Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

This was the first time for the old lady to see such a straightforward and decisive internal assassination. She had not been in the most dangerous area for a long time during her tenure, and she was in the aviation school of the air nobles. She never thought that she would have to risk her life to be a frontline commander.

Li Xinghe reminded her:

"David Womack came from the front line of the Ukrainian battlefield. He has long served as the behind-the-scenes intelligence commander of the Ukrainian army, and there are signs that he interfered with the Polish army's re-entry into Ukraine to fight. He is absolutely cruel and ruthless, crazy and resentful. And I must point out that before our fleet set off, Major General Womack asked me for a batch of miscellaneous drones, saying that they would be used for research on new military tactics."

He was creating a special impression for Jacqueline: this was a madman who retreated to Asia from the front line of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

And that is indeed the case.

It is only natural that the officers who came back from the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield were ruthless and disloyal.

The drone is also real, Li Xinghe really gave it to him.

"Everything is right..."

Admiral Jacqueline's mind was working rapidly.

She has already made a judgment.

The drone strike was Womack’s revenge for his seizure of power.

What about missiles?

Is this a revenge by those Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force officers for setting up their own headquarters and seizing command of the Japanese military?

But what about the explosion of the first wave of supply ships?

With all kinds of doubts, the old lady called the officers to a meeting.

"Your Excellency, I hope to speak in private..."

At the door, Major General Moise, who was escorting the team and was a member of the intelligence department, confided the truth to Jacqueline.

原来补给船舱里是48台M1A2T主战坦克，以及若干辆M88A2战场救援车、M1000重装备运输半挂，还有各式炮弹与发射药。

These tanks are all super old M1 tanks in the US inventory. After Taiwan paid a huge sum of money to the US, they were modified and upgraded by the Lima Army Tank Plant controlled by a General Motors subsidiary, the only tank manufacturing plant in the US, to form the so-called M1A2T, which is specifically used to fool Taiwanese fools.

"I understand."

Admiral Jacqueline sat down and announced with a sad expression:

"Now let's review the internal situation. There were three attacks in total this time. The first attack was a cargo ship carrying supplies that the White House, the Department of Defense, and General Motors were expected to deliver to Taiwan. It suddenly exploded, triggering a chain reaction of explosives. This was explained by Major General Moise of the intelligence department."

In this regard, some radical staff members in the Self-Defense Forces firmly believe that:

“It was the Chinese who did it.”

However, other Self-Defense Force officers, the Seventh Fleet and the Fifth Air Force, the Army and the Marine Corps all shook their heads: "No, no, no, maybe the supply ship caught fire and exploded."

Are you kidding? We are here for an exercise, not to take responsibility for starting a war.

It's already too much for you to let a supply ship hang up in our exercises. Now it suddenly explodes internally and you say it was done by the Chinese. Doesn't that prove that we are incompetent?

Major General Moise looked pale.

Vice President Vance's instructions and General Motors' president's instructions were all ruined by the explosion.

He didn't know that Li Xinghe had been there, so his biggest worry was that he would be blamed for more cargo losses.

But this is only the beginning.

"The second attack was a drone attack from an unknown source, heading straight for the bridge where I was staying. If it wasn't for Major G.L. desperately carrying me out of the burning room, I would have... wuwu..."

Admiral Jacqueline expressed her true feelings and couldn't help wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Oh my god, I was already at retirement age, and I came to Japan to gain experience, but was bombed by missiles.

If Li Xinghe hadn't carried her on his back and ran away, she might have really become the highest-ranking American general to die in non-wartime.

"And Major G.L?"

"Life or death is uncertain."

Admiral Jacqueline acted in person, crying like rain, which made everyone who heard it sad and saw it cry.

Everyone realized the seriousness of the problem without May and Jill having to break in to act.

After the fire was extinguished, U.S. military officers took out the wreckage of the drone that was brought to the scene, which very clearly showed the characteristics of a miscellaneous product. It could not be a professional military drone that flew thousands of miles to launch a surprise attack, but a suicide plane that could only take off and bomb at close range.

