Chapter 32: The Lively and Noisy Oriental Ocean (continued)

At present, with the collapse of the Japanese Empire in the Tokyo nuclear bombing, World War II is de facto over. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

-- The three major Axis powers no longer exist, all the walls are reuniting, and the pattern of confrontation between the two camps, red and white, has taken shape.

If this development continues, it will be nothing more than another version of the long-term cold war between the two camps. But now, in order to get together the bonus points needed by the ship's mother Sophie, she has to further subvert history, so she must continue to die desperately, and after World War II, she will directly start World War III.

As a result, Sophie, the ship's mother, began to fool Comrade Stalin: Due to the lack of congenital conditions, there is no way out for the Soviet Union to engage in peaceful competition with the United States, and the long-term Cold War will undoubtedly be defeated. The only way to win is to turn the Cold War into a hot war, taking advantage of the Soviet Union's temporary absolute superiority in the number of nuclear arsenals, simply waiting until the end of World War II to directly open a copy of World War III, launch a vigorous world revolution, and completely annihilate the United States, the base camp of capitalism.

Besides, the current World War III is already already being fought in Europe, and if you want to do a détente, you have to abandon Western Europe - but how is that possible?

-- To be honest, with regard to the Cold War, an all-round and flexible competition involving global politics, diplomacy, propaganda, economy, and welfare, even if the Kremlin or Zhongnanhai figures in the 21 st century were replaced, it is estimated that they would not be able to operate better if they were to sit in the current position of Comrade Stalin. Rather than shrinking back and being unable to exert its strength at every turn, and having to worry about the enemy's infiltration all day long, it is better to simply and rudely directly kill and dismember the United States, and if not turn it into a radioactive wasteland, at least to the point where it is unable to take care of itself, as it was in post-war Germany, and all problems can probably be solved.

As the saying goes, "Shells are the truth, and the caliber is justice", as long as all the enemies are eliminated, the problem will be eliminated!

But there is a problem: in the Western theater, with the violent crushing of the Soviet Red Army and the deterrence of the atomic bomb, at least until the war is over or the obvious signs of defeat are revealed, the socialist countries of Europe should still be able to twist into a rope for the time being. However, in the Eastern Battlefield, how to make the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese, who have a deep hatred for each other, immediately squeeze into the same trench without even a buffer time, is a huge problem.

Although with the gradual establishment of the Soviet power in Japan, it has legally disassociated itself from the old Japanese Empire, which launched World War II, after all, the time is too short, and there are still so many people, and the thinking cannot turn around for a while. Not to mention that the arrogant Japanese soldiers still look down on the "inferior nation of China", and it is also impossible for the Chinese to forget the various blood feuds in the past, which can be resolved by not only doing some ideological work.

Of course, considering the problem of division of labor and cooperation, it should be rare for the Japanese Red Army and the Chinese Red Army to fight side by side in a war. However, even so, in terms of economic production and resource development, I am afraid that we will not be able to bypass this hurdle. At the very least, since the human resources of the Japanese nation are now close to exhaustion, after the outbreak of World War III, the Chinese and Koreans should at least mobilize hundreds of thousands or millions of strong laborers to mine, build factories, cultivate land, and graze cattle in various resource producing areas, just as they did when they participated in the Entente camp to organize Chinese workers to go to the French front during World War I.

Of course, they will not be allowed to do it in vain at that time, anyway, there are so many lands and islands in Oceania, and it is enough to allocate them with a casual stroke.

The question is, although the distribution of interests among the top leaders of various countries can be solved by drawing a pie to divide the legacy of the United States and Britain, how can the national sentiments at the bottom be eliminated? In the European countries that have stood in teams and fought countless times over the centuries, the armies and civilians of the European continental powers are accustomed to forming alliances this year and turning their faces next year, and the allies of this war are the enemies of the next war. However, the diplomatic and strategic environment in the East is relatively simple, and the minds of the peoples of all countries are not so flexible. The empty slogan of "the proletariat of the whole world unites" is not enough. Therefore, after the discussion between Sophie and Stalin, it was discovered that the best way to unite the East Asian nation in World War III was to ...... Find them a new enemy!

