＜ Episode 254 >
Imperial Japanese air raid shelter, Tokyo, Japan.
After the Imperial Palace was burned down, the generals who entered the bunker where Hirohito was hiding bowed their heads and reported.
“Your Majesty, it is said that the US forces launched an amphibious war in Jina.”
“What happened to Okinawa?”
“It is said that both the military and prefectural citizens fought against the US imperialists until the last moment and were imprisoned.”
Okinawa collapsed. Of course, the American bombardment was further intensified.
The US military, which landed in China from Taiwan as a base, began to cleanly destroy the Japanese forces, which had invaded deep into China, in cooperation with the Russian forces.
“Since Joseon has fallen, is there any way to provide food to the people?”
“I’m sorry.”
“How do you stop those American and Russian bombers?”
Just two days ago, Russian bombers attacked Kyoto and burned it cleanly. This was possible because Secretary Henry Stimson was preventing Curtis LeMay from returning Kyoto to the Stone Age, and there was objection that the Kyoto air raid was not so good considering the post-war period, but Russian bombers sortie from the Korean Peninsula were able to see what Stimson said no matter what. I had no intention of knowing or even listening.
From the point of view of the Russian military, which was one step behind in the initial bombing, there was a need to bomb a place with a high impact anywhere, and Kyoto, which the US military had strangely left unattended, was of course the first target.
“…I’m sorry.”
“haha……”
Hirohito looked at the bomb shelter ceiling.
“Shinju ends in my generation.”
“I will never do that! The subjects are ready to be jailed, and neither the American nor the Russian will ever set foot in Hsinchu!”
I said that, but everyone in the room knew it.
that it’s impossible
Even the Russians, who have already suffered massive damage from the navy, are churning the sea, launching amphibious operations here and there, starting with Tsushima.
And the Navy can’t stop it.
Fighting Russian forces on the ground? It’s just a novel way to commit suicide.
‘Incompetent bastards.’
incompetent, incompetent
Those incompetent generals ruined Shinju.
“Can’t you ask for mediation?”
Immediately after speaking, Hirohito realized.
There is no country to intervene.
South America? destroyed by the Americans.
uk? Defeated.
france? It is at war with the attack on Indochina.
There are many countries, but none of them are in a state where arbitration is possible.
“They are ruthlessly demanding unconditional surrender, but in the end they will accept the conditions of the Empire.”
how?
I really wanted to ask, but I didn’t. Because there is no way to get an answer back.
Preservation of the emperor system, trial of war criminals is Japan’s own, pre-war colony maintenance, territorial maintenance, etc. Do you really think the mirror will accept this?
The Russian Empire has officially announced that war criminals initially arrested one after another by the Axis powers such as Germany, Britain, and Italy are still being imprisoned without trial in order to end war criminal trials at once at wholesale level if Japan surrenders. In line with that, the US military has not yet conducted a separate war crimes trial.
He even designated Reykjavik, Iceland as a war crimes tribunal to hold a war criminal trial. I’m curious as to why it was chosen as the place for the war crimes trial. Will they answer?
In any case, they had promised to put him, the sage god, the emperor, and Hirohito in the courtroom by labeling them as key war criminals.
It’s Navy Isoroku Yamamoto Most of the people the U.S. desperately wants to set up as a war criminal tribunal have long since become meat dishes in the Pacific, but in the Army, there were a lot of people with tickles in their throats. Of course, the anti-radio wave was the army.
Surprisingly, if you say that the navy is peaceful, it wasn’t like that, but in the first place, the navy lost its power in the reality that there was no longer a single ship left in the naval base. .
They loved their lives more than anyone else, and they had no intention of surrendering until they were convinced they could save them.
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Meanwhile, the bombs were falling.
***
The Russians targeted Kyoto for the first time since the air strikes began. The reason was simple. It was because the city had not yet been burned by the US military.
In addition, the large cities disappeared completely in a short period of time as the Russians attacked areas left behind by the US military, such as Yokohama, Kokura, and Niigata, without leaving a single grain of rice, just like the Russians would do even if they were washing the dishes.
