Chapter 60: The Commander’s Anger (Part 1)
Faced with this exaggerated battle report that "our army destroyed 200,000 Japanese planes and calmly moved thousands of miles away", although President Truman had already brought the "Wrath of the Great Commander" to the extreme, which is a master's skill of hope, But Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall remained unmoved.
"...Mr. President, when we got this statistical battle report, we were also shocked by the exaggerated numbers above. But after repeated checks and reviews, we finally had to admit that it was all true, boys. What was shot down was not a kite or a seagull, but a real enemy plane! Although according to common sense, the Japanese Empire should not keep this number of military aircraft.
In addition, in fact, in the disastrous defeat that just ended on the Japanese battlefield, although our army was indeed defeated, there was not much to criticize about General Patton's command strategy, and the young men of the United States also performed Despite showing the utmost courage and tenacity, as well as superb combat skills, it was a pity that they were still overwhelmed by the Japanese with planes that covered the sky, tanks that covered the ground, and warships that covered the sea! ”
Chief of Staff Marshall replied, "...after all, it is a long-established fact that the spirit cannot defeat steel."
"...Yes, the spirit cannot defeat steel. Of course I have heard this saying, but hasn't it been used to describe our enemies in the past?"
President Truman rolled his eyes, obviously he was still in a very bad mood, "...I have always believed that our great army that defends freedom is the most well-equipped, physically strongest, and most beautifully dressed in the world. The army has the best food and the best treatment!”
Faced with this sarcasm from His Excellency President Truman, Chief of Staff Marshall couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, because the sentence just now was actually praised by a certain writer. The original words were: "...this great army that defends freedom is the world's most important force. The most well-equipped, the strongest, and the most beautifully dressed , the army with the best food and the highest treatment. The reason why it has the level of organization, training, and equipment it has today is no accident. It is a monument that displays George Marshall's talent and endless energy, which is almost extraordinary. Vision and leadership..."
However, such a luxurious and luxurious army has now been crushed in terms of equipment and materials by poor opponents who have always despised it...
Such a blow is really very heavy, and it is not mainly material, but a psychological impact - if your usual weaknesses are caught and beaten, ordinary people will only sigh at themselves and think about how to deal with it. Win back on your own strengths. But if someone crushes him on the strength he has always been most proud of, then all that is left is his self-confidence that has been shattered into pieces.
For example, the current President Truman has begun to feel a little discouraged about continuing the bloody conquest of Japan. "...I remember that after the nuclear explosion in Tokyo last year, the whole of Washington was jubilant, thinking that the war had been won. The dawn of life is right in front of you, but you just jumped into it. An even bloody quagmire. Since landing in Japan, the number of Allied casualties alone has reached 1.2 million! This does not include the losses of various materials and technical weapons. Shocking astronomical figures. What will happen if this continues? ”
"...But they also killed ten times more Japanese! Mr. President." Chief of Staff Marshall insisted uncompromisingly, "...If we want to kill so many Japanese on other battlefields, I The price the general will have to pay is probably far more than that!”
"...At least 90% of this record is the massacre of Japanese civilians...Do you think this is also an honorable thing?"
"...Mr. President, the United States no longer cares about chivalry and the public laws of war! We are fighting an extremely cruel general war, a crazy war that uses all possible means! In order to win this war, We must turn into devils!”
Chief of Staff Marshall continued to insist, "...Only the victors who have won the war are qualified to talk about morality and grace!"
"...Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Let's continue talking about the battle situation on the Japanese front!" President Truman was silent for a moment and chose to get back to the topic again, "...We really fought down 200,000 battles on the Japanese battlefield last month. Japanese plane?”
"...Yes, the exact number should be only a lot more. About half of them failed to take off at all and were destroyed by us at the airport. The rest were destroyed in the air. Today's Japanese pilots are very poor. , completely incomparable to the group that attacked Pearl Harbor.
In fact, there is one of the most powerful ace pilots in the Japanese Army Flying Team on the front line. Before he was transferred out of the front line and returned to Hawaii as an instructor last week, his personal number of downed enemy planes exceeded 900. , successfully refreshed the world record in this area..."
