Chapter 721 Provoking a Naval Battle? Dry!!!

"What do you mean by that?" Qi Chengcheng asked with a deep groan. ＂＂

"There are children in our village fighting, and if someone is the first to ask to come to someone else, it must be the one who wants to fight the most." Niu Liancheng said as he ate an apple.

"Give me an apple." Qi Chengcheng said suddenly, looking at Niu Liancheng and shaking his head again and again, his eyes glared: "I know you have a lot of apples, if you don't give them to me, I will throw them all into the sea for you!" ”

Niu Liancheng reluctantly took out an apple and gave it to Qi Chengcheng.

Qi Chengcheng took a big bite, and kept thinking about Niu Liancheng's words in his mind.

"There are children in our village fighting, and if someone is the first to ask to come to someone else, it must be the one who wants to fight the most."

Judging from the information sent by the Ministry of Intelligence, Kanji Kato took the initiative to ask for war through the relationship of King Hirokoshi Fushimi Palace, which means that he actually can't wait for the war.

If the Japanese Navy is far calmer than the Japanese Army, then Kanji Kato is the uncalm one in the Japanese Navy.

"Kanji Kato is still very bold, and he likes to do what he does. Uncle Qi? ”

"Make your own decisions."

"Yes, on your own." Niu Liancheng then remembered this idiom: "Do you remember what you said about him in intelligence?" ”

Qi Chengcheng held the apple in his hand and nodded.

After the outbreak of World War I, Kanji Kato served as the commander of the Special Southern Detachment. With the 14,600-ton cruiser Ibuki and the light cruiser Chikuma, he went to Australian waters against the German Far East Fleet, and then escorted the Australian troop carrier to Europe to participate in the Gallipoli landing. The Ibuki was the only Japanese warship to be under the command of the British Admiralty during the war, and Captain Kanji Kato and the British Captain Minotaur jointly commanded the two ships to exchange tactics. It is said that in Australia, he was angry with the British. After that, he became an anti-British and American faction, and after the end of the war, he served as the head of the Japanese military investigation mission to Germany, and since then he has become a pro-German faction.

Kato noted the fact that Germany was actually ahead of Britain and France in artillery, aircraft, and submarines in World War I, which could help the Japanese Navy to relieve the worries that Britain would no longer be able to receive naval technical help from Britain after the alliance between Japan and Britain. At that time, the German naval authorities and ordinary Germans took the initiative to open various secrets to Japan out of hatred of Britain and France, such as the actual diesel engines and secondary batteries of the 2,200-ton submarine that Germany had forbidden under the Paris Peace Agreement were smuggled back to Japan by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding. At that time, Britain, the United States, France, and other countries were aware of this private transaction between Japan and Germany, and had great misgivings. But what they didn't know was that there was also a secret memorandum between Germany and Japan.

Vice Admiral Trogda, Minister of the German Admiralty, and Kanji Kato Jr. secretly signed a memorandum between the German Admiral and the Japanese with the text of a "personal contract", the main content of which was three points: 1. All the drawings of the German submarine were handed over to Japan. 2. Germany sent to Japan two submarine officers who had already been put into reserve. 3. All the improvements made by Japan in German technology will be returned to Germany when Germany can adopt them. Japanese Navy Minister Yuzaburo Kato was frightened after listening to the report of the investigation team's original Kojiro Nakasa, and although the memorandum clearly stated the words "personal contract," this thing was in essence a kind of German-Japanese naval agreement, and he immediately ordered the naval attache in France, Okaku Zensheng Osa, and the naval attache in Britain, Hisasa Iida, to handle the matter and destroy this memorandum. It took almost a year to deal with the matter, and finally the thing that made people shudder to think about it was destroyed from the Germans

Judging from this matter, Kanji Kato is completely a person who makes his own decisions, does things as he wants, and does not care about the country at all. Even for his personal preference, he did not hesitate to drag the entire country into the flames of war. …,

And this character of his has also become a weakness that enemy countries can exploit

Qi Chengcheng completely understood. Niu Liancheng is telling himself that as long as the "Shanghai" finds a way to really provoke Kato Kanji, then war will be inevitable!

The destroyer "Shanghai" will provoke a naval battle between China and Japan!

Although the Chinese government has already made up its mind to fight the Japanese navy, if it wants to be held accountable in the future, or if it is ugly to find a scapegoat, I am afraid that even if the "Shanghai" is not sunk under the fire of the Japanese, it will be severely punished by the government!

However, although Qi Chengcheng is older, his courage has also increased. He devoured the apple in a few bites, and a word burst out of his mouth viciously:

"!"

"Oh, then let's do it, Uncle Qi is the captain of the ship, and he will listen to you for everything." Niu Liancheng, who indirectly helped Qi Chengcheng come up with such an idea, didn't care about the authentic way.

Qi Chengcheng glared at him: "Are you really stupid or fake stupid?" ”

Niu Liancheng smiled innocently: "They all call me a fool"

The Second Fleet of the Japanese Navy, the flagship "Kongo".

