Hideki Tojo may not know that his choice can be said to be the most correct choice made by the entire Japanese army in the northward expansion plan, and this lieutenant general named Ishihara Waner can be said to be a rare front military talent in the Japanese army.

However, the poor "famous general" was not very lucky, and when he was stationed in the Kanto region, he accidentally injured his little brother with his command knife - so he urinated blood all year round, and it was an incurable disease. Although it was not intentionally slandered, the established front-line commander of Japan's northward expansion plan did not have a queen, and it was very likely that he was a ......

In short, the mention of these two words in the book is not very auspicious, and in general, Ishihara's group is a team of heroes, such as Wei Zhongxian, Liu Jin, and Wang Zhen...... There are also martial arts masters, such as Dongfang Undefeated, Lin Pingzhi, and Yue Buqun - they are really outstanding people.

At that time, some people made a specific analysis of the military strength of the world powers, for example, France could only win the war when a woman led the army (Joan of Arc); Italy should not expect victory if its army was not twice as large as the enemy; the Germans, although they were brave, could not get rid of the two-front battle, so their efforts were in vain; Russia never took advantage of a war that it took the initiative to provoke -- now there is another Japan: the Japanese are accustomed to using generals who have trained the Sunflower Book when they fight the battle of fate......

If Italy, Germany's ally, has always shown a level of praise from the beginning to the present, then Japan, the behemoth that dominates Southeast Asia, is definitely a stand-up comedy origin. Because just when its army decided to fight for the future of the empire, the navy came to drag its feet again.

Yes, the naval fleet on Yamamoto's side could no longer withstand the attack of the US Navy -- the Battle of the Solomon Sea kicked off at the same time that the Japanese Army began to gather forces to move north, and the strategic decisive battle between the Japanese Navy and the US Navy began so abruptly.

While the Japanese were still racking their brains about how to replenish the pilots, the three aircraft carriers of the US Navy, which were originally customized by the British Navy, were completed and tested almost simultaneously, and caught up with this tragic sea and air battle.

This time, the naval forces in Yamamoto's hands have not been restored at all, and part of the aircraft carrier fleet is still training pilots in the waters of the Philippines and Taiwan, and several high-level battleships are carrying out radar installation and renovation projects on the mainland. At this time, Yamamoto Fifty-six was of course reluctant to fight a decisive battle, but he did not dare to give up the Solomon Islands at will.

I just got the news that when the Japanese Army was approaching Sydney and other places in Australia, the US Army re-landed in Australia, and the entire 100,000 US Army suddenly made the Japanese Army in Australia dare not act rashly again.

Japan's strategic attempt to completely occupy Australia also came to naught, and the Solomon Islands, close to Australia, became a barrier covering the flank of the entire 230,000 Japanese troops on the Australian mainland. Once the Solomon Islands were lost, these soldiers were destined to become lone soldiers who could not be rescued from ammunition and food, a loss that Japan could not afford in any case.

The Kongo-class battlecruisers were all gone, and more than half of the Japanese Navy's rapid assault battleships were gone. This does not just mean that the Combined Fleet is missing three capital warships for no reason. Rather, it meant that the Japanese Navy's tactics of covering the rapid assault of battleships were basically impossible to implement.

On the other hand, the Japanese Navy, which lacks sufficient naval aviation, has long since forced the two aircraft carriers under the Second Air Fleet, the Soryu and the Flying Dragon, to retreat to Taiwan for reorganization, and this has made Yamamoto 56 have fewer air forces in his hands, and the current combined fleet can be said to be unable to reach even half of its peak combat strength, and the decisive battle at this time is really annoying.

But there is no way to leave like this, retreating in the Marshall Islands without a fight has given Yamamoto Isoroku the nickname of "escape marshal" in the Japanese base camp, and if he runs again in the Solomon Islands, he will not have to go back to Japan, and he will honestly kill himself by cutting his stomach.

"Nangumo-kun, in this situation, our fleet has just replenished fuel from the supply fleet at the transport and supply base in Rabaul, and it can support it for a while, but what I'm most worried about is the size of the American fleet this time. Yamamoto Isoroku looked worriedly at the map on his map table, and said to Nagumo Tadaichi, the commander of the First Air Force beside him: "The Americans have been a shrunken turtle for more than half a year, and now they are suddenly in a hurry to fight, there must be something wrong." ”

