Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Over 700 million people have been migrating to Japan over the past two years, forming dozens of large settlements. The number of Taiwanese-Americans is even greater than that of mainland Chinese. However, due to Li Xinghe's political stance, Taiwanese-Americans have encountered some problems upon arriving in Japan.

They felt like they were in Japan, but it was as if they were rehearsing how to integrate into mainland China, because the software they used, their daily lives, and even their children's education were no different from those on the mainland.

On June 9, immediately after the national college entrance examination concluded, mainland official media published an unusual politically critical article:

"The US military has already entered Taiwan in organized units! Reunification cannot be delayed any longer!"

Chapter 799: Taiwan-style American-style Rat Transportation, Central Blossoming First Peak (5200 words)

"The crisis in the Taiwan Strait is escalating... China claims there is evidence of US troops entering Taiwan in organized units..."

"Typhoon 'Fung-wong' is forming... It is reportedly classified as a severe typhoon, moving at speeds exceeding 194 kilometers per hour. The Japan Meteorological Agency is advising the public to take precautions..."

Typhoon Fengshen formed in the waters southeast of Taiwan, roaring as it swept in, giving the strange feeling of burning the world and being reborn from the ashes.

A typhoon is looming, but only strong gusts of wind are blowing across Tokyo Bay.

On the shore, in a Maybach, the stylish and elegant young woman, Makabe Kokubun, wearing sunglasses, pinched Yamato Keira's cheek:

"I told you, if you don't take the initiative, the line of women willing to sell their bodies in the Tokyo stock market could stretch from the Cabinet Office to Iwo Jima. If you join that line, you'll only be competing with Satsuki Takajo and Tao Niizawa for last place in the final rounds!"

Yamato Keiko is so conflicted:

"I...I'm not really capable anymore."

Kana Yamato is a few centimeters shorter than Satsuki Takajo.

A mischievous smirk crept into Kokubun Makabe's heart, but his expression grew even more sincere and adorable:

"Why are there so many difficulties, little one? I have a way. As long as you follow my instructions, I will surely grant your wish!"

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, making people's eyes water.

Amidst the raging hurricane, a squadron of Dragon Sakura fighters flew low overhead. Former ace carrier-based pilot Jill found enjoyment beyond counting money, leading a group of newly recruited pilots from China on takeoffs and landings on the deck of the Tamamo-no-Mae, which was surrounded by gold threads.

For pilots, the strong sea winds are a training ground for mastering and controlling the wind.

The aircraft landed effortlessly against the wind, its landing hook catching the arresting cable. After gliding a short distance, the fighter jet came to a steady stop beside the bridge.

The ship's ground crew rushed over.

Jill climbed out of the cabin, sighing with deep regret:

"It's a real shame. If the Nimitz's steam catapults could be repaired, the carrier's operational efficiency would be at a regular operational level. I can't even imagine how badly that aircraft could have beaten the F-35 in the air."

Of course, she was referring to air combat. It also needs to be equipped with the current avionics and early warning systems. Otherwise, the F-35 wouldn't be so weak.

Whether it's the Nihon, Tamamo-no-Mae, or the Shinano still under construction in the shipyard, all three aircraft carriers share a common problem: their flight deck length is not well-matched with the performance of this air superiority heavy fifth-generation fighter. A takeoff distance of 220 meters means that the angled deck's ability to adjust for takeoff and landing is rendered ineffective, forcing aircraft to traverse the entire deck to take off, effectively reverting takeoff and landing efficiency back to the Vietnam War era.

If the steam catapult is effective, the takeoff and landing distance of the Dragon Sakura can be reduced to within 100 meters, without affecting the operation of the angled deck.

However, it's not so bad to say that the attendance efficiency is completely poor.

After all, as the pioneers of aircraft carriers, the inventors of angled flight decks, arresting cables, and shipboard landing assistance lighting systems, the British Empire's two shared F-35 carriers lacked angled flight decks, arresting cables, and catapults, taking frugality to the extreme. Even in Europe and America, such features are rare. The configuration that Li Xinghe assembled from the ship and aircraft would place it among the top five globally.

