From the day when the Japanese navy failed to attack Sanduo-Ao Military Port, the third Sino-Japanese War initiated by Japan was destined to be defeated. In the anger of the people of both countries, neither China nor Japan could retreat at all.

It can fight this war completely and completely.

In order to prove the superiority of the Yamato nation and the lowliness of the Chinese race, to avenge the shame, for the emperor and for the imperial army, the Imperial Camp of the Great Japanese Empire set an unrealistic strategic goal from the very beginning, trying to launch a comprehensive battle in Kaesong

The attack eliminated the main force of the Northeast Defense Forces, advanced to Pyongyang in one go, and then forced the "Chinese Empire" to negotiate.

The strategic plan formulated by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army Base Camp controlled by the Imperial Doctrine is so detailed, about their so-called "recovery" of the entire North Korea and Taiwan within six months, and use submarine warfare to dissolve the maritime trade of the "China"

, causing its economy to collapse, the people were afraid of war, forcing the "Chinese Kingdom" to actively seek a ceasefire, and officially returned the North Korea, Taiwan, Siriuqiu, Jeju Island, northern Sakhalin Island and Papua to the Great Japanese Empire to compensate the Great Japanese Empire for 40 yuan.

100 million yen, and more than half of the main warships and aircraft carriers were compensated to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the strict restrictions were required to maintain its naval tonnage at half of the total volume of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Regarding the so-called relatively stable plan of the base camp, Prime Minister Mine Mitsumasa can only say that the military headquarters has crazily lost its last sanity.

Minai Mitsumasa, who was born in the Admiral, knew very well that this war would only lose, not win, but he had no say in the crazy goals set by the base camp. He even had the right to attend the base camp's decision-making meeting.

No, I could only wait in the official residence for the base camp to notify him of the results in the name of the emperor's decree and to tell him what to do.

After the Battle of Sanduo Ao, Minumasa Minao should step down, but because the base camp adopted a policy of concealing the upper and deceiving the lower side, the result of this naval battle was that Japan won slightly, annihilated the three main battleships of the Chinese Navy. In the Incheon air battle, the base camp

He continued to abide by the Army's aviation forces' false reports and continued to claim that the Imperial Japanese Imperial Army had an unprecedented victory over the Chinese army. As a result, Mine Hiromasa could only continue to stay in office under such circumstances.

In the words of the princes and marshals in the Marshal's Mansion, even if they are replaced with other candidates now, they may not be more suitable than that guy.

Even though he was a general, Mine Mitsumasa was completely out of control over the military headquarters. In fact, before him, no prime minister could really control the imperial army of the Great Japanese Empire. This is similar to China, the army and the cabinet.

They are all subjects of the emperors who are directly under the same level. Since they are equal to each other, the cabinet naturally has no right to interfere in the army. Because the Japanese emperor is more keen on controlling the army rather than the cabinet, it is always easy for the military to interfere in the cabinet, and the cabinet interferes in the military.

Not only is it impossible, but it is also absurd in the eyes of the Japanese military and political circles.

For this war, Mine Hiromasa had no choice or solution. All he had to do was continue to increase taxes and raise as much military expenditure as possible to ensure all the needs of the base camp.

In contrast, Prime Minister Gu Weijun is much better than Minei Hiroshima. Gu Weijun was first nominated as Vice Chairman of the Central National Defense Commission at the outbreak of the war. As one of the three vice chairmans, he can not only participate in the highest military in the central government.

All meetings will also participate in all decision-making and discussions; secondly, Gu Weijun has the absolute support of Emperor Hua, which is much better than Mine Hiroshima; thirdly, the Sino-Japanese War is all for Japan, and for China

It is just a local war, which is far less important than the development and normal operation of the country. As long as there is no world war, Gu Weijun, as the prime minister of the empire, will still be the highest power minister under the Emperor.

Minai Mitsumasa may be the wisest person in the Japanese military and political circles during this period. He knew very well that this war was doomed to fail from the beginning, even if he won the battle in Sanduo-Au Navy and wanted to force China to sign a humiliation.

A sexual armistice agreement is impossible, but his opinion is just like the forgotten Nishienji Gongshu, and no one cares about it. Now is the era when the Japanese military headquarters and the Imperial Doctrine control everything in Japan.

Under the strong promotion of the Japanese base camp, the Japanese army continued a large-scale offensive on the Kaicheng defense line for 21 days, but suffered heavy losses. There were no mechanical troops that could penetrate the defense. The air force did not have any advantage. In this way, he wanted to force a breakthrough to preside over Fu Zuoyi.

The Kaicheng Defense Line is a bit too unfair to take the Chinese Army seriously.

Is it only their Japanese army that knows how to fight bravely?

Or even though tens of thousands of army troops were annihilated that year, the Japanese insisted that "Chinese" was the lowest nation and race, and only their Yamato people were the noblest people in Asia after Anglo-Saxon.