-- Probably the same as the later generations of the Internet spray, "China-South Korea friendship depends on Japan, and China-Japan friendship depends on sticks......

And the candidate for this enemy is naturally none other than the "American and British white animals...... Regrettably, although the United States has now made it clear that the Nationalist Government of "Chiang Kee" is strongly supporting the Chinese reactionaries, and has constantly given blood transfusions to cheer up the bald chairman of the National People's Congress who has recently lost the capital, at least for the time being, it has not directly sent troops to intervene in the civil war, and the British Eastern Fleet has also stopped in Singapore, and even Hong Kong does not dare to accept it: this hatred value is obviously not enough!

As a result, the matter of concluding the "Eastern socialist camp" has fallen into an awkward stalemate: although the upper echelons of the parties have already reached an agreement and initially reached an agreement, if there is no suitable opportunity, no matter how desperately they want to turn enemies into friends, they will not be able to do so for a while.

-- In terms of manipulating public opinion and brainwashing the people, the Chinese Red Army, as a newcomer, is still slightly inferior to those big business groups in the West.

In this case, the 50,000 American and British prisoners of war in the port of Sanya on Hainan Island became a wonderful bait for fishing out of the hole: the number was huge, the proximity to the coast, the defense force was weak (after the withdrawal of the Japanese navy), and the transfer was convenient...... Isn't this a clear plan to let the British Eastern Fleet come to attack and save people?

Therefore, at the request of Sophie, the ship's mother, the Japanese marines in Sanya Harbor first patiently left 50,000 white animal prisoners of war unkilled, and then, in order to prevent the Allied espionage work from being inadequate, in the process of retreating, the Japanese side deliberately arranged for those puppet government officials and landlord squires who were afraid of the Red Army's retaliation to flee to Macao and Hong Kong by boat, so as to release the news that "the Japanese army had voluntarily abandoned Sanya and left behind 50,000 American and British prisoners of war." In fact, this news has now appeared in Hong Kong newspapers. At the same time, the main force of the Combined Fleet was deliberately berthed off the coast of Sanya for a long time, so that some people with good intentions could grasp this trend. After the Combined Fleet lifts anchor and leaves, if the Allied fleet takes the opportunity to sneak attack Hainan Island as expected, breaks through the weak coastal defense of the Qiongya Column, and rescues the American and British prisoners of war, then the Guangdong authorities of the Nationalist Government, which has just finished changing its skin next door, are likely to raise their hands and feet to welcome the American and British foreigners to temporarily settle prisoners of war in Hong Kong, and by the way, to take over the Hong Kong leased land, so as to give themselves an extra way back.

In this way, under the best circumstances, using the 50,000 American and British prisoners of war in the Sanya Gangtian Iron Mine prisoner of war camp, we can successfully kill three birds with one stone:

First, the British Royal Navy's Eastern Fleet, stranded in Singapore, Yangon, and even West Asia and East Africa, lured snakes out of their holes, lengthened the supply lines of the British, and dragged the British into the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield; Second, it will release the news that the Combined Fleet is operating near Hainan Island, and induce the Halsey Fleet, which is operating in the Yellow Sea area, to go south to seek out the enemy and look for an opportunity for a decisive battle, so that it will be far away from the Japanese archipelago, so that the main force and transport fleet of the Combined Fleet, which is heading north, will be able to smoothly pass through the Tsushima Strait and break through into the Sea of Japan without going through a bloody battle. Third, by relying on the comeback of the US-British colonial forces and the first to open fire, we can create a pretext, dispel the illusions of some people in the Chinese Red Army about US-British imperialism, and remove obstacles for the next step of joint operations against the US-Britain.

In contrast, it would have been a very low price for the British to save 50,000 prisoners of war and make up for their strength in the Far East.

Major General Shen Chongde has always had a lot of doubts about this somewhat overly complicated plan. According to his experience in smashing sticks and smashing open fires in the world, the more elaborate and meticulous the battle plan, the more uncontrollable factors there are, and the more likely it is to make mistakes in the process of implementation.

One of the most critical questions is: what if the British fleet does not come to the rescue but instead negotiate peacefully?

