One butterfly is enough to cause a tropical storm, but what about two butterflies?

When the wheel of history deviates from the established direction, on the vast Indian Ocean and the boundless Pacific Ocean, the flags of the Cadet Army are flying and flying, the descendants of Yan and Huang are stained with blood on the sea frontier, and the garrison of China - the old poison is written in the twelfth volume before the attack on the Indian Ocean.

At about 8 o'clock in the morning of August 11, 1940, more than 120 ships of various types under the command of Japan's Western Expeditionary Fleet, with the renovated aircraft carrier Kaga as the flagship, slowly left the dock at the Nagasaki Military Port. In a series of high-pitched whistles, one warship after another sailed away from the dock. On some troop carriers, the Japanese soldiers lined up neatly on the deck and aisles raised their hands to salute the crowd on the pier, and cheers rang out, and the plaster flag was danced wildly......

In the captain's room of the Kaga, Yamamoto 56 stood in the captain's position surrounded by Soma Masafumi, Tsukahara 243 and others, his face was calm, but his eyes were shining. "Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, oil, rubber, gold mines, ......" Yamamoto's mind flashed through these terms like a movie, and his hands gripped the handle of the command knife in front of him even harder, and his breathing suddenly became a little heavy.

The Japanese Navy has been silently preparing for the Indian Ocean strategy since the end of last year. More than 300 high-ranking spies of the navy went to the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina, where they used the idea of the locals to overthrow the colonial authorities and establish themselves to help build the so-called "rebel army", and the latest news is that they have established resistance forces mainly in Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, and other places. Among them, in Indonesia, more than 5,000 people have gathered around Asano Chiyuan and others.

The Japanese regarded the Indian Ocean strategy as a major event of national fortune, and they invested a lot of money for it. Five of the seven existing aircraft carriers have been dispatched, namely the heavy aircraft carriers Kaga and Soryu, the Shohe and Zuizuru, which have just been completed and launched, and the escort aircraft carrier Chongying. Among the surviving battleships, four were dispatched, namely Hyuga, Kongo, Hiei and Fuso. In addition, more than 70 merchant ships were recruited to be used as troop carriers and supply ships to carry the first, second, and third armies of the Marine Corps, which had just been completed.

The Japanese army's operation was extremely secretive, and it was not until after boarding the ship that Arima Masafumi and Tsukahara 243 did not know what the mission they were going to carry out was. And before that, they thought that the empire was going to make a big move this time, and the target was Taiwan.

The intelligence department of the Cadet Army also miscalculated. When the fleet first began to concentrate in Nagasaki, the Japanese cadets sent a telegram. After receiving this information, the General Headquarters of the Cadet Army naturally judged that the Japanese army would launch a large-scale counterattack on Taiwan. For this reason, Ouyang Yun specially convened Tie Linfei, Chen Ce, and Chen Yuanyang to a meeting to discuss how to withstand this wave of counteroffensive by the Japanese army. And his order was to hold the middle line at all costs to protect the South China Sea and secure a training spot for the young navy.

For this reason, Tie Linfei gathered more than 200 fighters and about 100 bombers in the Fuzhou area, and Chen Ce and Chen Yuanyang also sent all the torpedo boat units of the Dongshan Fleet to Kaohsiung Port, and even prepared to dispatch the newly formed submarine force once the torpedo boat force was completely wiped out.

The establishment of the "Greater East Asia Co-Glory Army" is a severe test for the Cadet Army and even for all Chinese armies. A full 100,000 Korean puppet troops were stationed in southwestern Zhejiang, and another 50,000 Korean puppet troops were stationed in Taiwan, and the Japanese army's originally slightly weak strength was immediately replenished and restored. For the North Korean puppet army, Ouyang Yun didn't take it seriously at first. Out of his understanding of the history of that time and space, he knew that although the Korean puppet army had committed crimes in China that were no less than those of the Japanese army, their own strength was not good, so he once thought that they were here to fight soy sauce. However, after several encounters, the Cadet Army failed to achieve a landslide victory, and he began to realize that something was wrong.

In that time and space, the fundamental reason why the puppet army was not effective was that the Japanese did not treat them as human beings at all. This is reflected in many aspects, first of all, disrespect, the puppet army at that time, to put it nicely, was the Japanese army's servant army, and if it didn't sound good, it was cannon fodder, and it was the "servant" who acted for the tiger; The second is that they do not attach importance to it, because the backwardness of weaponry and training methods is one thing, and there are also aspects such as military salaries and logistics, which the Japanese do not take seriously at all. This directly led to the collapse of the discipline of the puppet army, the sparse training, the natural lack of cohesion, and the special greed for life and fear of death.

