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Volume 1, Urban Management¡¯s American Strategy Chapter 164, Counterattack of the Combined Fleet

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    On July 5, when the Imperial Japanese Government still refused to come forward, the Japanese Kwantung Army Command responded for the first time to the Shanghai Soviet Government¡¯s request for peace talks¡ªbut it was not the request for weakness that the Red Army leaders and the travelers had expected.  and to discuss the negotiations, but instead bluntly raised a series of questions and demands: requiring the Red Army to prove the authenticity of "heavy nuclear fission" and "chain reaction"; requiring the Red Army to prove that the rocket they launched can indeed fly to Osaka  In the end, the Red Army was even asked to send a nuclear weapon sample to Lushun for the Japanese military ordnance industry department to check the authenticity.

    Only when all the above requirements are met, will the Japanese Empire consider whether to engage in ceasefire negotiations with the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army?

    ¡ª¡ªSuch an arrogant, absurd and outrageous negotiation premise completely angered the Red Army leaders and time travelers in Shanghai, and also quickly put the fourth nuclear strike against Japan on the agenda¡ª¡ªand also deliberately selected the currently available  Among the selected nuclear bombs, the one with the largest explosion yield.

    Late at night on July 7, the Fifth Red Front Army in Shanghai launched the fourth nuclear bomb towards Hiroshima, an important town in western Japan.  This hydrogen bomb with the equivalent of 10 million tons of TNT not only razed the entire city of Hiroshima and many surrounding satellite towns to the ground, but also caused millions of people to die in the flames soaring into the sky. At least several hundred acres of land were destroyed.  Burning it into glass it also destroyed the nearby Kure Naval Garrison and Etajima Naval School, destroying the last essence of the Imperial Japanese Navy; and by the way, Itsukushima, which has a history of more than 1,300 years and is known as a world cultural heritage  The shrine was reduced to ashes.

    In addition, the shock wave of this hydrogen bomb also formed a huge wave in the narrow Seto Inland Sea, severely breaking down the dikes, submerging farmland and ports, and sweeping across Japan's Kansai area in one breath  During this period, all railway, road and sea transportation in western Japan were interrupted, and communication links and government governance functions collapsed.  The overwhelming radiation dust caused an ominous black wave to appear in the Seto Inland Sea

    Since the center of the nuclear explosion is a densely populated industrial and commercial center, the scope of nuclear contamination covers less than half of Japan.  The Hiroshima hydrogen bomb caused nearly one million casualties in the first place, and the final death toll is likely to increase to three million or even five million!

    Faced with such a catastrophe that happened on its own land, the arrogant Japanese Imperial Government finally did not dare to continue to put on airs, but it still could not lose face to negotiate a peace with a group of "rebel bandits", so it hinted that the Kwantung Army Headquarters would continue to come forward and test "  China¡¯s Communist Army¡± peace talks terms¡ªspecifically.  It was very irresponsible to say the classic Japanese metaphor to the Kwantung Army: "I don't even know what you have done."

    Therefore, although General Nanjiro, the commander of the Kwantung Army, cursed the military and the government for being a cheat, and worried that he would take the blame and become a scapegoat in the future, he could only bite the bullet and find ways to arrange an alliance with the "China Communist Army".  "Negotiations.

    July 12th.  As the secret envoy of the Japanese army, Kawashima Yoshiko came to Shanghai again with a strange expression on her face and met with Vice Chairman Jin Qina.

    Not to mention the mood of the two Aisin Gioro family princesses in the secret room and what they talked about in detail In short, at 8:30 that night, a letter recorded the negotiation requirements of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.  Urgent telegram.  It was finally sent to the Kwantung Army headquarters in Changchun.

    On this day, the intelligence director Toshiro Kawabe, who had been guarding the door of the telegraph room from morning to night, was already impatient. He immediately grabbed the telegram and hurried to the commander's office.  When he rushed into the floor where General Nanjiro's office was located, everyone's eyes immediately focused on the telegram in his hand.  General Nanjiro, who had also been anxious all day, stepped forward, grabbed the telegram, and rushed into the office. Other officers followed him in regardless of etiquette A few minutes later, General Nanjiro's terrifying roar came from the room.  Able to shatter the glass of every window in the headquarters.  The Kwantung Army generals who had read the terms were immediately filled with indignation and almost overturned the table.