-- Although the so-called Allied forces now exist in name only, the Soviet atomic bombs have been dropped on the British fleet. But after all, the name of the Allies still exists. If the British side showed a certain sincerity and was willing to provide some funds and materials to the Qiongya Column to make transactions, then in view of the severe practical difficulties and the fear that the industrial equipment left by the Japanese army in Sanya would be destroyed in the war, the Qiongya Column might not be willing to clash with the US and British fleets.

“…… This question is not a concern at all. If Attlee's Lordship and Labour Cabinet were still in power in London, then that could be the case. But the reality is that Attlee's cabinet has fallen, and the belligerent Churchill has re-entered the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. In order to pander to the stirred up public opinion and to express its hard-line stance on the main war, Churchill's cabinet must not make any compromise with the socialist camp, at least for a short time, whether in the Eastern or Western theaters. As long as Churchill dares to be soft, he will immediately be a person inside and out, and he will be ousted again.

On the contrary, a glorious victory in the East to defeat the Bolsheviks and rescue their own prisoners of war, after being packaged and exaggerated by the news media, was able to inject a shot in the arm to the war-weary British people, greatly strengthening the position of Churchill's cabinet and increasing his popularity. ”

Sophie, the ship's mother, said confidently while drinking coconut wine, "...... The Comintern would also have mobilized its forces in Britain to try to create a certain momentum and pressure to force Churchill to do something in the East with the American allies - in fact, Churchill, the fat man, would have liked to have done so, and in this world war he would never miss an opportunity to drag the Yankees into the water! ”

“…… Well, if we can really use this to put the Chinese Bolsheviks on the chariot and let the American and British forces further fall into the Chinese battlefield and make them become public enemies of East Asia, so as to reduce the pressure on our country's battlefield, then it is worth sparing the lives of these 50,000 American and British white animals. ”

Chief of Staff Shen Chongde nodded, but turned to look at the Sanya Military Port, which had already fluttered the red flag of sickles and hammers, and the coastline of the coconut grove behind the military port, and couldn't help but sigh deeply again, "...... However, even if this round of retreat can be successfully completed, Japan's national honor can be continued, the empire's "Continental Policy" is doomed to bankruptcy, and the imperial dream of the Japanese nation is already doomed to disillusionment! ”

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For the Orientals, the concept of empire is actually a foreign product, and before the Westerners brought this concept, there was no "empire" in the modern sense in East Asia - in Chinese civilization there are only two concepts of the state and "the world", and the emperor is the Son of Heaven, who theoretically rules every part of the world, but some places rule more directly, some places rule more indirectly, and there is only an empty name in the farther places.

The so-called Chinese empire is also a term invented by Western travelers - after entering the Age of Discovery, they used their own ideas to define the countries of the East: Turkey ruled by the Ottomans was an empire, India ruled by the Mughal dynasty was also an empire, and China was a well-deserved thousand-year empire. And Japan, although there is an emperor, but it is really not up to the grandeur of the empire, and it can be regarded as a kingdom if it dies. It was not until the miraculous defeat of the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese War that the qualified identity of the Japanese Empire was recognized and was truly seen by Westerners as an empire.

So, what kind of country does it have to be to be an empire?

- Empire, its etymology can be traced back to the ancient Roman era of the word "domination and control", specifically refers to the domination of one ethnic group over another, in modern Europe, that is, the period when the concept of "empire" was born, Westerners once gave the term empire the most concise and powerful definition: "A country that can rule other countries is called an empire"!

Therefore, empire represents strength and power, arrogance and glory, greatness and conquest, but also war and oppression......

Countless people hate and curse imperialism, but they are so eager to be crowned with the title of empire. Even in the modern society, far from the flames of war, entrepreneurs from all walks of life are bent on running their companies into "empires of such and such industries", which shows how fascinating this term is.

However, among a series of human empires from ancient times to the present, the Japanese Empire can definitely be said to be "the heart is higher than the sky, and the life is thinner than paper".

Also as an island country located on the edge of the continent, England also had the great feat of annexing half of France for a long time during the Hundred Years' War before it evolved into the British Empire, and the glorious feat of King Richard the Lionheart's expedition to the Holy Land of Jerusalem, and has set foot on the European continent many times before and after.

