At this moment, in the streets of Tokyo in Japan, Japanese people were singing and dancing, holding lanterns high and singing Kimiyo, celebrating the navy's unprecedented victory in the waters off Guadalcanal. Emperor Hirohito also participated in the lantern parade with great enthusiasm. The Prime Minister

After the imperial meeting, Tojo Hideki, with a flushed face, gathered with Oyama Ryuichi and others at the best restaurant in Machiyama, and began to brag about his wise policies since taking office.|March 8 Literature

The red-faced Tojo Hideki raised his wine glass and said arrogantly: "The victory achieved by the Imperial Navy this time is due to the leadership of His Majesty the Emperor. It is the national policy of the Empire to complete the China Incident and establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Under this, the whole country is united and marches forward to complete the holy cause."

Tojo Hideki can be said to be the most powerful person in Japan since the Meiji Restoration. He holds the posts of land minister, internal minister, minister of culture, minister of commerce and industry, and minister of military supplies.

I have personally experienced it, and if it tastes like shit or it tastes sweet, the Prime Minister of the Empire of Japan will taste it and tell you that it is bullshit. He will record everything very carefully in a small book, but the use of it is beyond his ability.

Limited.

While Tojo Hideki was touting, Admiral Koga Mineichi, the governor of the Yokosuka garrison, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who hurried back to the mainland, were sitting in a very secluded corner, listening to the cooking not far away.

The boast of the army in the pavilion, even though

Winning the war is also the result of the Navy, but the Navy seems to be very low-key? The Navy's low-keyness makes many domestic navy supporters, naval officers and soldiers and the people very confused, but Emperor Hirohito is not arrogant or impetuous towards the navy.

Very satisfied.

In fact, after the First Great Battle of the Pacific, the Navy concealed the true battle situation from Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito. Emperor Hirohito thought that all the warships he gave to the Navy were intact, thinking that it was still the same ship.

The combined fleet fills Tokyo Bay and covers the sky with its iron wings.|March 8th Literature Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice to Mountains and Rivers 828

Before the Battle of Guadalcanal, Admiral Koga Mineichi strongly opposed the use of the Yokosuka garrison and the special marines to attack Guadalcanal. Sure enough, the worst expectations came true. The Yokosuka garrison and the special marines were defeated by the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

The amphibious warfare force was defeated.

As an admiral of the Japanese Navy, Koga Hoiichi knew that the main reason for the Japanese defeat in the Battle of Guadalcanal was arrogance. The Naval Headquarters and the General Staff Headquarters lacked the necessary ideological preparation for the US military's strategic counterattack, and therefore made arbitrary decisions.

Wrong judgment, the Japanese military command has always had deep-rooted ideas, and the U.S. military's counterattack did not begin until after 1943.

In fact, the losses of the Americans are far less than those in the Japanese battle reports. Normally, the battle reports of the warring countries are in duplicate, one is for public release, and the other is for self-examination and deployment of the next step.

However, the Japanese only had one battle report, and the Japanese themselves were not convinced of the authenticity of this battle report.

Fighting with something they don't believe in as an intelligence area? It's abnormal for the Japanese to go barefoot. It is based on this idea that the Japanese army tries to push the front as far forward as possible before the US military counterattacks, and does not want to

Premature transition to the so-called Pacific Strategic Defense.

At first, the Japanese navy believed that since the US military's strategic counterattack was not yet ready, it would not encounter any obstruction if it continued to advance towards the Solomon Islands. Only then did it dare to cross hundreds of nautical miles in one fell swoop and build an airport on Guadalcanal. This approach was simply impossible.

Not aware of the threats they face, from pulling

Between Baoer and Guadalcanal for hundreds of nautical miles, there was no forward base that could provide central support. On Guadalcanal, they only focused on building an airport in a surprise attack and neglected necessary defensive preparations. This made the Japanese army on the island vulnerable to the sudden attack of the US military, both spiritually and materially.

Unprepared, they suffered heavy losses under the attack of the Chinese and American coalition forces.

It can be said that this is all thanks to the separation of military powers by the Japanese, because since 1893, Japan's Army General Staff Headquarters and Navy Command Department have been two completely independent and equal commanding agencies, commanding the army and navy respectively, although a base camp was later established

, as the supreme commanding authority, but due to the deep-rooted conflicts between the army and navy, it is still difficult to implement unified command.

The supreme commander of Japan's military forces is nominally the Emperor of Japan. In fact, there are not many opportunities for the Emperor to directly command, and it is difficult for him to play the role of unified command. In Japan, no one can command both the army and the navy at the same time.

When there is a dispute over a certain issue, the base camp has no choice but to coordinate the two sides to compromise and pass a compromise plan, but even this plan does not really work. When the battle is in progress, the army and navy often go their own way.

Moreover, in order to avoid unnecessary friction between the army and the navy, the base camp designated certain areas as the army or the navy, and each had its own responsibilities. However, the shortcoming of this was that the army and the navy were blocked from communicating with each other, just like the battle on Guadalcanal.

Generally, it was placed under the responsibility of the Navy. At first, no Army was involved. The Army had no idea about the Navy building an airport on Guadalcanal. It waited until it realized that the Americans might land on Guadalcanal, and then pieced together the Hyakutake Haru.

The Yimu detachment under Kyrgyzstan's 17th Army was sent to Guadalcanal.

At this moment, the Japanese army generals were deceived by the lies of the navy and thought that the war was going well. After planning to solve the Far East problem, they turned around to give the Chinese army a blow and focused on solving the Chinese battlefield and the Southeast Asian battlefield. After all, the purpose of the Pacific war was to frighten the United States, and

It's not about defeating the Americans. Even Hideki Tojo, who has no brains, knows that the United States cannot be defeated by Japan.

Whether it is Koga Hoichi who is sitting here with a frustrated look on his face, or Yamamoto Isoroku who is silent on the side, they have clearly realized that strategically, the Japanese Navy's combat intentions for the Pangashima battle have greatly exceeded their expectations.

own combat capabilities.

The General Staff Headquarters, unaware of the actual situation, has always had the ambition to continue large-scale expansion, because since the Meiji Restoration, it has formulated a national policy of outward expansion. After that, it has been continuously improved and evolved into a continental strategy. In short, it has carried out crazy expansion on a large scale.

However, Japan lacks strategic talents. Most of the staff officers who make decisions in the General Staff Headquarters have the rank of major or lieutenant colonel. It is really difficult for a group of rigid-minded people who only know how to read maps to command millions of troops to fight on the map. Under Yamamoto Fifty

In Liu's eyes, they were a group of lunatics who were everywhere stirring up trouble.

Isoroku Yamamoto has actually long been full of complaints about these staff officers at the base camp and the General Staff Headquarters. Remotely commanding Japan's most important strategic force, the Combined Fleet, thousands of kilometers away? This is simply unreasonable and unimaginable. What he did
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