Age of Conquest Reborn

Along the east coast of Australia, in the areas controlled by the Japanese in the encirclement, there were leaflets all over the streets and alleys, printed on colored paper, all in Japanese. When they got out of bunkers and anti-aircraft guns, the Japanese soldiers in the concealment scrambled to pick up the leaflets.

Even the Japanese officers could not restrain their curiosity...

The content of the leaflet is also very attractive. In addition to unabashedly telling the Japanese soldiers how many troops, how many tanks and artillery, and how many aircraft there are in the independent divisions surrounding them outside, the Japanese soldiers are not shocked by these contents.

The War in Australia had been going on for several months, and they had already suffered a lot.

What frightened all the Japanese soldiers who saw the leaflet was another part of the content. The newly formed combined navy fleet was completely wiped out in the waters of the Solomon Islands, and the troop carriers from Japan, loaded with food and military supplies, fell on

Information in the hands of the independent division troops.

In order to show authenticity, several very clear photos were attached to the leaflet, which were scenes of Japanese warships on fire. At the end of the leaflet, a series of numbers were used to tell the Japanese soldiers that, needless to say, other items, including food alone,

You can only eat it for about three weeks.

What's even more terrible is that the leaflet also states, "Any Japanese officer or soldier who picks up this leaflet, regardless of rank, can use it as a certificate of surrender on the battlefield as long as he keeps it close to him and signs his name and unit number on the leaflet.

, enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war, otherwise, they will be regarded as stubbornly resisting to the end, refuse to surrender, and will be shot to death!"

This is Tang Qiuli's psychological battle of "a night of tragic songs, scattering a hundred thousand soldiers". The inspiration comes from history. In the Battle of Huaihai, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party tried to persuade the Japanese to surrender on the Huaihai battlefield.

He couldn't have just borrowed the clever idea, and it was several years in advance.

However, Tang Qiuli only provided a rough idea. The specific design was done by Lieutenant Colonel Mei Xue, the director of the Information Office of the Independent Division in Yangon, Indochina. Tang Qiuli sent a telegram to Mei Xue, who understood. The couple

The two of them have a good understanding of each other and work well together.

Mei Xue used all her talents and mobilized all the staff of the Information Office to collect information from many sources, and this leaflet with pictures and texts was released. Mei Xue was also very happy to be able to share the burden for her husband on the home front.

General Ito Yanzaburo was holding a leaflet in his hand. While he was reading it, his heart and hands were trembling. He cursed the cunning and insidious China devil Tang Qiuli countless times in his heart. Finally, he lamented.

I thought: "What a fatal move. It is more powerful and more vicious than airplanes and cannons. It mentally breaks the will of the Imperial soldiers!"

Chief of Staff Akutagawa put down the leaflet in his hand and said worriedly: "Commander, it must be stopped, otherwise it will shake the morale of the army. The staff believes that the military police should be dispatched immediately to collect all leaflets and destroy them together!"

"In addition, the front army headquarters should issue an order. Anyone who secretly hides the leaflets without turning them in, and spreads the contents of the leaflets privately, regardless of military rank, will be severely punished or even shot. At the same time, the headquarters should come forward to refute the rumors!"

"Although we know that what is said in the Chinese leaflet is absolutely true, we must use thunderbolt means to eliminate the influence of the leaflet on the imperial soldiers!"

General Ito's eyes were dull and he was stunned for a while before he said feebly: "Akutagawa-kun, just do what you said. You have to shoot some people with great fanfare. Otherwise, the effect will not be achieved. In addition, the action of driving away the local residents will not be effective."

It should be expedited!”

"Alas!" At this point, General Ito let out a long sigh, "Although the base camp informed by secret telegram, His Majesty the Emperor has ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of War to rush to Germany and Italy for help, not to mention whether the two countries agree to send naval fleets, even if

I promised that it would be impossible to do it from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Australian continent in more than a month or two!"

"During this period, we can only stabilize our military morale, stand firm and wait for help, and find a way out of the desperate situation!"

The Japanese Australian Front Army Command dispatched military police for emergency action and adopted extremely drastic measures to quickly suppress the leaflet incident. Almost every day, junior officers and soldiers of the Japanese Army were sent to the execution ground and shot for disobeying the Front Army Headquarters.

order, secretly concealed Chinese leaflets and maliciously spread the contents of the leaflets.

The Japanese military police came on their own with murderous intent and showed no mercy. In addition, the headquarters came forward to refute the rumors, saying that it was simply a despicable act by the Chinese to disturb the morale of the military. His Majesty the Emperor and the Empire of Japan will never forget the imperial soldiers who are still fighting.

On the surface, the continuous killings and arrests seemed to calm down the turmoil in the military morale caused by the leaflets, but in fact this was not the case.

