Chapter 589: Vengeance (I)
Because Roosevelt could not sit idly by and watch Germany digest Britain's shipbuilding capability, which was not much worse than that of the United States, and had the possibility of directly threatening the US mainland, Japan would not only be able to smoothly join hands with Germany to resist the United States, but would also be able to take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the US Navy moving to the Atlantic Ocean to establish the absolute superiority of the Japanese Navy in the Pacific.
And if Germany still has no way to take the British Royal Navy for a period of time, or even restore its strength (new ships into service and American support), it is impossible for the mustache to let Germany's army, which considers itself invincible, to be idle all the time (with Britain's limited population [less than 50 million] and the huge casualties in recent years, its human resources are on the verge of exhaustion, and it is difficult to expand the army to a sufficient size, unless the United States directly enters the war, the Allies will not want to counterattack the European continent). In order to avoid being stabbed in the back by the Soviets, he will definitely return to the east to launch a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union.
Although the national strength of the Soviet Union is not below Germany, but not long after the end of the Great Purge Campaign, the vitality of the Soviet army has not yet recovered, plus the German army must still be as before without declaring war and suddenly launching an attack, with the rigid system of the Soviet army will definitely suffer a big loss, so at least the losses of the Soviet Union in the early stage of the war must not be small, when the time comes, the Chinese who are bent on recovering the lost territory in the north may not let go of this opportunity, and the alliance that cannot be reached now will naturally come to fruition at that time
Therefore, "Sojiro Yamada" believes that what Japan needs to do now is just to wait, and it will definitely be known in three months at most. And even when the U.S. Navy was stationed in Okinawa, for a time their attention to the Far East was focused on China. Therefore, as long as Japan moves those new aircraft carriers that have not been made public to the public to ports a little further away from Okinawa, there is still hope for hiding from the Americans before the situation in Europe becomes clear.
In addition, the stationing of the US fleet in Okinawa is of course a bad thing, but it also gives the Japanese Navy the opportunity to set up a situation to catch turtles in an urn, and if it is used well, it can even wipe out the main force of the US Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop, and of course, the premise of all this is that the airports and port fortresses in Okinawa cannot be handed over to the Americans
Although Roosevelt wanted to completely turn Japan into a vassal of the United States, he was also worried that Japan would choose to go back-to-back with China under pressure (Note 1), so he was not in a hurry to take Okinawa, and the U.S. government, at least for the time being, really wanted to put pressure on China by temporarily leasing Okinawa's military ports to Japan. So I agreed to the request of the Japanese government.
But I don't know if it's just in case. Okinawa's military port is still too small, and among the 10 capital ships sent by the U.S. Navy, there are only 3 old battleships (2 Nevada-class and 1 Pennsylvania-class). and the medium-sized aircraft carrier "Wasp", with a standard displacement of less than 15,000 tons, was stationed in the Okinawa military port. In this way, even if the Japanese Navy's surprise attack on the US forces in Okinawa succeeded, the strength of the US Navy would not be broken. And it can quickly launch a powerful retaliation against Japan. This made the Japanese Navy sensibly suspend the surprise attack on the American fleet in Okinawa.
But no matter what. After all, Japan had a few more months of buffer time, and if there were major changes in Europe (German invasion of Britain or undeclared war on the Soviet Union), as Sojiro Yamada said, it could turn the corner. But this time. No one in the top echelons of the Japanese government, including Emperor Takahito, knew that this genius boy was not Japanese at all, and that the real purpose of his efforts to help Japan was not to help Japan, but to completely push Japan into the abyss from which it could never recover
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was won, but the Chinese army was unable to open the land of Japan after all, which made the prince who hated Japan very regretful, but he also knew that this was really not enough, China did not have a strong navy, and it was extremely difficult to attack the Japanese archipelago. But for Hu Weidong's hope that he would put down his hatred and start a new life, Wang Zicai couldn't do it anyway, he was ruined by the Japanese when he was a child, and then he finally met his adoptive father's family, and his face just reappeared a smile A few days later, this rare happiness was completely destroyed by the Japanese.
Since then, Wang Zicai's heart has been completely filled with hatred, even after slashing the Japanese ronin who killed his adoptive father's family, he has not been able to get free, so he later joined the Red 15th Army that advanced into North China to fight devils at that time. During the following three years of the Anti-Japanese War, the prince was cared for by Hu Weidong like a loving father, and he also killed hundreds of devils, but all this still failed to warm his already cold heart. It is precisely because of this that the prince, who amazed geniuses like Hu Weidong with his extreme intelligence at the age of fourteen, has never joined the party, so that he is free from restraint and cannot freely retaliate against the devil.
However, in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War, there were no devils to fight on China's soil, and although there were still hundreds of thousands of Japanese who remained in China, those were all useful talents urgently needed for China's construction, and if the prince retaliated against them, it would damage China's interests. If Wang Zicai was before joining the Red Army, he might not care so much at all, but Hu Weidong's persuasion to him in the past few years still has some effect, at least Wang Zicai can do everything without harming the interests of the Chinese people as the bottom line, which is why Hu Weidong agreed that Wang Zicai, a "mass" who did not join the party, came to Japan as a spy. However, Hu Weidong was satisfied, but the prince who came to Japan was very dissatisfied, although he found a lot of information, and even triggered an unexpected coup d'état, which accelerated the conclusion of the peace treaty, but this made the prince even more unable to take revenge.
However, at this time, the prince had already given up his revenge on the individual Japanese, because even if he was capable, how many Japanese could he kill in this life? Even if he completes the legendary "Thousand People Beheading", compared to the total population of nearly 80 million on Japan's four mainland islands alone, it is not as large as the population of a new birth in a month, and what the prince wants to see is that the so-called Yamato nation in Japan no longer exists
Note 1: The conflict between the United States and Japan over the Pacific will certainly limit the development of the Japanese navy, and Japan, as an island nation, can only become a vassal of the United States without a strong navy. In contrast, as long as China and Japan maintain the status quo of the Chinese army being super strong but not a strong navy, and the Japanese navy being strong but not having enough ground strength, it will be easier for them to coexist; although the forced abandonment of the mainland strategy is regrettable to some Japanese, it is undoubtedly much better than the situation in which the navy cannot even be retained after defecting to the United States. (To be continued......)