Great time travel

Chapter 23, A Spark of Fire
As I have said before, the Japanese are a very hierarchical nation, with particular emphasis on superiority and inferiority.Even if it is time to rebel and revolt, whether it is the red elements of the Japanese Communist Party who are engaged in military operations, or the Yamato samurai who are sharpening their knives and preparing for "Heavenly Punishment", after considering their status, experience and reputation, They all generally feel that they lack confidence, so they subconsciously want to elect a big man who knows how to fight as the leader.

This matter is just like the reason why the revolutionary soldiers in Wuchang wanted to elect Li Yuanhong as the governor when the [-] Revolution broke out in China and the Wuchang Uprising fired its first shot.It's not that these revolutionaries are so pure-hearted and do not seek fame and fortune for the sake of the great cause of the revolution, but because if they couldn't appoint a famous big man to be the leader at that time, then they couldn't quickly stabilize the situation and integrate human and material resources to deal with the imminent outbreak. Fierce battle.

Besides, for such professional things as arranging troops and commanding operations, those soldiers who are big-headed soldiers and low-level non-commissioned officers may not be able to do it themselves. Even if someone jumps out and wants to be the leader, everyone dare not put themselves His life was in his hands.So after much deliberation, everyone felt that it would be more appropriate to elect a veteran general who could convince the masses as the leader, otherwise, according to the current state of disunity, this battle would be impossible to fight.

At present, in the entire Hokkaido area, the Japanese generals with the highest ranks in active service, except for the commander of the Soya Fortress who abandoned his post and absconded before the Soviet army went south and is currently missing, are the commanders of the seventh division Lieutenant General Tadmichi Kuribayashi and Tsugaru Fortress Commander Lieutenant General Takashi Tanaka.

At first glance, Lieutenant General Takashi Tanaka's qualifications are older, and he once served as the chief of military affairs in the Ministry of Army, so it seems that he should have more prestige.

But the problem is that although Takashi Tanaka is a soldier, he was engaged in intelligence and administrative work, and basically has no experience in commanding combat. The only battle he fought in his life was the Battle of Zhanggufeng, where he was beaten up by the Russian old man.In addition, he is romantic and lustful by nature, and is the boyfriend of the famous female spy Yoshiko Kawashima. It is said that he has many criminal records of corruption and bribery.Obviously, such a poor record and integrity, it is really difficult to convince the officers and soldiers at the bottom.

What's more terrible is that in the early days of the Pacific War, Takashi Tanaka violated the will of Prime Minister Hideki Tojo because of his strong opposition to war with the United States, which made Hideki Tojo furious.In order to scare chickens and monkeys and scare the thorns in the army, Hideki Tojo invented the trick of "being mentally ill" without a teacher. He went to a lunatic asylum and lived with a group of lunatics for three years. It is said that during his hospitalization, Takashi Tanaka also received many inhuman "treatments". It seems that Hideki Tojo wanted to make him a real lunatic...

It was not until the downfall of Hideki Tojo that it was not until this spring that the unlucky Tanaka Takashi was released from the madhouse and sent to the Tsugaru Fortress to serve as a commander. The right to comfort: this fortress was located in the hinterland of Japan at the time, Far away from borders and battlefields, it is basically a warehouse.

It's just that Takashi Tanaka has been in the madhouse for too long after all. Although he hasn't been tossed completely insane, he is already talking a little bit.In addition, when he was the chief of military affairs, he presided over the inspection of military discipline, checked many people, and even removed the official hats of many unlucky ones, so he made a bunch of enemies, and now his deadly enemy took the opportunity to publicize Rumor, so the whole of Hokkaido soon became known to everyone, and a lunatic commander came to Tsugaru Fortress!

Before Lieutenant General Tanaka Takashi took office, the entire fortress defense team already regarded him as a lunatic. The prestige of such an officer can be imagined.

As a result, when it came time to elect a general capable of fighting as the leader, all the soldiers and civilians unanimously excluded Takashi Tanaka.And Takashi Tanaka also has self-knowledge, knowing that he is indeed not made for war, and secondly, there is no way to convince everyone that he is mentally fine.Therefore, instead of being angry or dissatisfied, he took the initiative to express his willingness to act as a lobbyist, and came to persuade Admiral Kuribayashi Chumichi to accept the support of everyone.

"...Kuribayashi-kun, you should have seen the photos of the Osaka tragedy, right? It's really shocking!"

Looking at Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi with a blank face, Takamichi Tanaka said sincerely, "...the military boots of the American and British demons have set foot on Japanese soil (Australia and New Zealand are members of the Commonwealth of Nations at this time, and the white people of the two countries are still regarded As a British), 500 million citizens have been crushed! The life and death crisis of the Yamato nation is at hand! Regardless of other places, the life and death of the soldiers and civilians in Hokkaido will all be entrusted to you! Kuribayashi-kun!"

