When fighting in China, the Japanese army rarely worried about food, they only needed to care about ammunition and ensure the advance of the troops.

What if there is no food in the middle of the war? In China, the Japanese army only needs to rob it on the spot, anyway, if they see something to rob, they will always get food supplies.

The big deal is to slaughter the villages that have run out of food, not only to prevent the guerrilla activities, but also not to worry about the subsequent pacification and consumption, so as to kill one stone cleanly.

As for whether cruelty is cruel or not, that is not a matter of concern to the Japanese leadership. All they want is land, not inferior Shina people......

However, this habit has also caused Japan to suffer a lot. When the Japanese army attacked Burma, because of the problem of logistics and supply, there was no good way until now.

In New Guinea, this mode of supply, which relied entirely on the rear, also made the Japanese army timid, unable to exert their full strength.

It can be said very responsibly that in the face of China's weak state, Japan's bad habits have more or less brought fatal problems to Japan's subsequent strategic development.

For example, the misjudgment that the Japanese combat vehicles obtained in the Chinese theater and the Southeast Asian theater have good performance and can fight with mainstream countries has made Japan lagged far behind in the development and reserve of tank technology.

The experience that logistics supplies can be "lame" on the Chinese battlefield has also deepened the Japanese high-level prejudice that "logistics soldiers cannot be counted as soldiers."

As a result, in New Guinea, after the U.S. military transported 100 times more supplies ashore in a day than the Japanese army, the Japanese army commander Yamashita Fumimi found that the battle could not be continued.

He had been using the ammunition reserves on the island to fight, and as the ammunition reserves became dwindling, the various plans he had drawn up became a dead letter.

After two more days of fighting according to the original battle plan, the large-caliber artillery in his hand will become scrap metal due to the lack of shells.

The few tank units are now running out of fuel due to a lack of spare parts to repair and can no longer be used as an assault force for counterattacks.

It can be said that now Yamashita Fengwen has only light infantry in his hands to continue fighting, and the Japanese troops on the islands of New Guinea are basically holding on and waiting for death.

The current transportation situation of the Japanese army is basically like this: as soon as a shipload of grain arrives, it will be divided up by the various Japanese troops waiting for supplies, and the grain reserves on the island are still decreasing at a slow rate, and Yamashita Fumimi is helpless.

Similarly, after the arrival of a shipload of ammunition, it will be quickly distributed due to the urgent shortage of the front line, and it is impossible to leave a part of it as a reserve.

Under such circumstances, the Japanese Navy was ordered to be in danger, and the Combined Fleet was once again dispatched to begin looking for new opportunities.

On the other side, the U.S. Navy sits firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, and the aircraft carrier fleet commanded by Halsey is backed by Australia and supported by a large number of transport ships on the U.S. mainland.

Although the US Army suffered considerable losses, it was able to attack with good momentum, and was gradually expanding its landing ground and compressing the Japanese troops from the plains.

This step-by-step approach is what the United States wants most to happen, and as long as everything does not change, the gap between the two sides will become wider and wider as time goes by.

"It's impossible to count on the Army......" Yamamoto Isoroku stood on the side of the ship, looking at the calm sea, his heart was very heavy.

"Yes, there is no way, the material consumption on Yamashita Fengwen's side is too great, and we have no way to meet his requirements." The adjutant standing behind him explained.

Yamashita asked for at least five times the total amount of supplies compared to the current situation, but this five times was too difficult to achieve.

The supply level of more than 20,000 tons is the amount that Japan can provide in the Philippines and China, and it is simply not enough in New Guinea.

Therefore, Yamashita Fengwen Lion opened his mouth, and the Japanese Navy could only choose the so-called plan B of the base camp.

"How can those material requests be met? Is he going to open another Southeast Asian battlefield in New Guinea? Sanben Fifty or Sixty snorted coldly and expressed his dissatisfaction.

The navy has done its best to help the army transport troops, but after all, the conditions are very limited, and they cannot meet Yamashita Fumi's request.

"We have deployed 15 destroyers to help the army transport troops and evacuate the wounded. But it wasn't enough, they needed more ships. Yamamoto's lieutenant reported.

"It's also a good thing that we bought a large number of destroyers from the Germans, otherwise we wouldn't have had a place to draw these ships! Damn it! Yamamoto looked at the sea and continued to complain.

These old destroyers were originally useless, and they were far from the Japanese Navy's requirements for destroyers.

The destroyers used by the Japanese Navy itself are all used as lightning strike ships, and there are too few ships designed as multi-purpose destroyers.

Those outdated destroyers with low firepower, average air defense, and ordinary anti-submarine have no small advantages in transportation.

Anyway, the loss is not distressing, the speed is also very fast, and it will not be easily caught - it is much better than a transport ship, and it can carry a lot more supplies than Japan's own destroyers......

As a result, all these old destroyers, which Germany had painstakingly bought back from Germany and which Germany hoped Japan used for anti-submarine purposes, had become the "Tokyo Express" responsible for transportation.

"Those destroyers are really good for transportation, and they effectively increase the amount of material transportation...... But Yamashita Fengwen asked for too much, not because of our lack of transportation capacity, but because the total number of reserves of things could not meet his requirements. The adjutant explained the reasons for the insufficient quantity of material transports.

In fact, the Japanese ships were sufficient, but the supplies hoarded in Malaya could not withstand such a degree of consumption.

The Japanese side still had to build a defensive line in Malaya, and the number of troops there was also increasing, so it really couldn't allocate much material to fight in New Guinea.

"The battle for New Guinea, whether it is a naval battle or a land battle, it seems that we can only resign ourselves to fate......" Looking at the calm sea, Yamamoto said again.

He is now muttering about the imminent naval battle, which shows that the Japanese marshal is not very sure that he can win this war now.

I don't know if he would have some regret in his heart for his famous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, if it weren't for his triumph in that battle, the Japanese Empire would not be so embarrassed now.