To exaggerate a bit, you could even call him the third best in the world.

Meanwhile, alongside the Tamamo-no-Mae, three aircraft carrier battleships, while still undergoing outfitting, had already begun large-scale assault and combat training.

Young veterans, who had just secretly traveled from China to Okinawa using various lame excuses such as "I'm going to Okinawa for tourism," "I'm going to Japan to get married," and "I'm having an online romance across borders," began their Marine Corps beach assault training on the ship, carrying rifles.

There are still many areas where the ship needs to be broken in.

The entire large battleship is like an all-around ship in a certain sense, encompassing command center, main gun command, armed helicopter take-off and landing, secondary gun command, close-in weapon system command, drone command, and the final beach assault process for the Marine Corps. It can hold thousands of people and still be full, with everyone working hard to master the coordination.

All of this was directed by the Joint Operations Command.

A meeting was also being held at headquarters.

Lin Youzi, as Li Xinghe's most trusted deputy, led a meeting with everyone:

"The top-secret meeting of the Joint Operations Command is now open!"

The intelligence chief raised his hand and asked:

"Where is the commander?"

Lin Youzi coughed three times:

"The commander is temporarily unavailable, so let's get back to our own business. Now, let's begin preparing the agenda for the meeting."

He's looking for an opportunity to let his daughter into his office; she's currently busy teaching about piston valves.

An hour later, Lin Meng quietly slipped out of the cabinet office.

"The peaks stand like a gathering of people, and the waves surge like a raging storm..."

Li Xinghe hummed softly as he walked into his office.

Then he quickly composed himself, appearing serious, and said:

"The final moment has arrived. We should also seriously prepare for war."

Everyone laughed.

I had no idea you were taking it so seriously.

Li Xinghe patted the table and asked:

"The problem is, it seems the Pentagon has indeed found a large number of cannon fodder and is sending them to Taiwan. According to satellite imagery, we have discovered a large number of cargo ships that are landing irregularly from the Philippines, landing in Kaohsiung. I need to know what's going on?"

The intelligence chief and staff officers reported the situation one after another:

"The units that have already been deployed are the newly reactivated 7th Division of the 1st Army, the newly formed 25th Division, and the newly formed 11th Airborne Division. Judging from the unit numbers, it's basically like all the units that the Indo-Pacific Command could reactivate have been included."

Both newly formed units were expanded from the remaining officers of the 25th Division and the 11th Airborne Division, which had been largely destroyed in the guerrilla war in Okinawa.

The 7th Division was essentially a shell unit, having been disbanded long ago and converted into a unit similar to an equipment management office. It now commands three unwanted Stryker combat teams. It's hard to imagine how desperate the Pentagon must be for personnel and generals to revive the 7th Division and cobble together a division-level unit.

Li Xinghe was even more puzzled:

"Go and ask what's going on? When did the US military become so good at transporting people? They couldn't even transport a few thousand people before."

The last large-scale transport operation by the US military should have been the withdrawal from Afghanistan. As a result, more than 70,000 pro-American Afghans were left in Kabul, while more than 4,000 American citizens were taken away, and more than 2,000 special visas were issued (which were revoked in 2025, and these Afghan traitors were then regarded as illegal immigrants).

That doesn't make sense. How could the army be transported up there so easily?

If too many professional US military personnel were to enter, the situation would be different.

This is inconsistent with Li Xinghe's idea of ​​expanding the victory.

……

Taitung.

Off Orchid Island and Green Island, the waves are surging. The Taitung naval detachment is working overtime to construct a military port. The ships rise and fall with the waves, and the crew are using remote surveillance drones to monitor nighttime transport in Tainan and Kaohsiung harbors. (The last part, "美呢林我我我好你林在在没呢," is a nonsensical string of characters and doesn't translate directly. It's likely a result of OCR errors.)

