Chapter 106: Slap
The problem that Tsukahara 243 can see, Yamamoto 56 can't think of. Landing in the Vanguard fleet, only the "Bird Sea" managed to escape from the three large ships. Nearly half of the landing craft had returned, but as soon as he thought of the remaining landing craft and nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers whose fate was unknown, an evil fire rose in Yamamoto's heart. Last night's incident on Ozu Island had already made Yamamoto very disappointed in Onizuka, and today this kind of thing happened again, and his impression of Onizuka was extremely jetlagged.
"What about Onizuka? Why don't you see the ghost mound?! He asked the communications staff officer who had come to report to him.
An Zai was very aggrieved, as a staff officer in charge of telecommunications, he didn't even know the specific battle plan, but how could he know what was happening on the front line. However, he was familiar with Yamamoto's temperament, and he knew that he must not return to Ignorant Dao at this time, so he replied very skillfully: "Your Excellency Onizuka is on the way here, Your Excellency, is it not immediately summoned?" ”
"Let him come to me at once, at once!"
"Hay!"
It's been nearly a month since Toshiichiro Koizumi came to Yamamoto's side, and it's the first time I've seen him get so angry. Although he did not participate in the formulation of the specific battle plan for Hainan this time, the impact on it was quite great, which made him feel a little frightened, and he was worried that the image he had built up in Yamamoto's heart would be ruined. He clearly knew that if he wanted to achieve the goal of crossing, all he could rely on now was Yamamoto, and once he lost his trust, not only would the strategy of changing the direction of the navy's development be in vain, but also the techniques he had mastered that were far ahead of his contemporaries would also be useless. Before going to war, Koizumi, who regarded it as his first battle, was full of longing and deep expectations for the future of the battle. However, since the Dazhou Island incident, he has seen the true cruelty of war, and he immediately realized his own gap - no matter how advanced his combat concept is, after all, he has not personally experienced the war of the current era, so his understanding of war is only limited to books - he still has a long way to go, at least at this stage, what I can do may be to provide technical support.
Putting away the sense of superiority that he had always had since the crossing, Koizumi asked Yamamoto respectfully: "Your Excellency, what should we do next?" ”
Yamamoto turned his head and glanced at Koizumi coldly. The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment, and bewildered by Koizumi's gushing theoretical knowledge, Yamamoto once thought that Koizumi had the qualities of an excellent commander. However, it turned out that compared with the "descendant" of Shina, Koizumi was too far behind. The Hainan Campaign has been going on so far, and it is not so much that the Combined Fleet was defeated in the contest with the Xuebing Army, but that Koizumi was defeated in the contest with Ouyang Yun. Although the base camp has long had the intention of attacking Hainan, if it were not for the "noise" that Toshiichiro Koizumi had been chattering in Yamamoto's ears during this time (yes, it is "noise" - after the mysterious aura on Koizumi's body faded, his words that Yamamoto originally thought were extremely logical and far-sighted would have become meaningless at this moment), and it is estimated that the Hainan strategy will be delayed for a while. At this time, the Combined Fleet pursued the Hainan Raid in order to fight a decisive battle with the United States. In Yamamoto's heart, he once stubbornly believed that Japan had no chance of winning a war with the United States, but Koizumi's analysis gave him hope. But now, the cruel reality has punctured the soap bubble of hope. Among the three towns of the Xuebing Army, Hainan must be the worst defense and the easiest to break through, and at one point, Yamamoto even felt that attacking Hainan with the powerful armed forces of the United Fleet was suspected of bullying children by adults, but the cruel reality gave him a resounding slap in the face. Although the battle has not been going on for a long time, how can you feel that your own actions are in the calculations of the student army? Yamamoto was not sure whether Ouyang Yun was in Hainan, but because of the experience of "sink", he stubbornly believed that this must have originated from Ouyang Yun's layout - the more he felt Ouyang Yun's cleverness, and when he looked back at Koizumi, the gap between the two was highlighted. Ouyang Yun is always able to strike backwards, but what about Xiaoquan? Why can't he have foresight?
Yamamoto's cold eyes made Koizumi feel like a pinprick in his heart. Yamamoto was the god in his heart and the hope to save Japan, but now, Yamamoto's attitude made him realize that the god no longer trusted him. Hainan Raiders, he exerted too much influence, perhaps, he is looking forward to his ability to come up with a solution. Thinking like this, Koizumi gritted his teeth and said: "Your Excellency, I really didn't expect the student army to be so stoic, this is my judgment error, I'm sorry!" ”
"Now is not the time to say this, you just asked me what to do next, I want to test you, with your experience from the hereafter, what should we do now? You see, although we have suppressed the shore artillery of the Cadet Corps with powerful shipborne artillery, the Marines have suffered a heavy blow. Next, even if we were able to completely destroy the shore artillery units of the Cadet Corps, if the Marines were unable to carry out an effective attack, the Hainan Raiders would eventually end in our retreat - was it just to drain the precious human and material resources of the empire by mobilizing our troops to come to the South China Sea? The southern part of Taiwan is now occupied by the Chinese people, and it will not be easy for the Combined Fleet to come to the South China Sea once, and we have to guard against the fighters of the Chinese people......"
So far, although the Gakubing Army has only launched a counterattack, as Yamamoto Isoroku said, it has hit the vital point of the Combined Fleet at once. That's right, the aircraft carriers and heavy gunboats in the combined fleet are the main forces of the Hainan attack this time, but the fruits of victory ultimately depend on the marines. The absolute fatal blow of the Xuebing Army disrupted the specific combat plan of the Hainan Raiders and made Yamamoto feel unsustainable, which was the reason why he was extremely dissatisfied with Onizuka and had an evil fire.
As Blue Volcano said, the existence of the Hainan air power of the Cadet Army has always been the existence that Yamamoto is most worried about. The crash of the two Type 99s convinced Yamamoto that the Cadet Corps did indeed have aviation units in Hainan. In the following time, although no fighter plane appeared in the field of vision of the Japanese, the more this happened, the more uneasy Yamamoto's heart became.
Koizumi has not experienced "sinking", so he cannot understand the anxiety in Yamamoto's heart. He carefully organized the wording and said, "Your Excellency, the battle plan that was originally formulated will definitely not be usable. Don't you think, Sir? Judging from the reaction of the Shina people so far, it seems that they have all the information about us, your Excellency, is it possible that there are high-level spies of the Shina people within us? ”
Radar is still a new thing for the Japanese today, but Koizumi, a traveler, has ignored this. So, the tragic thing happened - Koizumi's speculation made Yamamoto more and more reasonable, and he pondered for a while and said: "It is completely possible, well, it seems that it is imperative to conduct a counter-espionage operation in the Admiralty." Koizumi, think about it, in the history you are familiar with, has anyone ever worked for the Shina people? ”