"Brush—"

Hideki Tojo opened the door, and when he saw his expressionless face, the room that was still quite lively suddenly fell silent.

"It turned out to be Mr. Senior Soldier, what's the matter, the Imperial Council is over?"

Ishihara looked at the guy who had once called him an idler with a small eye and asked with a grin.

"Ishihara!" Seishiro Sakagaki was on the side, and when he heard this, he hurriedly pushed Ishihara Waner. Hideki Tojo is known for his narrow temperament. Although this guy now needs Ishihara's help with advice, if Ishihara still talks like this, he will still be cleaned up by Tojo Hideki sooner or later. To his surprise, Hideki Tojo didn't care much about Ishihara's rudeness, waved his hand casually, and walked into the floor:

"It doesn't matter. Although I have never identified with Yamaken Aritomo, I am willing to learn from this Meiji era veteran. Ishihara-kun just called me a 'superior soldier', which is much more educated than Akashi Genjiro who peed in front of Aritomo in Yamaguchi. ”

"Genjiro Akashi?" Ishihara's small eyes narrowed. Genjiro Akashi was an earlier Japanese army general, a genius secret service king, who funded the Russian Revolution of 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War, turning the Russian hinterland upside down, and was known as a figure who could be worth ten divisions by one person. It is important to know that until the launch of a full-scale war of aggression against China, there were only 17 standing divisions in the whole of Japan. Akashi Genjiro alone is worth more than half of the Japanese army, and his talent can be seen. For the Russo-Japanese War, Genjiro Akashi not only played tricks inside Russia, but also set up intelligence and communication networks, plotted against Russian officers, instigated the independence movement of the three small Baltic states, met with Finnish independence leaders, obstructed the transportation of troops, secretly smuggled weapons to anti-imperialist Russian organizations, worked closely with the British government, and guided European public opinion to be friendly to Japan. So much so that later it was said that there was no Nogi Noshinori. The Japanese army could also take Lushun; Without Heihachiro Togo, the Sea of Japan naval battle could have been won; But without Akashi Genjiro, the loser of the Russo-Japanese War would definitely be Japan. This statement is widely recognized. After the Russo-Japanese War, Akashi Genjiro Governor of Taiwan, although his term of office was only one year and a few months, but he made remarkable political achievements, although he was a colonist, but he did make a lot of contributions to the development of Taiwan...... Ishihara didn't expect Hideki Tojo to compare himself to such a great character, and he was immediately a little embarrassed...... Although he is a strategic talent, he is really not very good at interacting with people.

"Is there any result of the Imperial Council?"

Shou Terauchi diverged the topic. He was reluctant to pay attention to the contradictions between Ishihara and Hideki Tojo. In his opinion. Ishihara is talented, but unfortunately his edge is too revealing and too arrogant, so he is always despised by Hideki Tojo, and Umezu Mijiro and others have no temper. And now they're gathered in Tokyo. During the plot against foreign countries, Ishihara still did not forget to ridicule Hideki Tojo at all times. It can only be said one thing: even if the battle for Siberia was won. Ishihara still hasn't made much "progress". Sooner or later, it will be cleaned up.

"Your Majesty has already agreed to go to war, and this time it's just a matter of confirming it again." Hideki Tojo glanced at the people on the floor again: Terauchi Shouichi, Ishihara Wanji, Kenji Dohihara, Seishiro Sakagaki, and Matsui Ishone, who had been hiding in his hometown to recuperate because the Nanjing Massacre was exposed, and all of these people had military ranks! But. These people are not currently taken seriously by Hideki Tojo, because these people except for the still reigning Ishihara Waner and Sakagaki Seishiro, everyone else has lost much power, and Doihara and Matsui Ishine have even been forced to retire. And Ishihara ...... Seriously. Hideki Tojo never took this guy seriously. Like Terauchi Shouichi thinks, Hideki Tojo also thinks that Ishihara can only be a pure, excellent military staff officer, as for other aspects, this guy is the life of abuse, and he can't make it to the climate...... But the house wasn't all Army!

"Yamamoto-kun, I'm going to ask you this time."

Hideki Tojo bowed to a guy sitting next to Ishihara who also had a bald head and only three fingers on his left hand.

"Let's hope we can win this time!"

Eight fingers, bald, Yamamoto fifty-six! The future "Vulture of the Pacific"! Admiral of the Japanese Navy at this time, Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet!

"It's a pity that the 'Yamato' and the 'Musashi' can't catch up with this battle." Behind Yamamoto Fifty-six, Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa said with a little pity.

"What 'Yamato', 'Musashi'? Has the Navy added new ships? Ishihara asked in a sullen voice. Although he enjoyed a great name in the Japanese Army, he had been rejected by the Japanese military core for many years, and was not familiar with the names of the two warships.

