Great time travel

Chapter 13. The country is about to perish, and there are ship girls everywhere

In the early morning of October [-], [-], Truk Atoll, behind the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet Command, Naval Shrine

The tall crimson torii is hidden among the dense tropical plants, and the long stone steps can't be seen at a glance.

The pond in the backyard of the shrine is full of lotus flowers, rippling in layers in the morning breeze, and shrouded in a light mist like smoke and gauze.

In the foothills all around, the air was moist and fresh, with leafy palms, hibiscus, bougainvillea, and orchids, ferns, mosses, and orchids on the damp trunks, every leaf, every root There are crystal clear dewdrops hanging on the branches.The monotonous ticking of wet fern leaves broke the dull silence.Young shoots of white or magenta flowers bloom everywhere among the greenery, and colorful butterflies dance among the flowers.

Looking down from the foot of the mountain, near the foot of the mountain, at the end of the forest, there are terraced fields planted with rice, vegetables and fruits.There is a rushing clear stream flowing between the fields, and various flowers in red, pink, lavender and white can be seen everywhere on the banks of the stream.It was dizzying: the poinsettia grew as tall as the house with crimson flowers, while the datura's white flowers drooped shyly like lilies.

Looking further into the distance, the vast blue sea and delicate white sandy beaches suddenly come into view. The openness and magnificence of the scenery is really refreshing - the lush tropical forest, the moist air mixed with the sweet fragrance of flowers and fruits, Intoxicating thin morning mist, fresh and refreshing mild sea breeze, green sugarcane groves, classical Japanese-style wooden houses, delicate white sandy beaches and coral reefs splashed with snow-white waves... Looking at all these things in front of you is simply overwhelming. People forget all the filth and ugliness in this world, and forget that this world is still shrouded in the haze of war and death.

Wang Qiu, who had just arrived, was wearing a Japanese navy white dress to conceal his identity. He was standing on a terrace protruding from the rocks in the backyard of the shrine, looking at the Truk Atoll lagoon with binoculars. The headquarters of the fleet and the most important anchorage.

Since a considerable number of capital ships have not yet returned from the Indian Ocean, and other ships are performing patrols, escorts, and combat engagement missions in the front-line waters to the east, there are not many ships currently moored in Truk.The most striking of these is naturally the majestic bridge of the battleship Yamato, the flagship of the United Fleet. Under the protection of a group of destroyers, cruisers, transport ships and submarines, it stands out like a flock of chickens.

If it was another time in history, the ships in front of us would have either been buried in the bottom of the sea long ago, or had become immobile iron coffins lying beside the pier due to fuel shortage.However, in this world, there is Sophie, the warship girl who has cheats and is extremely hostile to the United States, and has been desperately holding the Yankee to death, so these warships still look majestic... Unfortunately, the future does not seem to be very good. .

In the thin morning mist, accompanied by a long siren sound, a large passenger and cargo ship slowly sailed into the Truk anchorage from the open sea, and stopped temporarily in the deep water area instead of docking .Next, the people on the shore sent several small traffic boats to come over and pick up some passengers and mail from the big ship.Then, the merchant ship once again pulled anchor from Truk Atoll and sailed to the real destination further afield.

When the merchant ship raised fire from Truk Atoll and sounded its whistle again, Wang Qiu saw through the high-powered binoculars in his hand that there were people wearing sailor uniforms on the side of the merchant ship and on the traffic boat. Japanese girls are saluting each other...

That's right, groups of Japanese girls in sailor suits are manipulating these small boats and armed merchant ships to cut through the waves!
Although it looks like a scene in a comic book of otaku culture in later generations, the real background where it appears has nothing charming or romantic at all.

To put it simply, too many men have died, so women can only be allowed to board the ship and continue to fight for the war... The truth is so cruel.

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——Although there is a frenzied krypton gold warrior, Sophie, the ship's mother, who desperately opens the plug-in to kill the Quartet without caring about the balance of the game. The war machine operated successfully until the autumn of [-].

But the problem is that even including colonies like Taiwan and North Korea, Japan during World War II was just a country with a total of only [-] million people.

