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Chapter 419

Warring States Period

The beheading operation of one week was finally won by the Emperor of China. The Japanese royal family and major government officials were captured by the Emperor of China, which made Japan sad. Not only did the entire national command system paralyze, it also hit the morale of the entire Yamato tribe, and also accelerated the surrender of Japan.[]

The Japanese army deployed 150,000 regular troops, as well as hundreds of thousands of reserves and militias in Tokyo. They originally planned to fight a large-scale defense battle in Tokyo, but with the news that all the Taisho royal family and the main officials of Kyoto were captured, the Japanese army suddenly fell into chaos. Although Prince Chiren said that it was a rumor, soon photos of war criminals such as Taisho and Yamamoto Kyoto were published in newspapers, hype, and circulated leaflets over Tokyo, which immediately damaged the morale of the Japanese army.

Under the fierce attacks of the Emperor of China, Tokyo was razed to the ground. After paying the huge casualties of 100,000 troops and 300,000 civilians, the Japanese army gave up Tokyo and retreated to the escort Nagano.

On April 5, Feng Guozhang forced the Japanese Emperor Taisho and Yamamoto Kyotoe Cabinet to sign the Sino-Japanese Kanagawa Treaty. The treaty stipulates that the Japanese Emperor was demoted to a vassal king of the Chinese Empire, and all deception and misleading of the Japanese people will be eliminated at any time. The power organs and influential figures that threaten the extremely vassal states of the Chinese Empire. The appointment of the Japanese king and prime minister must be negotiated with the Chinese Empire. Japan's sovereignty will be limited to Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and some small islands decided by the Chinese Empire.

On the island, the Japanese army will be completely disarmed and only retain police forces that maintain public order. They are not allowed to have offensive forces such as navy, air force, etc. The serious judicial institutions will find all war criminals and prohibit all remarks. They will compensate the Chinese Empire for 3 billion dragon coins in war expenses, and use loans from the Chinese Empire Bank, guaranteed customs and fiscal revenue, and pay them off in installments in 99 years. Japan's 21 naval bases including Sasebo, Wu, Yokosuka were taken over by the Chinese Empire Navy, and the Chinese Empire has the right to station troops in various parts of Japan, etc.

The treaty is very harsh, and its basic purpose is to prevent Japan from turning over within a hundred years and accept the rule of the Chinese Empire.

Taisho and Yamamoto Kyotoe had no choice, especially right-wing elements such as Yamamoto Kyotoe. As war criminals, they were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 100 to 800 years, depriving their political rights for life.

After Feng Guozhang received the treaty document, he immediately submitted it to the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Chen Hao, for his criticism.

On April 8, after Wang Chenhao studied with the cabinet, he believed that Feng Guozhang had handled the issue with Japan very properly, so Wang Chenhao approved the treaty.

Since Tokyo had been razed to the ground, the Chinese Empire moved King Taisho and the newly established Katsutaro Cabinet and Parliament to Kumamoto Kyushu, setting Kumamoto as the capital of Japan.

All officials who had supported fighting against the Chinese Empire or were hostile to the Chinese Empire should not be eliminated, and all Japanese officials who were left vowed to be loyal to the Chinese Empire.

Since Wang Chenhao and the Congress believed that the strategic purpose of the war against Japan had been achieved and there was no need to continue to be sustained at a cost, Wang Chenhao had issued an imperial edict that, regardless of whether it was successful or not, the war would end after capturing Tokyo, and the emperor's order could not be changed. Therefore, Feng Guozhang, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Empire's war against Japan, stopped his main military operations after signing a treaty for ending the war with Taisho and Katsura Kazutaro.

On April 9, Prince Chihitomiya Arisugawa Miya in Nagano refused to recognize the treaty signed by King Taisho and Katsutaro's cabinet with the Chinese Empire, saying that they were Japanese traitors and scum of the Yamato tribe. In order to continue to resist the Chinese Empire, Prince Chihito announced his claim to be emperor, proclaimed himself emperor, and made Nagano the capital of Japan, and continued to fight.

However, most of the remaining Japanese troops did not want to continue the war. Except for the fact that they would surely die if they continued to fight, the emperor and the entire government officials were captured, and they had no fighting spirit at all. Moreover, the Treaty of Mizuka Nagawa to end the war had been signed, and the Japanese citizens were no longer able to help the Japanese army continue to fight, and most of the people were eager to end the war.

