Great time travel

Chapter 32. The Bustling Oriental Ocean (Continued)

Currently, World War II is effectively over, with the Japanese Empire crumbling in the nuclear bombing of Tokyo.

——The three major Axis powers have ceased to exist, and the grassroots of all walks of life are re-standing in line, and the pattern of confrontation between the red and white camps has taken shape.

If it continues like this, it will be nothing more than another version of the long-term cold war between the two camps.But right now, in order to collect the reward points needed by the ship's mother Sophie, history has to be further subverted, so she must continue to fight to the death, and start the third war directly after the Second World War.

So, Sophie, the ship's mother, began to fool Comrade Stalin: Due to the lack of innate conditions, there is no way for the Soviet Union to engage in peaceful competition with the United States, and the long-term Cold War will undoubtedly lose.The only way to win is to turn the cold war into a hot war. Taking advantage of the Soviet Union's temporary absolute advantage in the number of nuclear arsenals, it simply waits until the end of World War II to start a copy of World War III, launching a vigorous world revolution, and completely destroying the capitalism of the United States.

Besides, the current three wars have already been fought in Europe, and if you want to ease, you must give up Western Europe-but how is this possible?

——To be honest, for the all-round flexible competition involving global politics, diplomacy, economics and welfare in the Cold War, even if the people from the Kremlin or Zhongnanhai in the 21st century were to sit in the current position of Comrade Stalin, it would probably be difficult. It may not be able to operate better.Rather than making it so timid, unable to exert all its strength, and having to worry about the enemy's infiltration all day long, it is better to simply kill and dismember the United States directly. With the appearance of being unable to take care of oneself, all problems can be solved.

As the saying goes, "The shell is the truth, and the caliber is justice." As long as all the enemies are eliminated, the problem will also disappear!

But there is a problem with this. On the western battlefield, with the Soviet Red Army’s violent crushing and atomic bomb deterrence, at least until the war is over or before the obvious failure is revealed, the socialist countries in Europe should still be able to twist together for the time being.However, in the eastern battlefield, how to squeeze the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese who hate each other so deeply into the same trench without even a buffer time is a huge problem.

Although with the gradual establishment of the Soviet regime in Japan, it has legally separated from the old Japanese Empire that launched World War II, but after all, the time is too short, there are still so many people, and it is hard to turn around for a while.Don't say that the arrogant Japanese soldiers still look down on the "inferior people of China", and it is also impossible for the Chinese to forget all kinds of blood feuds before, which can be resolved not just by doing some ideological work.

Of course, considering the division of labor and cooperation, it should be rare for the Japanese Red Army and the Chinese Red Army to fight side by side in wars.But even so, in terms of economic production and resource development, I am afraid that this hurdle still cannot be bypassed.At the very least, since the human resources of the Japanese nation are now nearly exhausted, after the outbreak of World War III, the Chinese and Koreans must at least mobilize hundreds of thousands or millions of them just like they did during World War I when they participated in the Allied Powers camp and organized Chinese workers to go to the French front. Let your strong labor go to various resource producing areas to mine, build factories, farm and graze!
Of course, they won't be allowed to do it for nothing at that time. Anyway, there are so many lands and islands in Oceania, and it's enough to allocate them by just scratching them.

The problem is that the distribution of interests among the top executives of various countries can be solved by dividing the heritage of the United States and Britain, but how can the national sentiments at the bottom be eliminated?In European countries that have fought in teams and melees for hundreds of years, the armies and people of the European powers are used to forming alliances this year and turning their faces next year. The allies in this war are the enemies in the next war.However, the diplomatic and strategic environment in the East is relatively simple, and the thinking of the people of various countries is not so flexible.It is far from enough to rely on the empty slogan "Proletarians of the world unite".So, after discussing with the ship's mother Sophie and Comrade Stalin, it was found that the best way to unite the East Asian nations into World War Three is to find them a new enemy!
——It’s probably the same reason as “China-Korea friendship depends on Japan, and China-Japan friendship depends on sticks” in the Internet spats of later generations...

