About 4 hours and 7 minutes after the Iranian Navy's Rasht cruiser was sunk by the British, the Imperial Navy's Ussuri aircraft carrier stationed in the Persian Gulf sailed into the eastern waters of Qatar under the escort of two Changchun-class cruisers.
Two squadrons, two J-5D Tiger Shark patrol aircraft, accompanied by six J-303 fighter jets, took off from the deck and flew towards the Qatari waters where the Rasht cruiser was sunk.
After the Japanese Navy's flagship battleship Yamato was sunk by an Imperial Navy torpedo bomber, the Japanese Navy completely lost most of its combat power. At the same time, in order to deal with the threat from the British Navy, the Imperial Central Navy reorganized the fleets into the Permanent Central Headquarters Fleet, The Far East Fleet, Southeast Asia Fleet, Pacific Fleet, and the rest are numbered fleets as needed. For example, the Fifth Fleet is stationed in the Persian Gulf, the Sixth Fleet is stationed in the Gulf of Aden, the Seventh Fleet is stationed in North Madagascar, and the Eighth Fleet is stationed in the Andaman Navy. base.
The Central Headquarters Fleet, the Far East Fleet, the Southeast Asia Fleet, and the Pacific Fleet are the four major fleets of the Imperial Navy. The Central Headquarters Fleet is based in Qingdao, Sanduao, and Keelung, and is headquartered in Qingdao. It is responsible for coastal defense and surveillance of the eastern seas of the Empire. Japanese Navy; The Far East Fleet is based in Vladivostok and is responsible for supervising Japan and the North Pacific, as well as monitoring the Bering Strait. If necessary, the Far East Fleet will also enter the Arctic Ocean to conduct military and scientific surveys; the Southeast Asian Fleet is headquartered in Bandar Riba, Brunei Gawan is responsible for maritime security defense in the entire Southeast Asian waters; the Pacific Fleet is headquartered in Guam and Port Vila, Vanuatu, and is responsible for maritime security in the entire South Pacific waters. The ultimate scope of activities is Midway Island and Johns Island agreed by China and the United States. Dayton Atoll.
In the Indian Ocean, the empire has the Indian Ocean Naval Command Headquarters. The future plan for the command headquarters is to arrange it at Qatif Naval Port. In view of the fact that the British Navy still has a military base in the Persian Gulf, the empire still locates the Indian Ocean Naval Command headquarters in Kuwait at this stage. Responsible for coordinating four fleets in the Indian Ocean.
Different from the four permanent headquarters fleets, the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Fleets are all relatively small in size. Only the Fifth Fleet has an aircraft carrier formation, and the rest only use the Harbin-class command cruiser as the flagship. For small and medium-sized fleets, surveillance is more important than combat.
Although the Empire's naval power in the Indian Ocean is not strong and it is not eager to threaten the British Navy, whenever necessary, the Imperial Navy's Central Headquarters Fleet and the Southeast Asian Fleet will reorganize the Indian Ocean Fleet to intervene as soon as possible, and the Imperial Navy's current capital ships exceed Half of them are concentrated in Bandar Seri Begawan Port. The current strength of the Southeast Asian Fleet alone is enough to compete with the British Navy.
Neither China nor Britain has too strong intentions to provoke their opponents. The Imperial Navy's main ships have not entered the Indian Ocean, and the main force of the British Navy has also stayed in the Atlantic Ocean and South Africa.
The Empire has only one aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf that is constantly rotating, while the United Kingdom only has one aircraft carrier stationed in Mumbai, India. The two sides are extremely far apart. In order to balance the disadvantage of not having an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, the United Kingdom stationed two Royal Air Force aircraft carriers in eastern Oman. Combat Regiment, providing air protection for the British Navy at Azman.
Iran has been having territorial disputes with the Arab Emirates under British colonial rule since the war. The two sides have disputes over multiple islands in the Persian Gulf. The most intense competition is Abu Musa Island.
The island was effectively occupied by Britain before 1890. After the establishment of the Asian League, the Iranian Navy had many conflicts with the British Navy here. This time, the Iranian Navy's Rasht cruiser was on the west side of Abu Musa Island. It was torpedoed and sunk by a destroyer of the British Navy.
