Beiyang reactionaries

Therefore, China's attack on Xiaguan, not to mention that Xiaguan is an important port, has a different meaning behind it.

So Ishihara Waner didn't speak immediately.

He is thinking.

When Koiso Kuniaki was the prime minister of the cabinet, he and Ishihara Waner's views were on the left, so he was not able to become the Minister of War in the Koiso Kunizaki cabinet.Ishihara Kanji had been at odds with Hideki Tojo and the others, and had failed to enter the cabinet of Kunisaki Koiso. As a result, he was increasingly excluded in the army.Although he is a general of the army, he has no access to the core content of the army.

Fortunately, he is an army boss after all, and he still has his own news channel.

He dare not say that he knows the current situation of the war well, but he understands the general situation.Therefore, he is analyzing what China wants to do at this time.After being silent for a while, Ishihara said with a smile: "At least within ten days and a half months, China will not choose to land. But once the time is delayed, then after ten days and a half months, the Chinese army will really land. There is no doubt about it.”

"How do you judge?"

"Your Excellency, isn't this an obvious thing? If China really wanted to carry out a landing operation, why would they attack Shimonoseki? There are places where they can land in Hokkaido, and there are not many troops there. As long as China really decides to start from Hokkaido Those port landings, in the face of China's powerful aviation power, we can't prevent them. How could China choose to land from Xiaguan. Xiaguan connects the main island and Kyushu, and the main island and Kyushu have the most troops deployed. In a short time, we can Gather troops to reinforce Shimonoseki and block the landing troops. Even if China has mastered the air supremacy, as long as we have enough preparations, landing operations will not be so easy, and China will definitely pay a huge price. Therefore, as long as China is not crazy, They will definitely not choose to land in Xiaguan. Since they did not land in Xiaguan, why did they attack Xiaguan? In fact, it is to convey a message to us, that is, they can attack any of our port cities and destroy any of our ports. It's a warning, it's a warning to us."

"Warning? Warning?"

"Yes. If we respond to their warning, then China will stop this attack. But if we don't respond, China will inevitably bomb our port cities along the coastline. After a while, we still have no China will really start to land. As long as China decides to land, it means that China has given up negotiations with the empire, and they are ready to use force to resolve the issue with us."

After listening to Ishihara Wanji's analysis, Suzuki Kantaro immediately became serious.

It seems that China is already impatient and wrangling with Japan.

This is to warn Japan that if it continues to delay the negotiation time and does not give a clear answer, then China will suspend the negotiation with Japan.Once China interrupts its negotiations with Japan, the next step is to use war to solve the problem.

This is something Suzuki has always avoided.Because Suzuki Kantaro knows that Japan now has no capital to fight a decisive battle with China.A decisive battle with China may cause a lot of casualties in China, but Japan may die.After Suzuki Kantaro became the prime minister, or when Hideki Tojo became the prime minister, the judgment of the two people is the same, that is, it is absolutely impossible to fight China.

Unfortunately, the situation does not allow.

During this period of time, Suzuki Kantaro has held three consecutive supreme command meetings, but the powerful military leaders all support the decisive battle in the local area, and they are all in favor of surrender.Although Internal Minister Koichi Kido and Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yone demanded an immediate truce and acceptance of the "Ili Declaration", the final result was still unable to win over Chief of Staff Yoshijiro Umezu, Minister of War Keiki Anan, and former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. .

Hideki Tojo supports negotiations with China, but does not support the full acceptance of the "Ili Declaration."Hideki Tojo is still trying to win over China, and then fight against Britain and the United States.Because of the opposition of these powerful factions, Suzuki Kantaro was unable to complete his ideas.

In the three supreme command meetings, the resolutions were all along the original "local decisive battle" plan.

"Your Excellency, I have something to say, I hope you can listen carefully."

"General Ishihara, please tell me. I invite you here today to hear what you mean."

"Thank you sir for giving me this opportunity."

Ishihara smiled.

Therefore, he said: "Your Excellency, the current situation is already very dangerous, and the empire has entered the most dangerous stage. If we make a wrong decision, the empire will face catastrophe. It is very likely that the empire will never have a chance to rise again."

"I know it's dangerous now."

"Your Excellency, this is not an ordinary danger, it is the danger of national subjugation and genocide. We have no time, really no time. China's attack on Xiaguan today is the biggest warning to us. Your Excellency, we cannot delay any longer. Continue to delay, The empire will be dismembered by China. Now we have only one way out, and that is to accept the "Ili Declaration". Don't make any more conditions with China, accept the "Ili Declaration" as soon as possible, and end the war as soon as possible. This is the only way the empire can go at present Road. Among the Asian countries, except for China, the empire has the best industrial foundation and the strongest talent pool. As long as the war is over, China will not ignore the empire in order to develop the Asian economy as soon as possible. As long as the empire is given time, the empire will There is a possibility of resurgence.”

"But…………"

"Your Excellency, we can't procrastinate any longer. You must convince His Majesty the Emperor. As long as you convince His Majesty, the army will have no major problems. The biggest problem now is to convince His Majesty the Emperor. I can guarantee that starting tomorrow, China's bombing of the Empire will It's getting more and more serious. Now China is relatively restrained from bombing the empire, but once China decides to use war to solve the problem, then China will not be like it is now. Instead, it will use incendiary bombs against the empire just like the United States. Your Excellency, You can think about it, once China uses incendiary bombs, which one of our cities will be able to stop it."

