Chapter 192: Ah! Navy (2)

But looking at King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong on the hospital bed, Ito felt a sour nose again: Even though His Royal Highness is not thoughtful in many aspects and is too tough, he really has nothing to say to himself, and he cultivates vigorously, and even important places such as the Military Command Department are completely handed over to himself. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He changed his tone and asked, "What if so many people want to go abroad?" The palace is still waiting for your attitude, and Your Majesty is very concerned about it, but it is too much for the reform to come down. ”

"Get out! Get out! The farther you roll, the better! The sooner the better! I'm out of sight and out of mind! ”

"Where's Horikichi?"

"Get out too!" King Fushimi Palace suddenly remembered something, and sneered, "Let Your Majesty add a title to him, such as the head of the European Armaments Investigation Mission of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the domestic military position remains unchanged, let him continue to write a report on domestic system reform in Europe, now he should be satisfied, and he will not make trouble with me at home, right?" Ordered to go abroad, Your Majesty's face has also been saved, right? Let him discuss it for five or eight years, and when I die, Ito, you will reform it when you have the power in your hands. ”

When Ito apologized for relaying the communication situation to Yamamoto Isoroku, who was speechless for a while, Inoue Narumi shook his head and sighed, he finally despaired of the matter of system reform! Horikichi is right, it is more realistic to expect these old stubborns to change than to expect the stones to bloom.

Despite this, Ito still begged Yamamoto Isoroku on the phone to find a way to keep Horikichi as much as possible no matter what.

"What to do? Are you still going? ”

"I'm going, I'm going tomorrow." Yamamoto Fifty-six gritted his teeth, "If you don't go, you can't do it, if you keep doing this, the fleet is really finished!" ”

Inoue Narumi pointed out sharply: "It's not that the fleet is going to be finished, it's that the hearts and minds of the people and the team are really finished!" ”

"What's the difference, without hearts and teams, can warships alone be called fleets? Can you fight? Yamamoto Fifty-six looked up to the sky and shouted, "No matter how you can't let him mess things up, Japan can't afford to toss!" ”

"Will he listen to you?"

"I'll do my best." Yamamoto Fifty-six thought for a while, "If it doesn't work, let's let him go abroad with dignity and scenery, and he can help us talk when he goes to Germany, and it's better to go abroad than to slip away in private, right?" ”

Inoue Narumi sarcastically said: "You guys are trying to cover up!" Typical bureaucracy. ”

Yamamoto Isoroku, who was physically and mentally exhausted, now ignored Inoue Narumi's ridicule, and went home full of worries and sighs.

While the Military Command Department and the Navy Ministry were disturbing and panicking, the Army General Staff Headquarters was smiling.

"Your Highness, General Umezu has sent a telegram that the Soviet attack has been repulsed! In this battle, the Soviet army dispatched about 50,000 troops (including 5 armored brigades) from 2 armies, and our army responded with more than 70,000 superior forces of 2 infantry divisions, 1 tank division, permanent fortifications on the national border and independent heavy artillery wings. The whole battle lasted only 4 days, destroying at least 9,000 opponents, capturing more than 4,000 officers and soldiers below the enemy's major general, destroying more than 170 tanks and other armored vehicles, shooting down more than 80 enemy planes, and seizing a large amount of military supplies, greatly increasing the prestige of the imperial army! The losses of our army were less than 4000, and the losses of tanks and various heavy equipment were about a third of the enemy's. Not an inch of land was lost, and even counterattacked more than 20 kilometers into the enemy's territory, but Commander Umezu did not want the situation to escalate in consideration of calming the situation, so he grabbed some supplies, destroyed part of the railway and the enemy's garrison, and then withdrew to the original defense line. ”

"Good! Very good! Very good! King Minoru of the Higashikure Palace clapped his hands and said, "The Kwantung Army is worthy of being the flower of the imperial army, it has taught the Russians a hard lesson, washed away the shame of Nomenhan, and has to pass on the order to commend and commend the meritorious soldiers to be promoted and encouraged!" I will repay your majesty for my victory, and I am sure he will be full of joy. ”

In addition, Commander Umezu said that the list of supplies sent by the Navy had also been obtained, including more than 300 American tanks (diesel Sherman), thousands of trucks or jeeps, and many anti-aircraft guns -- the Navy was still interesting enough, and everything promised was given, and the supplies distributed to the North Korean army were also handed over after consultations. He asked if it would be possible to expand the mecha army a little more? How many more divisions? If the division is not good, it will also be possible to form an independent tank brigade similar to that formed by the Indian Dispatch Army - an independent tank brigade with pure American weapons and heavy equipment! ”

"This ......," said King Minoru Higashikure, turning his head to Ishihara Waner, "what do you see?" ”

"I think I can support it. The Kwantung Army has never been in a war, the generals are the slowest to be promoted, and the military salary is also low, with the new establishment, there will be more official hats, and besides, the chariot brigade and the infantry brigade are two levels, even if they are the same major generals, it is not the same to say it - can the commanders of the cavalry unit and the infantry unit have the same prestige? "But I don't recommend the formation of a tank division, the German advisers have pointed out the shortcomings of our organization - too bloated and ineffective in command, and I think an independent tank brigade is more suitable." ”

Hearing Ishihara's nod, King Minoru Higashikuremiya immediately approved the creation of two new independent chariot brigades.