Chief of Staff Marshall nodded and replied, "...In addition, we destroyed 40,000 Japanese tanks, plus several times that number of Japanese field guns and anti-aircraft guns, and killed at least two million Japanese in this month, If we do not consider the retreat of the front line and the loss of occupied areas, but only calculate the exchange ratio of personnel and technical weapons, our army should have greatly destroyed the enemy's effective forces and achieved a brilliant victory..."
"...What? Wait? At least two million Japanese were killed in this month? How is this possible?"
President Truman blinked in disbelief, "...aren't the frontline troops retreating all the way? How could such a result be achieved?"
"...This is true." Chief of Staff Marshall said, "...Do you still remember the 'Strategic Village' plan? Mr. President?"
Strategic Village? Of course President Truman remembered that, to put it simply, in order to eliminate the guerrilla resistance movement in the occupied areas, the Japanese in the occupied areas were forcibly driven as far as possible into concentration camps called "strategic villages" to implement strict control. , in order to cut off their connection with the guerrilla resistance forces, and then connect the various concentration camps together to form a blockade zone, dividing several guerrilla-hit areas in the occupied areas of the Japanese archipelago...
According to the Pentagon, this plan will eventually turn the entire Japan into a giant prison, or a Soviet labor camp. Its strategic goal is to centralize the control of the Japanese and cut off the connection between the common people and the guerrillas, so that the Japanese guerrillas cannot survive in the wilderness because they cannot obtain necessary supplies and can only come out and face the U.S. military with superior technology and equipment. fight, or starve to death.
Strictly speaking, the above-mentioned plan content was inspired by the Japanese "village and settlement" in Manchukuo. But the problem is that the US military does not have as huge an advantage as the Japanese army in Northeast China in the Japanese archipelago. It is difficult to even gain a foothold. How can they care about public security?
"...Although we encountered a lot of resistance during the period, and the Japanese provisional government in Yokohama was either overt or covert, or was powerless, with the efforts of General Patton, our army still successfully established about 300 strategic positions in the occupied area. Village, centralized control of more than one million people..."
Chief of Staff Marshall simply explained, "...Unfortunately, most of the strategic villages that have been built are located in the areas lost in this defeat. We do not have the extra transportation capacity to take away these Japanese. In order to avoid To enhance the enemy's strength, we had to deal with them on the spot."
"...Wait a minute, what do you mean by dispose of it?" President Truman suddenly had an ominous premonition.
"...It is to learn the method of annihilating the Jews in the German Nazi concentration camps, and use gas canisters and machine guns to carry out the final solution to these Japanese..."
"...Oh God...But even so, there is only a death list of one million people at most, right? What about the other million?"
"...In fact, there are only half a million, Mr. President. Because some strategic villages were captured by Japanese guerrillas before they could be cleared. Or the guards neglected their duties and escaped without executing the Japanese..." We have dealt with these guys severely using military law.”
Chief of Staff Marshall replied, "...However, before our troops withdrew from Japanese cities such as Osaka, Nara, and Wakayama, they set fire to them or released nerve gas to turn them into cities of death and allow the Japanese troops to Nothing is gained in these lands.
Then, in the occupied areas of eastern Japan that our army is still able to control, in view of the huge cost and limited results of the strategic village plan, the Pentagon instead adopted Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay's proposal and learned from the Japanese army's previous practice of clearing the occupied areas in northern China. , adopting the three-prong policy of 'kill all, burn all, and rob all' in eastern Japan. Only the urban area of Yokohama, where the Japanese Provisional Government is located, and Chiba Prefecture as the rear area will be retained, and then all the rest will be turned into no man's land to reduce the pressure on public security... More than 1.3 million Japanese have been executed so far. The number of countrymen, plus the casualties on the battlefield, exceeded two million. If progress goes well, it is expected that at least one million Japanese will continue to be cleared next month..."
"...This, this is too...sigh - is this...the so-called 'war turns people into devils'?"
Listening to these "Solutions to Security in the Japanese Occupied Areas" that represent countless corpses and seas of blood (if everyone is killed, there will definitely be no security problems), or the "Japanese Genocide Plan", President Truman suddenly felt a sudden It's creepy from the bottom of my heart, but it's hard to blame - after all, that's how the American cowboys dealt with the native Indians, and they were already very skilled at it.
