"The 'Z battle plan' is related to the national fortune of the empire for a hundred years, and the prosperity of the empire will be successful. Defeat will destroy the empire. In the conference room of the Naval Command Department, King Fushimi Miyahiro said in a deep voice to the admirals who had come to the meeting.

As he spoke, he asked the secretary to take out the follow-up battle plan given by the Xianyuan Palace and hand it to the admirals present. These included Mitsumasa Yonechi, Minister of the Navy, Isoroku Yamamoto, Vice Admiral of the Japanese Navy, Zengo Yoshida, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, and Narumi Inoue, director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Navy and member of the Admirals' Council.

"This time, the army also made a lot of determination. Marshal Xianyuan Palace personally urged the Army General Staff Headquarters to draw up a follow-up army landing plan, in order to be able to complete the operation. ”

The admirals below were scrubbing through the plans handed to them by the secretary of King Hiroko Fushimi, on which detailed plans for the attack were drawn up.

It includes the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies, Guam, and Borneo that followed the implementation of the "Z Operation Plan...... and so on the attack of the Southeast Asian island chain and oil-producing areas.

"These regions, especially the Philippines and the Malay Peninsula, have minerals that can take the empire's production capacity to a new level. And the Dutch East Indies are simply a treasure trove of oil! It is fully sufficient to meet the Empire's current annual oil consumption of at least five million tons. ”

"Rubber, tin, iron, bauxite...... There is also rice, sugar, ...... And so on, these are the resources that the empire desperately needs. After a pause, King Fushimi Miyahiro said in a deep voice to everyone, "Now those damned British and French have lost their armor under the attack of our ally Germany, and according to Hiroshi Oshima's report, they can't hold out for long. ”

"If we don't take these areas at this time, it will be a waste!"

Unlike the Army, the Navy's top generals were willing to carry out their plans to invade China. But few of them were willing to go to war with the United States, and they were one of the few sober people in the Japanese army.

They know that Japan's industrial capacity is too different from that of the United States. Unless they can hit Washington in one fell swoop and force the United States to negotiate with themselves. Otherwise, once the war enters the phase of stalemate, the United States, which will eventually have an industrial production capacity countless times stronger than Japan, will definitely defeat Japan.

They also did not approve of the German, Italian, and Japanese Axis theory, and many of them even openly expressed their opposition.

These people include Yamamoto Fifty-six, Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, Inoue Narumi and others who are here now. The most pitiful of all was Yamamoto, an old fellow loyal to the Japanese Benroku, who had received threatening letters and assassination warnings from radical officers.

Disgusted with Yamamoto's constant opposition to the Three Kingdoms Axis, the Army sent military police units to "defend" Yamamoto. And Yamamoto had to prepare a machine gun at home for self-preservation, and the old guy's current situation can be seen.

Despite this, the old guy still had to try to fight for a glimmer of life for his "empire" in the deeper and deeper war.

"Your Highness, I have something to say...... "After reading the plan, Yamamoto Fifty-six slowly stood up and said in a deep voice to King Bogong of Fushimi Palace. The latter nodded. Only then did Yamamoto speak.

"If Japan does go to war with the United States, it will not be enough to occupy Guam and the Philippines, or even Hawaii and San Francisco." Yamamoto glanced at everyone and said in a deep voice.

"To secure victory, we will have to go all the way to Washington. Coercing the other side into signing an armistice in the White House. I doubt that the politicians and army manure who talk about war lightly are mentally prepared for the price and sacrifice that will be paid?! ”

"The most serious problem is that I don't see any mention of Washington going to war in these proposals! That's the most serious problem, and they didn't think about going to the United States. And without a plan for this, our battle would only be a martyr'......"

"Shut up! Yamamoto, do you know what your words will bring?! King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong's face was gloomy, and he roared in a low voice at Yamamoto, "If the people of the army know about you." It's going to be a big controversy! Even you yourself will be threatened......"

"Your Highness! Yamamoto has always believed that sacrificing one's life for the country is the highest honor for soldiers, just like the flower of a famous general withering after a vicious war. Even if he was killed by a young man, this soldier will still be remembered as if he died in a national disaster. The life and death of a person is only a matter of leisure, only the fate of the empire is important! ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six straightened his body. He said loudly to King Bogong of Fushimi Palace: "Yes, in Yamamoto's opinion...... This body can be destroyed, but the will cannot be taken away! ”

The admirals sighed helplessly, Yamamoto Fifty-six has always been such a temperament. In fact, he was one of the few who strongly opposed the Japanese invasion of northeastern China in 1931. A general who broke out into a full-scale war with China in 1937.

