Today's three more 13,000 words

Tangshan, Nanjing, January 21, 1936, 10:25 a.m.

In the Naval Operations Command Center of the Ministry of National Defense, Navy staff officers in white uniforms were constantly placing all kinds of tactical models on the giant tactical sand table, and soon a large number of them were densely packed, almost crowding the southeast coast of China, the Korean Peninsula, and the southern part of the Far East Republic of China on the sand table.

Surrounded by this giant sand table are the top figures in the political and military circles of the Great China Federation, including Federal President Mao Zd, Federal Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Chang Ruiqing, Vice Premier and Minister of Economy Zhang Junmao, Foreign Minister Wang Jingwei, Minister of Commerce Zeng Qi, Minister of Armaments Jiang Baili, Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces Marshal Zhao Zhen, Commander-in-Chief of the Army Wu Shi, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Chen Shaokuan, and Air Force Commander-in-Chief Yang Xianyi. There is also Senior General Lu Yixuan, who has just been transferred from the civilian vice minister of defense to active duty as commander-in-chief of the Japanese Front, which has not yet been announced.

As one of the most effective generals under Chang Ruiqing in the early years, Lu Yixuan retired from active service eight years ago and became the civilian political appointee, the vice minister of national defense. Since Defense Minister Chang Ruiqing also holds the post of Federal Prime Minister, the day-to-day affairs of the Ministry of Defense fall on this vice minister. Although it is not very conspicuous, his contribution to the current prosperity of the Chinese National Defense Force is absolutely indelible. Therefore, Chang Ruiqing now let him return to the active army to serve as the commander and go to Japan, and it is also due to the factor of compensating him for his "hard work" over the years, so that he can be promoted to the rank of marshal after the war.

However, the operational plan for the first phase of the war against Japan was not written by Lu Yixuan, but was formulated by Feng Yundong, commander of the Navy's Nanyang Fleet. Now the person who is responsible for explaining this plan is also Feng Yundong himself. Seeing that the staff officers had already placed all the symbolic models in place, Feng Yundong picked up the baton and began to explain the current military situation of China and Japan.

Mao ZD listened very carefully, as a genius military strategist who only came out once in hundreds of years. Although I have not studied military affairs seriously, this kind of military situation map can still be understood at a glance -- there are a large number of models of warships and planes representing the Chinese navy and air force on the sand table, and the Japanese do not have a few planes or warships, so they know at a glance that they cannot defeat China, unless there is a serious mistake in intelligence gathering and the enemy is too underestimated.

"Commander Feng," thought of this. Mao ZD interrupted: "Isn't this Japan known as a naval power? Why can't you see a few Japanese warships on the sand table? Where did all their battleships, aircraft carriers go? Will it suddenly appear when our army crosses the sea and catch us off guard? ”

"President, aircraft carriers and battleships are unlikely to appear out of nowhere. Because there is simply no place for them to sneak on the sea. The only planes and submarines that could suddenly appear were able to appear, but our planes were far superior to the Japanese in terms of quantity and quality, so there was no need to worry about their air raids. As for the Japanese submarines, the threat is also not great, and our destroyers have extremely strong anti-submarine combat capabilities. HNA is also equipped with anti-submarine anti-submarine patrol aircraft of the Ju.88A-9 type, which is dedicated to anti-submarine operations. ”

Feng Yundong's answer was full of confidence. Mao ZD was still not very relieved: "Then speaking of which, there will be no risks in the combat operation of landing in Japan?" ”

"Of course there is a risk," Feng Yundong turned his head to look at Chang Ruiqing, frowned, and said, "The threat may come from the Japanese suicide planes." "Originally, Feng Yundong didn't regard the Japanese suicide planes as a threat that was too strict, but Chang Ruiqing insisted that the Navy and Air Force focus on guarding against the threat of Japanese suicide planes." Recently, Takeda Takeda, the chairman of Japan's GCD, issued a supreme directive calling for learning from the Red Army warriors...... This Red Army warrior is referring to the Red Army Special Attack Team, Japan's suicide aircraft unit. The Nanyang Fleet estimates that during the landing operation in Japan, it may encounter 500 suicide aircraft ......"

