“… Nowadays, some leftists from Europe and America often ask me the question: Was the Greater East Asian War of Unification in 1936 an aggressive war launched by China against Japan?

Although our Japanese GCD has always believed that the Greater East Asian War of Unification is an aggressive war. But for me personally, it is indeed inappropriate to describe this war as an aggressive war. Because at that time, our Japanese GCD's ideal was also to liberate Greater East Asia and liberate all mankind. Therefore, we all still call World War II the First World Revolution the First World Revolution, and at the 9th National Congress three months before the outbreak of the First World Revolution, Japan also passed the resolution to 'lead and launch the Greater East Asian Revolution'. It can be seen that at that time,

We regard the entire Greater East Asia region as a whole, or a country that will inevitably be unified together, representing the interests of the entire Greater East Asian proletariat, Japan is competing for the rule of Greater East Asia with the bourgeois ruling group of the Greater China Federation! So there is no aggression or anti-aggression war - at least before we lose the Greater East Asia War of Unity. All that is is the struggle between the Greater East Asian proletariat and the Greater East Asian bourgeoisie. This is a desperate battle between the revolutionary dictatorship and the counter-revolutionary dictatorship, not a desperate battle between the Japanese nation and the Chinese nation.

In fact, the standard for distinguishing the enemy and our camps in the Greater East Asian Unification War was not the nation or the country, but the class! The Japanese bourgeoisie who was exiled to China in 1924 had already become a member of the bourgeois ruling group of the Greater China Federation of Greater China at that time, and the party they supported was the most powerful promoter of the Greater East Asian Unification War. The biggest reason why we lost this war was not in the military, but because we did not launch and unite the Chinese proletariat. In other words, the Greater East Asian Unification War was actually a war between the Greater East Asian bourgeoisie and Japan and the South China Islands proletariat. The strength of the entire Greater East Asian bourgeoisie must be far greater than that of the proletariat in Japan and the South China Islands. So we lost the war.

It is regrettable that our Japanese GCD has not learned lessons in the past 20 years after the failure of the Greater East Asian War of Unity, and still does not realize the importance of uniting and mobilizing the entire Greater East Asian proletariat, and still position itself as a political party of the Japanese proletariat. I think this is the most important reason why our career has not made any breakthrough progress in the past 20 years." - The above is excerpted from the memoir of Yasuo Yasuda, the later Japanese GCD Chairman, "Memories of a Revolutionary".

In the second year after this memoir was released, at the 20th National Congress held by Japan GCD, under pressure from Yasuo Yasuda, Japan passed the famous resolution of "Unity of the Greater East Asian Proletariat". It was renamed Greater East Asian GCD, and since then it changed itself to Greater East Asian proletariat vanguard, and no longer pursued the efforts to split Japan from the entire Greater China Federation through armed struggle...

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Let us turn our attention back to the Greater East Asian battlefield in mid-February 1936. The day after the two chambers of the Greater China Federation passed the "Greater East Asian Unification War Case". Chen Gongbo, Ambassador of the Greater China Federation to Japan, handed over the ultimatum to the acting Japanese people's diplomatic committee member Siri Ryuo, demanding that the Japanese GCD end the dictatorship within 72 hours and hand over the Japanese joint fleet to allow the Chinese Defense Force to provide "protection" to Japan. The Japanese authorities ignored China's ultimatum. After 72 hours, at 10:30 am on February 14, 1936, the Greater East Asian Unification War officially broke out!

At the same time, outside the suburbs of Busan City in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, several four-wheel-drive military off-road vehicles rushed past the Bushua Road, and the dust rolled up fell to the desolate fields. Several idle North Korean farmers raised their heads and looked at the flag of the Greater China Federation flying on the front of the car with envious eyes.

Off-road vehicles drove into a newly built large military airport. Similar airports also had military bases stationed in large numbers of Chinese military officers and soldiers almost spread throughout the southern coastal areas of the Korean Peninsula, and a continuous stream of troops and materials came south through railways and highways.

