Chapter 50: The Age of Growing Wonders

On the other hand, although I feel very broken and even a little unacceptable about the current "Yamato of the Girls", the human ability to adapt is generally very strong, especially during the cruel and turbulent war years. Therefore, after a moment of mental trance, the high-ranking admirals of the navy finally gradually thought about it, and accepted this embarrassing reality either willingly or reluctantly.www.biquge.info The commander of the Combined Fleet, Inoue Narumi, also took the initiative to laugh at himself in order to play a round: "...... With Japan's weak national strength, we took the initiative to go to war against the powerful United States four years ago, which is something that only a madman can do. In that case, they've been crazy for so many years anyway, so they just go crazy all the way to the end......"

In short, no matter how much the mood collapses, after the flag-raising ceremony, the breakfast at the "Yamato Hotel" still has to be eaten.

When the unattractive female sailors on the foredeck of the Yamato finished singing military songs and did a set of naval gymnastics, and then scattered in a hurry, each hooking their shoulders and backs, and even dragging their children to the canteen to eat the "cat rice" sprinkled with bonito flowers, the well-dressed high-ranking admirals on the bridge of the Yamato also walked into the commander's suite and sat down, ready to enjoy breakfast together.

As the most luxurious place in the entire "Yamato Hotel", the restaurant decoration of the commander's suite is naturally as luxurious as a high-end hotel. The floor is covered with a silver-gray wool carpet, the bulkheads are made of coffee-colored chestnut wood panels, the long dining table is lined with shiny silver cutlery, and even the porcelain plates and bowls are high-quality "Mino yaki...... When everyone was seated on either side of the long table, the female soldiers in sailor suits brought up the fragrant meal.

- Although the military professionalism of these "Yamato Nadeshikos" on the Yamato is almost so bad that it can't be seen. However, as a basic quality of traditional Japanese women, at least their housework and cooking skills are still full: white rice sprinkled with sesame seeds makes you feel appetizing at first sight, salt-grilled saury with oily smell, miso soup with tofu, green onions, and diced pork is also very authentic, and there are "water manju" made with arrowroot powder and sugar for dessert...... Everyone ate an exquisite Japanese breakfast and chatted about the current battle situation.

At present, on the Japanese battlefield, the main force of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet has withdrawn to Pearl Harbor for rest, and the front-line troops are relatively insufficient, while the Japanese Navy is in a state of paralysis after the frantic explosion of warships, so the fleets of both sides cannot be dispatched on a large scale for the time being, and can only let the army and air force play the leading role. In terms of the extent of the four islands of the Japanese mainland, according to the geographical concept of ancient Japan, it can be roughly divided into two main theaters, Kanto and Kansai.

On the Kanto battlefield, the Battle of Aizu, which lasted for more than a month, has come to an end for the time being. Relying on the elite reinforcements of the Kwantung Army that were constantly mobilized across the Sea of Japan, or a staggering amount of arms assistance, under the personal supervision of Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the deputy chief of staff of the army, who has always been known for his good defense, the Japanese army on the eastern front finally managed to withstand General Patton's fierce offensive like a violent storm, and held Aizu Castle in the inland mountainous area, but lost the Abukuma Heights adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, allowing the U.S. Army to open up the land passage between the two landing fields of Tokyo and Sendai.

After the Battle of Aizu, according to rough statistics, the Japanese suffered about 40,000 casualties, more than 100,000 civilian casualties, lost 1,500 tanks of various types, 3,000 artillery pieces of various types, and shot down and destroyed more than 5,000 aircraft...... If it had been in the past, the loss of such a large number of technical weapons would have been enough to make the entire army province go crazy. But with the advent of the [Chrono Vending Machine], you can have everything as long as you print some money.

Therefore, the wartime base camp not only readily approved 10,000 Type 3 medium tanks (medium tanks) to Kuribayashi Tadamichi, but also said that these losses were nothing, even if it would take 1 million tanks and 10 billion shells to crush the American and British ghost animals, it would be completely acceptable......

In addition to the main battlefield of Aizu, between the mountains of Kai and Shinano, various irregular armies, mainly the Red Guards, were also relying on the mountains and valleys to resist the repeated attacks of hundreds of thousands of American troops. However, due to the lack of training and fortifications, the company was defeated again and again, and strategic points such as Mt. Fuji, Kofu Castle, Mt. Shirane, and Mt. Asama were lost one after another, and the forward defense line had retreated north to Nagano, and if it retreated, it would be driven into the Sea of Japan.

