It's all over. There is no hope. Pathetic Combined Fleet, Pathetic Navy, Pathetic Empire!

-- The Zuihou counterattack of the Combined Fleet, the dying struggle of the Imperial Navy, finally failed!

Standing on the bridge of the aircraft carrier Fengxiang, Rear Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi grabbed a railing with both hands and slammed his head into the steel bulkhead frantically. His military hat was crumpled like a rag, his forehead was bloodied, and his eyes were red and swollen like peaches.

At this time, the deck of the aircraft carrier was empty, and there were no fighters left except for a wounded reconnaissance plane.

Rear Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi's original flagship, the Japanese Navy's only remaining battleship "Yamashiro", was first heavily damaged in the fierce naval and air battles in Shanghai, the bridge collapsed, and the hull structure was damaged...... Now it has been folded in the East China Sea and sunk in the sand, and it will sleep forever under the surging blue waves.

-- The only remaining mobile force of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Truk Atoll Squadron, which had been recalled from the equatorial Pacific Ocean for thousands of miles, had been shattered in several days of fierce fighting around Shanghai, and the Taiwan garrison that landed was almost completely wiped out!

In order to boost morale, the headquarters issued "good news" to the Japanese people, and also distributed sake and sweets to the citizens of Kyoto, so that the people who did not know the inside story were still intoxicated with "victory". Recently ascended the throne and took over the sword seal in the hands of the imperial officer, Prince Yoshihito of Chichibu Miya, or "Emperor Hiroku". He even personally issued a holy decree, commended a cadre of "meritorious soldiers", and ordered the whole army to congratulate the victory...... But in fact. Major General Nagumo Tadaichi, who was on the battlefield, knew very well that the decisive assault of the Japanese Navy and Army on Shanghai had not achieved any strategic and tactical goals at all.

-- Several of the battleship's main guns could not reach the downtown area of Shanghai, which was hidden behind the alluvial plain of several tens of kilometers; The limited number of carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier is no match for so many shore-based aviation forces of the enemy; The Taiwan army, which was desperately exhausted and wounded and forced to land, was always suppressed by the absolutely superior enemy forces at the beachhead of Jinshanwei in Shanghai, and could not penetrate more than three kilometers inland at the farthest......

Therefore. The communist army in Shanghai did not suffer any real losses in this battle.

In the same way, the Japanese Empire has not been able to extricate itself from the haze of "powerful nuclear weapons."

A battle to the death for the survival of the imperial state. Of course, it was not because they were not brave enough to fight -- in fact, both the Truk detachment and the Taiwan army had already done their best on the battlefield in Shanghai. Here's the problem. On the battlefield of Shanghai. The people of China were backed by their largest city in the country, and all the supply of troops, firepower, and ammunition was endless; However, the Japanese army was a lone expedition, and the landing force was only a quarter of the defenders, and the naval aviation did not shake the air supremacy of the communist army until it ran out of planes......

Even with so many disadvantages, for the sake of the local peace and the survival of the nation, the Japanese Navy and Army still fought to the death with heavy sacrifices. The question is. After just a few days of fierce fighting, all the planes of the Japanese Shanghai Raiders had been shot down. The ship's ammunition has been basically depleted, and there is little fuel left......

Therefore, after exhausting the shells of the battleship's main guns and losing several carrier-based fighters in Zuihou, Rear Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi had no choice but to retreat for the time being, leaving the remnants of the Taiwan Army on Zhoushan Island, and leading the fleet back to replenish and recuperate.

But the problem is that when Nagumo Tadaichi was in a depressed and gloomy mood, he found new troubles after temporarily getting rid of the smoke and flames of war.

- Sasebo, Kure Port, Yokosuka...... Japan's naval garrisons have long since been destroyed, and the shipyards in Osaka, Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima have also been reduced to rubble in the nuclear bombing. Where should the only remaining Japanese ocean-going mobile fleet under Rear Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi go to repair the bullet-riddled warships and replenish ammunition, fuel, aircraft, and lost crews?

Obviously, Taiwan's Keelung port can not go back, although today's warships have begun to switch to oil-fired boilers, but the general merchant ships are still mostly coal-burning, if it is not a military port and an international port, usually there will not be too much fuel reserves. In order to fill the oil tanks of the Truk Atoll Detachment after a long journey, Nagumo Tadaichi had drained the oil depot of this medium-sized port, and there was no suitable ammunition to replenish there.

As for the Lushun military port in the "Kanto Prefecture", there is a lot of fuel stockpiled and a good shipyard, but unfortunately the distance is too far, and the oil tanks and scarred hulls of the Nagumo fleet are not necessarily able to support such a long journey. In addition, Port Arthur did not hoard ammunition for the main guns of large warships - only a few destroyers were usually placed there, and large capital ships were placed in China or Truk.

