Great time travel

Chapter 20. The Islands Dyed Red
December [-], [-], Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
The snow-capped Mount Fuji, the lush Fuji tree sea, the dotted natural hot springs, and the clear and flowing Fuji River.

This piece of land, which was called the Suruga country in ancient times and was designated as Shizuoka Prefecture in modern times, is full of representative scenery that is the most typical Japanese characteristic.

However, at this very moment, this piece of land filled with "the strongest Japanese style" is planted with the Stars and Stripes of the United States of America.

As the roar of the aircraft engine gradually subsided, Marshal Douglas MacArthur, wearing a straight military uniform and smoking a signature corncob pipe, stepped out of the cabin unhurriedly and jumped to the front line of Shizuoka Prefecture. Perforated steel on the field runway.

——The U.S. military does not actually have the rank of marshal, but MacArthur is really a marshal: the Marshal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Looking up at the snow-covered Mount Fuji in the distance all the year round, Marshal MacArthur couldn't help sighing for a while, thinking about it.

I remember that not too long ago, more than three years ago, in the face of an overwhelming defeat, I had to leave behind the troops still in the bloody battle on the Bataan Peninsula, took a torpedo boat to break through the Japanese fleet blockade in the dark, and fled to the Philippines in embarrassment. Time, how desolate and depressed!

Indeed, although he was defeated in the Philippines, he gained unprecedented political reputation at home.After all, he was the first to withstood the Japanese aggression frenzy, bought time for the United States, and built confidence.As a result, there was a "MacArthur fever" in the English-speaking world.U.S. Senator Robert Love Wright Jr. suggested that June 250 be named "MacArthur Day" to commemorate the day he was admitted to West Point Military Academy in [-].Congress approved the award of the MacArthur Medal of Honor with an overwhelming majority of [-] three votes. Even the previous US presidents have not received such a record number of votes.

However, as a proud professional soldier, he hopes to wash away his humiliation on the battlefield.Therefore, shortly after escaping from the Philippines, MacArthur held a press conference in Australia, vowing that "I will go back"!
For many days and nights, looking at the island named Philippines on the map, Marshal MacArthur was haunted by dreams and could not sleep at night because he could not eat well.He thought that since he said "I must go back", he must call back to the Philippines.His success or failure, his honor and disgrace, his rise and fall, all depend on this oath.Public opinion praised him precisely because he wanted to go back.He is a soldier and must keep his word.

However, the road to return to the Philippines is really longer than his most pessimistic imagination.

Later on the Australian battlefield, he led 40 U.S., Australia, and New Zealand allied forces. Facing the fierce offensive of the landing Japanese army and the blockade bombardment of the Japanese navy, he always suffered repeated defeats and retreated step by step.Withdrew from Darwin Port to Brisbane, then retreated from Brisbane to Sydney, and then even Sydney and the Australian capital Canberra fell successively. They could only retreat to Melbourne in the southeast corner of the Australian mainland, and stayed trapped in this isolated city. For two full years, I relied on the navy to make sacrifices and smuggle supplies one after another to survive.At the most dangerous time, MacArthur and the defeated soldiers under his command, even Melbourne, were almost untenable. They almost fled to Tasmania, or gave up Australia and retreated to New Zealand.

Fortunately, all the embarrassment, embarrassment and humiliation have passed, and the dawn of victory has appeared in front of the horizon.

Although up to now, Marshal MacArthur has not been able to set foot on the familiar land of the Philippines again as a "recoverer", but he has already boarded the enemy's hometown, Japan where Mount Fuji stands tall, as a conqueror. Islands... This seems to give people a more wonderful feeling!
The only thing that Marshal MacArthur regrets is that Halsey has already done most of the things before he set foot on Japanese soil.

——In just two months, relying on the unscrupulous littering of incendiary bombs, nerve gas bombs and atomic bombs all the way, the Halsey fleet on an overseas expedition and the B-29 temporarily assigned to the command of Admiral Halsey The "Super Sky Fortress" bomber unit has killed at least 500 million Japanese in total, and turned Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kobe and a series of the most prosperous metropolises in the Japanese archipelago into corpses and bones. City.Its super-high efficiency in massacring the Japanese is enough to kill Hitler and despise Genghis Khan, which fully demonstrates the advanced nature of industrialized killing.

