"Today I explained to him some things and personnel of the Combined Fleet, hoping that he could integrate as soon as possible, but he was even more fierce than I thought, saying that he didn't want to change the chief of staff of the wargame without authorization, and asked me to transfer Ugaki to the reserve and proposed to make Kusaka the chief of staff of the Combined Fleet any ......"

Ugaki is the backbone of the fleet faction, as the banner of the treaty faction, Yamamoto Isoroku has always deliberately snubbed him, and he hardly asks his opinion in the battles at Pearl Harbor and Midway, and the most famous story of Ugaki is that he arbitrarily changed the results of the exercise in the war games on the map before the Midway operation, and turned the sinking of four aircraft carriers into one sinking and three wounded, and when the news of the sinking of four aircraft carriers really came, he was the calmest in the headquarters - because he had known it from the map for a long time! But even so, Yamamoto didn't have the idea of moving Ugaki. Now, as soon as Horiyoshi came to power, he didn't consider the fact that Prime Minister Ugaki Kazunari was Ugaki's uncle, and he didn't care about the forces of the fleet faction, so he murderously demanded that he be transferred to the reserve.

"What?" Tada Jun and Shimomura were taken aback, "You agreed?" ”

"Half of the promise, let him swap positions with Caolu." Yamamoto sighed, "So I said that he is determined to be bigger than me, and the current situation in the country is difficult, I can't let Ugaki be transferred to the reserve like this, that will have too much impact on some people, let's change positions, it can be regarded as a promotion for him, only wronged any of the Kusaka, he has just taken office and is going to change positions again." ”

Kusaka is a Navy soldier 37th period, and Ozawa Jizaburo is a classmate, and in early October he just succeeded Tsukahara 243 (36th issue) as the commander of the 11th Air Fleet (mainly the naval base aviation. Except for a few destroyers, there are almost no warships), Ugaki is only 40 periods, and on the surface the two positions are equal. But if seniority is taken into account, Yamamoto will think that Ugaki is promoted and Kusaka is wronged.

"Over there?"

"Didn't he complain all the time about the Navy Ministry's interference in military orders? If he jumps out and points fingers now, I will have to detain him as a prisoner of interfering in military and political affairs. Yamamoto Fifty-six said proudly, "How long has it been since Shimada's incident?" Is he really not responsible? Who recommended this person? ”

Tada Jun had nothing to say, so he could only give a thumbs up and express his admiration for Yamamoto Isoroku's hand: Now the Navy Ministry from top to bottom plus the chief of the combined fleet are all treaty factions, and in the key positions of the combined fleet, such as the chief of staff of the combined fleet, Kusaka Ren, the commander of the mobile fleet, Tsukahara 243, and the chief of staff of the mobile fleet, Kusaka Ryunosuke, are all from this faction. Of course, it is still the right of the Military Command Department to command operations, but the front-line generals in charge of command are all high-ranking officers who wear the same pants as the Ministry of the Navy (either Yamamoto Isoroku's classmates or his henchmen), and it is difficult to imagine that the Military Command Department can still make a difference. This situation happened to be reversed when Nagumo Tadaichi was the commander of the mobile fleet - although Yamamoto Isoroku had command over him at that time, more often than not, Nagumo directly obeyed the orders of Nagano Xiu, the chief of the Military Command Department, and because he was timid and small, many command details Yamamoto Isoroku was dissatisfied with him.

Inoue Narumi interjected dissatisfiedly: "What? Let the fleet send us to purge us. Won't we be allowed to retaliate? What kind of reasoning is this? ”

Tada Jun and Shimomura will not be able to answer this. At that time, there were two very different views within the Navy on the Naval Armaments Treaty, and some people believed that the treaty should not be abolished and were called the "treaty faction," and the main members were the important members of the navy ministry, such as Katsunosumu Yamanashi, Horikiyoshi, Shozo Sakonji, and Ken Terashima, while the fleet faction was the opposite. After a power struggle, by 1934, the fleet faction led by the Minister of the Navy, Otkaku Zensheng, carried out a large-scale purge of the senior officers of the treaty faction, and most of them were dismissed from military posts and transferred to the reserve, and Yamamoto, who was a treaty faction, escaped under the cover of the bigwigs, and on December 29 of the same year. Japan withdrew from the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty. Unexpectedly, feng shui took turns, and ten years later, it was the treaty faction that prevailed. Controlled the vital sectors.

"Inoue-kun, revenge is too shallow, it doesn't matter if it's the fleet or the treaty faction now, but ......," Yamamoto Fifty-six said in a murderous tone, "Now I can't interfere with military orders and operations, but as long as I am the Minister of the Navy, there can only be one leading force in commanding the operation - that is, the aviation faction, and now the red deer who is still advocating the number one battleship will all be transferred to the reserve." ”

"Yes, sir." Inoue Narumi lowered her head embarrassedly.

"It seems that there are still benefits to personnel adjustments, so I don't know if there will be a new atmosphere here in the army."

"The Army is also ready to adjust?"