The Imperial Navy carrier-based aircraft quickly arrived at the incident area and monitored the two British Navy warships. The destroyer that sank the Iranian Navy cruiser Rasht also suffered severe trauma and has now returned to port. It was replaced by It is a battleship and another destroyer of the British Navy.
As the Imperial Navy carrier-based aircraft arrived, two British warships made an emergency retreat, and the Royal Air Force also dispatched fighter planes to respond. It was confirmed to be the Imperial Navy and the famous Sea Serpent fighter J-303. The British military was also extremely nervous. After a while.
¡°If you want to ask the British army if they are afraid of China, they will be very arrogant and say that they don¡¯t care about Asians at all. Those people cannot pose any threat to the British Empire. What is the reality?
Only the officers and soldiers of the British army can answer this question.
The Chinaman in their minds is disgusting, dirty, and scary.
In this sea area, the pilots of both sides have had many close contests. The British flight officers know very well how powerful the J-303 Sea Snake fighter is, and the opponent's flight officers are also at the level of elite instructors. .
After all, the Chinese Navy is not Iran. It can fight back as long as its opponent provokes. Facing the Chinese Navy's aviation force, avoiding it is the best choice.After a dogfight in the air, the four British Spitfires tried to get out of the close fight. If the opponent did not have a Lightning fighter nearby, quickly pulling up was always the best way, but two of them While the aircraft was pulling up and flying upward, multiple J-303 carrier-based aircraft occupying a favorable position in the rear suddenly opened fire.
This really shocked the British flying officers.
This is not the first time that the two sides have competed at close range. In the past six months, this situation has occurred almost several times a month, but this is the first time that the opponent has actively attacked. The next time the British flying officer realized that there was a world war Erupted.
After two Spitfires were shot down, the other two did not even have time to pull up, and were tightly bitten by the other four J-303 fighters. In a 6 vs. 2 situation, the last two Spitfires were also very About to be shot down.
Watching four planes fall from the sky, the British naval admiral above the sea was completely shocked.
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The Rasht cruiser incident should actually be the responsibility of the Iranian Navy. In order to declare Iran's ownership of Abu Musa Island, the Iranian Navy took the initiative to bombard a British destroyer, and was subsequently counterattacked by the ship. Instead, it was well-trained The British Navy sank. When the Iranian Navy reported this situation to the Asian Alliance Indian Ocean Naval Command, it naturally wiped out its own responsibilities.
The Indian Ocean Asian Alliance Naval Command is essentially equivalent to the Indian Ocean Fleet Headquarters of the Imperial Central Navy. This command not only governs the four small and medium-sized naval fleets of the Imperial Central Navy in the Indian Ocean, but also has the authority to assist Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. Naval fleets of ASEAN member states.
The ASEAN Naval Command obviously does not particularly believe in the Iranian Navy's words. In the past six months of the command's monitoring, the British Navy was more disciplined than the Iranian Navy and was basically unlikely to be a provocateur. However, before the formal investigation, the ASEAN Navy After the command headquarters reported the situation to the Central Military Headquarters, it still received an order from the Central Military Headquarters to severely punish the ship responsible.
This made Imperial Navy Vice Admiral Chen Yawu, the commander of the Asian Alliance Naval Command, very embarrassed. Soldiers regard obedience as their destiny. Knowing that the British Navy was unlikely to be the real perpetrator, Lieutenant General Chen Yawu still ordered the navy to launch a limited counterattack.
After shooting down four British Spitfires, the Imperial Navy did not continue to attack the British Navy's battleship Prince of Wales and another destroyer. Instead, it dispatched the two warships with multiple carrier-based aircraft "escorts" Returning to the British military port in Azman, during this period, it was confirmed that the Chinese naval aviation force had no intention to continue to sink the two warships, and the British Air Force only sent two more Spitfire fighter jets for long-distance surveillance. There were no further incidents between the two sides. battle.
Even though the frontline military units on both sides deliberately limited the scale of the battle in order to avoid the outbreak of a Sino-British war, the news still caused an uproar after the news spread back to the two countries. At this time, the British people finally stopped emphasizing pacifism and war weariness and strongly demanded Officially start a war, destroy the Chinese navy, and push China back to the Stone Age like the two Opium Wars.