A group of Chinese pilots who were playing football stopped their ongoing movement and turned their eyes to the galloping off-road vehicle. Because they noticed the air lieutenant general's flag on the front of the vehicle. The car stopped beside them, and the tall 3rd Air Force Lieutenant General Wang Shuming stood up. He waved his hand to greet the pilots who were playing and watching the game, and then pulled away his Shandong loud voice and announced: "Good news! The Greater East Asian Unification War has begun! We are going to bomb Japan this afternoon, and I will go with you! From now on, bombing the 3rd Air Division to enter emergency combat readiness. All captains and navigators must go to the conference room to attend the combat meeting at 12 noon today."

After Wang Shuming finished speaking, Lieutenant General Tian Yuchen, the commander of the 3rd Bombing Aviation Division, who was sitting on another off-road vehicle, also stood up and held the window with both hands and said to the pilots: "From now to 12 noon, you can move freely. Take the time to make a will and write a letter to your family. The lawyer with the army was waiting in the Military Law Office of the Division Headquarters. Commander Wang and I have already made a will under their witness. Now it's your time."

Although Tian Yuchen's words were not auspicious, the air force pilots present couldn't help but cheer. These people were not the first time they went to the battlefield. Most of them were old pilots with more than two years of combat experience. Thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on the Central Asian battlefield, Siberian battlefield, and Indian battlefield. It can be said that all of them were covered with the blood of the people. Well, even if they were shot down and killed by the brave Japanese Red Army pilots, they deserved it!

However, the premise is that the Type 93 and Type 96 fighters piloted by Japanese red pilots can purchase the H-7 bomber that has just been equipped with the 3rd Bombing Aviation Division. According to information, the ceiling of the Japanese Type 93 fighter is only about 7,000 meters, and the ceiling of the Type 96 fighter is only 9,000 meters, while the practical ceiling of the H-7 is as high as 10,800 meters!

Moreover, according to the plan, the 3rd Bombing Aviation Division will first use high-altitude penetration tactics to bomb Japan's military industry, steel industry, shipyards, naval military ports and ships. The attack method is to bomb the target with high-explosive bombs and napalm bombs.

"This time let Japan experience the power of HS7!"

Wang Shuming pointed to more than 200 giants arranged neatly on the apron and said to Tian Yuchen with a smile: "Sasebo is only two or three hundred kilometers from Busan to Wugang in Japan. At this distance, each H-7 can carry at least 8 tons of bombs, and 240 H-7 is 1,920 tons. It can fly at least three round trips a day, and a total of 5,760 tons of bombs can be dropped. In less than 3 days, the two naval ports of Japan should be flattened for us!"

Wu Port and Sasebo are not only Japan's naval ports, but also Japan's important shipbuilding and steel industrial bases. After three consecutive days of large-scale bombings, nearly 16,000 tons of bombs and incendiary bombs were dropped. Why are Wu Port and Sasebo in ruins? Moreover, the Chinese army will use air strikes far more than 240 H-7 bombers!

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Kanto Prefecture.Lushunkou Sungou, China Japanese Front Command.

Lu Yixuan, wearing a straight general uniform and shiny high-tube military boots, stood in front of a large military map. He was ashamed of a famous general in a hundred battles. His chief of staff, Lieutenant General He Yingqin, who had studied in Japan and graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, stood beside him, whispering to the map to explain the latest progress of the battle situation with him.