"...I know all of this...but can we win the war?" Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi smiled wryly, "...the empire no longer exists! The public opinion in the world will probably only think that we, the Japanese, have brought it on ourselves... When the people in the military started the war, they only thought about the wine of victory, but now they force all the people to swallow the bitter juice."

"...Kuribayashi-kun, no matter whether we win or not, no matter how the responsibility for the war is calculated, we must fight! Is there any other choice?"

Takashi Tanaka also had a wry smile on his face, "...The Pacific War has been delayed to this point. How come everyone doesn't know that the United States is powerful and fearful of revenge? At the beginning, I was thrown into a madhouse by Prime Minister Tojo because I opposed the war! But what happened? Now, what's the use of talking about it? We want to end this war now and take a breather. But the enemies who have set foot on the Japanese archipelago simply refuse to agree!
Do you want to kneel at Yankee's feet like a woman, crying and begging for forgiveness?But people can still spare us now?

Don't look at the human rights, democracy and freedom that the Yankees are talking about in their propaganda, as if they look like benevolent people.But this is the same as our Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, you can only listen to it casually, and you must not take it seriously!When they massacred Indians and skinned them to make boots, did they ever think about respecting the human rights of native Indians?They believe that white people are the best in the world and should rule the earth.Other people of color, including the Japanese, are inferior people and must be eliminated.It is a gift to allow us to live as slaves.

Take the current Pacific War as an example, the white people in Europe and the United States keep accusing us of instigating war, destroying peace, and robbing them of their territory.But the question is, which of these European and American colonies in the Pacific Ocean was not snatched by them with massacres and shells?Why are they only allowed to divide the world according to longitude and latitude facing the globe, and we are not allowed to drive them back to Europe?
Four years ago, when our mobile fleet attacked Pearl Harbor, the Americans were furious, accusing us of violating their sacred land, as if it was an unforgivable crime.But who still remembers when Pearl Harbor and Hawaii became the land of the Americans, and it seems that it has only been 50 years since the Stars and Stripes were planted there?When the Americans blatantly captured the Queen of Hawaii and invaded the Hawaiian Islands, the young Marshal Togo Heihachiro brought a warship to rescue Hawaii, trying to punish the strong and help the weak, and uphold justice?It's a pity that it didn't work out in the end...

Hey, history has always been written by the strong, and no one sympathizes with the weak.The world has always been so cruel, survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest, law of the jungle, cannonballs are truth, butcher knife is justice!If we fail to rise up and resist, but bow our knees and surrender, then the fate of the North American Indians and the Kingdom of Hawaii will be repeated in Japan today!In a few decades, the Japanese archipelago will become the legal territory of the United States, and we will all be driven to the "Yamato Reservation Area" in the backcountry, and let the Yankees live in the essence of the Japanese archipelago!Kuribayashi-kun, can you bear this kind of thing? "

"...Of course not! As long as there is still a bullet in the chamber, no bloody Yamato man can watch this happen!"

Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi said in a deep voice, "...But this is our Japanese business, why should we stand with the Soviets?"

"...If we don't accept the aid and intervention of the Soviets, can we beat the Yankees with our own strength?"

Takashi Tanaka shrugged his shoulders, "...This world war has been fought so far, Germany and Italy are over, and the Japanese Empire is now tantamount to perishing. The next world trend will inevitably be the United States and the Soviet Union. In this world war In the great battle for hegemony, those remote and small countries far from the line of fire may still be able to survive alone. But the Japanese archipelago has now become an arena for the United States and the Soviet Union, so there is no room for impartiality?

Lilin-kun, if you wholeheartedly respect the emperor and be loyal to the emperor, then it is time to work hard to kill the Americans and avenge His Majesty!If you care about the future of the nation, then you should take on this important task and fight to preserve the living space of our Yamato nation! ",

While Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi was still hesitating, he received two new pieces of news: General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party Kyuichi Tokuda launched an uprising in Kanazawa and announced the establishment of the Echizen Soviet Republic!A sailor revolution broke out at the Maizuru tutelary fort on the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan, and a red flag was hoisted on the warship!

At this moment, Lieutenant General Kuribayashi Chumichi finally understood that he could no longer wait and hesitate.

"...Forget it! It seems that I have to pick up this burden of anti-Americanism and saving the country! Let the negotiators of the Soviet Union come here. On the basic premise of not ceding the inherent land, I am willing to take the lead in organizing the Soviet regime in Hokkaido. Lead the people against the invasion of the American and British troops..."

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Nagoya, an important industrial city in central Japan
Gunpowder smoke covered the sun, gunfire rumbled, corpses littered the fields, and rivers of blood flowed.

The fierce battle that lasted for a week turned this large industrialized city on the Pacific coast into a pile of dilapidated ruins.

