Chapter 23, Sparks of Fire As mentioned before, the Japanese are a very hierarchical nation, with special emphasis on superiority and inferiority.
Even if it is time to rebel, whether it is the red elements of the Japanese Communist Party who are engaged in military movement, or the Yamato samurai who are sharpening their knives and preparing to "kill beautiful animals from heaven", they have considered their status, experience and reputation, and They all generally felt that they lacked confidence, so they subconsciously wanted to elect a big man who knew how to fight as their leader.
This is just like the reason why the Revolution of 1911 broke out in China and the first shot of the Wuchang Uprising was fired.
The revolutionary soldiers in Wuchang wanted to elect Li Yuanhong as the governor.
It's not that these revolutionaries are so stoic and don't seek fame and fortune for the great cause of the revolution, but because if a famous figure cannot be promoted as the leader at that time, then it will be impossible to quickly stabilize the situation and integrate manpower and material resources to deal with the impending outbreak.
Fierce fighting.
Besides, for professional matters such as arranging troops and commanding operations, the military movement members who are high-ranking soldiers and low-level non-commissioned officers may not be able to do it by themselves.
Even if someone jumps out and wants to be the leader, no one dares to think of themselves.
Put your life in his hands.
So after much deliberation, everyone felt that it would be more appropriate to elect a military veteran who could convince the masses as the leader.
Otherwise, with the current situation of chaos, this battle would be impossible to fight.
At present, in the entire Hokkaido region, the highest-ranking active Japanese generals, except for the commander of Soya Fortress who abandoned his post and absconded before the Soviet army went south and is currently missing, are Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi and Tsugaru, commanders of the 7th Division.
Lieutenant General Tanaka Takayoshi, commander of the fortress.
At first glance, it seems that Lieutenant General Tanaka Takayoshi is more senior and has served as the director of military affairs in the Ministry of War, so he seems to have more prestige.
But the problem is that although Tanaka Takayoshi is a soldier, he has a background in intelligence and administrative work and has basically no experience in commanding operations.
The only battle he fought in his life was the Battle of Zhanggufeng, where he was beaten to a pulp by a Russian old man.
In addition, he has a romantic and lustful nature.
He is the boyfriend of the famous female spy Kawashima Yoshiko.
It is said that he has many previous records of corruption and bribery.
Obviously, it is difficult to convince the lower-level officers and soldiers with such poor record and moral integrity.
What's even more terrible is that in the early days of the Pacific War, Tanaka Takayoshi strongly opposed war with the United States and went against the will of Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
As a result, Hideki Tojo was furious.
In order to scare the monkeys and scare the bad guys in the army, Tojo Hideki invented the trick of "being mentally ill" without any knowledge.
He just gave Tanaka Takayoshi a diagnosis of "suffering from mental illness" and then stuffed him into the army.
He was admitted to a lunatic asylum and lived with a group of lunatics for three years.
It is said that during his hospitalization, Tanaka Takayoshi also received many inhumane "treatments".
It seems that Tojo Hideki wanted to turn him into a real lunatic.
It was not until the fall of Hideki Tojo that the unlucky Tanaka Takayoshi was released from the lunatic asylum and sent to the Tsugaru Fortress as the commander-in-chief in the spring of this year.
This was a comfort: this fortress was located in the hinterland of Japan at the time.
Away from borders and battlefields, he basically just looks after the warehouse.
It's just that Tanaka Takayoshi has been in the lunatic asylum for too long after all.
Although he has not been tortured to the point of going completely crazy, he is already a little nagging.
In addition, when he was the director of military affairs, he was in charge of military discipline, investigated many people, and removed the official hat of many unlucky people, so he made a group of enemies.
Now his mortal enemy took the opportunity to publicize it everywhere.
Rumors spread throughout Hokkaido that a mad commander came to Tsugaru Fortress.
Before Lieutenant General Tanaka Takayoshi took office, the entire fortress garrison already regarded him as a madman.
The prestige of such an officer can naturally be imagined.
As a result, when it came time to elect a general who could fight as a leader, all the soldiers and civilians unanimously excluded Tanaka Takayoshi.
And Tanaka Takayoshi is also self-aware, knowing that he is really not a war material, and secondly, there is no way to make everyone believe that he is mentally healthy.
Therefore, instead of being angry or dissatisfied, he actively expressed his willingness to act as a lobbyist to persuade Lieutenant General Kuribayashi Tadamichi to accept the support of everyone.
"Kuribayashi-kun, you must have seen the photos of the Osaka tragedy, right?
It's really shocking."
Looking at Lieutenant General Kuribayashi Tadamichi, who was obviously confused, Tanaka Takayoshi said sincerely, "The military boots of the American and British devils have already set foot on the soil of Japan.
At this time, Australia and New Zealand are members of the Commonwealth, and the white people in the two countries are still regarded as British Man, five million citizens have been crushed.
The life and death crisis of the Yamato nation is right in front of us.
