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    Chapter 225: First Quarter of 2041

    Compared with Japan¡¯s powerful surface warships, Japan¡¯s submarines and anti-submarine are much inferior.  It is impossible to win a naval war with submarines, but for an island country like Japan, everything has to be transported back from outside and there is no safe sea route, which is really terrible.  There have been more than ten incidents of merchant ships being sunk in succession, and the cumulative tonnage sunk is close to half a million tons.  The chaebols in Japan are already going crazy, and they will probably go crazy soon.

    What the Japanese Navy can do before the final plan is released is to send out destroyers and light cruisers as much as possible to attack submarines in a targeted manner.  However, the Japanese Navy's anti-submarine capability is really bad. It can only intimidate submarines during the day, but they have nothing to do at night, and submarines can attack unscrupulously.  Now that Japanese shipping has implemented a total blackout, the routes it takes have changed back and forth. They don't dare to take the normal route at all, but instead take the windy and rough North Pacific. Not to mention, it's a long way to go in a circle.  It's not safe for thousands of kilometers.

    This unsafe factor is not only a natural factor, but also an upcoming perceived factor - the Sino-US Joint Task Force.  Although the Pacific Fleet suffered heavy losses, all the main battleships were lost, and the strength of other battleships was still there.  In view of this, the Chinese Navy proposed to form a joint task force to concentrate the two countries' treaty heavy patrols, use the speed advantage to move around the sea, and specialize in attacking Japan's maritime transportation lines.  In other words, even if the Japanese merchant ships take a long detour, the Chinese navy has no intention of letting it go.

    The United States readily agreed to this request and sent two Pensacola-class heavy patrol ships.  There are two Portland-class heavy patrol ships, together with four Chinese Zhujiang-class heavy patrol ships.  Using Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as its foothold, it took turns traveling up the North Pacific.  As for the route from the Philippines to Ryukyu, there are submarines from the Chinese Navy watching, and the United States is not interfering with it. It is said that the United States is still having a headache over German submarines.  The heavy cruisers of both countries are treaty ships, characterized by high speed and a range of more than 10,000 nautical miles, and the main gun caliber is 203.

    There is such a fleet, Japan's North Pacific route.  Things will get a bit uneven soon.

    Of course, at the beginning of the war, the leading roles were the air force and submarines.  The Chinese Air Force's strategic bombing of Japan is destined to be a long-term operation. The first daytime sneak attack was successful with many results, but the next time it was not so good.  Soon the Air Force received an order from the General Staff Headquarters, requiring the bombing of Japan to be carried out at night, so that the altitude could be appropriately lowered to increase the hit rate of the bombing.

    For this order.  The General Staff emphasized that it was the President's will, and the Air Force could only resolutely obey. No one would question the President's correctness.  In fact, Fang Jianxiong suddenly thought of it. Historically, it seems that the United States' high-altitude bombing of Japan was not very effective at the beginning. Later, Li Mei conducted night bombing, and after lowering the altitude, the bombing really made Japan cry like a ghost.  Now that you know the history.  There is no need to repeat mistakes.  So the Air Force's bombing was changed to night, and there had been targeted training before, so the bomber force was no stranger to this.

    After experiencing the last bombing, the Air Force quickly summed up its experience and concluded that it was for bombers.  Japanese fighter jets did not pose much of a threat. The biggest threat came from ground artillery fire.  So night bombing is feasible.  Well, although the President is always right, everyone has carefully conducted scientific analysis and research on this matter to make the President's theory more complete and convincing.  In fact, even if it is wrong, it is estimated that the Air Force people can find the correct place and amplify it infinitely.  Who made the Air Force known as the president's "son"?  Which appropriations and national debt sales didn't focus on the Air Force first?

    On the day the Battle of Tashkent ended, the Air Force launched another large-scale air raid. 800 B-17 bombers and 190 B-29 bombers taking off from two air force bases in Qingdao and Lushun arrived over the Japanese archipelago at 10:33 at night.  , this time the bombing target was Nagoya, which is the manufacturing center of Japanese aircraft.