The British media is also noisy.
The public enthusiasm did not make Prime Minister Winston Churchill blindly lose his mind. He knew very well that China had basically ended the Sino-Japanese War and the Sino-Soviet War. This time period was different from a few months ago, and it was completely unfavorable to Britain. Once China and Britain go to war, the British forces in South Asia may have been completely annihilated before the British navy reaches the Indian Ocean. The main force of the Chinese navy may also be gathered in this area, waiting for the British navy, which lacks aircraft carriers and aviation power, to arrive. .
Two weeks before this incident happened, Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent Minister of State Arthur Greenwood to visit the United States and France, hoping to reach an agreement on current Asian affairs and jointly force China and the Asian League to make concessions. The result was very disappointing. Regrettably, although the United States and France both have colonies in Southeast Asia, France and China have always had a special strategic alliance. It is impossible for France to go to war with the empire in Indochina for the suzerainty of the Vietnamese colonies, and the United States has just reached an agreement with China on the "China-U.S. The Pacific Equality Agreement has obtained the commitment of China and the United States to mutually recognize the equal interests and status of the two countries in the Pacific, and it is impossible to tear up this agreement.
This means that when it comes to the issue of Asian colonies, Britain is isolated and helpless. It is even ostracized by China, France and the United States because it holds the largest number of colonies. Considering actual national interests, the United States and France are actually more willing to see Britain lose these colonies. This situation not only helped to weaken Britain's position, but also helped to expand the opportunities for American and French commercial investment, development and expansion in these colonies.
For example, when it comes to such a huge matter in India, it is almost difficult for the United States, France and China to obtain enough business opportunities. It is completely incomparable with the United Kingdom. In terms of the current strength of the United Kingdom, this is something that none of the three powers are willing to do. Acceptance situation.
Isolated and helpless, Britain cannot alone challenge the Chinese Empire's new hegemony in the world's navy, let alone challenge China's absolute dominance in the army and air force.
Fortunately, shortly after the Rasht incident, His Majesty the Emperor published an editorial in the "Joongang Ilbo" and "The Orthodox Christian Daily" at the same time, which was a rare situation in the past ten years. This article had obvious implications for peace talks. The editorial gave Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British hope of a peaceful solution to the problem.
Many people don¡¯t understand the reason behind this.
On April 1, 1941, Nazi Germany annihilated the military forces of Denmark and Norway in just four hours. This military action was opposed by the entire world. The raw materials and resources Germany controlled in the Soviet Union were enough to cope with its attack. A world war, and the reason why Germany wanted to capture Norway was not only expansionist greed, but also its goal was to capture Norway's hydropower system and the Viemok chemical plant that can produce heavy water, and the shares of this chemical plant Half of it is controlled by the Zenchen Corporation, which has special relations with the Chinese Communist Party.
Although the Central Military Intelligence Department had blown up the main equipment of the plant and destroyed the existing heavy water before the Germans launched their lightning attack, this situation still attracted the special attention of His Majesty Hua Huang.
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"Compared with the four hours it took the German army to attack Denmark and Norway, the results of the Central Defense Forces of the Chinese Empire that took two years to capture Tokyo in the war with Japan are extremely gloomy and completely disproportionate to the overall strength of the Imperial Central Defense Forces.
There are many reasons for this. First of all, Japan's military power is many times stronger than that of Denmark and Norway. It is fully qualified to be among the top ten powers in the world. Its navy was ranked second or third in the world before the war. The level of three; secondly, the military strength of the Imperial Central Defense Force was too dispersed at the beginning of the war. The Imperial Army's total strength before the war was only the same as that of the Nazi German army, but the area of ??territory it needed to defend was more than 25 times that of the Nazi German army. The scattered military deployment It is completely unfavorable for the empire to concentrate enough troops to launch a large-scale attack against the Japanese army.