Or even if they have low IQ under the light of the Emperor, they can defeat their opponents even if they have low IQ. As long as they are foolish?

ah.

The power of Shinto is really great.

China and Japan have obviously been preparing for this war for a long time. While implementing major mechanized changes, China will also pay special attention to the needs of the Korean battlefield in the development of new weapons such as armored vehicles, tanks, aircraft, and self-propelled artillery.

China's disadvantage is that its country's territory is too vast, with overseas provinces that need to be stationed, as well as too many protectors and important allies. The 54 divisions of the army are scattered across Asia, and it is difficult to draw enough troops to arrive at the Korean battlefield in an emergency.

Even if there are 850,000 patrol troops and coast guard troops in the country, the empire can complete 22 new infantry divisions by reorganizing the patrol troops in the Northeast and North China regions, replenishing demobilized soldiers and recruiting new soldiers, the empire can complete 22 new infantry divisions before December 1939.

, 4 artillery brigades, 2 armored brigades and more than 10 brigades of baggage engineering troops, but it will take some time for these troops to be put into war on a large scale.

This means that the ace army on which the Empire relies on to survive will have to wait until at least March 1940. Therefore, in the Battle of Kaicheng, the army with more powerful empires was in a defensive state with the support of the Air Force.

The defensive posture made the Japanese base camp even more arrogant, trying to force China to surrender before March 1940, and also added 12 new divisions to the country.

However, on the Kaesong defense line, the Japanese Army did not make any progress, and the damage was too serious, forcing the Japanese base camp to continuously draw troops to supplement the front line. At the same time, starting from October 1939, with the transfer of the 203rd Division of the Air Force ace force.

Jeju Island reinforced the 214th Division, coupled with the arrival of the Central Air Fleet, the empire began to play a combat fulcrum role in the Jeju Island Naval and Air Force Base that had been working for decades, and carried out large-scale air raids on ships traveling back and forth across the Japanese Strait.

The Japanese mainland posed a direct threat.

As the Japanese army lost almost all aircraft carriers, the 97 land war was insufficient, so they could only build airports on the Five Islands Islands to confront the Imperial Air Force. They suffered heavy losses in the Kaesong Battle but were unable to open up the situation. The Japanese Strait and the local area

It was threatened again, which forced Japan to shift its strategic focus back to the Navy and Jeju Island.

In the empire's strategic map, Jeju Island is a very important strategic fulcrum. The air force and navy deployed here directly guard the security of the entire Chinese mainland coastline. The Imperial Air Force and Navy use this as an isolated fulcrum, in the long East China Sea

Implement anti-submarine operations to curb Japanese submarine forces from entering the East China Sea to attack merchant ships.

Under the threat of Japanese submarine forces, the empire's foreign import and export were generally changed from railways to ports south of Fuzhou Port. However, in military transportation, northern ports were still very important. A large number of ships set off from Shandong and Liaodong Peninsula to

North Korea transports supplies and troops in the north.

This forced the Japanese base camp to adjust its strategy and consider adopting more extreme policies to attack Jeju Island.

In the initial plan of the Japanese army, once the Sanduo Ao naval battle succeeded, the Japanese Navy would quickly use the vacuum period when the main force of the Chinese navy was exhausted, but this plan failed to achieve its goal.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1911, because its navy had an absolute advantage, Japan did not oppose China's purchase of Jeju Island from North Korea. It was not until after the end of World War I that Japan realized the seriousness of this mistake with the development of the air force.

At that time, there were not too many air forces stationed on Jeju Island, and Japan did not have too many military worries.

Until 1929, with the outbreak of the first Indonesian turmoil, China transferred the 214th Air Force Division, which was originally stationed in Qingdao, to curb Japan's expansion, and was located in the deep-water port 7.5 kilometers west of Seogwipo, Jeju Island.

A large naval base was built in this area, and a long-term project lasted for five years was carried out.

Although this naval base, officially named Jiangting Port, currently mainly docks submarines, close defense and destroyers, the largest naval submarine is only two heavy cruisers, and it lacks the ability to attack Japan through the navy, but with the Jeju Island Air Force Base,

The Air Force's strike range exceeds 800 kilometers, and it has the strength to attack Osaka.

This made the Japanese base camp completely unbearable.

However, China's garrison on Jeju Island is not an ordinary person. Not only are there two air divisions, one artillery brigade, one infantry brigade and one light armored brigade, the total garrison reached 77,000, which is enough to curb the large-scale landing war of the Japanese army.

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If the Japanese army launches an offensive and fails to end the battle within one day, the Chinese aircraft carrier fleet that comes will completely defeat the attacking Japanese troops and smash all the Japanese navy bets here, unless the Japanese use the entire navy

Main force.

In fact, what the Japanese base camp planned was to dispatch the main naval force and finalize Jeju Island at one time. Considering the difficulties of the entire battle, the Japanese army needed to dispatch at least more than 200,000 landing troops to forcibly land on the northwest coast of Jeju Island.

