Chapter 186: Yamamoto's reaction
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At the headquarters of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto Fifty-six has been black-faced for two days. Yamamoto had just been promoted to admiral in November, and he was proud of it. However, when he turned his face, he was slapped hard by the Naval Resistance Army, and this slap was so loud.
In the past 40 years, the Japanese Army has maintained an offensive in the Chinese theater, although it has not been victorious. Politically, the Japanese devils fostered the Wang puppet regime headed by Wang Jingwei to confront the Chiang government. It seems that all forms are good for Japan. But in Japan, there is political turmoil, and the prime minister is rotating like a marquee. There is only one reason, and everyone is debating whether to join forces with Germany.
Eventually, the belligerent faction gained the upper hand, forming the Triple Alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan in September.
After the signing of the Triple Alliance, Yamamoto was very soberly aware that it was inevitable that Japan would inevitably go to war with the United States. Work has begun on the development of a strategy towards the United States.
The Japanese Navy has developed extremely rapidly in the past 40 years, and the most prominent is the finalization of Japan's "proud" Zero fighter in World War II. This state-of-the-art Japanese fighter was remodeled by two generals, Tabun Yamaguchi and Takijiro Onishi, who served as commanders of the First and Second Combined Air Forces, and finally finalized it on the Chinese battlefield. These two Japanese admirals are testing this new fighter with Chinese flesh and blood, and they are also training Japanese air forces with Chinese flesh and blood. The bombing of Chongqing brought endless suffering to the Chinese, but it produced an elite aviation unit for the Japanese Navy.
Tactically, for Yamamoto Isoroku, there were two big shocks this year, the first was when Yamaguchi Tamon used aircraft carrier-based aircraft to take out Yamamoto's flagship, the battleship Nagato, during the exercise. The second time was when the British crippled the main Italian fleet with aircraft carrier-based aircraft in November.
Under these circumstances, Yamamoto Isoroku already had preliminary plans for a war against the United States, and he already planned to arrange for his close confidant, the Kuroshima Kameto staff officer, to formulate a plan for a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
At this time, the news of the sneak attack of the Naval Resistance Army came, which caused an uproar in the Japanese Navy.
The Japanese actually knew a lot about the intelligence of the Naval Resistance Army, but it was not accurate. In March, Japanese diplomats instigated Chile to use force against the Statue Islands Maritime Resistance Army. A few months later, after the release of the Chilean prisoners by the Navy, the Japanese were given an incredible course of war.
The Japanese Navy valued the battleship more than anything else, and they thought of various ways in which the battleship could be sunk, but with the intelligence of the Japanese, they could not think of a battleship surrendering in a almost intact state.
Since the defeat of the Chilean Navy, the Chileans have also become lukewarm towards Little Japan, and various forces within Chile have been unanimous in their mouths about Little Japan. If Chile hadn't asked Japan to repair its warships, and now there are still three warships repaired in the dockyards of little Japan, I am afraid that even diplomatic relations would have been severed.
Not only Yamamoto Isoroku, but the vast majority of the Japanese naval generals were thinking about taking out the Naval Resistance Army. With the strength and equipment of the Japanese Navy, if you really want to take Shixiang Island, it will definitely not be very difficult.
Li Guang's defense of the Statue Island was aimed at Japan, not just against countries like Chile. Li Guang is sometimes puzzled, when did the little devil become easy to talk? Why didn't you send troops to Gardon Island?
The reason why Japan did not send a fleet expedition was actually for two reasons, one was the reason of international politics. One is the reason of the Japanese Navy itself.
This reason for the Japanese Navy itself is incredible, but this reason is indeed quite crucial--- Japan will not refuel at sea.
The sea refueling of the Maritime Resistance Army cannot actually be regarded as a technology, but an improvisation. The most common way to refuel a submarine is to find a desert island, where the submarine sits on the bottom of the sea in shallow water, and then fills the submarine from the oil tanker or with oil drums. And most of the battleships are looking for port supplies, and in special cases, such as after grabbing the French battleships, refueling is completely improvised. The way to do this is to find a calm harbor and refuel after anchoring. In other words, in fact, the Maritime Resistance Force has not mastered the technology of refueling at sea.
The Japanese Navy is slightly better at this point than the Naval Resistance Force, but it has not really been solved. Even if the wind and waves are calm, it is extremely dangerous for the battleship and the tanker to get close, and if one is not careful, both ships will be destroyed.
For this question, Yamamoto Fifty-six has already made all the admirals start to think about recruitment. However, the influence of international politics on Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku could not be solved.
As the saying goes, one hair moves the whole body. South America seems to be politically independent, but behind it is indispensable the shadow and even control of countries such as Britain, the United States and France. The countries on the Atlantic coast of South America are the most controlled by European and American forces. This is also the reason why there was no real upthrow of the Uruguayan government after the naval resistance forces gained the upper hand in Uruguay in March. Once the Naval Resistance Force really occupies Uruguay, then Argentina and Brazil will not sit idly by, and even Britain and the United States will directly intervene with troops.
In fact, it is not surprising that different political factions have their own armed forces, and the British and American countries control these countries by controlling the strength of these political factions, and at the same time control the economic lifelines of these countries.
