Chapter 5, Hearts of Iron: Empire of the Rising Sun s: Corrected a small mistake.
The nickname of the B29 strategic bomber is "Super Flying Fortress", not "Flying Fortress".
Two words are missing in front. yznn In the Japanese archipelago at the end of September, the autumn colors are full of red, and the leaves are flowing red.
They are gorgeous, as delicate as fire, and as red as fat and clouds, which is touching.
As the saying goes, "Appreciate the scarlet cherry blossoms in spring and the red leaves in autumn."
Now it's the season of red leaves all over the mountains.
The red leaves are as bright as fire, and the leaves are colorful.
The forests are dyed with various red leaves competing for beauty in Tokyo's famous Hibiya Park.
When people are there, they can experience three artistic conceptions of seeing red leaves: firstly, they see the red leaves in full color, secondly, they see the red leaves in full swing, and thirdly, they see the red leaves floating in the air as they fall.
It is really gorgeous like haze, gorgeous but not strong, charming but not charming.
Of course, this kind of leisurely feeling of admiring red leaves is limited to a very small number of people who have money, leisure and a worry-free life.
It is definitely not something that can be felt by those mud-legged people who have to work all day long and have no knowledge of the wind, flowers, snow and moon.
Now they only have A craving: how to fill a belly Japan's war of aggression against China that began in the 1930s brought huge benefits.
Relying on the rich minerals and grains in Northeast China, as well as sugar and rice from Taiwan, the living standards of ordinary Japanese people reached a peak in 1938.
But then, as the war of aggression against China fell into a quagmire that could not be resolved quickly, military expenditures skyrocketed, and there were sanctions from the United States and the United Kingdom, Japan's domestic life gradually became difficult.
When the Pacific War broke out, the living standards of ordinary people in Japan plummeted.
In the eyes of the Japanese people, after experiencing illusory glory and short-lived joy, what this war brought them was endless shortages of daily necessities, food Rationing, inflation, a booming black market and extremely long hours.
During these dark days, the Japanese people suffered more than any other nation that waged war.
As early as the first month of the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japanese cities began to ration food, charcoal, and even soy sauce, with each person only receiving a quota of 330 grams of rice per day.
Families purchased rice at designated rice stores with their grain purchase coupons, and a white rice ban was issued, requiring brown rice and polished rice to be mixed.
Next, the rationing system was extended to cloth, candles, soap and almost all daily necessities.
What’s even more frightening is that in order to meet the large demand for metal raw materials for weapons production, Japan has begun to dig deep in the country.
City residents were forced to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Tokyo’s metal street lamp brackets, railroad tracks, metal traffic signs, and various signs on buildings were all dismantled.
Even the copper gates of the Yasukuni Shrine were transported to the arsenal as raw materials for the production of bullets.
Shinto shrines in Japan contributed bronze shrines; Buddhist temples contributed bells and gongs.
The police went out in force and went door-to-door to force housewives to hand over their household utensils.
It was stipulated that each family could only leave one pot and one metal bucket.
Next, everyone was forced to replace the original aluminum one-yen coins with newly minted tin coins.
In Tokyo during the war, all the joy and laughter seemed to have been burned away by the flames of war.
Weary citizens perform tedious tasks like robots and suffer from chronic hunger.
The only thoughts in my numb mind are how long I have to hold on to get off work today, or how much quota is left in the rice and charcoal ration book at home, whether I can find some good stuff on the black market, or pawn a certain family heirloom at a more reasonable price.
On the buildings on both sides of the street, you can occasionally see a few flags congratulating the "Empire's Great Victory", but they have long been covered with dust, just like people's mentality towards war.
Despite such sacrifices, they still failed to prevent the haze of war from getting closer and closer to them.
The American bombs falling from time to time every three days always reminded them that war was around them.
Although it was impossible to dispatch a large fleet and could only carry out sneak attacks in small formations or even single aircraft, the high-altitude bombing of Japanese cities by the B29 strategic bombers was very lack of accuracy, and most of the bombs were simply dropped.
Moreover, the long distance of 4,500 kilometers from Midway to Japan forced American pilots to greatly reduce their bomb load in order to install temporary auxiliary fuel tanks.