"This is a super battleship built for a decisive battle with the U.S. Navy. WITH A DISPLACEMENT OF MORE THAN 60,000 TONS, ALL EQUIPPED WITH A TRIPLE 460MM GUN! Yamamoto replied, "But it is not yet completed, and for the sake of secrecy, the construction of these two warships is kept secret." ”

"A 60,000-ton battleship?" Ishihara couldn't help but snort coldly, "Haven't you navy seen the trend of the future yet?" Battleships were outdated. Even such a huge super battleship could not withstand the successive bombardment of carrier-based bombers! HOW POWERFUL IS THE 460MM NAVAL GUN? Can it still be used to jerk off? ”

"Please rest assured, Your Excellency Ishihara, the 'Yamato' has been rebuilt, and it will become the 11th aircraft carrier of the Navy!" Jizaburo Ozawa replied with a straight chest. As one of the few aviation combat experts in the navy, he has always advocated replacing battleships with aircraft carriers as the main force of the navy. And in order to prove the correctness of his claim, last year, that is, in 1940, he "fooled around" in a naval exercise. It was March last year, and as commander of the First Air Force, he led two aircraft carriers, "Akagi" and "Ryusho," and four destroyers, to attack the battleships "Nagato" and "Mutsu" and the aircraft carrier "Soryu" led by Isoroku Yamamoto. Originally, he dispatched 18 carrier-based attack aircraft and 36 land-based attack aircraft carrying one torpedo and 27 dive bombers to attack Yamamoto's main force of the Combined Fleet, and Yamamoto used 27 fighters to defend. However, he privately changed the command system, took over the command of these 81 aircraft from the commander of the aircraft carrier and the commander of the base, and launched an attack on the battleship "Nagato" under the direct command of the commander. As a result, not long after the exercise began, the captain of the "Nagato" Onishi Shinzo and the captain of the "Mutsu" Zenshiro Hoshina were almost mad on the bridge by him. The two men had never seen this kind of attack, and large attack planes with a wingspan of 25 meters swooped down in groups against the surface of the sea, dropped their torpedoes, and pulled up sharply, soaring into the sky along the mast. The torpedoes, which left a trail of white trails on the sea, pounced on the side of the ship one after another, dodged one, and the second, dodged the second, and the third, and the fourth...... In this way, it was no longer necessary to judge at the beginning of the exercise, because the ship must have sunk. Although the captains kept scolding him on the bridge for "gossip", he was appreciated by Yamamoto Isoroku. Later, after a long time of contact with Yamamoto Fifty-six, he also heard about something from Yamamoto Fifty-six's chief of staff, Major General Fukuru Shigeru...... After that exercise, when the captains were scolding him, Yamamoto didn't say a word, silently watching him command the carrier-based aircraft to carry out the bombing exercise, and finally said to Furushi: "Can you use the plane to bomb Hawaii?" ”

Fried Hawaii! Furushi claimed that he was stupid when he heard this sentence. And when Jizaburo Ozawa learned this, he also thought that it was just Yamamoto Isoroku's personal thoughts. But he didn't expect that there were people in the army who had always been at odds with the navy who had the same idea, even further than Yamamoto Fifty-six...... Therefore, despite being in the navy, he has always been very polite to Ishihara, even if the other party is always a little rude.

"'Fengxiang' is still in the hands of the Chinese, so we do not have the 11th aircraft carrier, only the 10th under construction!" Yamamoto Isoroku corrected Jizaburo Ozawa's statement, "And this time, we plan to dispatch eight of them!" ”

"Why aren't all nine of them?" Ishihara asked again.

"You have to keep your homeland safe, right?" Nanyun Zhongyi, who had never spoken, looked at this reputation with dissatisfaction that had been spread in the circle, and he was almost a guy of a new generation of military gods, "The Chinese already have a navy!" And it's no longer the kind of rag they used to hang out inshore! ”

"Nanyun-kun, pay attention to your attitude." Yamamoto fifty-six scolded his subordinates. Whether or not to go to war with Britain and the United States, there are two voices even within the Navy. And Nagumo Tadaichi is the opposition. The vice admiral was extremely vehemently opposed to the operation from the outset. Still, he eventually convinced the guy. Although Yamamoto Isoroku was a strategic decision-maker, the performance of the front-line commanders who actually commanded the operation could directly affect the ultimate success or failure of the campaign. Nagumo has Nagumo's strengths. Nagumo Tadaichi is an expert in mine warfare, that is, an expert in navigation. The biggest problem in waging war with the Americans and bombing US military bases is to make a covert voyage. The navy has a great headache about this, and only Nagumo Tadaichi is full of confidence in this. Directly put it bluntly, so that everyone does not have to worry about navigation, as long as the carrier-based aircraft can fly, drop bombs, and blow up American ships, he will definitely be able to take the fleet to the designated place!

"I'm just telling the truth!" Nagumo Tadaichi did not accept Yamamoto's reprimand, and still stared at Ishihara.

"But you're mistaken, Nangumo-kun!" Ishihara smiled: "The Chinese will not come to attack us." Just as they are now helping us cover up from the Americans, they will never attack us until we actually attack Southeast Asia, let alone attack our homeland. So, bring all the aircraft carriers with you. Because the more ships you bring, the greater the results! (To be continued......)