Chapter 835: 836 Reinforcements Arrive

If Germany in 1939 was militarily triumphant and had an invincible demeanor, then since entering 1939, the Japanese Navy in the Pacific Theater really had a tragic and gloomy atmosphere.

No matter how provocative the Japanese Navy was, and even the frenzied invasion of the Indian border near Burma, the Nimitz could not lead the big fish out of Nimitz. The U.S. Navy fleet showed no signs of any large-scale action, except for the occasional harassment of Wake Island.

Yamamoto Isoroku was completely desperate, he knew the weak nature of Japan's efforts to throze and then decline, and then exhausted, and was caught right by the Americans. The U.S. Navy fleet is expanding at a rate visible to the naked eye, and although there is still a significant gap between the two sides in the number of battleships, the U.S. Navy has recently commissioned three converted escort aircraft carriers, and there are even more destroyers and cruisers, which is not what Yamamoto wants to see, nor is it the result that the Japanese Navy expects.

As the losses intensified and the war became more and more out of control, there were some voices in the Japanese base camp who questioned Yamamoto, and some people even believed that they could not sit back and wait for defeat to come, but should at least fight with a powerful combined fleet.

But everything is just like the prophecy that Yamamoto said to his boss before, the Japanese Navy will be invincible in one year, and it may not lose in two years, but it will not be guaranteed in three years. Now that the year is not over, the word invincible of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy has become somewhat ironic.

Perhaps the year 1939 was a bit of a mismatch for both the German Navy and the Japanese Navy, the German Navy was locked in the harbor due to fuel shortages, and did not even have the opportunity to go to sea to fight, while the Japanese Navy struggled near the Marshall Islands, wanting to fight to the death but also had no chance of fighting. It can really be said that the passing year is unfavorable, and everything is not going well.

What annoyed Yamamoto Isoroku was not only these, what really made him desperate was that now that the situation had deteriorated, many Japanese soldiers could not see clearly the embarrassment of the empire in front of them, and they were arrogant and arrogant that the current Great Japanese Empire was in the most powerful era in history, and it was the era that they single-handedly created.

The army and navy continued to habitually engage in infighting, and the intensity was a headache for the emperor. The army is plotting to pinch all kinds of soft persimmons, trying to enter India to seize the British colonies in India, and unrealistically fantasize about competing with the Germans to occupy the Middle East and control more oil-producing areas.

These blind and arrogant guys are not willing to spread out the map and take a closer look at the current divisions of the Japanese army, which have spread from the so-called "Manchuria" to Hebei, and then from Shandong to Shanghai and Nanjing, and then to Guangzhou and other rich places, Hong Kong and Taiwan, all the way to the Philippines and Malaysia, where the Japanese army has displayed soldiers.

Further east is Australia, an almost giant sinkhole, so large that the Japanese immigrants could not fill the vast desert. To the west, including Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, and Burma, Japan's forces had spread to the limit of its reach, and even in Chinese mainland, where war was raging, it was no longer able to reinforce a decent army.

Having poured so many troops into such a scattered battlefield and then making their own troops unable to clench into fists, the Japanese soldiers had lived in an island nation for so long, that longing for their own vastness, once unleashed, was as uncontrollable as a flood of beasts. They unscrupulously expanded and invaded, but forgot that they were just a gluttonous snake, not the real Nine Heavens Divine Dragon.

In another time and space, when the Japanese Army launched an attack on the Battle of Imphal, the battle plan drawn up by the almost idiotic can prove how far the army officers at that time had been carried away by the victory. The whole army actually embarked on an expedition with insufficient logistical supplies, shouting the slogan of taking Imphal and eating Churchill, feeling that victory was at hand.

No one could have imagined that in March 1944, in another time and space, when the Germans were doomed to lose the Soviet-German war and the Japanese Navy had been drawn by the Americans, a Japanese general nicknamed Little Tojo actually said something like this: "The army has reached the point of invincibility in the world!"

In the eyes of the officers of the Japanese army, if the idiots of the navy could not handle the matter, the army would have to succeed in every possible way, and since the navy could not win the battle if it lost its islands, then the army must win a victory, so that the admirals could see who was the most powerful army in the Japanese Empire.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the army will apply for supplies when Yamamoto Isoroku is facing Nimitz and prepare to launch a "New Imphal Battle". No one knows exactly what they were thinking, but they chose a day similar to another time and space -- March, when the rainy season was approaching in Myanmar.

