Chapter 482: The Emperor's Own Son

Since the success of undercover in Japan in 1938, Li Huamei and Katyusha have fused and incarnated "Yamato Nadeshiko", and they have done their best to cultivate their own team in Japan.

In addition to the navy, what she regarded as her confidant was the Marine Corps, which had expanded dramatically after 1938.

By 1945, it was nicknamed by the Japanese military department: the emperor's own son, the full name is the Royal Marines, and its main force has been expanded from two divisions when it was first formed to six divisions, and it is also the best equipped land combat unit of the Japanese army in active service.

The rifles used by the infantry of the division are all G32 semi-automatic rifles, and the Japanese side has obtained authorization from Germany to produce this type of rifle, and at the same time imported as many as 50,000 rifles from Germany (in fact, these German-made G32 rifles with 6.5 mm bullets are "OEM" products made in China), most of which were handed over to the Royal Marines.

Not only that, but on the German side, Hannah Elinghan's request was also sold to Japan at a very friendly price a bunch of British and American-made weapons captured during the Year of War, such as tanks (crabs) and artillery. Since most of these weapons were purchased by the Emperor and Yamato Nadeshiko, most of them were used to equip the Marines under the direct control of the Emperor. It is a well-established fact that the Marine Corps is now the best-equipped Marine unit in Japan. While the poor Army was still using the 38 Cap Bolt-Action Rifle, the Marines had a G32 semi-automatic rifle in their hands.

Of the six best-equipped Marine Divisions, one division commander was stationed in Hawaii, one division commander was stationed in the Philippines, and one division commander was stationed in Taiwan, while the remaining three divisions were all stationed in Japan.

The 1st Royal Marine Division is now responsible for the defense and security of Tokyo.

After experiencing the Imperial Road Mutiny. Emperor Takahito no longer trusted the Army, leaving the security of Tokyo to the Marines, whom he regarded as his confidants.

Ironically, during the Tokyo Incident in 1935, there were a bunch of young and strong officers of the Imperial Road faction who went to Mikasagu to force the palace. Then, during the Second Tokyo Incident, under the "Secret Edict of Rebellion" issued by Emperor Takahito, the Imperial Daoist faction was characterized as a rebel. Subjected to a massive purge.

However, after a lapse of 10 years, the Imperial Military Palace, which had been purged and sent to the cold palace, has re-emerged in the last seven years, and has re-emerged as a powerful faction in the Japanese military as "the emperor's own son of the marine."

At the time of the war with China ten years ago, the imperial faction in Japanese politics was actually a loose alliance, and except for a few "spiritual leaders" at the top of the ranks, the vast majority of them were officers from the middle and lower ranks, the highest being the brigade level (equivalent to a regiment).

But now. Most of the core officers of four of the six divisions of the Marine Division, which the War Department sourly called "the emperor's own son," including the division commander, were emperors or pro-emperors.

In the past, the Imperial Sect was not treated well by the emperor, and was often in the embarrassing situation of bringing their own dry food to the emperor (crab) to raise, but they were always slapped in the face by the emperor himself, and now Emperor Shohito has even handed over the garrison of Tokyo to these "rebels" who "were".

The predicament of the Imperial Road faction from actively selling chrysanthemums (crabs) for favor and no one wants them to become a person in the condition of "the emperor's own son". It is the guardian god of Japan today, "Yamato Nadeshiko".

When the "Yamato Nadeshiko" appeared next to Emperor Takhito in 1938, Emperor Takhito at that time was facing the embarrassment of being turned into a "rubber stamp" of the military headquarters.

Yamato Nadeshiko woke up the young and vigorous Emperor Takahito. Tell him the mistake he made: he relied too much on those Chinese-born Command-style officers, and suppressed the low-level Imperial Sect too harshly.

At that time, Li Huamei said to Emperor Chongren with ulterior motives: "Today's Japan is the Japan of the Chinese people, not the Japan of the emperor. ”

After understanding the truth that "balance is the key to ensuring the emperor's power", he "rebelled against the secret edict". A cadre of the Imperial Road faction who had been blacklisted in a separate book was re-employed and "specially promoted."

In order to circumvent the obstruction of the officers of the army command, Emperor Takahito resorted to a trick and threw all these former rebels from the "restoration" army into the newly formed Marine Division and transferred them to the navy.

