"Article 3: Establish a joint command center for the theater, with the joint fleet as the core, and govern the islands of the Southern Front, Marine Corps, shore-based aviation teams, and transportation and supply formations..."

Looking at this article, Yamamoto Iroku even took a breath. In 1889, Japan established four military ports, Yokosuka, Wu, Sasebo, and Maizuru, with almost all powers, including Marines, shore-based air force, supply, training, education, alert, conscription and other functions. There are many very funny practices, such as the recruitment area of ​​a certain garrison, which can only serve on ships with ships belonging to the garrison (a Niigata man was recruited in the garrison near the garrison, and could not be assigned to serve on Yamato, the warship belonging to the garrison). Of course, there is no problem in such a piece division during peacetime, but who cares about where you enlisted in the wartime?

This kind of prehistoric situation is not particularly obvious in surface ships, and it is even more funny after the formation of aviation operations. For example, the pilots on the Shochi cannot belong to the Akagi. If the Akagi is sunk, the carrier-based pilots on it can only be taken back in batches for rest and rest. On the one hand, the aircraft carrier lacks pilots, and on the other hand, the pilots lack aircraft carriers. This is why the two cranes did not participate in the Midway Battle after the Coral Sea Battle.

Because the fundamental idea of ​​this system is to treat the joint fleet and the garrison's office separately: the joint fleet does not belong to a certain garrison's office, but is a parallel existence with each garrison's office. If you have to be serious, you can only say that the fleets under the garrison's office belong to the garrison's office. The joint fleet is just a temporary organization that only after the garrison's office is combined. It is nothing more than the joint fleet's existence for a long time and has formed a basic stable structure. The logical starting point of this practice is based on the traditional concept of naval combat: in the past, naval combat was a plane battle between ships and ships, but now naval combat is a three-dimensional battle of four-in-one water, underwater, air, and land, and then artificially split, something must happen.

Horitiki's reform idea was to use the theater system to break the system of the garrison + joint fleet. In essence, it was to give more command officers on the front line. For example, if you fight in Tarava or Rabaul, it was not only funny or impossible to accept the command of the garrison thousands of kilometers away from the rear. It was better to delegate power directly to the front line officers.

In his thoughts, the local garrison remained unmoved, and four more war zones were set up in Truk, Rabaul, Singapore and Ceylon. Based on the absolute defense circle, Truk was in charge of the eastern section of the sea, including the Ogasawara Islands, the Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Gilbert Islands, etc., which started off the coast of Japan; Rabaul was in charge of the southern section of the sea, including the Solomon Islands, Guinea Islands, and the eastern Dutch East India; Singapore was in charge of the western section of the sea, including the Indochina Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines and the western Dutch East India; Ceylon was in charge of the Indian Ocean direction and the Japanese-occupied islands distributed in the Indian Ocean.

If Iroji Yamamoto was still the commander-in-chief of the United Fleet, of course he would have raised his hands to agree with this approach, but as the Minister of the Navy, he is already a top bureaucrat in the military. He considered that he had to be more comprehensive and conservative, just as his old friend Mine Masashi, who had attacked him before, had "conservative ideas, rigid thoughts, and bureaucratic style", the person had not changed, but because of his position and butt, his ideas began to change, and he demanded stability!

If according to Hori Teiki's reform plan, the four major domestic garrisons would hardly be involved in any combat matters besides conscription, maintenance, supply and education. During the war, only those who can fight can have money and those who can fight can have status and power, wouldn't this reform be equivalent to directly attacking the bureaucrats of the four major garrisons? No wonder Yamamoto had to breathe a breath of air.

"I won't comment on ideas and ideas. If you do this, you are putting yourself and the United Fleet opposite to too many people, which is not conducive to the future. My old classmate..." Yamamoto Iroku said with all his heart, "Although you are a marshal and a navy general, you are too big and it is easy to get into trouble."

"I remember how you used to evaluate Minaki Mitsumasa..." Horitoyoshi laughed, imitating Yamamoto Iroku's tone of criticizing Minaki Mitsumasa, "A good general, once he becomes a minister of the navy, he becomes a human being, and a ghost is not like a ghost. He says aimless and vague words all day long, making people confused, making people at a loss, so that he looks more mysterious and unfathomable..."

These words were all the complaints Yamamoto Iroku's words about Minuchi Mitsumasa's complaints to Hori Teiki when the two were chatting in private. Unexpectedly, the feng shui changed and it was fulfilled in Yamamoto himself in less than a year.

"This is retribution." Yamamoto Iroku was amused and sighed repeatedly, "To be honest, in the past few months when you were away, our Highness has used many tricks for your affairs. I can only be exhausted from dealing with these light and dark arrows. It would be great if I could stabilize the situation. I would have no time to think about reform."

"So he would think about putting Midway's losses on my head, I don't care..."

