The conflict between the Japanese Navy and the Japanese Army began with the cooperation and antagonism between the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain.

As for why it developed to the point that it even caused trouble to kill the prime minister and flip the table, a detailed analysis can almost write an entire academic report.

The cruel reality lies ahead, and Hideki Tojo, the Japanese prime minister who has just taken office, does not have the strength to settle the struggle between the two branches of the armed forces at present.

He didn't have the two strokes of Hirobumi Ito, nor did he have the skills of Aritomo Yamaguchi, and during his reign, in addition to making mud, the most creative thing was to start a foreign war.

Before the outbreak of the war, the Japanese Navy had always been developed as a decisive fighting force, so the emphasis was on "developing firepower" and on the minutiae of anti-submarine warfare.

That is, the Japanese Navy was strong in artillery battles, strong in torpedoes, strong in naval aviation, and strong in the Combined Fleet!

However, after all, the Japanese navy is not as experienced as the old maritime power Britain, and does not pay attention to anti-submarine escort, and still follows the wild path of "killing and burying" of German submarines.

To be precise, the Japanese Navy is still a "destructive navy" aimed at the U.S. Navy, rather than a "balanced navy" like the British and U.S. navies.

In terms of attack capability, the Japanese Navy is very strong, but when it comes to the control and management of sea areas, the Japanese Navy can only herd sheep.

It is precisely because of this that American submarines can come and go freely in the waters controlled by Japan. Compared to submarine warfare in the Atlantic, the risk of attacking the Japanese fleet was much less.

Speaking of the conflict between land and sea, in fact, as of July 1941, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was still very popular in Japan.

Because on the one hand, under his leadership, the Japanese army swept through Southeast Asia, which was indeed a triumphant song; On the other hand, defeating the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Ocean also won him popularity.

A series of expansions has further intensified the contradictions between Japan and the sea and land. The Navy is reluctant to help the Army fight in South Asia, and the Army is unwilling to help the Navy consolidate its gains in the Pacific.

Both sides are reluctant to put the icing on the cake for each other, and both are ready to stab each other in the back when the other party is triumphant, so as to relieve the hatred in their hearts.

In the final analysis, this plan to "end the China operation once and for all" is a moth made up by the army!

Unable to see the navy about to win in the Pacific theater flaunting its might, the army is ready to strive for greater victories on its own.

Aren't you going to help me transport people to Southeast Asia? I'll do it myself! Isn't it okay to do without you? This is what the Army thinks about the Navy.

According to the Army's plan, this offensive can really be said to be a domino continuous solution to the problem in a package.

First of all, it invested troops on the Chinese battlefield, attacked the capital of Chongqing, and opened a land passage to connect the Chinese occupation zone with the occupation zone in Southeast Asia.

As long as the goal of this campaign is achieved, the Chinese government will have no choice but to surrender. Next, you can draw the elite of the Chinese battlefield, go south along the open communication line, join the Burma battlefield, and then conquer India.

Then, having defeated the British government-in-exile in India, it was possible to exert influence on Australia and urge it to surrender; On the other hand, it is possible to transfer troops from the south to the north and move the interests of the Soviet Union in the Far East.

In the end, whether it was an invasion of Outer Mongolia or a smashing of the Komsomolsk troops into Vladivostok, the day when the Japanese Empire would dominate the Far East was just around the corner......

Regardless of whether this plan can be realized in the end, or what difficulties will be encountered in the process of realizing it, at least this script is very tempting to write.

The army side is jubilant, and the navy side can only talk about cool things, and in the general situation, the emperor and Hideki Tojo, including a large number of people of insight in Japan, agree with this line of thinking of "seeking change."

Because if we continue to go on according to the current situation of attacking from all sides, we don't need any powerful foreign enemy to suddenly intervene, but simply let the Great Japanese Empire continue to play like this, and it will not be long before it can play itself to death.

Although Japan has been winning all the time, many people have to put a question mark in their hearts about how long this victory can last.

Hidden by the aura of victory is the fact that Japan's domestic resources are almost exhausted. Underneath the joy of victory is the bitterness of being attacked on all sides on three fronts.

On the battlefield in China, the Japanese army invested a lot of troops and held back considerable energy, but there was no way to end the war.

In Southeast Asia, although the Japanese army won many victories, due to the limited terrain and weather, hundreds of thousands of troops were unable to attack Burma and India.

The battle for the island in the Pacific Ocean was even more tragic, and the 100,000 Yamato men stained the battlefield with blood, in exchange for a chance to win.

And in the Far East, Japan coveted the Soviet Union, and Japan did not even have the courage to start a war, so it could only consume a lot of manpower and material resources to build a Maginot Line in the East.

Comparing Germany, we can find the advantages and disadvantages of the war situation between Japan and Germany:

The German forces were basically distributed, monitoring the remaining troops of Britain and France, about 1 million people; 400,000 were deployed in the Middle East, most of the rest were on the Soviet-German front.

Japan defended as many as 600,000 troops against the Soviet Union in Manchuria, and this was under the premise that the German army was victorious and the pressure on Japan was reduced.

There are more than 200,000 stability maintenance troops in North China, Shanghai, Nanjing and other regions, and the number of troops on the front line of the war with China must be maintained at more than 1 million all year round.

It's not that the Chinese army is so strong, but because China is so vast. After throwing these troops into it, it turned out that there was no wealth to draw out.

In the direction of the operation of millions of people, if there is no reserve of 180,000 people, no one has a bottom in their hearts. So this stay, there are millions left in China.

North Korea and Taiwan also need about 100,000 troops to maintain stability, which means that almost 2 million or more combat troops cannot be stationed on the front line.

In Southeast Asia, the Philippines and other regions, the Japanese army invested nearly 1 million people, and now it is scattered in Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines and other regions, and it is basically unable to move.

Excluding those pinned down troops that cannot move, the number of troops that Japan can use in the main battlefield of the Pacific Theater is actually only about 2 million at full capacity, and what these troops need to face is the mobilization force of the United States at the level of 10 million.

What turned out to be even more tragic was that Hideki Tojo found that there could only be an army of 2 million at most in this pitiful place, and when fighting, it would be divided into a navy and an army to dismantle each other......