And the candidate for this enemy is naturally none other than the "American, British, and White Animal"... Regrettably, although the United States has made it clear that it is supporting the "Jiang Ji" Nationalist Government of the Chinese reactionaries, it continues to give this man who recently lost his capital. The bald-headed chairman is getting blood transfusions to cheer him up, but at least for the time being, he has not directly sent troops to intervene in the Chinese civil war. The British Eastern Fleet has also stopped in Singapore, and even Hong Kong dare not accept it: this hatred is obviously not enough!

As a result, the matter of concluding the "Oriental Socialist Camp" has fallen into an embarrassing deadlock: Although the upper levels of all parties have already negotiated and initially reached an intention, if there is no suitable opportunity, no matter how urgently they want to change The enemy becomes a friend, and it is also impossible to start for a while.

——In terms of manipulating public opinion and brainwashing the people, as a newcomer, the Chinese Red Army is still slightly inferior to those big Western conglomerates.

Under such circumstances, the [-] American and British prisoners of war in Sanya Port on Hainan Island became an excellent bait for fishing out of the cave: a large number of people, close to the coast, weak defense (after the withdrawal of the Japanese navy), and convenient transportation... Didn't it make it clear that the British Eastern Fleet came to attack and rescue people?
Therefore, at the request of the ship's mother Sophie, the Japanese Marine Corps in Sanya Port first patiently left [-] white cattle prisoners of war, and then in order to prevent the allied intelligence work from being in place, during the retreat, The Japanese also deliberately arranged for those puppet government officials and landlords and gentry who were afraid of the Red Army’s revenge to flee to Macau and Hong Kong by boat, so as to spread the news that “the Japanese army voluntarily abandoned Sanya and left behind [-] American and British prisoners of war”—— In fact, the news is now in the Hong Kong newspapers.At the same time, the main force of the United Fleet was deliberately allowed to park in the coastal waters of Sanya for a long time, so that some interested people could grasp this trend.After the United Fleet weighs anchor and departs, if the Allied Fleet takes the opportunity to attack Hainan Island as expected, breaks through the weak coastal defenses of the Qiongya Column, and rescues the American and British prisoners of war, then the Guangdong authorities of the Nationalist Government next door, which have just changed their skins, will probably continue to do so. Raise your hands and feet to welcome foreigners from the United States and Britain to temporarily house prisoners of war in Hong Kong, and take over the leased land in Hong Kong by the way, so as to give yourself an extra way out.

In this way, under the most ideal circumstances, using the [-] American and British prisoners of war in the Sanya Gangtian Monotec Mine prisoner-of-war camp, we can successfully kill three birds with one stone:
First, the British Royal Navy’s Eastern Fleet stranded in Singapore, Yangon, and even West Asia and East Africa will be lured out of the hole, prolonging the British supply line, and dragging the British into the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield; second, releasing the combined fleet to operate near Hainan Island The news induced the Halsey Fleet, which was operating in the Yellow Sea area, to go south to search for the enemy, looking for a decisive battle opportunity, so as to keep it away from the Japanese archipelago, so that the main force and transport fleet of the United Fleet traveling thousands of miles north could go smoothly without a bloody battle. Pass through the Tsushima Strait and into the Sea of ​​Japan; thirdly, relying on the comeback of the American and British colonial forces and the first fire, they can create a pretext, dispel the illusions of some people in the Chinese Red Army about American and British imperialism, and clear the way for the next joint war against the United States and Britain. obstacle.

In contrast, letting the British rescue [-] prisoners of war and make up for their military strength in the Far East is a very low necessary price.

Major General Shen Zhongde has always had a lot of doubts about this overly complicated plan.According to his years of experience in beating sap sticks and open flames all over the world, the more precise and detailed the battle plan is, the more uncontrollable factors there are, and the easier it is to make mistakes during the execution process.

One of the most critical questions is: What if the British fleet does not come to attack and rescue people, but conducts peaceful negotiations?
——Although today's so-called Allied Forces are dead in name only, the Soviet atomic bombs have already been dropped on the head of the British fleet.But after all, the name of the Allied Forces still exists.If the British side shows some sincerity and is willing to provide some funds and materials to the Qiongya column for a deal, then in view of the severe practical difficulties and the worry that the industrial equipment left by the Japanese army in Sanya will be destroyed in the war, the Qiongya column may not necessarily be willing to cooperate with the United States and Britain. Fleets clash.

"...There is no need to worry about this issue at all. If Attlee's main peace Labor Party cabinet is still in power in London, then there is such a possibility. But the reality is that Attlee's cabinet has fallen, and the militant Churchill has re-entered. The prime minister's residence at No. [-] Downing Street. In order to cater to the instigated public opinion and express its tough main battle stance, Churchill's cabinet must not make any compromises with the socialist camp, at least in a short period of time, no matter in the eastern battlefield or the western battlefield. So, as long as Churchill dares to be soft, he will immediately be out of character inside and out and be kicked out again.

On the contrary, a brilliant victory of defeating the Bolsheviks in the East and rescuing the country's prisoners of war, after being packaged and exaggerated by the news media, can give a boost to the war-weary and exhausted British people, greatly consolidate the status of Churchill's cabinet, and improve his popularity. "

Sophie, the ship's mother, said confidently while drinking coconut wine, "...The Communist International will also mobilize its power in the UK, try to create a certain momentum and pressure, and force Churchill to take some actions in the east with the US allies. ——Actually, Churchill, the fat man, probably wished so much, in this world war, he never let go of any chance to drag the Yankees into the water!"

"...Well, if it is really possible to use this to pull the Chinese Bolsheviks into the chariot, and let the US and British forces further fall into the Chinese battlefield, making them a common enemy in East Asia, so as to reduce the pressure on our country's battlefield, then spare the [-] US, British and white The animal's life is still worth it."

Chief of Staff Shen Zhongde nodded, but turned around and looked at the Sanya Military Port, which had already fluttered the red flag of sickle and hammer, and the coastline behind the military port with coconut groves, and couldn't help but sighed deeply again, "...But, even if If this round of retreat can be successfully completed, Japan’s national status can be continued, the Empire’s "Mainland Policy" is doomed to bankruptcy, and the dream of the Japanese nation’s empire is also doomed to be shattered!"

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For Easterners, the concept of empire is actually an imported product. Before Westerners brought this concept, there was no "empire" in the modern sense in East Asia. In Chinese civilization, there are only two concepts of country and "world", and the emperor is The Son of Heaven, in theory, rules every part of the world, but some places rule more directly, some places rule more indirectly, and farther places have only an empty title.

The so-called Chinese Empire is also a name invented by Western travelers. After entering the Age of Discovery, they used their own ideas to define the Eastern countries: Turkey ruled by the Ottoman family is an empire, and India ruled by the Mughal dynasty is also an empire. , China is a well-deserved millennium empire.As for Japan, although there is an emperor, it is really not up to the grandeur of an empire, and it can be regarded as a kingdom if it is exhausted.It was not until the Russian Empire was miraculously defeated in the Russo-Japanese War that the qualifications of the Japanese Empire were recognized and truly regarded as an empire by Westerners.

So, what kind of country does it have to be to be considered an empire?

——Empire, its etymology can be traced back to the word "domination and control" in ancient Rome, specifically referring to the rule of one ethnic group over another ethnic group. In modern Europe, the concept of "empire" emerged During the period of the [-]th century, Westerners once gave the most concise and powerful definition of the term empire: "A country that can rule other countries is called an empire"!
Therefore, the empire represents strength and power, pride and glory, greatness and conquest, and war and oppression...

Countless people hate and curse imperialism, but they are so eager to be crowned with the title of empire.Even in a modern society far away from war, entrepreneurs from all walks of life want to run their companies into "an empire of such and such industry", which shows how fascinating this term is.

However, among a series of human empires from ancient times to the present, the Japanese Empire can definitely be described as "the heart is higher than the sky, and the fate is thinner than paper."

Also as an island country on the border of the mainland, before England evolved into the British Empire, at any rate, it also had a long-term annexation of half of France in the Hundred Years War. The glorious feat of Richard the Lionheart expedition to the holy land of Jerusalem, I don’t know how many times before and after set foot on the European continent.

