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Chapter 15, Absurdity in October

On October 28, [-], at Xiaguan Wharf in Nanjing, China, a river ship with colorful flags slowly approached the pier.

There was a crowd of people on the shore, and as the river ship docked, drums and music were played, and gun salutes were fired.

At this time, in the city of Nanjing, lanterns and festoons are everywhere, and flags are fluttering, creating a festive scene.The blue sky and white sun flags fluttered in the wind, and various plaques and banners reading "Welcome the National Government and Return the Capital to Nanjing" and "All walks of life in the capital celebrate the triumph of the National Government" were strewn all over the streets.In the temporary loudspeakers set up on the street, Chairman Jiang’s speech with a strong Zhejiang accent was played repeatedly: “…The Nationalist Government moved to Chongqing in November 26 for the protracted war of resistance. In the past eight years, thanks to my loyal and brave soldiers, One after the other, they fought tenaciously. Allied with their husbands, they advanced by sea and air, and fought side by side. The soldiers made the enemy surrender, and made great achievements. Hereby, the land is rejuvenated, and the world is complete. Although the responsibility of the War of Resistance is over, the responsibility of building a country has increased. The government hereby Triumph in Nanjing to comfort the expectations. But after the Great War, the people’s livelihood is difficult and the national power is declining. It is urgent to rest with the people, restore vitality, work hard to build, and maintain the results of the war. I hope that the army and the people of the whole country will be of one heart and one mind. Bearing the original intention of the War of Resistance and founding the nation, and fulfilling the mission of the Three People's Principles... This government will continue to do its best to build the country and eliminate the Red Party, so as to save the compatriots from the scourge of Bolshevik terror and maintain the integrity and unity of the country... "

Standing by the side of the riverboat, looking at the bustling scene in front of him, Lieutenant General Stilwell, the chief of staff of the Allied China Theater, had an extremely strange expression, and he always had a feeling of unreal absurdity in his heart. .

Just last month today, this theoretically legal capital of the Republic of China was still occupied by the Japanese invaders, and the people who ruled here were puppets under the bayonet of the Japanese army.However, Chairman Jiang’s Chongqing Nationalist Government, because of the new round of civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party that he hastily provoked, is being beaten to pieces by the Red Army. If you can't send it in, you're just like a bereaved dog.

For this reason, Generalissimo Chiang, who had nowhere to go, even had a big brain hole in a desperate situation, and performed a double play with He Yingqin. He directed and performed a "bloodless coup" in Chongqing. On the stage, I went to seek refuge in Japan, and at least asked for some Japanese aid to survive.

Unexpectedly, the Chongqing Nationalist Government’s statement on Japan’s vote was released in less than 48 hours, and Tokyo was bombarded by nuclear bombs: Japan is doomed!

This thunderbolt from the blue really hit the Chongqing Nationalist Government hard.So it was replaced by He Yingqin who went to the field and pretended to be under house arrest, and Chairman Jiang re-emerged to raise the banner of anti-Japanese.But the survival crisis of the Nationalist Government in Chongqing is still unresolved—there is no hope of Japanese aid, and it seems that American aid will not come in for a while: Who told Chairman Jiang to throw away all the major seaports in the country? ?However, the Red Army in the north is still advancing step by step, and has even rushed into the Sichuan Basin to take down Chengdu. The troops in Chongqing are also in a state of disenchantment, and it is really unknown whether they will be able to defend until next month.

Fortunately, just when Generalissimo Jiang was jumping in a hurry, Zhou Fohai, the Shanghai mayor of the Nanjing puppet regime, suddenly sent him a big gift package from heaven: the whole Nanjing Nationalist Government welcomes him to take office in Nanjing!The only request is to ask for an amnesty, regardless of their previous crimes of defecting to the Japanese!
It turns out that not only the Chongqing Nationalist Government, but also the Nanjing Nationalist Government is currently facing an existential crisis: as we all know, the regime team that Wang Jingwei pulled up before his death was basically a puppet of the Japanese.Now that even the Japanese Empire has been bombarded by two atomic bombs, the officials of the Wang puppet regime naturally have to find ways to find a new father, so as not to be buried with His Majesty the Emperor... Originally, this kind of conspiracy to defect was impossible to hide The Japanese "China Expeditionary Force" stationed in Nanjing.However, the Japanese troops currently stationed near Nanjing are mainly capitulators, and they are even more urgent about the "truce and peace" than the Wang puppet regime.So the Japanese and the puppet first conspired, and then got on the line of the Americans, and finally notified the good news to Generalissimo Jiang, and asked Jiang Gong to follow the past of him and Wang Jingwei's "Ninghan Confluence" and come back quickly. "Convergence of Ningxia and Chongqing", peacefully accepting the legacy of Wang Jingwei and the Japanese invaders, and then continuing to fight against the "red disaster" that ravaged China with the support of the American godfather...