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Regardless of other places, the life and death of Hokkaido's military and civilians must be entrusted to you, Kuribayashi-kun."
"I know all this, but can we win?"
Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi said with a bitter smile, "The empire no longer exists and the situation is over.
Besides, after all, this war was triggered by our sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States.
I am afraid that the world's public opinion will only Those who thought that we, the Japanese, had the military to blame ourselves, thought only of the wine of victory when they started the war, but now they are forcing all the people to swallow the bitter juice.”
"Kuribayashi-kun, no matter whether we can win or not, no matter how the responsibility for the war is calculated, we must fight.
Is there any other choice?"
Tanaka Takayoshi also had a wry smile on his face, "The Pacific War has been delayed to this point.
Don't you know that the United States is huge and retaliatory?
At first, because I opposed the war, I was thrown into a lunatic asylum by Prime Minister Tojo.
But now, let's talk about it.
What's the use of this?
We want to end this war now and take a breather, but the enemies who have already set foot on the Japanese archipelago simply refuse to agree.
Do we have to be like a woman, kneeling at the feet of the Yankees, crying and begging for forgiveness?
But they can still forgive us now Even though the Americans talk so much about human rights, democracy and freedom in their propaganda, they seem to be benevolent people.
But this is just like our Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
You can only listen to it casually.
You must not take it seriously.
When they slaughtered Indians and skinned them to make boots, did they ever think of respecting the human rights of the indigenous Indians?
From the bottom of my heart, I believe that white people are the best in the world and should rule the earth.
Other people of color, including the Japanese, are inferior and must be eliminated.
Allowing us to live as slaves is already a gift.
Take the current Pacific War as an example.
White people in Europe and the United States keep accusing us of provoking wars, destroying peace, and seizing their territory.
How treasonous it is.
But the question is, which of these European and American colonies in the Pacific were not snatched away by them with massacres and cannonballs?
Why are they only allowed to divide the world according to longitude and latitude in front of the globe, and are not allowed to drive them back to Europe?
Four years ago, our mobile fleet attacked Pearl Harbor.
The Americans were so angry that they kept accusing us of violating their sacred land, as if it was such an unforgivable crime.
But who can still remember when Pearl Harbor and Hawaii became American land?
It seems like it was only fifty years ago when the Stars and Stripes were planted there.
When the Americans openly captured the Queen of Hawaii and invaded the Hawaiian Islands, the young Marshal Togo Heihachiro of the era once brought a battleship to rescue Hawaii, trying to punish the strong, help the weak, and uphold justice.
Unfortunately, he failed in the end.
Alas, history has always been written by the strong, and no one sympathizes with the weak.
The world has always been so cruel, survival of the fittest, the weak and the strong, cannonballs are truth and butcher's knives are justice.
If we cannot rise up to resist, but surrender, then the fate of the North American Indians and the Kingdom of Hawaii will be repeated in Japan today in a few decades. , the Japanese archipelago will become the legal territory of the United States, and we will all be driven to the Yamato reservation in the remote countryside, and the best land of the Japanese archipelago will be given to the Yankees to live in Kuribayashi-kun.
Can you tolerate this kind of thing?
" "Of course it cannot be done as long as there is a bullet in the barrel.
No bloody Yamato man can watch this happen."
Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi said in a deep voice, "But this is our own business as Japanese people.
Why should we stand with the Soviets?"
"If we do not accept assistance and intervention from the Soviets, can we defeat the Yankees with only our own strength?"
Tanaka Takayoshi shrugged, "Since this world war has started, Germany and Italy are finished, and the Japanese Empire is now dead.
The next world trend will inevitably be the United States and the Soviet Union competing for hegemony.
In this world-wide struggle for hegemony In the war, those remote small countries far away from the line of fire may be able to survive alone.
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However, the Japanese archipelago has now become an arena for competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, and there is no room for impartiality.
Kuribayashi-kun, if you are loyal to the emperor, then you should work hard to kill Americans now and avenge His Majesty.
If you care about the future of the nation, then you should take on this important task and fight to preserve the living space of our Yamato nation."
Just when Lieutenant General Kuribayashi Tadamichi was still hesitating, he received two new pieces of news: General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party Tokuda Kiichi launched an uprising in Kanazawa and announced the establishment of the Echizen Soviet Republic.
An incident occurred in the Maizuru garrison on the coast of the Sea of Japan The sailors' revolution hoisted the red flag on the warships At this moment, Lieutenant General Kuribayashi Tadamichi finally understood that he could no longer wait and hesitate.
"Forgetting the burden of resisting the United States and saving the country, it seems that I must take it up.
Please invite the Soviet negotiators to come over.
Under the basic premise of not ceding our inherent territory, I am willing to take the lead in organizing the Soviet regime in Hokkaido and lead the people to fight against the United States and Britain.
"Army Invasion" Nagoya, an industrial center in central Japan The sun was covered with gunpowder smoke, the roar of cannons, corpses littered the fields, and rivers of blood flowed.
