After the personnel of the big horn, the fleet faction completely overwhelmed the treaty faction, but the times were constantly advancing, and the political forces could never keep up with the pace of the times. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The Info Treaty faction took the lead in transforming into the aviation faction and united under Mitsumasa Yonechi and Yamamoto Isoroku, and the fleet faction still stubbornly adhered to the idea of giant ships and cannons, which led to the Yamato and Musashi, but I didn't expect the aviation faction to show its majesty with new tactics in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, and returned in the Battle of Midway, and the battleships that were regarded as national treasures in the two battles basically did not come in handy, and slapped the fleet faction with the results on the ground,

In the end, what I never expected was that Horikichi, the big horn who had been banished in the personnel, and was only about to step on one foot so that he could never turn over again, actually rose up again, and under the protection of Yamamoto Isoroku, he not only jumped from the reserve to the commander of the combined fleet, but also won the battle and played the reputation of Japan's first general. Mess up the military command department.

What annoys King Fushimi Miyahiro even more is that rumors have been growing recently that Horikichi is the commander of the Japanese wartime Combined Fleet that Marshal Togo is optimistic about, and if there is no Bighorn Personnel, he would have become the commander of the Combined Fleet (Horiyoshi and Yamamoto graduated at the same time, but the ranking is higher than Yamamoto), "If it was Horikichi who commanded the Combined Fleet at the beginning, maybe there would have been no big defeat in the Battle of Midway, and the situation in Japan is much better now, not to mention India, maybe even Australia and New Zealand have been eaten!" You see, it's the god of war who always shines! ”

Of course, this is a rumor, Marshal Togo himself is a fleet faction, how can he possibly take a fancy to Horiyoshi of the treaty faction? But the speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart: Horikichi is the god of the Japanese army, and Yamamoto 56 Baoju Horikichi has merit and knowledge, so it can be seen that it was wrong to defeat Horiyoshi in the first place, who should be responsible for this? -- It's obviously not interesting to fight the dead tiger of Bighorn Cen Sheng, and besides, the real culprit behind the scenes is not Bighorn, but King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong, who presided over the exile of the treaty faction in the first place.

In Fushiminomiya's subconscious, the fundamental reason why Horikichi ignored him was not a specific strategy or opinion, but because he was always waiting for the opportunity to avenge the big horn's personnel, which was why he did everything possible to weaken, slander and even depose Horiyoshi. In addition to this deep-seated political reason, whether it is military orders, differences between the fleet faction and the aviation faction, or arbitrary command, these are all only superficial -- can't the fleet faction build aircraft carriers on a large scale? Joke!

Now Chiaki Matsuda is full of criticism of the United States, and he is laughing at the short-sightedness and prejudice of the original fleet faction in and out of his words, and the junior officers can't hear it, how can a senior officer at the level of Inoue Narumi and Kusaka not understand? Seeing that the characters of the aviation faction were secretly snickering, how could King Bogong of Fushimi Palace, who was lifted up, not be annoyed and ashamed?

But at his level, it is impossible to refute and scold in person, Yamamoto and Horikichi themselves haven't spoken yet, if he ends up by himself, he will immediately fall behind, but Matsuda Chiaki said it without leakage, and Furushi, who is also eloquent, couldn't find a rebuttal in a short time, and was speechless. So Fushimi Miyachao, who had not spoken much, said that he would stand up and speak, so that he could use Koga Fengichi's position as a general to suppress the scene.

Koga Fengichi is really dumb and can't say what he suffers, he doesn't want to express his position on these issues at all, let alone on such a public occasion. He had learned the majesty of Yamamoto Fifty-six who drove Toyota's deputy to the reserves, and he was also a general, how could he, an office general, be compared with a general like Yamamoto and Hori Kiyoshi? What's more, it was the Minister of the Navy and the Chief of the Military Command Department who fought in the ring at the beginning, and now there is an additional marshal and admiral, for a bureaucrat who just wants to pass his term of office in peace and stability, of course, he will never choose to open his mouth when he has to, and it is best to protect himself and not to offend both. But Fushimi Palace is not a lord who is easy to serve, and it is so clear that he can't stand up and say a few words.

So he had no choice but to retort: "Although the current battleship strength of the British and American navies is only like this, as far as I know, Germany and Italy do not have a plan to build new battleships at present, if we don't build them again, what if Britain and the United States put a large number of new battleships into service in the next two years?" Their ability to build ships is far better than ours. ”

Although the Axis did not get accurate information, the United States actually arranged a lot of shipbuilding plans: the next 2 ships of Iowa, the first batch of 4 Montana ships are being built one after another, and according to the plan, by the end of 1944, all the Montana class (8 ships) will be started, and he just deduces from common sense that Britain and the United States must make the next move.

"The deputy chief said very reasonably, the British and American shipbuilding capabilities are stronger than ours, and there will definitely be new warships in service in the next two years, but because of this, it is even more impossible to build battleships." Chiaki Matsuda replied cleverly, "If you think about it, you will know that it took us more than four years to build the Yamato and Musashi, and if we were to build a larger and more complex Yamato-class, it would take at least four years to build the Yamato-class at wartime speed and without considering the bottlenecks such as materials and personnel -- in other words, even if the keel was laid tomorrow, it would take four years before it could be put into use. ”

"So what do you say?"

