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Chapter 57 War Resolution

On December 25, Li Pingko held a high-level meeting at the Head of State.

The theme of this meeting was to fight against Japan. At the beginning, Li Pingko clarified the central idea, that is, the conflict with Japan had developed to the point where it could not be resolved by other means, and war became inevitable. In order to fight for a favorable situation, we should actively create opportunities for war.

Subsequently, the meeting revolved entirely on military issues.

In other words, Mu Haoyang became the main spokesperson.

According to his deployment, the combat against Japan will be divided into four stages: strategic assault, fighting for initiative on the battlefield, strategic blockade and decisive battle on the ground.

During the strategic assault stage, the air force will be the main force and will conduct comprehensive bombing of Japan's strategic facilities, especially nuclear facilities with military purposes, and strive to completely destroy Japan's national defense infrastructure, such as major military bases, national defense and air defense systems, military communications and command systems, national communications and broadcast systems, major administrative agencies, basic transportation facilities, energy and resource industries, etc.

To be more precise, this should be strategic bombing.

The "strategic assault" is mainly to reflect the suddenness and importance of the early stages of the war, that is, to seize the initiative in the war through high-intensity aerial assault.

Since there is no tactical part involved, Mu Haoyang only mentioned in general that this stage will last for one to three months.

Of course, this is not all.

War is the result of interaction between the two sides, so Japan's defense and counterattack actions will inevitably have unpredictable impacts, and the most serious threat is Japan's retaliation against China's local targets.

In response to this issue, Mu Haoyang formulated two measures to deal with it.

First, by gradually expanding the bombing range, Japan's counterattack ability was disintegrated, that is, when the Japanese authorities made counterattack decisions, they had lost their counterattack ability.

But this cannot ensure that everything is foolproof.

After being bombed, Japan is likely to launch a counterattack immediately.

To this end, Mu Haoyang made second-hand preparations, that is, as long as Japan counterattacks against China, it will bomb strategic goals that are seriously harmful to society, such as dozens of nuclear power plants, important water conservancy facilities, industrial goals distributed in residential areas, etc.

The problem is, this is not a mere military means.

According to Mu Haoyang's proposal, after the war begins, the government should announce its position that when Japan does not counterattack China's mainland, China's strategic bombing only targets Japan's military targets and industrial targets with military purposes. Japan's attack on China's mainland means that the war breaks out in full swing.

Li Pingko made a decision on the spot and adopted Mu Haoyang's proposal.

During the strategic assault phase, there is another key point, that is, the navy is not the main force participating in the war, but must enter the Western Pacific during this period to prepare for the next phase of combat operations. If necessary, the navy will perform some low-intensity aerial assault missions.

In other words, before the war breaks out, the navy will enter a state of war.

According to Mu Haoyang's proposal, it is best to let the fleet enter the Western Pacific before the war breaks out, rather than to wait until the war breaks out before dispatching the fleet.

The reason is very simple. There are not many passages for Chinese fleets to exit the Western Pacific and are easily blocked.

After entering the second stage, the main task will be to seize control of the sea.

Of course, there is nothing to say about this. The key is to defeat the Japanese fleet on the marine battlefield and destroy Japan's most basic national defense force.

For Japan, losing control of the sea means defeat.

Because the combat operations at this stage are mainly tactical, Mu Haoyang did not introduce it much, but only emphasized two crucial issues.

First, closely monitor the operations of the Japanese fleet and provide reliable intelligence support for sea-making operations.

Second, there is great uncertainty in combat operations at this stage. For example, it is very likely to fight the Japanese fleet before the strategic assault mission is completed, and it is also possible to face external intervention. Therefore, in combat operations, the fleet commander must be given the highest decision-making power.

Li Pingko did not bargain and agreed to Mu Haoyang's request on the spot.

More importantly, according to Li Pingko's intention, Mu Haoyang was both the supreme commander and the fleet commander, so he had to command the fleet to fight.

This surprised Mu Haoyang a little because he had never thought about this issue and had never mentioned it to Teng Yaohui.

Fortunately, Teng Yaohui did not raise any objections.

After entering the third stage, there was no suspense of the end of the war, and at this time, Mu Haoyang adopted the suggestion put forward by Huang Zhibo, which was to retain a glimmer of hope for Japan.

According to his deployment, the third phase will focus on strategic blockade and force Japan to surrender.

It can be said that this is also the most debated place.

According to Li Pingko's view, since he has defeated Japan on the air and maritime battlefields and seized air and sea control, there is no need to carry out strategic blockade. Instead, the scale of strategic bombing should be expanded, and then landed on the Japanese outside islands and finally landed on the Japanese mainland.

To put it bluntly, there is no need to waste time.

In fact, this is exactly Mu Haoyang's point of view, that is, a quick battle and a quick decision.