Fortunately, just as Nagumo Tadaichi was feeling overwhelmed by the "collapse of the old Shijie", a telegram was sent to him from the base camp relocated to Kyoto, instructing him to lead the fleet to the port of Kagoshima on the southern tip of Kyushu Island, which was close enough to the battlefield in Shanghai and had basic port facilities, maintenance teams, and a certain amount of fuel reserves. The Ministry of the Navy also searched the wasteland with all its might, loading all the shells, torpedoes, and naval planes that could be found onto cargo ships and transporting them to Kagoshima, and also summoned a group of retired sailors to stand by there...... All in all, the base camp had done everything it could to raise ammunition, supplies, and troops for Nagumo Tadaichi, and Nagumo Tadashi would just withdraw the fleet to Kagoshima.

After the rectification is completed, he will immediately return to the battlefield in Shanghai, and no matter what, he will eradicate this group of Chinese communist troops that threaten the safety of the imperial state!

Then, after crashing into a typhoon on the way home, losing the wounded battleship Yamashiro and a destroyer, the exhausted Nagumo Tadaichi finally brought the fleet to Kagoshima Bay, where he saw the majestic figure of the Sakurajima volcano standing on the surface of the sea......

However, what he didn't know was that the whereabouts of his fleet were also transmitted to his enemies through invisible radio waves.

What's even more terrifying is that some of the brain-opening traversers also chose the Nanyun fleet as the target of killing chickens and monkeys......

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On the morning of August 11, 1935, Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong

At the end of the runway of the airport that had been urgently cleared, a thick black and hard long-range missile was rising to the sky on the launcher.

Dozens of foreign journalists, diplomats, businessmen, and missionaries forcibly abducted from Macao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong, as well as two British captains and a major who had just been captured in the Battle of Hong Kong, were driven to the vicinity by thousands of Red Army soldiers with submachine guns and bayonets.

In order to prevent the assassination, the delicate and expensive Ms. Jinchina did not appear in person, but was read aloud by Sonia Political Commissar in public:

“…… In view of the fact that the Japanese Empire has so far been obsessed, refused to withdraw its troops from Chinese mainland and ceased war, and was bent on occupying China's territory regardless of life or death, and even attacked Shanghai again, causing tens of thousands of casualties among our soldiers and civilians. In order to express the most severe punishment against the Japanese Empire, our Party hereby signed an extermination order against the port of Kagoshima in the southern part of Japan's Kyushu Island in the name of the cause of independence and liberation of the Chinese nation...... This is the sixth nuclear strike carried out by our army on the Japanese imperial mainland since the beginning of the war, but it is by no means the first time -- as long as the Japanese aggressors refuse to accept the terms of the peace talks and withdraw from our territory, the nuclear weapons attack on the Japanese archipelago will not stop for a single day!

At the same time, we must also warn Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands, Portugal, and all other European and American countries -- the tide of shijie, the mighty soup, and all the oppressed nations fighting for independence and liberation, which are vainly trying to suppress the Chinese revolution and continue to exploit the Chinese people, and who are enemies of our workers' and peasants' Red Army. If you are no longer willing to resolutely wake up and withdraw from the ranks of aggression against China and interference in the Chinese revolution, then the Japanese Empire today will be your tomorrow! For the sake of the independence and liberation, rejuvenation and self-improvement of the Chinese nation, we have never been afraid to completely wipe out any enemy country from this earth! Please don't continue to test our tolerance and courage!

Zuihou, we would also like to warn the British colonial authorities in Hong Kong on the other side of Victoria Bay, who are still stubbornly resisting. The fighting of the past few days has fully demonstrated the strength and invincibility of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and if you continue to fight us, you will only die without a place to be buried!

Dear Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Bellow, do you think that the coastal forts around Hong Kong Island alone can stop the advance of our army? Of course, you may still be counting on the British fleet in Singapore to come to your rescue, but in fact, we have an accurate grasp of the whereabouts of your reinforcement fleet. As long as this fleet dares to enter the South China Sea, it will be 'warmly welcomed' by countless nuclear bombs!

So, as long as you can surrender within 48 hours, we will agree to the dignified withdrawal of the British troops from Hong Kong with weapons and personal belongings, and we will agree that the British will continue to do business in Hong Kong. Otherwise, we'll have to meet in the prisoner of war camp - don't be unprepared! ”

At the same time, the Red Army radio stations in various localities, which had been notified in advance, also broadcast the recording of this announcement to all radio listeners.

Then, the already ready operator pressed a red button, sending the huge missile into the sky spewing orange flames.

――Dozens of minutes later, the port of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu and the Nagumo fleet moored in the harbor all disappeared in the flash of a nuclear explosion. (To be continued......)