"Your Excellency, we have always judged that the Americans should have in their hands three aircraft carriers sufficient to rival us. Personally, I think that the information of the intelligence services is not accurate, and the Americans should have at least 5 or so aircraft carriers in their hands now. Nagumo Zhongichi stared at the map and pointed to Wake Island and the Marshall Islands behind him, and after glancing at Yamamoto Fifty-six, he continued to speak: "The speed of the Americans' counterattack, from very slow and slow, to now, can be said to have undergone a very huge change, and it took them about two months from retaking all Hawaii to counterattacking Midway. ”

Then he said, pointing to Wake Island and other places: "Then the Americans recaptured Wake Island and forced us back to the Marshall Islands, and it took more than a month in the meantime...... But it took only 23 days for them to attack Marshall from Wake Island. ”

The U.S. Navy's combat capability is growing, and the U.S. Navy's fleet is getting bigger. Yamamoto nodded helplessly, acknowledging Nagumo Tadaichi's inference: "But what can we do?

As he spoke, he pointed to the documents on the table, and smiled bitterly before continuing: "Nanyun-kun, those bastards of the army are simply treating the future of the empire as a child's play! While we are fighting hard against the enemy at sea, they are working tirelessly to trap us to death!"

Faced with this kind of question, Nagumo Tadaichi didn't know how to answer, in fact, the Japanese Navy also cheated the Japanese Army in this way, and it did it more than once. The damage he knew was that the Japanese Navy's transport ship had just been sunk by a US Navy submarine, but he did not tell the Japanese Army about the transport. As a result, the U.S. Navy often found that Japanese transport ships had just been sunk, but there were still Japanese ships passing by in dangerous waters.

If you really ask who can pit whom better than the Japanese Navy or the Japanese Army, you can answer it with an afterword -- the crow falls on the coal heap, and no one can say who is black.

This was the case last time, when the army first withdrew the roadbed fighters from the Marshall Islands without concealing from the navy, and the navy did not hesitate, directly leaving the army in the Marshall Islands and fleeing all the way to the Solomons. With this kind of momentum of slashing each other, even hostile countries with bitter hatred may not be able to do it, right?

However, this time the army is really a bit excessive, because they have once again transferred a large part of the planes from the Solomon Islands and Australia, and this has caused the number of Japanese road-based fighters in the entire Pacific Ocean to drop to a sad situation -- the Solomon Islands still has 172 planes, which seems to be a lot, but the actual combat capability is really not much.

Most of these aircraft are relatively backward models, and the shortcomings of nouveau riche like Japan are immediately highlighted when they are at a disadvantage, and the equipment in their hands is too small, resulting in most of them can only be filled with inferior things.

If Germany has been suffering from a shortage of raw materials and has not been able to integrate the production capacity of the European occupation zone, then the current situation in Japan is that we do not have much production capacity at all, so let's talk about the victory of the enemy's aircraft and artillery with the spirit of bushido!

Most of the Japanese weapons were distributed throughout the industrially developed areas of Japan in the form of handicraft workshops. So in another time and space, the U.S. strategic bombing was extremely deadly to Germany, but it was never able to stop Japanese arms production (and most of it, of course). But at such a time, it is absolutely foolish to expect a bunch of handicraft production enterprises to be able to confront an industrial giant like the United States.

If you don't have guns and ammunition, you can take out your opponent with bayonets, and if you don't have artillery, you can use a rifle to take out your opponent, but without planes and warships, you really can't stand up to an enemy who is armed to the teeth. After all, mental power cannot stop the enemy's tank, nor can it crash the enemy's plane.

"I heard that the more reliable commander in the army, Yamashita Fumi, has arrived in the Philippines...... Maybe we can be better off after that. Nagumo Tadaichi finally squeezed out such a sentence, and what he actually wanted to say to Yamamoto Isoroku was: "If it really doesn't work, let's give up the Solomon Islands." ”

Yamamoto glanced at Nagumo Tadashi, of course he knew what he wanted to express behind what his subordinates said, but he waved his hand helplessly, as if to dispel Nagumo's illusions, and as if to strengthen his confidence: "Frustrate the U.S. Navy here and save the defeat...... That's what I'm a soldier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, what should I do......"

"Carry out the 'Dragon Plan' and let the US Navy know that the Japanese Navy is truly the best in the world!" Without waiting for Nagumo Tadashi to persuade him, he made up his mind and clenched his fists and said to his subordinates: "I will personally lead the battleship fleet to lure the US Navy south! You enter the battlefield from the west and flank the US Navy! Annihilate the US Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop!"

"Hey!" Nagumo Tadaichi bowed his head and replied, "Your Excellency Marshal, since you have made up your mind, then I will return to the Kaga aircraft carrier to prepare!"

Long Ling wishes all readers a happy Christmas Eve!