    ¡ª¡ªThe terms of the armistice peace talks with Japan proposed by the Chinese Workers¡¯ and Peasants¡¯ Red Army mainly include the following points:

    1. Abolish all Japan¡¯s unequal treaties with China, return all Japan¡¯s leased territories, and cancel all Japan¡¯s privileges in China;

    2. Abolish the puppet Manchukuo and North China puppet governments, and the Japanese army should hand over the traitors serving in these puppet governments to the Shanghai Red Army;

    3. Return to China all the land plundered since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894.  Including Manchuria, Mongolia, North China, Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan;

    4. Let Korea and Ryukyu regain their independence, but the Pacific islands that Japan previously seized from Germany can continue to be retained;

    5. Pay 500 tons of gold, or equivalent amounts of jade, gems, and silver to the Chinese Workers¡¯ and Peasants¡¯ Red Army.  plus five hundred thousand tons of merchant ships as war reparations;

      6. When the Japanese Empire withdraws its troops, it shall not damage industrial facilities and water conservancy projects in Manchukuo, North Korea, Ryukyu, Taiwan and other places.

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    The above conditions are the basic requirements formed through repeated consultations between the travelers and the Party Central Committee in Guiyang.

    In the eyes of the time-travelers, for the sake of the rejuvenation and rise of China, it is natural to propose these conditions to the Japanese, and they can even be called very lenient - they are just the most conventional compensation for ceding territory, and do not require the Japanese troops to surrender their weapons.  surrender, but allowed them to return home on their own, and did not ask for the trial of war criminals, nor did they ask for the garrison of troops on Japan's four home islands.  After the defeat, Japan is still an independent and normal country. If it must expand its territory, it will still retain the Japanese islands' aggressive direction

    But for the Japanese militarists who have the idea of ??aggression engraved in their bones, such a clause will simply ruin all their dreams since the Meiji Restoration!  Not to mention, this also means that the "civilized and noble" Japanese have to kowtow to the "inferior ethnic groups of China"!

    The most important thing is that even though Tokyo and Osaka have been reduced to scorched earth and the combined fleet has become scrap metal, the Japanese army still does not admit that they are losers!

    Therefore, after a lot of fighting and verbal criticism, Japan's "radicals" and "moderates" finally reached an agreement. On the one hand, they claimed to ignore these "crazy" clauses, and on the other hand, they said they could  The "China Communist Army" made the following "biggest concessions":

    1. The Japanese army can withdraw from North China, Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan and other places, and retreat into the puppet Manchukuo territory north of the Great Wall, basically restoring the confrontation between China and Japan to the state before January 1935. However, according to "Xin  According to the Ugly Treaty, the North China garrison stationed in Tianjin was not included in the retreat.

    2. The Japanese concessions in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places can be abandoned, but the "China Communist Army" must pay 10 billion U.S. dollars in war compensation to Japan.

    3. The "China Communist Army" must disclose the manufacturing process of atomic weapons to the world.  And guaranteed to never be used again.

    4. The "China Communist Army" must follow international practices and recognize all previous Sino-Japanese diplomatic agreements, including the Boxer Indemnity.

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    At the same time, Japanese newspapers also used the banner headline "Blackmail by Red Gangsters" to denounce the "criminal intentions" of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, winning unanimous "sympathy" and praise from many Chinese traitor newspapers and the United Kingdom, France and the United States  Of course, it's just sympathy and praise.

    "Wang Qiu and other time-travelers were shocked after hearing the news.  In response to the crazy talk of the Japanese Empire, we could only sigh, "This nuclear bomb can't be stopped after all," and launched the fifth nuclear bomb this year at Maizuru Fort, about fifty kilometers away from Kyoto and on the edge of the Sea of ??Japan.  Nuclear bomb¡ªa nuclear explosion with the explosive equivalent of 500,000 tons of TNT completely leveled the last major base of the Imperial Japanese Navy on the mainland!

    So.  Mr. Sorge, the Soviet spy who moved to Kyoto with the German Embassy, ??"appreciated" the mushroom cloud coming from the northwest for the second time on the afternoon of July 17, following the Osaka nuclear explosion that occurred half a month ago.  The sky above is rising slowly

    At this point, facing a devastating catastrophe that cannot be resisted by human power, Japan has fallen into a huge panic.