Since the Manchuria Incident, the Japanese Empire has been militarizing for so many years, from China and Southeast Asia all the way to India, and then southward across the equator to Australia. Such a vast occupied area requires a large number of troops to garrison. Countless Yamato men are bleeding every day The natural resources of each occupied area also need labor to develop, and then in order to transport these resources from the place of origin to the place where they are needed, they have to rely on a large number of ships and sailors.As a result, the war has reached the present, and the Japanese Empire has not only stretched its military strength, but even its local human resources are almost exhausted.

Although the Japanese government obtained a large number of merchant ships from the Soviet Union in order to make up for the shortage of transportation capacity, and then used a bunch of beach shipyards hastily built on the islands of the South Seas, they insisted on their own methods and built a lot of messy civilian ships on the spot.However, it takes months to build a boat and 18 years to raise a baby to adulthood.After the army and the pioneering group conscripted so many strong men, there is no longer enough spare manpower to run merchant ships: this matter cannot be handed over to North Korean or Chinese laborers, otherwise, if these "non-nationals" start What should we do if we surrender to the enemy collectively with a boat and cargo?
As a result, the wartime base camp, which was forced by the labor shortage, had to bite the bullet and open its mind, further breaking through the traditional concepts of Japanese society, mobilizing some Japanese women to become sailors to join the shipping business, and established the so-called "Sea Aid Team". ", that is, the legendary "Girl Fleet"...

——The regular warships of the United Fleet, of course, will not be handed over to these women who at most only have experience in fishing at sea, even if they are torpedo boats or old ships from the Russo-Japanese War, not to mention that many of them are even in high school. Middle school girls.However, those armed merchant ships with anti-aircraft guns or machine guns can still be handed over to women for practice.At first, the relevant parties just broke the rules, let some women serve as sailors on ships, and turned merchant marine sailors into a mixed formation of men and women, just like letting women work in factories and mines in China.Later, as the casualties of the war became more and more severe, more male sailors were recruited into the navy, and transport ships made up of all-female sailors began to appear gradually, and even a few female captains appeared...

In the "South Island New Japan" centered on Truk, due to the shortage of manpower, the girls' school has been turned into a sailing school.

If the above-mentioned apostasy and deviant practices were in peacetime, I am afraid that they would have caused an uproar, but in today's wartime, they seem to be quite normal - all traditions, etiquette and laws have to be sidelined, and war is everything!All for war!Anyone who dares to speak out is "non-citizen"!
Although they are currently mainly running transportation on relatively safe rear routes, or driving traffic boats in the port area, occasionally using self-defense firepower to hit a few American planes, and being stunned by American submarines, falling into the sea and swimming with sharks Yes, but with the increasingly cruel war and the gradual depletion of young men, maybe one day, the wartime base camp will be forced to pinch their noses and let them go to the front line to face the hail of bullets.

This is the total war. The ultimate warcraft created by industrial civilization. Its flesh and blood are oil, steel, copper and aluminum, its tendons are railway ships, its internal organs are factory farmland, and its minions are guns and explosives. It has brought endless blood and mourning to mankind. , pain and despair.The form of war seems to have become more civilized, but it is actually more cruel. Both men and women are stuffed into the flesh and blood mill, and become the nourishment of the ogre monster of the overall war...

However, this is also a necessary process for the evolution and development of human civilization. Without the test of blood and fire, one will not know the value of peace.

——You must know that before the two world wars, intellectuals in various European countries generally regarded war as a "violent sport belonging to the brave", and believed that fighting a few battles properly and shedding a little blood would be harmful to the country and the country. The healthy development of society is very beneficial!

Wang Qiuru was thinking wildly, turned around, put down the binoculars and returned to the room, and found a huge map table on the tatami of the shrine, several destroyer girls with blond hair, black hair and chestnut hair, using superpowers to move various objects on the map. Various weapon models deduce the latest war situation in East Asia.

——Just two days ago, the Japanese Empire, which seemed to be under siege from all over the world, unexpectedly achieved another brilliant victory: after the failure of the Wuhan peace talks, facing the overwhelming offensive of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, there was no way to get by Foreign aid from the United States and Britain came in, and a coup d'état occurred in the desperate and troubled Chongqing government. Chairman Jiang was forced to step down again.