So, after a long sigh, Mr. President had to pretend to be deaf and change the topic again, "...So, regarding so many enemy technical weapons that suddenly appeared on the Japanese battlefield, there are also the fourteen Yamato-class ships discovered previously. Battleships, what does the Pentagon think about this? ”
"...At first, the intelligence agency thought it was arms assistance provided by the Soviet Union. However, after careful investigation, we found that the enemy aircraft wreckage collected on the front line were indeed Japanese self-developed Zidian, Gale and Zero Fighter , as well as various types of "land attack" and "ship attack". The enemy tanks that were destroyed and captured were all Japanese models. As for the Yamato-class battleships that suddenly increased to fourteen, they were undoubtedly of Japanese origin... But the huge number of these weapons was clearly exceeded. reached the limit of the Japanese Empire’s production capacity.”
Marshall said so eloquently, "...In view of the above contradictions, we finally came to a very terrible conclusion, that is, the Japanese and the Soviets colluded much earlier than we originally expected, and to a much greater extent than we originally expected. So much so that the Japanese army attacked them without any reservation. The Soviets handed over the design drawings and manufacturing processes of their various active weapons, including the Yamato-class battleships they regarded as national treasures. In fact, the Japanese weapons now appearing on the Japanese battlefield should have come from the Soviet Union. It’s a human arsenal.”
"...In other words, just as we are committed to becoming the arsenal of democratic countries, the Soviets are also serving as the arsenal of the Japanese army?"
"...Yes, we have circumstantial evidence on this point, that is, among the Soviet Red Army on the recent European battlefields, some technical weapons with obvious Japanese styles and Japanese inscriptions have begun to appear, such as Japan's Three There are Chinese-style chariots and bean chariots, as well as some military biscuits and cans that look like they are produced in Japan (although they need to be transported all the way from the Pacific Ocean, they are free things and everyone likes them).”
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Marshall said, “…the British and Spanish who accidentally captured these items were puzzled, and it seemed to us that the Soviets had long been responsible for the Japanese munitions production and had only recently transferred them to the Japanese. Evidence that part of the product is diverted to internal digestion..."
"...To put it simply, the Pentagon's conclusion is that the Soviet arsenal is mass-producing Japanese standard weapons for the Japanese? This doesn't seem right, right? Not to mention that the design performance of Japanese tanks generally lags behind that of the West, and the cost performance is far inferior. The Soviets independently developed the T-34. It is a waste of manpower and material resources for the Soviet arsenal to produce these outdated products. Moreover, as you said before, our army was unable to do so on the Japanese battlefield last month. A total of 200,000 Japanese aircraft were shot down! This number should have far exceeded the production capacity limit of all Soviet aircraft factories! Even with the industrial production capacity of the United States, it would take a long time to produce so many aircraft. Two years! What’s more, with the Soviet shipbuilding technology, they can actually build a 72,000-ton Yamato-class battleship! And can they do it?”
Truman shook his head repeatedly at this, "...This is neither logical nor common sense...It is completely unreasonable!"
"...But this is the truth, Mr. President, fiction may need rationality, but facts do not at all, because it just happened, regardless of whether it conforms to our logic and common sense... If everything must strictly follow rationality If it were, there wouldn’t be this war now!”
Marshall shrugged and sighed, and said helplessly, "...As for the issue of the Soviet Union's industrial production capacity limit...Since the outbreak of this world war, we seem to have made many miscalculations, right? Four years ago, there were still many people who were categorical. He claimed that Stalin must have been able to defeat Hitler by begging us for aid? What about the final result? And the assessment of the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was even misjudged from beginning to end. It can be seen that the intelligence information we collected from various countries before the war was probably full of countless errors, or even almost non-existent. Correct. Nowadays, even if it is more outrageous, it seems to be understandable..."
——At this point, Chief of Staff Marshall has made it very clear: The reason why the US military is unable to fight in the Pacific battlefield for a long time is because that bastard Stalin is selling his kidneys to aid Japan! It’s not that our Great American Freedom Division is incompetent, it’s that Red Russia’s aid to the Japanese aggressors was too frenzied!
As for whether you believe it, Mr. President, it doesn’t really matter. Anyway, we at the Pentagon definitely believe it! In this regard, President Truman, who had a shallow foundation and was alone, seemed to have no other solution besides rolling his eyes in shock.