What about Japan? Except for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's short-lived Korean conquest, the Yamato nation basically never gained a firm foothold on the mainland, and could only shrink to the archipelago as otaku. In addition, although the area of the Japanese archipelago is slightly larger than that of the British Isles, the environment is much worse, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons occur in turn, and natural disasters are so frequent in the whole developed country, Japan is the only one on the whole earth, and there is no second one.

-- Of course, there are some unfortunate countries that have more natural disasters than Japan, but there are definitely no countries that have the same ambition as Japan.

Because the conditions of their own island are too miserable, God knows which day it will be shaken to the bottom of the sea, so for thousands of years, the Japanese have not given up the attempt to land on the mainland, but at the door is the unruly and cohesive Korean nation, because the size of the two is similar, the Japanese can not even kick off this stumbling block. Finally, in the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he gathered the veterans and fierce generals accumulated in the Japanese Warring States for a hundred years, and finally defeated the Korean Li Dynasty in one fell swoop, and even went down to Seoul and Pyongyang, and it seemed that victory was in sight. Unexpectedly, the Koreans immediately called for Chinese foreign aid and beat the Japanese back with their heads on the back.

Compared to the strategic environment of medieval Britain, it was hellish for the Japanese to expand into the Asian continent. Unless he can defeat North Korea and China at the same time in a war, he won't even be able to gain a foothold, and it's no wonder that he can only go back to the island in the end and continue to hold back the country as an otaku.

When the Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown, and the enterprising Restoration government came to power, the crisis of becoming a colony was temporarily lifted, and the next thing I wanted to learn from the good example of the British Empire was that the East Asian monsters around me were too difficult to fight and gnaw, so I turned around and jumped out to develop in overseas colonies.

Who knew that when all the Meiji heroes picked up the globe and took a look, hell! Where is there still a place for the Japanese to colonize today? The Americas were the confines of the Americans, Africa was also divided, and even Germany only grabbed a few of the poorest pieces of land. Southeast Asia has long been colonized by the British, French, Dutch and Spanish, and Northeast Asia is the territory of Russian woolly bears. Australia and New Zealand are the bosses of the United Kingdom, and even the coral islands in the South Pacific have been planted with flags, and with Japan's small body at that time, neither of them can be defeated. Where else can I colonize next? Do you have to go to Antarctica to dig for ice?

The Japanese finally found a small and weak kingdom of Hawaii that could be attacked, but they still could not rob the Americans, and later gritted their teeth and saved some warships to try to rob the Philippines with Spain, but they were also one step behind the Yankees -- so far, the road to overseas colonization was completely blocked.

As a result, the Japanese had no choice but to turn back and follow the old path, gritting their teeth and going to the Korean Peninsula to break through, gambling on the fortunes of the country again and again, and the only period of opportunity in Japan's history that could expand on a large scale finally came: Korea was poor and weak, the Qing Dynasty had nothing to show for it, and the Russian woolly bear was also a strong foreign force in the middle...... After the two great wars of the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood were squeezed out of the people's fat and people's ointment, and a magnificent Japanese empire finally succeeded in settling the throne: swallowing Korea, taking Taiwan, taking Sakhalin Island in the north, and occupying Liaodong in the west. Then, based on this, they tried to replace China and seize the throne of East Asian hegemony.

But even if they rely on their ancestors to accumulate virtue and get the blessing of heaven for decades, the East Asian monster house faced by the Japanese is still a monster room. Not to mention going further, it is difficult to maintain the existing territory, and the surrounding environment is extremely isolated, from the inside to the outside are enemies, Koreans and Taiwanese have never been able to integrate into their own ethnic group, and it is difficult to kill all the Indians like the Americans have done, and the class contradictions in Japan are on the verge of exploding.

Lenin once said that Tsarist Russia was a huge prison across the Eurasian continent that enslaved peoples. In the same way, the Japanese Empire was also a huge concentration camp entrenched on the edge of the East Asian continent and enslaved all ethnic groups...... The empire has reached a bottleneck, and the greedy chaebols are unwilling to spit out half a mouthful of food to appease the hungry people, and in the end they can only use military force to divert the contradictions by launching overseas wars. As a result, the more you fight the enemy, the more you fight, the more the national strength is overdrawn, once the tank is started, it can't stop, and anyone who wants to step on the brakes will be killed by their own people, and no matter how many victories you get, it's pointless.