"I think there will be 5,000 suicide planes!" Chang Ruiqing suddenly interrupted Feng Yundong and said a number that surprised everyone.

"There can't be so many." Yang Xianyi, commander-in-chief of the Air Force, shook his head and said, "Prime Minister, according to reliable intelligence. At present, the total number of pilots at the disposal of the Japanese army and naval aviation will not exceed 3000 people. Moreover, Japan's aviation industry was not very strong, and the annual production of aircraft was very low, with less than 3500 aircraft produced in 1934. ”

"We must not take it lightly, and we must pay full attention to the threat posed by various Japanese suicide weapons to landing operations." Chang Ruiqing did not discuss with Yang Xianyi whether Japan could come up with 5,000 suicide planes. He was not sure about this question, but he knew that in history, more than 4,000 Japanese youths flew their own killer planes to attack the American fleet approaching the Japanese mainland. In addition, there are suicide weapons such as Huitian torpedoes and sky-shaking motorboats ready to be used in the decisive battle on the mainland. And in this time and space, Japan is a Soviet state under the leadership of GCD, and looking at what India has been transformed into by GCD, you can imagine how stubborn the Japanese devils armed with Marxist-Leninist Takeda thought are!

"How are you going to deal with the Japanese suicide planes?" Chief of General Staff Zhao Zhen asked Feng Yundong.

"The original plan was to concentrate 2,000 J-3D and J-4E fighters to provide air cover for the landing fleet, and the various types of warships currently equipped by the Navy have extremely strong air defense combat capabilities. In addition, we have a radar specifically designed to detect aircraft and warships beyond visual distance, which can guarantee that we can detect approaching Japanese combat aircraft groups in advance. Feng Yundong pointed to the Busan area in the south of the Korean Peninsula with his baton: "Busan will become our general base for attacking Japan, and more than 30 military airfields have been built or are under construction around Busan, as well as barracks that can accommodate 250,000 troops and a large number of military warehouses have been built, and the expansion project of Busan Port was completed three months ago." In addition, a large number of airports, barracks, and warehouses have been rebuilt around the southern ports of the Korean Peninsula, such as Jinhae, Yeosu, Mokpo, and Gunsan. All of these works were expected to be completed by the end of February 1936. While the construction of the project is underway, large quantities of military supplies and troops are also being concentrated in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula by rail and sea. Before the end of February. There will be more than 4,000 combat aircraft, 3,000 tanks, assault artillery, 10,000 artillery pieces and 2 million ground troops in place. The Navy's hundreds of surface ships and more than 1,000 transport ships will also be assembled in ports in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. ”

"Hiss......"

I heard that the number of troops and technical equipment to be invested in the first phase of the plan for the attack on Japan. Even Mao ZD took a breath, and he turned his head to look at Chang Ruiqing beside him. "Prime Minister, I'm afraid that such a large-scale military build-up can't hide the eyes and ears of the Japanese intelligence agencies, right?"

"Of course I can't hide it," Chang Ruiqing snorted coldly: "So let's just do it openly!" This time, we are going to fight a war of annihilation, the last battle of the reunification of the Greater East Asia region, and the reunification of Greater East Asia is the consistent policy of our country, and it is impossible for Takeda Heng and Japan's GCD to be unclear. There will also be precautions. So don't think about sneak attacks and surprise attacks, this time it's a dignified battle. The ultimatum will be submitted to the Japanese People's Commissariat by the end of February this year, and the landing operation is expected to take place in mid-March. He glanced at Feng Yundong. He commanded in a low voice: "Yizhi, you continue to explain." ”

Feng Yundong nodded, and then used his baton to point to the islands of Tsushima, Jeju, Ilki, and Goto in the Korean Strait, and said: "The landing operation will be carried out in three stages, the first stage is to seize the main islands in the Korean Strait. and a decisive battle with the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy near the Korean Strait. At present, the main force of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet is carrying out operations to the south of Australia, and we estimate that the Japanese Navy will suffer heavy losses in the southward operations, and the forces that can be used for operations in the Korean Strait will not be too strong, and under our overwhelming air superiority, the resistance of the Japanese Navy will be completely futile.