"According to the plan, the first thing to start is to start an air strike against important military and industrial targets of Japan's important military and industrial targets in the northern part of Kyushu Island, western Honshu Island, Tsuma Island, Jeju Island, Yitai Island, Goshima Island and other places. At 2 pm this afternoon, more than 3,000 combat aircraft belonging to eight division-level aviation combat units, including the First Bombing Aviation Division, the Third Bombing Aviation Division, the Fourth Bombing Aviation Division, the Fifth Aviation Division, the Sixth Aviation Division, the First Navy Air Force, the Second Navy Air Force, and the Fourth Navy Air Force. "

"... The Navy's Nanyang Fleet has formed a Japanese task force with Lieutenant General Bo Fuping as the commander. The fleet is equipped with six Guangdong-class battlecruisers, twenty-one Nanjing-class air defense cruisers, sixty Nanhui-class deportation cruisers, four seaplane motherships, fifty-four Borneo-class landing tank landing ships and ten rapid transport ships. The Japanese task force has now left Lushun Port and is preparing to break into the Korean Strait to enter the ports of Busan, Mopo, Lishui and other ports tonight..."

"... The landing command center led by Lieutenant General Bai Siwen of the Navy has been established. In addition to the Japanese task force, the landing command center is also equipped with four landing fleets, with a total of more than 1,200 transport ships and more than 100 escort ships. The total tonnage is close to 6 million tons. At present, about 400 ships have arrived at the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula such as Busan, Mopo, and Lishui. The remaining ships are respectively deployed in ports such as Qingdao, Weihai, Yantai, Tianjin, Dalian, Lushun, and Yingkou. Once the navy and air force completely control the control of air and sea power in the Korean Strait, they will all arrive at ports on the Korean Peninsula..."

"...The First Airborne Division and the Second Airborne Division have been assembled at the designated location, and all 30,000 officers and soldiers can be put into airborne operations at any time. According to the plan, they will be the emergency vanguard for invading Kyushu Island in Japan, implement airborne in the northern part of Kyushu Island, control various major intersections, and cut off the liaison between major port cities in Kyushu Island. In addition, the Airborne Command also recruits elite troops from the National Defense Forces and clan officers and soldiers, and formed a task force for airborne and raiding the Shigaguan Port in the western part of Honshu Island in Japan..."

"According to the current situation, the main force of the Japanese joint fleet is still far away in Port Moresby in the South Pacific, and there is no sign of returning to the mainland. The base camp believes that the idea of ​​Japan's local defense operations is likely to be to lure the enemy into depth, resist at the beach, and fight in the decisive battle in the inland. According to intelligence, Japan formed the local defense army at the end of November last year and carried out a comprehensive mobilization on Japan's mainland, claiming to mobilize 5 million troops and 10 million Red Guards. Therefore, the landing troops should be prepared to fight the enemy with an absolute number of advantages..."

He Yingqin was a representative figure of the "Non-commissioned Officer's Department" in his early years. Their group was led by Jiang JShi and Xu Chongzhi, and was former opponents to the "Baoding Group" led by Chang Ruiqing. Therefore, after Chang Ruiqing took over, the career of officers from the non-commissioned Officer's Department had always been poor. Otherwise, with He Yingqin's qualifications and talents, he would have the rank of general. However, in the face of the absolute strength of Chang Ruiqing and Baoding Group, these generals of the non-commissioned officer who had suffered unfair treatment for many years did not dare to have any second thoughts.

And even if you are dissatisfied, you are powerless to make things happen. The national military system of the National Defense Forces has long been unbreakable. The current China ** team has long been no longer a "personal dependence" warlord unit in the early years. The training and promotion of officers and soldiers have a strict set of rules and regulations - basically referring to the original Japanese army model, using scores and qualifications (of course, the scores and qualifications of the Central Military Academy and the Army University) as the basis for promotion in peacetime, and focusing on battlefield performance and merits during wartime. In short, it is to minimize the personal preferences of the superiors. Although it is inevitable that there are defects of "one exam to determine life", it is the fairest military personnel management method that Chang Ruiqing could think of. Under the management of this method, let alone He Yingqin and other non-commissioned officers who do not have any real power, even military bosses such as Bai Chongxi, Wu Shi and Zhao Zhen who hold great power, it is impossible to cultivate many "private" people.