    Despite this, the Japanese Empire, which was completely driven into madness, still did not surrender.  Instead, they are intensively planning a desperate counterattack

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    7.4 degrees north latitude, Western Pacific, Caroline Islands, Truk Atoll

    ¡ª¡ªThe beautiful and tranquil lagoon is like the purest emerald, surrounded by the arms of a string of coral reef islands.

    Truk Island is a volcanic island surrounded by coral reefs, located in the center of the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific.  It is an irregular triangle, each side is sixty-four kilometers long, and in the middle is a lagoon with a diameter of thirty to forty nautical miles.  In the center of the lagoon, there are twelve volcanic islands. Although they are only 300 to 500 meters high, they are steep and towering.  It feels very majestic, so it is also called "Mountain in the Clouds".

    all in all.  For navigators, this is an extremely ideal natural berthing ground. It can accommodate many large ships to berth, and there are six channels for ships to enter and exit.  No matter how big the storm is outside.  The lagoon of "Mountain in the Clouds" is still calm.  What's even better is that due to its special geographical environment, invading enemies from outside cannot conduct naval gun attacks on Truk at all.  Because each of the main islands of the atoll is located in a hidden reef, which is a mountain system sunk into the coral circle, it can only be attacked from the air - it can be said thatA natural naval fortress!

    In addition, Truk Island is also the core of the Caroline Islands. It is located at the strategic point in the western Pacific and has a very important strategic position. As long as a fleet can hold Truk, the east can suppress the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, and the south can threaten it.  New Guinea and the Solomon Islands can protect the line from Palau to the Philippine Islands in the west, and can serve as a barrier to the Ogasawara Islands, Mariana Islands and even the Japanese Islands in the north.

    As an affiliated island of the Philippine Islands, the Caroline Islands were originally part of the Spanish Philippine Colony.  However, because Spain lost the Philippines in the Spanish-American War, its national power was greatly weakened, and it was no longer able to rule several remote islands thousands of miles away, so it had to sell these islands to the Germans in the early 20th century.  After the outbreak of World War I, Truk Atoll ushered in a new owner: the Imperial Japanese Navy.

    Since then, Truk Atoll has become the main anchorage for the Imperial Japanese Navy out of the South Pacific. The Japanese Combined Fleet has spent huge sums of money to carry out large-scale port construction on Truk, turning it into a complete fortress and turning it into a fortress.  Touted as the "Gibraltar of the Pacific."

    At this desperate moment when all the four major naval garrison buildings in the mainland were destroyed by nuclear explosions, and the British-style red brick "red tile" building of the Tokyo Naval Ministry was also covered by radioactive dust, the Truk Atoll, located in remote tropical equatorial waters,  The fleet has become the Japanese navy's last hope for survival.

    ¡ª¡ªThe battleship Yamashiro, the aircraft carrier Hosho, the heavy cruiser Myoko, the light cruiser Yubari, twelve destroyers, a seaplane carrier and several auxiliary transport vessels.  The total tonnage is less than 200,000 tons, and most of the warships are old ships However, except for a small number of light ships scattered in Hokkaido, Port Arthur, North Korea, Taiwan and other places, the Imperial Japanese Navy almost only has this wealth left.  Got it!

    ?Think back to just three short months ago.  The grand scene of the Japanese combined fleet with its forest of masts and flying flags is truly lamentable.

    On this breezy tropical summer night, the Southern Cross in the sky looks particularly bright.

    On a seaside square surrounded by coconut trees in the Truk Naval Base, officers and soldiers of the Japanese Navy's Truk Squadron were attending a grand open-air banquet - a buffet-style banquet with a band playing lively jazz.  , there are colorful "jinv" flirting and showing off their beauty, and the table at the banquet is full of fresh lobster and tuna.  As well as sweet and delicious tropical fruits, fragrant Western-style steaks and pork chops, as well as a variety of exquisite Japanese and Western pastries, and unlimited supply of sugar cane wine, whiskey, beer and Japanese sakeeven the most serious and stereotyped ones.  People, at this time, also unbuttoned their collars and indulged in dissipation, drinking, singing, and having fun

    Because this is the last farewell drink before the whole fleet sets off - amid laughter and laughter.  Hidden with endless sadness.