Although the Tokyo Wartime Headquarters has not yet decided whether to accept the troublesome attachment of the Chongqing regime, this does not prevent the Ministry of the Army from boasting about this incident and publicizing it to the people as "another great event in the Imperial Army's Great East Asian Jihad." victory".

Therefore, no one could have predicted that the destruction and fall of the Japanese Empire would be so sudden and unexpected.

——In fact, on this seemingly ordinary morning, the destruction of the Japanese Empire has entered the countdown to the countdown...

This day, October [-], [-] AD, is the day when the sun of this world goes out and the end of the old Japanese Empire!
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A few hundred meters away from the "Navy Shrine", the United Fleet Command, a British-style red brick building imitating the Tokyo Naval Ministry and Naval Command Building, houses a larger map table.There were people coming and going all around, phones ringing and telegrams beeping incessantly.From time to time, several naval staff officers in white uniforms held long wooden poles and pushed small models representing warships or aircraft around on the map table.

——The imperial capital, Tokyo, which is thousands of kilometers away from them, is suffering an unprecedented large-scale strategic bombing. The U.S. military dispatched at least two hundred B-29 super sky fortress strategic bombers, and even violated the war agreement by using gas bombs... ...Although the people in Truk couldn't witness it with their own eyes, based on their years of fighting experience, they can know what kind of tragedy Tokyo will be in right now just by imagining it.

In fact, this bombing was not completely without warning: As early as a week ago, the intelligence agency of the Japanese Navy had discovered through radio monitoring that the US Strategic Air Force was gathering and moving to Hawaii and Midway Island on a large scale, and it was likely to bomb the front. Islands or native cities.If the Navy could send a fast formation in time to organize a night bombardment of Midway Airfield, it might be possible to delay the bombing.

But the problem is that the main force of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet on Truk's side is currently powerless and helpless against Midway Island.

Because, in the southern waters of New Zealand and Samoa, the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet has also recently increased its strength on a large scale. At present, it has assembled about fifty armored aircraft carriers, fleet aircraft carriers, and escort aircraft carriers. The shore-based aviation is completely in a situation where a strategic offensive will be launched again.As for the Japanese Combined Fleet, in addition to the three Yamato-class battleships other than the general flagship Yamato, there are also a large number of auxiliary ships and two aircraft carriers. All of them were sent to the Indian Ocean to sweep the routes in the Arabian Sea and bombard the port of Mumbai. , to provide support for the Indian friendly forces, and is still on the way back to Truk, and has just passed the Strait of Malacca... So, Truk is actually playing an empty city plan.

Today, in the theaters of the Fiji Islands and Samoa Islands where the two sides are confronting each other, the skirmish between various primary school students (destroyers) and bear children (torpedo boats) has intensified.The intensity of the US air strikes encountered by the troops defending the island is also increasing day by day.

For this reason, the United Fleet had to quickly concentrate all combat power to deal with the upcoming third Nouméa sea battle no matter how you looked at it.Even so, facing the obvious disparity in strength and strength, the naval staff officers of the United Fleet Command still felt guilty for a while.

(To explain, Halsey is indeed taking the best American battleship to Alaska to prepare for the northern offensive. But the US Navy on the southern line will also attack Noumea for the third time. Because the total tonnage of the two fleets is about Four to one, the U.S. military can beat people with two fists.)
The United Fleet Command is almost unable to take care of its own side right now, and Tokyo can only look forward to the hard work of the local air defense forces.

The only thing that worries the naval staff officers is that the Commander-in-Chief of the United Fleet, Marshal Yamamoto 56, is not currently in Truk, but is also reporting and doing business in Tokyo. Your Excellency the Marshal was supposed to be leaving for Truk two days ago. Unexpectedly, when he was about to leave, the Marshal was suddenly summoned by the Emperor, and then he was called to attend today's imperial meeting to discuss the surrender of the Chongqing regime in China. Due to the influence of the overall battle situation, His Excellency Marshal Yamamoto 56 has been delayed in Tokyo until now.

