"'Operation Plan Z' is related to the national destiny of the empire for a hundred years. If it succeeds, the empire will prosper. If it fails, the empire will be doomed." Prince Fushimi Miyahiro Kyoto was in the meeting room of the Naval Command Department, and he said seriously to the naval generals who came for the meeting.

vocal tract.

With that said, he asked his secretary to take out the follow-up combat plan given by Kanin Palace and give it to the naval generals present. These people included Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, Japanese Navy Vice Minister Yamamoto Isoroku, and Japanese Navy Combined Fleet Commander Yoshida.

Chapters of the novels of Zengo and Navy Ministry Military Affairs Chief and General Officers Council Member Inoue Narumi and others.

"This time, the Army has also made great determination. Marshal Xianyuan Palace personally urged the Army Staff Headquarters to formulate a follow-up Army landing plan in order to complete this operation."

The naval officers below were flipping through the plan handed to them by Fushimi Miyahiro Prince's secretary, in which detailed attack plans were drawn up.

Including the subsequent attacks on the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies, Guam, Borneo... and other Southeast Asian island chains and oil producing areas after the implementation of "Operation Z Plan".

"The minerals possessed by these areas, especially the Philippines and the Malay Peninsula, can bring the empire's production capacity to a new level. The Dutch East Indies is simply a treasure house of oil! It can fully meet the empire's current demand of at least five million tons per year.

Oil consumption.”

"Rubber, tin, iron, bauxite...and rice, sugar...etc., these are all urgently needed resources for the empire." After a pause, Prince Fushimi Miyahiro Kyoto said in a deep voice to the crowd: "Now those

The damned British and French fell into disrepair under the attack of our German ally, and according to Oshima Hiro's report, they can no longer hold on for much longer."

"If we don't take over these areas at this time, it will be a waste!"

Unlike the army, although the top generals of the navy are also willing to implement the plan to invade China, few of them are willing to go to war with the United States. They are the rare sober people in the Japanese army.

They know that Japan's industrial capacity is very different from that of the United States. Unless they can attack Washington in one go and force the United States to negotiate with itself, once the war enters a stalemate, the United States, whose industrial production capacity is countless times greater than Japan's, will definitely destroy Japan.

beat.

They also did not agree with the three-nation axis theory of Germany, Italy and Japan, and many of them even publicly expressed their opposition.

These people include Yamamoto Isoroku, Yoneuchi Mitsumasa, Inoue Narumi and others who are here now. The most pitiful thing is Yamamoto. This old guy who is loyal to Japan's Benroku often receives threatening letters and threats from radical officers.

Assassination warning.

Because the Army was disgusted with Yamamoto's constant remarks against the Three Kingdoms Axis, it sent military police units to "protect" Yamamoto. And Yamamoto even had to keep a machine gun at home in order to protect himself. This is evident in the old guy's current situation.

Despite this, the old guy still had to try his best to fight for a chance of survival for his "empire" in the deeper and deeper war.

"Your Highness, I have something to say..." After reading the plan, Yamamoto Isoroku slowly stood up and said in a deep voice to Prince Fushimi Miyahiro. The latter nodded. Only then did Yamamoto speak.

"If Japan really goes to war with the United States, then simply occupying Guam and the Philippines is not enough, and even occupying Hawaii and San Francisco is not enough." Yamamoto glanced at the crowd and said solemnly.

"To ensure victory, we will have to attack all the way to Washington and coerce the other party to sign an armistice agreement in the White House. I doubt that the politicians and Army horse turds who talk lightly about war have any idea of ​​the prices and sacrifices that must be paid.

Not mentally prepared?!"

"The most serious problem is that I don't see any statement about going to war with Washington in these plans! This is the most serious problem. They have not thought about going to the United States. And if there is no such aspect,

Our plan is just to die..."

"Shut up! Yamamoto, do you know what your words will bring?!" Fushimi Miyahiro Kyoto's face was gloomy, and he growled in a low voice at Yamamoto: "If the people in the army know about you, this will cause a big controversy.

!Even you yourself will be threatened..."

"Your Highness! Yamamoto has always believed that sacrificing one's life for the country is the highest honor for a soldier. Just like the famous general's flower withered after a fierce battle. Even if he is killed by a junior, the soldier will still be regarded as dying in a national disaster and be punished.

Remember, one person's life and death are just trivial matters. Only the fate of the empire is important!"

Yamamoto Isoroku straightened his body and said loudly to Prince Fushimi Miyahiro: "So, in Yamamoto's opinion... this body can be destroyed, but the will cannot be taken away!"

The naval general sighed helplessly. Yamamoto Isoroku had always had such a temper. In fact, he was one of the few generals who strongly opposed the Japanese invasion of Northeast China in 1931 and the outbreak of a full-scale war with China in 1937.

