Chapter 722 Japanese Missile Crisis
The last stop of the two German Navy nuclear submarines sailed around the world was Japan. When these two German nuclear submarines arrived in Tokyo Bay, the Chinese Empire was greatly shocked.
Although the Chinese Navy has vigorously strengthened the construction of anti-submarine forces, in addition to the Osprey Y-2 anti-submarine patrol aircraft entering combat readiness duty, many helicopter carriers have also been replaced with z-6 anti-submarine helicopters equipped with the same anti-submarine equipment. The anti-submarine power from the Chinese Empire's air has continued to increase, leaving German submarines almost nowhere to escape, but this did not break the nuclear balance between China and Germany, but instead took further counterattacks than the German Union.
After two nuclear submarines of the German Union Navy visited Japan, Hitler sent his right-hand assistant von Treskov to visit Japan, laying the groundwork for Hitler's official visit to Japan.
In fact, it was not a matter of one or two days since the middle of World War II. Hitler began to contact the three countries of East Japan, West Japan and North Japan. At that time, Germany's strategy was to plan to restrain the Chinese Empire, intending to support three Japanese countries to restrain the Chinese Empire in the Pacific and delay the Chinese Empire's participation in the war as much as possible.
However, because Germany was busy with war, it did not support the three Japanese countries enough that it failed to complete the strategic task of restraining the Chinese Empire.
At the end of World War II, Germany was spared from death, but Hitler's ambitions remained unchanged. He actively prepared for World War III, so Japan was still his strategic focus.
As the Chinese Empire vigorously strengthened the construction of missile defense systems and air anti-submarine forces, the deterrence of German League's intercontinental ballistic missiles on the Chinese Empire has continued to decline. German League's nuclear submarines are almost afraid to leave the port, and the secondary nuclear counterattack power has also been greatly weakened.
The situation is becoming increasingly unfavorable to the German Union, and Hitler has to take a more extreme approach to balance the subtle nuclear balance between China and Germany.
The Japanese archipelago war in the Pacific gave Hitler a new opportunity.
On March 5, 46, East Japan, West Japan and North Japan avoided the intervention of the Chinese Empire and held a secret meeting on Japan's unification in Edo. At the meeting, Hideki Tojo proposed various plans to end the melee of the three countries in Japan, unify Japan, and restore the former style of the Japanese Empire. The unanimous agreement of the representatives of the three countries was unanimous.
The Chinese Empire's strategy towards Japan has always been to maintain the status quo, that is, to put Japan in a state of separatism in the three countries. Now the three Japanese governments plan to unify, which is the result that the Chinese Empire is least happy to see.
The diplomatic pressure was useless. The three governments had decided to establish a coalition government on May 1 to restore the Japanese Empire State Name. Therefore, the Chinese Empire's domestic cabinet and the Ministry of Defense immediately held a continuous meeting and finally decided to send troops to interfere in Japan's unification.
The Chinese Empire has always retained a certain military force in Japan, with the army not much, only a Marine Brigade at the Sasebo Base. The Navy is the Pacific Fleet Seventh Cruiser Squadron stationed in Sasebo. There are only a dozen cruisers, destroyers and submarines.
In its strategy against Japan, the Chinese Empire has always pursued the tactic of using Japan to control Japan. The Chinese Empire team has rarely participated in combat operations directly, and they have used the Japanese minion army to sweep and suppress the Japanese guerrillas that resisted the Chinese Empire.
As the three Japanese forces compromised and completed unification, the Japanese civil war ended. Hideki Tojo became the supreme commander of the 450,000 Japanese army. This man was extremely warlike and was a firm believer in Hitler's prison diary. He was also one of the most hostile people towards the Chinese Empire.
Tojo Hideki became the head of the Japanese Empire as he wished, and refused to recognize all the unequal treaties imposed by the Chinese Empire on Japan, and demanded that the Chinese Empire team evacuate from Japanese territory and other military provocations.
The Chinese Empire regarded the Pacific Ocean as the empire's lake and backyard, and absolutely did not allow a disobedient country or a leader who was hostile to the Chinese Empire.
On May 2, 46, the day after Hideki Tojo came to power, the Chinese Empire imposed economic sanctions, military blockades and political isolation on the grounds that the new Japanese government refused to recognize the various treaties signed with the Chinese Empire before and the development of offensive military forces.
The Hideki Tojo government was expelled from the United Nations and the Warsaw Pact military group, which put Japan in political isolation. No country in the entire Pacific Rim was willing to talk to it. The German Union and NATO countries far away in Europe did not have the legitimacy of the new Japanese government, because during World War II, there were many Japanese servants in the Imperial Empire, who caused serious disasters to Germany and Italy at that time. After the Japanese servants entered Europe, they burned, killed, robbed and plundered everywhere. Europeans hated it deeply.
The Hideki Tojo government was politically isolated by the whole world, but this did not affect his rule over the Japanese Empire. The Chinese Empire imposed military blockades and economic sanctions on Japan, which completely interrupted Japan's maritime trade and suffered heavy economic losses. However, Hideki Tojo did not surrender, but instead took the opportunity to arouse nationalist hatred and widely expanded his military preparations.
On July 7, 46, three aircraft carriers of the Imperial Navy Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy sent to Tokyo Bay. They also held a large-scale naval, land, air and military exercises near Tokyo Bay with more than a dozen warships and a marine brigade of the Ninth Squadron of the Pacific Fleet stationed at Yokosuka Base.