Of course, although it seems that the Japanese high-level officials are now similar to Guo Degang and Yu Qian standing on the stage in terms of expansion plans and actual actions, the soldiers under their command who are not afraid of death and have high faith have still come to the present despite this unfavorable factor. And these parties don't think there's anything wrong with their approach to a funny strategic plan, they're all solving problems in a serious way, at least that's what they think.

Yamamoto scoffed at the plan to attack India, and he was reluctant to even ask about the implementation of the whole plan, and now he was anxiously awaiting his reinforcements in the Marshall Islands, that is, a batch of new warships that had been built in time, and the super battleship Yamato, which was regarded as a secret weapon.

The construction of the battleship Yamato was started several years earlier by Japan, because Germany started the war ahead of schedule, so that Japan also accelerated the construction of the Yamato. In the end, the completion date of this battleship was brought forward to April 39, which made the Japanese Navy the world's leading naval power in terms of battleship strength.

Once this battleship is commissioned, the Japanese Navy's battleship strength will become the best in the world, and the dream that no country can defeat Japan by artillery battles is about to become a reality. Yamamoto Isoroku planned to use this battleship as the core to launch a decisive battle against the United States, using the Yamato to surprise the American fleet in a carefully selected sea area and sink those unpleasant American aircraft carriers.

"Your Excellency Marshal! The telegram news came last night that because the battleship Yamato was about to enter service, some escort ships were sent in advance to get used to the matters of command and coordination. An officer knocked on the door and walked into Yamamoto's lounge, his face full of exhaustion, after all, the Japanese Navy has not had a good time lately.

Although the Japanese Navy scored an excellent record of 12 to 18 and sunk 18 destroyers at the cost of sinking 12 destroyers, no one in the top echelons of the Japanese Combined Fleet could laugh.

The United States launched almost 20 destroyers in the past few months, and it can be said that more and more destroyers were being launched, while Japan only launched a pitiful 4 destroyers in the same time. The huge industrial capacity of the United States was the first to act on the navy and air force, so the Japanese felt the pressure of that powerful industry earlier than Germany.

"Oh?" finally waited for reinforcements, which made Yamamoto Fifty-six barely cheer up, even the most brilliant victory, could not hide the fact that the Combined Fleet was sunk and lost ground, and the troops were lost. Therefore, what can improve morale more than how many enemies are destroyed is how many new warships come.

So Yamamoto stood up and motioned to his assistant to bring him his clothes: "Let's go! Go to the docks! I will personally greet these Imperial Navy officers and men who have come from afar! They will become the new force of the United Fleet!"

"Then I'll make a call to the harbor, and ask the captains of the newly arrived destroyers and supply ships not to leave their posts, and wait for you to come and meet you, Marshal. The assistant was very familiar with the phone, and began to arrange the marshal's temporary itinerary.

In the Marshall Islands, the temporary barge of the Japanese fleet, on a simple dock, the stirring melody of the military band sounded for the first time in a long time. The Japanese naval marshal personally came to meet with all the captains of the destroyer escort fleet who had arrived from mainland China for reinforcements.

Among these destroyers is the latest Japanese destroyer, which can be said to be the latest destroyer of the Japanese Navy. Yamamoto shook hands with each captain with a spring breeze on his face, and encouraged them to fight bravely in the combined fleet with earnest words.

"When I see you young, I think of myself. He walked up to the last destroyer captain, saluted each other, patted each other on the shoulder, and said, "You are the future of the Imperial Navy, the hope of the Imperial Navy!

He spoke impassionedly, and the young destroyer commanders listened to their blood boiling. Most of these people had never experienced a real naval battle, and they still firmly believed in the invincibility of the Japanese navy. So in their opinion, the time has come to make contributions and achieve their naval dreams.

The young officer, who was patted on the shoulder by Yamamoto Isoroku, saluted with excitement and responded to Marshal Yamamoto's encouragement with the loudest voice: "I will lead all the officers and men of the ship to fight to the death for the country! Kenjiro Tokita, captain of the destroyer Yukikaze, salutes you, Your Excellency Marshal!"

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