Therefore, Chang Ruiqing's opposition in the army is now either like Jiang JShi and Xu Chongzhi, taking off his military uniform and becoming a politician to hold elections; or like He Yingqin, he stays in the army and slowly waits for opportunities - waiting for the opportunity to work loyalty to Prime Minister Chang! This Greater East Asia Unification War is obviously an opportunity for the non-commissioned officers. The reason is also very simple. In the past ten years, the Chinese Defense Army has never regarded Japan as an opponent. Everyone is staring at the Soviet Union and is thinking about how to defeat this red roller. So when the issue of attacking Japan is placed in front of the National Defense Army, Chang Ruiqing

Of course, he thought of the "Knowing Japanese" generals of the non-commissioned officers who had been on the bench for more than ten years. So He Yingqin was given a high position as Chief of Staff of the Front Army, and this second-ranked figure in the Kuomintang in history also knew how to seize the opportunity. He led a group of elite national defense forces staff who knew almost nothing about Japan's mountains, rivers, people and folk customs. After several sleepless nights, he finally formulated a combat plan to occupy Kyushu after landing. What made him most proud was the formation of a "Homen Contingent Team" to raid Xiaguan Port as the Japanese Red Army.

"Risk the Shimonoseki Port?" Lu Yixuan raised his eyebrows slightly, showing his interest. Although he didn't know much about Japan, he could know the importance of Shimonoseki Port as long as he could see the map. Shimonoseki City and Kitakyushu City, which were across the sea, just hold the Guest Strait at the junction of Kyushu and Honshu. Kitakyushu would definitely be controlled by the Chinese landing troops. If he could take Shimonoseki at the beginning of the battle to land in Japan, then even if the Guest Strait was at the entrance of the portal, the Chinese fleet could directly penetrate the Seto Inland Sea. According to information, the defense of Honshu near the coast of Japan is extremely tight and the excellent harbors is sparse, while the Seto Inland Sea has a large number of Yonshu, but the Seto Inland Sea coastal areas with a large number of Yonshu are empty and unprepared. As long as you can seize several ports from the many deep-water ports along the Seto Inland Sea, the powerful armored troops of the National Defense Forces can be deployed on the land of Honshu, Japan!

Thinking of this, Lu Yixuan turned his head and looked at He Yingqin: "Jingzhi, tell me carefully how to capture Xiaguan? The information said that the Japanese army's defense at Xiaguan was extremely strict, and a Xiaguan fortress was built to block the Guanmen Strait."

He Yingqin smiled slightly and whispered: "Junzu, this is the plan of the vocational department..."

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"Everyone, the air strike plan has been sent to you, it is not complicated at all. It is to fly a bomber to throw bombs to Japan and blow up a way for the landing troops!"

At this time, in a large military airport on the outskirts of Busan, more than 200 captains of the Third Bombing Aviation Division had gathered in the base combat room. The flight map was hung on the wall, the flight plan and signal contact plan had been sent to each captain. He was really irresponsible at all, and the troops were divided into two groups to bomb Wu Jungang and Sasebo. These two targets were only two or three hundred kilometers away from Busan, and they attacked in broad daylight, so it was impossible to depart. Moreover, in order to ensure the success of the first battle, all H-7 will adopt high-altitude penetration tactics and drop bombs at an altitude of 9,500 meters. The Japanese Type 93 and Type 96 fighters could not fly at this height at all, and even most of the anti-aircraft guns equipped by the Japanese army could not reach the 9,500-meter-a-altitude H-7 aircraft, so today's mission was almost unpredictable, so the pilots present did not show any nervous expression.

"Everyone, set off now and go to Japan to throw bombs with me!" Wang Shuming, commander of the 3rd Air Force, stood up, waved his arm hard, and announced the start of the air strike in a simple sentence. The atmosphere in the combat room was ignited instantly. All the pilots stood up at the scene and followed Wang Shuming and Tian Yuchen to the outside of the combat room. The wooden floor suddenly sounded loudly as the military boots were knocked.
Chapter completed!