    The thumping anti-aircraft guns decorated the sky into a magnificent scene of meteors. For bombers, this scene was not fun at all.  Descend to 5,000 feet and drop 3,000 tons of napalm bombs.  The aircraft manufacturing center was burned to ashes during this air strike, causing more than 30,000 casualties. The Chinese Air Force shot down 16 B-17 bombers and injured 33. Other aircraft returned safely.

    For Japan, this kind of bombing is an unsolvable problem. The distance between China and Japan is too close. The B-29s taking off from Qingdao and Lushun can carry eight tons of napalm at a time, so it is not a big deal to fly back and forth.  The B-17 is a little worse. It carries a four-ton napalm bomb, and it will be fatal if dropped.

    What's even worse is that this kind of bombing is continuous. Three days after the bombing of Nagoya, the shipbuilding center of Kobe was visited by 300 B-29 bombers, which still left a huge fire and a mess on the ground, with countless casualties and then fled.  .  And on this day, Tokyo had a false alarm. Three B-17s dropped countless leaflets.Notify the Japanese in a formal way that next time we will bomb Tokyo, everyone should prepare in advance.

    The power of this leaflet was astonishing. One hundred thousand Japanese fled Tokyo with their families and families the next day. The casualties caused by the last major bombing in Tokyo were so tragic that the Japanese had nightmares even when they slept.  The act of throwing leaflets was shamelessly called mercy by the Chinese media!

    An even more shameless thing happened next. Three days after dropping the leaflets, bombers flew over Japan again, but this time they bombed not Tokyo, but Kobe. The consequences of this bombing were that 350,000 people were homeless.  Returned, more than 23,000 people died in the bombing.

    Japan is crazy!  "If we don't take the initiative to attack, the Japanese will all die. Where is our navy? Where is our air force? Where is our army? The huge amount of national funds consumed every year is the result of these casualties and property losses?" Japan's famous  The newspaper "Asahi Shimbun" published this comment on the front page, criticizing the military's inaction.

    When the entire Japanese public is boiling with resentment, the Military and Navy Ministries are blocked by angry citizens and yelled at every day.

    The bombing caused huge panic in the four islands of Japan. In Tokyo alone, nearly one million people fled the city.  And this is just the beginning for the Japanese.  The next week.  Not a single bomber came, which puzzled Japan.  Why didn't it explode?  This unscientific!

    In fact, the Chinese Air Force at this time.  Currently busy receiving U.S. aid for B-29 bombers, Huabo Company's annual production is only 1,000 B-17s and 300 B-29s. After stopping the production of B-17s, the annual production of B-29s is only 500.  After several air strikes, the air force suffered considerable losses, and the napalm bombs were exhausted, so the bombing could only be temporarily stopped.

    The first phase of U.S. aid to China has indeed increased its transportation efforts in recent times.  All 500 B-29 bombers arrived in Yangon in less than half a month, and then the Chinese Air Force took over and flew to Qingdao and Lushun.  The United States also shipped 10,000 tons of napalm that China urgently needed to Yangon. The strong productivity of American imperialism was fully reflected. These 10,000 tons of napalm were almost China's annual output.  The factory in the United States only received the order and completed it in one month.  Of course, the main reason why it can be produced so quickly is that the orders were submitted by the Chinese army half a year ago.  At that time, China had not yet declared war on Japan, and Fisher had a considerable stake in the company that produced napalm.

    The war caused the U.S. military industry to develop by leaps and bounds, and a large number of new production lines came online.  A large number of new shipyards were built, and Detroit's automobile companies received orders for 300,000 heavy-duty trucks from China before the outbreak of World War II. Because of these orders, the American automobile industry has been developing rapidly.  All right.  Fang's youngest son's fortune is getting richer and richer because of these orders.  but.  Now the shares of these companies belong to someone Fang, and the profits gained every year are consumed by Fang Jianxiong in large quantities by purchasing Chinese government bonds.  In the past two decades, the Chinese government has issued 3 billion in national debt in the United States, more than half of which is locked in Fang Jianxiong's safe.  Many times, Fang Jianxiong has been thinking about burning these national debts before he dies.  In the end, Fang Jianxiong decided to hold a ceremony to return the national debt to the country before the next election.  Since you are already the "Sage Fang" in folklore, let's continue to play this role.