On the surging sea, amidst the turbulent waves of a summer storm and the rising and falling waves of a typhoon, dilapidated and old cargo ships carrying tens of thousands of tons set sail from the Philippines under the cover of night, attempting to smuggle themselves to the port of Kaohsiung City across the strait overnight.

In one of the world's busiest waterways, civilian cargo ships could quietly move in and out, seemingly undetected. However, by comparing radar data with frontline reconnaissance data, the coalition forces quickly located these cargo ships operating between Manila and Taiwan. What puzzled everyone was how the US military was transporting its troops.

Suddenly, a series of "Holy crap!"s erupted from the crowd.

"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit..."

The drone footage showed various containers on the ship being opened one after another. However, instead of American weapons, the containers were filled with illegal immigrants of all races—Black, White, and Asian. Most were ragged, hungry, and thirsty. Due to lack of air, the containers were piled high with corpses.

"Latin? Black? Filipino?"

Staff officers maneuvered drones closer, using action cameras to film the new recruits being driven off the ship one after another. Their features were predominantly South American, typical of mountain Incas, clearly indicating they were illegal immigrants from countries like Peru and Bolivia heading to the United States. Besides the ubiquitous Latinos, mixed-race Haitians, Mexicans, and a similarly large number of young Filipinos were also being driven off the ship.

Along with them, a large number of corpses of people who died inside the containers were also removed from the ship. The containers, which were already rotten and oozing pus, were not cleaned. The bodies were dumped on the containers and then hastily returned to the ship for the next transport.

A cold night wind blew from the shore, and the American officers drove the men deeper into the harbor as if they were being whipped slaves.

The poor, ragged men complained bitterly, but they were powerless to resist and could only keep walking.

The people at the Lanyu Command Center were stunned:

"Damn, what kind of soldier is this..."

"Slave soldiers".

"What is this? Modern-day rat transportation?"

Many people immediately thought of the Guadalcanal campaign during World War II, where the US and Japanese forces fought day and night for control of the island. At that time, the Japanese lacked air superiority and could only secretly send destroyers to transport troops at night, a practice known as "rat transport." Today's US military bears some resemblance to the Japanese of that era, lacking air and even naval superiority, and can only rely on cargo ships to blend into shipping lanes and quietly dump miscellaneous troops onto the island.

One of the advisors sneered:

"Don't be ridiculous. At least the rat transport team delivers qualified soldiers. Can these ragged homeless people and illegal immigrants who have to share even their underwear really be called soldiers?"

Yes, it's obvious that these aren't even normal soldiers.

This is a direct result of the US's lack of conscription capacity, leading them to resort to the old practice of mobilizing prisoners for military service. They arrested various illegal immigrants at the Mexican border and sent them to Taiwan as convict soldiers. En route, they stopped in the Philippines, where they arrested many Filipinos to replenish the ranks of the dead.

It is strikingly similar to the slave trade of the new era.

Such a bizarre scene left the command center speechless for a moment.

Li Xinghe and the others were puzzled about how the US military transported troops. The answer was that as long as the standards were lowered, illegal immigrants could also become soldiers.

As long as transportation standards are lowered, containers can also be used as troop transport ships.

They were smuggled into the United States in shipping containers, and the Americans packed them into containers and dumped them in Taiwan.

The people in the command post whispered among themselves:

"These are our old adversaries: the newly formed 25th Division, the newly formed 11th Airborne Division, and the reorganized 7th Division?"

The 25th Division is a light combat division, equipped only with multi-purpose armored vehicles and ordinary artillery. The 11th Division is an airborne division, and its main combat function is naturally related to airborne operations. The 7th Division was directly expanded from a logistics and administrative office.

Now these three divisions are mixed together, and it's impossible to tell them apart. The containers piled high with decades-old guns, uniforms, and supplies only evoke memories of the Vietnam War.

