Chapter 164: A Lifesaver in Rose's Eyes
In the face of Yang Zhen's accusations, in addition to Pearson's promise to do his best to help the Anti-Union complete the pre-war reserves, Ross kept silent about the British's failure to make an appointment. Looking at the two people with different expressions, Yang Zhen frowned, but didn't say anything. Since you British are playing tricks in carrying out the agreement, then let the Japanese teach you a good lesson with their three-zero bayonets.
After stabilizing the relationship between these two guys, Yang Zhen made a report to the two of them about the air attack on Japan by the Anti-Japanese Federation, in order to show the moral and military support of the Anti-Japanese Federation to the United States and Britain. As for the results of the bombing, it is still necessary to wait until the bomber group that attacked returns and looks at the photographic materials before it can be finalized.
In fact, there is nothing secret about this matter. Diplomats from the United States and Britain are still being held in the embassy area in Tokyo, waiting for the two countries to exchange diplomats. Tokyo was bombed, and when they returned home, they would report back to their respective governments. In addition, the Japanese will definitely shout and scold the thief on the radio.
Rather than being publicized by the whole world, it is better to show your sincerity and tell the two of them in advance. Anyway, these two are not Japanese spies. Telling them in advance is just a way to show a kind of support for the two countries. Anyway, whether you, the United States, and Britain admit that the bombing worked, or whether they don't admit that the bombing worked, the Anti-Japanese Federation has shown enough sincerity.
There are some things that should be let them know, and you still have to let them know at the first time. What's more, this kind of thing that is not necessary to be kept secret at all, it is better to let them know as soon as possible. In particular, if the Americans don't put enough bait and show enough sincerity, how can they let them bite the hook? In the evil capitalist society, the Americans are so easy to take advantage of?
Hearing that the bomber group of the Anti-Japanese Union was already on the way to attack the Japanese mainland, whether it was Ross, who was still sluggish just now, or Pearson, who was a little impatient, they were all like they had taken a shot of chicken blood, and they were instantly energetic. Especially the Brigadier General Ross, the fat smile on his face was almost like a flower.
Although the bomber group dispatched by the Anti-Union was much smaller than the huge bombing fleet that the British sent out against Germany every time. Constrained by the performance of the bombers, the bomb drop was far inferior to that of the British bombers. However, this brigadier general, who is extremely rich in associations, immediately thought that the Japanese mainland was bombed, so the Japanese army was bound to increase the defense of the mainland.
Under the circumstance that the strength of the local air force is limited, at least some of the planes that have gone south to fight should be transferred back to the mainland to serve in air defense operations. In this way, the British army in Southeast Asia is in a fairly advantageous position in the struggle for air supremacy, at least without so much pressure.
And if the Japanese, who have always been flawed and small-minded, want to take revenge on the Anti-Japanese Union, then maybe they may still draw more planes from the Southeast Asian battlefield, or even ground field divisions. In that way, the pressure on Britain in Southeast Asia will be even lessened.
The head of Brigadier General Ross turned quite quickly, and from the information revealed from Yang Zhen's mouth, he thought of the possible chain reaction after the Japanese were bombed. Of course, adhering to the style of the British who have always been dead friends and not dead and poor. How the Anti-Japanese League was retaliated against by the Japanese had nothing to do with the British.
But even if the Japanese brought back a bomber and an infantry wing from the battlefield in Southeast Asia, they would relieve the pressure on the British in Southeast Asia. Although it is not yet known how the Japanese will retaliate against the Anti-Japanese Union, with this idea, it is strange that this Brigadier General Ross does not smile like a flower on his face.
Although both of them are also very clear that with the current strength of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the number of planes that can be dispatched is limited, and the losses caused to the Japanese mainland will not be too heavy. But in addition to the subtle association in Rose's heart, the two of them at the moment have the same inexplicable pleasure after revenge.
Just like a person who was beaten up, and the person who beat him as a result was beaten by someone else the next day, and it seemed to be quite miserable, he would be quite happy in his heart. However, compared to Rose, who had some dirty thoughts in his heart, Pearson thought more normally after learning the news.
In Pearson's view, even if the smallest arsenal was blown up by the Anti-Japanese Union, it would have a certain impact on the Japanese people's ability to continue fighting. The fact that the Japanese produced one less shell was a powerful support for the US military in the midst of the bitter war in the Philippines. So after learning the news of the bombing of the Japanese mainland by the Anti-Japanese Union, although his smile was not as dirty as Ross, it was not much better.
Looking at the disgusting expressions of the two, Yang Zhen, who had lost patience to talk to them, ignored these two guys. Tell them that if they don't believe me, they will come back and invite them to watch a documentary about the bombing. As for when the Anti-United Nations will launch an attack in accordance with the agreement, it will take time to prepare. However, the Anti-Japanese Union will definitely not violate the agreement signed with the United States and Britain, so it finally sent these two guys away.
It's just that Yang Zhen didn't expect that this was just the beginning of his headache, and he underestimated the tenacity and persistence of these two even more. The most fundamental thing is that Yang Zhen really didn't expect that these two senior military officers in the United States and Britain would become without the demeanor that a soldier should have, and become flies buzzing behind his ass all day long.
In particular, the Brigadier General Ross is undergoing an unprecedented rout with the rapid erosion of the war situation in Southeast Asia, especially the extremely astonishing collapse of the British army, and is becoming less and less imposing and graceful as a British Empire general should have. became the most annoying and disgusting of the two flies.