Now, the situation is different. The Japanese may be superficial, but the crux of the matter is that they are really doing it. In the past, the Japanese basically didn't care about the equipment of the puppet army, but now, not to mention its weapons and equipment are the same as the Japanese army, the salary is actually the same as the Japanese army, and the rank of an officer of the same level is actually one level higher than that of the Japanese army. Not only that, but the Tokyo base camp actually issued a special military order strictly prohibiting the Imperial Army from insulting and bullying the Gongrong Army. And on many public occasions, heavyweight Japanese generals such as Okamura Ninji actually promised those pseudo officers and soldiers: "You were the masters of this land and will still be the masters of this land in the future." The Imperial Army has come to liberate you, so that you can live a good life like the people of the Great Japanese Empire—"

The traitors and traitors had no bones, they followed behind the Japanese army, and they just wanted to gnaw on the bones and drink the leftover soup, but now that they are good, the big bone stick with meat is smashed down, and they forget how many catties and taels they have, let alone what the surname of the ancestor of the Dao is.

With the fleshy bones in front, it is logical that Okamura Ninji will use thunderbolt tactics to strictly demand the puppet soldiers with the requirements of the Japanese army - look, the master is treated like this, the master must work hard, what reason do we minions have not to work hard?

100,000 Korean devils entered southwest Zhejiang, and the battle lasted for a month and a half, but the situation that the soldiers expected to be defeated at one blow did not appear. On the contrary, these two devils are actually getting stronger and harder the more they fight.

And with these 150,000 Korean devils at the bottom, the Japanese army was able to transfer first-line troops from Taiwan and the southwestern Zhejiang front into Central and North China, so the emptiness of troops in the encirclement and suppression of the student army was made up, and it was not so easy for Zhang Zizhong, Fu Zuoyi, Yang Sen and others to choose the cheapest again. The situation of the counteroffensive that the Chinese army had so hard to obtain was thus lost, and the root cause of it was actually related to the fact that someone privately ordered a certain Japanese to be released.

The Taiwan Corps began a full-scale offensive in the middle of last year, and it took more than half a year to reach Taipei, and then, seeing that it could recover all of Taiwan with further efforts, the Japanese army launched a New Year's offensive. The three aircraft carrier fleets of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet stopped at the military port around Taipei and completely controlled Taiwan's airspace. The Japanese army in Taipei had the support of the air force, and Kobayashi Tatsuzo survived the most difficult moment. Then, with the support of 50,000 Korean puppet troops to Taiwan, the strength advantage of the Taiwan Corps was completely neutralized at once.

Ouyang Yun maverickly established the Taiwan Corps when the Cadet Army was not very strong, and spent a lot of money to support the Taiwan Corps to take root in Taiwan, which is very puzzling and even inexplicable in the eyes of many people. The Taiwan Corps has succeeded in gaining a foothold in Taiwan, but the cost is so great that many people even think it is not worth it. In their minds, if this investment is placed on the mainland, maybe the Xuebing Army has already taken Zhejiang.

Anyone who knows the commander-in-chief knows that he rarely deals at a loss. So how should we explain the affairs of the Taiwan Corps? This question is only clear to Ouyang Yun himself.

It has to do with the purpose of his crossing. There is only one way for him to change China's embarrassing fate in World War II, and that is to march into Japan itself. And if you want to enter the Japanese mainland, you must have a strong deep blue navy. And once the navy is to be developed, then it must have control of the South China Sea. Otherwise, even if there are enough warships, but the troops are not trained, they will not be able to match the combined fleet.

For the sake of the navy, it is necessary to control Taiwan, and at the very least, southern Taiwan. The most fundamental reason why Ouyang Yun was in a hurry to establish an air base in Kaohsiung was to establish an air defense line to prevent the secrets of the South China Sea from being spied on by the Japanese. However, less than a month after the completion of the air base, the Japanese army suddenly dispatched more than 100 ships and more than 200,000 troops to reinforce Taiwan. Although Ouyang Yun vowed to defend Taiwan's middle line at all costs, he also knew that if the Japanese army used troops in Taiwan at any cost, the Taiwan Corps would definitely not escape the fate of being annihilated in the end. However, for the sake of that grand ideal, he still had to give it a try, even at the expense of the young submarine force.

The submarine force, like rocket artillery, is another killer weapon in Ouyang Yun's hands. The submarine force, which he had left to deal with the combined fleet and offset its superiority in strength, could only be thrown out as the last bargaining chip.

If the target of Yamamoto Fifty-six's Western Expeditionary Fleet was really Taiwan, then it would definitely be a big gamble for Xuebing Jun and Ouyang Yun. Ouyang Yun has a reason to gamble, because as long as he can hold on until 1941, there will be no turnaround.

Although the historical trend of this time and space has deviated from the established track, Ouyang Yun believes that by next year at the latest, the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union will still join this war of the century. At that time, even if the Japanese army had the heart to detect his intentions, they were afraid that they would not be able to change anything.

Ouyang Yun was ready to give it a go, and the day after receiving the information about the departure of the Western Expeditionary Fleet, he set off for Dongshan County. And just when the young cadet army and navy were making all preparations for battle under the supervision and encouragement of the commander-in-chief, information came from Taiwan: The mighty fleet of the Japanese army had suddenly disappeared.

(Old poison: For the sake of the Indian Ocean, I checked too much information, and my head was dizzy, let's complete a foreshadowing first, brothers, forgive me!) ）