After Yamamoto finished speaking, although he did not clearly identify who the current enemy of the empire was, many naval generals who were obsessed with dominating the oceans already knew it. Some fanatics among them even shouted: "America."
Yamamoto glanced at the man approvingly, nodded and said, "Yes, it's the United States."
History has made a huge joke here. At that time and space, Yamamoto was the Japanese naval general who was most opposed to war with the United States. But now, he has become the planner and promoter of this strategy.
In the Japanese military at that time, the Army had suffered heavy losses in two campaigns to encircle and suppress the army, and its dominant position had been replaced by the Navy. As the current de facto decision-maker of the Navy, Yamamoto had already made a plan. The naval generals, including Prime Minister Yoneuchi Mitsumasa, started discussions around this, and Tojo's proposal to change the system of the Western Expedition Fleet was shelved.
The meeting was completely off-topic, and he was ignored. Tojo felt very unhappy. The old Japanese saw a group of admirals with red eyes surrounding Yamamoto Isoroku and asked him this and that. He cursed in a low voice: "Ba Ge, the Yankees are Are they so easy to fight? They are a bunch of whimsical guys."
Tojo was the Prime Minister of the Land and Yamamoto was the Prime Minister of the Sea. The two of them were very close. Tojo thought that he had lowered his voice so that no one else could hear him. Who knew that Yamamoto had been paying attention to him, but he heard it anyway. Yamamoto only worked in Tokyo. He stayed for a short time, so he was determined to help Koizumi deal with the negative impact caused by the prisoner of war incident, so he immediately used the topic to play, waved his hand to stop others from talking, stared at Yamajo and asked: "Sanjo-kun, what did you say?"
Yamamoto's aggressive attitude made Yamajo even more unhappy. He grinned coldly and said, "Did I say that Americans are so easy to fight? You are asking for your own destruction."
"Ba Ge, are you still from Yamato? You actually said such things?" Yamamoto slammed the table and shouted.
"Am I wrong? How many battleships does the Empire have, and how many battleships does the United States have? With the current naval strength of the Empire, a war with the United States would be self-destructive." Tojo stood up, staring at Goldfish Eyes and Yamamoto. Looking at each other angrily, like an enraged fighting cock,
Yamamoto was furious and was about to fight back. Mitsumasa Yoneuchi looked at Tojo and said: "Whether you want to destroy yourself or start a great cause of empire domination of the ocean from now on, Tojo is not the one who can decide. Don't forget, if it is not the navy, The Western Expedition Fleet occupied the Dutch East Indies, and now the empire is facing an oil crisis." Then he said to Yamamoto: "Yamamoto-kun, the United States is not China. It concerns the fate of the empire, so you must be cautious."
Yonei is Yamamoto's old boss. Yamamoto may not buy into other people's faults, but he dare not be rude to him. He quickly half-bowed and said: "Your Excellency, you know my personality. Since I dare to announce it to the public today, then I must We are absolutely sure, Your Excellency, this matter must not be leaked at all, please,."
"I know that those who are qualified to sit here are the pillars of the empire, and they will not be ungrateful."
"Hai." Yamamoto bowed to Minai, then took out a book from his briefcase, showed the cover of the book to everyone, and said: "Everyone, has anyone read this book? Book."
All the navy generals immediately replied that they had seen it, and among the army generals, some people also replied after looking at Tojo's face.
Yamamoto put the book in front of him and said slowly: "This book is a novel published in Washington, USA in 1925. It's called "The Great Pacific War". It tells the story of a fleet of our country's sneak attack on the United States. Things about Pearl Harbor, Guam and the Philippine Islands. When this book was published, I was serving as the military attache of the embassy in Washington. I bought this book immediately after I saw it and read it thoroughly. Dear gentlemen, we should be grateful. The author of this book provides us with a practical way to go to war with the United States..."
Different from that time and space, the "author" of the Japanese Navy's plan to attack Pearl Harbor this time was not Yamamoto, but the time traveler Koizumi Minichiro. It was because of Koizumi's suggestion that Yamamoto remembered what he saw in Washington several years ago. This book, he immediately went home and dug out the book and read it through. Then, based on Koizumi's suggestions, a mature plan appeared in his mind. He came to Tokyo this time precisely for He promoted his plan to attack Pearl Harbor to Emperor Hirohito and the military. As Koizumi wished, he named the operation "Tora, Tiger, Tiger." in the plan and firmly believed that as long as the sneak attack could be successful, If the U.S. Pacific Fleet is defeated at Pearl Harbor, Japan will be able to gain control of the Pacific within a certain period of time. With this period of time as a buffer and Southeast Asia's rich strategic resources providing development impetus, Japan will be able to build a larger fleet. Then it has the capital to completely defeat the United States and dominate the Pacific. When Japan completely controls the Pacific and then sends its troops to attack China, both the Central Army and the Xuebing Army will be vulnerable. At this point, Japan can be considered to have completely established its presence in Asia. Keep your footing...
Yamamoto started from the book "The Great Pacific War" and spent more than half an hour talking about the significance and specific action plan of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Before he could finish speaking, he and everyone in the audience, including Hideki Tojo, started talking. They were all dumbfounded. Then, when he took out the plan and circulated it to everyone, everyone looked at each other and woke up.
"That's crazy." Hideki Tojo was the first to express his opinion: "Are Americans fools? There are nearly twenty main warships. How could such a huge fleet travel 3,500 nautical miles to Pearl Harbor and avoid American reconnaissance? , once discovered by the Americans, it would be no different from a direct declaration of war. Would the Americans think that we were on a friendly visit? I remember that before the Western Expedition Fleet set out for Southeast Asia, some people were worried that the Americans might hinder our actions, but In fact, so far, Americans have only verbally protested. In that case, why do we want to fight the powerful United States? Yamamoto-kun also admitted that China is the biggest enemy of the empire. As long as the China incident is not resolved, , going to war with Britain is already taking a risk, and now you want to provoke the United States again, huh, I firmly oppose it."
"Your Excellency, what's your opinion?" Yamamoto looked at Mitsumasa Yoneuchi,
Mitsumasa Yoneuchi put down the plan book in his hand and raised his head. He glanced at everyone first. When he found that almost all the naval admirals were in a state of fanaticism, he began to worry about it. He looked at Tojo and asked: "Tōjo Mr. Tiao, do you know that the transport fleet was attacked a few days ago?"
Tojo nodded,
Mine: "We have enough evidence to prove that it was an American submarine that did it."
Tojo was startled,
"It can be inferred from this that the previous attack on the Kaga must have been done by the Americans. If the Americans dared to sneak attack us, they should have thought about the consequences of being discovered by us. This shows that the Americans have already done a good job. Instead of waiting for the Americans to declare war, why don't we take the initiative to catch them off guard with a sneak attack? Since we are going to fight sooner or later, why not just accomplish something in one fell swoop? The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is indeed very risky, but if it succeeds ,,As Yamamoto-kun said, the empire will gain control of the Pacific Ocean for a long time, which will be enough to ensure the smooth expansion of the empire in Southeast Asia..."
Mitsumasa Yonai's blaming of the attack on the "Kaga" aircraft carrier on the Americans was not empty talk. Before the Song-class submarine of the Xuebing Army was exposed, and the British Z Fleet was blocked in the Indian Ocean, besides the United States, there were other Which country has such strength?
Tojo was speechless now.
The "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger." action plan was actually approved by the Japanese Military Ministry. The Pacific War was not far away.