Japan, in the Tokyo base camp, Japanese Prime Minister Uesugi Anda is sitting in his place, staring at the previous commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, Mitsui Takanomiya, who has just returned from North Korea, with a pair of small triangular eyes. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Uesugi is over 60 years old this year, and his 10 years as prime minister of Japan can be said to be the most rapid development in the whole of Japan. He took advantage of Ceylon's eagerness to contain the Ming Dynasty and seek partners in the eastern Liaodong region, introduced Ceylon's advanced metallurgical and foundry technology, and established several modern large-scale shipbuilding bases.

He also borrowed money from Britain and France to build a powerful navy that gave the Ming Empire a headache. At the same time, the Japanese prime minister also vigorously developed the domestic economy, making Japan the third largest industrial country in Asia after the Ming Dynasty and Ceylon.

But just when he ran a world in Liaodong and made Yehejin a henchman of the Ming Empire, the Ming Empire cheered up and won a series of wars in Liaodong, which made the Japanese Liaodong troops withdraw gloomily. It also left a stain on Uesugi Adachi's administration, making him, the prime minister, restless in the face of His Majesty the Emperor.

As an opposition force facing the Ming Empire, Japan felt the strength of the Ming Empire the most in the Liaodong region. The almost endless reserve force and the incomparably powerful heritage made the Japanese Empire extremely jealous. But as the old saying goes, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and if Japan wants to rise, it must plunder the Ming Empire.

"We lost Liaodong, and we lost it forever. With the progress of the times, when the Ming Empire developed the weapon of 'chariot', it was no longer an opponent that our army could defeat with its bravery and numbers. "Mitsui Takanomiya is summarizing the experience he gained when he commanded the battle in Liaodong according to the process.

Some of these experiences are intuitive, and some of them are realized by the generals themselves. Whether it is good or bad, these are the most intuitive feelings of the front-line commanders about the battles they have experienced, and they are the most valuable experiences.

The emperor and the other officials present listened silently, and it was not yet time for them to speak. So no matter what Mitsui Takanomiya says, whether they are bored or supportive, they must listen sincerely. This was the way of survival of the Great Japanese Empire, and it was also one of their ideas of self-improvement.

"Unless we stop building warships and use the limited steel to build 'chariots' in competition with the Ming Empire. Otherwise, when our infantry attackes, they will face the enemy's superior 'chariot' strength, which will eventually lead to the failure of the attack and the losses will be very heavy. Mitsui Takanomiya was reading his speech, and at the same time, he was also bitter in his heart. He was a good commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, but because of an inexplicable defeat, he was forced to hand over his military power and return to China to report on his work, can he not feel infinitely aggrieved?

It would have been nice if he had really made any wrong judgment and command, but he did not let the Japanese army suffer any unacceptable losses from beginning to end. It can even be said with certainty that Mitsui Takanomiya commanded very properly in the battle of Liaodong, and was quite decisive and resolute.

The decisive retreat in Panjin and other places, and the decisive southward advance in Anshan and Liaoyang, allowed the Japanese army to escape at the most critical juncture. His defeat, or the defeat of losing Liaodong, was largely due to mistakes in command and operations by the Jin rebels, not because of something wrong with the Japanese army.

After the entire battle of Liaodong was over, the overall losses did not exceed 10,000 people, which can already be said to be a very good ending. You must know that the Jin State troops, which were almost three times the number of the Japanese army, were almost completely annihilated and captured by the Ming army, and in comparison, the losses suffered by the Japanese army were absolutely very small.

However, Mitsui Takanomiya still lost, lost Liaodong, which Japan relied on as its national fortune, and lost a war about the rise and fall of the three kingdoms of Jin, Japan and Ming. What made him lose this war was a revolution in the technical system of warfare, not a problem in command or operations.

What made this veteran general, who once commanded hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Liaodong, despair, was that he could not see the hope that Japan could reverse its inferiority, and he could not see the hope that he could turn things around -- with the development of technology, the army had also entered the stage where steel and technology had decided the victory or defeat, and Japan still had a considerable gap in many respects compared with the Ming Empire.

In previous wars, both sides used rifles and machine guns, and both sides used soldiers to fight in the trenches, and the number of soldiers, as well as the heroism of the soldiers and the terrain and topography could play a decisive role. But now, technology and logistics and other factors have come into play, and they have taken an increasing share of the war, which has made Japan lose the ability to entangle with the Ming Empire.