Fortunately, as far as common sense is concerned, the underground air defense fortification built in the Imperial Palace must be the strongest in Tokyo, and there must be enough reserves of gas masks and the like.Even if His Excellency Marshal Yamamoto 56 encountered a U.S. air raid in the palace, he should still be very safe...

Just as the naval staff officers were pointing around the map table and discussing a lot, there was a sudden sharp whistling sound from the back hill of the headquarters. Someone poked his head out of the window and saw a small The rocket soared from the shrine and shot straight into the sky with a loud bang.

"...Could this be...a signal flare? It doesn't seem like today is the day to celebrate the festival? What are you doing at the shrine in the back mountain?"

"...Could it be a rehearsal for the victory ceremony of the latest Indian Ocean Raiders? But the rehearsal also requires fireworks... It feels a bit wasteful!"

"...Don't worry about such small things! Has the radio monitoring department detected the traces of the main force of the enemy's Pacific Fleet?"

"...Unfortunately, not yet... The main force of the enemy army seems to have been in a state of radio silence since they left Pearl Harbor... Uh? Why did the signal in Tokyo suddenly cut off? Could it be that the power plant or substation was bombed? ? But the military command should have a backup power supply, right?..."

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"……call out--"

Accompanied by bright flames and roaring roars, a small rocket was launched from the courtyard of the Navy Shrine behind the Japanese Combined Fleet Headquarters in Truk Atoll. up until finally disappearing behind the clouds.

This is the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] that Wang Qiu got from Doraemon before, and it was launched into orbit from the courtyard of the shrine.In order to cover up the movement of the mini rocket launch, he also set off a large firework at the same time - although Wang Qiu and his companions have not yet figured out how to score points in this World War II dungeon of "Ship Girl Mutation" What clue.But there is nothing wrong with finding ways to collect and master more real-time intelligence.

——Although Sophie, the ship's mother, has great powers and seems to be omnipotent, things involving space expertise such as developing and launching reconnaissance satellites are still far beyond her ability, no matter how much she has the power of faith No way...

If you only rely on the ship's perception ability, the farthest she can go is about the same as long-range radar, and she can barely detect movement within a range of 24 to [-] kilometers around the hull, and this function can only be activated during wartime. Maintain a [-]-hour uninterrupted large-scale reconnaissance, otherwise, the power of faith will be consumed very badly, even if the Soviet uncle steel helps to spread faith everywhere, it is still not enough.

Therefore, although she has all kinds of extraordinary superpowers, Sophie, the ship's mother, can't detect any movement in this world at any time.

As a result, when the mini-satellite was successfully put into orbit and the first batch of photos were displayed on the LCD screen of the ground remote control, Wang Qiu noticed the mushroom cloud rising from the location of Tokyo in the photos... So for a while Can't help but stunned.

The ship's wife, Sophie Yamato, who was sitting next to her, suddenly turned pale, and accidentally knocked over the wine bowl, leaving a large stain on the tatami...

"...Damn it! Tokyo was bombed by an atomic bomb! Destroyer Yukikaze... Oh God! Admiral Yamamoto is still in town!"

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——On October 29, [-], the U.S. Strategic Air Force launched an all-out attack, dispatching more than two hundred B-[-] "Super Fortress" bombers to bomb Tokyo, the capital of the Japanese Empire, indiscriminately and in violation of the international law. Convention, throwing a large number of sarin gas bombs.

Although the Japanese government had already been vigilant and anticipated the U.S. military’s air strikes against poison gas, it had educated Tokyo citizens on preventing poison gas a few months ago, and distributed a batch of gas masks to the residents, but the number was far from enough. remains a serious humanitarian crisis.

The air defense operations of the ground anti-aircraft artillery and the emergency take-off of the Japanese Army Flying Team were seriously disturbed by this.More importantly, the poison gas permeating the whole city hindered the possible emergency escape of the high-ranking Japanese rulers in the Tokyo urban area, creating favorable conditions for the subsequent nuclear decapitation.

At 29:[-] a.m. Tokyo time, following the high-altitude bombing and poison gas attack, two B-[-] "Super Fortress" bombers carrying atomic bombs flew to Tokyo one after another when the firepower of the Japanese air defense force in Tokyo was greatly weakened. over the sky, and successfully dropped bombs and detonated.