The American and Russian forces, which soon became a kind of rivalry, dropped bombs as if they were competing over who could drop more bombs and how much damage they did. There was even one incident where a Russian bombing squadron and an American bombing squadron met in the sky over the same city due to poor information exchange between the United States and Russia.
The incident, which almost entered into a fight because they knew each other was an interceptor squadron of the Japanese army, was a liaison office that had been used for a long time, with the Russian army conducting daytime bombing and the US US nightly bombing, adjusting flight schedules so that the time zones do not overlap with each other. It was finished with
The Russian four-shot bomber is an aircraft developed by Boeing, and it uses a turboprop engine with a coaxial rotor.
In fact, there were even jokes circulating among both the US and Russian forces that the Russian military agreed to switch to daytime bombing because their bombers were so noisy that even if they were to sortie at night, they would give up early warning before they even reached the shore. I was almost speechless.
In fact, no matter how the Russians bombed or what the US bombed, the Japanese had no way of resisting for a long time, so it had no meaning at all.
While American stingray bombers and Russian noise-pollution bombers flew around and dropped bombs, the Japanese intercept attempts were sporadic.
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Most of them were smashed by escorts, and it was common for very few fighters to fall into defense machine guns.
Now that there was really nothing to burn, orders were issued to bomb if there was any value at all, and Japan was literally in a sea of fire. In the meantime, the Japanese army in China was annihilated, and the American and Russian forces prepared for the landing step by step.
It was the largest operation in history and the first combined operation of the US and Russia larger than the field army. It could have been called an operation.
Its name was Downfall.
***
Russian Empire, Moscow. December 1942.
“Secretary Hull, welcome to Moscow.”
“thank you. your majesty.”
Secretary Hull opened his mouth as he drank hot Russian-brewed tea in snowy Moscow.
“Your Excellency has a lot of concerns about the post-war period.”
“I don’t think you should worry about the fact that the friendship between the United States of America and the Russian Empire will never change.”
“Of course it is. But on the other hand, that is precisely why we need to clarify where and what our responsibilities are.”
A map of the world drawn in the Merkarot projection unfolded before my eyes.
“Do you want to start with Europe? Or Asia?”
“Are you talking about Europe?”
The expression on your face as if you had eaten it all up and said something new seemed to pass by for a moment.
“Let’s start with the Pacific Ocean.”
“First of all, President Huey Long agreed to the cause of independence of the colonies.”
“I hope it’s a good thing.”
Secretary Hull nodded.
“Considering that the colony was the main cause of this world war, the colonial empire must be dismantled, even in the sense of punishment.”
I also agreed.
“Basically, shouldn’t we define military government categories according to the occupied areas?”
“of course.”
Secretary Hull drew the line.
“So the United States will have military governments in Southeast Asia, Australia, South America, New Zealand, and Ryukyu. But isn’t there a place where there is some dispute?”
“India has the ability to establish an independent state on its own. After disarming and withdrawing the British army, why not indirectly support the Indians themselves in the process of establishing their own state under UN surveillance?”
After all, neither you nor us have ever touched India. We have built a lot of intimacy with the Indians by carrying some weapons and spraying some Spetsnaz, and in the end they have no choice but to be friendly with us.
“I agree.”
After all, we were the ones who defeated Britain on the American side, but they agreed without saying much if they knew that they would look ugly if they went for military rule.
“But that’s not the point of contention. It was originally one country, but it is an area jointly occupied by the Russian Empire and the United States of America.”
“ah.”
“Chinese and Korean.”
“Korea has already established its own autonomous government and has its own military organization.”
“But don’t they also have unrecovered territories? Jeju Island.”
“Hmm… that must be the problem.”
Jeju Island is now fortified to the extent that it is said to be the lowest of Okinawa. The US military was preparing for an amphibious operation on Jeju Island, which would interfere with Operation Downfall. It is said that the US Navy is still pouring shells on the coast of Jeju Island.
