Great time travel

Chapter 60、The Wrath of the Commander
Faced with this exaggerated battle report that "our army destroyed 20 Japanese planes and calmly turned thousands of miles away", although President Truman had already used the special skills of the "Great Commander's Wrath" to the extreme, but Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall remained unmoved.

"...Mr. President, when we got this statistical battle report, we were also shocked by the exaggerated figures on it. But after repeated checks and reviews, we finally have to admit that all this is true, boys What was shot down was not kites and seagulls, but real enemy planes! Although it is inferred according to common sense, the Japanese Empire should not have kept this number of military planes no matter what.

In addition, in fact, in the disastrous defeat that just ended on the Japanese battlefield, although our army was indeed defeated, there was not much to blame for General Patton's command strategy, and the boys of the United States also expressed With the utmost courage and tenacity, as well as superb combat skills, it is a pity that they are still overwhelmed by the Japanese with planes that cover the sky, tanks that cover the earth, and warships that cover the sea! "

Chief of Staff Marshall replied, "...after all, it has been well established that spirit cannot overcome steel."

"...Yes, spirit cannot defeat steel, of course I have heard that, but hasn't it been used to describe our enemies in the past?"

President Truman rolled his eyes, obviously he was still in a very bad mood, "...I used to always think that our great army defending freedom is the best equipped, the strongest and the most beautifully dressed in the world, The army with the best food and the highest salary!"

Faced with this ridicule from President Truman, Chief of Staff Marshall couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, because the sentence just now was actually praised by a certain writer. The army with the best equipment, the strongest physique, the most beautiful clothes, the best food, and the highest salary in the world. The reason why it has today's organization, training, and equipment standards is no accident. It is a monument, showing George. Marshall's gift and boundless energy, his near-supernatural vision and leadership..."

However, such a luxurious and wealthy army is now being crushed in terms of equipment and materials by a poor opponent who has always despised it...

This kind of blow is really very heavy, mainly not on the material, but on the heart - if it is your weakness that has always been grabbed and beaten, ordinary people will only lament their own bad luck and wonder how to deal with it. Get back a victory in your own strengths.But if he was crushed in the strength that he was always the most proud of, then all that was left was his self-confidence that was shattered into slag.

For example, the current President Truman has already begun to feel a little discouraged about continuing the bloody Japanese conquest, "... I remember that after the Tokyo nuclear explosion last year, the whole of Washington was full of joy, thinking that the war had been won Who would have thought that they would just jump into a bloodier quagmire. Since landing in Japan, the number of casualties of the Allied forces alone has reached 120 million! This is not counted as disabled! As for all kinds of The loss of materials and technical weapons is a bunch of appalling astronomical figures. How can it go on like this?"

"...but they also killed ten times as many Japanese! Mr. President," Chief of Staff Marshall insisted uncompromisingly, "...if we want to kill that many Japanese on other battlefields, I The price the general will have to pay is probably far more than that!"

"... At least [-]% of this record is the massacre of Japanese civilians... Do you think this is also a glorious thing?"

"...Mr. President, the United States has given up all the attention to chivalry and the laws of war! We are fighting a total war of extreme cruelty, a war of madness that will use everything! In order to win this war, We must not hesitate to become demons!"

Chief of Staff Marshall continued to insist, "... Only the victors who have won the war are qualified to talk about morality and demeanor!"

"...Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Let's continue talking about the battle situation on the Japanese front!" President Truman was silent for a moment, and chose to get down to business again, "...we really took down 20 Japanese fighter jets on the Japanese battlefield last month. airplane?"

"...Yes, the exact number should be only a few more. About half of them failed to take off at all, and were destroyed by us on the airfield. The rest were destroyed in the air. Today's Japanese pilots are very poor. , It is completely incomparable with the group of people who attacked Pearl Harbor.

In fact, in the army flight team on the front line in Japan, there is one of the most powerful ace pilots. Before he was transferred from the front line and returned to Hawaii as an instructor last week, his personal number of downed enemy planes exceeded [-]. , successfully broke the world record in this area..."