    Two weeks after the declaration of war against Japan, a fleet composed of four treaty heavy cruisers Pearl River, Minjiang, Ganjiang, and Xin'anjiang quietly left Taiwan's Keelung Port and sailed into the vast sea.  The mission of this fleet is very clear. It sails to Hawaii, and after returning to the US military, it forms a joint task force and takes turns to attack Japan's newly opened North Pacific route.

    These heavy patrols were urgently equipped with new radars, which can detect targets at sea fifty kilometers away.  Because of the country's attention and early start, China's radar technology and sonar technology are temporarily ahead of the world.  But this is nothing to be proud of. In fact, there are not many things that China's science and technology can take advantage of. The technology that President Fang Da is really looking forward to is still brewing deep in a desert in Xinjiang.

    In the first three months of 1941, there was not much good news for the Soviet Union, but there was not much bad news.  Not counting Tashkent, which is hanging outside, it has been abandoned long ago anyway.  What puzzled Big Beard was that even if China declared war on Germany, Little Beard did not seem to have any intention of forming an alliance with the Soviet Union. The two sides only carried out in-depth cooperation on some military and economic issues.

    In fact, Mustache also doesn¡¯t understand. He was beaten like a dog by the Chinese. Why didn¡¯t Comrade Joseph take the initiative to seek an alliance with Germany?  We can pinch Britain and the United States in the Middle East.  Both sides wanted to take the initiative, but ended up waiting for the other to speak first.

    In fact, Joseph doesn't think much about the future of Hou Mustache, which is why he has not made up his mind yet. Although the cooperation between the two countries was very close before, the Germans have carried out advanced fighter technology, radar technology, and tank technology to a certain extent.  ?The degree of transfer resulted in the Soviet Black Sea Fleet.  The problem is that the Soviet Union's naval strength is just that. Hitler plans to rely on the Black Sea Fleet and the French Fleet to solve the problem of landing in the UK. With the early entry of the United States into the war, this matter will become obsolete.  Now these warships are ensuring the route to Africa. Oil is indeed pumping out of Libya, which makes Mustache wake up laughing several times in his sleep.

    There are two different concepts: a mustache with plenty of oil and a mustache without enough oil. Germany in parallel history was not an ordinary hardship because of energy constraints.  Now Hitler dared to pat his chest and say that if he formed another hundred armored divisions, I would be able to produce enough oil.  As for the little bit of oil in Romania, Hitler had long looked down upon it.  No troops were sent to fight Romania, nor did Hitler have any interest in fighting the Balkans.  Instead, they sent troops to occupy Greece.  Block the exits of the Mediterranean Sea with Italy.

    The whole world has been in chaos. The two camps are deliberately thinking about how to kill each other. As long as they are effective, they will use all kinds of bad tricks.  German submarines used wolf-pack tactics in the Atlantic Ocean to nearly overwhelm Britain and the United States. Before the first quarter of 1941 had passed, they had already sunk a million-ton merchant ship.  Churchill's scanty hair was almost falling out, and his forehead was getting brighter and brighter.  Roosevelt's blood pressure was also on the rise, and the Chinese were dragging their feet on the transfer of sonar technology.  Let Roosevelt want to kill that bastard "dictator" named Fang with one shot.

    The main battlefield for Britain and the United States on land is now Africa. After Rommel crossed the Egyptian border, he collided with the US military.  Compared with the fighting skills, the American emperor was much worse. In one encounter, Rommel defeated three infantry divisions and one armored division. If there were not enough backup, they would have blocked Rommel's army.  Now it was time for Rommel to march toward Alexandria singing.

