Chapter 13: The country is about to perish, and there are ship girls everywhere (Part 2)
In the early morning of October 2, 1945, Truk Atoll, the mountain behind the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet Headquarters, the Navy Shrine
The tall dark red torii gate is hidden among the dense tropical plants, and the long stone steps can be seen at a glance.
The pond in the backyard of the shrine is full of lotus flowers, which ripple in the morning breeze and are covered with a thin mist like smoke.
In the surrounding foothills, the air is moist and fresh. They are covered with leafy palms, hibiscus, bougainvillea and orchids. The moist tree trunks are covered with ferns, moss and orchids. Every leaf, every root There are crystal clear dewdrops hanging on the branches. The dull silence was broken by the monotonous ticking of wet fern leaves. Young branches of white or magenta flowers bloom everywhere among the greenery, and gorgeous colorful butterflies dance among the flowers.
Looking down from the foot of the mountain, near the foot of the mountain and at the end of the woods, there are terraced fields planted with rice, vegetables and fruits. A clear and fast stream flows between the fields, and various flowers of red, pink, lavender and white can be seen everywhere along the stream. It's dazzling to see: the poinsettia grows as tall as the house with its crimson flowers, while the datura's white flowers hang shyly like lilies.
Looking further into the distance, the vast azure sea and the delicate white sandy beach suddenly come into view. The scenery is so open and magnificent, it is really refreshing - lush tropical forest, mixed with the moist air with the sweet fragrance of flowers and fruits, The intoxicating thin morning mist, the refreshing gentleness The sea breeze, the green sugar cane forests, the classical Japanese wooden houses, the fine white sand beaches and the coral reefs splashing with snow-white waves... Looking at all this, one simply forgets all the filth and ugliness of the world, forgets the world Still shrouded in the haze of war and death.
Classmate Wang Qiu, who had just arrived, was wearing a white Japanese navy dress used to hide his identity. He was standing on a terrace protruding from the rocks in the backyard of the shrine, looking at the Truk Atoll lagoon below the mountain with a telescope. This Japanese navy joint The headquarters and most important anchorage of the fleet.
Since a considerable number of capital ships have not yet returned from the Indian Ocean, and other ships are performing patrols, escorts and breaking engagements in the eastern frontline waters, there are not many ships currently parked in Truk. The most eye-catching thing among them is naturally the majestic bridge of the battleship Yamato, the flagship of the combined fleet. Under the guard of a group of destroyers, cruisers, transport ships and submarines, it stands out like a chicken.
If it were another time in history, these ships would have been buried at the bottom of the sea, or they would have become iron coffins lying beside the dock unable to move due to fuel shortage. However, in this world, there is a ship girl Sophie who has cheats and is extremely hateful of beauty. She has been trying her best to hold down the Americans and beat them to death, so these warships still look majestic at the moment... Unfortunately, the future does not seem to be very good. .
In the thin morning mist, accompanied by a long whistle, a wide passenger and cargo merchant ship slowly sailed into the Truk anchorage from the open sea. Instead of docking, it temporarily stopped in the deep water area. . Next, people on the shore sent several small traffic boats to approach and picked up some passengers and mail from the large ship. Then, the merchant ship once again pulled anchor and set sail from Truk Atoll, heading for its real destination further away.
When the merchant ship set fire and anchored from Truk Atoll and blew its whistle again, Wang Qiu saw through the high-power telescope in his hand that there were people wearing sailor uniforms both on the side of the merchant ship and on the traffic boats. Japanese girls are saluting each other...
That's right, there are groups of Japanese girls wearing sailor uniforms, manipulating these small boats and armed merchant ships to chop through the waves!
Although it is a scene that looks like something out of a later otaku culture comic book, the real background in which it appears is not charming or romantic at all.
To put it simply, too many men died, so women could only be allowed to get on the ship and continue to fight for the war... The truth is so cruel.
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——Although Sophie, the ship girl, is a crazy krypton gold warrior, without any concern for the balance of the game, she desperately uses cheats to kill everyone, holds down the heads of Americans and beats them to death regardless, leaving the Japanese Empire The war machine operated successfully until the autumn of 1945.
But the problem is that even including colonies like Taiwan and North Korea, Japan during World War II was just a country with a total of only 100 million people.
