Chapter 82: The Tokyo Armistice
"Do you think so too?" With the acquiescence of Zhao Zhi, the gate of the imperial palace was finally opened, and the invited Konoe Fumima finally met Emperor Hirohito, although Emperor Hirohito's complexion looked very good from time to time, but Konoe Fumima was finally relieved, because the emperor and the ministers were still alive. Knowing that Emperor Hirohito was the only one in the palace at the moment, it was a pity that he didn't dare to hint at his ministers and Konoe Furuma, because the queen and princess were still in Zhao Zhi's hands, and the mercenaries guarding the hall were all loaded with guns, and Emperor Hirohito had no doubt that they would kill people.
"Your Majesty, we still have most of the land in hand, not to mention that they still have Manchuria, even if the United States lands on the mainland, we still have tens of millions of people who can be armed at any time, and they may not be able to control the entire territory smoothly." The cabinet ministers, who had been imprisoned by Zhang Hua for three days, shouted in the main hall in an attempt to persuade Emperor Hirohito to dispel the idea of a complete truce, but Konoe Fumima did not say a word.
No one wants to admit defeat, but the current situation is very unfavorable for Japan, although the Thunder troops attacking the Tokyo city have stopped the offensive momentum, but their forward troops have entered the city, and it is only a matter of time before they control the whole of Tokyo. If it weren't for the Thunder's troops taking the initiative to stop the attack, the volunteers formed by Hideki Tojo would have shed their last drop of blood long ago, and there would be no one left, so what was the use of this city.
Emperor Hirohito frowned, took out the plan left to him by Zhao Zhi, and the excited ministers circulated it, and the clamor finally slowly disappeared, because they were all frightened by Zhao Zhi's generosity, this is to exterminate Japan. If it had been placed three months ago, maybe they would not have believed that they would have experienced the current suffering, but it turned out that Zhao Zhi had done it, and those South Asian natives of Thunder were indeed not very friendly to Japanese civilians, and the number of Japanese civilians who died directly and indirectly at the hands of South Asian natives had already exceeded 200,000, and if Zhao Zhi really came down to wash Japan in blood, these South Asian natives would be the executioners.
If you put it on weekdays. The ministers will still shout and fight with Thunder to the end, but hundreds of thousands of civilians can still afford to die, but now even these high-ranking officials and the emperor have become prisoners of Thunder, as long as Zhao Zhi kills them or turns Tokyo into a dead city, even they dare not think about the consequences. "They say the Americans are working on a powerful superbomb that could destroy buildings and people all of Tokyo with just one, and that for decades to come, there will be no life or life in Tokyo." Emperor Hirohito's voice sounded a little dry, but the content startled Konoe Fumima.
When Zhao Zhi met with Emperor Hirohito, he informed Emperor Hirohito of the news of the atomic bomb, and Zhao Zhi himself did not know whether the Americans had built an atomic bomb now, but this did not affect him to use the atomic bomb as a cover. Japan and Germany are allies, and the news of the Germans' research on the atomic bomb has long been known to Japan, so as long as Zhao Zhi says that the atomic bomb is covered by clouds and mountains as a super bomb, I believe that Emperor Hirohito and his subordinates will directly think of the atomic bomb.
As early as the beginning of the war between Germany and Britain and France, Japanese intelligence officers learned about the Germans' research on atomic energy, but unfortunately the Germans blocked the relevant news very strictly, no matter what conditions the Japanese government throwed, the German government did not let go, but they told Japan the power of the atomic bomb, otherwise Japan would not have to ally with Germany.
The Americans are now fighting on two fronts, but their battle in France is not going well, and the Philippine battlefield is still in the melee stage, so Konoe Fumima is skeptical of the news that the Americans are preparing to carry out an atomic attack on the Japanese mainland. After all, the Americans have not yet heard the news that the atomic bomb has been built, and besides, Thunder is just a mercenary organization, so how could they know about such a secret matter as the United States' research on the atomic bomb, maybe it was just used to scare the emperor.
For a whole day and a night, Emperor Hirohito and his ministers did not come out of the main hall, and the mercenaries who guarded them only sent food and water in every few hours, but what the Japanese discussed, I am afraid that only the mercenaries who served as guards in the main hall would know. Early the next morning, accompanied by Fumima Konoe and cabinet ministers, a depressed Emperor Hirohito stood in front of the microphone, and on the other end of the microphone was the broadcasting equipment transferred by Radio Tokyo, who was going to read the armistice agreement to the whole of Japan and the world today.
