Soldiers can only show their value by fighting in battles. In the same way as Fei, the value of an army's existence is also related to war. The situation in the country at this time is definitely not good. At this time, Marshal Zhang, with nearly 200,000 soldiers,
It is not advisable for the army to stay close to the Myanmar border, no matter what reasons it has. If the Northeast Army can hold on to the Myanmar defense line from the beginning, the Xuebing Army can use Bangkok as a supply point to squeeze the Japanese army out of the southeast.
Peninsula, but unfortunately at the most critical moment, the Northeastern Army fled without saying a word. This was the reason why Ouyang Yun decided to let the young commander go for a while. Of course, it was precisely because the Japanese army invaded Burma and defeated the forces assembled in Burma.
The British Army in India, Ouyang Yun was able to obtain a lot of benefits from the British by threatening to send troops to assist and provide white-tip dolphins, etc. From this point of view, it seems that Marshal Zhang's contribution was the most important.
Bai Liusu pulled out the telegram from the young marshal. Ouyang Yun looked at it and then walked to the map. He used a red pencil to draw a mark in the direction of Chu Tiange's main defense. He asked Bai Liusu: "Let Tiange and
How about the young marshal’s defense?”
"Can the Northeast Army withstand the Japanese attack? After the Japanese army replaced the Type 15 semi-automatic rifles, their combat effectiveness has been qualitatively improved. The weapons of the Northeast Army are too backward, and they lack large-scale artillery and anti-aircraft weapons..."
"How come the Japanese's main attack direction is India?"
"Will the Japanese give up on opening a western front against me?"
"Whether it is southern Zhejiang or northeastern Jiangxi or Southeast Asia and Taiwan, all our strategic arrangements must be based on ensuring that the Pacific Fleet is not attacked. The Japanese army Masaharu Honma's reinforcements in the Philippines show that the Japanese navy has lost control of the Southeast Asian war situation.
It would also be good to let the Japanese army win one or two victories in the Southern Peninsula to help them consolidate their say in the Southeast Asian war situation..."
Air raids were carried out on the Sasebo and Nagasaki naval ports, and on the Hosho aircraft carrier fleet anchored in Manila Bay. After Masaharu Honma set off for the Philippine Islands, the Taiwan Strait Air Force even more brazenly spied on the Japanese escort fleet composed of three aircraft carriers - everyone thought they were cadets.
The Army Air Force has grown into a decisive air force. It is flexing its muscles to the world, but few people know that the purpose of the Xuebing Army is just to attract the attention of the Japanese, so that they have no time to think quietly in the Arabian Gulf.
It's just the Pacific Fleet, a military academy that grew up quietly.
In Tokyo, in the office of the Navy Minister of the Japanese Navy, Yamamoto Isoroku, Inoue Narumi and a dozen other people were sitting together, having a heated debate over a telegram sent back by Koizumi Minichiro.
The defeat in the Philippine War, especially the annihilation of the Fengxiang aircraft carrier fleet, was tantamount to pronouncing Koizumi's death sentence on the way to commanding large-scale battles. After being hit hard, Koizumi learned to think quietly, and then on New Year's Day, the little Japanese faced off against the enemy alone.
While looking at a map of the world in a daze, he suddenly had an idea and connected the attacks on Sasebo and Nagasaki naval ports and the Hosho aircraft carrier fleet with the construction of an ocean-going fleet in Karachi by the Gakuin Army.
It is no secret that the Xuebing Army is building an ocean-going fleet in the Arabian Sea. The Japanese even know that the fleet has two American-made aircraft carriers and has annexed the French Far East Fleet. When the name of this ocean-going fleet reached Koizumi,
As a member of a traditional naval power, he had the same reaction as the American Admiral Kim, thinking that this was destined to be a joke. But now, after experiencing the failure of the Philippine War, especially the annihilation of the Fengxiang aircraft carrier fleet
After being forced to leave the front-line battlefield, the little Japanese changed psychologically and began to look at this problem more calmly. Koizumi's eyes first fell on Hainan Island and the surrounding waters under the jurisdiction of the Xuebing Army, and then headed west. When he finally arrived in Arabia
When he found Karachi on the edge of the sea, the little devil's heart twitched and his eyes shrank into needles, and he exclaimed: "Ouyang Yun really knows how to find a place!"
To develop an ocean-going fleet, a large-scale supply port is indispensable. The Xuebing Army faces the Yellow Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Although it currently appears to be controlled by the Xuebing Army, it is actually always under threat from the Japanese Combined Fleet.
Next. Although the current air force of the Xuebing Army is already strong enough, and it has once achieved a brilliant record of sinking two Japanese aircraft carriers, if the combined fleet raids a certain port or a certain sea area at any cost, then the final victory is inevitable
It's the United Fleet.
"I think the British laying mines in the western section of the Strait of Malacca must have been ordered by Ouyang Yun -" Xiaoquan thought of this, and his heart skipped a beat - no matter what method Ouyang Yun used to let the British
People are willing to obey his orders. By extension, has the influence of Ouyang Yun and the Xuebing Army in Southeast Asia surpassed that of the Imperial Army? Thinking of this, Koizumi suddenly felt a sense of urgency. To this day, if he continues to use competition to develop
If you use this excuse to cover up the ineffectiveness of the battle against the Xuebing Army, you are really deceiving yourself. The Xuebing Army has actually developed an aircraft carrier fleet. Regardless of whether this fleet can finally get out of the Arabian Sea, what is certain is that
This has posed a potential threat to the empire's maritime hegemony in Asia. It is urgent to kill the Xuebing Army, but facts have proved that whether it is at sea or on land, if you want to directly capture Fujian and Guangdong by launching one or two major battles,
It seems that it is not easy to destroy the base area that the Xuebing Army relies on for its development. It seems that the only way to deal with the so-called Pacific Fleet is first...
Based on the above ideas, Koizumi Minichiro "affectionately" sent a telegram to Yamamoto Isoroku, describing his concerns about the Academy Army's development of an ocean-going fleet in Karachi. He also pointed out that the reason why the Academy Army dispatched aviation units uncharacteristically frequently was
The purpose of active provocation was to divert attention and make the empire ignore the fact that the military academy was developing an ocean-going fleet in Karachi. Finally, he made a suggestion that it should be resolutely killed while it was still in its infancy.
The Western Expedition Fleet under the command of Koizumi was unfavorable to the Philippine war. This not only forced Yamamoto to give up the navy's dominance in the Philippine war, but also made him constrained by Tojo Hideki in some major military strategic decisions.
.So although he fully agreed with Koizumi's suggestion and felt that he must kill the Xuebing Army's Pacific Fleet before it could get out of the Arabian Sea, but when deciding whether to enter the Indian Ocean, he had to unify the strength of the naval personnel in the military department.
Just fine.
Originally, with Yamamoto's status and prestige in the Japanese Navy, it was not difficult for him to achieve this. Even if he was more arbitrary, he could directly let others sign his order. But since the defeat of the Zhoushan air battle, the entire navy
Senior officials of the province and the Combined Fleet were busy with how to carry out air strikes in retaliation against Fujian and Guangdong. The Combined Fleet also detached three aircraft carriers and several ships to support Masaharu Honma's use of troops against the Philippines, so he wanted to immediately
If we can send troops to the Indian Ocean, we will need the unremitting cooperation of others, and we will have to pay attention to everyone's opinions.