On December 1, 1921, the Second Fleet was disbanded due to ship reduction. On December 1, 1922, the fleet was re-established after a year.

In the eyes of the commander of the Second Fleet, Kanji Kato, the Second Fleet was reborn like a phoenix bathed in fire!

After the confrontation between the Chinese and Japanese warships began at the "Senkaku Islands", Kanji Kato took the initiative to lead the Second Fleet to the expedition. Japanese Prime Minister Yuzaburo Kato, who was seriously ill, specially called him over and gave him a careful advice, telling him to tolerate it and not to fire the first shot under any circumstances unless absolutely necessary.

Regarding Kato Yuzaburo's words, Kato Kanji was very dismissive.

There was already a conflict between him and Yuzaburo Kato.

He was the rector of the Naval University that year and was promoted to vice admiral in the same year. Chief Naval Attaché at the Washington Conference, a staunch opponent of the Washington Naval Treaty. In a fierce confrontation with Yuzaburo Kato, the chairman and plenipotentiary of the pro-treaty faction, the British and American media at the time referred to Yuzaburo Kato as "Big Kato" and Kanji Kato, who was not as big as Big Kato in terms of official position or position, as "Little Kato". There was an unusually fierce quarrel between Little Kato and Big Kato, and the center of the quarrel was this 60% ratio. Because the calculation of the Military Command Department is to hope that this percentage is 70%. This was calculated by Tetsutaro Sato, a famous staff officer of the Japanese Navy.

However, Kato Yuzaburo has made up his mind, and in terms of official position, merit and seniority, Kato Kanji is too far worse than Okato, and the instructor when Kato entered the navy was Kato Yuzaburo, who was already a captain, and Kato was not famous for being against Okato, so Japan signed this naval agreement.

Regarding this result, the moderate faction toward the United States, represented by Yuzaburo Kato, believes that in order to avoid confrontation with the United States, it is necessary to compromise and seek perfection; The hardliners against the United States, represented by Kanji Kato, director of the Navy's Command Department, gnash their teeth at this result.

On the night that Japan accepted the disarmament ratio proposed by the United States, Kanji Kato burst into tears and exclaimed: "The war against the United States began today!" We must take revenge! ”

Every time he thinks of this, Kanji Kato's heart is like a knife.

Fortunately, he has now mastered a fleet alone, and Yuzaburo Kato, who has always been looked down upon by him, is also seriously ill and has few days to live, so he doesn't have to listen to him anymore.

"It only takes war to let the stupid moderates know how stupid it was to sign the Washington Naval Treaty." Whenever he thinks of this, Kanji Kato always grits his teeth.

The captain of the battlecruiser "Kongo", Seki Kanjo Daisa, said: "The Washington Naval Treaty of that year was really a huge mistake"...,

Kato Kanji nodded and said: "I once said that the Japanese and US navies will compete for dominance in the Pacific Ocean, and the economic war between Japan and the United States around China will inevitably lead to a war for hegemony between the Japanese and US navies, and Japan is not conducive to a protracted war The United States has strong industrial strength, and there is no need to maintain a large armament in peacetime, even if the use of Japan's equal or inferior standing forces, it can still expand the fleet in time after the outbreak of war and maintain security." And a country like Japan, which is absolutely inferior in terms of resources and industry, does not have a strong standing army in peacetime, and has nothing to rely on in case of crisis."

Seki Ganjo has always been a follower and admirer of Kato Kanji, and he listened carefully to what Kato Kanji said: "As a sovereign country, Japan should enjoy the same armaments as the United States, and maintaining 70% is already the biggest concession. I have always been fighting unrelenting against Yuzaburo Kato, resolutely opposing him to play the tricks of Britain and the United States and bury the future of the Imperial Navy, but I still failed! ”

"No, Your Excellency the Commander has not failed!" Guan Gancheng said categorically: "It is those capitulationists and cowards who have failed. Only with more commanders like His Excellency the Commander can the Imperial Navy truly become the number one power on the sea. ”

Kanji Kato didn't speak, but in his heart he still very much agreed with Seki Kanjo's words.

The empire must be tough, and they all say that the people in the army have no brains, but at least the people in the army dare to do whatever they want, and they don't have as many concerns as the navy.

It's time for the navy to put the Young Zhuang faction in power.

Gonbei Yamamoto, who had high hopes for the Imperial Navy, was about to become prime minister, but why did he repeatedly tell himself to do everything possible not to provoke a war with the Chinese side?

Could it be that the higher their status, the smaller their mass becomes?

Kanji Kato was not reconciled

"Report, a Shina destroyer is approaching our waters."

This report immediately alarmed Kanji Kato and Sekikanjo.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, sure, it's the destroyer 'Shanghai' of the China Navy!"

"Immediately" Kanji Kato thought about it, but still suppressed his anger:

"Tell the 'Shanghai' in China that this is Japanese waters, and order them to leave immediately!"

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