But the situation on the mainland is extremely pressing for the Japanese. If they don't move, it's impossible. If they don't move, if the situation continues to develop, the entire Japanese army will be at a standstill, and if they don't move, they will be blown to pieces. In addition to Tokyo and Incheon in North Korea, cities such as Osaka, Nagoya, Kokura, and Sagami, as well as the arsenals there, cannot be saved at all.
By 1943, most of these cities had only half of them left. Osaka, like Tokyo, only had one-third of the urban area left. If we don't find a place to relocate quickly, it will be equivalent to a tinderbox arsenal. It was completely destroyed, and the remaining half may not be able to be saved.
There are a large number of citizens concentrated in those cities. If the delay continues and they are allowed to bomb, not only the arsenal will not be able to be saved, but judging from their attitude of not razing the entire city to the ground, it is very likely that millions more will be involved. If you move, you will at least have a glimmer of hope for your country's citizens, and at least it will allow your home country to take a breather.
The Japanese Army couldn't understand why the Anti-Japanese Alliance was competing with itself. According to the scope of the US and UK bombing of Germany, all the arsenals of the army, navy and air force should be within the bombing target. How could they get to them and specifically look for Japan? The army's arsenal was bombed.
If you don’t blow up naval targets, the steel mills should be within your targets. Steel is the foundation of war. All weapons and equipment cannot function without steel. But you are staring at a target as big as the Yawata Steel Plant. It was as if they didn't see it. They only bombed the Army's arsenals and aircraft manufacturing plants. And it wasn't the kind of targeted bombing. They wanted to wipe the cities where these arsenals were located from the map.
The Army, which was forced to move its own family, could only move a considerable part of these arsenals to Southern Manchuria, which at least seems to be safe now, in accordance with the intentions of the Anti-League, under the gloating eyes of the Navy. Yes, they are all At this time, the navy has not forgotten the infighting, and is indeed gloating over the army's misfortune.
Although the Navy's arsenal was also bombed by the US military, the bombing force invested by the US military at that time was far less than the number of bombers invested by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the intensity was much smaller than that of the Anti-Alliance. In addition, the US military and the Anti-Alliance During the period, a series of disputes occurred due to some fee conversion issues.
Throughout 1943, the U.S. military's bombing of the Japanese mainland was far inferior to that of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. It was not until June of 1944, when a large number of B-29 bombers from the U.S. military were deployed for bombing, that the Navy could not really laugh. However, in 43 Although the Navy was also bombed during the year, it was definitely not as badly bombed as the Army.
Therefore, in 43 years, not only did the Navy laugh and laugh comfortably, but the Army, which was extremely annoyed by the ridicule of the Navy, also refused to share bombing intelligence and air defense experience with the Navy. The Navy refused to set up its own radar stations. As well as the Guantong Station providing intelligence to the army, the estrangement between the army and the navy did not ease slightly due to the unfavorable war situation, but instead deepened.
Although it is a bit embarrassing to be ridiculed by the navy, this relocation operation seems to the Japanese military leaders to be a good choice when the homeland is being bombed everywhere. As long as they increase the number of troops in Southern Manchuria and defend Southern Manchuria, these arsenals It doesn't necessarily mean it's really dangerous.
On the contrary, it was safer than being bombed every day in Japan. The situation was pressing. The Japanese finally gave up their last reservations and transferred a considerable part of their local military industry to South Manchuria. Even though they hated the navy, the army still did it. The most realistic choice.
As for the navy who likes to laugh, let them laugh. Sooner or later, they will not be able to laugh. Don’t forget, Americans are not good people. The main force that fights against the Americans in the Pacific is the navy. Can the Americans let you go? The navy's shipyards, arsenals, and aircraft factories would really be a ghost if that were to happen.
By the end of 1943, the output of the Fengtian Arsenal had not only fully recovered to its pre-war output, but with the relocation and merger of Japan's local arsenals to southern Manchuria, the output of the entire arsenal had also increased significantly. The output of light weapons and ammunition had also increased significantly. The output has quadrupled from the original. Of course, if the local area can provide enough steel for guns, there is basically no problem in maintaining this output.
In addition to the Fengtian Arsenal, which was restored to partial production within two months under the Japanese's full-scale repairs, the Japanese army also arrested a large number of workers in the coal mines in Fushun and the iron mines in Benxi and Gongchangling to replace them with manpower. Or destroyed machinery, at all costs, exchanging Chinese lives for urgently needed coal, and resumed production after half a year.
Although the output is no longer the same as in the past, only equivalent to one-third of its original annual output, production capacity has at least been partially restored. However, for the steel mills in Anshan and Benxi, the special steel and non-ferrous metal smelting in Fushun and Fengtian , as well as the man-made oil and aluminum industries, although they have also adopted a recovery-at-all-costs approach.
It's just that some key equipment that originally relied on imports was dismantled, and local production was unable to supplement it, which made the Japanese's recovery of these industries extremely slow, especially the demolished Fushun Aluminum Factory, Fengtian, and Fushun Special Steel Products The plant, two man-made petroleum refineries, actually had no recoverable value. After several efforts, the plan to restore the plant was finally given up.
As for the recovery of the Anshan steelmaking plant, the Japanese do not dare to transfer domestic steel plants such as Yawata Steel Works to Southern Manchuria like they moved arsenals. The second largest steel plant is not afraid of ten thousand, but just in case. The Showa Steel Works in Anshan has been paralyzed. If the Yawata Steel Works is also moved to Southern Manchuria, if Southern Manchuria is really lost, Japan will really not have the capital to maintain the war.