Among them, an atomic bomb was thrown incorrectly and hit Odaiba, Tokyo, causing only a large number of casualties among ordinary soldiers and civilians.Another nuclear bomb successfully hit Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, where key departments such as the Imperial Palace, the Navy Ministry, and the Army Staff Headquarters gather, causing a devastating blow to the ruling center of the Japanese Empire.

According to the investigation conducted immediately after the incident, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonei, all cabinet ministers, and all members of the royal family, including Marshal Yamamoto, the commander of the United Fleet who participated in the imperial meeting in the imperial palace at that time, all participated in this incident. There are no dead bodies in the nuclear explosion.

Key institutions such as the Ministry of the Army, the Army Staff Headquarters, the Ministry of the Navy, the Naval Command, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Finance were also destroyed by nuclear explosions. Most of the members of the wartime headquarters died on the spot, or were rescued from the ruins soon after. Died of radiation sickness and aftereffects of sarin gas...

The military police commander, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, happened to be far away from the epicenter when the atomic bomb fell, so he was only slightly injured at first.However, after learning of the emperor's death and the destruction of all Japanese military and political institutions, the former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo had a mental breakdown for a while and committed suicide with a gun.

So far, the central government of the Japanese Empire has completely collapsed, and millions of imperial navy and army troops have fallen into a chaotic state without a leader.

As for the two B-29 strategic long-range bombers that dropped nuclear bombs on Tokyo and carried out this decapitation tactic, one of them lost control due to the impact of the nuclear explosion and crashed in the suburbs of Tokyo. All the crew members died on the spot.Another B-29 strategic long-range bomber escaped successfully. When the fuel was exhausted, it successfully made an emergency landing on the sea [-] kilometers east of the Japanese archipelago according to the scheduled plan. After drifting for a day, it was rescued by the American submarine "Great Mackerel". .

After returning home smoothly, all crew members were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and were invited by President Truman to the White House for a dinner.

On the evening of October [-], after confirming the news of the successful nuclear explosion, President Truman triumphantly delivered a speech on Capitol Hill, proclaiming the great victory of the nuclear bombing of Tokyo and urging Japan to surrender unconditionally as soon as possible.At night, New York citizens spontaneously organized a parade to celebrate the victory.

On October [-], Admiral Halsey led the main force of the US Pacific Fleet, suddenly appeared in the waters of the Thousand Islands, and attacked Hokkaido Island and Aomori and Sendai in the northeast of Honshu Island. Spontaneous resistance by the team, with minor losses.

On the same day, the railways of the entire Japanese archipelago were suspended, and some telegraph and telephone lines were suspended, and the transportation and shipping fell into a state of complete paralysis and chaos.

In the next few days, the Halsey fleet continued to venture close to the coast of Japan, and even tentatively bombarded Muroran Port in Hokkaido on October [-]. The Japanese naval fleet stationed in the northeast of the mainland lost its unified command and rushed to the west of Japan. The Wu Gang and Sasebo two town guards fled.

On October [-]th, another military coup broke out by the Chongqing Nationalist Government. He Yingqin, the leader of the pro-Japanese faction who had just come to power, was placed under house arrest. Chairman Chiang, who had been out of power for only seven days, was successfully reinstated. , Carry out the great cause of the war of resistance against bandits to the end.

The Yunnan Army and the Guangxi Army also issued a telegram, congratulating Chairman Jiang for bringing order out of chaos, and agreeing to hold peace talks again to avoid the collapse of the Nationalist Government.

During the period when He Yingqin was in power, Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, the chief of staff of the Allied forces in the Chinese theater who was briefly arrested and imprisoned, was released from the secret prison of Bai Mansion before he could figure out what happened on this day , and then was invited by Chairman Jiang into the Huangshan Villa to enjoy the state banquet.

At noon on the same day, Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, was easily captured by a small Red Army guerrilla group due to internal chaos and disintegration.

