Dominate the Country

In the era before Chen Ming traveled through time, on Earth, which has entered the 21st century, war is still the most reliable means to safeguard a country's interests and dignity. Although the real war has been away from the world for decades, local wars on Earth are still uninterrupted. The cognition that "the dignity of a country is created by military strength and victory in war" is still regarded as the truth by hundreds of millions of people.

In this time and space, China has changed its old image in the eyes of Westerners through war, and Japan has also changed its image of a dwarf in the eyes of Western powers through war.

China is no longer big but not strong. Its strong national strength allows it to challenge the whole of Europe alone. But the Chinese army cannot be said to have made its motherland more dazzling because of its strong combat effectiveness. The first point that Westerners pay attention to China is always China's unparalleled and invincible national strength, not the combat effectiveness of Chinese soldiers. Although the Chinese National Defense Force performed very well in the war against Russia, the strong national strength has always overshadowed the brilliance of the army. But this is not the case with Japan. Compared with China, the small Japan is the one that makes Westerners really realize their power with "strong soldiers".

As a tiny country, Japan is insignificant in front of China, but if Japan's size and population were placed in the European world, it would definitely be a powerful country.

The area of ​​Japan is only slightly larger than that of Britain, and its population is not inferior to that of France. God does not like Japan. If He had sent Japan to Europe, Japan's current size would have been considered a great power.

And now? The result of staying in the Eastern world is that Japan has always been China's younger brother for two thousand years.

These guys who are very short in height - compared to Europeans - stand together with European soldiers like children, but they are brave by nature, fierce in fighting, and can even be said to be ready to die and not afraid of death.

It only took Japan twenty years from being ignored by Europeans at the beginning to being regarded as an elite soldier now.

From the Dutch to the Spanish, to the Russians and Americans, who in the entire European world dares to look down on them now? The Japanese have made their own reputation and name on the battlefield, especially in the wars with Russia and several Americas. The Japanese soldiers performed at a first-rate level.

There is even a voice circulating in Europe now that when Japan and China were slightly conflicting, Western countries should have intervened immediately - Britain and the Netherlands should have supported Japan. Judging from the performance of Japanese soldiers today, Japan is qualified to be a security threat to China, just like the Japanese pirates in Chinese history, which will inevitably hold back the Chinese to a large extent. But it's too late to say anything now. Japan has already boarded the Chinese warships! And more importantly, they can no longer stir up any waves in Japan.

Goro Tanaka, who was lying in the Tokyo Garrison General Hospital, did not feel anything extra about this. What is the benefit of Japan's hostility with China? I can't see it at all. This mentality of Europeans is essentially using the Japanese as a knife.

Goro Tanaka, 22 years old, is the third soldier of the Tanaka family to go to the American battlefield. His elder and second brothers once landed in America as security forces, but never entered the guerrilla clearing areas such as Mexico. They were only responsible for port security in Tokyo and Hanjin. When they finally withdrew from the security team, they only obtained long-term residence qualifications in China. Goro Tanaka followed in the footsteps of his two brothers and landed in America again as a soldier, but his identity was no longer Chen Han's security team, but the Japanese shogunate army.

As a new generation of Japanese who grew up in the light of "Chinese hegemony", he had no intention of challenging China at all. For the tragedy of Satsuma Domain when Japan and China were in conflict, he thought it was more the stupidity of the Shimazu family who ruled Satsuma Domain at that time. What's more, he has received the coveted red book.

Goro Tanaka is an excellent gunner. In the battle where he was injured, his artillery group destroyed four US artillery positions. He is a god gunner who has been tested by war!

"Hi. Tanaka remembers your teachings..." Tanaka Goro refused the opportunity to become an officer in the shogunate army and chose this red book.

"Haha, Goro, you will be Chinese from now on. To be a Chinese, you must change those Japanese habits, which will allow you to better integrate into Chinese society." The visitor was a right lieutenant officer of the Japanese Soldiers Management Office of the Garrison Army. He spoke in a gentle tone, but his words were so sharp that people could not stand it. "You don't want to be a Japanese in China for the rest of your life, do you?"

"Yes. Your Excellency, rest assured, I will definitely change. Swear to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor of China!"

Digging out the grassroots backbones of the armies of Japan, Siam and other vassal states during the war is a long-term implementation strategy of the Chen Han military. It's not digging out their officers, at most they are non-commissioned officers with low status. Therefore, these people must also perform truly excellent.

Tanaka Goro's reputation as a "magic gunner" was not won in one battle, but accumulated in battles again and again.

Mustafa Atatürk, who was in the same ward as Goro Tanaka, was a member of the Ottoman battlefield observation group sent to America. He was wounded by a stray bullet in a previous battle and was sent to the Tokyo Garrison General Hospital.