After the capture of Tsushima Island, Jeju Island, Ikki Island and the Goto Islands. The second phase of the landing, the Kyushu landing operation, will be carried out as planned. Kyushu is the second largest island in the Japanese archipelago, separated from Honshu and Shikoku. In addition, the northern and western parts of Kyushu Island are dotted with deep-water harbors, including Sasebo Naval Port, the second home port of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Our army only needs to seize a deep-water port on the island of Kyushu. It will be possible to ship a large number of ground troops stationed in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula to Kyushu. At the same time, our army will also use air superiority to bomb the ports in eastern Kyushu under the control of the Japanese army. Cut off the passage for the reinforcement of Kyushu by the Japanese army in Honshu.

The third phase of the landing operation will be the landing on Honshu Island, the largest island in the Japanese archipelago. Since the island of Honshu is home to Japan's major cities and the majority of the population, its defense is bound to be tight, so the Honshu landing campaign is planned to be carried out after the Kyushu landing battle is basically victorious. The landing site will be selected in the western part of Honshu Island, that is, Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, and Shimane prefectures in Japan......"

"Zixiu, what do you think of the draft landing plan drawn up by the Navy's Nanyang Fleet? Is there anything that needs to be changed? After Feng Yundong introduced the battle plan for landing in Japan, Chang Ruiqing asked Lu Yixuan in a low voice.

Lu Yixuan shook his head. He is not a naval commander and can be said to know nothing about landing operations, and the principle of the Wehrmacht is that "experts are responsible for commanding," so how to fight a landing battle can only be decided by the navy. When the operation across the Korean Strait began, Feng Yundong, commander of the South Ocean Fleet, was the de facto commander-in-chief, and he made a decision that Lu Yixuan, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Front, could not object. However, after the troops came ashore, it was Commander Lu who had the final say, and under normal circumstances, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff would not interfere with his command.

Therefore, Lu Yixuan did not have any ideas to propose for the sea and landing, but he had a lot of ideas for ground operations after landing.

"Prime Minister, the Ministry of Posts believes that there is no big problem with the landing plan of the Navy, after all, we have overwhelming air superiority, and the width of the Korean Strait is not too large, and the landing operation will inevitably be successful. The current problem is two points: first, whether the ground operation after the landing should be carried out; The second is the governance of the occupied areas. Lu Yixuan touched his mustache and hesitated: "In particular, the issue of managing the occupied areas is probably not easy, because Japan's terrain is mountainous and hilly, which is very suitable for guerrilla warfare. I am concerned that if the problem of governance in the occupied territories is not resolved well, it is very likely that we will be mired in guerrilla warfare, as the Indian Red Army did in Afghanistan. ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled slightly, he was not too worried about the quagmire of guerrilla warfare in Japan, because he had President Mao Da, who was known as the ancestor of the people's war! How to deal with the guerrillas, presumably President Mao also has a very good way. He smiled at Mao Zd. He said, "President, do you have any opinions?" ”

Mao Zd was stunned, he didn't expect Chang Ruiqing to ask him about military issues. However, the reason for this was not considered. He laughed and replied confidently: "There is nothing difficult to deal with in guerrilla warfare, it is nothing more than two principles, one is three parts of the military and seven parts of the government, and this is not a problem for us, because we have the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, a political party of the Japanese ethnic group, and we also have many common languages in China and Japan. It shouldn't be difficult to recruit.

Second, the number of occupying troops should be sufficient, and I think I encountered a similar problem when I led my troops into the northwest, and there were many bandits in the northwest at that time. They did not dare to engage us head-on, and they made trouble in the areas where our army was weak, and they really caused us a lot of trouble. That's why I've proposed to add another 1 million 'security forces' to the Japanese attack force to be responsible for maintaining law and order in the occupied areas. ”

"In addition, I have an informal Jianyì." Mao Zd hesitated. He went on to say: "We have imitated some of the practices of the Soviet Russian Red Army in the northwest, using ...... The method of capturing hostages against some very stubborn bandit areas can also be used in Japan! ”

Of course, Chang Ruiqing knows what is going on with the "bandits" in President Mao's mouth, but these are all things a long time ago, and there is no need to go deeper now, but the way to catch the hostages can be considered. He was about to ask the other people's opinions again when the staff's hurried footsteps sounded.

