Nagata Town, Tokyo, Japan, Emperor's Imperial Palace

The cold moonlight shine through the chaotic clouds and sprinkled on the glazed tiles of the quaint palace. The tall and towering ancient trees rustle in the chilly evening breeze. When the wind stopped, the surroundings became silent again, as quiet as a cemetery. The sudden drop in temperature at night caused a thin layer of frost to condense the moisture on the ground, covering the branches and leaves of every precious flower and tree in the palace, as well as the lawn of a Western-style golf course.

And in a traditional Japanese-style palace not far from this golf course, a middle-aged man was lying on a luxurious Western-style bed, but for some reason, he had been sleeping unsteadily, tossing and turning almost all night, and several times almost alarmed the plump woman named Ryoko next to him.

This middle-aged man was not tall, his skin was slightly dark, his body looked a little thin, and his expression seemed to be a little nervous -- the dull and boring royal life, the countless rules and regulations and complicated rituals, the submissive court maids, the flattering courtiers, and the accumulation of more than 2,500 years of history since the legendary Emperor Jimmu, made him almost forget that he was a human being, and only regarded himself as the "living god" of the world.

He is the contemporary Showa Emperor of Japan, Hirohito Bixia, and the legendary god Amaterasu of Japan, the earthly descendant of the goddess of the sun!

Compared with the modern Japanese society of the 21st century, the power and prestige of the Showa Emperor are obviously very different from those of those who live under the shock of the US military stationed in Japan, the constraints of the democratic system, and the impact of American culture, and live a very non-existent life. His words are holy edicts, and his instructions are holy parables. More than a million officers and men of the Japanese Navy and Army fought for him alone, and 70 million Japanese citizens sacrificed their lives for him. He is the totem of their faith and their spiritual pillar. It is the embodiment of the soul of Yamato!

The last few months have been the most energetic time in Emperor Showa's life - the invincible imperial army swept through the whole of China at a very slight cost, all the way from Shanhaiguan all the way to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and already took Nanjing and Beijing of this ancient empire!

This unprecedented feat not only fascinated the subjects of the Great Japanese Empire, but also made Emperor Bixia of Showa deeply excited.

Since the first armies crossed the sea to go on the expedition. He prayed every day in the palace for the martial arts of the imperial kingdom. When the good news of the "bloodless opening of Nanjing" came, the citizens of Tokyo excitedly organized a lantern parade, and the emperor rode a white horse. On the streets of Tokyo, he enthusiastically cheered up the Japanese military and civilians.

-- If this momentum continues, it seems that the grand Jihua of the Japanese Empire's conquest of China and the unification of East Asia is no longer a dream!

The fertile soil of Manchuria with white mountains and black waters, and the vast Mongolian steppe. The magnificent ancient capital of Beijing. A bustling and splendid Jiangnan resort...... Such a vast territory that his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, and his father, Emperor Taisho, could not even have dreamed of, were planted with the Rising Sun Banner in his time!

However, in addition to the excitement, joy and pride, Emperor Showa's heart occasionally involuntarily flooded with a trace of worry.

-- Is the decaying and dying empire on the other side of the sea really like a rotten and dilapidated house that can collapse with a single kick?

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In general, in the long history of the past. The Japanese nation has a deep sense of inferiority, but it also has a deep "great power feeling".

The Asuka period and the Nara period were born from Japanese civilization. For a thousand years before the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese had been confined to four small islands, imported Chinese cultural texts, believed in Buddhism from India, and spent a long time in a prosaic way—neither culture nor religion was original to them, and even Japanese kana had to borrow strokes from Chinese characters. Moreover, it is located on a small island with frequent earthquakes and barren properties, and looks at the vast and rich country on the other side of the sea...... Of course, it makes the Japanese feel very inferior.

-- Even before and after the First Sino-Japanese War, in the minds of many Japanese, China was still the Celestial Empire, and was generally far higher than their own.