On October [-], inspired by the successful nuclear bombing of Tokyo, the [-]st Division of the US Marine Corps launched a large-scale offensive in the Southwest Pacific, landed on Viti Levu, where the capital of the Fiji Islands is located, and fought fiercely with the Japanese guarding the island.On the same day, U.S. naval aviation bombed Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, and severely damaged the nickel mines mined on the island and the narrow-gauge railway system used to transport the ore.

On October [-]th, the Halsey Fleet organized naval aviation to launch "paper bombing" on major cities in Japan, throwing a large number of urgently printed leaflets, announcing to the Japanese that the emperor was dead and the old regime had collapsed, threatening them to surrender unconditionally as soon as possible Otherwise, more atomic bombs will be dropped on the Japanese archipelago.

On October [-], an American squadron ventured into the Sea of ​​Japan from the Soya Strait, destroying and capturing three Japanese merchant ships.On October [-], the fleet shelled Akita Port and destroyed an old Japanese coastal defense gunboat, but was attacked by air immediately and a destroyer sank.

On October [-], amidst the chaos throughout the Japanese Empire, the "Interim Government of Japan" was established in Kyoto, and veteran politician Fumma Konoe was unanimously elected prime minister of the interim government.Due to the rush of time and the different opinions of the participating forces, the provisional government in Kyoto has not even decided whether to follow the monarchy or change to a republic, and if it follows the monarchy, who should be the emperor, but it has not yet been finalized.

The only thing that is clear is that when the "Interim Government of Japan" was established, it announced an unconditional surrender to the U.S. military on behalf of Japan. Wait for the US military to take over.

After the surrender telegram was issued, only a handful of counties announced their recognition of the interim government in Kyoto, and most prefectures remained on the sidelines.

On October [-], Umezu Yoshijiro, Commander of the Kwantung Army, Neiji Okamura, Commander of the North China Front Army, and Koiso Kuniaki, Governor of North Korea jointly issued a telegram, announcing that they would not recognize the "pseudo-government" in Kyoto, denouncing it as a traitor, and calling on Japanese soldiers and civilians to "work hard" Rise, Tianzhu Kingdom♂thief".

But what is quite subtle is that the Governor of Taiwan, Toshiyoshi Ando, ​​recognized the "Interim Government of Japan" in Kyoto.The headquarters of the China Expeditionary Army in Nanjing, as well as Chen Gongbo, who succeeded Wang Jingwei in charge of the Nanjing National Government after Wang Jingwei's death, expressed intriguing silence on this.

On October [-]th, a group of young military officers sent a group of young officers to set up a "thief hunting army" in the industrial city of Nagoya, and elected retired lieutenant general Kanji Ishihara, the initiator of the Manchuria Incident and known as "Japan's No. [-] strategist," as commander. Prepare to "conquer the capital westward and wipe out the traitors".

On October [-], after receiving the news, in order to further disintegrate the will of Japanese diehards to resist, the U.S. Naval Air Force of the Halsey Fleet bombed Nagoya, and encountered stubborn resistance from the local Japanese Navy, Army Air Force and anti-aircraft artillery units.

On October [-]th, Admiral Nagumo Chuichi of the Japanese Navy announced at the Kuregang tutelary office that he recognized the "Interim Government of Japan" in Kyoto, and demanded that the local naval fleet stop resisting, seal up its ships and weapons, and prepare to surrender to the U.S. military.As a result, there was a big riot at the Etajima Naval Academy, and then a mutiny broke out in the army near Wugang. After some melee, a considerable number of ships lifted anchor and went to sea, preparing to join the main force of the Nanyang United Fleet.

On October [-], the Soviet Red Army border guards stationed on North Yeta Island (Sakhalin Island) crossed the border and went south, and took over South Yeta Island within a few days. During this period, the Japanese military and political authorities on South Yeta Island basically did not resist , only a few sporadic firefights.

On the same day, at Halsey's strong request, a small American force landed at Sendai Port without any resistance.

And when the clouds and waves in the mainland of the Japanese archipelago were strange, the combined fleet headquarters in the Truk Atoll in the South Seas also fell into unprecedented chaos and confusion because of the sudden death of Marshal Yamamoto 56 and the drastic changes in the political situation in the mainland of the empire. among...