The average number of casualties caused to Tokyo citizens every day may not be as high as usual car accidents and production accidents.
But the fear alone is enough to drive people crazy.
To make matters worse, there are rumors that since the Japanese army used poison gas on the Australian battlefield, the US military is preparing to bomb Tokyo with poison gas bombs in retaliation soon.
Even if only one bomber visits Tokyo, the relevant authorities have to mobilize the entire city's reservists and civilians, ordering them to join the voluntary fire brigade and emergency rescue teams to dig air-raid shelters in addition to exhausting work.
Once a US plane strikes late at night, people all over Tokyo have to get up tiredly and put on gas masks.
What's even worse is that after the Americans discovered the above situation through some channels, they became more and more fond of night bombings.
If nothing valuable can be blown up and the entire Japanese population in Tokyo can't sleep, it can be considered a success.
As a result, in recent years, Japan's rear factories have experienced an alarmingly high rate of death from overwork, rapidly evolving from "sweatshops" to "death factories" At this moment, around Hibiya Park, many families with children joining the army have put up signs saying "No".
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Air raid shelters are being dug everywhere in the once bustling shopping street, filled with new soil and broken bricks.
The pavement has been dug up and a springboard has been set up, and people push loaded trolleys across from time to time.
Some people stood on hastily erected scaffolding and painted the brightly colored store buildings with ugly yellow and green camouflage paint.
Someone posted air-raid paper strips in the shape of "meter" on the glass windows.
The neon lights have been removed, all the display windows are empty, and several shop assistants are busy removing glass and nailing wooden boards However, it is good to have work to keep busy at this time.
The most unlucky ones are those poor people whose properties and houses were burned to the ground by US bombings.
Now they are homeless and can only live on the streets, especially those children and women who lack the ability to work.
Now I can only set up my bedding in Hibiya Park and sleep in the open for the time being.
If it were in peaceful times, someone would have driven them away long ago.
But in this day and age, the police and gendarmes have a rare sense of sympathy and turn a blind eye to these homeless people who "occupy illegal land".
More importantly, at this time in Hibiya Park, a group of "kind-hearted navy officers and soldiers" were distributing relief to these homeless people, and the content was surprisingly rich: large pieces of white bread, hot seaweed soup , as well as a variety of nutritious seafood, such as dried salted fish , canned crab meat, canned herring, canned pollack, canned cod, etc., were all pulled into the park by truck after truck and placed directly on the grass, attracting countless salivating eyes even in the peace before the war.
In this era, such delicacies are not often available to ordinary people.
However, the Imperial Navy's relief food is not free.
Anyone who wants to eat these good things must sign a "sale contract" and sell the entire army to the Imperial Navy, and bid farewell to the homeland of the Japanese archipelago. , the requirement to immigrate to the war-torn South Pacific or the Australian continent thousands of miles away to engage in "armed reclamation", which is similar to selling oneself into slavery, obviously makes many people suspicious.
For example, women are very worried about whether they will be stuffed into a "comfort station" after arriving in Nanyang.
Their helplessly growling stomachs cannot resist the temptation.
They think about their next meal, which may not be available soon, and it may not be possible soon.
They would be drafted into the army or called into some kind of "stand-up team".
In the end, most people gritted their teeth and signed up.
Suddenly, people everywhere in the park were squatting on the ground, shaking their cheeks, and devouring these exquisite foods that they had not tasted for an unknown period of time.
Of course, such a dazzling array of precious foods has also attracted many greedy eyes with malicious intentions.
Although the navy uniforms worn by those in charge were enough to deter ordinary gangsters, there were some people who were so smart that they actually called in the gendarmerie, trying to charge them with "illegal gathering of people with ulterior motives" and other charges.
However, after a dispute, the military police were defeated in despair, because a navy chief happened to be here to support his own people: that is the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku. marshal Facing such a military god-level figure, even if the military police commander and former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo arrived, I would not dare to offend him.
There is no other way.
Marshal Yamamoto has been galloping across the oceans in the past four years and repeatedly defeated the brilliant record of the US Pacific Fleet.
It is really It's too scary.
There were more than fifty American and British battleships and aircraft carriers sunk under his command.
The total tonnage of the sunk ships was said to have exceeded two million tons.