What about Japan?Except for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's short-lived Korean conquest, the Yamato people have basically never gained a firm foothold on the mainland, and can only shrink down on the archipelago as an otaku.Moreover, although the area of ​​the Japanese archipelago is slightly larger than that of the British Isles, the environment is much worse. Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons occur in turn, and natural disasters are so frequent throughout the developed countries. Japan is the only one on the entire earth. out the second.

——There are unlucky countries with more severe natural disasters than Japan. Of course, there are still some countries that have searched the world, but there is absolutely no one as ambitious as Japan.

Because the condition of their own island is too sad, God knows when it will be shaken to the bottom of the sea, so for thousands of years, the Japanese have not given up their attempt to land on the mainland. However, at the door is the unruly and cohesive Korean nation. The two are similar in size, and the Japanese can't even kick this stumbling block.It was not easy to wait until Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s era, and assembled the veterans and warriors who had accumulated for a hundred years in the Warring States Period of Japan, and finally defeated the North Korean Li Dynasty in one fell swoop, and went down to Seoul and Pyongyang. It seemed that victory was in sight.Unexpectedly, the North Koreans immediately called for Chinese foreign aid, and beat the Japanese back with their heads held down again.

Compared with the strategic environment of medieval Britain, it was hellish for the Japanese to expand to the Asian continent.Unless North Korea and China can be defeated at the same time in the First World War, they will not even be able to gain a foothold. It is no wonder that in the end they can only go back to the island and continue to hold back the country and become an otaku.

When the Tokugawa shogunate, which locked the country, was overthrown, and the pioneering reform government came to power, the crisis of being reduced to a colony was temporarily lifted. Next, I want to learn from the good example of the British Empire, since the East Asian monster house around me is too hard to beat. , turned around and jumped out to develop overseas colonies.

Unexpectedly, when the Meiji heroes picked up the globe and took a look, hell!Where is there still room for the Japanese to colonize these days?The Americas are the forbidden territory of the Americans, and Africa has also been divided. Even Germany has only grabbed a few of the poorest broken places.Southeast Asia has long been the colonies of Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Spain, and Northeast Asia is the territory of Russia.Australia and New Zealand belonged to the United Kingdom, and even the coral islands in the South Pacific were planted with flags. Given Japan's small size at the time, no one could beat it.Where else can colonize next?Are you going to dig ice in Antarctica?
The Japanese managed to find a small and weak kingdom of Hawaii that could be attacked, but they still couldn’t grab the Americans. Later, they gritted their teeth and saved some warships to compete with Spain for the Philippines. They were still one step too late for the Yankees—so far, The road to overseas colonization was completely blocked.

So the Japanese had no choice but to turn back and follow the old path, gritted their teeth and ventured into the Korean peninsula, betting on the country’s fortune time and time again, and the only period of opportunity for large-scale expansion in Japanese history finally came: North Korea’s poor and accumulated wealth Weakness, the Qing Dynasty has its appearance, and the Russian bear is also a strong outsider and a dry man... After the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, fighting for corpses and blood, draining the people's fat and people's fat, a magnificent Japanese empire finally succeeded: Swallow Korea, According to Taiwan, take Sakhalin Island in the north and Liaodong in the west.Then use this as a foundation to attempt to replace China and seize the throne of East Asian hegemony.

But even if they rely on their ancestors to accumulate virtue and have been blessed by the weather for decades, the East Asian monster house that the Japanese face is still a monster house.Not to mention going further, it is difficult to keep the existing territory, and the surrounding environment is extremely isolated, and there are enemies from inside to outside. Kill all, Japan's domestic class conflicts are also on the verge of breaking out.

Lenin once said that Tsarist Russia was a huge prison of enslaved peoples across Eurasia.In the same way, the Japanese Empire is also a huge concentration camp that occupies the edge of the East Asian continent and enslaves people of all ethnic groups... The development of the empire has reached a bottleneck period, and the greedy plutocrats are unwilling to spit out half a mouthful of food to appease the hungry people. Launch overseas wars to divert conflicts.As a result, the more enemies you fight, the more your national power will be overdrawn. Once the chariot starts, it will not stop. Anyone who wants to step on the brakes will be killed by his own people. No matter how many victories he wins, it will be meaningless.

