Great time travel

Chapter 50, the increasingly weird era
On the other hand, although I feel very broken and even a little unacceptable to the current "Yamato of Girls", the adaptability of human beings is generally very strong, especially in the cruel and turbulent war years. in this way.Therefore, after being in a trance for a while, the high-ranking navy generals finally came to their senses, and accepted this embarrassing reality willingly or unwillingly.Inoue Narumi, commander of the United Fleet, took the initiative to laugh at herself in order to smooth things over: "...with Japan's poor and weak national strength, we took the initiative to start a war against the powerful United States four years ago. It was something that only lunatics could do. If this is the case, anyway. I have been crazy for so many years, so I just go crazy all the way to the end..."

In short, no matter how broken the mood, after the flag-raising ceremony, this "Yamato Hotel" still has to eat breakfast.

When the unarmed female sailors on the front deck of the Yamato sang the military song and did a set of naval gymnastics, they dispersed happily, each shouldering their shoulders, and even dragged their children to the cafeteria to eat their share. When the "cat rice" was sprinkled with bonito, all the well-dressed senior naval officers on the bridge of the Yamato also calmly walked into the commander's suite of the Yamato and sat upright, ready to have breakfast together.

As the most luxurious place in the entire "Yamato Hotel", the decoration of the restaurant in the commander's suite is naturally as luxurious as a high-end hotel.The floor is covered with silver-gray wool carpets, the bulkhead is made of brown chestnut guard boards, the long dining table is set with shiny silver tableware, and even the porcelain plates and bowls are high-end "Minoyaki"... After everyone sat down on both sides of the long table, the female soldiers in sailor uniforms brought up delicious meals.

——Although the military professionalism of these "Yamato Nadeshiko" on the Yamato is almost so bad that it cannot be seen.But as the basic qualities of traditional Japanese women, at least they are full of skills in housework and cooking: white rice sprinkled with sesame seeds makes people appetizing at first sight, and salt-baked saury smells fragrant Tangy, authentic miso soup with tofu, scallions and diced pork, as well as "mizumantou" made with arrowroot and sugar as dessert... Everyone was eating the delicate Japanese breakfast like this, While chatting about the current battle situation.

At present, on the battlefield in Japan, the main force of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet has withdrawn to Pearl Harbor to rest, and the front-line troops are relatively insufficient. Come play the leading role.As far as the scope of the four mainland islands of Japan is concerned, according to the ancient Japanese geographical concept, it can be roughly divided into two main theaters, Kanto and Kansai.

On the Kanto battlefield, the Battle of Aizu, which lasted for more than a month, has temporarily come to an end.Relying on the elite reinforcements of the Kwantung Army constantly mobilized across the Sea of ​​Japan, or the staggering amount of arms aid, under the personal supervision of the army's deputy chief of staff Tadamichi Kuribayashi, who has always been known for his good defense, the Japanese army on the eastern front was finally able to barely hold on. It survived General Patton's fierce offensive like a storm, and defended Aizu City, which is located in the inland mountainous area, but lost the Abukuma Highlands adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, allowing the US Army to open up land passages between the two landing sites of Tokyo and Sendai.

When the Battle of Aizu ended, according to rough statistics, the Japanese army had about 4 casualties, more than [-] civilian casualties, and lost [-] tanks of various types, [-] artillery pieces of various types, and more than [-] were shot down and destroyed. aircraft... If it was in the past, the loss of such a large number of technical weapons was enough to drive the Ministry of the Army crazy.But after having [chronological vending machines], as long as you print some money, you will have everything.

Therefore, the wartime base camp not only readily approved the supplement of 100 Type 100 medium tanks (medium tanks) to Kuribayashi Chumichi, but also said that these losses are nothing, even if it takes [-] million tanks and [-] billion rounds of shells to It is completely acceptable to crush the American and British ghosts and animals...

In addition to the main battlefield of Aizu, between the mountains of Kai and Shinano, various irregular troops, mainly the Red Guards, are also relying on the mountains and valleys to resist the repeated offensives of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops.However, due to the lack of training and fortifications, in general, there are still repeated defeats. Strategic locations such as Mount Fuji, Kofu Castle, Mount Shirane, and Mount Asama have been lost one after another. The Sea of ​​Japan is gone.

