readx; On the evening of August 20th, Tokyo. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info regent Hirohito and the army and navy bigwigs sat together, and the faces of the people present were not very good-looking.

"If it weren't for the incompetence of the navy and the delay in transporting domestic reinforcements to North Korea, how could the army suffer such heavy losses!" As one of the army bosses, Yusaku Uehara doesn't care if it's right or wrong at this time, and he will push out the responsibility first.

Yamamoto Weiquan over there snorted coldly: "The Imperial Navy has never dared to slack off in order to ensure the communication lines between Korea and Arthur in the past few months, and in order to ensure the support of army colleagues, thousands of officers and men of our navy have returned to their souls in the East China Sea, is it in exchange for today's accusation?" ”

Speaking of this war, in fact, it is said that "this navy is the most aggrieved."

Due to factors such as the interests of the navy and the distribution of military spending, it is said that "the navy has always advocated going south to compete for the interests of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, while the army is naturally competing with each other and wants to enter the mainland, regardless of whether the target is Russia or China."

The reason why the war in 1923 broke out so quickly was that in addition to the economic concerns of the top leaders of the two countries about the economy and the transfer of contradictions, it was also inseparable from the fact that "this army has fueled the fire, and as long as this war is provoked, it is said that "this army believes that it can completely take the entire three northeastern provinces, thereby expanding the survival circle of the army and expanding the interests of the army, but this army did not expect that it would be able to defeat China as easily as the Sino-Japanese War a few decades ago, but the Korean war was given to it." This army is the first to take the lead.

The annihilation of a standing army of more than 100,000 in Korea was an unbearable blow to the army.

Not only were more than 100,000 troops of the army annihilated, and most of Korea was taken, but even the navy sank two battle cruisers and several other warships.

He said, "The losses of this navy were not small, and during the three-month war, it was said that this navy did its due duty, that is, it secured the sea lines of communication from the mainland to Korea and Arthur, and suppressed the two high-speed battleships of the Chinese navy so that they could not get close to the waters of the mainland."

Although it is said that the two Chinese battleships were not able to sink during the war, from a strategic point of view, it is said that "the navy has done quite well."

The Navy did its duty, but it was still unable to reverse the Army's crushing defeat in Korea.

The navy and army both wanted to shirk their responsibilities-for-tat, and they quarreled again in front of Hirohito, who was also quite troubled when he saw this situation. Hirohito is not yet the emperor, and although his father Taisho was sick and confused two years ago, Taisho is not dead anyway. The current Hirohito is regent as the crown prince, that is, the regent. Moreover, the three generations of emperors, Meiji, Taisho, and Hirohito, all had a very interesting tradition, that is, they never adjudicated disputes between their subordinates, and when the army and navy accused each other like today, Hirohito simply blocked his ears and closed his eyes, and after a long time, the army and navy were almost arguing, and then he spoke again: "Now that the situation in Korea is deteriorating, how to solve it now?" ”

Uehara Yusaku also took a breath, no longer looking at the group of people in the navy, now is not the time to fight with the navy, and immediately said: "Your Highness, rest assured, the army is ready to concentrate a large number of troops in Busan, and the Chinese will definitely not be able to take Busan." ”

Yamamoto Beiquan snorted coldly: "You also said the same thing when you guarded the Yalu River, and you still said so when you guarded the Qingchuan River, but what happened?" ”

Yusaku Uehara was so angry that he almost vomited blood, if it weren't for seeing that Yamamoto was already an old guy in his seventies, he Yusaku Uehara would have stepped forward and slapped him in the mouth. After taking a deep breath, he calmed down his anger and spoke again: "At present, the army is already in the process of general mobilization, and the remaining several standing divisions and regiments are ready to go to Korea to fight at any time, and the five newly formed divisions and regiments have also been largely completed, and they will be able to enter combat after completing the preliminary training, and in addition, the army is preparing to rebuild the fifth, sixth, and eighth divisions. With enough time, the army will not only be able to return to its pre-war strength, but will also be able to expand its strength to more than thirty divisions! ”

Yusaku Uehara's plan may sound exaggerated, but it is also true. In fact, the mobilization of this army began in May, but in the first two months, it was said that the scale of mobilization of this army was not large, and it was only to replenish the troops participating in the battle, and the real large-scale mobilization was only after the defeat of the Second Army in the Battle of Dandong, and preparations for the formation of five new divisions began at that time, and these all took time.

As long as he was given three to five months, he could have armed an army of hundreds of thousands of men again. The army and navy are two different things, the navy is a branch of the army that eats its old roots, whether it is World War I or World War II, the navies of various countries basically rely on the belongings accumulated before the war, and the vast majority of the capital ships that were urgently built during the war cannot catch up with the war. As long as there is a part of the industrial base, and there is no need for the huge industrial capacity of the great powers like Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, as long as the countries with part of the defense industry can burst out millions of troops in a short period of time, these troops that have expanded in a short period of time will certainly not be comparable with the standing army before the war, but it can also be used to fight on the battlefield.