Now that the Japanese Empire has collapsed, looking back, we can see that the entire Japanese nation has been tirelessly invading East Asia for decades in an attempt to land on the mainland, but the result has been in vain. Even in the best of circumstances, it is only possible to regain the homeland, and the territory on the East Asian continent should not be daydreaming.

Although Rear Admiral Shen Chongde is a navy and a "southward marcher", and he is not the same as those army horses who are bent on going north, but watching the land territory laid down by decades of bloody battles be wiped out in one day, and the three largest cities in the mainland have all fallen to the enemy, I still can't help but feel infinite melancholy and sorrow in my heart.

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“…… What's the solution? There are times when people are unlucky, and so is the country. Chief of Staff, don't be too greedy. Don't forget, compared to the beginning of the war, the territory of Japan's national control is still larger than smaller, and you are still not satisfied with this? ”

Sophie, the ship's mother, said while drinking coconut wine, "...... If Japan wants to be reborn and shake off the burden of history, it is the minimum premise for Japan to withdraw from the East Asian continent. Besides, that place is not rich and the population is too large, so what's the point of fighting around with four or five billion Chinese in such a small area? Moreover, it is impossible for a country to take into account both land and sea in its strategic expansion, and Japan, as an island nation, is the right way to develop along the island chain towards the Pacific Ocean. Even if the Japanese people wanted to escape from the islands and land on the mainland...... Don't you already have an almost complete continent by now? ”

“…… You mean...... Australia? Shen Chongde touched his chin and muttered, "...... Compared to Manchuria, it always feels a bit chicken. ”

“…… Yes, although it is the smallest island continent on the earth, and although it is full of grasslands and deserts, it is also a continent! ”

Sophie, the ship's mother, shrugged her shoulders, "...... More than 20 divisions of the Imperial Army have been fighting in Australia for so long, and the three-light policy has been openly implemented for two and a half years, how many whites are left in that place now? The Army's recent series of massacres in Australia in retaliation for the U.S. military's nuclear bombing of Tokyo and landing on Japan seem to have killed 1.5 million white people. Wouldn't it be just the right time to free up space for East Asian immigrants to build a new homeland? ”

-- As we all know, Australia was the first place where the British exiled prisoners, and it was first discovered by Captain Cook in 1770, during the Qianlong period of China, and it was developed even later and at a slower pace. It wasn't until the birth of the United States that the colonization of Australia had just begun.

So, during World War II, the population of Australia had just reached 7 million, and New Zealand had a population of 2 million, which was less than one-third of the population of China's three northeastern provinces, including the indigenous people who hated the white colonizers.

And these white Australians are naturally brave and fierce, unruly, and believe in white supremacy, and would rather die than submit to the rule of the Japanese yellow-skinned dwarf. When encountering the Great Japanese Imperial Army with the same human face and beast heart, it was really thunder and fire, and the fight was really fierce. During the entire war to conquer Australia, the Japanese army slaughtered almost every city, everywhere, and the remaining white Australians, women were put into comfort stations, and men were stuffed into concentration camps, and then pulled Zhuang Ding from the mainland and the occupied areas of East Asia to fill the labor gap and restore the production of Australian agriculture and animal husbandry and various factories and mines.

However, although the Soviet Union provided tens of millions of tons of merchant ships to the Japanese, and the transportation capacity was still sufficient, the human resources of the Japanese archipelago itself were also limited, and the Japanese immigrants also preferred the coral islands in the Pacific Ocean with better natural conditions and more lucrative treatment, and only the inferior people from China, Korea, and Vietnam had no choice under the bayonets of the Imperial Japanese Army, so they had to come to Australia to eat sand and watch kangaroos.

On the eve of the Tokyo bombing in October 1945, Australia's population distribution was roughly as follows: First, after counting the American GIs who "assisted in the defense," there were still about 3.5 million whites left in the whole of Australia, that is, half of the pre-war period. One million of them were confined to Melbourne and Tasmania, and two million were held in various labor camps under the control of the Japanese army, working day and night until they died of overwork. Finally, there were a small number of "Shunmin" who lived in some isolated and remote countryside in the Japanese-occupied areas, or roamed the desert inaccessible to fight guerrillas.

