"The Great Japanese Empire is onboard! His Majesty the Emperor is onboard! "The whole of Japan was filled with a festive atmosphere, and countless people poured into the streets to shout loudly.

Everywhere there were excited Japanese people walking along the road in costumes and carrying national flags. The whole of Japan was plunged into an atmosphere of revelry, and in the eyes of almost all the Japanese, the final victory of the Great Japanese Empire would be a certainty!

The unfavorable news on the battlefield in China was deliberately concealed by the media and the Japanese government. They trumpeted their victories in the Pacific and Southeast Asian theaters, and most prominently Yamashita Fumi's victory in Malaya was the annihilation of the British defenders with more than 50,000 men in two divisions.

The photos of Bai Sihua's surrender and the photos of the captured British and Australian troops were widely publicized, and even the news spread that the Japanese Emperor Hirohito was going to hold a military parade outside the imperial city and commend those generals who had distinguished themselves in the Pacific and Southeast Asian theaters.

The major newspapers in Japan immediately reported the news, and this caused bursts of cheers!

"The overall situation of the Greater East Asia War has been decided; The capture of Singapore in just three days is a feat that only our Shenwu Imperial Army can ......" This is a report published in the newspaper, and there is no shortage of praise on it. That frenzied writing is now flooded with newspapers and magazines all over Japan.

"Japan is the sun that illuminates world peace! Only those who bask in the sun will thrive, and those who try to resist the sun will only be destroyed. The United States and Britain should both ponder the fiery history of Japan for thousands of years and reflect on it. ”

Hideo Hirai, the head of the propaganda department of the base camp, snorted disdainfully at the other side of the ocean in his public speech, and in his opinion Britain and the United States had nothing to fear. Both countries fell to the Japanese attack. If they were smart, they should wag their tails and beg for mercy from Japan.

"The situation in Japan is actually very dangerous, and in fact we should not be cheering for victory so early. The United States is only temporarily unable to launch a counterattack against us, and Europe is also allowed to enter Southeast Asia because it is mired in war and cannot move......"

Underneath these cheers. There are still people who keep their minds cool. This is the current commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto. Unfortunately, no one wanted to listen to him in the midst of the revelry.

"The situation on the battlefield in China is extremely unfavorable for the Empire, and a mere victory in the Southeast Asian Theater does not guarantee the security of the Empire in the future." Yamamoto Fifty-six had no idea at all, so he could only write a letter to his sister and tell him what he thought.

Although he knew that his sister might not understand these words, he just wanted to say them. Because now in the entire Great Japanese Empire, no one wants to listen to him say this.

Perhaps Ishihara will resonate with Yamamoto. It's a pity that on the one hand, Ishihara is a member of the army, and on the other hand, Ishihara also has a lot of things to do about the Chinese battlefield and the Southeast Asian battlefield.

Yamamoto didn't want to say this to Ishihara, but he felt suffocated by the heavy crisis in his heart. In this case, he could only tell his sister who didn't know much about military affairs.

At the very least, his sister would be a good person to talk to.

But the empire did not have this realization. The people who included both the War Office and the Admiralty believed that victory in the war was in sight. But I don't know that if we don't deal with it well, we will fall into the abyss......"

"Although Germany is willing to support us, didn't everyone in the Reich notice that they declared war with the United States but did not declare war on China?! Didn't everyone notice that even now we still haven't gained an advantage in China?! ”

"Once the situation gets out of control and the United States launches an attack on the empire from the Pacific, then what will happen to the empire, no one can guarantee ......"

Yamamoto Fifty-six is full of pessimism in his heart. But he can only fight according to the strategy planned now. It's come this far. There is no way back for Japan.

No matter what the outcome is, they can only go down, whether there is an abyss in front of them or a south wall that can only be killed by one head......

In Singapore, after occupying the Lion City painstakingly run by the British, Yamashita discovered a peculiar phenomenon: there didn't seem to be many Chinese people in the city.

This made Yamashita feel very strange, according to the habit, it seems that there are always a large number of Chinese in the Nanyang region. There used to be a large number of Chinese people in the Lion City, but these people seemed to disappear overnight.

This was really strange to Yamashita Fumi, and he asked some Japanese expatriates to get the answer that they had disappeared at the beginning of the war. No one knows where they went, and no one saw them again.

According to the estimation of these expatriates, they must have sneaked back to China by recourse. After all, there are a large number of people in the Nanyang diaspora who support China's anti-Japanese moves. There are even many Chinese who have relatives who are serving in the current Wehrmacht.