Since the Manchuria Incident, the Japanese Empire has been waging war for so many years, attacking from China and Southeast Asia all the way to India, and then southward across the equator to Australia. Such a vast occupied area requires a large number of troops to be stationed, and countless Yamato men are bleeding every day. Sacrifice, the natural resources in each occupied area also require labor to develop, and then in order to transport these resources from the place of origin to where they are needed, a large number of ships and sailors must be relied on. As a result, the war has now begun. Not only is the Japanese Empire's military strength already stretched thin, but its local human resources are almost exhausted.
Although the Japanese government obtained a large number of merchant ships from the Soviet Union in order to make up for the gap in transportation capacity, and then used a bunch of hastily built beach shipyards on various Southeast Asian islands to build a lot of messy civilian ships on the spot using local methods. However, it takes several months to build a ship, but it takes eighteen years to raise a baby to adulthood. After the army and pioneering regiments recruited so many strong men, there would no longer be much spare manpower to sail merchant ships: this matter could not be left to Korean or Chinese laborers, otherwise what if these "non-nationals" started sailing? What should we do if we surrender to the enemy en masse while carrying the ship and cargo?
Therefore, the wartime base camp, which was forced by the labor shortage, had no choice but to bite the bullet and use its imagination to further break through the traditional concepts of Japanese society. It mobilized some Japanese women to become sailors and join the shipping industry, and established the so-called "sea aid team". ", which is the legendary "Girls Fleet"...
——The regular warships of the United Fleet will certainly not be left to these women who at most have only fishing experience at sea. Even torpedo boats or old ships from the Russo-Japanese War will not work, not to mention that many of them are still in high school or even Junior high school girls. However, those armed merchant ships equipped with anti-aircraft guns or machine guns can still be handed over to women for practice. At first, the relevant parties only broke the rules and allowed some women to work as sailors on ships, turning merchant sailors into a mixed-gender establishment, just like letting women work in factories and mines in China. Later, as the casualties of the war became increasingly tragic, more male sailors were recruited into the navy, and transport ships with all-female sailors gradually began to appear. There were even a few female captains...
In the "South Island New Japan" centered on Truk, due to real shortage of manpower, the girls' school has been turned into a navigation school.
The above-mentioned treasonous and deviant practices would have caused an uproar in peacetime, but in today's war years, they seem to be normal - all traditions and etiquette must be put aside, and war is everything! All for war! Anyone who dares to chirp is a "non-national"!
Although they are currently mainly engaged in transportation on the relatively safe rear route, or driving traffic boats in the port area, they occasionally use self-defense firepower to hit a few American planes, and are stunned by American submarines. Falling into the sea is nothing compared to swimming with sharks. Yes, but as the war becomes increasingly cruel and the number of strong men is gradually depleted, perhaps one day the wartime base camp will be forced to pinch its nose and let them go to the front line to face the hail of bullets.
This is total war, the ultimate monster created by industrial civilization. Its flesh and blood are oil, steel, copper and aluminum, its tendons are railroad ships, its internal organs are factories and farmland, and its minions are guns and explosives. It has brought endless blood and lamentation to mankind. , pain and despair. The form of war seems to have become more civilized, but in fact it is more cruel. Both men and women have been stuffed into a flesh-and-blood mill and become nourishment for the man-eating beast of total war...
However, this is also a necessary process for the evolution and development of human civilization. Without going through the test of blood and fire, you will not know the value of peace.
——You must know that before the two world wars, intellectuals in various European countries generally regarded war as a "fierce sport for the brave" and believed that fighting a few battles appropriately and shedding a little blood would be good for the country and the country. The healthy development of society is very beneficial!
Wang Qiuru was thinking wildly, turned around, put down the telescope and returned indoors. He found a huge map table placed on the tatami of the shrine. Several blond, black and chestnut-haired destroyer girls were using their super powers to move various objects on the map. A variety of weapon models are used to deduce the latest East Asian war situation.
——Just two days ago, the Japanese Empire, which seemed to be besieged by the whole world, unexpectedly achieved another glorious victory: after the failure of the Wuhan peace talks, faced with the overwhelming offensive of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, there were still people far away who could not survive at all. Foreign aid from the United States and Britain arrived, and a coup d'état took place in the desperate Chongqing government. Chairman Chiang Kai-shek was once again forced to step down. He Yingqin, who had just come to power, announced his defection to Japan, hoping to get a life-saving straw as soon as possible.