The army officers were driven to the navy, which was a strong contradiction between the sea and the land in the Japanese military department. It's also a miracle.

The Emperor's explanation for the Japanese Army was that it was to increase the influence of the Army over the Navy.

Li Huamei came forward to appease the navy on behalf of the emperor and said: "This is to increase the influence of the navy on Japanese politics in disguise." Privately, she revealed to several senior members of the Navy plans for the expansion of the Marine Corps in the coming years in exchange for their support.

Of the six "Marine Divisions" of the current Navy, four are controlled by former Army officers from the Imperial Army, and the other two are from the "real" Navy.

Li Huamei put it forward in private: "My ideal is that in the future, Japan will have no army, only marines. Under the flickering of this slogan, according to her request, when the Marine Division was newly formed, the people of the Navy were more co-opted by this group of "sinners who were not wanted by the Army" and used various means to appease them, and the upper echelons said to the middle level: "There is nothing more disgusting to those Army Red Deer than turning the Army into a Navy."

In order to achieve this goal, Li Huamei even took out a sum of money herself as a public relations fee, and asked those naval officers to have "public funds" to feast and drink the former army officers of the newly formed 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions many times, so as to increase their sense of belonging to the navy.

After the end of the Chinese War in 1937, Japan lost all the interests of China in Kannai, and the threat of the Northeast in New China was in danger. Those former Imperial Sect officers became the biggest scapegoats for Japan's defeat and bore all the original sins of defeat, and those Imperial Sect officers who were put into the order book suffered white eyes everywhere and their lives were miserable.

When Yamato Nadeshiko recruited as the emperor's envoy and a Japanese god, these people simply bowed down at her feet with gratitude.

After the formation of the Marine Division, the Navy people came to "send warmth" and burn the stove, which made them feel "spring-like warmth".

Soon, these former army "red deer", who used to be "the cowards and wastes of the navy", soon changed their stance and regarded themselves as the elite of the navy. When he spoke, he often talked about "the army red deer".

In the past seven years, thanks to the fame of Yamato Nadeshiko, the young Emperor Takahito has taken control of the Japanese military and is completely different from that of seven years ago. After the Holy Impact, the control power has been taken to another level.

On New Year's Day 1945, when Tokyo was immersed in the New Year's carnival, Mutaguchi Ryoya Osaku disembarked from a Philippine passenger liner bound for Tokyo.

"These traitors to the Army, the cowards of the Navy!"

Many of the people who were on the same ship with him were officers and men of the 6th Marine Division stationed in the Philippines for the Chinese New Year, and all of them were carrying large bags and small bags filled with goods looted from the Philippines.

The Philippines was a new Japanese colony, and the Army regarded it as its own private property. However, the Navy intervened through the Marine Division, taking advantage of the special terrain of the Philippines to snatch Medan from the Army's mouth.

The Philippines is an island country, and the territory is divided into many independent islands by the sea, and Japan, due to the premature defeat of China in the war, forced Japan to shift its focus from land to sea, and the emperor himself is disgusted. The rise of the status of the Navy, as well as the eccentricity of "Yamato Nadeshiko". The status of the army in Japan is declining, and the Japanese army in this plane has no chance to create any army and navy. When the Philippines was seized in 1942, all the actions of the army were inseparable from the cooperation of the navy. When the navy took a fancy to Medan and designated it as its "reserved land," the army could only stare dryly at the navy's behavior of crossing the line.

In Medan, warships cannot go ashore. But the Japanese Navy, through its Marine Divisions, firmly controlled the island, which produced rice, iron, gold, chromium, copper, and coal.

In the Philippines, both the Japanese army and navy are scraping the ground, and the Filipinos will be squeezed unspeakably. And in Japan. The lives of the people at the bottom are barely maintained on the subsistence line. Most of the wealth plundered from the Filipino soldiers and Dutch Indonesia went into the pockets of the major chaebols or burned up in the war military expenses, and the civilians still had no way to enjoy the dividends of the war, as in all previous wars.

In order to "improve the life of the family", whether it is the navy or the army, all the garrisons in the colonies, without exception, are doing the work of robbing local civilians to subsidize their families.

