Chapter Eight hundred and fortieth Japanese Navy and Army Strange Things
On the bridge of the battleship Nagato, Nagato's captain Jiro Saito received the request and thought for a while before deciding to provide artillery support.
It is rare for the Japanese navy to support the army. It is an exaggeration to not happen for a hundred years. It is not an exaggeration to happen once every few years. The Japanese Navy and Army Departments themselves have never dealt with it. The Minister of the Navy and the Minister of the Army often interact with each other during cabinet meetings.
pinch, and sometimes even fight.
The high-level strife has made the relationship between the navy and the army very bad, and there have even been situations where they have been unable to save their lives.
During the aircraft carrier battle in the Mariana Islands in June 1944, a Japanese fleet was close to the oil fields of the former Dutch East India. This oil field had a high oil production and there were refineries, but the fleet was short of fuel.
Unable to rush to the battlefield, in this battle, the US military did not have to worry about attacks from surface ships. The US military launched electric shock operations. The aircraft carrier dispatched and recalled aircraft unscrupulously, without worrying about being attacked by the Japanese.
In the subsequent Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Ise and Hyuga sent by the Japanese Navy from the mainland were ultimately a step too late and failed to catch up with the battle. The reason was also due to lack of fuel, and they stopped and stopped along the way, which delayed them for an entire day or two.
sky.
Japan is short of oil. This theory often appears in almost all kinds of street literature. There are also various theories such as what if Japan discovered the Daqing Oil Field and so on. In fact, they are all nonsense. Japan does not lack oil at all, and is even very rich.
After Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies oil, Japan had no shortage of oil. However, among the Japanese army, the rules for resource occupation were rather strange. It was not based on demand, but on the basis of the military branch that occupied it first. In this regard, the Japanese army had a great advantage, and
Eighty-five percent of the oil in the Dutch East Indies was occupied by the army, including six large refineries, and only 15% was occupied by the Japanese navy!
The main fuel used by the Japanese Army is aviation and tanks and armored forces. However, there are not many air forces and tanks in the Japanese Army, so the demand is very small. However, the Japanese Navy is different. The Japanese Navy uses a large number of ships. Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has used oil every year.
There are a large number of ships going to sea, and the Japanese navy consumes dozens of times more oil than the army every year.
The Japanese Army controls about 90% of Japan's oil, but does not use it for the Navy. Instead, it sells it to the Navy as if it were a business. In order to get the oil, the Navy had to carry out various extortion measures against the Army, such as banning any original oil.
All oil tankers bound for Japan from the Dutch East Indies entered the port and docked. You read that right, the Japanese navy blocked the oil tankers from their own country and did not allow them to disembark.
Later, the Japanese had no choice but to establish a magical organization called the Land and Sea Petroleum Committee. This organization was originally intended to resolve differences and disputes, but later it became a place for navy and army officers to fight. Fights would start at the slightest disagreement, and it was very violent.
, until Japan's defeat, the Japanese Army almost did not provide free oil to the Navy. The Navy paid various costs to the Army, such as artillery support, helping the Army transport soldiers, etc.
In order to resist the threat and extortion of the navy, the Japanese Army used its limited resources to establish a shipyard and built its own ships to transport soldiers and resources. However, the two sides never had any communication, including routes, loading conditions and arrival times, and even Japanese Navy submarines fought back
Sink army ships.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese Navy discovered American submarines, but never informed the Army. As a result, a large number of resources transported back to the country by the Army were sunk by the Americans. According to later declassified information, the Japanese Navy had dozens of submarines.
U.S. submarines were discovered in advance in various areas for the first time, but the Army was not notified at any time. The ships built by the Army were often sunk in areas where U.S. submarines were active, making Japan, which was not rich in resources, even more impoverished.
The competition between the Japanese Navy and the Army has made Japan's industry very confusing. The simplest example is the screws that are also used for fixing. If the screws used by the Japanese Army are left-handed, the Navy will definitely design them to be right-handed to express themselves.
Different from the Army.
Another example is the anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese Navy and Army. The Japanese Army calls them anti-aircraft guns, while the Navy calls them anti-aircraft guns. In fact, they are weapons for the same purpose, but they were renamed just to highlight their differences.
The reason Saito Jiro was able to agree to Fukuda Kazuhiko's request was entirely because the two were close friends and brothers-in-law. Fukuda Kazuhiko's sister was Saito Jiro's wife, but even with this relationship, Saito
Erlang also had to find a sufficient excuse before he could fire.
"Oda-kun, our main gun was said to have some problems during maintenance. Let's check it out today!"
After the deputy captain next to him heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "No problem, sir, we can now shoot at the sea and conduct ballistic checks."
Jiro Saito was a little helpless. The deputy captain would rather test fire at the sea than propose to bombard the Chinese army, because the army was fighting there.
"Let's bombard the ground, let the reconnaissance plane take off, and fire a round toward the west. After all, the battleship's main gun cannot be wasted. Just kill as many Chinese soldiers as you can!"
The vice-captain nodded, bent down and walked out. After picking up the flag and making a few signals, the Nagato's main gun began to slowly turn its muzzle.
"Well, just fire two shots at this position!"
Saito Jiro pointed to the Luodian area and gave an approximate location. The deputy captain nodded and punched out the coordinates. At the same time, the reconnaissance plane took off and flew over Luodian.
"The No. 1 gun is ready!"
"The second gun is ready!"
"Cannon No. 3 is ready!"
"Cannon No. 4 is ready!"
"Ready, waiting for the firing order!"
The Nagato's main gun is four twin 410mm main guns. Following Jiro Saito's order, the first main gun opened its mouth first, and there were two huge roars. The sea below the gun barrel was like a big hand.
Pushing open, two 410mm artillery shells roared out of the barrel and flew towards Luodian.
"Chirp..."
"What..."
Two very strange piercing sounds sounded in the sky above Luodian. Yu Yang had never heard such sounds before, but as the sounds got louder and louder, Yu Yang felt the danger and pulled Liu Youcai beside him to lie down on the ground.
On the ground.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The sound of the explosion was no longer a bang, but a thud, as if someone was beating a huge war drum in your ear, and then Yu Yang was moved some distance back by the shock wave caused by the shell explosion.
Various objects kept flying around him. Yu Yang held his head tightly with his hands. His mind went blank. He had no idea what kind of thing had attacked him and how powerful it could be.
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