Although the wartime base camp in Tokyo is still undecided on whether to accept the annexation of the Chongqing regime, which is a troublesome and useless piece of land, this does not prevent the Ministry of War from trumpeting this incident and promoting it to the people as "another great event in the Imperial Army's Great East Asia Jihad." victory".
Therefore, no one could have predicted that the destruction and fall of the Japanese Empire would be so sudden and so unexpected.
——In fact, on this seemingly ordinary morning, the countdown to the destruction of the Japanese Empire has entered...
This day, October 2, 1945 AD, is when the sun of this world goes out and the end of the old Japanese Empire!
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A few hundred meters away from the "Navy Shrine", in the Combined Fleet Headquarters, a British-style red brick building modeled after the Tokyo Navy Ministry and Naval Command Building, there is a larger map table. There were people coming and going all around, and there was an endless stream of phones ringing and telegrams being sent. From time to time, several naval staff officers in white uniforms would hold long wooden poles and push small models representing warships or aircraft around on the map table.
——The imperial capital Tokyo, thousands of kilometers away from them, is suffering from an unprecedented large-scale strategic bombing. The US military has dispatched at least two hundred B-29 Super Flying Fortress strategic bombers, and even violated the war convention and used poison gas bombs... ...Although the people in Truk could not see it with their own eyes, based on their years of combat experience, they could only imagine what kind of miserable situation Tokyo would be in now.
In fact, this bombing was not completely without warning: as early as a week ago, the Japanese Navy's intelligence agency had discovered through radio monitoring that the U.S. Strategic Air Force was massing and transferring to Hawaii and Midway Island, and was likely to bomb the front line. Island or mainland city. If the Navy can dispatch a rapid formation in time to organize a night bombardment of Midway Airport, it may be able to delay the arrival of this bombing.
But the problem is that the main force of the Japanese naval combined fleet in Truk is currently powerless and unable to help Midway Island.
Because, in the southern waters of New Zealand and the Samoa Islands, the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet has also recently increased its forces on a large scale. It has assembled about fifty armored aircraft carriers, fleet aircraft carriers and escort aircraft carriers, plus the U.S. Navy at land airports. The shore-based aviation force is completely in a situation where it is about to launch a strategic general offensive again. As for the Japanese Combined Fleet, in addition to the main flagship Yamato, there are three Yamato-class battleships, as well as a large number of auxiliary ships and two aircraft carriers. All of them were previously sent to the Indian Ocean, responsible for sweeping the routes in the Arabian Sea and bombarding the Port of Mumbai. , to provide support to the Indian friendly forces, is still on its way back to Truk, and has just passed the Strait of Malacca... Therefore, Truk is actually playing an empty city strategy.
Today, in the Fiji Islands and Samoa Islands theaters at the forefront of the confrontation between the two sides, the outpost battle between various primary school students (destroyers) and naughty children (torpedo boats) has intensified. The intensity of U.S. air strikes encountered by various units defending the island is also becoming more intense day by day.
For this reason, the combined fleet had to quickly concentrate all its combat power to deal with the upcoming Third Battle of Noumea. Even so, facing the obvious disparity in strength, the naval staff officers at the Combined Fleet Headquarters still felt guilty and trembling.
(To explain, Halsey did take the best American battleships to Alaska to prepare for the northern offensive. But the US Navy on the southern front will also attack Noumea for the third time. Because the total tonnage of the fleets on both sides is about Four to one, the US military can hit people with two fists)
The Combined Fleet Command is now almost unable to take care of its own side, and Tokyo can only look forward to the fight of the local air defense forces.
The only thing that worries the naval staff is that the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, His Excellency Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku, is not currently in Truk, but is also reporting on work and doing business in Tokyo, and visiting his relatives at home... According to the original plan, His Excellency Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku should have asked for it two days ago. He set out to return to Truk. Unexpectedly, when he was about to leave, the Marshal was suddenly summoned by the Emperor. He was also called to attend today's imperial meeting to discuss the impact of the surrender of the Chongqing regime in China on the overall war situation in East Asia. Therefore, Yamamoto Isoro Your Excellency, the Sixth Marshal, has been delayed in Tokyo until now.