These situations gradually changed as the war continued to develop, especially after General Chen Wu replaced General Cai E as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Defense Forces. This series of situations have been greatly improved. In the field of military tactics, Chen Wu General Wu also made a large number of organizational and equipment adjustments for the Korean and Japanese battlefields, and his breakthroughs in the fields of air-ground integration and combined battalion tactics were significantly ahead of the world's military level.
After capturing Nagano Prefecture, Zhang Zizhong's Third Army captured Tokyo within 12 hours. On March 28, before the Northern Allied Forces concluded the Ural Campaign, the 4th Airborne Division of the Northeastern Defense Force occupied Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and captured the Japanese Emperor Showa and his wife Other members of the imperial family, as well as most top officials in the Japanese military base and Japan's wartime government, essentially ended the two-year war.
Japan is just like that.
Emperor Song Biao can now basically understand that for the US military at that time, conquering the Japanese mainland was not an impossible task, and what the US lacked was just the opportunity to use nuclear weapons to prove its world hegemony. What the US military preached The news about Japan's crazy bellicosity and martial prowess not only proves the legitimacy of the United States' use of nuclear weapons, but also makes Japan feel supremely glorious and even proud of defeat.
Senior General Chen Wu, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Defense Force, is also paying attention to the incident of the cruiser Rasht, because it will mean the issue of whether China and Britain formally declare war, but for him, the most important job at the moment is to accept Japan's Unconditional surrender.
After the occupation of Tokyo, the frontline headquarters of the Northeastern Defense Forces was moved from Busan to the former Army Staff Headquarters in Chiyoda District, Tokyo, where the former Japanese base camp was located.
Chen Wu had sufficient occupation rights, allowing him to handle various affairs in Japan in the way he thought was right. For example, he approved the return of the Japanese royal family and its members to the Japanese Imperial Palace for temporary residence, in order not to cause trouble for the imperial family in the future. , he also rejected the inner court's proposal to return the Japanese Imperial Palace to the central imperial family of the empire.
At present, the ownership of the Japanese Imperial Palace and other government and military agencies belongs to the Post-War Maintenance Department of the Northeast Defense Force.
After a half-hour meeting with Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, Chen Wu agreed that Mitsumasa Yoneuchi should continue to serve as the prime minister of Japan's provisional government. On behalf of Japan's acceptance of unconditional surrender, Chen Wu vetoed the Japanese Prime Minister or the Chief of Military Staff's request. Fang proposed and firmly demanded that the Japanese Emperor surrender to him unconditionally as the commander-in-chief of Japan.
The whole of Japan is worried about whether Emperor Showa will be listed as a war criminal by the Tohoku Defense Forces. In order to avoid this, both Emperor Showa, the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army, Prince Higashino Minuhiko, and the interim Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yoneuchi are actively asking for forgiveness.
In the past half yearHere, the first thing Emperor Showa does every morning is to walk to the Northeast Defense Force General Headquarters in person to pay homage to General Chen Wu, but these things are of little significance. As we all know, the prerogative of deciding this matter lies with His Majesty the Emperor. hands.
Although the whole of Japan seems to have a strong desire not to allow the emperor to be included in the trial court under any circumstances, Japan seems very peaceful after the war is basically over. The war investigation team dispatched by the Central Military Department has arrived in Tokyo two days ago , began to receive and investigate various Japanese official records to confirm the list of all war criminals who were about to be tried.
¡°According to His Majesty¡¯s proposal, the final court-martial will be set up in Seoul. Multinational judges appointed by the Asian Alliance will be responsible for the operation of the international tribunal and will ultimately determine the specific crimes and sentences of Japanese war criminals.
For Japan, the past half month has been the most humiliating and peaceful half month. Japan as a whole has been far away from the war, and the war compensation they have to bear is destined to be an astronomical figure.
This will all end.
After witnessing the destruction of Japan from across Vladivostok, Emperor Song Biao took a special plane back to Beijing and began to truly deal with various post-war matters.
On the day he returned to the Central Palace, he received the draft of the "Japan's Unconditional Surrender Decree" submitted by the Central Military Commission for National Defense. This announcement will be sent to the world by the Japanese Emperor Showa himself via radio two days later. After that, The Showa Emperor will also formally abdicate and be placed under the supervision of the Military War Criminals Administration.