The command couldn't even calculate how many illegal immigrants and Filipino militia members the Pentagon had sent in. They only saw US military officers kicking them with their big leather boots, herding them into Taiwanese military camps like slaves for the most temporary pre-war training.

As dawn broke, the cargo ships threw the remaining American soldiers onto the sea and sailed away.

Looking around, two or three thousand unfortunate souls, mixed with long-dead corpses, drifted in the harbor of Kaohsiung City. Some who couldn't swim drowned on the spot. Then Taiwanese military patrol boats rushed over and dragged the bodies away.

Seeing this scene, even the PLA officers felt a pang of heartbreak:

"The US military has become like this? It's really hard to keep up."

Next to He Yang was Zhang Jianda, a PLA Major General and captain of the ship. As the leader of the Taitung branch naval detachment, which had begun to be permanently stationed, he participated in the secret planning with He Yang, the commander of the joint forces division.

Zhang Jianda is more concerned about the movements of US troops in the Philippines:

"The US aircraft carriers still show no signs of leaving. The USS Kennedy and USS Washington remain docked in Subic Bay, and the Americans seem prepared to keep them in place until the Taiwan Strait crisis erupts?"

Everyone is competing in patience.

Anxiety, restlessness, desire, and euphoria—every officer must control their emotions.

But the staff officers of the coalition forces and the People's Liberation Army still had ambitious plans:

"Could we get the US military to throw all the Philippine troops in? That way, when we take the island and trap them, we can also kill the Philippines, this roadside stray dog, in one fell swoop! Damn it, let's just march straight into Manila Bay!"

"Don't do that. There are tens of millions of people involved. You want to do poverty alleviation work?"

"Kick them to death first. The ocean isn't covered. If they're so capable, let them swim all the way to America."

Looking at the map, He Yang and other officers skilled in special operations suddenly had a bold idea.

Taiwan's defense operations are mainly based on the island's natural environment. The Taipei Basin is heavily fortified with troops, Taichung is laid out in a long line along the railway, and Tainan has relatively few troops.

Taitung has always been regarded by Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense as a "strategically inconsequential location," and they do not believe that the People's Liberation Army would launch a landing operation there. After all, it is just a long, narrow valley basin, and even if they were to land there, crossing the towering and vast Central Mountain Range would be a huge problem.

Therefore, the second operational zone in the Taitung area actually only had a few thousand miscellaneous troops from the Hualien-Taitung Defense Command and the Taitung Regional Command. However, it was equipped with an air defense missile brigade, a mixed F-16 flight wing, the 168th Fleet, and several Hsiung Feng IIE, Tien Kung III, and Patriot series missile batteries.

Taiwan will use the Jiashan base in Hualien County, Taitung, as a regeneration port for the Taiwanese military after it withstood the first round of missile attacks, and will use it to receive rear aid from Japan and the United States.

Therefore, He Yang suddenly used the keen intuition of a special operations commander and said:

"Why not land in Taitung? Jump in and make it a focal point? This place is a blind spot for Taiwan's Pave Paws long-range early warning radar in Leshan. It's also a secondary regeneration base for the Taiwanese military to hold out to the end. Let's go in first and cut off their retreat."

This extremely bold idea prompted everyone to think about it:

"What are your specific thoughts?"

He Yang drew lines on the map:

"I'm a special operations major, so forget about grand strategies. I want to take our radar station, radar jamming vehicle, and missiles and quietly land in Taitung or Hualien. I'll bribe some local gangsters and truck drivers to help us climb Yushan from Taitung and set up a radar monitoring and jamming base as a reconnaissance vanguard. Once the war starts, we'll turn on our radar, covering the entire Taiwan with full map coverage, and then launch missiles to take down the Yushan Pave Paws radar station, blinding the Taiwanese military's eyes on Taiwan."

In simpler terms, it means acting as special forces to infiltrate the deep mountains of Taiwan, setting up eyes to scout ahead, while also being ready to disable the Taiwanese military's radar at any time.

Complete the dual tasks of mapping and identifying key points.