"The Bohai Bay defense line was defeated, and the commander of Hattori was shattered."

"The subcontinent transport fleet was ambushed in the sea area 500 kilometers outside Nanxian, 17 transport ships and eight escort warships were sunk, and the crew of the transport ship and the sailors of the escort fleet were all shattered."

"The Palembang oil field was bombed, the enemy used new bombers and bombs, half of the oil wells were devastated, and a third of the skilled workers died."

Three pieces of news were delivered to the Prime Minister's Office of Mitsumasa Mine and Ishihara Wanji almost at the same time.

"It can't be!"

Mitsumasa Yonechi swept away the information on the table.

He couldn't believe it, he couldn't take it.

Bo Bay failed, he can understand and accept.

The difference in strength between the two sides on the battlefield here is too great, the enemy is very strong, and the strength of the imperial locust army is insufficient, he has been prepared for a long time, but in one day the whole line was defeated, and he could not even organize a strong blockade.

He couldn't understand it, let alone accept it.

In addition, he could not understand and accept that the subcontinent's transport fleet was completely wiped out, that the Palembang oil field was bombed and that more than half of it was destroyed, and that one-third of the skilled workers died.

"Fleet attack? Didn't Vice Takeshi Toyota say that the transport fleet was absolutely safe? Didn't he say that enemy aircraft could not appear in the South China Sea? ”

Mitsumasa Yonechi continued to howl, venting the anger in his heart.

Not long ago, Yamamoto and Gangmura sent a joint telegram warning the Prime Minister's Office and the Combined Fleet to beware of the enemy's establishment of an air base in Nanxian and threatening the South China Sea shipping route, and proposed to move the route south.

Although it will be 1,500 kilometers longer, it will be much safer.

After deliberation and consultation with some aides, the two rejected the proposal in view of the urgent shortage of resources in the country, but also sent a warning telegram to the Combined Fleet Command.

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Vice Takeshi Toyoda, did not act as cynical as he imagined, but also attached great importance to it, and sent people to investigate the possibility of the appearance of an enemy air base in Nanxian.

Finally, the conclusion is drawn.

It is impossible for the enemy's aviation base to appear in Nanxian County, at least for three months, and when the enemy begins to build, the combined fleet will also have the ability to destroy the enemy's airfield.

The escort fleet was also enough to cope with the attacks of enemy torpedo boats.

But now.

According to the telegram sent back by the escort fleet, it was attacked by a combination of nearly 100 torpedo planes and 20 torpedo boats, and the entire fleet was wiped out, and not a single one survived.

The loss of 200,000 tons of materials is not enough to make the two of them feel distressed, and the eight warships, including a light patrol, are not distressed, but the 200,000-ton fleet is really distressed to the bone.

Today, the total transport fleet of the Great Japanese Empire is only more than 5 million tons, and even fewer can be transported by ocean, which is already seriously lacking, and many of the 17 giant ships sunk this time are the latest 10,000-ton giant ships.

This stuff can't be replenished in a short period of time, or even at all.

I was so distressed that I couldn't breathe.

"Sure enough, as Yamamoto-kun said, our enemies cannot be judged by common sense."

Ishihara remembered a sentence from Yamamoto's telegram.

He didn't understand it before, he couldn't understand it, but at this moment, he realized it deeply.

"Ishihara-kun, what should we do now?"

After venting his emotions and regaining his composure, Mitsumasa Yonechi began to think about countermeasures.

Although it is not clear how so many impossible things have happened, these are not important, or they are not important for the time being, and the most important thing now is how to deal with the current situation.

Now that the Songhu area has long been encroached upon, there are almost no formed locust garrisons, and now the defeat of Bohai Bay represents the complete defeat of the empire's all-out war, and it has completely returned to the situation of seven years ago.

Or even worse.

The Republic of China was much stronger than it was back then, and the empire's economic situation was precarious.

The Palembang oil field was bombed, and more than half of the losses were lost, although there are still balikpapans, etc., but the enemy will definitely continue to bomb, and fuel self-sufficiency has come to naught. What's more troublesome is that the heavy oil collected from the Republic of China has begun to decrease.