"This great victory on the front line is mainly due to His Royal Highness's well-led and wise decision-making."

"Hey, I don't have any credit, you fought the battle, I listened to the information, looked at the map, and signed the battle plan you drew up." King Minoru Higashikurenomiya said embarrassedly.

"This is the uniqueness of His Highness, how can the person in the top position worry about everything and take care of everything? It is enough for us to worry about such a trivial matter as the battle plan, and His Highness only cares about the big things -- it is entirely His Highness's handiwork to make up his mind to fight and calmly decide to stop it appropriately. Ishihara smiled, "Look at those red deer in the navy, I really don't know what they're doing." ”

"Don't praise me, Ishihara-kun will be proud if I praise me again, and if I am proud, I won't know how many pounds and taels I have-this is not good, and it is easy to be hot-headed and arrogant. As for the navy...... "King Minoru Higashikurenomiya also complained, "I really don't know what to fight about, I can't think about it after being hospitalized three times and five times, Horikichi is willing to toss, let him toss, if you succeed, you have a good leadership, and if you fail, it is Horiyoshi's problem." Oh, Ishihara-kun, I'm just making an analogy, you can come to me for anything, you are bold, and I will carry the burden for you if something goes wrong. ”

The Minister of War, Tada Jun, couldn't help but laugh, it was also a blessing for the army to have such a highness, what kind of resoluteness, quick stopping, and wise decision--that was all Ishihara's idea, it was nothing more than the mouth of King Minoru of Higashikure Palace, and finally nodded.

After touting each other, the vice minister of the army, Shimomura Ding, sighed with emotion about the Tiger tank: "This heavy tank is very useful, there are no bullets within 2,000 meters, basically the Russian tank will be finished if it hits, but the enemy will not move at all when it hits us." The mechanical performance is good, not to mention the spaciousness and comfort inside, and the failure rate in the ice and snow in Manchuria is acceptable, which is much stronger than the domestically made tank. In addition to the fact that the fuel consumption is more and the maintenance is a little more troublesome, it is full of advantages, and the troops have repeatedly asked for more. ”

Out of ammunition conservation, the Japanese army has always advocated accurate shooting, and tanks are no exception -- one 88mm shell is equal to one month's salary, and the good observation and sighting system of the Tiger style coupled with the Japanese army's unique hard training has produced surprisingly good results, and it is even more brilliant when used in defensive battles. Half of the losses of Soviet armored vehicles were caused by the Tiger, while only one of them was lost, which was blown up by Soviet aircraft. As for fighting a blitzkrieg similar to that of the German army, the Japanese army neither thought about it, nor did they know how to fight it.

"Of course, 600,000 marks."

"Can it be made in China?"

"No, not to mention the Tiger type, even the T-34, which has a much worse technical level, has not yet been successfully imitated, only the Hunter has imitated it, but it is not a pure combat vehicle, just an artillery combat vehicle (tank destroyer)." "In addition to heavy tanks, the effect of iron fist rockets is very good, and the officers and soldiers on the front line like it very much, this time many Soviet tanks were killed by the infantry with an iron fist, and what is even more rare is that this thing has a low technical threshold and low cost, and the arsenal is very easy to build, and I am ready to triple the output next year -- when the time comes, it will be very useful to deal with the tanks of Mi Ying ghost animals in Nanyang." ”

"Yes, yes......" Everyone sighed for a while, if Nomen had this thing back then, maybe the scene could be brought back.

"German planes are also easy to use, after the joint appearance of the FW-190\BF-109\BF-219, they killed a lot of Russian planes, they can't figure out the situation, they think that the German pilots are helping us fight, wow wow scream, it's really funny."

"Heavy equipment is still willing to spend money to buy. The Kwantung Army proposed that they had traded with the Soviets during this period in exchange for a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, oil paintings, tapestries and precious furniture, plus some of their own leather goods and ginseng, which were converted into 2-300 million marks, and wanted to ask His Highness to agree to buy weapons from Germany, but for the Kwantung Army. ”

"I think so." King Minoru Higashikuremiya had just nodded, and suddenly saw Ishihara's brows furrowed, and he immediately shouted, "Wait, Ishihara-kun has a different opinion." He has a good point, he obeys Ishihara's words, and openly says to the following - "Ishihara's opinion is my opinion", if Ishihara does not approve, even if he has approved it, he can immediately change his words, and the following know this relationship, many things cannot be made here by Ishihara, but no one dares to despise this prince - this is called knowing people and being good, otherwise why does His Highness not trust others?

"2-300 million is too little, at least 500 million." Ishihara said slowly, "But I can't increase the cost burden of other aspects, and after thinking about it, I decided to fight the autumn wind of the Germans." ”

"Fighting the autumn wind of the Germans, wow......" As soon as he heard this, a bunch of people immediately became excited, and asked around Ishihara, "How to do it?" ”

Ishihara cleared his throat and began to elaborate one by one......