The Ishihara Trading House is Chu Lingyun's industry, and this is something that the old man knows.

Other Japanese are invaders, Ishihara Heng is not, he is the hero of the Anti-Japanese War, after Japan surrenders, Chu Lingyun will personally come back to receive all the industries.

No one wants to rob it, let alone rob it.

Tokyo, Japan, Naval Command.

The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely depressing, and the continuous bombing by the Americans brought the resentment of their own people to a high point, and they were everywhere blaming them for naval inaction and blaming them for failing to stop the Americans.

There are even people who dig through old accounts, thinking that it was their sneak attack that angered the Americans and brought such a disaster to the empire.

The command of the Navy is under tremendous pressure, the island of Okinawa is now in danger, the Navy cannot do nothing, they must rescue Okinawa.

With the consent of the base camp, the navy decided to dispatch all the existing warships to Okinawa to block the US warships, although there was a huge difference in strength, as long as it could kill a few US aircraft carriers or warships, it would still help Okinawa reduce the pressure.

This plan was named Operation Kikusui.

The name is taken from the heraldic pattern of the famous samurai hunter hundreds of years ago, which means chrysanthemum in the water.

When he was outnumbered, he made a vow to serve the country for seven lives, which meant that even if he died seven times, he would be reincarnated to serve the empire.

In the spirit of bushido, this is a story that is important to them.

The Navy's operational plan has such a name, which shows their mentality in this operation.

The Japanese Navy understood that they were no match for the US Navy, that this was a suicidal attack, and that it would not work if they did not do it, and that there were probably very few Navy soldiers who traveled and could come back alive.

Japan has no aircraft carriers, and planes can only depart from land.

Coupled with the lack of good pilots, Japan has also drummed up single-use aircraft, and this Kikusui operation, whether it is the Ministry of Aviation or the warship, is all the kind that has no return.

Die in battle to serve the Empire.

On 6 April, nearly 400 planes of the Japanese Navy and more than 100 planes of the Army officially began to launch attacks on the United States.

Like their navy's Huitian torpedoes, they are all designed to destroy humanity.

In the afternoon, the Japanese Navy Yamato led a light cruiser and eight destroyers to set off, and these ten warships can be said to be the last home of the Japanese Navy.

Due to the blockade of the Nanyang transportation line by the US military, the transport ship suffered great losses, and there was a shortage of oil, and this time the Yamato was not even refueled.

From the moment they set out, the fleet was doomed.

All the warships that could be used were used this time, including the Yukikaze.

Although the Yukikaze was full of curses and many of the ships it escorted, whether merchant ships or warships, were sunk, there were also examples of successful escorts on the Yukikaze.

This time itself is to send the fleet to death, and it no longer matters who escorts the escort, the key is to sink enough American warships so that their sacrifices will not be in vain.

On the Snowwind, the captain looked serious.

This battle is about the last glory of the navy, he is not afraid of dying in battle, he wants his countrymen to see the bravery of the Snow Wind.

The Snowwind is not a nemesis, and this time they will be able to serve the Empire.

This time was different from previous expeditions, everyone who went out understood what this battle represented, and the scene of the send-off was full of tragedy.

They had to evade the U.S. aircraft carriers, but also reach the designated combat sites and start a war with a larger number of U.S. troops, showing the last glory of the Japanese Navy.

It's a pity that the Japanese have done all the bad things, and God doesn't help them.

Not long after the departure of the Japanese naval fleet, it was discovered by two American submarines, which did not act rashly in the face of ten American warships, but passed information on to their superiors.

When the U.S. Navy received the information, the commander immediately ordered Task Force 54 to meet the enemy.

Task Force 54 had six battleships, seven cruisers, and 21 destroyers, more than three times as many as the Japanese Navy.

Even if they did not have a battleship as large as the Yamato, they were far superior to the Japanese fleet in terms of fleet size and tonnage.

However, this is not the real battle plan of the Americans.

The most effective way to deal with warships is carrier-based aircraft.

The 54 fleet was only to contain the Japanese, not to allow them to reach Okinawa, and not to let them flee back to their homeland.

These ten warships, the Americans are ready to laugh at them and eat them completely.

In particular, the Yamato, which can be called the world's largest tonnage battleship, must be sunk as a pride for the U.S. Navy.

On the morning of the 7th, the US aircraft carrier-based aircraft were ready.

The U.S. military dispatched forty warplanes to conduct a fan-shaped search, and they knew the approximate location of the Japanese Navy, and it was not difficult to find them in this search.

Sure enough, at 8:32 a.m., the reconnaissance plane spotted the Japanese naval fleet sailing.

The warship exposed in front of the aircraft carrier has only one fate in the end.