The contents of the millions of leaflets scattered by the Independent Division have been engraved in the hearts of Japanese soldiers, and have more or less influenced their will to resist. This influence is like the slow coming of spring and the melting of frozen ice. On the surface,

There are no signs, but when it accumulates to a certain extent, it means a large-scale collapse of military morale and morale.

The Japanese's practice of expelling all local residents within the encirclement did not cause any trouble to the independent division troops. In accordance with the orders of the division commander, each corps accepted more than one million local residents and sent them to southern Australia for proper resettlement.

, of course, it’s not all for nothing, you have to work!

Whether these people were rich businessmen, dignitaries, or children of wealthy families in the past, they are now as impoverished as the poor. All their property has been left behind in the encirclement. In this case, it is already possible for the Chinese to take them in.

I am so grateful that the white people's self-esteem and face have long been trampled on by the Japanese and are worthless. How dare they be picky in order not to go hungry?

Tang Qiuli has his own plan. These Australian locals generally have good cultural standards. Australia was originally a sparsely populated country and they were the labor force to build Australia in the future. Now they have lost everything and are sheltered under their own guns. They have no temper at all.

They didn't even dare to have it. It just gave them the opportunity to allocate land to local tycoons and rebuild Australia's social and economic structure. The Japanese smashed Australia's original social and economic structure for themselves, broke it and then built it up. Why not?

More than 1 million Japanese troops have been besieging the front line of Australia's east coast for more than 20 days. The independent division troops have surrounded and refused to fight. The Japanese soldiers in the encirclement have been suffering in panic day and night. In addition, more

A big crisis is hanging over the heads of the Japanese soldiers. They are about to run out of food!

The Japanese soldiers originally had three meals a day that were so sparse that they could make out human figures. Now, they simply changed to two meals a day, which were even more sparse than before. The hungry Japanese soldiers began to look for things that they could fill their stomachs with.

Despair spread like a plague among the soldiers, and officers and soldiers committed suicide every day.

In this regard, General Ito was at a loss. He ordered all officers in the headquarters and officers at all levels to set an example and drink porridge twice a day like soldiers. He gritted his teeth and placed all his hopes on the Germans or Italians.

People can lend a helping hand.

At the same time, General Ito also used more cruel methods to suppress the fluctuating morale of the military. From time to time, he went to various units to talk cordially with ordinary soldiers and cheer them up! Although he knew that the effect of this was not good, and it would not affect Plop.

The moral encouragement from the soldiers was far less real than being hungry, but it was the only thing he could do at the moment.

Not only Ito Genzaburo held on to this only hope, but even Emperor Hirohito and the big bosses in the base camp were anxiously waiting for the delegations rushing to Germany and Italy to send back good news.

Regarding the arrival of the Japanese delegation, the German head of state Hitler showed absolutely no interest in meeting the Japanese delegation. He only sent a low-level official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a major officer from the General Staff to meet with the high-level Japanese delegation.

, purely a matter-of-fact attitude.

In the magnificent office of the Reichstag, Hitler faced the German Chief of General Staff Strongs, the Nazi Party Propaganda Minister Goebbels, the Gestapo leader Himmler, the Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and several other important officials.

He said: "The Japanese are so anxious that they have come up with such a ridiculous idea. It seems that my old Chinese friend has beaten the Japanese into panic!"

Hitler made no secret of his contempt for the Japanese in his words. However, several of his senior officials did not think so. Chief of General Staff Strongs said: "My Führer, don't you think that this

Is this the perfect opportunity for the German Navy to enter the Pacific?”

Strongs is a pure soldier. He thinks about problems entirely from the perspective of military purposes and interests. The German Navy is currently roaming the east coast of the United States because the U.S. Navy has been wiped out by the Japanese Navy and the German Navy has no fleet.

There is something to be done, but instead of doing this, it is better to take advantage of the Japanese request to extend Germany's tentacles to the Pacific region.

"No, no, no!" Hitler shook his head, very dissatisfied with his subordinates' short-sightedness, "Dear Strongs, quickly give up on this dangerous idea of ​​yours. What Germany needs to solve urgently are the Americans and Canadians.

I don’t want to provoke another powerful enemy before the North American continent is completely included in the empire’s territory!”

"You all should understand that my old friend from China has regarded the Pacific as his sphere of influence. From his strategic layout, it can be seen that the Japanese Navy no longer exists, and a new one should appear in the Pacific region.

overlord!"

"At this critical moment, if the German navy enters the Pacific, it will directly confront Tang Qiuli's navy. It will undoubtedly arouse his strongest reaction. I know that my old Chinese friends will even go to war with the German navy for this.

This will affect Germany’s ongoing North American war, and any ideas and practices that extend German power into the Pacific are extremely dangerous!”

The officials were silent. They did not 100% agree with the statement that the heart was too tired, but they were surprised that the head of state seemed to be trying his best to avoid conflicts of interest with the Chinese. Could it be that the head of state was afraid of something?

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