Now that the Japanese Empire has collapsed, looking back, the entire Japanese nation has been tirelessly invading East Asia for decades in an attempt to reach the mainland, but the result was nothing.Even in the best case, it is only able to regain the homeland, and the territory on the East Asian continent should not be a daydream.

Although Rear Admiral Shen Zhongde is from the Navy and the "Southern Movement", and he is not the same as those army horse dung who are determined to go north, but watching the mainland land that was laid down by decades of bloody battles disappear, the three largest cities in the mainland Even though they lost all their opponents, I still couldn't help but feel infinite melancholy and sorrow in my heart.

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"...What can I do? People always have bad luck, and the country is the same. Chief of Staff, don't be too greedy. Don't forget, compared with the beginning of the war, the territory controlled by the Japanese nation is still changing. It’s bigger than smaller, so you’re still not satisfied?”

Sophie, the ship's mother, said while drinking coconut wine, "...Japan wants to be reborn and get rid of the burden of history. The minimum prerequisite is to withdraw from the East Asian continent. Besides, that area is not rich, and the population is too large. What's the point of having four or five billion Chinese fighting in such a small area? Moreover, a country's strategic expansion cannot take into account land and sea. As an island country, Japan is the right way to develop along the island chain to the Pacific Ocean. Even the Japanese nation If you must want to escape from the island and land on the mainland...don’t you already have an almost complete continent?”

"...You mean...Australia?" Shen Zhongde rubbed his chin and muttered, "...compared to Manchuria, it always feels a bit tasteless."

"...Yes, although it is the smallest island continent on earth, although it is covered with grasslands and deserts, it is still a continent after all!"

Sophie shrugged her shoulders, "... More than 20 divisions of the Imperial Army have been fighting in Australia for so long, and the Sanguang policy has been publicly implemented for two and a half years. How many whites are left in that place now? The Army alone has recently In retaliation for the U.S. nuclear bombing of Tokyo and landing in Japan, a series of massacres in Australia seems to have killed 150 million white people! Isn’t it just right to make room for East Asian immigrants to build new homes?”

——As we all know, Australia was the first place where the British exiled prisoners. Captain Cook first discovered this place in 1770. It was developed even later and at a slower pace during the Qianlong period of China.Until the United States was born, the colonization of Australia had just begun.

Therefore, during World War II, the population of Australia had just reached 700 million, and the population of New Zealand had just reached 200 million. Even if they were all added up, they were still less than one-third of the population of the three northeastern provinces of China, including those who were talking to whites. The local aborigines that the colonists hated to the bone.

And these white Australians are born brave, fierce, rebellious, and believe in white supremacy. They would rather die than submit to the rule of the Japanese yellow dwarf. It is comparable to the numb and obedient people who are willing to continue to obediently pay taxes and perform hard labor according to the regulations.Encountering the imperial army of the Japanese Empire with the same human face and animal heart, it was really a thunderbolt, and the fight was really fierce.During the entire war of conquering Australia, the Japanese army slaughtered almost every city and wiped them out everywhere. The remaining white Australians, women were sent to comfort stations, and men were sent to concentration camps, and then pulled from the mainland and East Asian occupied areas. Strong men came over to fill the labor gap and resume the production of Australian agriculture, animal husbandry and various factories and mines.

However, although the Soviet Union has provided the Japanese with tens of millions of tons of merchant ships, and the shipping capacity is still sufficient, the human resources of the Japanese archipelago itself are also limited, and Japanese immigrants also prefer ships with better natural conditions and more generous treatment. On the coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, only low-class people from China, North Korea, and Vietnam had no choice but to come to Australia to eat sand and watch kangaroos under the bayonet of the Imperial Japanese Army.

On the eve of the Tokyo nuclear bombing in October 350, the population distribution of Australia was roughly like this: First, after counting the American soldiers who "assisted in the defense", there were about 100 million whites in Australia. That's half of what it was before the war.Among them, 200 million white people were trapped in Melbourne and Tasmania, and [-] million people were imprisoned in various labor camps under the control of the Japanese army, working day and night until they died of overwork.Finally, there are still a small number of "obedient people" living in some isolated and remote villages in the Japanese-occupied areas, or wandering in the desert with little people and fighting guerrillas.