"Tune it up...... Kenri Sato was transferred to the reserve, and Akira Muto returned from the head of the Guards Division to the head of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Army; Shinichi Tanaka was sent to the Guards Division to take over Akira Muto's squad, and Toroshiro Kawabe was appointed head of the Operations Department of the Staff Headquarters. ”

Kenri Sato is a diehard loyalist of Hideki Tojo, and it is not surprising that he transferred to the reserves; Shinichi Tanaka has always been the backbone of the hardline and expansion faction against China, and it is natural that he was exiled, Toroshiro Kawabe has always been the backbone of Ishihara Waner, and now he is in the position of the head of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters, the only thing Inoue Narumi didn't figure out was why Muto Akira, the expansion faction, came back? also held the important position of director of the Military Affairs Bureau, does Tada Jun Lu Xiang like to block himself?

Tada Jun seemed to see through Inoue's mind and asked, "Can't figure out the appointment of Muto Akira?" ”

The latter nodded: "If I'm not mistaken, it was the two expansion factions of Muto Akira and Tanaka Shinichi who teamed up to drive Ishihara Waner out of the army center, what?" ”

"People change, and if you change your position, you may think differently...... Just look at Shimomura-kun. ”

Shimomura was an enlarged faction that shouted and shouted to kill when he drew up the battle plan at the General Staff Headquarters, and after serving as president of the Army Artillery School and the Army University for several years, he returned to the army center again but became a cautious faction -- when Tada said this, Shimomura's old face turned red.

Tada Jun didn't seem to see the wonderful changes on Shimomura's face, so he just said to himself: "When Muto Akira first drove out Ishihara-kun, he was full of spirit, and he said that he wanted to make a career, but as a result, he stumbled in the army province for half a day, and then he was taught a lesson on the Chinese battlefield, and he didn't get anything for two years, and when he was transferred back to China, he actually said something that he couldn't think of before, 'I want to get acquainted with the Chinese again' -- he has changed from a fanatic to a calm one, and recently spent half a year in Sumatra and felt that he had made a lot of progress, I sent telegrams to tell me that the situation in the South Seas was dangerous, and he also sent me his thoughts on the battle situation in the South Seas, and I showed it to Vice Minister Ishihara, who basically agreed with this and approved of Muto Akira's return to office, so we had the current situation. ”

"I really envy Ishihara-kun......" Inoue Narumi sighed sincerely, now Ishihara Wan'er has the best life: his boss is the royal family of King Minoru Higashikunomiya, who is his backstage, and the chiefs of various departments of the General Staff Headquarters have all been replaced by Ishihara's henchmen, which means that he can cover the sky with one hand in the General Staff Headquarters, and the Minister of War Tada Jun is his close friend and comrade, and the Deputy Minister of the Army, Shimomura Ding's recent tone is also very low, and it is not an exaggeration to describe Ishihara's status in the army. Moreover, now that the Ministry of War and the General Staff Headquarters have clearly joined forces, and the handling of internal personnel is extremely decisive, most of Hideki Tojo's henchmen have been swept into the reserves, and in particular, Major General Ryoji Shikata, the captain of the Tokyo Military Police whom Ishihara hated the most, was sent to the Burmese battlefield to die by him with a letter of paper, and he tried to speak in a tone to the outside world, unlike the Navy where there is still a vague opposition between the Ministry of the Navy and the Military Command Department -- when she thinks of the latter, Inoue Narumi feels extremely irritated for no reason.

"I would like to draw a circle on the list of islands to which the Nanyang side has retreated."

"Draw circles?" People didn't understand Tada's thoughts.

Tada Jun did not explain how to draw a circle, but said: "Vice Minister Ishihara told me one thing: The German envoy was stunned when he heard the news that our plane had taken off from Rabaul, more than 1,000 kilometers away, to attack the US troops on Kuah Island, and said again and again that this was simply a madman's behavior, because this distance was equivalent to taking off from Warsaw to support the front line in Moscow, and if a staff officer in Germany proposed such a combat plan, it is estimated that he would be ordered to retire tomorrow -- neither the Bf-109 nor the Fw-190 could go so far." And then Vice Minister Ishihara said that Japanese planes were OK, and guess how the Germans answered? ”

"How do you answer?" Several people's curiosity was raised.

"More than 1,000 kilometers means that it takes more than two hours to fly over, and more than two hours to fly back, and can only stay over Kuah Island for 15 minutes on the way to fight -- can an airplane fly for five hours without malfunctioning, and can a person fly for five hours? Even if it's okay for one day, can it be done every day? ”

There was silence at the scene, if it was brainless and Nakasa, he would definitely shout loudly: "What is 5 hours, not to mention 5 hours for Japanese soldiers with the support of Yamato's soul, 50 hours is fine." "But all of you here are big and lieutenant generals, of course, you understand that under this kind of ultra-long-range attack, the life of a pilot is almost calculated in days, and the loss of aircraft is nothing, can Japan afford to lose elite pilots? Because if you are not an elite pilot, you can't do ultra-long-range attacks at all.

Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene was a little dull, Tada Jun slowly took out a document from his purse: "I brought a telegram from Muto Akira, and I invited the two of you out for a drink today to discuss this matter." ”

Inoue Narumi glanced at the words on it roughly, it was okay not to look at it, but his hands couldn't help but tremble when he saw it, and he only said in his mouth: "This...... This ......"

He wanted to hand it to Yamamoto Fifty-six, but the latter slowly pushed it back: "Please Inoue-kun read it to me, the light is dim today, and my eyes are a little difficult to ......" (To be continued.) )