Nimitz is right, the new Toyota vice president's combat style is indeed different from Koga Mineichi. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

To be precise, Toyoda's fighting style is different from that of Koga Mineichi and Yamamoto Isoroku...... Koga Mineichi and Yamamoto Isoroku are the air combat faction, while Toyoda Vice Takeshi is a stubborn "cannon giant" faction.

This was the same as that of the Mikawa Army, which had won the victory in the Battle of Iron Bottom Bay because of a surprise attack in a night battle, and they all believed that the "spirit of bushido" should also be brought into full play in naval warfare, and that those who talked about fighter planes and air supremacy when talking about naval warfare were just making excuses for their cowardice.

This is also the reason why Yamamoto Fifty-six hates Toyota's vice-martial arts extremely much, Yamamoto Fifty-six said a sentence before his death: "Liangfeng, never available!" ”

One of the two toyo refers to the vice admiral of the navy, Sadajiro Toyoda, and the other is the vice president of Toyoda.

From this point of view, Yamamoto Isoroku is still very discerning...... However, objectively speaking, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not defeated in the hands of others, but in the hands of Yamamoto Isoroku himself, and when Koga Mineichi took over, the Japanese Combined Fleet, including the air force, was already seriously injured and unable to return to the sky, and when Vice Takeshi Toyoda took over, it would be even more of a mess in the mess, and it would be a strange thing if he could win the war.

Vice Takeshi Toyoda also saw this very clearly, so when Hideki Tojo appointed Vice Takeshi Toyoda as the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Vice Takeshi Toyoda did not react happily at all, but coldly replied to Shigetaro Shimada, who came to deliver the message: "Don't do it!" ”

"Don't do it?" Although Shitaro Shimada had expected such a reaction from Toyota's vice-takeshi, he didn't expect him to be so direct.

You must know that this is the appointment of the Prime Minister and Chief of Staff, and even if you don't do it, you have to find a good excuse.

However, this does not seem to be surprising, the Japanese Navy and the Army have been at odds for a long time, Toyota Vice Takeshi is the Navy, and Tojo Hideki is the Army, so Toyota Vice Takeshi has always looked down on Tojo Hideki, even if Tojo Hideki is the prime minister.

This is one of the reasons why Mineichi Koga took over as commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet after the death of Yamamoto 56 in battle...... Originally, seniority was based on seniority (the Japanese attach great importance to seniority, and the same is true in the military), but after the death of Yamamoto Isoroku, he should have been succeeded by Toyota's deputy takeshi, but Koga Mineichi, who was ranked after Toyota in seniority, became the leader.

At this time, there should be no general in Shuzhong, so he had to move out the deputy martial arts of Toyota.

Vice Takeshi Toyoda said to Shigetaro Shimada: "I have not been on the battlefield since the beginning of the war, and I have nothing to do with this war, so I am not suitable to be the commander of the Combined Fleet." Besides, now that the war is going on inexplicably, it has been retreating, and the battle situation is very pessimistic, and now accepting this important task has no chance of opening up the difficult situation, so he is the commander of the combined fleet...... Forget it. ”

Shigetaro Shimada replied: "I know what Toyoda-san means, but now there is no one who can turn the tide of the war, and the commander of the combined fleet must always be the commander, so now I am not discussing this issue with Toyoda-san, but just sending a notice, and the matter has been recognized by Marshal Fushiminomiya and has been decided."

The meaning of this is that it is appropriate to be right, and it is appropriate to be appropriate.

So Vice Takeshi Toyoda became the commander of this combined fleet in desperation.

It should be said that at this time, Toyota's combat thinking has changed somewhat...... A large number of facts are in front of us, especially after Guadalcanal, the US military, which occupies air superiority, is fighting more and more smoothly in the Pacific theater, while the Japanese Combined Fleet is being constrained everywhere because it has no air superiority, and although Vice Takeshi Toyoda has not been on the battlefield or commanded operations, he is still concerned about the major battles, and at this time he has realized the importance of air supremacy to naval warfare.

But as he thought...... It would be useless for anyone to become the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet at this time, especially since Hideki Tojo's strategic goal is to hold the Mariana Islands!

Vice Takeshi Toyoda looked at the map with distress, there are currently only seven airports in the Mariana Islands, and according to the firepower and tactics of the US military in the past to capture the islands, these seven airports will be paralyzed by a few bombings.

According to the past example, the navy cannot be dispatched without air supremacy, and the various islands of the Mariana Islands have become isolated islands, waiting for the Americans to break through each ...... How can this be kept?

In fact, Toyota's vice military is also biased towards defending the Philippines, because the Philippines is densely packed with islands, and the islands are full of bases, some of which were built by the US military when they were in the Philippines, some were newly built by the Japanese army, and there are more than 50 airfields to count at random.

That's more than 50 airports...... With so many airports and such a wide range of distribution, the US military cannot and cannot control them at one time, so fighter planes can frequently go around these airports to maneuver with the United States, and even when fighting the United States, some new airfields will pop up to make the United States unable to guard against it, and more importantly, it is ...... The Philippines is very close to Vietnam, Thailand and other places, and the Japanese army can easily get supplies, so it is a suitable place for the Japanese army to fight the United States.

But now......

Thinking of this, Vice Takeshi Toyoda couldn't help but scold: "This damn Tojo, Japan is going to be destroyed in the hands of this guy!" ”

However, Toyoda's vice-takeshi still had to think about the issue of holding Mariana, because he had already heard some danger in Shigetaro's tone...... Toyota's vice president has always been at odds with Tojo Hideki, this is something that the entire Japanese military knows, if Toyota vice takeshi openly disobeys, who knows what Tojo will do!

So......

Vice Takeshi Toyoda thought: To hold the Mariana Islands, the Combined Fleet must attack, and if the Combined Fleet wants to attack, it must seize air supremacy, that is...... It is possible to defeat the American ghost beast in the air, or to be able to fight with it.

Then Deputy Takeshi Toyoda called his staff officer Ryunosuke Kusaka to the front...... Vice Takeshi Toyoda was born in the Navy and did not understand aviation at all, so he had to ask the opinion of a staff officer who understood aviation when making decisions on air warfare.

This was also the difference between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy at this time, and the U.S. Navy, when appointing fleet commanders, generally required pilot experience.

Facts have also proved that this demand is very reasonable, because other people's understanding of aviation and one's own understanding of aviation are completely different things, especially at this time when Japan still blindly emphasizes the "spirit of bushido" and often adopts empty words and lies in the balance of power between the two sides. (To be continued.) )