Chapter Seventy-Seven: Yamamoto's Transformation
The scene was too bloody, especially near the two explosion points centered on Bai Yishui and Jiang Yonggang, the stumps, organs, and blood ...... Together, these elements make for a tragic picture.
Many devils couldn't stand this bloody scene, and vomited before they started to clean up, and many people even vomited out of the gastric mucosa, but they still couldn't get rid of the nausea. Arima Masawen squinted his eyes, held the command knife and walked towards Yamamoto Fifty-six, he didn't squint, pursed his mouth tightly, walked a few steps and suddenly shouted: "Why don't you rinse with the faucet!" How long will it take to clean up like this? ”
Yamamoto suddenly looked at him and said, "This is my order." They died defending the dignity of the combined fleet. They were the warriors of the empire when they were alive, and they were also ghosts when they died. I don't want their souls to go unredeemed! ”
Arima stopped talking, he walked a few more steps, came to Yamamoto, bowed deeply, and said, "Your Excellency, I'm sorry that we are late in supporting. ”
"Call all the people of the 'Great White Shark Amphibious Special Brigade' and let them see, look at our enemies, how they have managed to do this with fewer enemies. Check it out! Yamamoto said, tossing him something.
Arima took it and looked at it. A round metal badge, with a hole at the top with red silk threads remaining, a wolf's head in the middle of the front, a string of numbers below, and six characters on the back: "Scholar Army-China". He exhaled deeply and said, "Is it the 'wolf fang' of the Cadet Army?" ”
"At present, the badge of the third sister has been found, two 'wolf teeth' and one 'Taiwan special warfare'. Arima, I'll give you a mission, go and call General Shunroku Hata to ask what kind of unit this 'Taiwan special warfare' is. Four people, killed hundreds of us, and even I was almost killed - Arima-kun, do you have any ideas? ”
"Your Excellency, this shows that the Cadet Army has indeed become a major problem for the Empire. If the empire still wants to dominate the Far East and even Asia, I believe that the time has come to concentrate on the destruction of the student army. ”
"Arima, you don't understand what I mean. Do you think we can really defeat China? Even without a cadet army, China is not something we can defeat completely, at least not at the moment. You only see the glamorous side of the empire, but you don't know what is hidden behind the road. There are horses, do you know why the Dao Empire wants to go to war with China? ”
"To survive, Your Excellency. The Japanese archipelago is not only full of earthquakes and volcanoes, but also has extremely few resources to survive and develop, and if it cannot expand outward, the empire will have no tomorrow. ”
"You say a lot, in order to survive. China is vast and rich in resources, so its citizens do not need to worry about the future of the country sinking to the bottom of the sea, nor do they have to worry about no gas for cooking and no coal for power generation - the current Chinese are like children of a rich family, who have no pressure to survive since childhood, and are pampered, which gives us opportunities. Knowing that what we are thinking about now, can we challenge a Middle Kingdom with an island nation? Just because we have a sense of crisis and they don't. But remember this, the Chinese are never stupid, and even much smarter than us. Therefore, he must not be given a chance to wake up, once the soul of the Chinese nation wakes up, it will be a disaster for the empire - Arima, do you learn history well? ”
Yamamoto should have been stimulated, and even the topic he has provoked now seems to Arima to be a little weird and redundant. However, out of respect for Yamamoto, he did not question or refute, but followed his train of thought. He replied, "Okay! ”
"Then you should know that as far back as the Han Dynasty, our ancestors used to pay tribute to the Chinese. Later, every dynasty in our country was proud to be recognized by the Celestial Empire. Even, our culture and customs have been affected in many ways. Arima, you should know that the position of our navy has always been that the 'Shina incident' will not be expanded, but now, I think, it is time to compete with China! I don't want my children and grandchildren to go to China as vassals, I hope that when they appear in China in the future, they will be suzerains or even masters......"
Arima Masamune was shocked. As Yamamoto said, the navy has always been reluctant to support the expansion of the "Shina Incident", and they have always believed that the current strength of the empire is not enough to completely defeat Shina, so in order to avoid falling into a war of attrition, maintaining the current advantage is already a victory. The Navy's stance on the "China Incident" has always been determined by the "Iron Triangle of the Navy." Now, although Mitsumasa Yonechi, the mainstay of the Iron Triangle, has withdrawn from the front line, he still exerts an important influence in the navy with the connections he has accumulated in the past. Arima Masafumi couldn't help but speculate that Yamamoto's change of stance on the "Shina Incident" was his personal meaning, or the meaning of the "Navy Iron Triangle"? If it's the unanimity of the Iron Triangle, then what does that mean? This will mean that the Admiralty may become another protagonist in the "China War", and he, as the brigade commander of the only "special brigade" of the Combined Fleet Marine Corps, will have more opportunities to get ahead. Thinking of this, Arima's eyes became deeper, he bowed deeply, and said, "Your Excellency, whatever your decision is, I will do my best to support it!" ”
In the past, although Yamamoto 56 launched the Pacific War and planned the "sneak attack on Pearl Harbor", he was always a "** person" in the Japanese military department. What made Yamamoto change so much? Xiaoquan is a factor, and then Ouyang Yun.
Since Yamamoto learned about Ouyang Yun's identity as a "descendant" from Xiaoquankou, he realized that the weapons and equipment of the Xuebing Army would be higher than the level of the World Realm. Thinking of Ouyang Yun's outright hatred for Japan, he became worried, worried about what kind of retaliation he would receive from the Xuebing Army once Japan was defeated in the future. He already had this consideration in his heart, and now that he was attacked again, Koizumi, who he regarded as the future of the empire, was hit hard and his life and death were unknown, which was too big a blow to him. After careful consideration, he felt that if the empire wanted to get rid of the fate of defeat and escape the gravitational pull of the historical trajectory, there would be only one way to go-"The 'Shina Incident' must be carried out to the end, and only success and failure must be carried out!" Otherwise, the empire will fall into the abyss, and there will be no future again! It is based on this idea that he will say the above sour words to Arima Masamune like a depressed poet.
Ouyang Yun did not expect that the assassination operation he planned against Koizumi Toshiichiro not only failed to kill Koizumi, but also turned Yamamoto into a war gambler.
Yamamoto's change directly led to a change in the strategic thinking of the Japanese Navy, and is this a good thing or a bad thing for the fragile China?