Then, the number of Asian laborers and immigrants who landed in Australia with the invading Japanese army reached as many as 5 million, of which less than 500,000 were Japanese, and the rest were mainly Taiwanese, Koreans, Thais, Chinese and Vietnamese who were forcibly recruited or lured in.

Usually the Japanese army slaughtered the villages and towns of the white animals in Australia, and by the way, they robbed all the property, and these laborers and immigrants followed behind, carrying their bags and living in bloodstained houses, continuing to cultivate the fields left by the whites, producing food, vegetables and fruits for the imperial army, or going to work in various factories and mines.

Finally, there were about 800,000 aborigines in Australia before the arrival of white immigrants, and only 60,000 or 70,000 had been killed on the eve of World War II.

Next, in the retaliatory massacre and poison gas warfare carried out by the Japanese army shortly before the invasion of Australia, the number of white Australians evaporated by 1.5 million in an instant, and since then they have completely become a minority in Australia, making Australia, an isolated island continent, change its race again in a hundred years.

-- Although the methods are indeed bloody and brutal, since in the last century, the British slaughtered the Australian aborigines so ruthlessly to expand the living space of the white race. So now that he has been wantonly slaughtered by the Japanese and expanded the living space of the yellow race, it seems that there is nothing to complain about.

Moreover, in the world revolution of the future, the Anglo-Saxon nation will be the public enemy of the entire socialist camp.

At least, in the eyes of Miss Sophie, the ship's lady who was extremely hostile to the Anglo-Saxons, these descendants of John Bull were definitely not a pity to die.

In addition, more than 100,000 of New Zealand's two million white people died in the fierce tug-of-war between Japan and the United States. The Anzac Corps that landed in Japan with MacArthur today are mainly composed of these New Zealanders who have a deep blood feud with the Japanese army, as well as some white Australian refugees who have been driven out of their homes and fled to New Zealand.

“…… That's right, since the illusion of dominating East Asia no longer needs to be thought about, then Oceania, at least the already in hand, must not be thrown away. ”

Chief of Staff Kamishitoku nodded, as a rear admiral, he naturally hoped that the future Japanese nation would continue to develop towards the ocean," ...... However, we can't watch the local fathers and elders being slaughtered, otherwise even if we have land, we don't have a population, and it won't be empty? ”

-- Before the war, if we counted the Japanese archipelago alone, the Japanese nation had a population of about 70 million, and if we counted the Taiwanese and Koreans, we could barely make up 100 million. Then, as the war progressed, three million Japanese died overseas. Then there was the sarin gas war in Tokyo and the double crit of two atomic bombs, which brought the souls of millions of Japanese to heaven in one breath. By the time the U.S. troops landed on the Japanese archipelago, they burned down Kyoto, slaughtered Osaka, littered incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs everywhere, and killed people like crazy every day.

At this point, the Japanese nation had lost 10 million people in the war, and it is not known how many people will die in the future.

“…… That's why the Combined Fleet is now going north in a big way to give the Japanese on the mainland a way out, isn't it? ”

Sophie, the ship's mother, burped, raised her glass, and then suddenly closed her eyes and was silent for a long time. And Major General Shen Chongde's face also suddenly turned grim: he knew that the young lady in front of him was receiving and translating the radio waves floating in a certain sky.

After a moment, Sophie, the ship's mother, opened her eyes with a wry smile, "...... Chief of Staff of Shen Chongde, it seems that we can no longer wait for the movement of the Halsey fleet on Hainan Island, and the combined fleet must anchor as soon as possible! ”

“…… Why? Shen Zhongde frowned, "...... In this case, wouldn't the original plan to lure the enemy be frustrated? ”

“…… Because, the transport ship regiment led by Admiral Horikichi suddenly changed its plan and went to Okinawa! We can't let million-ton merchant ships be hit by the US military like targets there! Miss Shipwright sighed, "...... That's more than half of our sea capacity......"

“…… And the world's largest supercarrier...... Understood, this is indeed a loss that we absolutely cannot afford at the moment. ”