In addition to infantry weapons, the domestic combat vehicle equipment that was originally regarded as a treasure was also dumped, and the Japanese Army, which used the T-34 \ 4 \ Sherman tank, now does not look down on the 89 medium battle, 95 bean combat vehicle, and 97 medium tank (worse than the No. 3 tank) in its hand, except for a few in the best condition for souvenirs, the rest are all sold. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoEven the newly developed and complacent 1-type medium tank (odd black, 17.2 tons) that wanted to be put into production was stopped after a field performance comparison, and in Ishihara's words, "What are you doing with this garbage?" ”

Ishihara's attitude also affected the development of the subsequent Type 3 (Chinu) and Type 4 (Chito) tanks: the former was less than 20 tons, and its performance did not improve significantly, so it was directly terminated from development; The tonnage of the latter surpassed the German No. 4 tank, and the design concept began to be close, but the strength was still a notch behind the No. 4 tank, and after getting the actual object and drawings of the T-34, he asked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to modify the design and use the T-34 to achieve the Type 4 tank benchmark. Therefore, by the end of 1943, there was a very peculiar phenomenon in the Japanese Army, although its tank divisions (brigades are also converted into divisions) had more than 6, but they were all a hodgepodge of British, French, Soviet, German, and American tanks, and almost no Japanese-made tanks existed, and it was also a unique wonder among the major participating countries.

This was only a minor improvement, and Ishihara's most important contribution was to theoretically solve the problem of land-sea coordination.

For a long time, the Japanese army and navy scolded each other, and occasionally officers came to the full force of the army a few times. Of course, there are historical contradictions that have accumulated grievances for many years, and there are even more practical contradictions in competing for resources. But after Ishihara and Tada came to power, this voice was gradually suppressed. At first, it was just a general internal communication suppression, but the real change was Ishihara's strategy adjustment. He asked a thought-provoking question at an internal meeting of the General Staff Headquarters: "The European and American powers have armies and navies, and of course they are also arguing, but they are not as noisy as we are. ”

Most of the senior generals of the army, especially when they are middle and senior generals, are also people who have gone abroad and opened their eyes, and everyone discussed and discussed, and finally calmly believed that in the final analysis, it was a competition for interests: a struggle for political control; The essence of the struggle for control of political power is to take the lead in the allocation of resources.

Therefore, Ishihara concluded that as long as the imbalance in the distribution of resources between the two countries could be improved, land-sea cooperation was possible. This imbalance cannot be achieved by reducing the existing stock of the navy or army to the other side, but must be achieved by increasing the increment. He gave a very convincing example: "Oil is the lifeblood of modern warfare, the German army and navy are racking their brains for oil, and no matter how the Führer distributes it, it is impossible to satisfy everyone, but now the problem is better solved -- Germany first strengthens its navy and air force to gain regional superiority, then introduces it into the Reich Navy with other interests, and finally takes the Middle East and obtains the oil that is rolling in. Second, after the control of the Indian Ocean, the trade routes between Germany and the Far East were opened, and the supply of some materials and resources, which was originally very tight, was greatly enriched, and Germany originally used petroleum to synthesize rubber, which had high cost and low quality, and now imported natural rubber from Southeast Asia with equipment, which was low cost and better quality, and also saved this part of the oil, and everyone was very satisfied...... How does the increment come about? Only by land and sea cooperation can we win the battle! The army should take a long-term view, we have the territory of India, as well as the trade routes of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and the space for development will be very broad! ”

Therefore, when the Combined Fleet was advancing vigorously in the Indian Ocean, the base camp asked the army to support the troops in the South Sea, and the troops were broken one after another, and many people protested and were dissatisfied with this, but Ishihara gritted his teeth and withstood the pressure, and when the combined fleet returned from a great victory, the situation immediately changed, and the navy recognized the sacrifice of the army, and not only handed over the equipment as agreed, but even secretly gave some more in private -- this is how the vice admiral sent weapons.

Over the past year, Japan has purchased a large amount of equipment from Germany in the form of barter trade with various minerals such as gold, silver, mercury, rubber, tin, lead, tungsten, and copper.

In the same way, due to the introduction of German armaments, the army and navy have also reduced the internal friction of equipment, and the army is now happily starting to equip the land-based version of the Bf-219 and He-218, and after the successful development of the Ar-352 (Caiyun Change), the army said that it also wants some, and even intends to jointly develop a new generation of fighters. Due to the delay in the introduction of the purple electric reform and the Gale Wind, and the aging of the zero-war reform, the navy, which is eager to upgrade its products, has taken a fancy to the army's four-type fighter Hurricane, believing that no matter whether it can be put on the ship or not, at least it is good to use it as a land-based fighter, and hopes to come first with 500 planes. This has also made the face of the army shine - it has always been the army with naval aircraft, and now the navy is beginning to seriously consider army aircraft.

The responsible persons and engineers of the Mitsubishi and Nakajima aircraft manufacturing companies finally breathed a long sigh of relief: there was no longer a need to set up a workshop for the army and another workshop for the navy -- in fact, the production of similar things, and even the practice of making two kinds of screws for the sake of deliberate distinction, had been eradicated.