Fortunately, according to common sense, the underground air defense fortifications built in the Imperial Palace must be the strongest in Tokyo, and there must be sufficient reserves of gas masks and the like. Even if Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku encountered a U.S. air attack on the palace, he should still be safe...
Just as the naval staff officers were pointing and talking around the map table, a sharp whistling sound suddenly came from the back hill of the headquarters. Someone heard the sound and stuck his head out of the window, and saw a small The rocket soared from the shrine, shot straight into the sky, and made a loud explosion.
"...Is this a...flare? Today doesn't seem to be a day to celebrate a festival? What is going on at the shrine in the back mountain?"
"... Could it be that we are rehearsing the victory ceremony of the latest Indian Ocean Raiders? But the rehearsal also requires fireworks... It feels like a waste!"
"...Don't pay too much attention to such small things! Has the radio monitoring department detected traces of the main force of the enemy's Pacific Fleet?"
"...Unfortunately, not yet... The enemy's main force seems to have been in radio silence since they left Pearl Harbor... Huh? Why was the signal in Tokyo suddenly cut off? Could it be that the power plant or substation was bombed? ? But the Military Command should have a backup power supply..."
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"...咻——"
Accompanied by bright flames and roaring roars, a small rocket was launched from the Navy Shrine courtyard on the mountain behind the Japanese Combined Fleet Headquarters in Truk Atoll, spewing out a stream of scorching exhaust and quickly rising from the ground. Until it finally disappears behind the clouds.
This is the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] Wang Qiu got from Doraemon before, and it was launched into orbit from the courtyard of the shrine. In order to cover up the sound of the mini-rocket launch, he also set off a large firework at the same time - although Wang Qiu and his companions have not yet figured out how to increase points in the World War II dungeon of "Ship Girl Mutation" What a clue. But there is nothing wrong with finding ways to collect and master more real-time intelligence.
——Although Sophie, the ship girl, has great magical powers and seems to be omnipotent, developing and launching reconnaissance satellites, which involves space expertise, is still far beyond her ability, no matter how much faith she has. No way...
If we only rely on the ship girl's perception ability, the furthest she can reach is about the same as a long-range radar. She can barely detect movements within a range of 400 to 600 kilometers around the ship. Moreover, this function can only be activated during wartime, and cannot Maintain 24-hour uninterrupted large-scale reconnaissance, otherwise, the power of faith will be greatly consumed. No matter how much the Soviet steel uncles help to cultivate faith everywhere, it will still not be enough.
Therefore, despite having all kinds of extraordinary superpowers, the ship girl Sophie cannot detect any movement in the world at any time.
As a result, when the mini-satellite was successfully put into orbit and the first batch of photos were displayed on the LCD screen of the ground remote control, Wang Qiu noticed at a glance the mushroom cloud rising from Tokyo in the photo... and for a moment I couldn't help but be stunned.
Sophie Yamato, the ship girl sitting next to her, suddenly turned pale and accidentally knocked over the wine bowl, leaving a large wine stain on the tatami...
"... Damn it! Tokyo was bombed by an atomic bomb! The Yukikaze destroyer Koro... God! Marshal Yamamoto is still in the city!"
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——On October 2, 1945, the U.S. Strategic Air Force launched an all-out attack, dispatching more than 200 sorties of B-29 "Super Fortress" bombers to carry out indiscriminate bombing of Tokyo, the capital of the Empire of Japan, and in violation of international regulations. Convention, dropped a large number of sarin gas bombs.
Although the Japanese government had been alert and anticipated the U.S. military's poison gas air raids in advance, it had conducted publicity and education on poison gas prevention for Tokyo residents a few months ago and distributed a batch of gas masks to residents, but the number was far from insufficient. Still resulted in a serious humanitarian crisis.
The air defense operations of the ground anti-aircraft artillery and the emergency takeoff of the Japanese Army Flying Team were severely disrupted. More importantly, the poisonous gas that filled the city hindered the possible emergency escape of Japan's top rulers in Tokyo, creating favorable conditions for the subsequent nuclear detonation operation.