However, despite being confined to a remote island, the Japanese have never been able to get rid of the feeling of a great power, which has not only arisen in modern times, but has existed since ancient times and has never changed -- as an outer island on the East Asian continent, as a country deeply influenced by Chinese civilization, Japan has always been unwilling to integrate into the tributary system of the Chinese Empire, and does not recognize itself as a little brother in the Chinese civilization circle, but from the beginning of the birth of the country, In his letter to Emperor Yang of Sui, Japan's Prince Shotoku unashamedly claimed that "the Son of Heaven at sunrise sent a letter to the Son of Heaven at sunset", completely ignoring the worlds of power and status between the two...... This is the origin and indiscriminate nature of Japan's feelings as a great nation.

Next, even in the Tang Dynasty, after being defeated by Tang Gaozong's navy in the Baicun River, the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty only put on the posture of a student and paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty as a teacher, rather than bowing to the Tang Dynasty like Silla. Later, in the face of the Mongols who swept across Eurasia, Japan during the Kamakura shogunate was even more fearless in launching an open challenge. In the late Ming Dynasty, Japan under the rule of Toyotomi Hideyoshi even gave birth to the rhapsody of a small snake swallowing an elephant, delusionally wanting to annex Korea in a war, dominate China, expedition to India, and finally dominate the world!

-- It should be noted that this kind of great power feeling of the Japanese is not the same thing as the so-called "great power feeling" of the Koreans in the future. The Koreans' feeling of "alternate history and map to open up the frontier" is essentially just a boring meaning. Lewdness, a kind of hysterical clamour, did not think at all about how to turn dreams into reality: although the Koreans claimed a large area of northeastern China and the Russian Far East as their own, did they think about how to implement it? It seems that not to mention what kind of colonization action it is, not even a minimum invasion jihua is listed!

This shows the so-called "great power feelings" of the South Koreans. It is nothing but a method of spiritual victory for self-deception, and it has never even thought of putting it into action -- the division between the North and the South of the Korean Peninsula is still unresolved, and there is still an extravagant hope of cutting flesh from the powerful countries. It really can only be described as death.

On the contrary, the Japanese are a very serious nation, they will not be satisfied with the spiritual victory method like the Koreans, they dare to say and do - the Yamato court in ancient times called itself "the son of heaven at sunrise", and then dared to send troops to the Korean Peninsula to compete with the Tang Dynasty; Toyotomi Hideyoshi dreamed of conquering China and "moving the emperor to Beijing". really sent 200,000 troops and fought a fierce war with the Sino-Korean coalition forces for eight years; The Japanese in the era of militarism declared that Manchuria in China was the "lifeline of Manchuria" and then dared to launch the September 18 Incident. swallow the white mountains and black water of the three northeastern provinces in one gulp; Later, what kind of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was proposed, and even did not hesitate to launch the Pacific War, and at the same time fought against the British, American, and Soviet powers!

Historically, Japan has only been slightly stronger internally. will expand externally. After several failures and still no regrets, it can really be said to be very persevering.

Of course, even if you have both ambition and the ability to act on reality, you will not necessarily succeed - Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unrealistic dream of expansion was ruined by the famous Korean naval admiral Yi Sunsin and Ming reinforcements, and he also took advantage of the Toyotomi family's foundation. The Japanese, who found themselves unfledged, retreated back to their islands. His mind was devoted to the study of traditional arts such as ikebana, tea ceremony, waka and jiu-jitsu.

Another 300 years later, the era of Japan finally came. With the arrival of the Black Ship and the Meiji Restoration. Japan began to reinvent itself at a dizzying pace, with merchants becoming capitalists and samurai becoming warlords...... Through two war adventures that cost all the money, Japan succeeded in not only overthrowing the decaying Qing Dynasty, but also repelling the peeps of the Russian polar bear in the East, thus achieving the status of an internationally recognized great power, officially entering the camp of the imperialist powers dividing Shijie, and no longer the Oriental sick man who was bullied by others in the late Edo era!

However, in the midst of this brutal Shijie that advocates force and the law of the jungle, the Japanese after the Meiji Restoration are still full of a sense of crisis of national extinction -- every knowledgeable Japanese knows very well that even if the country is modernized, even if it wins the Russo-Japanese War, with Japan's extremely limited land resources and strategic depth, it will definitely be at an absolute disadvantage in the future all-round contest and fierce game with European and American countries.