As the defeat of the British in Southeast Asia became more and more obvious, and completely lost Malaya, exposing Singapore, the most important British military base in the Far East, to the Japanese artillery, the Brigadier General Ross was stationed in the anti-Japanese department every day.
The Japanese did not immediately dispatch a large number of air and ground forces to retaliate against the United Nations, as the Brigadier General Rus had expected. Although some of the fighters were transferred back to the mainland, the fighter group deployed in the Philippine theater of operations, which was no longer able to threaten the landing of Japanese troops in the entire airspace and was surrounded by the sea in isolation and helplessness.
The two naval bomber squadrons that were transferred away were also sent to the bottom of the sea by the newly formed British Far East Task Force before they were slowly transferred back to a part of North China. As for the ground forces, the Japanese army did not even send back a small team. Not only did not a single soldier be withdrawn, but on the contrary, it intensified the offensive against the British army in Southeast Asia.
By mid-January, its strikers had arrived on the outskirts of Singapore. The bombs of the Japanese light bomber group, which had not been transferred back to China, and the rest of the army and navy heavy bombers, had begun to fall on Singapore and Java. Even Burma and Ceylon dropped Japanese bombs.
In other words, the air raid on the Japanese mainland did not trigger too many chain reactions as the Brigadier General Rus expected. The strategic focus of the Japanese offensive was to focus on Southeast Asia, which had the most urgently needed strategic resources, especially oil.
And the rout along the way, as well as the loss of Yan Zòng, made the morale of the Commonwealth miscellaneous army, which had fully retreated to Singapore, even lower. Under the pressure of a strong enemy, there was also considerable confusion within the defenders of Singapore, and the number of deserters increased dramatically.
Traditionally considered to be the most tenacious on the battlefield among the Commonwealth armies, the Australian troops, whose morale had been completely crushed during the Battle of Malaya, deserted en masse. The men threw away their weapons and uniforms, climbed aboard the last steamers, and tried to escape from the Strait fortress, known as the Gibraltar of the East. Some people with great powers even ran to India and North Africa in one go before they were caught.
Even the British Eighteenth Division, which had just come ashore, was led by the Australian troops, and there was a certain amount of confusion. There were even some generals who had already put surrender on the agenda of the day before the real battle began. As for the British Indian troops, under the advocacy and co-optation of the Japanese army for Indian independence, a large number of defector troops appeared. The Third Army of British India, which was the main force in the defense of Singapore, had actually completely collapsed, and the chaotic situation in Southeast Asia undoubtedly made Brigadier General Ross very dissatisfied. But he was thousands of miles away from there, and he was helpless in the face of this chaotic situation that London could not control. So many marshals and generals were helpless, let alone a small brigadier general.
Despite these facts on the battlefield in Southeast Asia, he will resolutely not mention it with the Anti-Japanese Union. But in order to solve the plight of the British army in Southeast Asia, the only thing he did was to urge Yang Zhen to send troops all day long, and increase the intensity of air raids on the Japanese mainland. In order to attract more Japanese planes to come back and contain the Japanese offensive in the Southeast Asian theater.
The offensive planned by the Anti-Japanese Union has become the last straw that can stop the Japanese offensive and give the British a chance to breathe in the eyes of Brigadier General Ross and even London. Brigadier General Rus', including his superiors in London and Southeast Asia, was quite pessimistic that if the Anti-Japanese Union did not send troops again, the Japanese, with high morale and strong fighting power, would rush to Burma and even the Ganges plain in India.
Pearson, on the other hand, constantly demanded that the Anti-United Nations maintain the intensity of air strikes on the Japanese mainland in order to attract the overwhelming Japanese planes on the Philippine battlefield. Of course, the overwhelming word was uttered by Pearson himself. As for how much credibility there is, then only the Japanese on the Philippine battlefield, and the Americans themselves on the Philippine battlefield, know. Anyway, he thinks that the Anti-Union will definitely not know.
In fact, at present, it has actually entered the Philippine battlefield, and it is no longer necessary to leave too many combat planes behind the Japanese army, which has firmly grasped air supremacy. The aviation, which had long been committed to the Philippine theater, turned to the Dutch East Indies, as well as Papua New Guinea.
And a considerable part of the fighter unit was repatriated to strengthen the air defense capability of the homeland. Even a few radars captured in the Philippines were moved back to China. In the air of the Philippines, there is no pressure at all. Manila and almost all the major cities had been lost there, and the U.S.-Filipino forces that had withdrawn to the Bataan Peninsula were now struggling to survive.
The war situation in the Philippines, not to mention that the Anti-Japanese Union did not bomb the Japanese naval base. Even if the Anti-Japanese Federation bombs Japan to the ground, it has reached the point where it is powerless. However, Pearson used this excuse to insist that the Anti-Japanese Union increase its air raids on the Japanese mainland after obtaining American-made heavy bombers.
In particular, various naval shipyards, as well as naval aircraft factories. The United States and Britain were so badly beaten by Japanese Zero fighters in Southeast Asia that as long as all the planes attacked, there was basically no return. The Japanese put more pressure on the Americans in the air than on the sea.
Because the Americans had just handed over a batch of heavy bombers to the Anti-Japanese Union, the persistence of this fierce and introverted Pearson was quite confident. Just like the Brigadier General Ross, who was urging the local government to send the tactical planes promised to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and to send them to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, they all insisted that this was the obligation of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the tripartite alliance.