Therefore, when Chiren claimed to be the Queen of Heaven, more than 100,000 regular Japanese troops, reserves and militia mutinied, fled to the actual occupied area of ​​Emperor China. In addition, in the southwest of Honshu, the Japanese troops and local governments of the four countries also paid allegiance to the Chinese Empire and surrendered to the newly established Kaitaro government of the Wako.

Because Chiren continued to resist the Chinese Empire, the General Staff had the excuse to retain 300,000 troops in Japan and continue to eliminate the remnants of the Japanese army.

However, the anti-war MPs of the Chinese Empire Congress quickly thought of a strategy to deal with the General Staff. They established the Imperial Army system in Japan. Like the Korean Imperial Army, the new Japanese Imperial Army will be used to fight against Chiren's remnant resistance army. Using the Japanese to fight the Japanese will not consume the strength of the Chinese Emperor, but will further weaken the national strength of Japan.

In this way, under the operation of the Chinese Empire, a 200,000-man Imperial Army was established in Japan, specifically as the cannon fodder force used by the Chinese Emperor to deal with the Chiren Army.

This strategy of killing one stone was approved by Wang Chenhao, so the General Staff had to cancel the plan to station 300,000 troops in Japan, but on the grounds that Japan had newly established and people's hearts were unstable, it still retained 100,000 troops.

However, Chiren is not orthodox. If he were the emperor, it would not be his turn, but his prince would be long. In addition, all the treasury of the Japanese state was intercepted by the Chinese Emperor. Chiren's financial tension was tense and he was defeated repeatedly in the confrontation with the Chinese Emperor and the Japanese Imperial Army.

Soon, Prince Noriku and his direct subordinates opposed Emperor Chiren, and left Nagano a month later, retreated to Hokkaido, claiming to be the emperor in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

After Nojiu split with Chiren, the Japanese army further weakened the resistance of the Japanese army. As a result, the Chinese Emperor and the Japanese Imperial Army soon captured Nagano, forcing Chiren to lead his subordinates into the mountains and began a long guerrilla war.

Maintaining a split Japan is in line with the national security interests of the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire government is happy to see that Japan split into three regimes, and the three-legged tyrants will never have peace and stability from then on. Therefore, although the Chinese Empire has the power to eliminate Chiren and Nobuju at the same time, it is left alone. The Chinese Empire no longer directly fought, but let the Imperial Army fight with the Chiren and Emperor Neng and Emperor Neng. Compared with the losses and casualties caused by the Japanese nationals of the Chinese Empire team, the three Japanese regimes and armies attacked each other, and their ruthlessness was far greater than that of the Chinese Empire, causing countless Japanese civilians to be killed and injured. The entire Japanese archipelago fell into dire straits, as if they had returned to the darkness of the Warring States Period of Japan.

The third Sino-Japanese War ended with the victory of the Chinese Empire, Japan was defeated and fell into a situation of three countries. The Chinese Empire launched a war against Japan to consume 1.5 billion dragon coins and obtained war compensation of a total value of 2.9 billion dragon coins from Japan. After the war, the Chinese Empire completely eliminated the threat from Japan and cut off one of the United States' hands in the Asia-Pacific region. Whether at the strategic or tactical level, the Chinese Empire won the game against the United States.

The United States feels very regretful about losing Japan as its ally. The only two strategic strongholds in the Asia-Pacific region are left, the Philippines and Hawaii, and the barriers of Japan are lost. The United States will face the military threat of the Chinese Empire head-on and have no way out.

Although the United States feels sorry for the loss of Japan, the situation in Europe is very unoptimistic about the Allies, which makes the United States have no energy to play with the Chinese Empire. Therefore, during this period, the United States was at a disadvantage in the arm-walking confrontation between the United States and the Chinese Empire.

The smell of smoke from the European sky has lasted for three years and still has no intention of stopping.

During the Chinese Empire's war against Japan, the Jutland Battle broke out between Germany and the British Navy, which broke out in the Jutland Navy, and the European maritime power balance was broken. The German high seas fleet entered the Atlantic Ocean and cooperated with the advanced submarines obtained from the Chinese Empire to launch a powerful battle on the Atlantic Ocean. The scale far exceeded the scale and destruction of the battle during the Sino-British War, and severely damaged the Allies.