In the command post on the hills in the outskirts, Marshal MacArthur was smoking his corncob pipe, looking down at the battlefield in the city with a telescope, his brows were tightly furrowed.

At the beginning of the Battle of Nagoya, everything went smoothly. After the indiscriminate bombing by the Air Force, the tank assault team of the [-]st Marine Division directly rushed into the center of Nagoya.But when the follow-up infantry followed, everything changed: Thousands of Japanese soldiers emerged from God knows where, pouring steel and fire on the heads of the negligent Yankees, and started a painful but endless battle. Unavoidable bloody street fighting.

Nagoya was originally an important military production center of the Japanese Empire, and there were a large number of arsenals all over it. Therefore, the Japanese army defending the city had enough guns and ammunition to call it a serious surplus, and the stocks of food and fuel were also quite abundant.The trouble facing the defenders was that no one expected to fight in Nagoya before. There were no permanent fortifications inside and outside the city, and the only division force seemed too tense for a city defense battle.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Sen Maoshu, the commander of the No. 60 Fifth Division, urgently recruited retired veterans, volunteer citizens, and young students before the war, and finally even recruited some women to serve as army nurses. Lieutenant General Mori Moki successfully formed more than 200 "iron-blooded national defense teams" before the US army besieged the city. Following the old practice of the Shinsengumi at the end of the Edo period, they formed the "Golden Chrysanthemum Team" and "Sakura Team" respectively. , "Huitian Squad", "Kamikaze Company" and other banners, with a total strength of about 8 troops, are preparing to fight the US military to the end amidst a generous elegy.

——Originally, Lieutenant General Mori Moki wanted to name the auxiliary force the Jagged Emperor Team, but considering that the entire Japanese imperial family is now in ashes, I am afraid that only God knows what the future of Japan will be like. Everyone has no emperor to work hard for, so they can only make do with protecting the country first.

At the beginning, Lieutenant General Sen Maoshu thought that the enemy would only land from the sea, so he devoted his energy to building coastal fortifications and port fortresses.Unexpectedly, the successive surrenders of the Kanto region and Osaka Prefecture were tantamount to a blow to the Nagoya defenders.In this way, the U.S. military could launch an attack on Nagoya from any direction, but the Japanese troops defending the city had to deploy defenses everywhere, and their strength was stretched.

As a result, Lieutenant General Mori Moki had not had time to complete the adjustment of troops, and the US armored soldiers who were ordered to conduct "fire reconnaissance" took advantage of Japan's good roads to launch a lightning assault on Nagoya, inserted into the gap in the defense line, and rushed into the city center in one breath. No. The command system of the 60th Fifth Division was messed up.MacArthur took the opportunity to mobilize a large number of infantry to follow up, trying to tear through the defense line of the defenders in one go and defeat the stubborn Japanese army as quickly as possible.

If it is the Italians who are weak in fighting will or the "party-state" soldiers who are more aggressive, in this case, I am afraid that they have already collapsed.But unfortunately, the Americans' opponent today is the Japanese army deeply influenced by militarism, and the battlefield is the home city they are most familiar with.As a result, the U.S. troops who broke into Nagoya quickly fell into a nightmare. Every door, window, and even every sewer were shooting cold shots, making them dizzy.

Moreover, because the ground forces fell into street fighting prematurely, the U.S. Strategic Air Force could not use nerve gas on a large scale against Nagoya, otherwise there would be the largest incident of fratricide in U.S. military history.On the contrary, the Japanese army set traps many times and used old-fashioned mustard gas to deal with the enemy on a small scale... Shells flew across, machine guns swept across, tall factory buildings were turned into ruins, and gorgeous villas were turned into rubble.The streets were clogged with rubble and dead bodies.

Under the repeated killing of the Japanese army's intensive automatic firearms, mortars and grenades, the casualties of the siege US troops skyrocketed.Although the distraught Marshal MacArthur dispatched dive bombers in an attempt to raze the city to the ground, the number of anti-aircraft guns in the urban area of ​​Nagoya was astonishingly large, and the dive bombers were ineffective and suffered heavy losses.Later, the U.S. military switched to 155mm "Long Tom" field guns and 105mm howitzers to carry out surgical and devastating bombardment of the Japanese resistance strongholds. However, the Nagoya defenders also used artillery fire to counterattack and even dispatched tanks. The two sides fell into a stalemate.

While the street fighting in Nagoya was heating up, the Japanese flying teams scattered all over Japan spontaneously came to Nagoya airspace in twos and threes to participate in the battle. Although the number of aircraft was limited and there was a lack of coordination in fighting with each other, it was impossible to truly seize the air supremacy of the Nagoya battlefield, but at least It was also able to make a few sneak attacks coldly, which caused a lot of trouble to the US bomber unit and ground troops on the Nagoya battlefield.