Mutaguchi Ryoya Osa, so when he got off the ship, he couldn't help but curse in his heart the people who scolded the marines on the same ship, and in the past few days when he was returning to Japan from the Philippines, he "heard" some words that made his eyes blush when he listened to these groups of marines on the same ship.

These marines, who were on board at that time, "exchanged" intelligence on the "fortune" of different occupied areas. Their greatest envy was the officers and men of the 2nd and 3rd Marine Divisions, who had participated in the Hawaiian Raiders, who had stolen a large amount of property from the homes of American civilians in Hawaii and "sent" them back home with the supply ships returning home.

Compared to the Army, which often "handed over to the superiors" the property that the soldiers had looted, the newly formed Marine Division was very disciplined in this regard, and the "merciful Nadeshiko" strictly forbade officers to confiscate the property obtained by the soldiers. This rule alone makes the Marine Corps a more popular branch of the Army than the Army.

It has been three and a half years since the war, and many Army Corps stationed abroad have to serve in the local area for one and a half to two years before they can be rotated home. The Marine Corps, on the other hand, rotates much more frequently than the Army, and they only need to serve for one year before returning to recuperate.

Although the Marine Division has only six regular divisions in name, there are still three "reserve divisions" in the country for rotation.

Compared with the army, which is much harder, the emperor's favorite marines, are well-equipped, have "more welfare", and are more popular than others, which naturally makes Mutaguchi Ryoya Daisa blush along the way, and constantly holds grievances for the army in his heart.

Another aspect of the Marine Division that made Murataguchi Ryoya Daisa jealous was that as the emperor's "own son", the family members of the Marine Division enclosed land everywhere on Mindan. The enclosed land was returned to the Imperial Family under the name of "Imperial Land", and then exchanged for cultivation by the families of the soldiers of the Marine Division, and the Emperor only received 30% of the land tax. Compared with the total amount of land taxes in the country, which has received more than 60 percent, this is simply a great good governance. It was also through this method that Emperor Shohito firmly tied the marines to his side and turned them into his diehards, a method similar to what Artoria had played.

The mines, rubber plantations, and so on on in Medan were directly handed over to the navy and had nothing to do with the army.

Of course, this practice of Emperor Takahito has also aroused some dissatisfaction among the upper echelons of Japan, who believe that the emperor's practice is to empty the national treasury and fill up the private treasury. Faced with the situation in which the elite Marine Division became more and more like the emperor's private army rather than the "national army", the Japanese upper echelons were not without opposition, but the contradictions on land and sea, and the support of Yamato Nadeshiko, made the situation more and more serious.

Emperor Noshihito, who had a gun and money in his hand, with the full support of the "Yamato Nadeshiko", simply ignored the opposition of their military headquarters. In the past, the Tokyo Incident had caused a great psychological shadow on Emperor Takahito, and he very much agreed with Li Huamei's statement that "the emperor must have financial and military power under his own control in order to ensure the stability of the imperial throne."

The practice of the Japanese in the Philippines naturally aroused strong resistance from the local natives. Since 1943, the local Filipino uprisings and storm clouds have never stopped. However, in today's Japan, under the covert instigation of the "Yamato Nadeshiko", it has already held the idea of "leaving room for people to die", and by suppressing the resistance of the locals, it has also purged the original residents in various places one after another, so as to make more space for Japanese immigrants to enter in the future.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, in the war against Parr, India, he sent a telegram of insufficient supplies from the front-line officers in front of him, and left a famous quote in the history of the Japanese Army.

"The Japanese have been a herbivorous people since ancient times. Surrounded by such dense jungle, you report a lack of food? What's going on! ”

It was also because of this telegram that he later got the nickname "Ghost (Crab) Animal Mukou". However, this plane did not happen due to the July Seven Incident, and his own name was too famous, and was remembered by Li Huamei, under her suppression, Muta Dazuo's position has been Dazuo for seven years, not only was he not promoted, but he was once driven to the local security force to sit on the cold bench.

When Mutaguchi Ryoya was looking at the "emperor's own son" treatment enjoyed by the Marine Division, in Tokyo, Japan, specially built for Yamato Nadeshiko, hundreds of henchmen belonging to Yamato Nadeshiko were taking the opportunity of the New Year's worship to gather in a secret room of the Shendu to quietly hold a meeting. (To be continued......)