Starting from March 1915, before that, the German submarine force sank a total of 4 million registered tonnage of merchant ships in the Allied Powers over two and a half years, causing US$4 billion to the Allied Powers.

However, since the Battle of Jutland, the German navy entered the Atlantic Ocean, which intensified the losses of the Allies. It increased from 200,000 tons in March to 1 million tons in April, and then soared to 2.5 million tons in May until 3.85 million tons in June. In just three months, sinking the Allies' merchant ships exceeded the sum of the past two and a half years, hitting the Allies' maritime supply line.

Among the British merchant ships going to sea, an average of 1 in every three were sunk. The German high seas fleet and German submarines sunk a total of 5,566 merchant ships from the Allied countries, of which British merchant ships account for one-half and American merchant ships account for one-third. In 1915, the total tonnage of British shipbuilding was only 2.7 million tons, which could be said to have suffered heavy losses.

At the beginning, in order to defeat German submarines, the British Navy consulted many mathematical experts. According to the probability, mathematicians pointed out that collective navigation is the best way to reduce losses. Therefore, in order to maintain maritime transportation lines, the British Navy took emergency measures to "fleet escort system". That is to say, a dozen or dozens of merchant ships were formed into fleets, escorted by destroyers or cruisers, and traveled between the United States and British homes. Since the escort ships were equipped with deep-water bombs, they could counterattack German ships, thus greatly reducing the losses of merchant ships. After escorting according to the above methods, the losses of British merchant ships were greatly reduced. With the continuous development of anti-submarine tactics, the losses of German submarines gradually increased. In two and a half years, although the German submarines still sank 2,283 merchant ships from the Allied countries and the registered tonnage reached 3.992 million tons, they lost more than 300 submarines.

As the German high seas fleet entered the Atlantic Ocean, the maritime passage was completely blocked. Except for the Chinese Empire's merchant fleet, merchant ships from all other countries were unable to enter the waters of the Allied Powers at all, either sunk or captured. Germany's economy was quite tense at this time, and the navy adopted the tactic of fighting to support war. Part of the plundered merchant ships and cargo were used to replenish Germany, and most of the plundered merchant ships and cargo were sold to the Chinese Empire at a low price in exchange for the Chinese Empire's arms and strategic supplies.

This tactic of directly robbing merchant ships and cargo from the Allied Power was to hit the power of the Allied Power and make a fortune in war. The German Navy tasted the sweetness and lamented the huge war profits of the Chinese Empire robbed the British merchant fleet many years ago. The Chinese Empire also obtained the "stolen goods" robbed from the German Navy. Although it paid a stolen fee, it was undoubtedly profitable. The German Navy had no base on the Atlantic Ocean, so in order to get rid of it as soon as possible, it usually sold it to the Chinese Empire merchants at a low price, and for this reason the merchants of the Chinese Empire made a fortune.

Although only one-third of the merchant ships sunk in the United States accounted for, the merchant ships were large and carried huge cargo. Most of them were arms and strategic materials urgently needed by the Allies. The three-month battle of the German high seas fleet caused direct economic losses to the United States of US$2.5 billion.

The US government was very angry about this, but there was no way. It turned out that after China and the United States signed the Hawaii non-aggression treaty, the US Navy could be transferred to Europe to prevent the German Navy from fighting. But the Chinese Empire did not make the United States feel better. In order to prevent the Chinese Empire's Navy, almost 90% of the main fleets were concentrated in the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii. When the US Pacific Fleet transferred far away to Europe, trouble came. The Chinese Empire refused to develop the Panama Canal to the US Navy on the grounds of external neutrality, which forced the US Navy to circle Cape Horn in South America and took three months to return to the east coast of the United States. In addition, the ships of the US main fleet had to fight the German Navy to decisively fight with the German Navy. The main ships must be maintained and maintained once before they can go to the European battlefield.

In this way, the US Navy delayed its efforts to officially enter the Atlantic Ocean to fight against the German high seas fleet in July 1915.

During this period, the British Navy was blocked by the German Navy and beaten up at the doorstep, causing heavy losses.