As a result, after Generalissimo Jiang wrote a warrant and swore an oath, and the US ambassador to China gave a guarantee that he would never pursue any past responsibilities, Chen Gongbo, the chairman of the pseudo-Nanjing Nationalist Government, immediately resigned and resigned as a bachelor. When visiting the United States, unless Chairman Jiang agrees, he will never return to China without authorization.Then, a group of high-ranking members of the pseudo-Nanjing National Government also packed up the gold and silver that they had collected over the years with great winking, and each announced their resignation and seclusion. They have since quit politics and left Nanjing to make room for Place Jiang Gong's direct descendants.

Next, the hundreds of thousands of puppet troops entrenched in the Jiangnan area, except for a few high-level generals who were forcibly retired in order to make room for Jiang Gong’s lineage, the rest directly became the National Revolutionary Army, and some were willing to continue fighting The Japanese army officers and soldiers became Chairman Jiang's "foreign mercenaries", and the rest of the Japanese army officers and soldiers who were tired of the war received a moderate amount of severance pay, took off their uniforms and became "friendly foreign nationals" ... What makes Stilwell even more unacceptable is that all these jaw-dropping "skin-changing magic tricks" have all been understood and agreed by the White House in advance!

Because, after overthrowing the old rival of the Japanese Empire and winning the final victory on the Pacific battlefield, the priority of the United States of America has changed from winning the so-called "worldwide anti-fascist war" to resisting the madness of the Bolshevik forces as soon as possible expansion.

In the face of the torrent of iron armor of the Soviet Red Army, the free world has basically lost Europe, but now it must never lose Asia.

In order to counter the rapid expansion of the red forces in China and prevent the post-war world hegemony from falling aside, the White House has reached the point of using any means.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Stilwell could only sigh helplessly. No matter how absurd his inner feelings were, he had neither the courage nor the ability to resist domestic orders. Working hard, it seems that everything has become a joke.

In any case, with the success of the "Ningjing-Chongqing Confluence" and the surrender of the Japanese governor in Taiwan, the sea channel for the United States to send American aid to China has been opened.With the military supplies aided by the United States and the legacy of the Japanese invaders, Chairman Chiang's government should be able to survive, right?

Seeing Generalissimo Jiang striding up to the pier, as if triumphant, Lieutenant General Stilwell gave a wry smile, and said so comfortingly.

At the same time, those Nanjing citizens on the shore who were forcibly driven to "welcome the chairman" watched Chairman Jiang, who was wearing the uniform of a super general and wearing five medals on his chest, walk up to the pier refreshed and drove in a car. The convertible sedan beckoned around, and the absurd feeling in his heart was even more indescribable.

——On the first day of October, because of the "extraordinary good news" that the Chongqing Nationalist Government surrendered to Japan, newspapers in the entire Japanese-occupied area were celebrating with "The Surrender of the Chinese Dragon" as the headline, and daydreaming about the "Great East Asia" The jihad is about to move from one victory to the next more glorious victory"; unexpectedly, on the second day, some vague gossip appeared on the market, and the expressions of many Japanese people changed from arrogant to unbelievable, and then changed again. It became like a mourning concubine.Then on the third day, a bold newspaper finally announced the death of the Japanese Empire with "The Rising Sun Falls" as the headline, announcing the news of the nuclear explosion in Tokyo and the death of the emperor.And in the radio stations run by Japanese expats, there is even more mourning and lamentation like a bereaved dog...

In just 48 hours, the Japanese devils and their followers fell from the peak of unexpected victory to the bottom of the country's subjugation. Such rapid and intense ups and downs are probably unprecedented in human history. Once - many Japanese devils with bad hearts collapsed and died suddenly on the spot, and some Japanese couldn't stand such a stimulus, so they chose to commit seppuku.When all these guys with poor psychological endurance are dead, the rest of the people slowly wake up and start thinking about the next way out... According to the thinking of the Chinese people, since Japan has been subjugated, the Chinese ground All the Japanese devils in the world should go away, and those traitors who worked for tigers should also be judged, right?