And he said, "Although China and China cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with other powers in industry, if they really make up their minds to expand their army by more than one million in three to five months, there will be no problem at all."

Yusaku Uehara said that the army is mobilizing and trying to counterattack North Korea, and although the navy looks down on the army, it is impossible to say that the army will swim through the Tsushima Strait, so he is also happy to say that the navy will definitely send these new troops to North Korea and ensure the line of communication by sea.

However, these all take time, it is obvious that the Chinese troops entering the DPRK will not give the army such sufficient time to prepare, when the reinforcements of the army have not yet arrived in Busan, Zuo Yugang's armored group has already arrived in Busan, at this time there are only a few thousand troops in Busan, in the face of the attack of absolute superiority, the army in Busan can not hold on at all, and soon it will be under the cover of the navy to board and evacuate Busan.

On August 23rd, Chen Jingyun had already received a battle report to conquer Busan!

"Once Busan is down, then this North Korea will be defeated!" When Chen Jingyun learned of Pyongyang's victory a few days ago, he already knew that the situation on the North Korean side had been decided, and he had not paid much attention to the war in North Korea.

Chen Jingyun nodded: "North Korea took it, and as long as Lushun is taken down, this Sino-Chinese war will be regarded as setting the tone!" ”

When the Second Army was annihilated, Chen Jingyun had already begun to think about how to end the Sino-Chinese war, although it was said that the army had been driven out of Korea to the sea, and even the Lushun side would be able to take it sooner or later, but after these two places were taken, there was no way to continue the next step, because the navy was not strong enough, so it was doomed to be impossible to directly land on the mainland, and it was impossible to even land in Taiwan to fight, because when the time came, it was only necessary to sayThe navy swung its huge main fleet toward the Tsushima Strait or the Taiwan Strait, which would be enough to block any Chinese landing attempt. Before the navy defeats the navy and gains sea supremacy, it will be basically difficult to land in the above two places.

When it is impossible to achieve further results, then it is necessary to make good use of the current advantage to end this war, after all, it is impossible for us to deploy millions of troops in the coastal provinces all the time to prepare for a landing operation at any time.

Just when Chen Jingyun was thinking about how to end the Sino-Chinese war so that he could free up his strength to clean up Soviet Russia, a fierce artillery battle broke out on the Omsk front again.

Omsk side of the Soviet Union and Russia are fighting quite fiercely, because both sides have strong fortifications, so this fight alone by infantry charge is useless, every time before the attack to concentrate a large number of large-caliber artillery bombardment, almost both sides in the Omsk war are playing with their lives to throw large-caliber shells at the enemy, the density of shells is comparable to the war on the Western Front in Europe during the First World War, the fierce artillery battle makes both sides equipped with a large number of large-caliber artillery, Among them, the Sixth Army of the Chinese Army is the only unit in the Chinese Army equipped with 122 mm howitzers, and during the fighting, it was found that the range of 105 mm light howitzers was too close to be practical.

The 105-mm light howitzer in the Chinese Army is a copy of the French 105-mm light howitzer, with a range of only 6,000 meters. At the beginning, the Chinese Army chose to equip this light howitzer on a large scale because the weight of this gun was light enough, only more than 700 kilograms, and even lighter than a 75 mm field artillery. Due to domestic transportation and terrain, the Army at that time focused more on the weight of heavy weapons than on range.

But this approach is useful on the domestic battlefield and even on the Korean battlefield, but it does not work in Russia. Because East Asia is mountainous and the transportation is not good, the artillery needs to be lightweight, and the firing range is secondary. However, this situation is not very applicable to the troops stationed in Russia, Russia, especially the Siberian region of the Omsk front, is a vast plain, and there is not much demand for the weight of artillery, which is why both the Russian Defense Forces and the Soviet troops continue to be equipped with a large number of 122-mm howitzers as support artillery for division-level troops, otherwise the Sixth Army of the Chinese troops in Russia would not be equipped with a large number of 122-mm howitzers.

In 1922, the State Military Commission established a structure that required the divisional artillery to be replaced with 24 75-mm field guns and 12 75-mm mountain guns instead of 24 75-mm field guns and 12 105-mm howitzers. At present, there are only two kinds of standard 105 mm artillery in China, one is the 1917 105 mm cannon, this 105 mm cannon is not a divisional support artillery, but a long-range suppression gun used by the artillery brigade, which is developed from the French 1910 105 cannon, with a range of 12,000 kilometers and a weight of more than 2,000 kilograms. The 1915 105mm howitzer used in the division-level troops, this light howitzer of the French 105 mountain artillery because of its light weight, Chen Jingyun had imported a lot of equipment before the unification of China, and then made a lot of his own.

Now in 1922, the establishment required the division to be equipped with a 105 mm howitzer, so the army also directly used this artillery, this artillery also showed good power on the Korean battlefield, and could quickly accompany the infantry to act, so although there was a flaw in the firing range, but the opposite side said 'The range of the 41-type 75 mm mountain gun equipped by the division-level troops is not much missing, so the defect in the range is not a defect.