Objectively speaking, with the defense status and fortification level on Jeju Island, coupled with the lack of armored forces and defensive capabilities of the Japanese Army, facing the steel bunker-like Jeju Island, let alone 200,000, or 300,000.

The army can't take it down.

The people who have studied fortifications and position warfare in the empire in recent years are nothing more than Jiang Fangzhen, Zhang Hongkui, Fu Zuoyi, and Han Chunlin. If we use the theory and architectural design of fortifications purely, Zhang Hongkui, vice president of the Central Military Academy, is undoubtedly the highest level.

In order to strengthen research on fortifications, he even completed his master's degree in architecture from Central University of Technology.

The defense of Jeju Island is exactly Zhang Hongkui's masterpiece in the past twenty years. His defense theory is very alternative aviation active defense, that is, using the air force airport as the center of defense, using air force forces to block the surrounding coastline, and in the enemy's army

Before the landing operation is carried out, the enemy's ships will be wiped out. Even if they cannot be wiped out, they will continue to weaken. The weakening will be made layer by layer, making it impossible for the enemy to organize effective landing operations.

A total of two floors of the ring road and fortifications were built throughout Jeju Island. The armored brigade was mainly light and medium tanks, while the artillery belonged to the self-propelled artillery brigade. It was operated through the area between the ring roads, regardless of where the enemy landed from.

They will be subjected to extremely fierce artillery counterattacks.

In Rudong County, Nantong, the Imperial Central Air Force stationed an Air Force Airborne Division. The J5 fighter fleets of Jiaxing Air Force Base and Xuzhou Air Force Base are both capable of being transferred to Jeju Island within 8 hours.

Under such circumstances, even if the Japanese base camp continues to adopt extreme risky strategies, it is impossible to capture Jeju Island, the core fulcrum of the empire's strategy, and whether the Japanese army can organize a 200,000-man team.

The login operation is a very serious problem.

At this time, the Japanese Navy was indeed capable of continuing to fight. Its main battleship was basically intact. The problem of not having an aircraft carrier could be compensated by building an airport in southern North Korea. After repeated fierce discussions, the Japanese base camp still made the case.

Decision to attack Jeju Island.

According to the Japanese army's idea, it is still hoped to arrive in this sea area through the naval dispatch at night and launch an attack on Jeju Island in the early morning. However, the Japanese army's transportation capacity was very limited and they could only organize landing operations of 40,000 to 50,000 people because of the lack of

Amphibious armored vehicles and tanks on the waterway can only continue to rely on traditional charge tactics during this landing operation.

This decision actually eventually led to the early arrival of Japan's defeat.

The Kaesong Battle lasted until November 1939. The two sides confronted here for three months. The Japanese army was unable to make a breakthrough and suffered heavy losses. At the same time, the Central Military Department also discovered that the Japanese army's troops were mobilized in southern Korea and Kitakyushu.

The situation is abnormal, and it is estimated that the Japanese army may carry out forced landing operations on Jeju Island in the past two months.

After carefully evaluating all the information, the Central Military Commission estimated that the Japanese army could use for landing operations on Jeju Island, and the two infantry divisions and a brigade. As we all know, the Japanese Army and Navy are in the world.

The military branches with the most serious differences were extremely fierce internal conflicts. The Japanese army strongly demanded an attack on Jeju Island, while the Navy seriously disagreed. The two sides also had fierce debates within the base camp.

But no matter what, the base camp finally decided to attack Jeju Island.

Around November 20, the Central Military Department intercepted Japanese telegrams. After analyzing and combining Japan's preparations for war, it is estimated that Japan may carry out landing operations on Jeju Island in early December. If it is colder, Japan will have to delay until after March next year.

, This is an extremely unfavorable situation for Japan.

On the night of November 24, the second fleet of the Central Air Combined Fleet quietly headed south to Taiwan. The fleet consisted of 5 aircraft carriers, 4 escort aircraft carriers, 3 battleships and 7 escort cruisers. There were two comprehensive ships sailing with the ship.

Supply ships, 5 destroyers and 14 transport ships.

After several considerations, the Imperial Navy considered that the possibility of a decisive battleship was very low. The Japanese fleet would basically only fight within the coverage of the Japanese Air Force on the Korean Peninsula, so it did not send more battleships, and it was purely a aircraft carrier formation as the main strike.

The four newly added escort aircraft carriers all come from coal transport ships transformed by Jiangnan and Fuzhou Shipbuilding General Factory.

After the Second Fleet left Weihai Port, it remained radio silent, but another coast guard fleet cooperated with two escort aircraft carriers to disguise the number of this fleet and repeatedly confirmed through radio to head south to the Sino-Japanese Pacific War Zone.

At this time, China and Japan were also fighting in the Pacific Ocean, but the scale of the battle was small. As this fleet moved south, if Japan did not send its main fleet south, Japan would quickly defeat in the Pacific Ocean.

The two sides continue to fight wits.
To be continued...