The brutal fighting that lasted for a week completely turned this industrialized city on the Pacific coast into a pile of dilapidated ruins.
In the command post on a hill in the suburbs, Marshal MacArthur held his corncob pipe in his mouth and looked down at the battlefield in the city with a telescope, frowning.
At the beginning of the Battle of Nagoya, everything went smoothly.
After some indiscriminate bombing by the Air Force, the tank assault team of the 1st Marine Division rushed directly into the city center of Nagoya.
But when the follow-up infantry followed up, everything changed: Thousands of Japanese troops emerged from God knows where in the ground, pouring steel and fire on the negligent Americans, thus starting a painful but painful battle.
Bloody street fighting is inevitable.
Nagoya was originally an important military production center of the Japanese Empire, with a large number of arsenals dotted around it.
Therefore, the Japanese troops defending the city had a serious surplus of firearms and ammunition, and they also had abundant stocks of food and fuel.
The trouble facing the defenders was that no one had expected to fight in Nagoya before.
There were no permanent fortifications inside or outside the city, and the strength of only one division was too tight for a city defense battle.
Therefore, Lieutenant General Mori Shigeki, the commander of the 65th Division, urgently recruited retired veterans, volunteer citizens and young students before the war began.
Finally, he even recruited some women to serve as army nurses, plus "resistance fighters" who defected from all directions.
Lieutenant General Mori Shigeki, before the U.S.
Army besieged the city, Successfully formed more than two hundred "Iron-Blooded National Defense Teams", following the old example of the Shinsengumi at the end of the Bakumatsu Period, allowing them to form the "Golden Chrysanthemum Team", "Sakura Team", "Kaiten Team", and "Kamikaze Company".
With banners like this, the total number of troops is about 80,000, and amid a generous lamentation, they are ready to fight to the death with the US military.
Originally, Lieutenant General Mori Shigeki wanted to name the auxiliary force the Iron-Blooded Emperor Corps, but considering that the entire Japanese royal family has turned into ashes, I am afraid only God knows what Japan's national sports will become in the future.
There is no emperor to work for, so we can only make do with protecting the country first.
At first, Lieutenant General Mori Shigeki thought that the enemy would only land from the sea, so he spent most of his energy on building coastal fortifications and port fortresses.
Unexpectedly, the Kanto region and Osaka Prefecture surrendered and defected one after another, which was equivalent to a blow to the Nagoya defenders.
In this way, the U.S. military could launch an attack on Nagoya from any direction, but the Japanese troops defending the city had to deploy defenses everywhere, and their forces were stretched to the left and right.
As a result, before Lieutenant General Shigeki Mori had time to complete the adjustment of his forces, the US armored troops who were ordered to conduct "fire reconnaissance" took advantage of Japan's good roads to launch a lightning assault on Nagoya, inserted into the gap in the defense line, rushed into the city center in one breath, and took the sixth The command system of the 15th Division was in chaos.
MacArthur took the opportunity to mobilize a large number of infantry to follow up, trying to tear apart the defenders' defense line in one go and defeat the stubborn Japanese army as quickly as possible.
If it were the Italians who were weak in fighting will or the "party-state" troops who were more aggressive, they would probably have collapsed under such circumstances.
But unfortunately, the Americans' current opponents are the Japanese troops who are deeply influenced by militarism, and the battlefield is the local city they are most familiar with.
As a result, the US troops who broke into Nagoya soon fell into a nightmare.
Cold shots were fired from every door, window, and even every sewer, making them dizzy.
Moreover, because the ground troops fell into street fighting prematurely, the U.S.
Strategic Air Force was unable to use nerve gas on a large scale in Nagoya, otherwise the largest friendly fire incident in U.S. war history would have occurred.
On the contrary, the Japanese army set traps many times and used old-fashioned mustard gas on a small scale to deal with the enemy.
Artillery shells flew and machine guns swept across.
Tall factories were turned into ruins and gorgeous villas were reduced to rubble.
The streets were clogged with rubble and corpses.
Under the intensive Japanese automatic firearms, mortars and grenade launchers, the casualties of the siege troops skyrocketed.
Although the frustrated General MacArthur dispatched dive bombers in an attempt to raze the city to the ground, the number of anti-aircraft guns in downtown Nagoya was staggering, and the dive bombers were ineffective and suffered heavy losses.
Later, the U.S. military switched to using 155mm "Long Tom" field guns and 105mm howitzers to conduct surgical and devastating bombardments on the Japanese resistance strongholds.
However, the Nagoya defenders also used artillery fire to counterattack, and even dispatched tanks, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
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While the street fighting in Nagoya was intensifying, Japanese flying squadrons originally scattered all over Japan spontaneously came to Nagoya airspace in twos and threes to participate in the battle.
Although the number of aircraft was limited and the operations lacked coordination with each other, they were unable to truly seize the air superiority of the Nagoya battlefield, but at least It can also conduct a few sneak attacks sporadically, causing a lot of trouble to the US bomber troops and ground troops on the Nagoya battlefield. oshow7: