Chapter 6, Iron Ambition: Under the Empire of the Rising Sun Although he said that he wanted to "share the joys and sorrows with the Australian soldiers," as a "base camp staff officer" who basically stayed in the imperial capital of Tokyo during the entire war, Hattori Takushiro reluctantly took a few mouthfuls of urea-rich, smelly The overwhelming kangaroo meat made me unable to swallow any more, so I just kept drinking. yznn But Tsuji Masanobu was not too selfish.
He pushed the can of kangaroo meat aside and asked about the current situation of the battlefield in mainland China.
"What can we do on the battlefield in China?
We have been shrinking our troops to the coastal areas, disengaging, and letting Wang Jingwei's people take the lead.
Since we completely abandoned Shanxi and Mongolia the year before last, and abandoned Wuhan last year, we gave up again this spring.
Nanchang and Shandong Province were also completely lost to the Chinese Communist Army, and the defense of Anhui was handed over to the Chinese friendly forces.
The railway lines connecting the occupied areas were completely cut off, and communication with each other could only be achieved by sea.
His Excellency Neiji Okamura of Peiping was very dissatisfied with this.
He originally took advantage of the quarrel between the China Communist Army and the Chongqing Army and the riots of hungry people in Henan last year to organize a large-scale offensive against the Tang Enbo Corps of the Chongqing Army entrenched in Henan.
What happened?
Instead of providing support, the base camp transferred two of his divisions to Australia, and another division to Zhejiang to block the coastline.
Now Henan has become the base area of the Chinese Communist Army.
In Hebei, the imperial army was also forced to abandon all the territory south of Shijiazhuang, Shimen.
The plainclothes teams of the Eighth Route Army have already reached the edge of the Forbidden City."
"You're joking and attacking.
According to me, Okamura Neji's North China Expeditionary Force should simply abandon Pingjin and withdraw to Manchukuo.
This would save a lot of manpower.
I doubt General Okamura knows what his troops are doing now.
Or maybe he was just pretending to be confused.
I heard in the spring of this year that this guy had been leading the security forces deployed in watchtowers in the countryside of the eastern Hebei region for more than half a year.
Without the minimum rations, he secretly sold out all his military uniforms, quilts and ammunition in order to fill his stomach.
In the end, he was so depressed that he worked as a tenant farmer for the local Chinese landlord, and was treated as a joke by the Chinese radio station.
They were exposed, but the base camp still refused to mobilize these idle troops to Australia.
Does the base camp want to win the war, or is it simply ready to surrender to the white beasts of the United States and Britain?"
Colonel Tsuji Masanobu said carelessly, but Hattori Takushiro was so frightened that his expression suddenly changed, "Tsuji-kun, be careful what you say."
"It's okay.
The war will eventually end.
Since those big guys dare to do it, why don't we little guys say a few words?"
Colonel Masanobu Tsuji waved his hand disapprovingly, but did not continue.
Instead, he talked about the military supply that was most criticized by the frontline soldiers.
Although Japan had a very sufficient labor force before the war, and Japanese workers also had a fine tradition of diligence and hard work, and were very loyal to the factory and their own jobs, after the war began, Japan's domestic industrial production shifted to wartime.
The process of the system was very bad.
This is largely due to the government's lack of reasonable overall economic planning and purely focusing on output as the ultimate goal.
As a result, policies and orders of various departments conflict with each other, and resources and factories The mismatch in production capacity not only dampens the enthusiasm of workers, but also reduces output.
The most fundamental problem is that the departments responsible for domestic economic production and the recruitment agencies lack cooperation and even lack the most basic communication.
The staff at the base camp, who are deeply influenced by Bushido beliefs, take it for granted that every Japanese is a warrior of His Majesty the Emperor.
You can go to fight, but the result is that the engineers, technicians, leaders, mechanics and skilled workers in the factory are all captured and sent to the army.
Leaving the factory with no skilled workers available, resulting in a significant decline in both the output and quality of various arms.
For example, a supervisor working at Hitachi Electronics said, "We have recruited a thousand skilled workers.
In order to ensure production, we must find 4,000 novices to replace them, and the quality cannot be guaranteed."
What's even worse is that many large companies or factories rely on hundreds of small companies to provide production raw materials and spare parts.
In Japan, many small companies only have two or three technicians.
If the technicians who master key processes in these small companies are suddenly captured and sent to the army, then the entire production of this company will be destroyed, which will cause a chain reaction, eventually causing the entire production of large assembly plants to stop because a certain part cannot be in place.
In addition to unscientific and indiscriminate recruitment, which wastes a large number of technical talents, another problem in Japan's domestic military production is the indiscriminate intervention of the military in factories.
Today's Japanese Empire has essentially been taken over by the base camp, and most of the senior army and navy officers do not have any knowledge of business or production technology.
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Under the supervision of these officers, various factories have been forced to switch to military production.
Regardless of the technical capabilities of these factories.
As a result, many weird and embarrassing things happened, such as asking spinning factories to produce bullets and pottery workshops to bake telescopes.
In the end, they produced a bunch of unprecedented weird and tearful defective products, which not only wasted precious raw materials, but also wasted a lot of money.
A lot of manpower and electricity were used, and time was wasted.
The craziest case is the Mitsubishi Aircraft Factory located near Nagoya.
It was originally just a factory that produced canned beef.
However, the base camp threw away a drawing and ordered it to be temporarily converted into an aircraft manufacturing factory.
God knows how those officers combined canned food and fighter jets. associated with each other.
And at the same time, skilled mechanical engineers were arrested and sent to the army, and they were replaced by some children who had not graduated from school.
The result is as you can imagine.
About half of the Zero fighters and bombers produced by this cannery The above cannot take off at all.
Even though it could barely fly, it still had fatal flaws.
Soon after being sent to the front line, it gained the reputation of "pilot killer" from the officers and soldiers.
The inferior aircraft and tanks produced in this way soon became unusable.
The former could easily stall and disintegrate in the air, while the latter had a random self-destruction function.
Later, even rifles and machine guns had unbearable explosion rates.
Seeing that there was no hope of munitions in the rear, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army on the southern front had no choice but to find their own way.
They recruited technicians from the army and laborers, organized local production using Australia's rich iron ore resources, and miraculously produced it quickly.
Many production lines for bullets, rifles, machine guns, grenades and mortars were established.
For large mechanical parts or precision cutting-edge products that cannot be produced, we can only rely on "foreign orders."
Although the oil fields in Indonesia, the Dutch East Indian colony, were seized, due to limitations in refining capacity, the Japanese army still had a gap in fuel supply during the Pacific War.
Therefore, before the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan signed a secret agreement with the Soviet Union.
During the peace period between the two countries, Japan could import tens of thousands of tons of fuel to the Soviet Union every year, mainly heavy oil for naval warships.
Later, due to some secret contacts and private communications, the scope of imports expanded to include aluminum ingots for aircraft production, as well as second-hand Soviet merchant ships, etc.
Next, in view of the desperate situation of domestic military production, the headquarters, especially the navy, actually began to bite the bullet and order various parts from the Soviet Union.
Later, some weapons were also entrusted to the Soviet Union for processing and manufacturing.
I really don’t know how the Russians could squeeze out so much production capacity while crushing the German Nazis on the Western Front.
This year, in view of the domestic food crisis, Japan has even begun to try to import food from Russia.
Although the taste of those Russian brown bread is so sour that it is difficult to eat, the food rations available to Japanese civilians during the war were only two rations per day.
Three scoops of 330 grams of rice, which is still the kind of brown rice that has not even been peeled off, is only half a pound in comparison.
It would be nice to have something to eat during the war, but I don’t dare to be too picky.
Massive blood transfusions from the Soviet Union allowed the Japanese empire's already crumbling war machine to barely run for a while longer, but these foreign goods were not free, and credit was not allowed.
In order to pay the bills, Japan initially relied on public donations to collect hard currency such as precious metals.
Later, the gold and silver in the country were depleted, and the oil and water in North Korea and the Chinese-occupied areas had long been squeezed out.
The Japanese army went on a rampage in Southeast Asia, digging into the ground to collect various tropical specialties.
They even ransacked Buddhist temples in Myanmar and scraped gold leaf backs from Buddha statues.
He got a devilish reputation, but the benefits went to the Russian moron.
If it is just to support war with war, then that's fine.
The Japanese army has been doing this before.
But the problem is that the Soviet Union used the excuse to consider the sentiments of its Chinese colleagues and maintain the internal unity of the Communist International, and did not want to see the steel it produced being smashed on the heads of its Chinese brothers.
Therefore, Japan was required to import materials from the Soviet Union only for use in the navy.
The Soviet machinery factories only accepted orders from the Japanese Navy.
It happened that Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who was originally from the army, had fallen by this time and was sent to be the commander of the military police.
The new Prime Minister, His Excellency Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, was born in the navy, so he naturally readily agreed to such a proposal that would benefit his own people.
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As a result, the channels for importing strategic materials and industrial products from the Soviet Union were completely monopolized by the Japanese Navy, and were basically only used for combat against the United States.
The Army in Nanyang could still benefit from the glory, but the Army in the Chinese battlefield could not get even a cent.
The Army Staff Headquarters was so angry that the Navy cursed the Navy for "colluding with the Soviet Union and being polluted by red ideas."
Moreover, according to the opinion of Colonel Hattori Takushiro, Chief of the Operations Section of the General Staff Headquarters, this statement of attacking the navy does not seem to be entirely groundless.
"According to reliable intelligence, Yamamoto Isoroku ran a huge smuggling network within the navy, reselling various materials wantonly in the empire and throughout the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, undermining the country's wartime economic control.
Even Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yoneuchi involved" Hattori Takushiro said gloomily, "Moreover, what the navy does is not just smuggling Soviet supplies and Nanyang goods.
Various red ideas are also spreading within the frontline navy.
Many of Marshal Yamamoto's measures in the Nanyang controlled area, such as the military The directly-operated enterprises, such as Juntun Farm, all have obvious socialist overtones.
The Special High School has issued warnings many times, but instead they were ordered to talk.”
However, the Australian Army under Colonel Tsuji Masanobu was able to share some of the things that the Navy obtained privately because it had fought side by side with the Combined Fleet for a long time.
Although the taste of eating navy leftovers is not pleasant, at least it is a soft-spoken and short-handed approach, so I don't take it seriously.
"If the wartime economic control was not destroyed, if domestic control had not made a mess, even qualified military products would not be guaranteed."
Supply, will the frontline soldiers need to engage in various crooked ways?
Now talking about this, do you want to overthrow the government or simply have another Nomenkan incident to fight with the Red Army?"
"It wouldn't be a bad idea to have another Nomenkan Incident."
Takushiro Hattori suddenly said in a low and sinister voice, "Someone in the Kwantung Army suggested that they could have a friction with the Soviet Union in the Far East.
Regardless of victory or defeat, they could show their goodwill to the United States.
Conducive to opening up peace talks with the United States."
"It's ridiculous, it's irresponsible and it's suicide.
The few elite divisions and brigades that the Kwantung Army could fight are now either completely wiped out, or they are in Nanyang and Australia.
The current Kwantung Army is just an empty frame.
What can they do with the Red Army?"
Are you going to fight those old, weak women and children with bamboo guns in the Manchuria Development Corps?
Besides, this idea itself is fanciful, and you take it for granted that you are talking in your sleep.
Who stipulated that as long as you provoke the Soviet Union, you can please the United States?"
Colonel Tsuji Masanobu immediately became angry, "If this is really done, the US military will only be overjoyed, quickly strengthen its offensive, and then join forces with the Soviet Union to carve up the empire.
By then, even the homeland will not be able to be saved, and Tokyo may have to suffer a nuclear bomb.
Who would mess up at this time?
, that is the sinner of the empire."
"The Soviet atomic bomb, well, this is indeed a problem.
It is a very serious problem.
It seems that the General Staff Headquarters must quickly send people to Manchuria to clean up military discipline.
We must not let those guys who are used to walking alone and conquering the enemy cause another collapse.
A disaster is coming."
Hattori Takushiro was shocked at first, but then he continued to ask unwillingly, "But is it true that the empire cannot obtain a decent peace from the United States now?"
"Hattori-kun, give up.
The empire will never be able to compromise with the United States now."
Tsuji Masanobu shook his head and said categorically, "In the first two years of the war, there was still a possibility.
At that time, in order to concentrate its power on Europe, the United States might treat Japan a little tolerantly.