An officer familiar with drones wondered:

"This is... a drone of this size can only take off within a fleet, right?"

At this point, the attitudes of the generals and colonels changed.

To be honest, there is only one possibility for such a drone attack, that is, it was done by someone from within the organization.

They were one of our own, plotting to murder a respected female four-star general, the third in American history.

Major General Womack, who was behind the crowd, was furious when he saw that Jacqueline was still alive and well. Fortunately, the slick-talking guy was probably dead, and would not expose the possibility of his plotting murder.

Jacqueline noticed the changes in Major General Womack's expression.

But she didn't ask any more questions, instead she brought up the third thing:

"The third assassination attempt was clearly carried out by a portable American guided missile that flew from the direction of Japan's First Escort Fleet, specifically designed to kill me. This is the clearest and most certain fact."

This is the clearest question in the entire venue.

It was the Japanese officers who acted on their own and launched an assassination plot to seize power and retaliate against Jacqueline.

The US military officers also boldly opened the microphone to curse:

"It's all the Japanese's fault! There's a communist among you!"

The Self-Defense Forces also resolutely refused to take the blame, and the senior staff responded firmly:

"Absolutely not! Clearly, there is a problem within the US military, and our Self-Defense Forces have been implicated throughout the entire process!"

That's the problem.

Everyone knew that it was the lone officer who was taking revenge on the joint command established by Jacqueline. But how to solve it?

Who will catch people?

Who adjusts the surveillance?

Most importantly, who will respond to high-level questions from the United States and Japan?

Everyone was restless and doing nothing, wasting time in their chairs and arguing aimlessly.

The purpose of quarreling is to shirk responsibility, to kill time, and to prevent oneself from being blamed.

But outside the conference room, media outlets around the world were exploding with shocking headlines.

The Sun, for example, started making up headlines:

"World War III breaks out! The US-Japan joint fleet suffered a disastrous defeat in the East China Sea battle! Pictures speak louder than words!"

The Washington Post put the smoke and mushroom cloud of the fleet on fire at the top of the headline and gave a concise title:

"The Second Pearl Harbor Attack!"

The media people have tried their best to recall the situation of World War II. Taiwan's green media quickly began live broadcasts, analyzing how the situation in the East China Sea will change after the United States and Japan lost four aircraft carriers. Some green media people turned against the Communist Party on the spot and began to lick the Communist Party.

China Central Television, which is as cautious as it is, gave a strange headline: "Thick smoke billows from the US-Japan fleet, suspected fire", and netizens from all over the world rushed to leave comments: "Don't you know who set the fire?"

The White House and the Department of Defense directed their inquiries to the internal communication hotline:

"The whole world wants to know, what exactly happened in Okinawa!?"

The Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Defense are roaring wildly:

"Reply immediately to what's going on! Repeat, answer immediately to what's going on!"

The outside world is speculating what happened in the East China Sea and Okinawa. The White House, the Pentagon, and every relevant congressman have one eye on the phone and one eye on the mobile phone, waiting for answers from afar all night. The Pentagon's takeaway pizza orders have exploded again. The pizza shop even needs to use trucks to deliver the goods. The reporters outside are crazy about it and call it the "Pentagon Pizza Index".

In Tokyo, the Prime Minister's residence was again placed under martial law, the Metropolitan Police Department announced that vehicles would be restricted throughout the city, and Chiyoda Ward was completely blocked, with only vehicles of lawmakers and senior bureaucrats allowed to enter. Shinjiro Koizumi held a meeting with everyone overnight to discuss response strategies, and successively ordered Nakatani Gen and Nanyun Kenichiro to quickly find out what the photos circulated online reflected.

Koizumi asked his wife to try to contact Li Xinghe, but Li Xinghe's phone was turned off.

“Did the United States really lose the war?”