Kicked the Emperor of Japan away with one kick, stepped on Mount Fuji with one foot, and killed the hateful Japanese devils to destroy the country in one go, killing their souls to death!
At this moment, the starlight of Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. was so dazzling that it completely overwhelmed the light of other stars.

In this regard, Marshal MacArthur, apart from a touch of jealousy and jealousy, basically expressed his joy.However, Secretary of State Hull, who came to Japan on the same plane, did not look very good after learning of Halsey's great achievements in burning Kyoto.

Just when he walked into the field tent built next to the airport and saw General Halsey who came to greet him, Secretary of State Hull couldn't help but rant:

"... General Halsey, first of all, congratulations on your complete victory in the bombing of Kyoto. A thousand-year-old capital with no military industry and few regular troops stationed there, as well as the best-preserved historical and cultural city in the Eastern world, will be destroyed overnight. burnt to ashes..."

Facing the arrogant Admiral Halsey, Secretary of State Hull sneered unceremoniously, "... your efficiency in massacring Japanese civilians in the past two months is enough to make Hitler ashamed! The previous Hiroshima is the staging area of ​​the Japanese army, and Kobe is the center of Japan's shipbuilding industry. There is some reason to bomb them, but what is the purpose of bombing Kyoto? They also used a large number of new nerve gas bombs! Do you take poison gas as a routine in Japan? Are the weapons used? Do you have any idea how much trouble this will cause for the White House's subsequent political persuasion mission?"

Although Mr. Secretary of State spoke so harshly, Admiral Halsey folded his arms with an expression of indifference.

You know, Halsey was not scared, he was born in a family of seafarers whose ancestors lived on wind and waves.His father, Colonel William Halsey, was one of the best captains in the U.S. Navy at the time.Old Halsey has a series of glorious service records in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea, and completed the "Great White Fleet" circumnavigation of the "Great White Fleet" on the cruiser "Kansas" Named after the hull was painted white.).And the little Halsey in front of him also has a deep family background, and was the most famous soldier in the US Navy before the war.He worked on torpedo boats, destroyers and cruisers, working his way up from warrant officer to admiral.His bravery, fearlessness and aggressive spirit have made him popular in the army. The sailors affectionately called him "Halsey the Bull." With the wreckage of the four warships, Halsey publicly vowed: After the war, "Japanese can only be heard in hell."

Just as MacArthur vowed seriously to return to the Philippines, Admiral Halsey's vow was also serious.

And now, he can finally fulfill his oath and send hundreds of thousands or millions of Japanese-speaking souls to hell!
Therefore, regarding Secretary of State Hull's groundless accusations, Halsey said that he, an old and rude "brute bull", simply dismissed it.

"...Your Excellency, Secretary of State, unfortunately, I don't think there is anything to blame for my combat command. First of all, I am not a historian, and I lack research on ancient Eastern culture. I don't think that the city of Kyoto has much special value.

Secondly, although there is indeed neither military industry nor regular army stationed in the city named Kyoto, it is occupied by a small group of the most fanatical Japanese radical militarists.Although the military strength of these guys is insignificant, but after controlling the old capital of Japan, their political influence on Japanese society is not trivial. If they cannot be strangled in the first place, there is a danger of forming the core of resistance forces.

For this reason, our army needs to attack Kyoto as quickly as possible to show the determination of the United States in war.However, Kyoto is not close to the sea and cannot implement amphibious landing operations.Propelling from the ground and the distance is too long, in this case, what better way is there besides large-scale strategic bombing?What's more, instead of arousing more hostility from the Japanese, this bombing successfully disintegrated a considerable part of the Japanese will to fight. "

He triumphantly took out a stack of telegrams, "... within 72 hours after the bombing of Kyoto, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Kochi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Okinawa, Gunma, Saitama, Local authorities in Nara, Wakayama, and Yamanashi prefectures successively issued public telegrams, or sent envoys, expressing their willingness to accept the leadership of the Japanese interim government and surrender unconditionally to our army. In addition, Miyagi, which was previously controlled by our army, Prefectures, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture, more than one-third of the land and population of Japan have given up resistance."

Seeing the stack of surrender telegrams in Halsey's hand, Secretary of State Hull, who originally wanted to send a message, was suddenly at a loss for words.

And Marshal MacArthur clapped his hands like breaking down the stage, "...Crack! Dear William, I have to admit, you did a great job! Really, it's great! You must not be polite to the Japanese. , only by using the fear of death can they learn to speak the human language!"