At 10:30 a.m. in Tokyo, Japan, following high-altitude bombing and poison gas attacks, two B-29 "Super Fortress" bombers carrying atomic bombs flew over Tokyo one after another when the firepower of the Japanese air defense forces in Tokyo had been greatly weakened. above, and successfully dropped the bomb and detonated it.
Among them, one atomic bomb was dropped incorrectly and hit Odaiba, Tokyo, causing only a large number of casualties to ordinary soldiers and civilians. Another nuclear bomb successfully hit Nagata Town in Chiyoda District, where key departments such as the Imperial Palace, Navy Ministry, and Army Staff Headquarters gathered, causing a devastating blow to the ruling center of the Japanese Empire.
According to the investigation conducted immediately after the incident, Japan's Emperor Hirohito, Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, all cabinet ministers, and all direct members of the royal family, including Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku, commander of the Combined Fleet, who made an exception to attend the imperial meeting at the palace at the time, were present at the meeting. There were no intact bodies in this nuclear explosion.
Key institutions such as Japan's Army Ministry, Army General Headquarters, Navy Ministry, Naval Command, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Finance were also destroyed by nuclear explosions. Most members of the wartime base camp died on the spot, or shortly after being rescued from the rubble. Died from radiation sickness and the sequelae of sarin gas...
The commander of the military police, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, happened to be far away from the center of the explosion when the atomic bomb fell, so he was only slightly injured at first. However, after learning that the emperor had died and that all Japanese military and political institutions had been destroyed, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo suffered a mental breakdown and committed suicide with a gun.
At this point, the central power of the Japanese Empire completely collapsed, and millions of Imperial Navy and Army troops fell into a state of leaderless chaos.
One of the two B-29 strategic long-range bombers that dropped nuclear bombs on Tokyo and carried out this decapitation tactic was hit by the nuclear explosion and lost control. It crashed in the suburbs of Tokyo. All crew members died on the spot. Another B-29 strategic long-range bomber successfully escaped. When it ran out of fuel, it successfully landed in the sea 800 kilometers east of the Japanese archipelago as planned when it ran out of fuel. It drifted for a day and was rescued by the US submarine "Big Mackerel". .
After successfully returning home, all crew members were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and were invited to a dinner at the White House by President Truman.
On the evening of October 2, after confirming the news of the successful nuclear explosion, President Truman triumphantly delivered a speech on Capitol Hill, praising the great victory of the nuclear explosion in Tokyo and urging Japan to surrender unconditionally as soon as possible. At night, New York citizens spontaneously organized a parade to celebrate the victory.
On October 3, Admiral Halsey led the main force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet to suddenly appear in the waters of the Kuril Islands and launched air strikes on Hokkaido and Aomori, Sendai and other places in the northeastern part of Honshu Island. He was only attacked by ground anti-aircraft artillery units and some Army aircraft. The team's spontaneous resistance resulted in slight losses.
On the same day, all railways in the Japanese archipelago were suspended, some telegraph and telephone lines were suspended, and transportation and shipping fell into a state of complete paralysis and chaos.
In the next few days, the Halsey fleet continued to venture close to the coast of Japan, and even tentatively bombarded Muroran Port in Hokkaido on October 7. The Japanese naval fleet stationed in the northeastern part of the mainland lost unified command and rushed to western Japan. The two major garrison offices of Wu Gang and Sasebo fled.
On October 5, another military coup broke out in the Chongqing National Government. He Yingqin, the leader of the pro-Japanese faction who had just come to power, was placed under house arrest. Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, who had only been out of power for only seven days, was successfully restored to power and once again raised the anti-Japanese banner, claiming that with the support of American allies , to carry out the great cause of the war of resistance against banditry to the end.
The Yunnan and Guangxi armies also issued telegrams congratulating Chairman Chiang for bringing order to the chaos and agreeing to hold peace talks again to avoid the collapse of the National Government.
During He Yingqin's administration, Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, Chief of Staff of the Allied China Theater who was briefly arrested and imprisoned, was released from the secret prison of Bai Gongguan before he could figure out what happened on this day. , and then was invited by Chairman Chiang to Huangshan Villa to enjoy the state banquet.
At noon on the same day, Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, was easily captured by a small Red Army guerrilla force due to internal chaos and disintegration.
