"Victory!"

Looking at the dusk outside the bridge of the Yamato, Admiral Yamamoto's tense face suddenly showed a smile. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Finally victory! Sink 2 large aircraft carriers, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 destroyer, and also shoot down more than 100 enemy aircraft! Our losses were only the Akagi and Kaga Kaga, with 157 aircraft...... And the island of New Caledonia is ready to be occupied. From now on, control of the Coral Sea belongs to the Great Japanese Empire! ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six turned around, looked at the fleet staff officers in the bridge, and nodded with satisfaction, "Gentlemen, hard work!" ”

"Your Excellency, this is what we should do. You have now completely defeated the U.S. Navy, and you are the first hero of our Imperial Kingdom, and it is an honor for us to be able to follow you. The Kuroshima Kameto took the lead and stood upright, and then bowed respectfully to Yamamoto Fifty-six.

Kuroshima's sycophancy is actually meaningful!

The results of this battle in the Coral Sea are undoubtedly quite glamorous. Although the loss of planes and pilots was a bit much, the battle exploits of sinking 2 large aircraft carriers and capturing the island of New Caledonia were enough for Yamamoto Isoroku to be appointed commander and Nagumo Tadaichi to be promoted to general.

And Yamamoto Fifty-six is obviously not suitable to continue to rely on the position of commander after being made a commander, even if he himself still wants to continue to be a commander, those "genius staff officers" of the Military Command Department will find a way to arch him to the throne of the Minister of the Navy. Because the current Minister of the Navy, Shigetaro Shimada, obviously has a good hand (the credit of the navy), but he listens to Tojo's big red deer for everything. Such people have long caused dissatisfaction within the Navy.

Now Yamamoto Isoroku has won a great victory in the Coral Sea, which can be regarded as a complete defeat of the US Pacific Fleet and the opening of the shipping route to Australia -- so it is just the right time to "retire after success", this "first hero of the imperial state" is a great god in the hands of the navy!

And Yamamoto will definitely not be able to become a military senator when he retires from the position of commander, how can such a big credit go to the cold bench? If you want to arrange it like this, it must be the **** of the imperial court. So Yamamoto was either a minister or a military commander-in-chief.

If Shigetaro Shimada still knew a little shame, he would probably take the initiative to step down from the minister's position and let Yamamoto Isoroku go up. Otherwise, Yamamoto, the "first hero of the imperial state", would have become the chief minister, and he, the minister, would have been hollowed out.

Therefore, the current bow of Kuroshima Kameto and the others is equivalent to saying goodbye to Yamamoto Fifty-six in advance. At the same time, it is also reminding Yamamoto to accept it when he sees it...... The Battle of the Coral Sea was a great victory everywhere it went.

In the future, as long as he returns to Rabaul safely, Commander Yamamoto will become Minister Yamamoto, and then the good days of the navy and the army on an equal footing, or even the army, will come.

Of course, Yamamoto 56 also understands this truth, although there must be another American aircraft carrier group on the Coral Sea. An American convoy was supposed to be on its way to Australia, but Yamamoto gave the order to "turn in victory" on the evening of November 6. The value of his "first hero of the imperial state" to the Navy is more important than 2 aircraft carriers!

And Kuroshima Kameto expected it was not bad at all, and when Yamamoto Isoroku's battleship Yamato returned to Rabaul on November 9, the two great gods had already arrived in Rabaul a day early.

The two who came were both marshals, and one was the commander of the Southern Army, Masaki Terauchi, who couldn't return to Tokyo because of too much merit (the Minister of War who wanted to return to Tojo in Tokyo was gone).

The other is King Hiroko Fushimiya, who once studied at the Naval Academy in Flensburg, Germany, -- the old guy is a well-known hawk in the Japanese Navy, who advocates westward, northern, and southern...... In short, it is to expand and expand. However, he took a back seat before Japan entered the war, throwing the responsibility for the war on the likes of Shigetaro Shimada and Shusemi Nagano. But he was still very vocal in the personnel of the Navy, and immediately after the victory in the Coral Sea, he flew from Tokyo to Rabaul, apparently with a special mission.

"Yamamoto-kun, congratulations." After taking a seat in the commander's office, Fushimi Palace gave Yamamoto Michihi, although he didn't say anything, but Yamamoto knew that it must be the emperor who wanted to make himself a marshal.

"It's all Your Majesty's blessings, and the soldiers use their lives, and this official is just at the right time."

Fushimiya smiled, and then asked, "The Coral Sea is now in the hands of my Imperial Navy?" ”

"Once the Imperial Army takes full control of New Caledonia, the Coral Sea will be in the hands of the Empire."

"Can New Caledonia be successfully occupied?"