According to Mu Haoyang's judgment, at most three months, you can get the opportunity to land in Japan, and it is possible to control the war time to about half a year.

However, no one can deny that three months of strategic bombing is not enough to completely defeat Japan.

In other words, if it lands in Japan three months after the war begins, the ground war will definitely be very fierce, and Japan is likely to ask the United States for help at this time. If the ground war develops as Mu Haoyang expected, Japan may announce its surrender after half a year of war begins.

This is exactly the result that Huang Zhibo is most worried about.

It is precisely because Mu Haoyang proposed a strategic blockade, that is, postponing ground wars, which allowed Japan to make a strategic misjudgment, believing that China is not determined to land on Japan's mainland, so there is reason to continue to persist and create opportunities for the strategic counterattack in 2037 or 2038.

Of course, the protagonist of the strategic blockade is still the Navy.

However, in addition to the fleet, submarines will be the main force participating in the war.

Here, Mu Haoyang clearly stated that with existing technical means, the harm of "unlimited submarine warfare" can be effectively controlled, that is, the nature of the ambush target can be accurately identified and the ships of other countries can be accidentally injured during strategic blockades. If there is sufficient intelligence support, accurate target removal can be achieved, that is, only transport ships transporting key strategic materials can be intercepted.

As for the blockade time, Mu Haoyang only gave a brief answer.

Based on Japan's strategic reserves, as well as consumption and production efficiency during the war period, Japan can last for up to two and a half years under the strategic blockade. If high-intensity strategic bombing is carried out during this period and the focus on attacking Japan's strategic reserve resources can be shortened to about one and a half years.

In other words, one and a half years after the lockdown began, Japan will be out of ammunition and food.

At this point, there will be two situations in the battle. One is that the Japanese authorities make a wise choice to sign a unit under the city with China, and the other is that more than 100 million Japanese people collectively "break" and hold on to the end.

If it is the former, China should seize the opportunity and win the fruits of victory at the negotiating table.

If it is the latter, it will reach the fourth stage, that is, to land in Japan.

According to Mu Haoyang's estimate, ground war will not be too easy and not too difficult. The main problem is to ensure the logistics supply of combat troops.

To this end, Mu Haoyang proposed a plan, that is, after the situation of the war was clear, he persuaded the allies to join the war.

Of course, this is a political topic.

Li Pingko did not agree immediately, but agreed to consider Mu Haoyang's suggestions when the time is ripe. As for when the time is ripe, in Mu Haoyang's view, as long as Japan takes the lead in expanding the scale of the war, such as asking the United States for help, then China has a reason to do the same.

In fact, Mu Haoyang's proposal to Lai the allies to participate in the war was targeting the United States.

As for how much contribution the allies can make in the war, Mu Haoyang did not have much hope, nor did he have to let the allies share the main combat tasks.

According to his estimates, ground wars lasted for up to half a year.

With the strength of the Chinese Army, coupled with the world's largest fleet, and the second largest strategic airlift force behind the US Air Force, ground war is just the last step to winning the fruits of victory.

After Mu Haoyang introduced the war plan, the meeting entered the political discussion stage.

The first and most important question: the reason for the war.

Li Pingko said it very thoroughly: Without a tenable reason, it will not be able to stop the United States from participating in the war and will not be able to completely defeat Japan.

In Mu Haoyang's opinion, Li Pingko's concerns were a bit redundant.

Not to mention anything else, when China and Japan were preparing for the war, the United States did not accelerate its military preparations, and it would be impossible for a full-scale war to break out with China for Japan.

However, it must be admitted that the United States has a legal basis for participating in the war.

Don’t forget that Japan is still an ally of the United States, and its alliance treaty with the United States has not been abolished. The United States has the obligation to protect Japan’s local security.

Even if the US president is unwilling to participate in the war, the US Congress may force the president to send troops.

To stop the United States from joining the war, one must find a complete reason.

Judging from the situation at that time, the only reason was that Japan secretly developed nuclear weapons and had made a decisive breakthrough, which was only one step away from possessing nuclear weapons, or had already created nuclear weapons. The reason was very simple. In the US legal system, the status of the "Washington Treaty" was higher than the "US-Japan Alliance Treaty", and the basis of the alliance between the United States and Japan was the affiliation between the two countries. The most basic thing was that Japan could not break the basic constitution established after World War II, which clearly stipulated that Japan could not possess nuclear weapons.

To put it bluntly, as long as Japan has nuclear weapons, the U.S.-Japan alliance will automatically collapse.

The question is, how to get this prerequisite?

It can be said that the verification of Japan over the past two years has been working hard for this. Unfortunately, under the interference and obstruction of Western countries such as the United States, the verification is just a mere formality and has lost its due significance.

Finally, Li Pingko adopted the suggestion put forward by Du Xiaolei: a strategic embargo against Japan.
Chapter completed!