As a result, Generalissimo Jiang and the Central Committee returned soon, but none of the traitors were tried, but all of them became "recovery heroes."Then the puppet army became the government army, the Japanese army became the friendly army, and the Japanese ronin became "friendly overseas Chinese"... After such a mess of demons, it seems that everyone has become a good person!Nobody did anything wrong!But if this is the case, what was the previous eight-year war of resistance fighting for?Did the 30 compatriots in Nanjing die in vain?Anyway, the people in Jiangnan basically feel that their thinking is a bit broken, and they can't figure out the reason behind it at all.

However, all the "receivers" who came to Nanjing with Chairman Jiang have no interest in paying attention to whether the common people can make sense of what they think or not. With red eyes, they are all staring at the gold, silver, Women, cars and tickets: After staying in a poor place like Sichuan for so long, the little family property I finally saved is probably confiscated by the Red Army now. If I don’t hurry up to make a fortune now, how can I be worthy of myself?
The only fly in the ointment is that Generalissimo Jiang and the receptionists were still drinking and mingling at the celebration banquet, and the "good news" of "accompanying the peaceful liberation of the capital Chongqing" came out from the Yan'an wireless broadcasting station. "Warmly celebrate" Chairman Jiang's "returning the capital to Nanjing"...

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Japan, Tokyo Bay, the first-class coastal defense center defending the imperial capital of Tokyo, Yokosuka Imperial Navy Guard House

92 years ago, in [-] A.D., Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry of the U.S. Navy arrived here with four warships flying the Stars and Stripes, triggering the "Black Ship Coming" event. It also dragged this autistic nation into the international arena of the jungle.

The gunfire of Perry's black ship opened the door of Japan, and also caused confusion and thinking in Japan.In the bewildered eyes of the Japanese, the outside world shows its brilliance and its ugliness: no one sympathizes with the weak, and the most basic law of nature is the superior and the inferior.If Japan cannot become strong, Westerners will inevitably shit on the Japanese.The British fleet blew up Kagoshima into a sea of ​​flames, and the forts of Changshu were razed by Western powers... The lessons of blood and fire made Japan fully understand the cruel nature of this world-then the bloody storms of the end of the Bakumatsu and the Meiji Restoration. Comprehensive reform: from building raw silk factories on a large scale to exporting "Nanyang sister" to Southeast Asia.The Japanese gritted their teeth and learned from Europe and the United States, accumulating foreign exchange bit by bit, exchanging machines, technologies, and guns.Dreaming of an empire in a few tatami cardboard rooms, shouting the slogan of making the country rich and the army strong.

After completing the initial preparations, the chariots of the Japanese Empire began to rumble, following in the footsteps of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, crossing the Tsushima Strait and rushing towards North Korea; then crossing the Yalu River to invade China.In the end, he turned around and rushed to the vast Pacific Ocean, taking the European and American white teachers as a knife, wanting to show his skills in a wider world, and looking for his own dream of Yamato in the ruins of the old Western colonial empires.

However, today, all fantasies are over.Japan's imperial dream came and went as quickly as the cherry blossoms bloom and wither.

——After a lapse of 92 years, another larger and more majestic American fleet brazenly broke into the sea area in the heart of the Japanese Empire, and then, under the terrified and confused eyes of Japanese civilians, proudly Once again planted the Stars and Stripes on this land.

Standing at Kurihama in Yokosuka City, where Admiral Perry's "black ship" landed, looking at the "Monument to Admiral Perry's Landing of the United States of America Navy" written by former Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito, the current commander of the US Pacific Fleet, Hal Admiral Xihai couldn't help feeling a little dazed for a moment.

This victory came too fast, too violent, and too sudden, it was almost like a dream, so that it seemed unreal to him.

——Just over a month ago, he was still drinking in the headquarters of Pearl Harbor, mourning his comrades who died in Bihai, and cursing the hateful Japanese devils.But at this moment, he stood outside the gate of the imperial capital Tokyo as a conqueror, stepping on the heart of the Imperial Japanese Navy.And the enemy general Yamamoto 56, who was cursed by his gnashing of teeth and faintly feared, had already been reduced to ashes in the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb.

To be honest, taking the risk of leading a large fleet into Tokyo Bay when the situation is not very clear is simply a gamble with the lives of the entire army, and there was even more opposition in the fleet staff beforehand.But Admiral Halsey gave full play to his "brute bull" nature and insisted on this order... The result was very flat. Facing the menacing US Pacific Fleet, the Japanese along the coast of Tokyo Bay did not make any resistance.

Just like the four "black ships" of General Perry before 92, the Halsey fleet docked at the pier of Yokosuka unscathed.