The arsenal in Japan still retains the Osaka Artillery Factory and the Tokyo Second Arsenal as necessary precautions, but the steel plant is not the same thing. Showa Steel Works and Benxi Lake Coal and Steel Plant have been lost. , if the Yawata Steel Factory is lost, it will mean that two-thirds of Japan's steel production will be lost.
The war was fought on steel. Without steel, the war would have been useless. Coupled with the huge cost and long time of relocating the steel plant, as well as the firm opposition of the navy, in the end, Japan's largest steel plant, Yawat Steel Works, was still Stayed in Japan.
Besides, when the Anti-Japanese Alliance bombed the Japanese mainland, the Commander-in-Chief was very careful to avoid these steel plants. Basically, these steel plants were not bombed. Although the senior officials of the Japanese Army and the Navy did not understand why the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not Bombing these steel plants, but judging from the local situation, these steel plants are still very safe at least for now.
The stingy Japanese were not willing to dismantle the smaller Muroran Steel Works and Kamaishi Steel Works, let alone the Yawata Steel Works. However, in order to restore Anshan's steel production, they made full use of the iron ore resources in Nanmanchuria. , the Japanese built a batch of 20-ton small blast furnaces by surprise, and transported two more blast furnaces from the mainland and North Korea, and barely resumed production.
However, despite many efforts, the Showa Steel Works still failed to restore its original production capacity. In the last two years that it remained in the hands of the Kwantung Army, its maximum annual output was only more than 100,000 tons of crude steel and 200,000 to 300,000 tons of pig iron. Because of the loss of a large number of technicians and skilled workers, the quality of the only tens of thousands of tons of steel is still poor year by year.
With limited investment, until the entire southern Manchuria was completely recovered by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in 1944, production was not fully restored. In the end, China's largest steel company fell into the hands of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and its production capacity had already declined. It has reached its lowest level since it was built.
As for the steel industry that the Japanese ultimately stayed in their homeland, it was only after the Japanese announced their surrender that they understood why these steel bases, the most important during the war, were able to survive the entire bombing period against Japan. It was hit by some bombs, but not injured. It turns out that the Chinese had already had the idea of these steel plants during the war.
After the Japanese announced their unconditional surrender, the Anti-Japanese Alliance took advantage of the fact that they had occupied most of Korea and were within easy reach of the Japanese mainland. Within just two days after Japan's unconditional surrender, they dispatched an infantry division and an armored brigade. Protect a large number of technical personnel and be the first to cross the Korean Strait through southern Korea and enter the Japanese mainland.
The 1st Airborne Division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance adopted a combination of airborne and airborne landings on the day after the Japanese announced their unconditional surrender, becoming the first wave of Allied troops to land on the Japanese mainland. These anti-Allied forces were the first to enter the Japanese mainland. , taking advantage of the fact that the US military was still far away in Okinawa, it carried out a large-scale demolition of Japan's local industries, which can be called the largest demolition activity in Japanese history.
The anti-alliance forces that landed on the Japanese mainland had a clear division of labor. The First Airborne Division cooperated with the navy and was responsible for the naval and shipbuilding industries. The infantry division and armored brigade took advantage of their mobility and swept through most of Japan's territory. The starting point was Yang Zhen's roll call. Important Japanese metallurgy, optics, and machinery manufacturing industries.
With the help of Japanese prisoners of war who had been forcibly disarmed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, all the equipment and technical personnel in Japanese metallurgical industrial bases such as Muroran, Kamaishi, Kobe, and Osaka were concentrated, as well as engineering and science professors in universities. In addition to looting by sea, Most of it was transported back, while the rest was transported across the Korean Strait and back to the Northeast via the railway system on the Korean Peninsula.
Even the U.S. troops who later landed in Japan were not able to completely prevent the Anti-Japanese Alliance from plundering Japanese industry. However, professors at universities and engineers in various factories, from medicine to engineering, were involved in almost all industrial construction subjects. It was transported back to the Northeast by the Anti-Japanese Federation transport plane as soon as possible.
By the time a large number of U.S. troops landed on the Japanese mainland, two-thirds of the Anti-Alliance operation had been carried out. Even though the Americans took advantage of the navy and air force to quickly blockade the Japanese coast and seize some equipment that had been dismantled by the Anti-Alliance. Especially the Yawata Steel Plant, which saved nearly half of its equipment, but by the time it took measures, it was already a step too late.
Although two-thirds of the Japanese industry in Kyushu has been preserved, more than two-thirds of the industry in other parts of Japan has been lost, especially the northern part of Honshu Island where the US military finally arrived and the entire Hokkaido industrial zone, which is basically even a hair loss. None were left for the Japanese.
Especially in the industries that Yang Zhen focused on, such as optics, electronics, machining, and engine manufacturing, nothing was left. Kamaishi and Muroran, two of the most important steel industry bases in Japan, were completely pushed back to the agricultural society. Yawat Steel Works Because it was too large, although the disassembly was not finally completed, everything could be dismantled in a short time. The lighter equipment, as well as the two latest blast furnaces, were dismantled.
After Japan's Meiji Restoration, only a quarter of the modern industry that has been painstakingly managed for nearly a century, as well as the large number of various industrial talents, as well as experts in agriculture and animal husbandry that have been painstakingly cultivated, are left. The leaders of Japan's major financial groups and all The key members, including the heirs, were also brought back to China as war criminals.