The Chinese were able to carve such a large piece of territory in Uruguay, and to put it bluntly, it was the United Kingdom that played a role behind it. At that time, the Naval Resistance Army moved too quickly, and the special team directly killed the British spokesman in Uruguay. For the sake of the balance of forces of all parties in Uruguay, Britain gave so much benefit to the Naval Resistance Army. If it is not given, unless Britain sends troops, Uruguay's power will inevitably be upset, and the British really don't want to stretch out their hands everywhere when Europe is in turmoil.
Northern South America and most of Latin America, which is the traditional sphere of influence of the United States and Britain, to put it mildly------- is the backyard of the United States.
Only in the Pacific Rim countries of South America, the power of Britain and the United States is slightly weaker. Even so, the Japanese reached directly to the Pacific coast of South America, and it was necessary to consider the attitude of Britain and the United States.
Yamamoto Isoroku was well aware of all this, but the problem was that now that the Naval Resistance Army had been quiet for nearly a year, and had begun to attack Japanese merchant ships on a large scale again, Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander of the combined fleet, could no longer find an excuse to avoid war.
Moreover, according to intelligence, the Maritime Resistance Force has at least two battleships, the number of other auxiliary warships is unknown, and there are at least four submarines.
This kind of force, even the powerful Japanese navy, had to be fully prepared to have the possibility of victory.
For Yamamoto 56, there is good news, that is, although the Naval Resistance Army is much stronger, the main force of the Naval Resistance Army has moved to the Indian Ocean to build a base in Ceylon. Compared with the isolated island in the South Pacific, the Maritime Resistance Army has a taste of being sent to the door.
The Japanese Combined Fleet has a chief of staff, who is Rear Admiral Uheng Entangle, but every time Yamamoto Fifty-six has some ideas, he always gives it to the first staff officer of the Kuroshima Kameto, who stinks all day. The so-called first staff officer in the Japanese Navy is similar to the chief staff officer in the practical sense.
The staff officer doesn't bring a commander, and the fart doesn't make a sound, and the staff officer takes the commander, and it's not very good. This phenomenon is very incorrect in the Japanese Army, and staff officers are even better than generals. In the combined fleet, the previous sentence is absolutely incorrect, and the Kuroshima staff officer is very much valued by Yamamoto fifty-six. The latter sentence is very apt.
The general staff of the Naval Resistance Army is a freak among various countries, a group of non-professional soldiers, a group of technicians serve as staff officers, not because Li Guang does not have enough vision, but because of the expediency of the lack of talent, and before a suitable chief of staff can be found, it must continue to be expedient.
There are quite a few so-called famous generals and potential generals in the Japanese Navy. Like Yamaguchi Tawen, Ozawa Jizaburo, Kakunoharu Kakuda, Kusaka Ryunosuke, etc., are quite talented, and the relationship with Yamamoto Isoroku is also good. However, there is no dependency between these generals and Yamamoto Isoroku, and they all have their own group of sub-forces in the Japanese Navy, so they cannot be called Yamamoto Isoroku's cronies.
But there are three people who can be called Yamamoto Isoroku's cronies, the first is Kuroshima Kameto, the second is Minoru Genda, an expert in aviation warfare, and the third is Takijiro Onishi.
These three men had to be attached to Yamamoto Isoroku in order to gain a foothold in the Japanese Navy. The Black Island Turtle Man was originally a bitter child in a poor mountainous area, and his father died and his mother remarried, and he was an outlier in the Japanese Navy that regarded himself as a nobleman, plus this person had many strange problems and was extremely unsociable, if there was no appreciation from Yamamoto Fifty-six, he was definitely the type that was suppressed into the mud.
Takijiro Onishi only graduated from the Marine Academy (equivalent to middle school), not a graduate of the Japanese Naval University at all, and it is already a miracle to have a place in the Japanese Navy. You must know that in the Japanese Navy, the graduates of the naval academy are already at the top level, but Onishi Takijiro is now a big sa, and the upward momentum is good, and it is almost a certainty to be a general. The reason is still Yamamoto Isoroku's appreciation.
As for Minoru Genda, he and Yamamoto Fifty-six have a common hobby, and they are lustful for gambling. There are three irons in life, classmates together, guns together, and prostitutes together. It's not a three-iron between Minoru Genda and Fifty-six Yamamoto, it's just a lot of iron.
However, these three of Yamamoto's cronies all have common characteristics, strange, crazy, extreme, and they all have a bit of an inventor's flavor. At the end of World War II, the Kuroshima Kameto developed the Earthquake Jet Ski Suicide Attack, and Onishi Takijiro was a kamikaze attack. And Minoru Genda claims the uselessness of battleships, and greatly admires the power of fighters, and the lack of armor of the Japanese Zero fighter is actually his reason, not that the Japanese designers are really brainless and do not know that the fighter should have the necessary protection.
Let's put it this way, with the big gambler Yamamoto Fifty-six, his three cronies are also gamblers to some extent.
This time, in order to deal with the Naval Resistance Army, Yamamoto 56 found these three cronies to make a battle plan.
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