Chapter 182: Project Decision
"How's the Navy going?" At the Japanese Front Headquarters in Seogwipo, Jiang Yunzhi took a sip of "good as water", and spit it out with a "poof", "This is the best sake for the Japanese?" What does it smell like, it's like feeding pig swill. ”
The chief of staff of the Guards Corps, Shui Mo, was a little funny, he was also a Red Guard soldier recruited in the early days of the base, and Shui Mo wanted to joke with the commander: How do you know the taste of feeding pig water. But after thinking about it, I felt that it was not right, there were not only people from the Guards Legion in the headquarters, but also the commanders of other legions such as General Curtis Lemay, the commander of the Yizhou Legion. Li Mei was also the only white commander of the 13th Army of the Han Dynasty, an immigrant of Danish origin who was already the third generation to live in South China. Among the top echelons of the military department, Li Mei has a rather cute nickname called Fairy Tale Commander, of course, this is just a joke when the military bigwigs are bored, Li Mei is powerful, has a pair of eagle eyes similar to Germanic people, and is a rather stern legion commander.
"Report to the commander-in-chief that the 3rd Brigade of the Marine Corps has captured Tsushima Island and successfully occupied the Toyotama airfield on the island. The battleship Bo Jue of the Northern Fleet led ten warships to bombard the southern coast of Korea. Units of two divisions of the Luzon Army landed in Busan and Ulsan, respectively, and are currently in fierce fighting with the Japanese defenders. "Jiang Yunzhi left the mainland for the first time to supervise the war, and His Majesty attached great importance to the "covering the sky" plan, and the team of the Guards Legion was fully dispatched.
"Hmm!" Jiang Hei nodded, but his eyes were at Li Mei, who was standing in front of the map. As if sensing the gaze behind her, Li Mei turned around in time, "Commander-in-chief, we must strengthen the bombardment of Kitakyushu, and the Commander-in-Chief, we must also work harder!" ”
"That's right!" Jiang Yunzhi nodded and said yes, Your Majesty is right, this Li Mei is a general. "Chief of Water Staff, send a telegram to the commander-in-chief of Okinawa, asking them to step up their efforts to get some old devils and send troops to make a tentative landing in Kyushu. Then send a telegram to Commander Guan Canghai of the Northern Fleet, asking them to take off carrier-based bombers to bomb Kitakyushu, creating the false impression that our troops are going to land on Kyushu Island. Also, send a telegram to Commander Long Xiaotian of the Air Force Bomber Unit, I don't care what he does, I just ask that his plane must start bombing the Oki Islands and the Noto Peninsula tonight. ”
Shui Mo answered the order, and there was no surprise at the tough tone of Commander Chiang's order. Li Mei shook her head gently, it's still a cow in the Guards Legion! After an order, he gave all the three armies of the navy, army, and air force.
Jiang Yunzhi didn't think about it, he was a member of the Military Commission during the war, and he also served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army before the General Staff commanded the whole army. Except for Ye Zhiqiu and the old men of the Red Police Legion who were all loudspeakers, the three armies of the empire, who saw Jiang Hei's face and couldn't stand up to salute and call Commander Jiang!
Nearly 500 Yanhuang ships have gathered in the waters of Jeju Island in North Korea, and the mysterious Fourth Fleet of the Empire, the southern fleet of Dahan Bay, has also secretly set sail and rushed to the Yellow Sea at full speed. The Third and Seventh Armies of the Air Force have been deployed to airfields in various parts of Shandong Province and are ready to participate in the war at any time. 300 Tyrannosaurus Rex large transport planes and more than 200 long-necked medium transport planes are on standby in Yantai, and they will be transferred to the island after the construction of the extended runway of the field airfield on Jeju Island is completed.
The beautiful island of Jeju is still beautiful, but the smell of flowers has been replaced by gunsmoke. The roar of tanks, the rumble of airplanes, and countless trucks and armored vehicles make the romantic island iron-blooded, and the cannons of giant ships on the open sea add a bit of gloom to it. There was still a regiment of Luzon soldiers on search missions in the mountainous areas of the center, and the resistance or civilians who were caught from time to time could not help but marvel at the huge ship in front of them when they were crushed to the sea. Is such an army something that the Japanese can compete with? When did China become so strong?
The Koreans, who were ruled by the colonized with a policy of seclusion and ignorance, did not even know that Nanhua existed.
But the Japanese knew that they looked down on China, and that chairman of the committee had already been beaten to the mountains and hidden, if it weren't for ...... If it weren't for the Han Emperor's troubles that came out of nowhere, China would sooner or later be in the pocket of the Great Japanese Empire. But now, don't worry about other people, the local people are facing being landed by others. Could it be that what Kublai Khan couldn't do during the Yuan Dynasty, the Han Emperor could do?
"No, never! Even if the whole country of Japan is shattered, the Chinese will not be allowed to land in Honshu! The chief of staff of the base camp, Sugiyama Moto, clenched his fists and roared.
Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe looked at the army general, the emperor's Aitomi, with eyes that were almost idiots, could these soldiers only shout and shout? Even if you scream out your throat...... Will the Han army give up the landing? Is the whole country broken? Do you want all of Japan, young and old, to meet the slaughter of people empty-handed?
The commander-in-chief of the Japanese Homeland Defense Forces, King Minoru Higashikure, coughed softly, as a general of the imperial family and the chief commander in charge of the military affairs of the homeland defense, Minoru Higashikure is still quite prestigious. Prince Zaihito retreated into the background, and Minoru Higashikure became the representative of the imperial family in the army.