At nine o'clock that night, the Chinese Emperor* asked to send Marines to Tokyo to search on the excuse of an imperial soldier at Yokosuka Naval Base. The Hideki Tojo government immediately refused, and the Chinese Emperor* then launched an attack on Tokyo.
As the fighter fleet of the Imperial Naval Air Force dropped aviation bombs at the Japanese barracks in Tokyo Bay, the 17th Armored Brigade of the Imperial Naval War launched a sudden attack on the Tokyo Mari Camp. The Japanese army fought back under the authorization of Hideki Tojo. China and Japan fought undeclared.
When the Sino-Japanese War broke out, there was a huge gap in the military strength between China and Japan. The three armies and navy of the Chinese Empire had already achieved mechanization and modernization, and had experienced the baptism of World War II. Both equipment, tactics, and personnel combat quality were far superior to the Japanese army.
The Hideki Tojo government had just completed the unification, and the military development of the original three Japanese countries was extremely unbalanced. Western Japan, which was once supported by the Chinese Empire, was equipped with better equipment. It was basically the world's mainstream equipment during World War II, with relatively strong military power, with a scale of about 50,000. Northern Japan, which had always opposed the Chinese Empire, was very backward. It was basically all equipment during World War I, but it had a large number of troops, with a scale of more than 450,000, and was good at jungle guerrilla warfare. Eastern Japan has always been neutral, and its equipment and troops were between the first two countries.
Japan has just completed unification. All work is far from coordinated, especially the merger of military command. Hideki Tojo hopes to reuse his subordinates, but is opposed and boycotted by the other two giants.
As a result, the inconsistency of government and military orders made the Japanese army more passive under the premise that they were already behind the Chinese Emperor.
On the night of the war, the Chinese Empire's Marine Brigade, with the support of powerful naval and air force fire, broke through the defensive position of the Japanese Mari garrison, and 50,000 Japanese troops collapsed without fighting. The Chinese Empire completely occupied Tokyo at noon the next day. The Tojo Hideki government fled to Edo overnight.
The battle did not stop there, and Hideki Tojo did not give in and continued to fight against the Chinese Empire.
In the following three months, the Chinese Empire successively dispatched eight aircraft carrier battle groups, more than 790 warships, mobilized 300,000 aircraft, mobilized 130,000 troops to attack Japan, and occupied more than 70 large and medium-sized cities in Japan.
By mid-October, all the coastal areas of Japan were under the control of Emperor China.
But Hideki Tojo and his army were not defeated. They retreated to the inland mountainous areas and continued to fight against the Chinese Empire. The mechanized troops of the Chinese Empire were unable to launch a decent offensive in the backward mountainous areas of Japan. Instead, they were attacked by the Japanese troops fighting everywhere, and their logistics supply was difficult. The attack soon stopped in the coastal plains. The attack on the mountainous areas relied on the strength of the navy and air force.
Hideki Tojo has been unwilling to surrender. The Japanese army gave up the city and accumulated strength in remote mountain villages. They used guerrilla warfare as their main combat method. They refused to fight against the Emperor of China head-on, but just attacked everywhere to attack the Emperor of China's logistics supply line.
This war lasted for fifteen years. After paying the huge price of millions of casualties, the Japanese army finally ushered in a turning point.
The Chinese Emperor* was deeply trapped in the Japanese battlefield and could not extricate himself. The huge amount of military spending every year was consumed to encircle and suppress the Japanese guerrillas, but it was still unable to eliminate Hideki Tojo, which instead made the Japanese people increasingly tend to support Hideki Tojo.
Hitler was originally not optimistic about Hideki Tojo, and he did not think Hideki Tojo could survive under the giant ships and cannons of the Chinese Empire. But over the past decade, Hideki Tojo not only has not been eliminated, but has become stronger and stronger. At the same time, the German League was at a disadvantage in the Sino-Germany battle, and the Chinese Empire's military and economic advantages almost made Hitler breathless. Under this unfavorable situation, Hitler decided to cooperate with Hideki Tojo.
Hitler provided military equipment and technology to Hideki Tojo, and even gave Japan a large number of free loans and financial assistance. Hideki Tojo also believed that Japan's own capabilities could not compete with the Chinese Empire at all, and he needed the military equipment and funds of the German Union. Therefore, Japan and Germany finally established diplomatic relations and soon became as intimate as the couple on their honeymoon.
At first, the Chinese Empire government wanted to prevent the German Union from getting closer to Japan, but the Chinese Empire believed that the various military equipment and combat tactics of the Chinese Empire could be tested through the war in Japan. The Japanese army's use of German Union equipment and military tactics could just accumulate experience for the Chinese Empire.
As a result, the Chinese Empire government did not stop the German Union from making peace with Japan. The Japanese army quickly obtained a large amount of German equipment and quickly modernized and armed.
However, in the wars that followed in the following years, the Japanese army was still no match for the Emperor of China. Although the Japanese army had advanced tanks, aircraft and cannons provided by the German Union, the Japanese army had no naval power and had completely subdued the sea power in the hands of the Chinese Empire. However, the Japanese army lacked strategic depth and could not obtain air power.
In every battle, the Chinese Emperor had an absolute advantage, causing heavy losses to the Japanese army.
The Chinese Emperor was happy to see such a war. By fighting against the Japanese army, the Chinese Emperor could understand the performance and development direction of the latest military equipment of the German League.
Seeing that such a war would not have any benefit to the German League, Hitler decided to take the risk and deploy ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons in Japan.
Chapter completed!