Zhao Zhi didn't care about the so-called armistice agreement at all, because the current Tokyo has basically fallen into the expenses of the thunder, and there are no more than 2,000 soldiers still alive in the entire Guards Division, plus those volunteers temporarily formed by Hideki Tojo, Tokyo's defense force is simply not enough to block the joint attack of the Jewish army troops and mercenary forces. Reinforcements from elsewhere had already arrived on the outskirts of Tokyo, but they were greeted not only by Raytheon's machine guns, but also by a large number of Tokyo citizens who were connected by ropes, and if they wanted to enter the city of Tokyo, they had to kill the Japanese civilians who were blocking their attack.
The armistice edict announced by Emperor Hirohito is currently limited to the Japanese mainland, and at the beginning of the cessation of fighting by the local troops, the troops outside the mainland are not allowed to return to the Japanese mainland to rescue, otherwise it will be a new uprising, and the ordinary people are naturally happy to see the local armistice, but those soldiers and civilians who have served in the army do not approve of the emperor's armistice, because as long as they lay down their arms, everything for them will be decided by the thunder, and without weapons, how can they protect their country.
After Fumima Konoe announced his idea at the provisional front meeting, several high-ranking officers committed suicide in anger on the spot, and it was clear that not everyone could accept the fact that Japan was about to surrender. A large number of young officers who heard the news tearfully advised Hideki Tojo and Fumima Konoe to use force to rescue His Majesty the Emperor, but neither Hideki Tojo nor Fumima Konoe, who knew the inside story, dared to agree to this proposal, and once the Americans used the atomic bomb in order to hasten the end of the war, it would only be Japan itself that would suffer.
"The Japanese Empire still has a million well-equipped Kwantung Army, and we can go to Manchuria to continue fighting." A large sa was howling hoarsely, some young officers brandished sabers and pistols in approval of the proposal, and some even shouted the excesses of the national thief Konoe Fumima. Hideki Tojo, who had never said anything, slapped the table and stood up, a piercing pain made him gasp, and Hideki Tojo frowned and shouted, "Yaga, this is the emperor's order, we must obey it." ”
Hideki Tojo took a deep breath and said: "We are soldiers, this war is our move, so it must also be ended by us, although the Thunder army is less than 300,000, but I can tell you clearly and responsibly that those brutal Shina troops did not come to occupy and conquer Japan, they came to end our Yamato nation." Do you think about why they didn't do anything after they raided the palace? They want us to resist to the end, and then take the opportunity to slaughter our civilians, and without the population, what is the use of the empire occupying more countries. ”
"We are glorious soldiers of the Imperial Japan! We will fight to the end for His Majesty the Emperor! "A major general wept bitterly. Konoe Fumima didn't even look at who the major general was, and snorted coldly: "Our family, parents, and friends all live in Japan, and our roots are in Japan, we can't let the entire Japanese Empire fall into endless destruction because of our narrow honor, as long as people are still there, our hope is still there, failure will only be temporary, and we will rise again!" ”
Fortunately, Hideki Tojo was not rigid, and under the deliberate indulgence of him and Fumima Konoe, on the day the emperor read the edict, thousands of soldiers with the idea of fighting to the death scattered all over Japan, and they would be the seeds of Japan's revival, because they believed that as long as people remained, Japan would rise again. Of course, Zhao Zhi was not completely ignorant of these things, but at this time, Zhao Zhi really didn't have any extra time to worry about this, because he wanted to persuade the upcoming US military reinforcements to give up the idea of landing in Japan and go to the Philippines to help in the war.
Emperor Hirohito's armistice edict was only valid for the Japanese mainland, and the edict made it very clear that the armed forces stationed in the Japanese mainland could only be the 2,000 U.S. Marines and Thunder troops under Halsey, and if the Americans wanted to send additional troops into the Japanese mainland, then Japan would fight the Americans to the end. Although this was just the clamor of Japan before its death struggle, in order to end the fighting on the Philippine battlefield as soon as possible, Zhao Zhi believed that the U.S. Congress would eventually agree that there would be no additional troops in Japan in the short term, so that Zhao Zhi would have the time and conditions to relocate those industrial facilities.
"Oh my God, you really did it, it's incredible." The first thing Halsey said when he saw Zhao Zhi was to praise God, and the sneak attack and landing on Tokyo Bay was just an assist in his opinion, and Zhao Zhi's main purpose should still be the Japanese army on the Yamaguchi Prefecture defense line. He did not expect that in just a few days, the whole situation would change, the Japanese emperor really ordered Tokyo to give up resistance, as long as Tokyo gave up resistance, Tokyo Bay would be firmly controlled by his fleet, and the day of surrender of the whole of Japan would naturally not be too far away.
"Okay, I'm here to ask you for help, I have a batch of things to be shipped back to Burma, I hope your fleet won't intercept my fleet when the time comes." Zhao Zhi and Halsey conspired for a morning, and while the Jewish troops were successfully stationed in the city of Tokyo to collect weapons and ammunition, Zhao Zhi and Halsey also reached a secret agreement.