No matter how the Japanese plan this matter, the will of the empire is firm and unshakable. The Japanese emperor system must end. Whether to deal with it as a war criminal is left to be discussed in the future.
The Sino-Japanese War and the Sino-Soviet War are basically over. The only opponents that need to be considered by the empire are Britain and Germany.
It was already very late, and Song Biao felt a little tired after a day of flying during the day, but he still found time to deal with the matter at night.
"Japan's Unconditional Surrender Decree" has been revised three times. In addition to China's various reasons for revision, Japan has also proposed several corrections, but their opinions are basically invalid.
The draft of the announcement submitted to Emperor Song Biao had been forwarded to the Japanese delegation before being sent to it. The Japanese side also raised many objections that had been emphasized several times before, because whether the amendments proposed by Japan could ultimately be The key to getting China's permission depends on whether Song Biao can accept it.
Japan currently raises many objections, and tens of thousands of them converge on one point, which is that they hope to adopt the "Japan Armistice Edict" drafted by Japan. Song Biao has seen two versions of Japan's "Armistice Edict", although he directly said it from the beginning. After rejecting the matter, Japan still worked very hard but not very diligently to revise the second draft and submitted it to him.
There is basically no difference between the two versions, except that "I take the liberation of the Kingdom of Korea as my own duty and want to promote peace in Asia The whole country is united, the national system will last forever, and the Chinese state will not be destroyed I vow to carry forward the essence of the national system and not fall behind the world's culture. "You, my subjects, must restrain themselves according to my will" and so on.
¡° To put it bluntly, Japan just does not admit that it is the instigator of the war. In the words of Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, both China and Japan are responsible for this war.
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Looking back at the pre-war period, although China asked Japan to grant independence to Korea, it did not have any plans to take military action on the Korean Peninsula, nor did it make any statement in this regard. The outbreak of the third Sino-Japanese War was entirely due to Japan. In order to ensure the colonial power over Korea, it was caused by the risky sneak attack on China's Sanduao Naval Base.
Now that this is the case, Japan still refuses to admit its mistakes. It just refuses to admit that it initiated the war.
Two words to describe Japan and Japanese people - shameless.
The "Japanese Surrender Decree" drafted by the Imperial Central Cabinet for Emperor Showa of Japan was much stricter. First, it recognized that Japan launched a war to seek colonial rights on the Korean Peninsula. Second, it recognized that Japan was the initiator of chemical warfare. Emperor Showa personally signed it. After receiving this order, Japan¡¯s statement that ¡°the enemy uses cruel bombs to kill innocent people indiscriminately¡± will never be accepted.
The "Japanese Surrender Decree" submitted by the cabinet adheres to principles and does not care about Japan's various sophistry. Gu Weijun, who participated in the drafting work, has already signed the draft of the decree.
After carefully studying the full text of the edict of more than 500 words, Song Biao thought for a long time alone in the imperial study room, and finally signed his opinion - "Continue to fight if you don't accept it", and then shouted to Jiang Shoulin who was accompanying him outside the door. Come here and ask him to immediately send the draft of the approved edict back to the central cabinet so that the cabinet can adhere to China's requirements.
If Japan does not admit surrender, then the fight will continue until all Japanese resistance forces are eliminated.
It¡¯s getting very late now, Chen Jin happened to come to see him and sent over the central government's post-war financial report. After the war was over, the accounts had to be settled.
Seeing that Chen Jin had come over, Song Biao asked him to sit down and wait for a while while he opened the post-war financial report and read it carefully.
After only reading about half of it, Song Biao had to admit that the words of the ancients were indeed based on experience. As the saying goes, "Although a country is strong, if it is warlike, it will perish." Of course, this sentence is more suitable to describe the Empire of Japan.
The financial strength of the empire's central government is unparalleled in the entire world. No other country's government can compare with it. Even so, after the two wars between China and Japan and China and the Soviet Union, the huge military expenditures spent by the central government also made the empire It took a lot of pressure.