Even Togo Heihachiro, who annihilated the Russian fleet in the Battle of Tsushima in the past, would probably feel inferior to Marshal Yamamoto's impressive achievements.
In Japan, Marshal Yamamoto's reputation has surpassed that of the ancient military god Kusunoki Masashige, and his photos and statues are placed in shrines for worship.
And the model of his flagship Yamato is also the most popular toy among boys.
In front of such a god-like figure, how dare a mere military policeman make a mistake?
Immediately afterwards, after the military police who came to make trouble resigned, Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku was immediately surrounded by young students who came up to ask for autographs, and several guards were sweating profusely.
And many Tokyo citizens who could still barely make ends meet couldn't help but think of "going to Nanyang" after seeing this.
Seeing that life at home is getting worse day by day, why not just make up their minds and go overseas?
The worst outcome is not Even if I die, at least I can eat and drink well for a while before I die, not to mention that even if I stay in Tokyo, don’t I have to be bombarded by beautiful animals?
Under a certain maple tree in a corner of Hibiya Park, two officers in army uniforms were drinking and chatting while watching the conflict scene not far away.
Like other wealthy and idle people who came out to see the red leaves, a layer of cloth was spread on the grass under their buttocks, and there were bottles of sake and some side dishes to go with the wine.
"Tsuji-kun, the timing of your return is unlucky.
You can't see the cherry blossoms in the spring, so you can just enjoy the red leaves in the autumn."
Colonel Hattori Takushiro, Chief of the Operations Section of the Army General Staff Headquarters, sipped the sake in a shallow dish and muttered sourly, "Oh, Yamamoto Isoroku is recruiting people without permission in Tokyo again to win over people's hearts.
He is really arrogant.
I heard that he not only managed the naval fortress of Truk Islands into an independent kingdom, but also established new operations in New Guinea, Noumea, and New Brunswick in the Southeast Asia.
A large area of land was encircled in places like British Isles, more than 10,000 marines were mobilized, and armed immigrants ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions were recruited.
Now they are actually building a navy in Truk.
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The branch of the university simply wants to recreate Japan overseas.
According to this method, does he really want to occupy the land there and become the king and become the lord of the feudal lord?"
Sitting cross-legged opposite Colonel Takushirō Hattori was Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, who had just returned from the Australian frontline to report on his duties and was about to be promoted to major general.
Hearing this, he just smiled slightly and said, "Hattori-kun, are you jealous?
To be honest, with Yamamoto Isn't the marshal's merits enough to qualify him as a feudal lord overseas?
Besides, this recruitment matter , in fact, our Australian Army and the Combined Fleet are doing it together.
Unfortunately, the Army is not as generous as the Navy and cannot provide very good treatment, so I can only force it on the way back to report on my work.
I recruited 5,000 volunteers from Taiwan. , another two thousand laborers were gathered from Vietnam, and finally four thousand coolies were tied up in Guangzhou, and they are now being shipped to Australia."
Speaking of this, Tsuji Masanobu couldn't help but have a hint of resentment in his tone, "Hey, on the Australian front and on the Nanyang islands, we are short of people everywhere.
We are digging mines, building roads, building airports, and taking over the legacy of Western white cattle.
Factories, farms and pastures, as well as encircling and suppressing stubborn enemies to replenish the soldiers on the front line, even cats want to pick up their paws and use them.
Unexpectedly, when I returned to Tokyo, I saw that there were still so many healthy limbs.
People all over the world will be idle and have no livelihood because of unemployment.
There are people everywhere at the station and pier who want to sell their children.
Women who sell sex because of unemployment are almost crowding Ginza and Kabukicho.
But it’s all like this, the base camp They even talked about protecting the domestic labor force and rejected our application for large-scale recruitment of armed immigrants, even refusing to give half-year-old children.
Isn’t this forcing us to act recklessly?”
"The domestic labor force situation is actually very tight.
All the young and middle-aged people have been recruited by the army.
Several coal mines in Kitakyushu are already using Korean and Chinese laborers to work in the mines.
Under such circumstances, if the base camp allows you to recruit people from the country, Mitsui and other consortiums will have strong opinions.”
Colonel Hattori Takushirō explained this, but Colonel Tsuji Masanobu became even angrier: "Well, they still have the nerve to complain.