Originally, the British Naval Air Force could also protect the British capital ships that were repaired in ports and docks. Every time the German Naval Air Force approached, they were beaten away by the British Naval Air Force.

But this situation changed in April. Germany successively obtained a large number of H1n1 bombers and cat demon fighters from the Chinese Empire. The German army built a large number of airports in the occupied northwestern coastal areas of France, allowing a large number of local bomber groups and fighter groups to transfer to the English Channel and the North Sea.

In this way, German air forces can directly attack Scapa Naval Base in the northwest of Britain.

On April 13, Germany dispatched 300 Cat Demon fighters and 2,100 Folk (j-5) fighters to cover 130 H1n1 bombers to carry out fierce bombing of Scapa. At the same time, the German High Seas Fleet also took the initiative to shell out 22 main battleships of Scapa Port.

The British Navy Air Force urgently dispatched 320 Cat Demon fighters,

800 camel fighters took off to fight. Fierce air battle broke out over Scapa. In the end, because the British Cat Demon fighters exported to the Chinese Empire, and the performance of a batch of Cat Demon fighters produced by Britain was not up to standard, they were immediately at a disadvantage in the face of 300 genuine Cat Demon fighters in Germany. Although the Cat Demon fighters developed by the UK can compete with Germany's Folk fighters, the number was at a disadvantage. The British main Air Force fighter fleet was no longer local, but was on the front line of France and Italy. As a result, because the number was weak, the air combat ultimately failed because Britain lost 643 fighters. Germany won the 4.13 air battle and lost only 401 fighters.

The consequences of the British 413 air battle were catastrophic, because the Luftwaffe covered 130 H1N1 bombers to carry out violent bombing on the Scapa Naval Base. Under the bombardment of 22 main ships, giant cannons, destroyed all British naval facilities, docks, oil depots, granaries, barracks, ammunition depots, port forts, and warships anchored in the port lost 45, including 7 battleships including the King, Queen Elizabeth battle cruisers, 14 first-class cruisers, 23 destroyers, etc., were severely damaged and sunk or stranded, and a large number of auxiliary ships were destroyed.

In the following week, the German Navy and Naval Air Force carried out fierce air strikes and bombings on Scarpa Base one after another. Almost all of the British Navy were eliminated in the port, and the main ships sank more than 70%. If the British Navy had not urgently transferred some of the main ships to Ireland, the British Navy would have been wiped out.

It can be said that with one mistake, the German Navy was in a hurry and not only attacked the next supply ship on the Atlantic Ocean, but also blocked the British ports and violently bombarded, causing more than 100 ports including Portsmouth Port around the British coast to be severely damaged, and a large number of ships and dock facilities were destroyed, causing inestimable losses to the UK.

During this period, the French Navy dispatched 29 warships to support Britain, but due to France's national strength, the construction quantity and quality of the super-divine bow-type battleships in the later stage of the arms race in the Navy were far inferior to the German Navy. Therefore, the French Navy basically brought near the French coastline and relied on the coastal fortress artillery to confront the German Navy.

But the German Navy was not attracted by the French Navy and ignored them and kept attacking British coastal cities. From April to July when the US Navy arrived, in three months, more than 100 cities along the British coastal areas were severely damaged, with economic losses of more than 5 billion US dollars, and the country was on the verge of collapse.

On July 3, 1915, the main force of the US Navy Expeditionary Fleet entered the Atlantic Ocean and escorted 100 large merchant ships to Britain. Under Schell's command, the German high seas fleet tried to fight a war with the US Navy, but the US Navy Expeditionary Fleet was too large. Schell tried it once and found that it could not get a good deal, so he gave up the decisive battle and continued to break the war at sea to attack the Allied supply line.

The US Navy left a powerful battlecruiser squad and more than 200 destroyers to deal with the German battlecruiser and submarine fleet on the Atlantic Ocean, escorting the US merchant fleet and preventing the German Navy from breaking war.

Because the US Navy had a great advantage in the caliber and number of main guns, the German Navy forced the fleets that the German Navy could attack were greatly reduced, and the operation encountered difficulties in breaking the war.

In this way, the US Expeditionary Fleet arrived at the Portsmouth Port in England in mid-July and drove away the haunted German navy nearby. The 100 supply ships brought in solved the UK's urgent need and enabled Britain to get rescue before it was about to die.

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