    Rommel suffered because of his logistical problems and his pig teammate Italy who was holding him back.  Every time I expected Italy to do something good, I was always disappointed.  Now the entire Italian African Corps was directly abandoned by Rommel, leaving the Italian Corps responsible for logistical issues and the care of prisoners of war.  Even in such a job, Italians often make mistakes.  Soldiers cannot fight.  He is very good at using the opportunity of managing logistics to make money and water.

    There has been no fighting for almost a month. Rommel has only advanced 300 kilometers. The armored forces' fuel supplies and ammunition cannot keep up, so they can only stop and wait.  On the other hand, the US imperialists have not yet mastered the skills of fighting.  But there is absolutely no problem with logistics. Instead, the troops grow a little with every battle.  Fighting on the border between Egypt and Libya.  Patton commanded his 2nd Armored Division and severely damaged Rommel's 15th Armored Division.  This also directly resulted in considerable losses of armored forces on both sides.  For the United States, tank losses were replenished quickly, but for Rommel it was not so fast.  German submarines roamed the Atlantic Ocean, and many British and American battleships and aircraft carriers were vegetarian.  The main focus of the German Navy is no longer the Sea Lion Project, but also efforts to maintain the replenishment and supplies of the Afrika Korps.  The battle between the two sides at sea was also extremely fierce. At this time, the ace of the German Navy appeared two months earlier than in history.

    We first took a northerly course, then a northwesterly course, successfully passed through the Norwegian Sea without incident, headed towards Greenland, and sailed towards the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland, which is the entrance to the Atlantic Ocean.  Because the fleet's route was so close to the Arctic Circle, British air reconnaissance failed to detect the Germans.  Since the Germans' main target was convoys, L¨¹tjens hoped to sneak into the Atlantic with the help of dense fog.

    Unlike the parallel history, because the German Navy temporarily changed the code on a whim, the Bismarck was not discovered and rushed into the Atlantic Ocean.  This time, Britain was pushed to a dead end. It was really impossible to live a life with the entire Atlantic route under the threat of such battleships.

    Britain's bad luck continued. As soon as the Bismarck entered the Atlantic, it encountered a British merchant fleet, a total of fifteen freighters. They hoisted the white flag under the huge guns of the Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, and then  The personnel boarded the boat and found their own way home.  The Bismarck was not even willing to waste its shells, and it was the Prinz Eugen that used torpedoes to sink these merchant ships.

    ¡°At this time, the United Kingdom and the United States no longer cared about the African route, and quickly mobilized all available forces. The United States dispatched two aircraft carriers, and all the big guys in the British Navy were aboard.

    ¡°At a time when the world is in chaos, the Polish government-in-exile made a ¡°small request¡± to China through its connections in the UK, asking the Chinese government to recognize the legitimacy of the Polish government-in-exile in London.

    I don¡¯t know if it was because of forgetfulness. When the Chinese government declared war on Germany, Italy and Japan, it recognized de Gaulle¡¯s ¡°Free France¡± but did not mention the Polish government-in-exile.  So the Polish government-in-exile felt that China had forgotten and we reminded it.  Anyway, everyone is in the same camp now.After admitting it, maybe we can get some help or something.

    British Ambassador Johnson found Wang Chonghui after receiving this task. This matter is not big, but it is no small matter related to national diplomacy.  Wang Chonghui hurriedly went to report to President Fang Da.

    Fang Jianxiong looked ugly when he heard this. Poland is a country that really doesn¡¯t have the slightest favor.  First of all, let¡¯s talk about the senses. The young lady¡¯s life as a maid was that she was enslaved before the First World War. She finally became independent, but she took the initiative to find trouble and went to fight the Soviet Union, and she was beaten up for being dishonest.  There is no big grudge between China and Poland in this time and space, but during the Paris Peace Conference in parallel history, Poland was the first country to come out to support Japan in taking over German interests in Shandong. In the Songhu Anti-Japanese War in parallel history, Poland was a member of the League of Nations.  The only country that supports Japan.  President Fang Da, who knows history, has not forgotten this matter, so when he declared war last time, he deliberately did not mention Poland.

