Hearing Hori Teiki's proposal to attack Vladivostok first, Ishihara Kan's eyes flashed. At this moment, he seemed to understand something. Tada Jun was stunned for a moment, and then his head began to turn rapidly: Although there was no map, these were veterans who had been in the military for many years, so he naturally knew the weight behind this sentence.

"If you want to fight, when will you start?"

"Don't worry, you can wait and see the time. Before heading north, you must clear the points in the Southeast Asian region: Solomon Islands and New Caledonia must be in our hands, further put pressure on the United States, and further coordinate relations with Germany, and part of the debt can be solved. Whether now or in the future, this debt cannot be avoided." Horitiki knocked on the table, "The key now is the Indochina transaction case, which cannot be delayed anymore. Germany and the United States have rockets, and France should have them next year. Don't the army want rockets?"

"this"

Ishihara Kanji said with a smile: "You have to understand it thoroughly after getting the technology. This is another big sum of money. Horikun will do his good deeds to the end, so just pay one."

“How much do you want?”

"Please pay 500 million yen first."

"The General Army cut down another 6 divisions, and there is not enough part of it, so the Navy will come out."

"At most, 3 can be cut, 7 have been cut. How can we arrange so many officers?"

"The arrangement is not simple. Going to Hawaii, where there is a shortage of people and there is also oil and water."

"4, no more." Tada Jun was not talking too much.

"5!" Hori Teiki stretched out a palm domineeringly, "This is my bottom line!"

"Okay, 5 of them are only 5! I'll draw another 4 locals."

"This is the Army's business. I don't want to interfere anymore. I suggest that people just draw them and keep the equipment locally."

The wine was finally over until late at night, but the results were significant. The four giants of the Army and Navy reached a preliminary agreement:

1. Continue to attack the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia, mainly using the forces of the Southern Army;

2. Trading in Indochina;

3. The army disarmaments 5 divisions and draws 4 divisions from 4 major military towns, and the savings are used for subsequent imitation of rocket technology.

Although it was just a conversation at the table, neither taking decision-making procedures nor putting it in the cabinet for discussion, under the Japanese political structure, the army and the navy basically finalized this matter.

Unlike these major strategic directions, the high-level naval meeting held the next day was much more detailed. Faced with a group of important members, Hori Teiki systematically explained his ideas and requirements for the next stage of the navy, but the Showa reform was not mentioned at all.

"Sir, the Navy also needs to reduce its funds? And is it so much?"

Horitiki nodded: "The empire's economic situation is very poor. Now I'm gritting my teeth and insisting. The deficit is maintained by debt and foreign credit. If this continues, within three years, the overall economy will inevitably collapse. Instead of forcing us to compress at that time, it is better to actively compress now."

"But we can't squeeze out the funds," said Nishi Takijiro, deputy chief of the Military Command. "It is easier for the army to dismantle divisions or restore them. The navy is not that simple. The ships in the shipyard cannot be abolished at will."

"Stop the Marine Corps' subsequent expansion first."

Now the Marine Corps has expanded to 8 brigades with a total of 60,000 people. According to the original plan, it will be expanded to 12 brigades by the end of the year. However, even if these 4 brigades are reduced, it will be a drop in the bucket compared to the huge naval military expenditure. If you want to cut costs, you must work hard on building ships. But when you think about cutting ships, everyone looks bad.

"Ito-kun, tell me which ships can be cut?"

After becoming the deputy naval officer, Ito Kazuichi served as the Minister of the Shipbuilding Office. Cutting ships was obviously an offensive job, but now it has to bite the bullet and go into battle:

"A batch of old ships should be eliminated, ships are converted to commercial use, and officers and soldiers are transferred to other newly-served warships. The functions of 12 watercraft carriers such as Kazumaru and Kaguawamaru can be replaced by t2l type escort aircraft carriers. The Fengfeng-class destroyer has aged more than 20 years. It is recommended to be slightly modified and converted to escort destroyers on the spot, and at the same time reduce the number of constructions of Class D destroyers; the overall service life of the Shixue-class destroyer is basically about 15 years. It is recommended to be eliminated from the main fleet and only used for second-line tasks such as daily patrol, alert, and minesweeping to replace the functions of some old patrol ships, patrol boats, and minesweeping boats, and then all the latter will be disposed of."

Everyone thinks that the handling of old ships is extremely appropriate, but the total compression can only solve 56% of the funding, which is still far from the compression of 20%.

"The main force of compression costs is to build new ships, and the idea is as follows:

First, some construction plans have been cancelled, such as supply ships, transport ships, oil tankers, etc. We have harvested nearly 1 million tons of ships from Europe and obtained a sum from the Hawaii war. Although the performance is uneven and the models are not uniform, it can at least meet the current needs of use. It is recommended to significantly compress the auxiliary ships in the construction plan;

Second, to reduce the construction scale, take the Yunlong-modified (axis-class) aircraft carrier construction plan in Maruli's plan as an example. It was originally expected that 8 ships will be this year, 9 ships will be next year, and 12 ships will be expected by Showa 24. I intend to maintain the current scale, with 8 ships per year as the standard;

Third, extend the construction cycle. It has been one year since the new plan of the new plan. It is recommended that the overall completion cycle be extended for another one year, so that the 4-year cost can be distributed to 5 years, and the cost of the year can be reduced. More importantly, if the war is over, subsequent ship construction can be greatly reduced in order to save costs;

Fourth, the construction plan for cutting off some warship models. Taking the Island Wind Class as an example, it has strong paper strength, but from the current war experience, heavy firepower and heavy thunder installations are not necessary. On the contrary, Qiuyue’s transformation into air defense destroyers is urgently needed by the joint fleet; except for one that has started construction, the rest of the heavy aircraft carrier has been cut off.

Everything else was fine. When everyone heard that they wanted to cut the big phoenix, they looked suspicious and began to whisper. Ito Kazuichi was also embarrassed, but Hori Teiki still signaled that he needed to continue talking urgently.

"Although Dafeng's combat effectiveness is strong, the construction cycle is too high, and a single ship is at least 36 months. Judging from the current situation, the end of the war may be imminent, and after the construction is completed, it may become outdated goods."

"I think Tsukahara Kan has a more personal experience with the issue of Dafeng Change, so I ask him to talk about it."

"Dafeng revision was designed to improve the Dafeng class, and there was no problem with the idea. But you must have seen the Germans' beveled aircraft carriers in Europe, and also saw the jets. Although no country has used jets to fight, the news from Ozawa Jun is very clear. Germany is already trying to get a jet on board. In the future, the world will definitely be the world of jets. The superiority of the beveled aircraft carriers not only proved reliability with practical combat, but also the Shipbuilding Headquarters also conducted theoretical arguments, believing that it has epoch-making significance. So "Tzukahara glanced at everyone, "The opinion I discussed with the chief is to cancel the change of Dafeng and redesign the new generation of aircraft carriers, use the original design drawings of Shinono as a template, re-adjust the layout and consider the oblique angle, and compress heavy armor moderately. However, this is a matter after the war. This war still needs to highlight the number of aircraft carriers."

With the final say in Tsukahara, Japan's new generation aircraft carrier, the White Dragon-class design officially launched, with an estimated standard displacement of up to 60,000 tons, and no less than 90 carrier-based aircraft.

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