Then, in the area behind enemy lines, the resistance movement organized by the Japanese Communist Party was also in a bad situation. The US military, which had completely broken through the lower limit, on the one hand, organized puppet troops to sweep the countryside, slaughtered everywhere and released poison gas, and implemented the three-light policy for the entire Kwantung region, and on the other hand, planned to drive the remaining rural "Shunmin" into a "strategic village" surrounded by barbed wire, trenches, and pillboxes on all sides, and then burn down the remaining empty villages. In order to cut off the guerrillas of the resistance groups from the population. Well, in fact, the US military still has a plan that has not yet been implemented, which is to move a large number of destitute black Africans into the Japanese occupation zone, each of whom will be given a number of guns and bullets, and make a living by killing, arsoning, robbing and stealing.

In this way, the Japanese communist guerrillas behind enemy lines were completely on the line - even if they had sufficient logistical supplies and did not have to rely on food and money provided by the people in the occupied areas, without the cover of the rural people, small groups of rookie guerrillas could not survive the brutal battlefield behind enemy lines.

No way, strictly speaking, the Japanese don't actually know how to fight guerrilla warfare in the modern sense at all: in the history of another time and space, the military training during the period when the Japanese Empire was preparing for the "decisive battle at home" at the end of the Pacific War and mobilizing the people to engage in "100 million jade pieces" basically emphasized how to use rudimentary weapons to kill, or how to drag a cushion when they must hang up. What kind of guerrilla tactics to be used and other training that is really related to guerrilla warfare is not at all, and it has nothing to do with real guerrilla warfare training -- where is this preparation for guerrilla warfare? It's basically preparing for a nationwide suicide attack!

In this time and space, the situation is actually similar, the Japanese army has sufficient experience in counter-guerrilla warfare on various battlefields, but it has never fought real guerrilla warfare itself. The Japanese Communist Party is better at propaganda and strikes, and its ability to engage in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines is really not its strong point...... In the end, the wartime base camp had to invite General Okamura Ninji, who was recognized as "the most familiar with guerrilla warfare," to send him to the Kwantung Front to supervise and guide the war.

Although Okamura Ninji was very embarrassed by this, he muttered, "...... The North China Public Security War was when I went to sweep China's Eighth Road, and the Honshu Public Security War was when I was swept away by the American and British ghost animals, so can the completely opposite experience be applied? "But after all, there is no other way, and I can only bite the bullet and take office.

Compared with the step-by-step retreat and repeated defeats on the Kwantung battlefield, the situation of the Japanese army on the Kansai battlefield was much better.

On the north side of the Kansai Battlefield, a mixed unit composed of Red Guards, Marines, and the "Soviet Volunteers," under the command of the governor of the Shofu Prefecture, Masaichi Shinmi, relied on the indiscriminate bombardment of naval aviation and the frenzied shelling of battleship formations to successfully smash the attack of the US forces in the Kyoto area from the ground to the Maizuru Castle and hold the largest fortress port base of the naval fleet on the coast of the Sea of Japan

In the middle of the Kansai Theater, the Combined Fleet organized a landing and easily recaptured Awaji Island, completing a total blockade of Osaka Bay, thus cooperating with a frontal counterattack launched by the army. Although more than 20,000 Anzac officers and soldiers and almost the same number of U.S. Army troops are still firmly anchored to the forefront of Kobe, fighting to the death. However, their rear routes have been cut off by the outflanked Japanese army, and their supply lines by sea and land have been cut off, and they are barely sustained by sporadic airdrops, and they have to endure repeated "edification" of various nervous gases...... I don't think it will last long. According to the army's plan, after conquering Kobe, it will continue to advance into and attack Kyoto, and finally drive the American army out of Kansai this summer.

On the southern side of the Kansai Theater, Japan and the United States were still in a stalemate of occupying half of Shikoku Island, and since neither side invested too many troops in this secondary battlefield, the fighting was somewhat sluggish, and even developed into a sit-down war from time to time. However, this situation would not last long, and in order to cooperate with the Army's offensive, the Combined Fleet planned to dispatch all fourteen Yamato-class battleships, as well as the attached aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and landing ship regiments, to first bombard Kobe as a warm-up, and then rush out of the Seto Inland Sea from the Bungo Waterway to the west and make a landing behind enemy lines in Tosa Bay, planning to annihilate the 2nd Marine Division on Shikoku Island, so as to completely recover the entire Kansai region of Japan in one fell swoop.