Many Japanese officials were broke and panicked. Some secretly bought plane tickets to escape, some sent their wives and children to Hong Kong, and some even inexplicably sneaked into the door of the Chinese Embassy in the middle of the night and threw in small notes expressing "loyalty" and wanting "cooperation".

Based on the miserable appearance of the US-Japan joint fleet in Naha Port, considering the possibility of Chinese missile and drone swarm attacks, and the sudden crisis of World War III, serious conspiracy theorists, ordinary people, and various video bloggers all created an entry:

"Okinawa Incident!"

Did China use its missiles to launch a long-range attack and destroy the US-Japan joint fleet that was just showing off its military power in Okinawa and was claiming to be the best in East Asia, or even the best in the world?

The whole world wants to know.

The author says:

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Chapter 467: The Most Evil Little Devil in the World

The first military meeting ended meaninglessly and no solution was found.

At the port, the fire brigade was still fighting all night to put out the fire on the ship. Most of the naval officers and soldiers were lying idle at the dock. Due to the hasty evacuation, there was no place to accommodate them for the time being, so they could only ask the Futenma base and the Naha government to send temporary tents for the soldiers to live in the port with strong sea breeze.

In the tent where Li Xinghe's body was said to be 'stored', Admiral Jacqueline was consulting with her important think tank.

“How am I supposed to handle this now?”

She even felt a little regretful. If she had not taken the initiative to participate, Fred from the Seventh Fleet would have been the one to take the blame.

Li Xinghe asked her back:

"How many calibers do you need?"

"How to say?"

As an old spy, Li Xinghe analyzed to Jacqueline:

"To deal with the White House, the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NATO, our own people, the Republican media, the Democratic media, and conspiracy theorists, you have to use different calibers to deal with different people, just like a key, the key teeth are different at each stage, right?"

The old lady nodded repeatedly.

She had never been to the front line, and now she deeply understood why generals on the front line always lied, because everyone wanted to protect themselves.

Li Xinghe then proceeded to explain step by step, leading Jacqueline's cognition into his language trap:

"We will take it step by step. I think first, we should answer the White House and the Pentagon why this happened. They are concerned about the fleet, and we only need a reason that there is an 'insider' stirring up trouble. Find him, get rid of him, and the White House and the Pentagon will approve it."

Senior leaders need a specific person to be responsible, not a solution to the problem.

It is not enough to tell the White House that everything is business as usual with the U.S. fleet, and it is not enough to tell them that it is the diehard elements of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces that are causing trouble.

Someone has to be responsible for this, so give them a name.

So who is responsible?

Li Xinghe and Admiral Jacqueline came to the same conclusion:

"Major General David Womack."

Womack created it all, and Womack has to bear it.

As long as he took the blame, the incident of Li Xinghe stealing Taiwan's arms and blowing up the M1A2T tanks that were provided to Taiwan could be easily covered up. No one would trace Li Xinghe's situation, and the White House and the CIA would tacitly promote him.

Jacqueline suddenly decided:

"I'm going to hold a second military meeting to decide the final result to report to the superiors. You take your men and wait outside the core military meeting to arrest him!"

Now that things have come to this, we can only resolve this quickly before daybreak.

When she left, Li Xinghe immediately got out of bed and began to pack his weapons, hanging up his rifle, drone and grenades.

"You are such a think tank."

May and Jill marveled at his resilience.

But Li Xinghe said calmly:

"No, in fact, all the words I said were just clichés to strengthen my voice in her heart. As long as you grasp the core issues, you will never fall. Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar was trapped both internally and externally, but he has been hanging around China for the past few years, and he has survived safely, hasn't he?"

Lin Youzi was stunned:

"Ah, that crazy little guy is from China?"

Li Xinghe put on the mask and shrugged:

"Not entirely. This is a complicated issue, but if we follow the Western definition, both he and Aung San Suu Kyi, who he imprisoned, are from that side. But in reality, neither is true. In some cases, they are."