When Mitsui Takanomiya finished reading his speech, all the ministers turned their heads sideways and looked at Emperor Tammumu with a gloomy face. His Majesty the Emperor, who had been frugal enough to raise money for the construction of a new type of battleship for the Japanese Navy, was thinking about what else he could do for the country.

I've only eaten two meals a day for the sake of those battleships of the Navy! What else are you going to ask me to do? Do you want to go for some bullshit chariot of the army and eat only one meal a day? He frowned and looked at Prime Minister Uesugi Adachi to his left, and said nothing.

Navy Minister Oda Takehiro coughed, and then spoke first: "The navy is the barrier to maintain the empire's mainland from being invaded by foreign enemies, and the sea frontier is our natural city wall...... The construction of the navy is definitely the foundation of the empire, and it must not be shaken by half a point! ”

As he spoke, he pressed a document from the intelligence department on the table, pushed it to the center of the conference table, and continued: "I heard that the Ming Empire is building two new battleships, and at that time some advantage of the navy will no longer exist, how can you be distracted from developing army equipment at this time?" ”

"General Oda is indeed right, but the army, as the last force to defend the territory of the empire, should be replenished anyway...... After all, if we only develop the navy, will we sit idly by and ignore the enemy on the shore? War Minister Sato had to speak at this time and express his opinion. If the navy is allowed to eat all the resources again, how will the army face the more equipped Ming army in the future?

"Hah! Joke! If the enemy rushes to our homeland, our navy might as well die by seppuku! The most important thing in the navy is to keep the enemy out of the country, how can it be possible to let the enemy in? Oda Takehiro glanced at Sato and said coldly.

Not to be outdone, Sato Wen opened his mouth and just wanted to refute the other party, when Prime Minister Uesugi Anda slapped the table and raised his throat to stop their quarrel: "Enough! Your Majesty hasn't said anything yet, what kind of system are you making noise here? The navy and the army are the two pillars of our great Japanese empire, and you must maintain your proper demeanor! ”

Hearing the Prime Minister say this, both of them also closed their mouths, while the fleet commander Takaichi Togo, who had just buried the superiority of the Japanese naval fleet, kept silent, lest he say the wrong thing and burn himself. He and Mitsui Takagong are now two people who can be said to be half a catty and eight taels, and they both belong to the body of sin.

"First of all, the weapon 'chariot' must be possessed in our Great Japanese Empire! The previously planned output does not seem to be enough, and it needs to be increased...... For the time being, it will be raised to ...... Three hundred. Glancing at Emperor Tammu, who was still silent, Prime Minister Uesugi Anda first gave the army a promise, although the tanks of the Japanese army are still on the drawings, but this did not delay Uesugi to draw a passable pie for Sato Fumi.

For Uesugi Adachi, the abundant mineral resources in the Korean region are the necessary guarantee for Japan to maintain economic development and compete for hegemony with the Ming Empire in the future.

So he had to appease the army and give it enough leverage to build a trustworthy defense system on the Yalu River defense line on the Korean Peninsula. In future wars, this line of defense must withstand the test from the Ming Empire in order to leave Japan with the last chance to compete for hegemony.

So this pie of 300 chariots was drawn by Uesugi Adachi for the army anyway. After talking about the minimum guarantee of the army, Uesugi turned his eyes to the already dissatisfied Admiral Oda Takehiro, and said: "I will order a battleship from the British Empire through diplomatic channels, and strive for the British to hand over their existing battleships to us, and at the same time, seize the time to build two new battleships in the country......"

He gritted his teeth and gave a new battleship index: "The new battleship is required to completely surpass the existing warship designs of all countries, and the tonnage must exceed 40,000 tons!" Since the Ming Empire wants to overwhelm us with quantity in the battleship race, we will pursue perfection in quality! ”

After talking about the tonnage, he remembered one more thing, and promised with a smile to the Minister of the Navy, Oda Takehiro, who was already very satisfied: "The Ceylon side intends to send another group of technical advisers to Japan to help us build battleship guns with a caliber of more than 400 mm...... As long as we master this technology, we will not worry that the navy will not defeat the Ming navy in the future! ”

"So! Hundreds of thousands of officers and men up and down the navy are waiting for the Prime Minister's diplomatic cooperation plan! After getting the benefits he wanted, the Admiralty also hurriedly betrayed his goodness, got up and bowed and thanked him. (To be continued.) )