However, in this case, it is very likely that the main fleets of the United States and Japan will collide head-on in the waters south of Shikoku Island, and even a decisive naval battle will break out. As for how this possible naval battle should be fought, and even whether it should be fought, everyone present obviously had different opinions, so they discussed it at the dinner table...... Just when everyone was expressing their opinions and discussing very hotly, several naval staff officers knocked on the door with document bags in their hands, opened the envelope and saw that it was the latest military intelligence and war reports from all over Asia forwarded from the base camp.

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- Well, although Nazi Germany and the old Japanese Empire no longer exist, the world is still full of wars.

First of all, nearly half a year after Nanjing fell to the hands of the "Japanese invaders" again, Chairman Chiang finally regained his capital, Nanjing, relying on the large amount of arms and material aid generously provided by the United States and the leadership of a multinational task force under the personal command of Lieutenant General Stilwell.

The Osaka Fourth Division, which was originally entrenched in Nanjing, voluntarily abandoned Nanjing after a short battle, fled to Jiangbei, and surrendered to the Chinese Red Army. According to the results of negotiations between the base camp and the Soviet Union and the Comintern, it was expected that he would return home from Vladivostok in three months.

At the same time, the Red Army guerrillas, who had seized Shanghai by chance, were also encircled and suppressed by more than 200,000 "elite soldiers of the party state," and in view of the extreme disparity between the forces of the enemy and ourselves, they had no choice but to abandon the cities, reorganize them into pieces, and infiltrate the countryside and villages south of the Yangtze River to continue their guerrilla warfare.

At this point, Chairman Chiang, who was driven out of Chongqing by the Red Army, finally took over Wang Jingwei's legacy after such twists and turns. Of course, at the same time, Wang Jingwei was also receiving troubles -- the Red Army guerrillas of all stripes in the south with the former New Fourth Army as the main body......

However, although he once again recaptured Nanjing and Shanghai, he took control of the Yangtze River Delta, the most elite part of China. However, as far as the overall situation of the war is concerned, the actual control of the Nationalist government led by Chairman Chiang has been completely reduced to the south of the Yangtze River, in addition to the loss of the whole of Sichuan, and even the fronts in Guizhou and Yunnan are gradually crumbling. In terms of the size of the chairman's current territory, it is probably only similar to that of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period. However, in spite of this, in order to dilute the gloom of the current period, His Excellency the Chairman of the National People's Congress still insisted on organizing a "celebration of returning the capital" to Nanjing, which was even grander than the last time.

Here, I would like to ask those Nanjing citizens who were forced to endure another large-scale apportionment and extortion to have a psychological shadow area on the second "Celebration of Returning the Capital".

Secondly, Thailand officially joined the ranks of the Allied forces, and the king himself made a public speech announcing that he would send troops to cooperate with the actions of the American and British allies. At present, 300,000 Thai troops have entered the Malay Peninsula, Burma and the former French Indochina colony to assist the American and British allies in suppressing the local rebellions of various ethnic groups. In return, Britain was prepared to give Thailand most of the former colony of French Indochina, as well as some parts of northern British Malaya.

Then, as expected before the Japanese withdrew, after learning that nearly 50,000 American and British prisoners of war were being held in Sanya, Hainan Island, and confirming that the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy was far away from the area, a small British fleet with the battlecruiser Prestige as the core set out from Singapore to raid Hainan Island for a long time, and sent troops to land and occupy the prisoner of war camp in Sanya, and also sent a governor to take over Hong Kong......

If we say that all of the above news is expected in advance, it is at least within the scope of understanding. Then, the next series of sudden changes in the Indian South Asian subcontinent really made the Japanese naval elites present really smash their glasses.

“…… What the? New Delhi has a big turnaround? The British troops in India in the besieged city are desperate? The Congress Party collapsed and collapsed? Indian National Army Split Civil War? Mahatma Gandhi publicly announced his withdrawal from the Congress Party and led his followers to re-cooperate with the British army? This...... Is this me crazy, or is the world crazy? ”