Chapter 30: The cornered Japan (3)
"Today I explained some things and personnel of the Joint Fleet to him, hoping that he could integrate as soon as possible. As a result, he was even more fierce than I thought. He said that he did not want to change the results of the wargame deduction without authorization, and asked me to transfer Ugaki Chan into the reserve and propose that Kuro be the chief of staff of the Joint Fleet..."
Ugaki Chan is the backbone of the fleet. As the banner of the treaty faction, Iroku Yamamoto has been deliberately neglecting him. In Pearl Harbor, the battle between Midway and Midway almost didn't ask for his opinion. Ugaki Chan's most famous story is that he changed the results of the exercise in the war chess performance before the Midway battle, turning four aircraft carriers into one sinking, and three were injured. As a result, when news of the four aircraft carriers being sunk, he was the most calm in the headquarters - because he had known it from the map for a long time! But even so, Yamamoto did not think about Ugaki. Now, as soon as Horikiki came on stage, he did not consider that Ao Ugaki was Uncle Ugaki, and he did not care about the power of the fleet, so he asked to turn it into a reserve.
"What?" Tada Jung and Shimomura Tatsumi were shocked, "Did you agree?"
"Half agreed and let him and Kuroshi exchange positions in either position." Yamamoto sighed, "So I said he was determined to be greater than me. The country is in a difficult situation now. I can't let Ugaki Chan transfer to the reserve service like this. That would have a great impact on some people. It would be better to change positions. It would be a promotion for him. I only felt wronged Kuroshi Renyi. He just took office and was about to change positions again."
Kusato Renyi is the 37th period of the Navy, and is a classmate with Ozawa Jisaburo. He just replaced Tsukahara Nishiso (36th period) as commander of the 11th aviation fleet (mainly the naval base aviation, except for a few destroyers, there are almost no warships), Ugaki Chan is the 40th period. On the surface, the two positions are equal, but if you consider the qualifications, Yamamoto will think that Ugaki Chan is promotion and Kusato Renyi is wronged.
"Where is the military command?"
"Didn't he complain about the Navy's interference in military orders all day long? If he jumped out and pointed at him now, I would have to put him in the hat of interfering in military affairs." Yamamoto Iroku said proudly, "How long has the Shimada incident been? He really has no responsibility? Who recommended this person?"
Tada Jun had nothing to say, and could only give a thumbs up to express his admiration for Yamamoto Iroku's hand: Now the Navy Ministry has been sent from top to bottom, plus the joint fleet chief officers. And in key positions of the joint fleet, such as the joint fleet chief Staff Kusato Renyi, the mobile fleet commander Mizuho Tsukahara, and the mobile fleet chief Staff Kusato Ryunosuke were all sent by this delegation. Of course, the command of the war is still the right of the military command. All the front-line generals who can be responsible for command are
A senior officer in the Navy Ministry of Navy (either Yamamoto Izuru's classmate or his confidant). It is hard to imagine that the Military Command could do something. This situation happened to be the opposite of when Tadichi Nagamoto became the commander of the mobile fleet. At that time, although Izuru Yamamoto had command over him, more often Nagamoto directly obeyed Nagamoto's commander Nagamoto's general commander, and he was also brave and he was dissatisfied with many command details.
Narimi Inoue interrupted dissatisfiedly: "What? Just allow the fleet to clean us up. We will not be allowed to retaliate? What's the reason?"
Tada Jung and Shimomura were unable to respond because they talked about the grudges from 10 years ago. At that time, there were two completely different views on the Navy's Armed Treaty. Some people believed that the treaty should not be abolished and were called the "Treaty faction". The main members were Katsunori Yamanashi, Hori Teiki, Zuokoshimasashima Ken and other Naval Ministry members, and the Fleet faction was opposite. After the power struggle, in 1934, the fleet party, which was made by Navy Minister Okakuto Tsuen, conducted a large-scale purge on the Treaty faction, and most of them were discharged from military positions and were incorporated into the reserve. Yamamoto, a treaty faction, escaped under the cover of the bigwigs. On December 29 of the same year, Japan withdrew from the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty. Unexpectedly, Fengshui changed. Ten years later, the treaty faction gained the upper hand and controlled the key departments.`
"Kun Inoue, revenge is too shallow. It doesn't matter whether it is a fleet or a treaty faction now, but..." Yamamoto Iroku emphasized his tone and said in a murderous tone, "Now I can't interfere with military orders and combat, but as long as I am the minister of the navy, there can only be one faction in commanding the battle - that is, the aviation faction. The Malu, who now advocates the number one battleship, gets out of the reserve service for me."
"Yes, sir." Inoue Narimi lowered her head embarrassedly.
"It seems that personnel adjustments are still beneficial. I don't know if the 6th Army will have a new look."
"The 6th Army is also preparing to adjust?"
"Registered... Sato Ken's transfer to the reserve service, Muto Akira returned from the commander of the Kokoshi Division as the head of the 6th Army's Provincial Military Affairs Bureau; Tanaka Shinichi was beaten to the Kokoshiro to take over Muto's squad, and Kawabian Toro was appointed as the Minister of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters."
Kenya Sato is the loyalist of Hideki Tojo. It is no surprise that he has been transferred to the reserve service; Shinichi Tanaka has always been a backbone of China and the expansionist faction, and it is natural to be exiled. Toshiro Kawabian was always the backbone of Kanir Ishihara, and now he is the right position to be the Minister of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters. The only thing Inoue Narimi didn't understand is why the expanded faction of Muto Akira has returned? He also served as the important position of the director of the Military Affairs Bureau. Does Tada Jun like to make trouble for himself?
Tada Jun seemed to see through Narimi Inoue's thoughts and asked, "Can't understand Muto Akira's appointment?"
The latter nodded: "If I remember correctly, it was the two expanded factions of Muto Akira and Tanaka Shinichi who joined forces to drive Ishihara Kanir out of the 6th Army. What?"
"People can change, and if you change your position, you may have a completely different idea... Just look at Shimomura Jun."
When Shimomura Tatsuya was drafting a combat plan at the General Staff Headquarters, he was an expanded faction who shouted to fight and kill. After being the principal of the 6th Army Artillery School and the 6th Army University for several years, he returned to the 6th Army's center but became a cautious faction. When Tada Jun said this, Shimomura Tatsuya's face turned red.
Tada Jun seemed to have not seen the wonderful changes on Shimomura Tachibana's face, so he just kept talking: "When Muto drove away Ishihara, he was ready to do something. He wasted a long time in the Sixth Army Province. Later, he learned a lesson in the Chinese battlefield and gained nothing for two years. When he was transferred back to China, he actually said 're going to know the Chinese again'. He didn't dare to think about it before - he has gone from a fanatic to a calm person. Recently, he stayed in Sumatra for half a year and felt that he had made great progress. He repeatedly told me that the situation in Nanyang was dangerous and he also gave me his ideas about the combat situation in Nanyang that he had sorted out. I showed it to Deputy Ishihara. He basically agreed with this and also recognized Muto's return to office, so the current situation was here."
"I really envy Ishihara lord..." Inoue Narimi sighed sincerely. Ishihara Kanir's life is the best now: his boss is the royal family of Tokuramiya Minorhiko, who was his backstage. The heads of all departments of the General Staff Headquarters were replaced by Ishihara's confidant and direct descendants, which meant that he could cover the sky with his 6th Army Minister Tada Jun is his close friend and accomplice. The 6th Army's second-rank official Shimomura Tatsumi's recent pitch is also very low. Ishihara Kanir's status in the 6th Army is not described as calling the wind and rain.
And now the 6th Ministry of Military Affairs and the General Staff have clearly joined forces and are extremely decisive in handling internal personnel. Most of Tojo Hideki's confidants have been swept into the reserve service, especially the Tokyo Gendarmerie captain Shifang Liang's second commander whom Ishihara Kanir hated the most was transferred to the Myanmar battlefield by him, and he tried to speak with a tune. Unlike the Navy, there is still a vague opposition between the Ministry of Navy and the Military Command. When I think of the latter, Inoue Navy felt extremely irritable for no reason.
"I want to draw a circle on the list of islands that have been retreated in the South China Sea."
"Draw a circle?" Everyone didn't understand Tada Jun's idea.
Tada Jun did not explain in detail how to draw a circle, but said: "Secretary Ishihara told me one thing: The German envoy was shocked when he heard that our plane took off from Rabaul, more than 1 ooo kilometers away, to attack the US military in Guadalam. He repeatedly said that this was simply a madman's behavior, because this distance was equivalent to taking off from Warsaw to the front line of Moscow to support the operation. If there were any staff in Germany to propose such a combat plan, it would probably be ordered to retire tomorrow - neither BF-1O9 nor F-19O can be so far. Then Ishihara said that Japanese planes are OK, guess what the Germans answered?"
"How to answer?" Several people were curious.
"Over 1ooo kilometers means more than 2 hours of flight, and more than 2 hours of flight back. You can only stay on Guadao for 15 minutes in the middle of the journey - the plane can fly for 5 hours without malfunctioning, is it okay for a person to fly for 5 hours? Even if you can do it for one day, can you go every day?"
There was silence at the scene. If there was no brainer, Nakasa would definitely shout loudly: "5 hours are nothing. Japanese soldiers supported by Yamato Soul would not say 5 hours, 50 hours are fine." But everyone here was Da and Lieutenant General, of course, understood that under such long-distance attack, the life of the pilot was almost calculated in the sky. It was nothing to lose the plane. Can the elite pilot still afford to lose? Because it was not an elite pilot, it could not do long-distance attacks at all.
Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene was a little dull, Tada Jun slowly took out a document from his bag: "I brought Muto Akira's telegram. I invited the two of you out to drink today to discuss this matter."
Inoue Narimei glanced at the text above, but it would be fine if she didn't read it. When she saw it, her hands couldn't help but tremble, and she just said, "This...this..."
He wanted to hand it to Yamamoto Izuru, but the latter slowly pushed it back: "Please read it to me. The lights are dim today, and my eyes are a little uncomfortable..."
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Chapter completed!