But now that the dust on the European battlefield has settled, the United States They only grabbed half of Italy in the south, which was not even considered worthless.
It was just enough to fill their teeth.
If the Yankees wanted to fill their stomachs, they could only defeat the imperial army on the Pacific side.
Therefore, unless Japan surrenders unconditionally, or the United States and the Soviet Union immediately break up and start fighting in Europe, but when the Soviet Union shows off its atomic bomb, the latter seems to have little hope, otherwise the United States would rather unite with the Soviet Union to carve up the empire, or Those who refuse to make a peace treaty with us.”
"The American will to fight is really so strong.
So many people have died and so much blood has been shed."
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"It is precisely because they have died so many people and shed so much blood that they must persist in fighting to the end."
Tsuji Masanobu smiled bitterly and said, "We fought too well in Nanyang and Australia before and beat the US military too hard, so now we can no longer be submissive.
Hattori-kun, you have also read the history of ancient Western wars.
You should know what the Roman Empire was like."
Treating the Carthaginians: Killing the whole family, eradicating the roots , even the ruins of the city of Carthage had to be sprinkled with salt so that no grass would grow in this place.
Why?
It wasn’t because Hannibal, the former famous Carthage general, beat the Romans too hard and accumulated too many Hatred and fear, so once you have the opportunity, you must put it to death before giving up.
If the United States chooses to give up instead of persisting to the end after suffering a bloody blow in Japan, then let alone succeeding Britain as the world hegemon, even South America, which was originally regarded as its own backyard, may not be able to succeed.
Stable.
So let’s not have any illusions.
American politicians basically have no tradition of compromising with their enemies.
Especially since we started this war in the first place.”
At this point, both officers sighed sadly.
The prospect of this war against the United States is already clear: no matter how much we win, we will only be able to survive; if we fail once, we will be doomed.
The Japanese Empire seems to be rising and shining brightly, but in fact it has already reached its end and the sun is about to set.
Such a bleak future prospect is simply too heavy to bear.
So after talking about state affairs for a while, they consciously shifted the topic to various romances, and then noticed an unusually pretty and lively petite figure beside Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku in the distance.
This is a girl who looks to be about the age of a primary school student.
She has hair that almost reaches her shoulders.
The hair behind the ears is pulled into two unconventional buns, leaving only the sideburns hanging next to the ears.
Side of face.
Wearing a light blue silk furisode kimono with exquisite patterns, white socks and wooden clogs, and a string of colorful necklaces in her hair, she presented a slightly classical style.
Looking at the clothes, not to mention the workmanship, the materials alone are worth a lot of money, and the face as delicate as a doll.
If you stand there obediently, you really look like someone who grew up in a "evil exploiting class" family. , a well-educated eldest lady.
It's a pity that now she is laughing very rudely, running around swaying her little feet in wooden shoes, holding a box of Western pastries made with cream produced at the Navy Farm in Mount Rokko, Kobe, teasing those who keep drooling.
Air raid refugee children playing After noticing the little girl's unladylike behavior, Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku walked over and scolded her with a straight face.
However, seeing her disapproval, he could only sigh helplessly and stretched out his hand to rub He rubbed her hair and made her squint her eyes comfortably.
Seeing how familiar Marshal Yamamoto was with the kimono lolita, Hattori Takushiro couldn't help but feel curious, "This little girl doesn't look like she's the daughter of Marshal Yamamoto's family.
Could it be that she's the child of one of his relatives and friends?"
"Perhaps she is Marshal Yamamoto's illegitimate daughter.
I heard by chance when I was in Nanyang that Marshal Yamamoto seemed to have raised an illegitimate daughter in Truk.
Not only did he dote on her very much, he even took her to the flagship Yamato.
Play."
Colonel Masanobu Tsuji casually guessed, "Perhaps when I came to Tokyo on the Yukikaze destroyer this time, I took her with me for a walk."
"Is that so?
I remember that Admiral Nelson also had a similar romantic affair.
Are all the famous naval admirals in the world such a romantic person?"
However, what Colonel Tsuji Masanobu didn't know was that Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku had more than one "illegitimate daughter".
And the reason why they ignored naval discipline and appeared on the warship was not just Marshal Yamamoto's "pampering" oshow7: