"What do you want?" Yamamoto Iroku was very patient. After seven days, it was not until the evening of January 5 that he went to see Hori Teiki again when the craze brought about by the Navy Celebration Ceremony had basically disappeared, but the first sentence was very rude.

"Don't you understand what I think?"

"I understand, how can I not understand? Even if others don't understand, it won't be that I don't understand." Yamamoto Iroku's tone was very sincere. "I understand your eagerness to change, but you hope it is too fast and too urgent. You should take it slowly. And many of the methods you have taken seem too dangerous and too rash in my opinion."

"So, you still don't understand." Horitoki replied slowly.

"You!" Yamamoto Izuru was immediately angry, but the next second became calmer, "Okay, I don't understand, tell me what should I do?"

"This is something I wrote on the road. I plan to submit it with the tent to submit it." Hori Teiki was not long-winded with Yamamoto, nor did he care about the other party's attitude. The two of them were so familiar with each other. Many times they no longer needed hypocritical politeness. Since they had been appointed as the Marshal General, the tent to submit it was naturally obtained at the same time.

"About the change of the naval wartime system of the empire." Yamamoto Iroku began to read unconsciously, "In order to adapt to the world trend, enhance the naval combat power, and ensure the future survival and development of the empire, the following suggestions are given on the ideas of the naval system change..."

A few minutes later, Yamamoto Iroku finished reading it, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "You have finished all the work I should do, why don't I quit tomorrow, and you will take over this position?"

"Haha, this is impossible..."

"But I want to say that these changes are almost impossible..." Yamamoto Iroku knocked out Horikito's report, "If you don't say anything else, the first one will not be passed. You are digging the lifeblood of the fleet."

In Hori Teiki's memorial, the first change idea proposed is to expand the scope of officer selection to the Naval Aviation School, requiring that graduates of the school enjoy the same qualifications as graduates of the Naval Military School, and at the same time, it is required to double the teaching scale of aviation schools on the existing basis.

As the cradle of Japanese naval officers, the Naval Military Academy has less than 200 graduates in a year, and sometimes less than 150 people. This is just one of the more than 100 people. It is necessary to undertake various positions including administrative staff, surface fleet navigation, torpedo, artillery, submarine force, etc. The number of people who can be assigned to the aviation department is very small. Nowadays, many of the pilots who serve as officers in the aviation force are only born after they become monks and change careers halfway, which creates a very strange situation. Due to the huge loss of aviation talents, many of the officers in the joint fleet who are responsible for aviation combat command are not from the aviation department. In other words, they are completely laymen and command experts.

To put it bluntly, the past with mine warfare experts like Tadakaichi Nakamoto as commanders of the mobile fleet, to put it bluntly, a large number of aviation officers, including the shore-based aviation corps, were actually trained according to traditional surface ship officers. It is not that surface ship officers must not command aviation corps, otherwise there would be no possibility that Yamamoto, Hori Teiki, Tsukahara, etc., but in Hori Teiki's view, the consumption of pilots has increased sharply, and the consumption of officers, especially experienced middle and low-level officers, is far greater than the loss of surface ship officers. If the aviation officers are insisted that they can only be selected from the naval school, two evil consequences will occur.

First, the officers' level is getting worse, less experienced, and even more experienced

Second, outstanding aviation non-commissioned officers have not been promoted for a long time, which not only burys talents, but also causes command failure.

"You can imagine a scenario where if you continue to use the old system and make an excellent pilot like Akamatsu Sada Akada obey Genda, an experienced officer like Murata Shigeji, he would not have any objection. But if he was asked to obey a newcomer who had just graduated and became an officer just because of his diploma in Naval Military Academy, would he have no grudges in his heart?"

After all, Hori Teiki's idea is very clear: in peacetime, military promotion depends on qualifications and diplomas, but in wartime, there is only one standard for military promotion, which depends on military achievements! As long as you have the ability, regardless of whether you have a formal diploma or not, you can be an officer or even a general.

It seems that this is a universal principle, but within the Japanese Navy, which has adhered to the long-term academic sequence and the hammock system, this is obviously extremely rebellious. More importantly, Yamamoto knew very well that King Fushimiya Miyaki Hiroshi would never agree to do this. Maintaining the system was just his excuse. The deeper reason is that if the graduates of aviation schools are qualified to serve as naval officers in the future, the foundation of the fleet will be hollowed out. The number of naval soldiers will be less than 2 o'clock in a year, and the number of aviation schools will be graduated at least 1 o'clock in a year. You don't have to think about it and know who will be in the future. What's more, the naval schools are not a monolithic, and there are also many aviation schools.

In a word, if this resolution is passed, the traditional naval faction will be completely destroyed.

The second reform opinion put forward by Horitiki is that unless necessary, officers below the official position will be suspended during wartime. In order to enhance the practice and comprehensive capabilities of officers in peacetime, the navy usually implements a multiple-position rotation system, which basically lasts for two years and takes a few months to rotate. The system is good, but the disadvantages brought about are equally serious.

Taking the Yamato as an example, after only two years of joining the army, four captains were replaced like a lantern. The Takayasu Yoshihara, who cooperated with Horitoki to participate in the South Pacific Campaign, served the longest, only more than a year. How could such an unprecedented new warship, such a fast rotation of officers fully grasp the key points of combat command? This is true for surface ships and aviation troops. The relevant commanders basically have one position a year and are transformed between airborne 6-base training air teams.

Hori Teiki believed that some rotations were really unnecessary, and even for rotation. This expedition started from November 1942 and returned to China until September the following year. He keenly realized that in the late stage of the war, although a large number of new members from the shore base were added, because the original command and combat structure remained unchanged, the level of cooperation and tacit understanding of members was improved, and the combat capability was continuously improved. This practice of focusing on a certain position was easier to improve the overall combat effectiveness during wartime.

"Does an air officer need to understand turbines, artillery and navigation?" Horitoki said in a sarcastic tone. "It is better to have this free time to forge aircraft technology, combat skills and formation command to perfection."

Yamamoto Iroku smiled helplessly: Now the fleet only knows that Hori Teiki doesn't know the military command. If the rotation is stopped, I am afraid that the military command will not be able to command the joint fleet in the future. How can King Fushimi Miyaki Hiroki agree? To be continued.
Chapter completed!