Then, in the occupied areas behind enemy lines, the resistance movement organized by the Japanese Communist Party was also in a bad situation.The U.S. military, which has completely broken through the lower limit, organized the puppet troops to go to the countryside to sweep up, massacre and release poisonous gas everywhere, and implement the Sanguang policy on the entire Kanto region. The "strategic village" of the bunker, and then burn down the remaining empty village.In order to cut off the connection between the guerrillas of the resistance organization and the people.Well, in fact, the U.S. military still has a plan that has not yet been implemented. It is to move a large number of impoverished black Africans to the Japanese-occupied areas. It is enough to make the Japanese outside the strategic village unable to survive.

In this way, the Japanese Communist Party’s guerrillas behind enemy lines are completely helpless—even if they have sufficient logistical supplies and do not have to rely on the food and money provided by the people in the occupied areas, if there is no cover from the rural people, a small group of rookie guerrillas will There is no way to survive in the cruel battlefield behind enemy lines.

No way, strictly speaking, the Japanese do not know how to fight guerrilla warfare in the modern sense: In another time and space history, the Japanese Empire prepared for the "local decisive battle" at the end of the Pacific War and mobilized the people to engage in "[-] million pieces of jade". Those military trainings basically emphasize how to use simple weapons to kill people, or how to drag a back when you are bound to die. Besides, how to protect yourself and conceal yourself in battle, what kind of Guerrilla tactics and other training related to guerrilla warfare are absent at all, and have nothing to do with real guerrilla warfare training—how can this be preparing for guerrilla warfare?It is basically preparing to engage in a national suicide attack!
In this time and space, the situation is actually similar. The Japanese army has sufficient experience in anti-guerrilla warfare on various battlefields, but they have never fought real guerrilla warfare.The Japanese Communist Party is better at propaganda and strikes, and the ability to engage in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines is really not its strong point... In the end, the battered wartime headquarters had to invite General Ningji Okamura, who was recognized as "most familiar with guerrilla warfare", to go to the Kanto front Supervise and guide.

Although Neiji Okamura felt very embarrassed about this, and muttered in his mouth: "... I went to sweep up the Eighth Road in China in the security war in North China, and I was swept away by the American and British ghosts in the security war in Honshu. Can this completely opposite experience be applied?" But After all, there was no other way but to bite the bullet and take office.

Compared with the retreat and repeated defeats of the Kanto battlefield, the situation of the Japanese army on the Kansai battlefield is much better.

On the north side of the Kansai Battlefield, a mixed force consisting of the Red Guards, Marines, and "Soviet Volunteers", under the command of Shinmi Masichi, the governor of the tutelary government, relied on the indiscriminate bombing of the naval aviation and the formation of battleships. The crazy bombardment successfully smashed the ground attack of the U.S. military in the Kyoto area on the Maizuru tutelary fortress, and defended the naval fleet's largest fortress port base on the Sea of ​​Japan coast.
In the middle of the Kansai battlefield, the United Fleet organized a landing, easily regained Awaji Island, and completed a complete blockade of Osaka Bay, thereby cooperating with the frontal counterattack launched by the army.Although there are more than 2 Anzac officers and soldiers and almost the same number of U.S. Army troops, they are still firmly anchored in Kobe, the most forward stronghold, fighting to the death.However, their retreat has been cut off by the roundabout and outflanking Japanese army, and all supply lines by sea and land have been cut off. They are barely maintained by sporadic airdrops, and they have to endure repeated "indoctrination" of various nerve gases... It is estimated that they will not be able to persist. How long.According to the army's plan, after conquering Kobe, it will continue to advance to Kinki, go straight to Kyoto, and finally drive the US army out of Kansai this summer.

