Episode 26 Tokai Hirohei

At about 11 o'clock in the afternoon of 24 August, several large planes, escorted by fighter planes, landed at Kulen Airport in Outer Mongolia, and then flew south from Kulen for four hours.

Back in Nanjing, there are many things. The monarch (in addition to Zhu Yourong, including the nominal "monarch" Xiang Xiaoqiang) has left Nanjing for a few months, which has really made the cabinet ministers feel a little refreshed. "Hypocrisy politics" is exactly what politicians, scholars, and intellectuals in the Ming Dynasty have been pursuing. Everyone agrees that the best monarchy is one in which the monarch does not do anything. Although Zhu Yourong didn't take care of things before, after all, there was no situation where people didn't even appear for several months. And not only did Zhu Yourong not appear, but even Xiang Xiaoqiang did not appear. That's all that matters. Shen Rongxuan felt that he was a real "head of government" during this time.

Now Zhu Yourong is back. And the first thing I did when I came back was to listen to Xiang Xiaoqiang's suggestion to convene a military-political pre-imperial meeting to listen in detail to the high-level reports of the government and the army on the situation these days. In the past few months, both Xiang Xiaoqiang's People's Guards and Zhu Yourong's palace secretariat have constantly reported various situations to the northwest and presented them to them. They did not leave behind what happened in Nanjing or the political affairs at home and abroad. But after all, it was a telegram flying in the sky, which could only be concise and to the point, and could not replace the face-to-face imperial meeting.

The pre-imperial meeting on the morning of the 25th made Zhu Yourong and Xiang Xiaoqiang very satisfied. The blockade of Japan's naval theater is still tight, and the situation in Japan has now reached a point where it is impossible to uncover the blame. Not only is there a serious shortage of living materials, but war materials are simply gone. Due to the lack of fuel, more than 90% of major cities across the country have been without power for a long time. Even the chimney of the power plant has not smoked for a long time. The streets are largely devoid of cars, and rickshaws and bicycles have become the main means of transportation. The trains were basically lying on the tracks, and the national transport was paralyzed.

Now, the bombers of the Ming army can fly over Japan with impunity, bombing factories, stations, oil refineries, power plants, ports, and so on indiscriminately, even without fighter escorts. Because the Japanese army could no longer get the fuel to let the plane go into the sky. The battleships and cruisers of the Ming army could be parked outside the Japanese ports in a big way, as they were in the sailing days, and the huge guns could be bombed wherever they wanted, without the slightest fear of the Japanese bombers and torpedo boats - there was no fuel.

And even if the Japanese planes and torpedo boats came out to fight, this was exactly what the Ming army wanted. Because in addition to destroying them, it can also allow the Japanese army to consume the last bit of oil.

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Now - Shen Rongxuan can say with confidence that Japan's surrender is no longer just a matter of "time", but at most a matter of a month or two.

"Oh...... Hehe......" Zhu Yourong nodded with a smile, and said according to what Xiang Xiaoqiang taught her, "Shen Ge Lao said this, it is estimated that it is about the same...... But what if Japan still doesn't surrender? ”

Shen Rongxuan seemed to expect Zhu Yourong to ask this, turned his face and smiled at Tang Yunsheng opposite, and then said respectfully to Zhu Yourong:

"This, you can ask the Chief of the General Staff to answer for Your Majesty."

Tang Yunsheng smiled and bowed slightly, and said to Zhu Yourong:

"Your Majesty, the ministers and others have studied and agreed that the probability of such a situation is very small...... Of course, after all, anything can happen. In the unlikely event that Japan does not surrender no matter what, the ministers and others suggested that our Ming army directly send troops to land on the Korean Peninsula and occupy the Korean Peninsula. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiang Xiaoqiang, who was sitting next to Zhu Yourong, was immediately shocked. He and Zhu Yourong looked at each other, and both of them were surprised. But no one seemed surprised by the senior generals he was doing. It may be that they have already discussed this issue many times.

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately asked:

"Tang Gong, how do you say it?"

Tang Yunsheng said with a smile:

"Lord, now our army's war against Japan is going very well, we have completely controlled the Tsushima Strait, and we have cut off all transportation links between the Japanese mainland and Korea. Now that we are attacking Korea, the Japanese army in Korea will not get any supplies from the mainland. On the Korean Peninsula, there is no decent industrial system. Every bullet fired by the Japanese army was difficult to replenish. INTERVIEWER But then again, even if Japan has a well-developed industrial system, so what? Now there is no coal, no oil, no electricity, and the factories are there, just like there are none.

"Moreover, now the Japanese army in Korea is all second-rate troops, and there is not even a single division of the first division. The remnants of the Japanese army's several divisions are now all used to defend the homeland. And because the Japanese army now lacks weapons, fuel, and rubber...... Without everything, even at home, it is impossible to form new troops. The current situation of the Japanese army is that if one division is defeated, there will be one less division. Even if the newly formed troops are armed with wooden guns.

"Besides, now from North Korea to Japan, all air and sea supremacy are in our hands, and we can fight as much as we want. Not only in the sky and on the sea, we can fight as we want, but on the ground, I can say that we can also fight as we want. On the Korean Peninsula, there is no transportation system anymore, and there are no roads and railways. The Japanese army relied entirely on two legs, as well as mules, horses, and livestock. The circumference of the Korean Peninsula is so large that we can choose to land at any point, and it will probably take a day or two for the Japanese troops in the vicinity to arrive. At that time, not to mention that we had consolidated the beachhead, we had already penetrated deep into the interior and seized the key points of transportation. ”

Although Xiang Xiaoqiang said that he had known about the various situations of the Japanese army for a long time, but now after listening to Tang Yunsheng's words, he really understood the sad situation of the Japanese army, and only then did he really understand what this meant, and why the generals who were so afraid of fighting on two fronts a year ago were so indifferent to "attacking Korea" at this moment.

Now Japan has no navy and aviation, and even the army, due to "lack of everything", has fallen back to the level of World War I. - No, the armies of both sides of the First World War still had a lot of cars available, which should have fallen back to the level of the Russo-Japanese War. - No, the Russo-Japanese War, at least there are trains available on both sides. It should be said that the Japanese army has now fallen back to the level of the American Civil War, or further, to the level of the Napoleonic Wars - to the level of the army of the 19th century.

With the strongest level of World War II and armed to the teeth, the Ming army will encounter a 19th-century army after landing...... Isn't that how you want to fight?

Xiang Xiaoqiang suddenly had a huge interest, and was about to discuss the details with Tang Yunsheng carefully, when Shen Rongxuan's secretary hurriedly came in, met the empress and the prince first, and then leaned over and whispered a word to Shen Rongxuan.

Shen Rongxuan raised his eyebrows slightly, stood up and bowed slightly to Zhu Yourong and Xiang Xiaoqiang, asking to take a moment of retirement and take an important phone call.

After he went out, everyone in the room looked at each other and seemed to have a premonition.

Sure enough, a moment later, Shen Rongxuan came back quickly, and his face was happy.

He did not sit down directly, but stood in the middle of the room, bowed solemnly to Zhu Yourong and Xiang Xiaoqiang, and said loudly:

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, Minister Shen Rongxuan, Japan has just accepted our country's armistice conditions and announced its surrender."

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After he finished speaking, there was a few seconds of silence in the room. Immediately after that, someone applauded, and immediately, the applause expanded into thunder, deafening. Many generals and ministers were so excited that they stood up directly, applauding wildly and cheering loudly:

"Good! Good!! Good!! That's great!!! ”