On October 6, inspired by the success of the nuclear bombing of Tokyo, the First Division of the U.S. Marine Corps launched a large-scale offensive in the Southwest Pacific, landed on Viti Levu, the capital of the Fiji Islands, and launched a fierce battle with the Japanese troops defending the island. On the same day, U.S. naval aviation bombed Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, and severely damaged the island's nickel mines and the narrow-gauge railway system that transported the ore.
On October 7, the Halsey Fleet organized naval aviation to launch "paper bombings" on major Japanese cities, dropping a large number of urgently printed leaflets, announcing to the Japanese that the emperor was dead and the old regime had collapsed, and threatening them to surrender unconditionally as soon as possible. , otherwise more atomic bombs will be dropped on the Japanese islands.
On October 8, an American squadron ventured into the Sea of Japan from the Soya Strait, destroying and capturing three Japanese merchant ships. On October 9, the fleet bombarded Akita Port and destroyed an old Japanese coastal defense gunboat. However, it was immediately attacked by an air attack and a destroyer sank.
On October 10, amid the chaos throughout the Japanese Empire, the "Provisional Government of Japan" was established in Kyoto, and veteran politician Konoe Fumima was unanimously elected as the prime minister of the provisional government. Due to the rush of time and the inconsistent opinions of the various participating forces, the provisional government in Kyoto has not even finalized whether it will follow the monarchy or transform into a republic. If it follows the monarchy, who should be elected as the emperor.
The only thing that is clear is that when this "Japan Provisional Government" was established, it announced unconditional surrender to the US military on behalf of Japan, requiring all military and civilians to "bear the humiliation and bear the burden for the sake of the country and the country", stop resistance, and seize weapons and seal ammunition. Waiting for the US military to take over.
After the call for surrender was sent out, only a handful of counties announced their recognition of the provisional government in Kyoto, and most counties remained in a wait-and-see state.
On October 12, Kwantung Army Commander Umezu Yoshijiro, North China Front Commander Okamura Neiji, and North Korean Governor-General Oiso Kuniaki jointly issued a telegram announcing that they would not recognize the "pseudo government" in Kyoto, denounced it as a traitor, and called on the Japanese military and civilians to "work hard." Rise up and punish the thief of the country."
But what is quite subtle is that Taiwan Governor Ando Rikichi recognized the "Japan Provisional Government" in Kyoto. The China Expeditionary Forces Headquarters in Nanjing, as well as Chen Gongbo, who succeeded the Nanjing National Government after Wang Jingwei's death, expressed intriguing silence on this.
On October 14, a group of young military officers established a "bandit-fighting army" in the industrial town of Nagoya. They elected retired Army Lieutenant General and the initiator of the Manchuria Incident, Ishihara Wanji, known as "Japan's number one strategist", as commander-in-chief. Prepare to "conquer Kyoto westward and wipe out the traitors".
On October 15, after receiving the news, in order to further undermine the Japanese die-hards' will to resist, the U.S. Naval Aviation of the Halsey Fleet bombed Nagoya and encountered stubborn resistance from the local Japanese Navy and Army flying teams and anti-aircraft artillery units.
On October 18, Japanese Navy Admiral Chuichi Nagumo announced at the Wugang garrison that he recognized the "Japanese Provisional Government" in Kyoto, requiring the local naval fleet to stop resistance, seal up ships and weapons, and prepare to surrender to the US military. As a result, a riot broke out at the Etajima Naval War School, and a mutiny broke out in the army near Wu Port. After a melee, a considerable number of ships anchored and went to sea, preparing to defect to the main force of the combined fleet in Nanyang.
On October 20, the Soviet Red Army border guards stationed on Kitayeta Island (Sakhalin Island) crossed the border and moved southward, taking over Minamiyetai Island within a few days. During this period, the Japanese military and political authorities on Minamiyetai Island offered little resistance. , there were only sporadic exchanges of fire.
On the same day, at Halsey's strong request, a small US military force landed at Sendai Port without encountering any resistance. While the Japanese mainland was experiencing strange clouds and waves, the Combined Fleet Headquarters far away in Truk Atoll in the South Pacific fell into unprecedented chaos due to the sudden death of Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku and the drastic changes in the political situation in the empire. And in confusion...