"Report." A lieutenant colonel of the Navy saluted Chang Ruiqing and handed over a copy of the text written in English with both hands: "The British military delegation in Nanjing has just reported. British airfields and naval bases in Rabaul, Tulagi, Florida, Guadalcanal and other places have just been indiscriminately bombed by Japanese warplanes! In addition, the Singapore base reports. Our reconnaissance plane discovered that the Japanese-controlled Palembang oil field had also been bombed by American planes one hour earlier! ”

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"Comrade commander, the Palembang oil field has just been bombed by American carrier-based aircraft, and the losses are very heavy, at least 500,000 tons of oil have been burned, the refinery has become a ruin, and dozens of oil wells have caught fire!"

Tsukahara 243 hurriedly walked into the command center of the Akagi and handed over the urgent telegram he had just received from the headquarters of the Japanese Red Navy's Batavia Base to Yamamoto Isoroku. Hearing the news, Yamamoto was slightly stunned: "How come?" Isn't it already an order to send additional fighters to Palembang and Batavia? How can there be such a big loss? ”

Tsukahara 243 sighed a little helplessly and said: "The 11th Air Force at the Batavia base said on telegram that the Americans dispatched at least 150 J-4E Dragon Eagle fighters in the first attack, and the performance of this kind of aircraft is too much ahead of our Type 93. A total of 210 Type 93s were dispatched to intercept the Batavia and Palembang bases, as a result of which 164 aircraft did not return ......"

"With a loss of 164 aircraft, you mean that 164 Type 93 aircraft were shot down in the J-4E engagement with the Americans?" Yamamoto Fifty-six gasped: "So what about how many J-4Es were shot down?" ”

"The report says about 50 ......," Tsukahara replied in an inaudible voice. He didn't believe in this number at all, and he burned high incense when half of the actual results were achieved. Because 2 hours after the end of the first attack of the Americans, they sent about 150 J-4Es to drop bombs at the Palembang oil field. This figure speaks of how much they did not suffer at all in previous air battles.

Yamamoto nodded numbly, he didn't have much of the heart to care about whether the 11th Air Force of the Navy at the Batavia base and the Palembang base had falsely reported the results. Because the destruction of the Palembang oil field and the downing of 164 Type 93s are really a bit of a big blow. Especially for the latter, you must know that the total number of combat planes owned by the Japanese naval aviation is only about 2,000, of which only about 1,000 are fighters, and Japan's total monthly production of aircraft is only about 200.

Now let the Americans knock out 164 at once! You can imagine how strict this loss is! Moreover, the 210 Type 93 fighters in the bases in Palembang and Batavia are almost all the fighters of the 11th Air Force, which is responsible for the air defense and security of the East Indies.

Tsukahara continued: "Comrade Commander, now the 11th Air Force no longer has enough strength to prevent the American fleet from breaking through the Sunda Strait into the Java Sea, and once they enter the Java Sea, our airports, ports and cities in the South Sea Islands may be attacked by this American fleet. And this fleet has at least 10 battleships! ”

The firepower of 10 battleships is no joke! None of Japan's ports and coastal cities in the South Sea Islands could withstand their bombardment! But now that the main force of the Combined Fleet has broken through into the Coral Sea, it is only a dozen hours away from Port Moresby at most, and if it is smooth, it will be able to land around Port Moresby tomorrow morning. Once you take the largest port on the island of New Guinea, the gateway to Australia will be opened! At that time, the American fleet will definitely come to Australia's aid, and the combined fleet will only need to wait for the Yankees to deliver it in the Strait of Reis!

Thinking of this, he snorted heavily: "Don't worry about the South Sea Islands, we have only one goal, which is Australia!" ”

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