On the south side of the Kansai battlefield, Japan and the United States are still in a stalemate, each occupying half of the Shikoku Islands. Since neither side has invested too much troops in this secondary battlefield, the fight is somewhat tepid, and even often develops into a sit-down battle. .But this situation will not last long. In order to cooperate with the army's Kinki offensive, the United Fleet plans to dispatch all fourteen "Magic Version" and "Original Version" Yamato-class battleships, plus attached aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and The landing fleet first bombarded Kobe as a warm-up, then rushed out of the Seto Inland Sea from the Bungo Channel in the west, and went around Tosa Bay for a landing behind enemy lines, planning to annihilate the Second US Marine Division on Shikoku Island, thereby completely regaining Japan the entire Kansai region.

But in this way, the main fleets of the United States and Japan are very likely to collide head-on in the waters south of Shikoku Island, and even a decisive sea battle will break out.As for how the naval battle that might break out should be fought, and even whether it should be fought or not, everyone present obviously had different opinions, so they discussed it at the dinner table... Just as everyone was expressing their opinions, the discussion was very heated At that time, several naval staff officers knocked on the door with file bags in their hands. After unpacking and opening it, they found that it was the latest military intelligence report from various parts of Asia forwarded by the headquarters.

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——Well, although Nazi Germany and the old Japanese Empire no longer exist, the world is still full of wars.

First of all, nearly half a year after Nanjing once again fell into the hands of the "Japanese invaders", Chairman Chiang finally regained the to his capital Nanjing.

The Osaka Fourth Division, which was originally entrenched in Nanjing, voluntarily abandoned Nanjing after a short battle, fled to Jiangbei, and surrendered to the Chinese Red Army.According to the results of negotiations between the base camp and the Soviet Union and the Communist International, it is expected to return home from Vladivostok in three months.

At the same time, the Red Army guerrillas who once seized Shanghai under the siege of more than 20 "party-state elite soldiers" had no choice but to voluntarily abandon the city, reorganize it into parts, and sneak into various rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River. , to continue guerrilla warfare.

So far, Generalissimo Jiang, who was driven out of Chongqing by the Red Army, finally accepted Wang Jingwei's legacy after experiencing such twists and turns.Of course, at the same time, Wang Jingwei’s troubles were also received—the guerrillas of the Red Army from all walks of life in the south, with the former New Fourth Army as the main body...

However, although once again regained Nanjing and Shanghai, it controlled the most elite Yangtze River Delta in China.But in terms of the overall battle situation, the actual control area of ​​the national government led by Generalissimo Chiang has been completely compressed to the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, the entire Sichuan has been lost, and even the fronts of Guizhou and Yunnan are gradually being defeated.In terms of the size of the chairman's current territory, it is probably only similar to Soochow in the Three Kingdoms era.But despite this, in order to dilute the worsening bad luck these days, Your Excellency the Chairman still insists on organizing a grander "Huandu Celebration" in Nanjing than last time.

Here is the area of ​​psychological shadow of those Nanjing citizens who were forced to endure another large-scale apportionment and extortion during the second "Returning the Capital Celebration".

Secondly, Thailand officially joined the ranks of the allied forces, and the king personally delivered a public speech, announcing that he would send troops to cooperate with the actions of the US and British allied forces.At present, 30 Thai troops have entered the Malay Peninsula, Burma and the former French Indochina colony, assisting the US and British allied forces to suppress local uprisings of various ethnic groups.As a reward, Britain plans to assign most of the former French Indochina colony and some areas in the northern part of British Malaya to Thailand.

Then, as expected before the Japanese army withdrew, after learning that nearly [-] American and British prisoners of war were being held in Sanya on Hainan Island, and confirming that the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy had moved away from the place, a battlecruiser named Renown The small British fleet at the core departed from Singapore, raided Hainan Island for a long distance, and dispatched troops to land and occupy the Sanya prisoner-of-war camp. At the same time, a governor was sent to take over Hong Kong...

If we talk about the above news, although it cannot be said that all of them were expected in advance, at least they are still within the understandable range.Then, the next series of sudden changes that broke out on the Indian subcontinent really shocked the Japanese naval elite present.

"...What? The great turnaround of the war in New Delhi? The British army stationed in India in the siege survived? The Congress Party collapsed? The Indian National Army split the civil war? Collaboration? Is this... Is it me, or is the world crazy?"