Coming out of the office of General Nagano Shusei, Ogawa Osa let out a sigh of relief. Thankfully, Admiral Nagano didn't ask about the progress of infiltration into Hughes Aircraft.

Since the so-called "zero leak" incident came out two years ago, Hughes Aircraft Company, an upstart in the US aviation manufacturing industry, has entered the attention of the top brass of the Japanese army and navy. Some time ago, the British carried out a number of successful attacks on the German hinterland with the aircraft produced by the company, and the Japanese side also heard a lot. The Japanese Navy was particularly interested in the series of improvements that the United States had made to the Zero-like fighter.

The Navy's Command Department had ordered the intelligence services to step up their infiltration of the Hughes Aircraft Company in an attempt to obtain a secret that would greatly improve the performance of the "Zero" carrier-based aircraft. This task was also assigned and implemented by Ogawa Daisa. So far, however, no real progress has been made. On the contrary, it was the army that achieved certain results.

Unlike the Japanese Navy, which focused on the P-51 fighter, the Army focused on the Hughes Aircraft Company's B-24 bomber this time. There is no way, who let the Mitsubishi G3M "96" land attack aircraft they are equipped with now have a bomb load of less than 1 ton, at best it can only be regarded as a tactical bomber. Compared to the Navy, the Japanese Army needed a heavy bomber more urgently.

As far as Ogawa knew, intelligence officers at the Army General Staff Headquarters had successfully bribed a middle-level manager of the Hughes Aircraft Company and obtained information about some of the B-24 bombers. I heard that a certain army general noticed that in a set of photos provided by the French engineer, there were many people standing on the wing of the B-24 bomber, and thought that this seemed to be a very good method of testing the strength of the wing. So the engineers were asked to use this "method" to test their own test models, and as a result, the wing broke. So far, the army's aircraft engineers have not found a suitable solution.

But no matter what, the army ran ahead of the navy this time, which made Ogawa feel very embarrassed. As for asking the army for help and inquiring about the information of the P-51 fighter, Ogawa didn't think about it at all. It's not that he has a good face, but the relationship between the Japanese army and navy determines that he can't do this at all.

When it comes to the degree of antagonism between the army and navy, it is estimated that no country can catch up with Japan. The Liangzi between the two armies can even be traced back to the Choshu Domain (Army) and Satsuma Domain (Navy) during the Meiji Restoration.

It stands to reason that Japan, as an island nation, should give priority to the development of its navy. The earliest official expression in the Meiji era was also the "navy and army", the navy was the main force to defend against foreign enemies, and the army was raised by the mother. But the subsequent Southwest War and a series of mutinies opened everyone's eyes, and it really didn't work if you didn't pay attention to the army, and people would make trouble. After tossing a few times, the emperor and the government also understood that distribution according to the troubles was the truth, so it was better to follow the requirements of the army. After that, Japan basically eliminated the danger of invasion by the great powers, and began to consider the issue of invading the mainland, and it was inevitable that it would have to focus on the army.

Moreover, the navy is a technical branch of the armed forces, and its members have a higher level of education, a little more complete westernization, and they are more aware of the concept that the army belongs to the country. The army is different from these dirt buns, there are many families, and they are all stationed in key areas, and some brain-dead people can implement some ideas immediately.

In addition, the Japanese cabinet implements the "military attache system of cabinet ministers on active duty" (the ministers of war and navy in the cabinet must be active military personnel), and if the military is dissatisfied with the government and does not send military personnel as ministers, the government will be finished immediately. As time went by, the army gradually pressed the navy politically.

For this situation, the Navy has not not struggled. Yamamoto Gonbei (The one who did the 88th Fleet plan, has nothing to do with Yamamoto Fifty-six.) Yamamoto Isoroku is a surname that was changed after the succession, formerly known as Takano Isoroku) when he was prime minister, and tried to change this situation so that retired soldiers could also become army ministers. As a result, the army veterans led by Yamaguchi Youtomo made a "Siemens incident" in a matter of minutes (the top brass of the Navy bought warships in Britain and Germany and received huge kickbacks) and ousted Yamamoto from power.

Since then, the Navy has been politically at the mercy of the Army. In 1936, the "226 Mutiny" was originally a dispute between the army internal control faction and the imperial faction, and as a result, three ministers from the navy were killed, injured and missing. The angry navy brass drove the fleet into Tokyo Bay, but it didn't work. The army won't dump you at all, and there is a kind of bombing Tokyo with naval artillery. In the end, the Navy could only rescue Prime Minister Keisuke Okada (retired admiral of the Navy) and return to the base in disgrace.

Politically, mutual hatred is as deep as the sea, and economically, the contradictions between the two armies are even deeper. Since industrialization, Japan has been in a state of resource shortage, and in order to compete for industrial resources (iron, coal, oil, etc.), both armies have played out their brains. In such a situation, the army and navy are not to mention cooperating in the development of new weapons, and they are like class enemies with each other. What you have, I must have! It has to be different (the caliber must not be lower than yours). What I don't have, you have to don't! Tearing each other down has become a mindset.

To take an extreme example, the German Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine, which was first introduced and copied by the army, was used in the Type 3 fighter. Of course, the Navy also wants it, but the Army just won't give it. On the grounds of secrecy, the Musashino Engine Plant of the Nakajima Company was also ordered to build a high wall between the army aircraft engine production line and the Navy aircraft engine production line. In the end, the Navy could only import one from Germany on its own and launched an imitation of the Atsuta-21 type. The Germans made double money, and even Hitler was surprised to know about it, asking: "Is the Japanese army and navy the enemy" (this is not the most exaggerated, in the later stages of the war, the army even launched its own aircraft carriers and submarines, and the navy developed its own tanks).

Therefore, if Ogawa Daisa wants to get the secret of the P-51, he can only rely on his own way. The key is that we must still get a good grasp of it, because if the top brass of the Navy knows that their intelligence department has actually lost to the army in a region with traditional advantages such as Europe and the United States, they still don't know how to send him down.

However, the United States is not an Asian country like China, and it is basically impossible for the yellow race to infiltrate military industrial enterprises to obtain top-secret intelligence, and they can only rely on bribery. Two years ago, when the Department of Naval Intelligence was investigating the "Zero Leak" incident, it once bribed a test pilot of Hughes Aircraft Company. But that guy has already entered the Army Air Corps and is no longer in the company.

Ogawa pondered for a long time on the way to the Naval University, and felt that this matter had to be started from the army. He wondered, the Army's intelligence network in the United States could not be compared with the Navy at all, how did those red deer find a way to break into the Hughes Aircraft Company? There must be a doorway in this. If he can find out the number of ways in the army, he may be able to follow the example of the cat and cultivate his own internal line.

It's really not good, he can still dig the foot of the wall! Since the middle level of the Hughes Aircraft Company can take the Army's money, it is natural that he will not refuse the Navy's banknotes. Compared to the US dollar foreign exchange reserves, the navy is much stronger than the army. On the Hawaiian side, just an unreliable Kuhn, the Department of Naval Intelligence can come up with 10,000 US dollars (the reason why Kuhn, who has never gotten any decent intelligence in history, was arrested was because he had a large amount of dollars of unknown origin in his bank account, and he was recruited by the FBI in the first trial), not to mention an informant with huge intelligence value.