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 of their fanatics 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that time, the Army had suffered heavy losses in two campaigns against the Japanese Army, and its dominant position had been replaced by the Navy.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, discussed 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? A bunch of whimsical guys!"
Tojo was the Prime Minister of the Land and Yamamoto was the Prime Minister of the Sea. The two were very close to each other. 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, so he heard it anyway. Because 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 a thing?!" 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, what is the point of going to war with the United States if it is not self-destruction?" Tojo stood up, staring at Goldfish Eyes and Yamamoto.
He stared 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 dominating 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 of it. Your Excellency, this matter must not be leaked at all. Please also-"
"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 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.
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 the book immediately after seeing 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 this book and read it through. Then, based on Koizumi's suggestions, a mature plan appeared in his chest. 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 attack on Pearl Harbor could be successful,
If the U.S. Pacific Fleet is defeated in Hong Kong, 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, and
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. Only then will Japan be able to fully establish its foothold in Asia.
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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, 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 20 main battleships. How could such a huge fleet travel 3,500 nautical miles to Pearl Harbor and avoid American reconnaissance?
?Once discovered by the Americans? How is that different from a direct declaration of war? Do the Americans think that we are 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 empire’s biggest enemy. As long as the China incident is not resolved,
, going to war with Britain is already taking a risk, and now we have to provoke the United States again. Hum! I firmly oppose it!"
"Sir, 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 have concerns. He looked at Tojo and asked: "Tojo
Jun, 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 of the consequences of being discovered by us. What does this mean? It means that the Americans have already done a good job
We are ready to go to war with us. Instead of waiting for the Americans to declare war, why don't we take the initiative to sneak attack and catch them off guard? Anyway, we will fight sooner or later, so why not just make a success 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 Xuebing Army's Song-class submarine 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 department - the Pacific War is not far away!