The country is in the current situation where it is difficult to get out of the way.
It is not because of the greedy plutocrats such as Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo who are poaching.
It's obviously a national crisis On this occasion, there are still so many servants and maids to serve at home.
I heard that the total number of servants serving the rich in the country is currently as high as two million.
And on the Australian front, we are already raising reinforcements from the Chinese government of Wang Jingwei. , to fight with the American and British guerrillas."
"Well, I know about this.
At that time, the General Staff Headquarters thought that the Australian Army Command was crazy, but it was really tight everywhere and they couldn't squeeze out as many reinforcements as Australia needed.
They could only pinch their noses and borrow troops from the Nanjing National Government.
Are those people okay?"
Hattori Takushiro replied.
"To be honest, the combat effectiveness is really not that good.
Many of these guys are simply strong men temporarily captured by Wang Jingwei's government, but they can still be used as individuals.
Even if they can't fight, they can be thrown behind the front to farm in the military farms and repair weapons.
It’s not bad to be a worker or overseer in a mine.”
Tsuji Masanobu raised his neck and took a sip of sake and said, "At least he is much more diligent than those lazy Filipinos."
"Well, that's not what I meant.
I meant that in the General Staff Headquarters, many people were worried that they would surrender to the enemy on a large scale in Australia."
"If you surrender to the enemy, you have to be willing to accept it.
In the eyes of the white ghosts in Australia, we Japanese, Taiwanese, Koreans, Chinese, and even Vietnamese are all yellow monkeys who deserve to be skinned.
We really have to fall to the other side.
In the hands of the white beast, I’m afraid I won’t even be able to get a whole corpse.”
Tsuji Masanobu sneered, "In China, they may not be reliable, but in Australia, they can't even think about being unreliable.
At most, they can kill the white animal guerrillas and let them see blood, and then select a few leaders to comfort them."
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If you find a white woman to enjoy sex with, you'll basically be fine.
However, in the long run, there are still hidden dangers in doing so.
Only the army marched south to kill the white animals, and without the pioneering group to follow, the imperial army's Australian strategy seemed to be specifically designed to help the Chinese and Koreans immigrate south.
Well, there were also some Vietnamese who also benefited. " "There is no need for you to worry, Mr.
Tsuji.
Australia is not Manchuria and Mongolia.
It is too far away from Japan.
The empire cannot be stable.
At best, it is just a bargaining chip.
Once peace talks are started with European and American countries in the future, most of them will Still have to spit it out."
Colonel Hattori Takushiro replied disapprovingly, "When the Imperial Army withdraws and goes home, let those inferior ethnic groups stay in Australia and fight with the American and British white people.
Well, the Imperial Army can also leave some more weapons and ammunition for them so that they can fight."
It needs to be more lively” "Oh, I hope that's the case.
Let's not talk about it for now.
I just have wine today.
Try the gift I brought you from the southern hemisphere."
Then, Hattori Takushiro took the rough tin can without any markings from Tsuji Masanobu's hand with confusion.
He looked at it carefully and found that there was nothing marked on the surface of the can except a production date.
Next, he took out a dagger and pried open the can, picked out a piece of meat from an unknown animal, frowned and stuffed it into his mouth.
His face suddenly changed, and he spat out the meat, and looked at him with a stinking look on his face.
Tsuji Masanobu complained, "What kind of meat is this?
It smells like it has been soaked in urine, and it is more choking than natto."
“This is Australia’s famous canned kangaroo meat, the purest battlefield flavor.”
Tsuji Masanobu smiled and put his finger into the can, grabbed a piece of kangaroo meat rich in urea without any care, threw it into his mouth and chewed it, "When the frontline supply was most difficult, we relied entirely on this thing for almost half a year. and hare meat to survive, and occasionally some snake meat and crocodile meat for a change of taste.
Not to mention, there are so many rabbits in Australia that it’s a disaster.”
"Then you can bring me some dried rabbit meat, or maybe a rabbit skin hat," Hattori Takushiro rolled his eyes and scolded with a smile, "That's fine, I will share the joys and sorrows with the Australian soldiers today.
Have a taste.
Taste the flavor of Australian kangaroo meat” oshow7: