an encounter is not fought at all.
Seven U.S. ** ships were sunk by the Japanese in half an hour, two were seriously damaged, and the main battleship Yorke was locked by the Japanese battleships, and after barely resisting for a while, only the part left was beaten.
As soon as the commander of the American fleet saw that this could not be done, he immediately ordered to change the formation, and he was quite brave, and he took the York and the seriously injured cruiser to continue the battle, and let the other American ** ships run quickly.
The last telegram was sent from the USS York, which reached the US Philippine Navy Fleet Command: "They sneak up on us!" We've been outrageously attacked, goodbye, I probably won't be able to go back, yes. ”
At 11 o'clock in the afternoon, the USS York, the main heavy cruiser of the US Navy's Philippine fleet in Asia, sank, killing all 764 officers and men.
The battle had only just begun, and the Japanese strategy had only begun after the elimination of this mobile force operating between the Philippines and Indonesia.
The reaction of the Americans was still very fast, and the US ambassador to Tokyo met with Naogami Matsubara at 10 o'clock to give a solemn warning and make representations about the Japanese Navy's attack on the US Navy. The US president also hurriedly summoned the Japanese ambassador to the United States and demanded an explanation from the Japanese side on the Philippine matter.
But the Japanese ambassador to the United States had no idea what was happening, and he was even more confused than the Americans. Naokami Matsubara was still fooling the Americans at this time, saying that he didn't know what was going on, and he promised to investigate immediately, and if the situation was really told to the Americans, Japan would definitely give the American side an explanation.
I don't know what the American ambassador in Tokyo thought, but at this time he actually believed Naogami Matsubara, and he was really waiting for the Japanese to give him an answer.
Just when he thought that Matsubara-kun was going to investigate the matter, the Japanese navy launched a strong attack on three U.S. Philippine naval bases at the same time.
At 1:30 p.m., the Japanese achieved their first victory, the four US ships in the Ulugan naval base were all sunk by the Japanese navy, and the Japanese occupied the first US naval base.
Togo, the Japanese general who commanded the attack here, stood on the half-finished aircraft carrier and looked at the piles of supplies next to him, and finally showed a smile on his face: "Send a telegram to Marshal Inoue, and send another letter to Tokyo, our operation has been successful, the results are beyond our imagination, and now, we should land." ”
Until this time, the Americans had not fully reacted, and they were even preparing to hold a press conference to condemn Japan's military provocation, and at the same time negotiate with Britain and France, asking Britain and France to intercede. (To be continued......)
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