Ishihara and Shimomura's set of adjustments and reforms increased the satisfaction of the chaebols: only by producing more land and sea equipment could they save costs, increase production, and reduce waste, which largely made up for Ishihara's dissatisfaction with forcibly shooting nationally made chariots. In the past, there were no medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the 40mm class in both the army and navy, but the United Fleet returned to Europe and equipped thousands of European Bofors anti-aircraft guns, and the results were very good. On the one hand, the army bought the 37mm hand-pulled machine that the German Navy did not want, because it was cheap enough and had a large amount of stock, and on the other hand, the navy tried to get the domestic manufacturer to authorize the production of 40mm Bofors, and before determining the energy production, it first bought 3,000 original products and distributed 500 to the army - the navy had money.

The main purpose of the army's 37mm hand-pulled machine is not air defense, but to install it on armored vehicles and river gunboats as a firepower output while taking into account air defense, and the effect is actually very good. In addition to anti-aircraft guns, the navy and land have mutual demand for 20mm aviation guns, radars, and aero engines, and after coming and going, the army and navy happily sit together to make joint purchases, and if they buy more, they can at least get a discount, and the joke that the navy and the army will introduce the same engine once and the army will introduce it again have never been joked again.

In terms of operational thinking, the army and navy tended to be more identical: Originally, the army wanted to go north to take the mainland territory, and the navy wanted to go south to take the island territory, but the two sides continued to argue endlessly over their respective dominance, and even after they had already gone south, they continued to quarrel, and finally Ishihara, Tada, Yamamoto, Horiyokishi, and others jointly discussed, and decided to concentrate their forces on the southward march to take the mainland territory of India -- a place where the army could be useful, and the same was true for the navy. The cooperation of the four giants of the army and navy even created the authority of the base camp, and the nominal supreme leader, Prime Minister Ugaki, was completely empty.

Seeing that the cooperation between the sea and land had reached a climax and was about to bear fruit, the navy suddenly made such a disturbance, and Ishihara was very annoyed and scolded the navy red deer more than once. This is also why King Minoru Higashikunomiya has come forward again and again to greet Yamamoto Isoroku, asking him to find a way to stabilize the situation and not destroy the hard-won good pattern. As for why he didn't go to King Fushimi Miyahiroko, who was also a member of the imperial family, because he knew that the other party's various actions were actually supported by the palace, and it was useless to say it.

The first thing that angered Hirohito was the reform plan, which was simply to make the navy start anew, offend too many vested interests, and make Hirohito unable to step down; The second is that there should never be a tacit understanding and agreement with the Kwantung Army, which is simply unbearable in the eyes of the palace -- the combined fleet accounts for one-third of Japan's armed strength, and the Kwantung Army is the strongest force group in the Japanese Army, known as the flower of the imperial army. The third is that the fleet always disobeys the military order, and the battle needs to be done once or twice once in a while to pinch the nose, and if you slap your face every time, do you want the imperial military order? But does King Minoru of the East Kuregu Palace dare to reveal this meaning?

He also didn't dare to go to Horikichi, who was more fierce than Ishihara Oka Tada, because the first two did not directly lead the troops, but Horiyoshi held the naval fleet known as the world's first in his hands (now the ranking has changed, Japan first, the United States second, Germany third, Britain was squeezed to fifth), on the first day of his return, he made a public attack so that King Fushimi Miyahiro could not step down, and dared to command the fleet to rob the Soviet fleet, and killed the opponent's 6 destroyers without agreeing with each other, He even recorded a movie backwards, so that the Soviet ambassador was dumb and couldn't say what he was suffering from.

To be honest, he was scared to death when he first received the news. If you push back another 20 years, King Minoruhiko of Higashikuremiya, who is still stunned, may shout and cheer for the navy - well fought! That's it! The USSR had nothing to fear! After 20 years of experience and age, he has tended to be stable, and he has lost his courage and courage, and after Ishihara Waner's calm analysis, he understands that Horiyoshi has found a good time, this kind of resourceful character like a net, hard as iron, how can he persuade him? Besides, there is a difference between the sea and the land, and the chief of staff of the army always points fingers at naval affairs, causing dissatisfaction on the other side at the lightest, and breaking down relations at the worst.

Therefore, King Minoru of Higashikurenomiya knew what the problem was, and he could only say a few words without pain, and he didn't even dare to go to Ishihara Waner to discuss the solution, in case he was given a strategy of the army and navy to go alone and overthrow the emperor, would he listen or not? ――It's entirely possible that Ishihara would do this, but isn't Prime Minister Ugaki Kazunari being tossed out of temper now? The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Finance lowered their eyebrows in front of the base camp and were as pleasing as their daughters-in-law. No matter how he said it, he was also a member of the royal family, and he came to carry out the military orders of the royal family, not to be a puppet of the royal family.

There are some words and some questions, even if he sees them, he can only hide them deep in his heart.