Chief of Staff Marshall replied with a nod, "...in addition, we destroyed forty thousand Japanese tanks, plus many times that number of Japanese field guns and anti-aircraft guns, and killed at least two million Japanese during the month, if If we don’t consider the retreat of the front line and the loss of the occupied area, but only calculate the exchange ratio of personnel and technical weapons, our army should have greatly killed and wounded the enemy’s vital force, and won a brilliant victory..."

"...What? Wait? Killed at least 200 million Japanese in one month? How is that possible?"

President Truman blinked in disbelief, "...Aren't the frontline troops retreating all the way? How could such a result be obtained?"

"...It's true." Chief of Staff Marshall said, "...do you remember the 'Strategic Village' plan, Mr. President?"

Strategic Village?Of course, President Truman remembered that in simple terms, in order to eliminate the guerrilla resistance movement in the occupied area, he forcibly drove the Japanese in the occupied area as much as possible into concentration camps called "strategic villages" to implement strict control , in order to cut off their connection with the guerrilla resistance armed forces, and then link the concentration camps together to form a blockade zone, dividing several guerrilla hard-hit areas in the Japanese archipelago-occupied area...

According to the Pentagon, this plan will eventually turn the whole of Japan into a giant prison, or a Soviet labor camp.Its strategic goal is to centralize the control of the Japanese and cut off the connection between the common people and the guerrillas, so that the Japanese guerrillas cannot survive in the wilderness because they cannot obtain the necessary supplies. fight, or be starved to death.

Strictly speaking, the content of the above-mentioned plan was inspired by the Japanese “collecting and merging villages” in Manchuria.But the problem is that the U.S. military in the Japanese archipelago does not have the same huge advantage as the Japanese in Northeast China. It is even difficult to gain a firm foothold. How can there be any security?

"...Although we encountered a lot of resistance during the period, and the Japanese interim government in Yokohama was also obedient, or powerless, but with the efforts of General Patton, our army has successfully established about 100 strategic forces in the occupied area. village, with a population of more than [-] million under centralized control..."

Chief of Staff Marshall simply explained, "...Unfortunately, most of the strategic villages that have been built are located in the areas that were lost in this rout. We don't have spare capacity to take these Japanese away. In order to avoid To strengthen the enemy's strength, we had to deal with them on the spot."

"...Wait, what do you mean by disposing of it?" President Truman suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"...It is to learn from the method of exterminating Jews in the German Nazi concentration camps, and use gas canisters and machine guns to finally solve these Japanese..."

"...God... But even so, there is only a death list of 100 million people at most, right? What about the other 100 million people?"

"...Actually only 50, Mr. President. Because some strategic villages were breached by Japanese guerrillas before they could be cleared. Or the guards neglected their duties and fled without taking care of executing the Japanese... We These guys have been dealt with severely by military law."

Chief of Staff Marshall replied, "...However, before our troops withdrew from Japanese cities such as Osaka, Nara, and Wakayama, they set fire to them or released nerve gas, so that they could become cities of death and allow the Japanese army There is nothing to be gained from these lands.

Then, in the occupied areas in eastern Japan, which our army is still able to control, the Pentagon turned to Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay’s proposal in view of the huge cost and limited effectiveness of the strategic village plan, and learned from the Japanese army’s previous practice of clearing the occupied areas in northern China , adopt the "three-all" policy of "kill all, burn all, and rob all" in eastern Japan.Only the urban area of ​​Yokohama, where the Provisional Government of Japan is located, and Chiba Prefecture as the rear are kept, and the rest of the place is turned into no man's land to reduce the pressure on public security... More than 130 million Japanese countrymen have been executed so far. Coupled with the kills on the battlefield, it has exceeded 200 million.If it goes well, it is expected that at least 100 million Japanese will be cleaned up next month..."

"...This, this is too... well...is this...the so-called 'war turns people into devils'?"

Listening to these "Security Solutions for Japanese-Occupied Areas" that represent countless corpses and seas of blood (there will be no public security problems if everyone is killed), or the "Japanese Genocide Plan", President Truman suddenly felt a burst of It's creepy from the bottom of my heart, but it's hard to blame-after all, this is how the American cowboys dealt with the native Indians, and they have already done it very skillfully.

So, after a long sigh, Mr. President had no choice but to pretend to be deaf and dumb and changed the subject again, "... Then, regarding the sudden appearance of so many enemy technical weapons on the Japanese battlefield, and the fourteen Yamato-class ships discovered earlier Battleship, what does the Pentagon think about that?"

