Hoffman's intervention in Japan's political situation finally triggered a change in the Pacific War, and the Battle of Guadalam began to take a different fork.

According to the original historical trajectory, at dawn on October 26, the Japanese and American fleets will hold an aircraft carrier duel after the Battle of Midway in the Santa Cruz waters, known in history as the "Santa Cruz Naval Battle" (the Japanese side called the Battle of the South Pacific). However, because Tadichi Nakumo had resigned before, Iroji Yamamoto left as the commander-in-chief of the Joint Fleet for several days. Both the mobile fleets and the joint fleet are at the stage of being headless. Therefore, the major Japanese fleets except the 8th Fleet maintain the "Tokyo Express"

"There are the needs of the deployment near Rabaul, and the rest of the warships were all gathered in the waters near Truk according to Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake. Although the situation was a little negative, they passed by the fierce attack of the US aircraft carrier special fleet. On October 25, Halsey, who had just been the commander of the US South Pacific Force, had issued a famous order to the aircraft carrier formation commander Kincaid, the commander of the aircraft carrier formation.

On the night of October 28, Colonel Masato Tsuji, who was responsible for the mission of "dismissing if he failed", took the first "Tokyo Express" to Kawajima and successfully met Haruyoshi. At first, when he heard the word "withdrawal", Baibu was furious and roared constantly, and even threatened to use the power of "reporting the tent to report to the emperor, leaving alone. But Masato Tsuji shattered the other party's fantasy and arrogance with his cold words.

"The base camp has clearly issued an order to revoke the 17th Army organization, and the relevant troops are under the jurisdiction of the 18th Army of the 23rd Lieutenant General Anda, and at the same time, all landing troops on the island, with the 2nd Division as the main force, are required to withdraw. In other words, if you do not execute the order, Lieutenant General Anda can directly command Lieutenant General Maruyama to execute the order. Even if Lieutenant General Maruyama is willing to follow you alone, don't expect Anda Zhong to support you, let alone have the 38th Division landed on Guadalam to fight - the Navy will not perform this mission. If the commander insists on staying in Guadalam, it will only be the final destruction of the tens of thousands of soldiers in Guadalam."

"The base camp and the navy are going to watch us die?"

"The army and the navy unanimously decided to move from Gua Island, not only to move from Gua Island, but also to all the islands east of Bougainville must move into Bougainville."

"This is giving up the Solomon Islands, this is giving up the Guadacanal Island..." Hyogua Haruki rushed over and grabbed Tsuji Masato's collar, stared at his bloody eyes, and gasped, "The blood of tens of thousands of soldiers in my 17th Army has been in vain."

"I want to be a person who wants to be a person who wants to be a person who wants to be a person who wants to die." Masatoshi Tsuji, who was strangled to breathlessly, did not struggle, but only spit out words from his throat with difficulty, "Retreat... is to save more... the blood and life of the soldiers. Even if... all of you died in battle, Guadalam... cannot be defended."

"Is there no room for recovery?" Baiwu Qingji let go of her hands dejectedly, hugged her head and cried bitterly, all the staff members around her looked indignant.

"No. To be honest, before landing on the island, my thoughts were the same as you. As long as the situation could be maintained, even if I fought my life, I would not insist on fighting, but..." Masatoshi Tsuji pointed to the ordinary soldiers outside with green light, and had lost their human form, and said, "Can they still fight? Are there any army soldiers like this? If they drag it down, they will starve them to death. The new commander of the Joint Fleet Lieutenant General Horikichi has arrived at the Truk base to take over the command of the Joint Fleet. He is determined to stop delivering supplies to the island - the navy cannot afford to lose destroyers."

"Woo woo..." Only the crying of Hakuyoshi Hakuyoshi was in the headquarters.

The actual situation is worse than what Masatoshi Tsuji saw. After two consecutive attacks failed on the 25th and 26th, the main spirit of the Maruyama Division had been lost. He wanted to withdraw his troops, but Haruki Hyoki forced him to launch another attack on the 27th, and made no achievements except for the increase of more than 1,000 casualties. Maruyama finally retreated despite the orders of Baiwu, so he would never support Dawu to leave alone. If Haruki Hyoki Hyoki was still desperate, Masatoshi Tsuji also had a move to remove firewood from the cauldron, which made Maruyama refuse to execute Haruki Hyoki Hyoki. Without the strength of the 2nd Division, how big can a 17th Army headquarters cause?

When the adjutant general Tokuramiya Minorhiko Tokuramiya and his brother Saburo Morito came to persuade him to execute the order and decisively withdraw his troops, Hyoyoshi Morito finally felt scared: To insist on not withdrawing troops, although Tokyo cannot do anything to him now, as long as he leaves from Guadalam, he will inevitably engage in military law in the future, or just buried the bones with these tens of thousands of soldiers in the end of Guadalam. After understanding this section, he no longer insisted on his own ideas and instead asked about Masatoshi Tsuji about the retreat plan.

"In view of the difficulties of the enemy's advance, the General Staff Headquarters, Ryuzo Ryuko Sejima, has formulated a plan to cover up the essence of our operations with the illusion of large-scale offensives. The Navy has agreed that the specific instructions will be sent to the island tomorrow and the next day. Your only task now is to gather troops while as little as possible."

"Okay, I'll inform Lieutenant General Maruyama immediately."

Seeing Hyogu Haruki accepting the advice, Masato Tsuji finally let go of his hanging heart.

At this moment, in the conference room of the battleship Yamato, an unprecedented joint fleet combat meeting is being held in the anchorage of the Truke Lagoon.

The newly appointed commander of the Joint Fleet, Lieutenant General Horikiki, who was the commander of the 1st Fleet, Lieutenant General Kiyomi Mitsumi, Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake, New Chief of Staff of the Joint Fleet, Lieutenant General Kusato, New Commander of the 3rd (mobile) Fleet, Lieutenant General Tsubasa, Lieutenant General Tsubasa, and Lieutenant General Mikawa Army, were all present. The atmosphere of the meeting was very dull. After Nagamo resigned, Yamamoto was transferred, and Ozawa went abroad, there was a strange feeling in the joint fleet. Everyone knew that the battle had reached a very critical moment - the Battle of Guadalaba, which could not see hope for victory, is a true portrayal of the current situation.

"You guys, according to the latest decisions of Your Majesty and the base camp, the Indian Ocean strategy of Japan, Germany and Italy has been officially approved, requiring the main force of our joint fleet to break into the main war zone at the latest on December 15, cooperate with the land operations of Germany and Italy. From the time of departure to return, it is expected that all regions in the Pacific will fall into a naval power vacuum for 4-6 months."

Everyone was confused about the sudden Indian Ocean strategy. The war situation in the South China Ocean is currently difficult, and the above are still whimsical about how to do Indian Ocean strategy. It is really unreasonable. However, everyone here is smart. As soon as they contacted the signs of the fall of the Tojo Cabinet, the strengthening of the royal military orders, and the coordinated embarrassment of the cabinet, the union of the army and the navy, they understood the secret. After listening to the cost provided by Germany for this strategy, everyone was also moved.

Although Hori Teiki was transferred directly from the position of reserve and company ban, the qualifications of the chief of the 32nd period and the sub-author of the navy were placed here. In addition, he exiled the "golden mask" Ugaki Chan as soon as he came to power. Everyone dared not to obey his words: "In order to effectively deal with this situation, the base camp made the following decision: First, shrink the army's forces and strengthen the guards, not only should they withdraw from Guadalam, but also to abandon the islands east of Bougainville and south of Laicheng; second, to seek deterrence and damage to the US Navy fleet, forcing it to not pose a major threat to our Nanyang islands during the West transfer of the main force of the joint fleet..."

Everyone was in an uproar. Although they had always had this idea of ​​withdrawing troops from Guadalam, the army refused to agree. Now, not only Guadalam does not want it, but most other Solomon Islands are not needed.

"Sir, implementing the Indian Ocean strategy, retreating the islands east of Bougainville, etc. are all things that I could not imagine before. Is it the latest policy of the base camp?" Kiyomizu asked in confusion, "The order we received ten days ago is not like this."

"The situation has changed very quickly, and the policy ten days ago can no longer guide the current battle. The battle between Guadalam is difficult to maintain. Both Ishihara and Mainland Minister Tada have seen the crux of the problem. After the three attacks of Hakuyoshi Hyoki, the result of the Battle of Guadalam is unsuccessful, can't we see clearly what the outcome of the Battle of Guadalam is? "Ho Teiki said seriously, "We lost the air supremacy of Guadalam and the daytime sea supremacy of Guadalam. How can we win without these two things? Without air supremacy and sea supremacy, the army's offensive was very bleak, and what's more terrible is that the peace talks were not going well."

The word "peace talk" was thrown into the venue like a bombshell. Faced with the clamor, Hori Teiki briefly introduced the recent political changes and communication with Japan and Germany: "The peace plan for the case A and the case A reform were rejected by the US side. The empire has no way out. Our joint fleet will either surrender without fighting or fight... Everyone, are you willing to surrender or fight to the end?"

This slogan is almost a replica of Pearl Harbor before. The only difference is that it was made with anxiety and anxiety when it was made, but now it was made with infinite fear of future failure.

Even the treaty factions like Izuru Yamamoto and Hori Teiki were murderously demanding to fight to the end. The fleet factions led by Kondo Nobutake naturally could not admit defeat. After the initial shock passed, they all had one-sided support and agitation.
Chapter completed!