The reconnaissance planes bit the Japanese fleet, and the Japanese fleet, which found the US reconnaissance planes, understood that their position was exposed, and they accelerated frantically and headed for Okinawa.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the first wave of US troops, totaling 280 planes of various types, took off, and a dense crowd of planes soon appeared in the skies over the Japanese Navy.

The Yamato was their focus.

However, the Yamato is indeed rough and thick-skinned, even if it was shot many times, at least it survived this wave of attacks, and the destroyer Hamakaze was not so lucky, the skinny Hamakaze was hit by a torpedo and bomb, the hull broke, and it didn't take long for it to sink to the bottom of the sea, becoming the first unlucky ship in this naval battle.

The only light cruiser was also hit by torpedoes and bombs, completely lost the ability to maneuver, and became a live target.

The Cool Moon was hit by an aerial bomb and caught fire, while the Winter Moon was hit by two rockets, which were not enough for them to be lucky, and the two rockets did not cause them much damage and escaped.

Snow Wind, the First Frost is fine for the time being, and the other ships are somewhat damaged.

The first wave of American aircraft left, and the second wave of carrier-based aircraft arrived.

Seeing the steady stream of US planes coming in, the Japanese commander showed despair.

It's only noon, and the American aircraft carrier won't be too far away from them, and they won't be able to support it at all for the next afternoon.

At 2:20 p.m., the Yamato, which had been torpedoed and bombed many times and had long been unrecognizable, finally capsized and sank, and the battleship, which the Japanese had high hopes for and claimed to be unsinkable, finally sank into the sea like its sister ship, the Musashi.

The Yamato sank, and the other Japanese warships were no better.

Thirteen minutes before the Yamato was silent, the Karuto Yatsuki was sunk, which was earlier than the Yamato.

The destroyers Isokaze, Asashuang and Kasumi suffered heavy losses and were forced to sink.

Together with the Hamakaze, which sank earlier, six warships of the Japanese Navy were sunk and completely incapacitated.

The remaining four warships, after salvaging the people who had fallen into the water, saw the American planes coming back and immediately fled in a hurry, and the naval battle ended in complete defeat for Japan.

The Japanese Admiralty, when they received the war report, their hands and feet were cold.

The Yamato was eventually gone, but the Yamato did not follow the wishes of the Japanese and inflicted heavy damage on the U.S. Navy, sinking several U.S. Navy warships and sinking.

The Yamato did not even meet the American warship, and sank in the depths of the Pacific Ocean in such a humiliating manner.

Regardless of the outcome, the Combined Fleet was a complete defeat, and in the future the Combined Fleet would exist in name only, leaving only a few small warships and old warships.

In addition to this, they lost eight of their eleven submarines near Okinawa because of the tight anti-submarine of the United States.

Eight submarines were lost, but nothing was achieved.

After this war, Japan completely lost its sea supremacy.

Although the fleet failed, the Ministry of Aviation achieved good results.

During the two days of bombing, the navy and army dispatched nearly 1,000 planes, many of them Sakura suicide attack planes, and they sank three US destroyers, a landing ship, and two munitions ships, and damaged more than a dozen ships of various types.

The results of the Ministry of Aviation somewhat covered up a little shame for the Japanese Navy.

When the time came to April 8th, the Winter Moon, the Snow Wind, and the First Frost returned to the Sasebo Naval Base one after another, but what no one expected was that the Cool Moon, which was covered in injuries and thought by everyone to have sunk a long time ago, ran back.

Although the Liangyue looked miserable, it came back after all.

Of the four warships that returned, the Liangyue was seriously injured, the Dongyue and Xuefeng were slightly injured, and the First Frost was in the best condition and was basically unharmed.

It's a pity that as soon as they came back, the people of several warships almost didn't fight, especially the Yukikaze, all saying that it killed the Yamato.

Without the Yukikaze, they would have been able to reach Okinawa.

Taking the Yukikaze with you was the biggest mistake.

The Snow Wind was naturally not happy to be accused like this, and after returning to Hong Kong, they unexpectedly found that they had been hit by an aerial bomb, but this aerial bomb was a dud bomb.

I have to say that the luck of the Snow Wind is really good, if this bomb explodes, even if it does not sink, they will not want to come back safely, let alone save so many people.

In the face of accusations, the Snow Wind took out a dud as evidence, they were not nemesis, they were also injured.

What they never expected was that this dud bomb would instead become evidence that they were their nemesis.

It was quite uncomfortable up and down the Yukikaze.

Someone else suggested that the First Frost was in better shape than theirs, and this time the Snow Wind killed two people and injured several others, but the First Frost did not die a single person.

The result was again refuted, the First Frost was not in the main area of the battle at that time, and the Americans' focus was not on it, so they hid it.