At this embarrassing moment, another orderly brought coffee and a new telegram.Halsey took the telegram casually, opened it, and the expression on his face suddenly became more proud: "...Gentlemen, I have received another piece of good news here! The economic center and the second largest city of the Japanese Empire, has Osaka prefecture, with a population of 350 million, is now taking the initiative to open its doors to the army of the United States..."

Seeing that Halsey's big stick policy is so effective, Secretary of State Hull, who originally wanted to persuade Halsey not to abuse brute force blindly, but to be gentle, finally had to choose to shut up, and began to admit in his heart that Japan People may indeed have serious masochistic tendencies, and you need to use a barbed whip to talk to them... Marshal MacArthur has already discussed the next battle plan with Halsey impatiently.

"...The biggest problem for our army now is the lack of ground troops, Doug. The entire expeditionary fleet only brought a second marine division and a small number of miscellaneous troops, just suppressing the occupied areas of the Thousand Islands, Yokosuka and Sendai Port, and maintaining several The safe operation of the airport is almost at its limit."

Pointing to the map of Japan, Halsey said to Marshal MacArthur, "...this is the main reason why I have to stay in the Shizuoka area and have not launched an attack on the Japanese troops stationed in Nagoya. Although there have been more than 1 Under the persuasion of the Provisional Government of Japan, the former Japanese army surrendered to our army, but for the time being, they can only be disarmed and guarded, and they cannot safely let these people deal with their former colleagues!
So I'm at a loss for now.You can't let the sailors and pilots carry rifles and squat in the trenches to shoot at the Japanese soldiers, right? "

"...Don't worry, William, I brought you [-] reinforcements this time! A full infantry division is the Seventh Division that once fought against Attu Island! They are all veterans with rich war experience! Then there are [-] Australian and New Zealand boys who are full of hatred for the Japs!"

MacArthur clapped his chest and said, "...in a week, the [-]st Marine Division will also arrive here across the entire Pacific Ocean! There are also six divisions of the Army on the west coast, including an armored division. Transshipment in Hawaii is enough to help you kill all the Japanese devils!"

However, before he finished speaking, an attendant rushed over and delivered a telegram.Marshal MacArthur took a look at the telegram, and his expression changed drastically.Halsey asked curiously. Marshal MacArthur didn't seem to want to say it at first, but later he confessed.

"...It's just the dying struggle of the Japanese devils!" Although Marshal MacArthur tried his best to use an understatement, the extremely stinky face and the anger in his eyes still betrayed his true feelings, "... the Australian frontline The Japanese Army Air Corps actually dropped a large number of Soman gas bombs on the urban area of ​​Melbourne! At least 20 Australian soldiers and civilians were killed! The Japanese Naval Air Corps on the South Pacific front also bombed Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand with Soman gas bombs !Damn it, where did these Japs get so many new nerve gases?"

"...please don't be sad, Doug, we can kill more Japs in Nagoya soon, and avenge them!" Halsey said comfortingly.

"...Okay, but in order to reduce casualties, it is necessary for our army to fully release a new type of poisonous gas to the urban area of ​​Nagoya before the general offensive, plus a large-scale fire attack with napalm incendiary bombs. In this case, we only need to use a [-]th Infantry Division , you will probably be able to complete the mission.”

MacArthur nodded and added, "...the next thing... Now that Osaka has surrendered, let [-] Anzacs enter Osaka at the same time, penetrate the enemy's hinterland, disintegrate the resistance in central Japan, and then attack the Japanese troops entrenched in Hiroshima. The diehards launched a campaign to wipe out them."

"...my naval fleet will also cover the landing fleet, break into the Seto Inland Sea, and prepare to launch a decisive decisive battle against the last remaining sea power of the Japanese Empire!" Halsey echoed, "...only Once the next batch of new gas bombs arrives in place, we can start the operation."

"...Very good! Let us work together! Try to end the war before Christmas!" MacArthur smiled excitedly.

Seeing the two generals discussing the next strategic plan in front of him, Secretary of State Hull could only smile wryly and shook his head, but he still hadn't forgotten his mission, "...generals, Regarding the detailed battle plan, you can discuss it slowly. But before that, can you arrange for me to meet with the leader of the Japanese interim government to discuss the specific matters of the surrender ceremony of the Japanese Empire?"

"...Of course, please follow me, Mr. Secretary of State!" Halsey grinned, "...that mustache has been waiting for a long time..."