    Things from the two time-spaces are mixed together, President Fang is very grudge-y, and the hatred from the previous time-space continues to this time-space.

    "Ignore him and just say that China doesn't know that Poland exists in the world. A government-in-exile that wants China to recognize it, is it still thinking about some assistance? This country is not strong enough, and it is very hard-working. It is defeated by the Soviet Union and  If the Germans team up to destroy each other, they are asking for it." Fang Jianxiong said something angrily, which made Wang Chonghui a little dumbfounded. Isn't this a bit too childish?

    "President, you don't do diplomacy like that." This was a bit direct. The main reason was that Wang Chonghui felt that the matter was not serious and could be used as a strong point.  President Fang Da smacked his lips again and again, and finally said: "You can find excuses, you can say whatever you want, anyway, China will not recognize the Polish government in exile now, nor will it give a penny of aid to the Polish government in exile."

    Wang Chonghui smiled helplessly, and decided to turn to the President: "President, I don't know where Poland has offended you, but I still suggest that it is better to recognize the Polish government in exile. As for assistance, just send me a threesome  Forget it is a good deal. After all, we are fighting Germany in the same camp."

    Fang Jianxiong thought of the Katyn massacre, but unfortunately he didn¡¯t have any clear evidence. Otherwise, some Polish scientists could be fooled into this matter.  What Wang Chonghui said was reasonable, Fang Jianxiong thought for a while: "Then admit it."

    In the face of national interests, personal feelings still made concessions.

    U.S. Ambassador Hurley came to visit again. After meeting President Fang Da, he implicitly expressed the U.S. government¡¯s firm support for China¡¯s move to bomb Japan back to the Stone Age.  If Hawaii hadn't been too far away for the U.S. imperialists' planes to pass, the U.S. emperors themselves would have wanted to blow up Hawaii to satisfy their hatred.

    Afterwards, Hurley said that the U.S. Navy would not be able to go to war in the short term and hoped that China would understand. At the same time, he hoped that China would complete the transfer of sonar technology and radar technology as soon as possible.  Hurley also couldn't figure out why the Chinese were willing to invest huge financial resources to develop these relatively obscure technologies first.

    Especially for ship-based radars, the Chinese radar is not only smaller, but also has a detection range 20 kilometers farther than the radar produced by the United States.  Not to mention sonar technology, the United States is still in a relatively early stage. Otherwise, there is no good way to deal with German submarines?

    Fang Jianzhi said that the US emperor had better not come to the South Pacific for a stroll. In the future, it would be better for everyone to have half of the Pacific. If the US emperor wants to treat it as a lake, China will definitely not agree.  Fang Jianxiong pretended that he would urge the transfer of relevant technologies and dismissed the person.  From the bottom of his heart, Fang Jianxiong was wary of the United States. Especially the fact that the United States did not declare war on the Soviet Union made Fang Jianxiong extremely angry.  Even though we are not allies, we are still thinking about this and that.  From a rational point of view, the United States not declaring war on the Soviet Union would indeed be beneficial to the interests of its allies, but not beneficial to China's interests.

    After sending Hurley away, Fang Jianxiong met Zhao Hao who came in a hurry. Zhao Hao brought a very important intelligence. The Japanese Army's combat plan came out to launch an attack from North Korea and hit China's heavy industrial base in Northeast China.  In order to achieve this strategic goal, the Japanese Army is constantly adding troops to North Korea. For fear of being discovered, they always choose to set off later in the afternoon and arrive in North Korea after dark.  In order to cooperate with this plan, the Japanese Navy is planning to block the Bohai Bay with mines.  The Japanese navy really doesn't have the strength to penetrate the Bohai Bay now, so it can only block it.
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