"So to increase the number of Yunlong-class construction, speed up the construction speed, 4 years out of the big and the change is very difficult, 2 years out of the cloud dragon change is very easy, if Britain and the United States in 2 years every more battleship we can synchronize one more Yunlong change, who do you think has the advantage?"

"Won't Britain and the United States build aircraft carriers on a large scale?"

"Of course they will, and they're already doing that, and our forces fought the newly commissioned Essex-class carriers during the Battle of Tarawa. It is very unfortunate that there are at least 19 aircraft carriers of this class lying on the slipway of the United States, and according to German intelligence, the construction period of Essex-class aircraft carriers takes only 14-16 months, and the United States can add 16-18 new aircraft ships a year. ”

"What?" Everyone looked at each other: start construction of 16-18 regular aircraft carriers a year, and the United States is crazy?

Chiaki Matsuda said unceremoniously: "The number of aircraft carriers is not enough now, the enemy is building faster than us and more than us, they can be distracted to build battleships, and if we are distracted to build battleships, we will be completely looking for death." It's like a girl from a poor family, tightening her belt to buy beautiful clothes, and buying several, usually complacent and reluctant to wear them, and suddenly she has extra money in her hand and wants to get a few more pieces to go back to compare with the rich lady's family to compare stinky beauty, thinking about these all day long, how can she pass the exam? ”

This was said so playfully that not only everyone laughed, but even Koga Mine himself couldn't help laughing. Only King Fushimi Palace did not laugh in the audience, and Inoue Narumi saw it clearly: Fushimi Palace's face first turned from blue to red, and then from red to purple, and finally broke out irrepressibly, and the case was taken: "Bold Matsuda Chiaki, dare to use the excuse to satirize the official ......"

"Hey, Your Highness, it's just a joke, why take it seriously?" Before Horikichi could say anything, Yamamoto Isoroku immediately jumped out to play a round, "Matsuda, why don't you apologize to His Highness?" ”

"Your Highness, the lower official has offended Meng Lang by speaking out!" Chiaki Matsuda immediately bowed and lost it.

The scene seems to have the upper hand in Fushimi Palace, but everyone knows that with his identity as the head of the imperial family and the military command department, he can't get along with a small major general, not only loses his identity, but also has no grace, it is completely a price drop, this inexplicable anger doesn't confirm that he is the "girl from a poor family"?

The atmosphere of the meeting fell into an awkwardness, and Inoue Narumi had to say a few words first, after all, Hori Yoshiri refuted the opinion of the Navy Ministry, and asked: "Didn't the aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet be destroyed by us?" ”

"There are still countless aircraft carriers waiting to be put into service in the Atlantic." Chiaki Matsuda calmly and patiently explained, "The United States produces more than 10 times as much steel, has 15 times more wealth, has three times more large slipways, and has built aircraft carriers at an astonishing rate under the wartime system...... German intelligence also shows that in addition to the large-scale construction of a new generation of Essex-class aircraft carriers, the United States can also build more than one dozen light aircraft carriers and more than 100 escort aircraft carriers every year......"

In fact, this number underestimates the potential of the United States: Essex can start construction of 24 ships a year, and Casablanca-class can produce 15-16 ships a month in open construction.

"It can't be! Even if they have so many slipways and resources, there are not enough shipbuilders! Fuliufan exclaimed.

"Why can't it be? Cao Lu Ren sneered, "Don't you know that most of the British shipbuilders have been transferred to the United States?" The number of people is nearly 300,000. ”

"300,000?" Fu Liufan shook his head like a rattle, "Didn't you say that Germany and Italy have blocked the Atlantic, how can it be possible to transport 300,000 shipbuilders to the United States?" ”

"The sea route is blocked, but the air is not closed...... Britain and the United States stopped their strategic air raids on Germany because of the great losses, changed all four heavy bombers into transport planes, and at the same time stepped up the manufacture of new transport planes, and when we passed by in the Azores sea, we saw with our own eyes a formation of 1,000 planes passing by, according to the calculation of 10 people at a time for one plane, 1,000 planes at a time is 10,000, how long does it take to transport 300,000 people? Chiaki Matsuda said in a mocking tone, "If you haven't been to an industrially developed country, don't guess the other party's capabilities, Germany produces 50 million tons of steel a year, and it is easy to build 2,000 combat vehicles and 3,000 planes a month, we always say that it is impossible, but the Germans tell us very clearly that the United States may be twice as much as Germany, because the United States has about 90 million tons of steel ......."

This made everyone sweat all over their bodies: when Japan was still complacent about getting dozens of Ju-52 Junkers and a dozen C-47s, British and American transport planes began to count in thousands. And this figure is not a scary report casually, Ambassador to Germany Hiroshi Oshima wrote in the report, and everyone has read it.

Inoue Narumi then asked: "Then why don't you even want the big phoenix level?" The carrier is heavily armored and has strong defenses that can effectively protect against all kinds of damage. (To be continued.) )