Then, the laborers and immigrants from various Asian countries who landed in Australia with the invading Japanese army reached a full 500 million, of which the Japanese were less than 50, and the rest were mainly Taiwanese, Koreans who were recruited or lured. Chinese, Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese.

Usually, the Japanese army slaughtered the villages and towns of the white cattle in Australia, and looted all their belongings by the way. These laborers and immigrants followed behind, carrying their bags and living in the blood-stained houses, and continued to cultivate the fields left by the white people to produce food, vegetables and fruits for the imperial army. , or go to various factories and mines to work.

Finally, there are the aborigines in Australia. Before the arrival of white immigrants, there were about 80. By the eve of World War II, only [-] to [-] were killed. The plunge is basically negligible.

Next, in the retaliatory massacre and poison gas war carried out by the Japanese invaders not long ago, the number of white Australians evaporated by 150 million in an instant, and they have since completely become a minority in Australia. The race was changed again.

——Although the methods are indeed bloody and brutal, since in the last century, the Brits slaughtered Australian aborigines so brutally to expand the living space of white people.So now, instead of being massacred by the Japanese and expanding the living space of the yellow race, there seems to be nothing to complain about.

What's more, in the future world revolution, the Anglo-Saxon nation will still be the number one public enemy of the entire socialist camp.

At least, in the eyes of Miss Sophie, who is extremely hostile to the Anglo-Saxons, these descendants of John Bull are absolutely worth dying.

In addition, more than 200 white people in New Zealand died in the fierce tug-of-war between Japan and the United States, which was also traumatized.Today, the Anzac Army that followed MacArthur to Japan is mainly composed of these New Zealanders who have blood feuds with the Japanese army, and some white Australian refugees who were driven out of their homes and fled to New Zealand. The attitude towards the Japanese is naturally conceivable.

"...That's right, since the dream of dominating East Asia is no longer necessary, at least Oceania, which has already been obtained, must not be lost."

Chief of Staff Shen Shigetoku nodded. As a rear admiral, he naturally hopes that the future Japanese nation will continue to develop towards the ocean, "...but we can't just watch the local elders being slaughtered, otherwise even if we have land, But without the population, isn’t it still empty?”

——Before the war, if only the mainland of the Japanese archipelago was counted, then the Japanese nation had a population of about 7000 million, and if Taiwanese and Koreans were included, it could barely make up 300 million.Next, as the war progressed, 700 million Japanese died overseas.Then there was the Tokyo sarin gas battle and the double-strike of two atomic bombs, which sent millions of Japanese souls to heaven in one breath.When the U.S. military landed on the Japanese archipelago, burned Kyoto, massacred Osaka, threw incendiary bombs and gas bombs everywhere, and killed crazily every day. In addition to the nuclear explosion in Tokyo ahead, [-] million Japanese died in the war.

So far, the Japanese nation has lost 1000 million people in the war, and it is not known how many people will die next.

"...That's why the United Fleet is now going northward in a big way to kill the native Japanese, isn't it?"

The ship's wife, Sophie, hiccupped and raised her glass as a signal, then suddenly closed her eyes and remained silent for a long time.And Major General Shen Zhongde's face suddenly turned serious: he knew that the lady in front of him was receiving and translating a certain radio wave floating in the sky.

After a while, Sophie, the ship's mother, smiled wryly and opened her eyes, "... Chief of Staff Shen Zhongde, it seems that we can no longer wait for the Halsey Fleet on Hainan Island, the United Fleet must anchor as soon as possible! "

"...Why?" Shen Chongde frowned, "...If this is the case, wouldn't the original plan to lure the enemy be tantamount to failure?"

"...Because the transport fleet led by Admiral Horitiki suddenly changed its plan and went to Okinawa! We can't let the million-ton merchant ship be hit by the US military like a target!" Miss Kanniang sighed, "...then But more than half of our maritime capacity..."

"...and the world's largest super transport ship... I understand, this is indeed a loss we absolutely cannot afford at the moment."