    Regardless of the success or failure of this battle, this last mobile fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy will never return to the Truk anchorage.

    "Come, officers and men of the Imperial Navy, cheers! I would like to congratulate you all on your victory in advance. Next time, we will celebrate on the banks of the Huangpu River!"

    Lieutenant Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, who was sent by the Army to contact him, raised his glass, looked around at the naval officers and soldiers, and laughed.  Drink it all in one gulp, "I will attack with courage and determination, and fight with righteousness and blood in Shanghai. If this battle is not successful, I will be benevolent! Everyone! Let's meet again under the cherry blossom tree of Yasukuni Shrine!"

    After a brief silence, there was a burst of cheers from all around In the contagious fanatic speech of Lieutenant Colonel Tsuji Masanobu, the long-standing gap between the navy and the army seemed to have been eliminated a lot.

    ¡ª¡ªThis is also the dispute between the navy and the army when half of Japan has been reduced to a scorched earth in hell.  What does it mean?

    The top commander of the Truk Squadron, Major General Chuichi Nagumo, who had just been promoted to the front line, also raised his glass to greet everyone: "This battle is an important moment that determines the survival of the empire. The navy and army must cooperate sincerely and do their best.  Go ahead and make no mistakes! The naval officers and soldiers must display their sacrificial attack spirit as the last fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Do not let down the expectations of all the people!"

    ¡ª¡ªAccording to the latest order from the Navy Ministry, Rear Admiral Nagumo Chuichi will soon lead all the ocean-going ships stationed at Truk Atoll, weigh anchor and head north to Keelung, Taiwan, where they will join the few remaining destroyers and light cruisers in the country.  Then carry all the army troops that can be scavenged at the moment and go straight to Shanghai No matter how much sacrifice and price you pay, you must destroy the evil nest that is constantly launching nuclear weapons towards the mainland of the Imperial Kingdom!

    ¡ª¡ªFortunately among misfortunes, even under the current situation, the Japanese Empire still controls the sea along the coast of China.

    Although this battle is almostIt was a hasty battle and was surrounded by dangers, but Major General Nagumo Chuichi also understood the difficulties at home.  He knew what appalling peace negotiation conditions those Chinese Communist troops had offered to the empire, and he also understood what kind of fate Japan would face once this war failed.  He also knew that everything the Imperial Japanese Navy had painstakingly built, from the Etajima Naval School to the four major garrison buildings, as well as the red-brick naval building in Tokyo, had been completely destroyed In this case, why not take the final maneuver?  Fleet, how about another bet on the outcome?

    Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh, and softly hummed a song that every Japanese naval officer was familiar with:

    ¡°¡­We are the cherry blossoms of the same period, blooming at the Naval Academy.

    No matter how brilliant the cherry blossoms are, they will wither soon"

    The next day, the bright morning sun rose between the mountains of Truk Island, giving the deck of the battleship a golden light.  The sailors on each ship began to work in an orderly manner, locking the watertight compartments and fireproof partitions. All dispensable items were disassembled and hurriedly sent to the shore.

    Then, the crew members returned to their respective cabins to tidy up the housekeeping.  The sailors put on new clothes, shaved their heads, cut their nails, wrapped their hair and nails in a suicide note, and inserted a page of uniform letter paper printed by the Navy.  He wrote: "I want to go home and see my parents when I am alive. Now that my parents see my hair and fingernails, they should see me in person." Some people even put some money in the suicide note.

    As for those officers and soldiers whose family members had died in the nuclear explosion, according to the samurai tradition of loving "jinv", they gave all their savings to geishas, ??beautiful waitresses or proprietresses of various bars on the shore. " Anyway, I'm afraid this yen  It will become waste paper soon, take it and spend it as soon as possible!"

    When everything was ready, Major General Nagumo Chuichi finally wore the most gorgeous military uniform and boarded the bridge of the flagship "Yamashiro".  He first took one last nostalgic look at the scenery of Truk, the "Mountain in the Clouds", and then issued an order: "Target, Shanghai! Attack!"
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