"No problem," said Yamamoto, "the U.S. Navy will not dare to confront me head-to-head for months after losing two aircraft carriers." ”

"So...... Can the Army land in Australia? The old prince asked.

Ah, here's the point!

Yamamoto Fifty-six knew in his heart that the old man was asking questions for the emperor!

His Majesty the Emperor is going crazy when he wants to open up the territory, and he can't wait to swallow Australia in one gulp. If Yamamoto now opposes the march into Australia, then there is still a possibility that the marshal and the minister will fly away.

"There is no problem," replied Isoroku Yamamoto, "and the Coral Sea is already in my hands, and Australia has a long coastline, and there are many beaches and good harbors on the east coast, and even if there are millions of them, it is difficult to defend them thoroughly, so there is no problem with landing the army." ”

Yamamoto said that after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the U.S. military was powerless to stop the Japanese landing in Australia. So there is no problem with the landing, but whether it can be defeated or not is a matter for the army, and the navy has nothing to do.

Fushimiya then asked: "Yamamoto-kun, the United States is very active now, and it has caused a lot of losses to the empire, is there a countermeasure?" ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six nodded and said, "If you want to deal with the broken aircraft carriers, you must establish a perfect escort system......," he glanced at Field Marshal Terauchi Shouichi, "The ships of the navy and the army must be under unified command, and a unified escort command must be established under the jurisdiction of the navy, which is at the same level as the combined fleet and can cooperate with each other." ”

A well-established escort system was not found in the original history, because the Americans originally sent submarines to the western Pacific to find trouble, which did not look very scary. And now the Americans are sending terrible aircraft carriers! Submarines or something, the army seems to be able to deal with it by arming merchant ships on its own.

But how powerful the aircraft carrier is, as soon as it came up, it drowned Gu Shoufu's big red deer and thousands of army red deer! If you count according to the number of personnel and equipment, it is a mixed brigade that is wiped out at one time!

If the Army does not want to hand over the fleet, then there is a good chance that other big red deer and small red deer will also lose their lives on the way to Australia......

"I have no opinion." Shouichi Terauchi said, "As long as the route to the south is unblocked, we can ensure that our army will continue to go to Australia." ”

Fushimi Palace nodded, Terauchi Shouichi was the commander of the Southern Army, if he agreed to establish an escort command led by the Navy to manage the sea and army shipping, then there would not be much opposition within the army.

And with a uniformly planned escort operation, with the current strength of the combined fleet, it is still possible to ensure sea transportation.

Then the battle for Australia is a matter for the Army...... Shouldn't be a big problem, right?

……

"Admiral, can I understand that Australia has become an isolated continent as a result of the heavy damage suffered by the United States Navy in the Coral Sea and the fall of New Caledonia?"

At the Allied Southwest Pacific Theater Command in Brisbane, visiting Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Australia, John Brown, visited the Federal Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Australia. Curtin was asking Admiral MacArthur questions in a very calm tone.

"Well...... Admiral MacArthur thought for a moment and said, "it's not that bad, we still have 2 large carriers, and a new one will be commissioned in December, and then we will have 3 large carriers." So by the end of December or the beginning of January, a new fleet will come to Australia. ”

John. Curtin looked at MacArthur and suddenly laughed, "Admiral, I hope to make a radio address to the nation tomorrow to fully explain Australia's plight to the 7.2 million Australians...... Our 7.2 million brothers and sisters are now stranded on the Australian continent, and communication with the civilized world has been cut off. The most barbaric in the world, the Japanese Army that created the Hawaiian Massacre (claimed by the United States and denied by Japan) will soon land. If they win, our 7.2 million white Australians will not only lose their homes forever, but they will also lose their lives. Just like the natives of the American continent back then! ”

MacArthur frowned, "Mr. Chancellor, you are ...... this"

John. Curtin said lightly: "The 7.2 million people must know that they have no way out but to fight!" ”

"There is no way out but to fight?" MacArthur's eyes widened, and he already understood what Australia's Labor Prime Minister was up to.

This is going to fight with Little Japan! In fact, the Australian government began mobilizing after the Battle of Hawaii. It is planned to mobilize 300-3.6 million from 7.2 million people, including 70-1 million servicemen! To date, however, this huge mobilization program has not progressed as well as it could have been. The Australian Army has only 13 divisions (12 infantry divisions and 1 armored division without many tanks), with a total strength of less than 200,000 troops.

"Admiral, I am 100 per cent confident that the Australian people are capable of defending our continent...... This continent was conquered by our ancestors with blood and sweat. Now it needs to be defended with the lives of our generation! This is the price we should pay to own this rich continent! If we can't win, then we can only die on this continent! This is the law that mankind has lived by throughout history! ”

Victory or perdition, this is going to break the total jade of 7.2 million people! (To be continued.) )