In this regard, the US officers and soldiers of the entire fleet were jubilant, but Admiral Halsey only felt a bit dull.

how to say?It feels like a revenge action that has been prepared for a long time, but in the end it was punched in the air, so there is nothing to do...

It's really absurd, I haven't played enough yet!The enemy is gone? !Where can I vent this depression in my chest?
However, this depressed mood mixed with loss and hesitation did not linger in Admiral Halsey's chest for too long.

Because, Admiral Halsey soon discovered that the remaining Japanese devils had not been completely defeated, and his war was not over yet.

——A few days before the U.S. Pacific Fleet broke into Tokyo Bay, the members of the Japanese Navy at the Yokosuka tutelary fort had fled in advance, disappeared without a trace, and drove away all the submarines and cruisers that could move , destroyers, coastal defense ships, modified aircraft carriers, gunboats, torpedo boats and transport ships, flew away all the aircraft of the Naval Air Force, transported away the funds, ordnance and ammunition of the entire tutelary palace, and even distributed coal and food to the citizens, The remaining fuel oil was put into seawater, leaving nothing to the US military except empty houses.There is only one immobile battleship Mikasa left on the coast of Yokosuka: it was the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War 40 years ago, and the ship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro, who had been disarmed and retired for many years. In the form of a marine memorial, it is preserved in a seaside park in Yokosuka.

So, the next question is, where are the Japanese naval ships and aircraft that escaped from the Yokosuka tutelary fort gone now?

After patrolling the shore and confirming that there should not be any battles breaking out in this area, Commander Halsey first ordered to stop the stupid behavior of some boring sailors who wanted to chisel the battleship Mikasa, and then on his On the flagship "Enterprise" aircraft carrier, representatives of the "Interim Government of Japan" in Yokohama were received, and these "Japanese collaborators" were ordered to provide the latest trends of Japan's domestic naval fleet as soon as possible.

After waiting for another day, Admiral Halsey, who was staying at the port of the Yokosuka tutelary fort, finally received a rather vague report on the enemy's situation.

——Since the Tokyo nuclear explosion and the destruction of the empire, in the face of the massive attack of the US Halsey Fleet, and the confusion caused by the surrender announcement of the "Interim Government of Japan", the ships of the local fleet scattered all over eastern Japan were basically One after another, all the capitals raised anchor and fled westward one after another.

Most of the Japanese naval ships originally deployed in Hokkaido fled to ports in the Sea of ​​Japan on the other side of the archipelago through the Tsugaru Strait or the Soya Strait (before the Soviet army went south), and some even fled to various ports in the eastern part of the Korean Peninsula. It is estimated that they want to wait and see.

A small number of advanced ships with ocean-going capabilities are said to have gone to the Truk Anchorage in the South China Sea to join the main force of the United Fleet.

Most of the ships fled to the cradle of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Etajima Naval Academy in Hiroshima Prefecture.These captains and the captains had a series of connections before they set off. They seemed to think that they should go to their alma mater to find teachers and principals to discuss countermeasures when the cabinet, the Ministry of the Navy, and the Military Command no longer existed.As for the local naval aviation and army aviation, they flew everywhere, and many of them simply flew home.

At the same time, various Japanese armies stationed in North China, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula are continuously crossing the Tsushima Strait and gathering towards Hiroshima, Songjiang and other places in western Japan. It seems that there is a heavy army group there. , a sign of leading homeland counterattack operations.

The Etajima Naval Academy and the Kure Port Tutorial House, which has the most advanced shipyard in Japan, are also located in Hiroshima Prefecture.Today's Hiroshima County can be said to be heavily populated by the navy and army. The most combat-effective troops in the Japanese Empire and the most stubborn fighters are constantly gathering in that area.The large amount of ammunition and materials originally stored in several giant caverns over there in the wartime base camp is enough to support a long-term battle.

"...It turns out that the Japanese navy has returned to their alma mater! Etajima...the cradle of the Japanese navy..."

Looking down at the map of Japan on the table, Admiral Halsey's eyes once again burned with aggressive flames, "...just in time, the second batch of reinforcement fleets and supply fleets coming from China are currently We have already arrived off the coast of Tokyo. In this case, let the air force use the airports in Tokyo and Sendai to prepare for strategic bombing of the Japanese navy and army in the Hiroshima area! Well, all the remaining gas bombs can also be used!"

He ruthlessly nailed a dagger to the location of Jiangtian Island on the map, "...strangle these devil's cubs to death in their cradles!"