This uniqueness made him resented by the radical officers. Especially after Yamamoto, who was the vice-officer of the Japanese Navy, apologized to the US Ambassador to Japan Joseph Gru for the Japanese bombing and sinking of the USS Panay, the US river gunboat.

Became an assassination target by Japanese right-wing soldiers.

"Yamamoto, the current situation is that the empire has placed its few resources on our navy." Prince Fushimi Miyahiro Kyo was silent for a while and sighed to Yamamoto.

"The war in China is becoming more and more urgent, and the initial results achieved by the army are also being lost. The Juichi Tama of Terauchi was shattered in Shandong, and the North China Front was almost completely wiped out." After a pause, Prince Fushimi Miyahiro Kyo looked at Yamamoto Isoroku with a deep expression.

He said, "You think I'm willing to do this?! But the reality is that we don't have much choice."

"Marshal Xianyuan Palace has complained to His Majesty more than once. The navy, which has deprived most of its resources, has hardly played any role in the battle. The army, which lacks resources, has to use the bodies of army soldiers to face the artillery fire of the Chinese army.

and bombing.”

After a pause, Prince Fushimi Miyahiro Kyoto said in a deep voice to Yamamoto Isoroku: "Yamamoto, how do you think I should explain to His Majesty?! Do I want to tell His Majesty that our war itself was a mistake?! Or

Tell your majesty that our navy is powerless in this matter. Please give all your resources to the army?!"

Yamamoto stopped talking and bowed deeply to Prince Fushimi Miyahiro.

"Yamamoto... What I want to tell you is that the war has reached this point, and both the empire and our navy have no way out. Only by moving forward bravely can we gain that glimmer of hope!"

"Your idea is not impossible, but the first thing we need to consider is that we need enough resources to support the operation of our empire. In other words, the empire needs Southeast Asia! Incomparable need!"

"Only when we capture Southeast Asia will we have the ability to continue fighting. I agree with your view that 'if we start a war with the United States, we must go to Washington.' But you need to know that without the resources to support the war, all this is empty talk."

Prince Fushimi Miyahiro Kyo waved his hand, asked Yamamoto to sit down and said earnestly to him: "Yamamoto! I know you are dedicated to the empire, but I also hope you know that the attitude of the United States is now very obvious."

"Mrs. Song from China and the tiger's father have arrived in Washington. Our investigators who went to investigate lost news in front of the White House. And Washington has continuously introduced policies to block us in all aspects and asked us to withdraw.

China. Isn’t their attitude obvious enough?!"

"If we want to obtain the resources of Southeast Asia, we need Washington to have no spare power to intervene in Southeast Asia. In other words, at least we must destroy Washington's navy to ensure that we can obtain enough resources to support the empire to continue fighting. This point is'z

The key point of the battle plan. This is what you drew up, don’t you know it well?!”

"Your Highness...I am only sure about the first six months..." Yamamoto Isoroku was silent for a while, and then said to Prince Fushimi Gong Hirokyo: "In the first six months or a year, we can attack smoothly. But for

In the second and third years of the war, I had no confidence..."

"Six months is enough!" Prince Fushimi Gong Hirokyo nodded, and said solemnly to Yamamoto: "In these six months, you can formulate the next battle plan. I will communicate with Marshal Kanin Palace

.Believe me, no one will refuse or obstruct this battle for the fate of the empire!"

"Hai!!"

In fact, the Japanese's idea of ​​the U.S. Navy intervening in Southeast Asia is really superfluous. In fact, as early as 1911, Major General Raymond P. Rogers of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff formulated a plan called "Orange"

"War Plan" plan.

Plan Orange was designed on the premise that the United States would fight Japan alone. According to its original concept, after the United States' outposts in the Western Pacific, such as the Philippines and Guam, would be captured by the Japanese army, the U.S. military would directly abandon the locations.

The Pacific Fleet will retreat to the California base on the west coast of the United States to strengthen its strength and prevent the Panama Canal from being attacked. Then the United States will launch a war mobilization and sail the fleet to the Western Pacific to regain Guam and the Philippines, and then move north to fight with the Imperial Japanese Navy

The combined fleet launched a decisive battle and then blockaded the Japanese mainland.

This is the standard Alfred Thayer Mahan sea power theory, and it is also the code used by most navies before World War II. The outcome of the war is determined by the confrontation of surface fleets.

Later, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark formulated "Plan D" based on the war situation, which meant that once the United States entered World War II, its strategic focus would be on the European battlefield against Nazi Germany.

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In the plan, the U.S. Navy will be on the defensive in the Pacific battlefield. The plan only requires Admiral Hesband Kimmel's U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet to block the Japanese Combined Fleet from the Eastern Pacific and Australian merchant shipping routes.
Chapter completed!