This uniqueness made him resentful of the radical officers. In particular, Yamamoto, who was the vice admiral of the Japanese Navy, reported to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Yamamoto about the Japanese bombing and sinking of the U.S. river gunboat Panay. After Gru apologized. He became the target of assassination by Japanese right-wing soldiers.

"Yamamoto, the current situation is that the empire has put all the few resources in our navy." King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong was silent for a while, and sighed at Yamamoto.

"The war in China is getting more and more urgent, and the army's initial gains are also being lost. Terauchi Shou Yiyu was shattered in Shandong, and the North China Front Army was almost completely annihilated. After a pause, King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong said in a deep voice to Yamamoto Fifty-six, "You think I'm willing to do this?!" But the reality is that we don't have much choice. ”

"Marshal Xianyuan Palace has complained to His Majesty more than once that the navy, which has taken most of its resources, has hardly played any role in the battle. The Army, which lacked resources, had to face the artillery fire and bombardment of the Chinese army with the body of an army soldier. ”

After a pause, King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong said in a deep voice to Yamamoto Fifty-six, "Yamamoto, how do you think I should explain it to Your Majesty?!" Am I going to tell Your Majesty that our war itself was a mistake?! Or tell Your Majesty that there is nothing our navy can do in this matter. Please give all the resources to the army?! ”

Yamamoto stopped speaking and bowed deeply to King Bogong of Fushimi Palace.

"Yamamoto...... What I want to tell you is that the war has come to this point, and neither the empire nor our navy has left a way out. Only by forging ahead can we get that glimmer of life! ”

"Your vision is not impossible, but the first thing we need to consider is that we need sufficient resources to support the operation of our empire. That is, the empire needs Southeast Asia! Immensely needed! ”

"Only when we get Southeast Asia will we have the ability to continue fighting. I agree with you that 'to start a war with the United States, you have to fight to Washington,' but you need to know that without the resources to support the war, this is all empty talk. ”

King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong waved his hand, asked Yamamoto to sit down and said to him earnestly, "Yamamoto! I know you're bent on the Empire, but I also want you to know that the attitude of the United States is evident now. ”

"Mrs. Song and the tiger's father have arrived in Washington, D.C., and our investigators have lost word in front of the White House. Washington has continued to introduce policies to blockade us in all directions and require us to withdraw from China. Isn't their attitude obvious enough?! ”

"If we want to get the resources of Southeast Asia, we need Washington to have no spare energy to intervene in Southeast Asia. In other words, at the very least, we need to destroy Washington's navy and ensure that we can obtain enough resources to support the empire to continue fighting. This is the focus of the 'Z Battle Plan'. This is what you have drawn up, don't you know?! ”

"Your Highness...... I'm only sure in the first six months......" Yamamoto Isoroku was silent for a while, and said to King Fushimi Miyahiroko: "The first six months or a year will be about a smooth attack. But I don't have any confidence in the second and third years of fighting......"

"Six months is enough!" King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong nodded, and said in a deep voice to Yamamoto: "In these six months, you can draw up the next battle plan." I will communicate with Marshal Xianyuan Palace. Believe me, for the sake of the fate of the Empire, no one will refuse or thwart this battle! ”

"Hail!!"

In fact, the idea of the Japanese for the US Navy to intervene in Southeast Asia is really a bit redundant. In fact, as early as 1911, Major General Raymond P. Rogers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States developed a set of plans known as the "Orange War Plan".

The Orange Project was designed on the premise that the United States would fight Japan alone, and according to its original concept, the United States would abandon the United States outposts in the western Pacific, such as the Philippines and Guam, after the Japanese army would fall to them.

The Pacific Fleet will retreat to its California base on the west coast of the United States to strengthen its capabilities and defend against attacks on the Panama Canal. The United States will then launch a general mobilization for war, sail its fleet to the western Pacific, recover Guam and the Philippines, and then go north to fight a decisive battle with the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and then blockade the Japanese mainland.

That's standard Alfred. Thayer. Mahan's theory of sea power was also the code used by most navies before World War II, and the outcome of the war was determined by the confrontation of the surface fleet.

And then the Chief of Naval Operations of the United States, Harold Brown. Stark even formulated a "Plan D" according to the war situation, which meant that once the United States entered World War II, its strategic focus would be on the European theater against Nazi Germany.

In the plan, the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater would take a defensive position, and the plan only required Hersban. Admiral Kimmmel's U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet was able to keep the Japanese Combined Fleet out of the eastern Pacific and Australian merchant shipping routes.

Unfortunately, Japan did not know about this. They didn't know that if they had moved the bald eagle first, the bald eagle would not be a vegetarian......

PS: It's rare to update it in the morning! Rub Rub ......