"The question now is not whether to resist, but how. We have twelve divisions in the state, and twenty new divisions. The military is sufficient, but the problem now is that most of these forces are concentrated around Tokyo, the Izu Peninsula and the Boso Peninsula, and with the Yokosuka Castle Guard, there are as many as eight divisions. We never considered that the enemy would land in the Sea of Japan, and we needed to move our forces as soon as possible. Can be navigated ...... General Sugiyama, what is the judgment of the General Staff Headquarters? Where will the Han army land? ”
Sugiyama didn't squeak, he wasn't a philistine, otherwise he wouldn't have climbed to such a high position. This kind of obviously gambling on character, whoever comes out on top is a real fool, "General Tojo, please report the information of the General Staff Headquarters to the prince!" ”
Hideki Tojo, who is now the deputy chief of staff, is destined to have no glory in another space in the course of the war, and of course he will not be sentenced as the number one war criminal in the invasion of China. At the end of 1940, there really wasn't room for him to be hysterical.
Helping his glasses, Tojo took a military map and drew a few circles with a blank face, "Kitakyushu, Miho Bay, Wakasa Bay, Noto Peninsula and Sashima Strait!" ”
"Bah!" Higashikure Minoru didn't care about the taboos of the royal family, and scolded directly, "This is the information of your staff headquarters?" Any child can guess these locations, right? ”
"Your Excellency, our navy does not dare to leave the port, our planes are unwilling to take off, and we can only guess about the movements of the Han army." Tojo's gaze was even more gloomy.
"Guessing? It's a guess! "This time, I didn't use King Minoru Higashikure to get angry, and Emperor Showa himself couldn't sit still." The plan of the Imperial Army of Japan to defend the homeland was actually a guess? Are you going to tell me that I can go and prepare the edict of surrender? ”
"No, Your Majesty!" Tojo knew that his opportunity had come, "The minister and Ishihara Wanji, Itagaki Seishiro and other generals formulated the 'decisive plan', we believe that the current situation of our country can no longer win the war, but we can completely use the decisive battle to kill the landing force of the Allied forces to the greatest extent and force them to sign an armistice with us." In this way, even if we lose the war, we can win dignity, and we will have a chance to taste the courage and be ashamed. ”
"Bold, Tojo, how dare you talk nonsense in front of Your Majesty, I'm ...... Day"
"Shut up!" Hirohito roared angrily and interrupted Sugiyama Moto's words, and Emperor Showa wondered, he fell in love with such a fool in the first place? Perhaps when the war is going well, I like to hear flattery. But now that the national disaster is at hand, people like Sugiyama are so annoying. "You get out!"
Sugiyama Moto's eyes lit up, and His Majesty was still biased towards himself, "Tojo, didn't you hear His Majesty's words?" Get out! ”
"Eight! I'm talking about you! Get out of here! ”
can force the emperor to swear, Sugiyama Gen can be regarded as the first person among the previous chiefs of staff of Japan.
"Uncle Huang, you and General Tojo, huh...... And those generals to discuss the defense of the homeland, I'm tired! "When you encounter something that is difficult to solve, you choose to run away, which is Hirohito's consistent style.
Ishihara and Seishiro Sakagaki were urgently summoned to the base camp, and the emperor's approval of the "Decisive Plan" made the two excited, which meant that they could go out to the mountains again after a period of leisure.
It should be said that these are all capable men in the contemporary Japanese army, and when many so-called famous generals were assassinated in China, at sea, and in internal fighting, the "decisive plan" of Hideki Tojo and several people was still successfully implemented, which also corresponded to the fanatical resistance in Japan. Sugiyama is stupid, but he must admit that every time he puts forward a slogan, it is always very demagogic. In the early days of the war of aggression against China, he shouted "the destruction of China in March," which finally impressed the military department's determination to start a war. This time, he took the lead in shouting "the whole country is broken", which once again aroused the crazy response of the people.
Due to the geographical characteristics of the Japanese archipelago, Ishihara made a precise judgment on the direction in which the Han army might land, southern Kyushu and the Noto Peninsula and the Sado Strait. Originally, the best place to land was the Boso Peninsula on the east coast, but the combined fleet was completely wiped out, the Japanese army lost its strategic power at sea, and the Sea of Japan was no longer the rear, so the Han army would no longer be reluctant to go far and go half a bend in the Pacific Ocean to the east coast of Japan. In addition, the Royal Han Navy did not storm the Northern Marianas, so it can be concluded that the Han army would land on the coast of the Sea of Japan. On the west coast, the Noto Peninsula and the Sado Strait are suitable for a direct threat to Tokyo, and a large-scale landing battle. As for Kyushu, it was just a plan of the Han army to kill two birds with one stone, a feint to attract the divisions of Honshu to the rescue, and once there was no rescue, the Han army could storm down and use Kyushu as their assembly place, and by the way, the bomber's airfield was pushed forward hundreds of nautical miles, which was more convenient to bomb Honshu.
Ishihara's exposition amazed Minoru Higashikure, and at such a time, he can still analyze so calmly, Ishihara is worthy of his name as a genius! Looking at Hideki Tojo again, it is rumored in military circles that these two people have a very bad relationship, Ishihara Waner said that Hideki Tojo is a senior soldier of Tojo, and Hideki Tojo personally squeezed Ishihara out of the military circles. When the empire is in danger, these imperial talents can urgently abandon their past suspicions and worry about the empire, which is the real backbone of the imperial army!