What should I do if the site is too small? Of course, it is to launch a war of foreign expansion, and cut the meat from the only soft persimmon and big fat sheep around - China!

-- In the eyes of the modern Japanese ruling class, which believes that it shoulders the sacred mission of "leading the global yellow race," Japan's many inherent disadvantages are precisely China's strengths. If the two can complement each other, as long as China's population, territory, and resources are added to Japan's jishu, management, and capital, then it is equivalent to a huge, populous, well-funded, scientifically developed, and well-organized superpower, which is enough to dominate Shijie!

The only trouble is that China will never be willing to give everything it has to you, and the only way is to grab it...... At this point, the war of aggression against China no longer merely represents the glory and martial arts of the soldiers, but also has the meaning of leading the yellow race to save and survive in the face of the white civilization of the West -- in this way, Japan will inevitably embark on a development path of robbery and killing. The main theme of Meiji history, Taisho history and Showa history is a series of conquests and killings in a sea of corpses and blood, which also makes the Yasukuni Shrine in Kudanzaka in Tokyo always full of incense.

However, the official tone obviously cannot be said so bluntly, but to declare that this is for the sake of "Sino-Japanese common prosperity" and for the liberation of the suffering Chinese people. Then, Japan wants to help the Chinese build a "royal paradise" and rapidly move towards modernization, in order to catch up with the civilizational gap between East Asia and Europe, so as to eliminate the crisis of the extinction of the yellow race—at least officially, and it seems that many Japanese really think so.

Of course, the process of "helping" Chinese Japan to promote modernization is bound to be very painful and will cost many people, but it is also a necessary price...... Anyway, in their view, today's China has long degenerated into a "branch", not only backward in terms of system, but also an inferior nation with backward culture and race, and a garbage country that will only become more and more decaying. Even if it is not conquered by the Japanese Empire, sooner or later it will be ravaged by the Caucasian race in Europe, and Zuihou will be wiped out. Now it hurts. It is better to survive in the future than to be painless in the present and be killed in the future.

So. According to the Japanese propaganda agency, before the Imperial Japanese Army killed the Chinese, it still had the consciousness to kill you for the sake of loving you. In this case, the Chinese should also fully understand Japan's good intentions and bitter intentions, bow down to the banner of the invincible imperial army, bow down and surrender.

The problem is that the Chinese are not Japanese and do not have the kind of "worship of the strong" mentality that is close to perversion. I really can't accept this kind of "distorted care...... Therefore, the current Emperor Showa is not without wonder to find that even in the Japanese Empire it has the unanimous support of the entire Shijie imperialist powers. After successfully occupying China's northern and southern capitals and their surrounding elite areas, and declaring undoubted military power to all Chinese, there is still no expected scene of descent in various parts of China. Not only the Bolsheviks in the south shouted the slogan of the war of resistance, but also other Chinese warlords. is still fighting against the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire. Even if you hit the stone with an egg, you must insist on hitting it to the end!

So far, with the exception of Wang Jingwei, who was single-handedly supported by the Japanese army, the other local warlords have rejected the olive branch thrown by Japan. Even after seeing the tragic lesson of the Shandong warlord Han Fuqu being overthrown by his pro-Japanese faction, which led to the destruction of his family, Yan Xishan of Shanxi only continued to bargain in the negotiations, and had no intention of handing over his power and truly yielding, but intensified the purge of the pro-Japanese faction in his territory. And Shaanxi's Yang Hucheng and his old rival Zhang Xueliang in the past. even opened a jiashi in the Central Plains, claiming to fight to the death with the Japanese army. Even the warlords Chen Jitang of Guangdong and Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren, who have been cooperating with Japan in the past, have been very good in the past. It also said that they were completely unable to recognize Wang Jingwei's Nationalist government in Nanjing, let alone accept the direct rule of the Japanese Empire - especially the Gui army in Guangxi, and even expelled the Japanese instructors hired in the past!

This disgust with Japanese resistance was particularly incomprehensible to the Japanese - according to the experience of the samurai in the civil war for hundreds of years, if any shili could capture both Kyoto and Edo at the same time, then the rest of the land would be more or less decided. When encountering a strong person who can't resist, it is never something to be ashamed of, so you decisively choose to bow your head and submit...... Why are the people of Kochi so brainless?