However, in the face of the Soviet army, which was equipped with a large number of 122-mm howitzers, there was no advantage in range and power, and the biggest advantage of the 105-mm howitzer was that the lightweight version could not be brought into play at all in the Omsk war.

Therefore, the troops stationed in Russia are already asking for a divisional support artillery with a longer range and greater power.

Chen Jingyun has always been very concerned about these things about the development of the army, and even more concerned about them than some specific battles, and Chen Jingyun only asked about the general situation of the Pyongyang Campaign, and then he didn't bother to ask more, because he has always been self-aware about the kind of things that go to war, and he knows that his brain cannot compare with the collective wisdom of those thousands or hundreds of staff officers and officers, and these battle plans cannot be decided by one person patting his head. Instead, it was decided after the advice and strategy of a large number of staff officers.

As for the development of the army, especially the development direction of some high-tech weapons, Chen Jingyun has more advantages by relying on the memory of later generations, although he does not understand how tanks are made, nor do he know the specific tank tactics, but as long as he knows that tanks are useful, it will be fine, and the rest of the tanks, and even the formulation of specific tank tactics are the business of the people below, and he does not need to worry about it.

At present, the troops stationed in Russia say that the 105-mm light howitzer is not enough, and the equipment department also came to the same conclusion after analyzing the terrain and transportation in Russia and China, that is, the equipment suitable for China is not necessarily suitable for the northern cold plains, because it is necessary to develop a new division-level support artillery for operations in the plains.

Knowing that the Armament Department was going to develop a new type of artillery, the armored troops also came to join in the fun, saying that the 105-mm light howitzers equipped by the armored forces were also not of enough range. The armored forces are all cars and even half-track armored vehicles to tow artillery, and the special surname of the armored forces is destined to make it impossible for these troops to be used for mountain combat, so the armored forces do not need to pay too much attention to the weight of the artillery, and the armored forces even consider equipping them with 105 cannons.

With these needs, the armament department also began to decide to develop a divisional support artillery, of course, this is only the beginning, and it will take a long time for a new artillery to be designed and tested and then put into large-scale service.

Prior to this, the Ministry of Armament also took emergency measures, that is, to increase the production of 122 mm howitzers, and to redesign the old 1910 122 howitzer in Tsarist Russia in order to increase the range and reduce weight. And in the form of a reading artillery regiment, a large number of troops stationed in Russia were used as front-line support artillery.

After the fall of Korea, the Chinese side was worried about the landing of Chinese troops on the mainland and Taiwan, so it was said that the navy was pouring out to guard against the appearance of the Chinese landing force in the Tsushima Strait or the Taiwan Strait, and the troops that were originally planned to be sent to Korea were also sent to Taiwan and deployed to the mainland to prepare for defensive operations. At this time, he said, "I don't know that Chen Jingyun didn't plan to do any landing at all.

At this time, Lushun, which had been held for more than three months, was slowly showing signs of failure, although the Lushun fortress was strong, so that China's Third Army could not conquer it in a short time, but Liang Xunqin of the Third Army did not attack hard, but adopted a large-scale bombing and blasting method. This process was extremely slow, but as time passed, the turtle shell of Lushun was slowly pried open little by little, and when the news of the annihilation of the Second Army in Korea spread, the morale of the Lushun army was also a little low.

When the Korean war ended, Shen Gang mobilized a large number of heavy firepower and troops to Lushun, which greatly increased the strength in Liang Xunqin's hands, and as the blasting progress had begun to penetrate into the core area of the defense, Liang Xunqin thought that the time for a general attack had come, and after many preparations, he was ready to launch a general attack on Lushun on September 2 to completely conquer Lushun.

However, just when the whole army was waiting for the Third Army to launch a general attack on Lushun, it said, 'There is a shocking news from Ben's side!'

On September 1, a major earthquake broke out in the Kanto region, which not only caused a large amount of damage to houses and property, but also caused hundreds of thousands of casualties, not only of these civilians, but also of several capital ships that the navy had refitted out in the shipyard and built several new ones.

To be honest, the number of people killed in this sudden earthquake was not as large as the number of people who died in the Korean Campaign, but the impact of the two was very different, and although the army lost more than 100,000 people in the Korean Campaign, it did not have much impact on the domestic situation of the country, but although the people who died in the Kwantung earthquake were only about 100,000, and the total number of casualties was not even 300,000, it was extremely shocking to the country. It makes the already extremely corrupt domestic economy even worse.

More importantly, now that Ben is still at war with China, and the Great Kanto Earthquake has also greatly damaged Ben's war potential, should he go all out to restore the national economy or continue to fight? This is a multiple-choice question in front of the military and political bigwigs.

The news of the outbreak of the earthquake in the Kanto region reached China, and the title of the Shanghai declaration in four big characters showed the attitude of the Chinese people towards the earthquake in the Kanto region at this moment: "God bless China!" ”