"...In the beginning, the intelligence agency once thought that it was the arms aid provided by the Soviet Union. But after careful investigation, we found that the wreckage of the enemy planes collected on the front line were indeed the Zidian, Gale and Zero War developed by Japan. , as well as various types of 'Land Attack' and 'Ship Attack'. The enemy tanks that were destroyed and captured were also of the Japanese type. As for the Yamato-class battleship that suddenly multiplied to fourteen, there is no need Doubtful Japanese ancestry...but the huge quantity of these weapons has clearly exceeded the limit of the production capacity of the Japanese Empire."

Marshall said so eloquently, "...in view of the above contradictions, we finally come to a very terrible conclusion, that is, the Japanese and the Soviets colluded far earlier and to a greater extent than we originally expected. So much so that the Japanese army unreservedly handed over to the Soviets the design drawings and manufacturing processes of their various weapons in active service, even including the Yamato-class battleship they regarded as a national treasure. Now appearing on the Japanese battlefield In fact, these Japanese weapons should all come from the arsenal of the Soviets."

"...that is, just as we strive to be the arsenal of the democracies, the Soviets are also serving as the arsenal of the Japanese army?"

"...Yes, we have circumstantial evidence for this point, that is, among the Soviet Red Army on the European battlefield recently, some technical weapons with obvious Japanese styles and Japanese inscriptions have begun to appear one after another, such as Japan's three Chinese chariots and bean chariots, as well as some military biscuits and cans that seem to be made in Japan (although they need to be transported from the Pacific Ocean, they are free things and everyone likes them).”

Marshall said, "...the British and the Spaniards who happened to seize these things were very confused, and it seems to us that the Soviets have been in charge of Japanese munitions production for a long time, and until recently they have been responsible for Japanese munitions production. Evidence that a portion of the product was diverted to internal digestion..."

"...To put it simply, the Pentagon's conclusion is that the Soviet arsenal is mass-producing Japanese military-standard weapons for the Japanese? This is not right, right? Not to mention that the design performance of Japanese tanks generally lags behind that of the West, and the cost performance is far inferior The T-34 independently developed by the Soviets is a waste of manpower and material resources for the Soviet arsenal to produce these obsolete products. Moreover, as you said before, our army shot down 20 T-7s on the Japanese battlefield last month. Ten thousand Japanese aircraft! This number should have far exceeded the production capacity limit of all the aircraft factories in the Soviet Union! Even with the industrial production capacity of the United States, it would take two years to manufacture so many aircraft! What's more, With the shipbuilding technology of the Soviets, they can actually build a [-]-ton Yamato-class battleship?! And there are so many ships in one build! Can they do it?"

Truman shook his head again and again, "...This is neither logical nor common sense...It is completely unreasonable!"

"...but that's the fact, Mr. President, that fiction may need rationality, but fact doesn't at all, because it just happens, whether or not it conforms to our logic and common sense...if everything is strictly rational Otherwise, there would be no such war!"

Marshall shrugged and sighed, and said helplessly, "...As for the limit of the Soviet Union's industrial production capacity... since the outbreak of this world war, we seem to have miscalculated many times, right? Four years ago, there were still many people who were firmly convinced It is claimed that Stalin must rely on begging for aid from us in order to defeat Hitler? But what about the final result? There is also an assessment of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and even wrong judgments all the way from the beginning to the end. It can be seen that, The intelligence information we collected from various countries before the war is probably full of countless mistakes, and even basically none of them are correct. Now, even if it is a little more wrong, it seems to be understandable..."

——At this point, Chief of Staff Marshall has made it very clear: The reason why the U.S. military has been fighting in the Pacific battlefield for a long time is because that bastard Stalin is selling his kidneys to aid Japan!It's not that my Great American Liberation Master is not strong enough, but that Chi Russia's assistance to the Japanese invaders is too frenzied!

As for whether you believe it or not, Mr. President, it doesn't really matter. Anyway, the Pentagon definitely believes it!

In this regard, President Truman, who has a shallow foundation and is alone, seems to have nothing to do except to be choked and roll his eyes.