They were probably afraid of being liquidated by the Japanese army, so they all withdrew. Yamashita also sees it this way. So he didn't mind if the Chinese were gone. He is now thinking about how to pull out a large number of people to exploit the rich minerals of the South Seas.

This is the most important issue for Japan right now, and if there is no more resource injection, Japan will have to swallow its last breath.

Tens of thousands of prisoners of war became the best coolies, and not only Yamashita Fumi, but all the minerals in the Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia entered a period of full exploitation.

Prisoners of war and local natives became a source of coolies. Because almost all of the Chinese have avoided the eyes of the Japanese, and now the Japanese have no time to sweep the mountains, they now need resources to support Japan, which is almost exhausted.

"Fuck! These Brits are too incompetent, aren't they?! This is the empire that forced the Qing Dynasty to cede Xiangjiang? ! Zhan Mao, commander of the Nanyang Army, was a little stunned when he held the telegram sent by He Wenwu, the commander of the Singapore division.

And the old man of the Zhan family, who was standing beside him, snorted coldly: "Daqing?!" The Qing Dynasty was like that back then, and if they wanted to do half as good as the National Defense Army, they wouldn't be mixed up to the point that their ancestral graves were dug up. ”

What the old man of the Zhan family said was the old story of Sun Dianying, the great thief of Tanglin. Sun Dianying is indeed not a good thing, this goods dug up the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong for money.

Not to mention the looting of things, bones and the like were thrown everywhere. But if you want to come to Qianlong, this is also asking for yourself, when he snatched the golden silk nanmu in the Ming Tomb, he should have thought that he would be dug up one day.

Then under Sun Dianying's disdain, the emperor, who called himself the "perfect old man", became an old man with dozens of pieces. Not...... The bones could not be found, and the old and young people cried and cried for a long time to get a skull.

"I'm tired, you juniors are here for these militaristic events. I don't mix with this old fellow. After the old man of the Zhan family finished saying this, he paused and walked out of the cave with a cane.

It's a natural cave, and no one knows exactly when it was formed. But as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, this cave was discovered by the brothers of Hongmen.

They used it as their base, as well as a reserve of weapons, supplies, and hideouts. In fact, in Southeast Asia, where Hongmen is everywhere, there are not a few such secret strongholds.

Since Situ Meitang traveled around Southeast Asia, these strongholds have once again been put on the agenda of Hongmen. With the help of all sides, these strongholds were established more concealed and stable.

The climate in Southeast Asia is originally able to produce more rice, and in recent years, Hongmen has purchased a lot of grain to fill the area. In all directions, secret observation points were set up on various highlands and arteries in the stronghold.

Weapons and other weapons have never been cut off, and the weapons that pass by the passing cruise ships are enough to arm 100,000 people. This is all a strategy set by Tu Menghu in the early years.

"Commander, should we launch an attack on the Japanese now?!" After the old man of the Zhan family left, Qi Zishi asked his own commander.

Zhan Mao, on the other hand, shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Call everywhere and stay lurking." Now training is the priority, and if there is not enough training, let them go directly to the battlefield, that is, to send them to death! You can't do that kind of thing. ”

"Now Japan is in a hurry to develop the resources of Southeast Asia, and they have no time to deal with us for the time being. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we will train our personnel well and do not go out for unnecessary things. "Since Zhan Mao was elected as the commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Army Division, he naturally has two brushes.

Qi Zishi nodded in agreement, while Zhan Mao continued: "Inform the General Headquarters of our situation, and relay our thoughts back by the way." At the same time, the opinion of the General Staff was asked. ”

Qi Zishi recorded these, and then discussed the specific training matters with Zhan Mao and went out to send a report.

The cave was built deep in the mountains, and the original access route has long been prohibited. Only at the beginning of the war was the transfer of the Chinese, and then the people of the Nanyang Army Division who followed covered up all traces.

And the personnel who can enter and exit are almost all the strongest in the military division. Even they don't go back and forth from the original route. After turning left and right to clean up the traces, they will repair in a secret stronghold and finally go out of the mountain.

A large part of the reason for this is to prevent people from spotting it. The bases that have been set up here and there are still some of them as Japanese nationals.

The other part stayed in the name of the locals, and in short, none of them would bear the name of Chinese. Some of these people even became administrators of the occupied territories and began to prepare for mining.

Li Xianglong is such a person, of course, he is not called Li Xianglong now. His current name is Tanaka Nosuke. (To be continued.) )

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