The Snowwind had been on the battlefield all the time, and had helped sink the Frost and Isakaze, who were too badly injured to move, and it was a miracle that their losses were so low.

No matter what the Snowwind argued, their broom star reputation had risen a lot again.

The results of the naval battle also reached the army.

The army didn't care about the Yukikaze, it only focused on the Empire, the navy was completely gone, and the empire itself could no longer stop the landing of the Americans.

What awaits the Empire will be an even more brutal war.

It's not without good news.

On the twelfth, the President of the United States died of a sudden illness, and the Vice President took over urgently.

Whether it is Japan or Germany, it seems to have grasped a life-saving straw and thought that things would take a turn for the better, but unfortunately, the reality gave them a slap in the face.

The German capital, Berlin, was soon surrounded by Allied forces, and Germany's final hour was approaching.

Although Japan still occupies a lot of territory, including China, Burma, Thailand and other places, the mainland continues to be bombed, and the war potential has been lost.

Failure is purely a matter of time.

Chongqing, with the imminent demise of Germany, has a lot more smiles on the faces of the top brassiers.

Everyone understands that if Germany fails, Japan will follow.

Japan will absolutely not be able to stop the attack of Russia, the United States, and China.

Bao Shengqun still goes to work every day, taking time out to teach the children, and the Red Party does not assign new tasks except for letting him read.

However, Bao Shengqun paid attention to the intelligence department intentionally or unintentionally.

He has been the director of the intelligence department for several years, and he knows the intelligence department very well, after Xu Lin took office, there were not many people who were removed because of his relationship, and now the three section chiefs are still one of his people.

Xu Lin is to give Bao Shengqun face, otherwise the three section chiefs will definitely be replaced.

"Director, Section Chief Huang is here."

There was a knock on the office door, and Xiao Wu, Bao Shengqun's only subordinate, came in to report.

"Let him in."

Bao Shengqun nodded lightly, Huang Shunwen was the section chief he promoted in the Intelligence Department, and he has always been his confidant.

This time, he took the initiative to give way, and Xu Lin said in private that only one of the three section chiefs could be left, and asked him which one he wanted to keep.

Xu Lin is in the upper position, it is impossible not to promote his own people, he is willing to leave a section for Bao Shengqun, which can be regarded as giving enough face.

Bao Shengqun was very reluctant at that time, and did not agree, but Xu Lin decided that he was righteous, and finally left Huang Shunwen, who was the most capable, behind.

And Xu Lin told Huang Shunwen that it was because of Bao Shengqun that he kept the position of section chief.

As soon as the old ghost Xu fell, the people of Zhongtong were panicked.

Bao Shengqun is also a relative of Old Ghost Xu, a hardcore confidant, and everyone speculates that Bao Shengqun is also unlucky.

As Bao Shengqun's subordinate, he was naturally frightened.

As a result, they didn't expect that Bao Shengqun had no love for power, and took the initiative to give way, and it was Xu Lin who took over the intelligence department, and he had an unusual relationship with Bao Shengqun.

The two are good friends, and the fall of Old Ghost Xu did not affect their friendship.

On the contrary, the intelligence department became the department with the least influence after the fall of Xu Laogui.

Even if Xu Lin promoted his own people, the old people before him were properly placed, unlike other departments, who were investigated and punished, and used their heads to exchange for other people.

"Yes, Director."

Xiao Wu immediately ran out, he was a newcomer to Zhongtong, and he was assigned to Bao Shengqun's side as soon as he arrived in Zhongtong.

He knew Bao Shengqun's situation, and when he first came to report, how to call the leader made him sad.

Bao Shengqun's position is a consultant, and it is not appropriate to call him a consultant directly, and everyone knows that this is an identity without authority.

But it's not enough to call the name directly.

Later, Xiao Wu consulted others, and others told him that it was right to continue to call his previous position, and Bao Shengqun's rank was not lowered anyway.

The level has not been lowered, that is the level of the director.

"How are you, Director?"

Huang Shunwen followed Xiao Wu in, still carrying something in his hand, and said with a smile.

After Bao Shengqun gave way, he came to see him three times, not because he didn't want to come often, but because Bao Shengqun didn't let him come.

Huang Shunwen used to be in the Operations Department, and was later transferred to the Intelligence Department by Bao Shengqun, who is considered to be Bao Shengqun's descendant, and he has long understood the character of his own leader.

Once he abdicates, he will never cause trouble for his old subordinates, and this alone is unmatched.

Thanks to the alliance leader Pi Phi Rabbit for another 500 starting coins for rewarding, thanks to the 7 soft white sand for the 300 starting coins reward, and thanks to the book friend 20230602113631765 for the 100 starting coins reward.

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