Driven by the prosperity of the war, the empire's current gross national product has just exceeded the 300 billion Chinese yuan mark, which is about 1.8 times that of the United States. The total national tax revenue in 1940 was 53.54 billion Chinese yuan, and the total tax revenue of the central government was 32.26 billion Chinese yuan. The central government¡¯s domestic and overseas investment income from state-owned assets (including the income from state-owned asset shares sold by the four major national trust companies) was 11.853 billion yuan, and the net increase in government bonds (newly sold government bonds minus the total amount of maturing government bonds redeemed) was 4.275 billion yuan. The sale of state shares was 1.75 billion yuan, and the central government¡¯s total revenue was 48.388 billion yuan.
In the same year, the central government's total expenditure also reached 48.13 billion yuan, with defense and military expenditures at 13.25 billion yuan, accounting for 27.53% of the actual total expenditures. Total education expenditures were 10.74 billion yuan, accounting for 22.3% of the actual total expenditures. Scientific research and scientific institutions The total expenditure is 5.57 billion yuan.
Among all kinds of expenditures, education funds and national defense expenditures really occupy the most. Education expenditures are fixed every year, while military expenditures in peacetime are usually 10% of the central government¡¯s total revenue, which is About 4.5 billion Chinese yuan.
In the past three years, the central government has been forced to sell more national debt in order to make up for the 6-7 billion extra military spending each year compared to previous years, while ensuring central expenditures on education, scientific research, agricultural subsidies, infrastructure and other normal matters. , and the four major national asset trust companies sell corporate shares held by the central government and government fixed assets at home and abroad.
Over the past three years, the central government has sold a large number of domestic and overseas assets, cashing out a total of 21.55 billion yuan in cash. It sells an average of about 7 billion yuan in assets every year to maintain the central government's fiscal balance.
Before the outbreak of the Third Sino-Japanese War, the central government held a total of 137 billion yuan in overseas claims and domestic and foreign trust assets through the four major national trust companies. With the depreciation of assets and asset sales and reductions caused by the outbreak of the war, by 1941 In April of this year, the central government's total overseas claims and domestic and overseas trust assets had dropped to 98.575 billion yuan.
Although the imperial central government is still the richest government in the world on a global scale, it is indeed greatly reduced compared to 1937.
If the war continues on this scale and lasts for seven or eight years, the huge surplus assets accumulated by the central government in the past thirty years will be wiped out. Therefore, like the United Kingdom, before the outbreak of World War I, the United Kingdom It is definitely the richest country and government in the world. After World War I and World War II, it was still heavily in debt and relied on American relief to live like a year.
??Although a country is strong, if it is warlike, it will perish.
This statement is not false.
Of course, huge military expenditures have been maintained to this day, and the empire has indeed reached an unprecedented peak in terms of military equipment and overall level. Taking the Imperial Army as an example, before the war, the Imperial Army had a total of 14,000 tanks, including 2,000 tanks. Many of them were left over from the Sino-Soviet War and can only be used for daily training. Today, the total number of tanks in active service of the Imperial Army is 175,500, an increase of 12.5 times.
Before the war, the Imperial Army had 200,000 military trucks of various types. After the war, this number expanded to 1.54 million. However, when the total number of army personnel was roughly the same, the number of trucks of the Nazi German Army was only 2/3 of the Empire. , and the Imperial Army has far more infantry armored vehicles, armored reconnaissance vehicles, and self-propelled artillery than the German army, which shows the degree of mechanization of the Imperial Army.
Take the Imperial Air Force as an example. Before the war, the Imperial Air Force had only 1,700 large and medium-sized military transport aircraft and patrol aircraft. By April 1941, the Imperial Air Force had a total of 33,000 aircraft, of which only the S-15/110 series of large transport aircraft were produced. With more than 10,000 aircraft, it is known as the king of imperial transport aircraft. Its rated transport capacity of 3.5 tons can be called a sky train.
The total number of J3\4\5 series fighters of the Imperial Air Force's ace fighter jets has expanded from 7,500 before the war to 34,000 at the current stage. Calculating battle losses, the total production of J-3 series fighters since entering service has exceeded 28,754. , is the most produced fighter aircraft in the world at this stage, followed by the J-4 series of fighters, and the J-402 is the most produced fighter aircraft of a single model. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)