Suzuki Kantaro frowned deeply.

Because he understands what China means.China has indeed been very restrained in its bombing so far. Although it used several tons of super bombs, it did not attack civilian areas wantonly.China still wants to negotiate with Japan and does not want to use force to resolve it.But if the delay continues, the situation will of course be different if China is angered.

China will not be short of incendiary bombs.

Once China also uses incendiary bombs like the United States, with the scale of Chinese bombers, many cities in Japan will be in ruins.The United States only has about 300 bombers every day, which has already put many Japanese cities into flames.

If China flies thousands of planes a day, if they all use incendiary bombs, Suzuki Kantaro can be sure that some smaller cities will disappear directly.Even if China is ruthless, not to mention small cities, even Tokyo can be turned into ruins within a day.

Thinking about it made Suzuki Kantaro shudder.

"Your Excellency, China is not as talkative as I imagined. The reason why they are still restrained is because of their post-war Asia plan. But if the empire continues to delay, then China will definitely dare to destroy the empire. Among China's Asia plans, it may be An empire is needed, but that doesn't mean there must be an empire."

"General Ishihara, is it really so dangerous?"

"It's more serious than I said."

Ishihara nodded with a smile.

Seeing Suzuki Kantaro's appearance, Ishihara Wanji continued to persuade: "Your Excellency, there is no time. We don't have any time to hesitate. Now we must convince the emperor. I can be sure that tomorrow's attack on China will be more violent than before."

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Suzuki Kantaro was indeed very anxious, so he went to see Emperor Meiji on the night when China attacked Shimonoseki.At this time, Emperor Meiji also understood that miracles cannot happen in wars.

Emperor Meiji was also preparing to surrender.

It's a pity that at the urgent imperial meeting, most of the military leaders still supported the continuation of the war.Although the status of Emperor Meiji in Japan is very high, Emperor Meiji cannot surrender directly when so many people in the military oppose it.

Therefore, the imperial meeting could only end hastily.

It is a pity that in the next few days, the situation took a turn for the worse, and the Japanese emperor was not given a chance to choose.

After the United States became ruthless, the number of U.S. troops engaged in the Philippine campaign has increased.Not only the American troops, but the Australian troops who followed the United States to participate in the Philippine campaign exceeded 30, reaching 36.The entire elite Australian army is currently fighting with the United States.

Australia is a very smart country.

Australia is a country of the Commonwealth of Nations and has been a follower of the United Kingdom for these years.After the outbreak of World War II, Australia also obeyed the orders of the United Kingdom and fought against Japan.But Australia soon discovered that Britain was an outdated hegemon.

The Second World War has illustrated this.Therefore, Australia immediately plans to change to a boss, and that is the United States, the current world's largest industrial power.Australia has discovered that the United States will inevitably become the world leader after the war.Therefore, the main force of Australia began to fight with the United States and obey the orders of the United States.Australia is ready to fall to the US camp.

Moreover, China also helped the United States solve the reinforcements of the Japanese army in the Philippines.

The Republic of Indonesia has severed diplomatic relations with Japan and declared war on Japan.Then the Chinese army began to land on Kalimantan Island.This is not a small number of troops. The Chinese troops in the Indochina Peninsula and the Chinese troops in Sumatra have assembled more than 50 army troops. There are more than 3000 combat aircraft and more than 20 aircraft carriers participating in the attack on Kalimantan Island. .

Of course, in order to show support, not to mention the 7 countries that originally followed China, the powerful factions from the newly joined Indonesia and Malaysia also sent troops to land on Kalimantan Island with China.Of course, the troops they sent were not many, but they added up to about 10 people.

Kalimantan Island is not the focus of Japanese defense, so the number of Japanese troops on the island is not large, so there is no way to resist the Chinese army.Facing the powerful attack of the Chinese army, most of Kalimantan Island has fallen into the hands of China, and it has no ability to support the Philippines.

Moreover, the most powerful supporting force of the Philippine Japanese army is the Taiwan and Okinawa air forces.Japan has deployed a large number of aircraft here. After all, this is already the core of Japan's absolute defense circle, and its importance is second only to Japan's mainland.

Before the United States launched the Philippine campaign, it bombed these places and took control of the air.

But it does not mean that the Japanese air force has completely disappeared.It's just that they are at a disadvantage against the U.S. aviation force, so they act more cautiously.But although they are at an absolute disadvantage, it does not mean that they will not bring casualties to the US military.

In fact, these Japanese aviation units caused great casualties to the US military, and also directly affected the US military's Philippine campaign.

However, the dispatch of the Chinese Air Force brought direct help to the US campaign in the Philippines.The Chinese Air Force began large-scale air strikes on Okinawa and Taiwan, destroying the Japanese air force here in a short time.

After all, China has dispatched thousands of combat aircraft.

This made the US campaign in the Philippines more and more smooth.In addition, China attacked the Republic of Indonesia and Kalimantan, and blocked the Taiwan Strait with its navy, cutting off the connection between Japan and the Philippines.As a result, Japan's naval power in the Philippines was also seriously inadequate.

In addition to these, China was also directly involved in the Philippine campaign.