Alas, you ignorant and inferior Shina people, why don't you understand that the Imperial Army of Japan entered Shina for your own good, and wanted you to share the glory of advanced civilization? Moreover, the winner has already been decided, and you weishenme are still unwilling to bow your heads and admit defeat?

Forget it, since you can't figure it out, then just don't think about it, let's just start fighting and talk with bullets and bayonets!

Emperor Showa, who couldn't sleep, pursed his lips, sat up from his bed with a head full of troubled thoughts, and looked at the hazy ukiyo-e and Shina battle maps on the wall by moonlight. Even in the dim light of the night, the small sun flag inserted on the map representing the occupation and the thick arrow representing the attack of the Imperial Japanese Army were still clearly distinguishable -- Xuchang in the Central Plains and Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, two fierce battles were in full swing, and both were not going well, and the North China Dispatch Army kept asking for reinforcements, while the South China Dispatch Army pulled down its face and asked for naval fire cover. This, coupled with the diplomatic conflict between the European and American powers and the Empire over the war, made the Emperor realize that there seemed to be a great deal of uncertainty in the previous victory.

Emperor Showa sighed in distraught, rolled over and got out of bed, came to a shrine next to the wall, knelt down, and prayed silently. He prayed to the ancestors and ancestors to bless the imperial army to continue its victories, to bless the European and American powers not to change their conniving attitude towards the empire, to bless the Japanese Combined Fleet, which was about to set off for an expedition and shell Chinese mainland, to have smooth sailing, and to bless the Japanese Empire's grand blueprint for landing on the mainland and dominating East Asia, and not to turn into a withered cherry tree and a ruined dream on the eve of the victory of Zuihou......

However, what Emperor Showa didn't know was that all the imperial hegemony brewing in his heart had already been destined to come to naught at this time.

Because another "black ship" that is about to bury all the ambitions and ambitions of the Japanese Empire is about to knock on the western gate of Japan......

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The remote control command center set up at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, even if it is already early in the morning, is still full of people and bright lights.

“…… The infrared remote sensing and radar data detected on the suicide airship have been entered into the computer, and the terrain matching retrieval has begun......"

“…… It was confirmed that the suicide airship had crossed the Goto Islands and was still forty kilometers away from Sasebo, and that it was slightly northerly adjusted......"

If, in the 21st century, a remote-controlled airship carrying a hydrogen bomb is allowed to cross the sea in the dark of night to detonate an enemy country, it is simply ridiculous and generous. However, in an era when radar had not yet been invented and night air defense relied entirely on searchlights and the naked eye, it was already so-so that it could be made up -- not to mention that in the minds of the Japanese at this time, their homeland was still in the "age of peace," and they did not even have the concept of night air defense at all.

Therefore, the remote-controlled airship carrying a 20 million tons of hydrogen bomb safely flew over the East China Sea more than 700 kilometers wide after eight hours...... The navigation problem in the absence of GPS satellite positioning has also been initially solved with the help of compass and pointing radio beams.

When it was confirmed that the suicide airship had successfully arrived on the west coast of Japan, Wang Qiu, who was sitting in the command center, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but his mood couldn't help but be a little heavy when he thought that he was about to press the button and send hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to heaven together.

In general, the Chinese have always been accustomed to leaving room for doing things, talking about the poor and the siege of the city. In fact, try not to force others to death, and mercifully let others live, but also avoid forcing the opponent to fight with you, Zuihou makes a bad situation of losing both.

However, the Chinese, who are currently making enemies of the capitalist shijie as a whole, simply do not leave any room for the Japanese.

Therefore, for the victory of the revolution, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army had to use the most violent form to leave the enemy with the most painful lesson! Let any enemy tremble from the marrow at the thought of invading China...... Wang Qiu thought about it as he pressed the red button.

“…… Confirm that it is close to the sky over Sasebo, activate the fuse, and enter the 90-second countdown, 90, 89...... 3, 2, 1, 0, detonate! (To be continued......)