“But I agree that there is no need for military administration, can’t we just return it to the Korean government?”
“Besides Jeju Island, there are problems with some islands. In particular, there are some islands that are subject to territorial disputes…”
“Did you say you have a territorial dispute?”
Are you talking about Dokdo?
“Russian forces in the Far East have occupied parts of the islands in the East Sea, including Tsushima and Iki, claiming that the area is Korea’s own territory, but our State Department data shows that this is not the case.”
“……… I haven’t received such a report. It seems that we acted on the basis of the claims of the locals, and then the results came out. ”
Reports did come in during the offensive on Tsushima. It was just saying that they would control the Korea Strait to prevent a recurrence of the Battle of Tsushima, but did you say that to the US military?
“First of all, I think the United States should know which island is the area that can be said to be in dispute.”
“This is the southern and northern islands of Tsushima, and Iki Island and the Oki Islands.”
went far
“In the case of Tsushima, there is a possibility that the distance is close to the Korean mainland, but is it not a problem to objectively look at Iki Island and Oki Islands as being Korean?”
That’s right. To be honest, Iki Island and Oki Islands are Korean territory. Daemadoya was once called a god during the Joseon Dynasty, so it can be argued that it is a conflict zone when it rains, but Iki Islands and Oki Islands have never been territorial in Korean history.
Of course, Chuikov, you were claiming that it was Korean territory to find a justification for stationing Russian troops, but it’s a pain in the ass. If you come out with a history book and try to argue, the disadvantage is on our side. Besides, all the locals will think they are Japanese, so even more so.
“If territories are separated by streets, are the Channel Islands French and Greenland American?”
“Of course I am not claiming that.”
It doesn’t matter who the island belongs to in the first place. It’s a matter of which army is stationed there.
In the end, I agreed that the Oki Islands were not Korean territory. The Oki Islands had no meaning in our master plan to turn the East Sea into an inland sea anyway, but Ulleungdo and Dokdo were designated as Korean territory instead.
However, it was Tsushima and Iki that intensified the dispute. Because only by controlling those two places, the plan to ensure the security of the Far East and the inland sea of the East Sea, including Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Hokkaido, will be completed. In hindsight, those two places are like corkscrews.
Of course, the US wants to take over this area, but…
“Then how about doing this?”
There are two places that are controversial anyway, so let’s assume that Iki, which is closer to Japan, is Japanese territory, and Daemado, which is closer to Busan in terms of distance, is Korean territory.
Of course, I didn’t agree without thinking.
The straight-line distance from Tsushima to the coast of Japan is less than 90 km.
Radar, and the anti-ship missile, the Styx, are also within the range that can be put into the range, even if it’s narrow.
In other words, if we make a radar interlocked with Styx and deploy it in the southern part of Tsushima, it will not change that we can block the Korea Strait if we want.
Of course, the US government, completely unaware that the era of missiles is coming, thinks that it has prevented the complete blockade of the Korean Strait, but what if missiles come out?
As a result, China ripped off the territory quite a bit and replaced it with occupying three divisions. The US raised the question of why France should intervene, but first of all, these guys are also known as victorious nations.
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Moreover, they even argued that the Qing Dynasty was a nation-state of Manchukuo, so the situation was different from that of mainland China, and the Qing Dynasty was cut on the premise that the U.S. and Russian troops were jointly stationed in the Qing Dynasty. In the first place, it was a satisfactory negotiation from my point of view, as splitting China was more important than interests in China.
Anyway, after we reached an agreement on that part, a plan for the division of Japan came out.
It was only officially the battle frontier between the two countries, but in the first place, it was clear that the battle frontier would become a dividing line with a high probability?
The Russian Empire proposed the division of Tokyo instead of the 140th parallel, and the US government proposed the division of Tokyo along the 37th parallel. Literally, it was decided that a final decision would be made depending on who fights better on the ground.
After the agreement of these trifles was over, the greatest operation on earth finally arrived.