For a while, Mitsumasa Minai lost his square inch.

After a pause, Ishihara chose to say the good news first:

"Although Yamamoto and Gangcun have been bombed, the war is going well, and many important cities have been occupied, and supplies such as food and minerals are enough to meet the needs of the empire, as for transportation, we only need to take the southern route to avoid the threat area of the Republic of China."

"The problem of insufficient capacity can be solved slowly."

Hearing this, Mitsumasa Mine's face improved significantly.

Although the distance of 1,500 kilometers is more, the transportation volume will be reduced a lot, but it is better to be safe, and the problem of insufficient transport fleet will be slowly figured out later, and some of the needs will be solved first.

"Bo Bay Area."

After a pause, Ishihara continued:

"Give up, order the troops to retreat north, join up with the Kwantung Army, and find a way to hold the northeast territory."

"But once we give up, we will have a huge reduction in fuel and food we collect."

Mitsumasa Yonechi sighed.

It was only a matter of time before the Southeast oil fields were destroyed.

The huge pressure on the homeland made it impossible for him to deploy troops to defend the sky in the oil field area, the oil field could not be saved, but the empire needed fuel, and without Bo Bay, the fuel proficiency obtained would definitely be greatly reduced.

It was fatal for the Empire.

The supplies of the subcontinent make the empire urgently need a large amount of shipping capacity, and the fuel consumption is huge, relying on the fuel in stock, it can support for three months at most, or even insufficient.

Without foreign supplies, what will the empire continue to operate?

"I suggest."

Ishihara continued:

"Give a part of the elite troops to Tanaka and let him unite with Kotaro Ito to collect supplies."

Tanaka Qin, who was the commander of the 25th Brigade and is now the commander of the 125th Division, is completely a wonder in the entire battlefield of the Republic of China.

The rest of the troops were losing ground and losing their armor, and the supplies they had collected were getting less and less. Only this one, not to mention keeping the territory or even expanding the territory, also won a small battle from time to time, and collected more and more materials.

Although they are only some mountainous areas, they are sparsely populated.

But it's also incredible.

This was not unusual and aroused Ishihara's vigilance, and he suspected that there was a conspiracy, but he sent someone to investigate and found that there was nothing wrong.

"That's all there is to it."

Mitsumasa Yonechi sighed again.

It doesn't matter if it's grain, it doesn't matter if it's coal, there's Southeast Asia, there's the subcontinent, there's a lot of grain and coal, iron ore, etc., as long as it can be transported back, it's enough.

But the loss of fuel oil, the loss of Bo Bay, the loss of Southeast Asian oil fields, the empire will once again fall into a situation of oil shortage.

Tanaka and Ito are only relieving the problem, but they cannot solve the fundamental problem.

"Over there with the locusts."

After a pause, Mitsumasa Yonechi turned the conversation to the core issue.

For such a huge failure, they will be held accountable by the important ministers in the country, and they will be questioned by the locusts, which is also a big trouble.

"Prime Minister, please allow me to resign."

Contrary to Mitsumasa Yonechi's expectations, Ishihara resigned decisively.

From the recent events, he can see it.

The enemy is very strong, all kinds of means are endless, the empire is not an opponent at all, according to Yamamoto's speculation, it will not be long before the enemy will take action against the imperial sea, although he does not understand what the ability of that group of people is to cut off the imperial sea.

But.

Those huge bombers, weird new bombs, and the airport that suddenly appeared in Nanxian, which one was something he could figure out?

Although the feeling of holding power and controlling the empire is very memorable to him, with the current situation of the empire, it is not that he is at the helm of the empire, but that he is pulled down the abyss by the broken ship of the empire.

Now that I'm still staying in the Prime Minister's Office, isn't this looking for death?

"Nani!"

Mitsumasa Yonechi was directly dumbfounded.

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"This is a missile?"

Zhao Jiayu, weapon test site, Zhao Gang looked at a huge cylinder and said.

"Yes."

Next to him, Li Yunlong, who had an elite hairstyle, a suit and leather shoes, and a tie, spoke in a very serious tone:

"The full name is a guided bomb."

"It is a kind of aircraft that carries a warhead, relies on its own power plant to propulse, and is guided by a guidance system to control the flight trajectory, guide the target and destroy the target."

"It is a high-precision weapon that integrates rocketry, aerodynamics, guidance, and materials science, and is the development direction of future weapons."

Grand Master Li's attire at this time, combined with this set of professional words, made Zhao Gang a little dazed for a while, as if he had seen all the top talents who had been exchanged from the United States.

For example, the rocket expert.

"This is an anti-ship missile."

Li Yunlong continued, pointing to a cylindrical projectile with four tail wings in the tail and short wings in the middle and said:

"With a maximum range of 42 km, a total weight of 2400 kg, a warhead weighing 500 kg, using interrupted autopilot and terminal active radar homing with guidance, it can be launched from a torpedo boat or, of course, it must be renamed a missile boat, and it can also be launched from an airplane."

At this time, in front of Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang was the 'Styx' missile, of course, the system has been improved to a certain extent, and the performance has not changed, but an air-launched model has been developed, which can be launched by large bombers and transport aircraft.

Finally, Li Yunlong made a summary:

"This is a real automated weapon, which can be launched outside the defense zone and left alone after launching."

"Our torpedo can only be considered a semi-automatic weapon."

Compared with the wire-guided torpedoes currently equipped by the independent regiment, the missile operates in the air, and the air environment is much better than the underwater environment, especially on the sea surface, with less clutter, and the difficulty of self-guidance technology is naturally much lower. But wire-guided torpedoes require human intervention almost all the time.

It will take more than 10 years of development to truly realize the underwater torpedo after it is launched, that is, the further development of electronic technology in the past 70s.

"Yes, with this, with bombers, new transport planes, and AWACS aircraft, we will be able to cut off the overseas transportation lines of the devils."

Zhao Gang talked about the benefits of missiles in his mouth, and his tone was very casual.

Even if there are no missiles, after a while, the troops will be able to block the Southeast Asian route of the devil, which is nothing more than a little troublesome, so at this time he thinks in his heart is another matter.

The environment encourages people to learn.

A good environment can also make people learn more efficiently, which he has long experienced.

But the impact of the environment and atmosphere is limited.

And the old men of the independent regiment, Sun Desheng, Zhang Dabiao, monk, Wang Gensheng, and this Li Yunlong dog thing, from not a few big characters, to now all of them have reached the master's graduation standard.

Perhaps the breadth of knowledge is not enough, but the depth of knowledge is even exceeded.

Sun Desheng can design and improve high-precision machine tools.

It's only three years since it's full.

And himself, also in just three years, has learned more than a dozen disciplines such as management, economics, sociology, international relations, etc., and all of them have a very large depth.

Even with the guidance of a master, this speed is hard to imagine.

Thinking of the incomprehensible 'warehouse' again, Zhao Gang had an idea in his heart.

It must be Boss Chen's reason, otherwise it is impossible to learn knowledge so quickly, it is very simple, because people who learn so quickly are only limited to the elite old men of the independent regiment.

At this point, he retracted his thoughts.

When it comes to Boss Chen, there is no point in thinking about it, it's a good thing anyway.

"Is the original plan going ahead?"

Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong.

Because they didn't expect the missiles to arrive so soon, they were planning to secretly occupy an island, establish an airport, deploy planes to cut off the devil's transportation routes.

There are warehouses, which is not difficult at all.

"Why don't you continue."

Li Yunlong patted the missile and said with a smile:

"With this thing, you can completely cut off the devil's transportation route."

Previously, even if an island airfield was established, the devils could use the strategy of passing at night and concealed during the day, which was nothing more than a reduction in the volume of traffic, and at present they did not have surface ships, and torpedo boats could not completely block the shipping lanes.

At night, the aircraft was not combat-ready.

But now that there are missiles, the little devil transport fleet does not want to get close to the mainland.

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