Goro Tanaka was a hero in Mustafa Ataturk's eyes. He was admitted to the General Hospital because of his status, and Goro Tanaka was sent to the best garrison hospital because of his outstanding military exploits.

On the battlefield, Goro Tanaka destroyed more than 20 artillery positions of the Spanish and American armies. He was a first-class hero of both the Chinese and Japanese armies, and his title of "God Gunner" was twice published in the Tokyo Shimbun.

If such a person is not called a hero, who can be called a hero? Even if Goro Tanaka was not of high birth, he was not an officer.

Soldiers all admire heroes with outstanding military exploits. Although Mustafa Ataturk was a major in the Ottoman Army and his status was far higher than Goro Tanaka, he also admired him very much. If he was a senior Japanese military official, he would have promoted Goro Tanaka to the position of an officer long ago. Goro Tanaka was at least promoted to the position of commander of an artillery company.

But such a hero with outstanding military exploits, for a piece of Chinese nationality, was so humble that he almost lost his personality.

Mustafa Ataturk is an Ottoman. He has never been to China to study military affairs, but he has always heard about the difficulties of foreigners in joining Chinese nationality. He has also heard that people from East Asian countries such as Japan are all extremely eager to join Chinese nationality and become Chinese. Mustafa Ataturk used to be a little indifferent, because of the huge differences in culture and civilization, it is almost impossible for Ottomans to take the initiative to join Chinese nationality. But now he has seen this scene of Goro Tanaka with his own eyes, and the shock in his heart is extremely great.

What kind of country can make a fighting hero like Goro Tanaka abandon all his past honors to pursue and invest in it?

Mustafa Ataturk's previous understanding of China was limited to its strength, just like their understanding of European powers. But if China is only simply strong, he doesn't think it can make heroes like Goro Tanaka fall in love with it.

The Ottomans were also strong in the past. From hundreds of years ago to the present, naturalized Europeans often appear in the Ottoman military high-level. But every Ottoman knows that the reason why these Europeans are willing to naturalize in the Ottomans is that they were oppressed, suppressed, and even persecuted in their original countries. The reason why they joined the Ottomans is that they can obtain higher status and rights in the Ottomans and realize their own values, not that they identify with the Ottomans from the bottom of their hearts.

This is different from the phenomenon in China.

Foreigners who naturalize in China are not officers or generals. Many of them are just soldiers, but many of them are heroes in their own fields.

China seems to have a strong attraction. This "power" is not strong in strength, but a kind of charm. In addition to its unparalleled national strength, China also needs to have a factor that attracts heroes like Goro Tanaka. Mustafa Atatürk understands that it is the comprehensive influence of culture, civilization, social development, and so on.

Mustafa Atatürk's military position is not high, but he was born in a famous family in Istanbul and has basic knowledge.

Looking at Goro Tanaka in front of him, he felt that China's influence on Japan was definitely a conquest in an unconventional sense, which could make a hero on the battlefield kneel down in front of it without resistance, just like he himself kneeled down to worship the true God.

The Ottomans also conquered countless countries and nations in the past years, but looking at the Ottoman conquest and China's conquest, the same is "conquest", but the gap is not ordinary.

The Ottoman conquest was exchanged for resistance and civil strife, while the Chinese conquest was exchanged for incomparable respect and following.

Mustafa Ataturk's understanding of China is too lacking in depth. If he knew China's huge influence in Eastern history and Japan's history, he would understand why Japan, which has become weak in China, kneels down to China with such respect.

The Tang Dynasty completely broke Japan's nerves in the battle of Baijiangkou, but now Chen Han relied on the national-level weapon upgrades and his powerful and desperate national strength to directly confuse Japan. The real battle did not even start, and Japan chose to surrender.

Moreover, with the increase of Sino-Japanese exchanges, the success of Hokkaido, and the troubles caused by Japan itself, Japan is becoming more and more inseparable from China, and is following China more and more sincerely.

Because following China has benefits.

Let alone the labor, even the issue of mercenaries has brought considerable help to the Tokugawa Shogunate. In the face of real benefits, the Japanese quietly changed from being dissatisfied in their hearts to being convinced in their hearts and mouths.

The culture of the Japanese determines the fate of this country and this nation.

Worshiping the strong, even showing a strong servility in front of the strong, makes the Japanese have no resistance when facing China today. They are like Japan 1,200 years ago, kneeling at the feet of China again.

In the original time and space, whether before the Meiji Restoration or after World War II, the idea of ​​'leaving Asia and entering Europe' has always been popular in Japan. At that time, their servility made them kneel at the feet of the Western world, and now they are completely kneeling at the feet of China.

Thousands of Japanese were eager to become Chinese. Goro Tanaka was just one of them. He was lucky enough to have obtained the red book, but more Japanese were still fighting desperately on the battlefield for that tiny chance, without any regrets.