"You underestimate him." Yamamoto Iroku sighed, "I heard that he has privately found someone to understand your combat command these days, and vaguely accused you of deliberately allowing the loss of Muro in the Battle of Panama, Hiei..."

"Intentionally?" Hori Teiki asked in disbelief, "Am I in the country?"

"The Kingdom cannot say that it is impossible to use the warships that had hope of saving to block the beach. Is there no problem in this situation? This is his original words." Yamamoto Iroku explained, "You see, there are only two Yamato-class, one Nagato-class and two Kwang-class left in the battleship. It is very difficult to make two fleets. Musashi, Nagato-men, and Kirishima are still scarred, and he is very dissatisfied."

"We have fought to this point and are still dreaming of the decisive battle of the fleet?" Horitoki said in a contemptuous tone, "So what if it is lost? We have killed so many British and American battleships? We had 2 of the world's seven major warships back then, and now there is the only Nagato left. Are we not fighting well?"

"But the fleet supports you one by one, so you don't have to worry about this." Yamamoto Iroku comforted his old friend, and complained, "I am worried about your other problems now."

"What's the problem with me?"

"Are you too much, do you want to tell you the original words? Keep it safe and you can get angry."

"Okay, you say, I'll listen."

"First, abuse of public funds and bribe people's hearts. You give high allowances to officers and soldiers, and buy gifts all of them belong to this category; Second, bribe officers and form cliques for private individuals. I heard that you gave money to Tsukahara and others to buy villas, and also sent cars to a group of backbone officers; Third, robbing foreigners - self-respecting, plotting against others, saying that your relationship with German and Italian allies is very abnormal. On the one hand, they only recognize you, on the other hand, the relevant opinions you put forward are in their interests, and suspect that you were bribed by the German and Italian leaders; Fourth, despise Shangguan and insist on doing their own thing. How many times have you asked for instructions on the combat operations and military command reports along the way? Fifth, you are proud of your contributions and will not lose your final decision. You will be asked to return to China in April, but you refused to do so, and it has been delayed for nearly half a year..."

"Okay, I actually have so many charges." Hori Teiki laughed instead of anger, "How come such a person still becomes a marshal and a navy general? This is really a big deal..."

Yamamoto Iroku shook his head and sighed: "I just can't figure out why so many things happened when you go out? Also, where did you buy a villa for them and buy a car come from?"

"Are you questioning me? Or are you interrogating me?"

"I..." Yamamoto Izuru was speechless, "As a friend, I can ask?"

"The Germans and Italians gave it to the big head, and the Italians gave it to the small head." Horitiki explained, "It was me who fought with the German head of state with an old face. He said that the soldiers had achieved great results in combat and achieved their goal perfectly. It was also hard to fight continuously in Europe and the United States. This was why there were 4 marine brigades in this reward, otherwise where did you think they came from?"

"I'm just giving it to you so easily?"

"What are you reluctant to let go? Isn't it just a matter of tens of millions of marks? Sink all the main ships! The German head of state and Italian leader talked and laughed with me, and didn't take these at all. He also said that he hoped that the United Fleet would continue to fight west this winter and next spring. They were willing to support us with a large amount of military expenditure. Besides..." Horitiki explained, "Ten thousand officers and soldiers have seen the prosperous and extremely rich material life in Europe. Do they have no idea? I don't bother to worry about rewards in China, but I have to reward merits? It's okay once or twice, and I'll kill people with empty words every time. Who can do it?"

"A group of old stubborn people will definitely use loyalty to the emperor and patriotism to suppress you..."

"It's easy, just do whatever you like. It's amazing that I quit."

"Can you quit?"

"What's wrong with this?" Hori Teiyoshi laughed, "Don't you think I'm domineering? Can I change my place? If I don't have it at home, I'll go abroad."

"Foreign?" Yamamoto Izuru frowned, "Germany?"

"Before the head of state left, he told me that if I was willing to take office in Germany, he would support me as the commander-in-chief of the Axis Navy and command all the German and Italian fleets. Germany would give at least 60 billion marks of naval military expenditure every year!"

"60 billion?" Yamamoto Iroku shook his head in disbelief, "How much does Germany spend in a year?"

"It was estimated to be 150 billion in 1943, and it may be 170-180 billion in 1944." Horitoki smiled, "Although it is said that the Japanese yen and the exchange rate between the marks, the marks are actually much more valuable than the Japanese yen. The same aircraft is cheaper for us than we do, and the cost of them can be imagined."

Japan's military budget this year is only 60 billion yen, and the army has to divide a large portion. Yamamoto Iroku is completely speechless, and he believes that the Germans will not brag because the United States is at least three times that of Germany.

"You must not have such an idea."

None of the two expected that while they were communicating, Fushimi Miyaki Hiroki was suing Hori Teiki in the palace, and the charges were basically the ones summarized by Yamamoto. (To be continued.)

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Chapter completed!