Chapter 247: Off-the-Field Failure (I)

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In Osaka, Japan, there is a two-story red brick building, and everyone who comes to Osaka will come here to see, not because of how peculiar the building is, nor how attractive the huge national flag at the entrance is, but because it is becoming one of the most desirable buildings for those fanatical Japanese young people ().

This is the famous Japanese non-commissioned officer school.

Nishihei Kawashima squeezed his book and stepped on the cinder-paved road with a leisurely expression. He has been very comfortable recently, since he joined Kawashima Speed Wave, that guy has regarded him as a key training object, but instead drove Tang Jiyao and others to North Korea, even Toushan Man hopes that he can contribute to Japan, so he specially sent him to Lushi to study, and he mainly studied intelligence analysis and other subjects.

The war is raging at home, and I don't know what happened to the commander and his comrades, but it's a pity that my current task is to try my best to climb up, so I don't have any tasks, and even the team members in Japan rarely contact each other, so as not to expose their identities.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

An old Japanese farmer carrying a vegetable burden didn't pay attention to bumping into Kawashima Nishihei, and when he saw the military uniform, he was so frightened that he hurriedly bowed and apologized, he wanted to say that it was okay, but after glancing at the classmates at the door, he immediately put on a domineering posture: "Yaga! Blind? Get out of here! "His Japanese was already good, but he deliberately concealed it for several months and pretended to study it slowly, and it also made Kawashima think that he had a high talent for languages.

The old farmer was so frightened that he hurriedly quickened his pace, and the classmate Lu Shi at the gate in the distance didn't seem to care about his bullying, because this was Lu Shi, the area of the Japanese elite, and the vegetable farmer was just a dirty subordinate.

The fierce appearance frightened the surrounding peasants and ordinary people to leave, and they didn't even dare to show their anger. Let Kawashima Nishihei can't help but sigh, this is Japan, the real Japan, many people in the country may not be able to imagine, defeated the Manchu Qing Dynasty, defeated Russia, Japan, which has the strongest navy and army in Asia, is so impoverished, it is said that the national debt alone is more than 50 yen per citizen, and the domestic situation is even more turbulent after the grain harvest last year, with groups of beggars on the streets, and it is said that there are also starving people.

The Great Japanese Empire? Hmph, after tearing off the mask of strength, maybe it is not as good as his hometown ().

Kawashima Xihei pretended to snort coldly and walked quickly towards the school gate, but before he entered the door, a large number of non-commissioned officers and students suddenly poured out of the door, these people held all kinds of slogans, and many of them were still red and angry.

What's wrong? Who dares to provoke a non-commissioned officer who has to retreat three feet even from the ronin?!

"Masa Hanaya, what's wrong?"

Kawashima Saihei pulled a short and thin classmate, because Kawashima Saihei took the initiative to help him hide his identity when he entered the school, mainly because he wanted him to receive a Japanese education thoroughly, so most classmates didn't know that he was Chinese.

The young Hanaya was very excited, waving his fist and shouting: "It's those damned Chinese, they attacked our cantonment army base for no reason, Yasuo Oshima and his army all died!" These fools who have lost all the face of Asia and don't want to defeat the foreigners and ghosts, but they come to attack the emperor ** team that has brought prosperity to Asia! After a hasty explanation, he caught up with the group of demonstrators demanding severe punishment from China.

After hearing these words, Kawashima Nishihei was both excited and worried, excited that the army had won, since it was able to fight with the Japanese army stationed in China, it meant that it was likely to enter the north, and the worry was that Japan was poor, but the army strength was still very strong, would this lead to a big war?

As for those brainwashed remarks, he directly ignored them, because he himself was receiving such brainwashing every day.

After thinking about it, he also quickly followed.

In the Sino-Japanese war, the news of the annihilation of a brigade of the army stationed in China shook Japan, and the students and ronin, who had been deliberately instigated, crowded the streets and alleys, chanting slogans saying that China should be punished, sending the navy to bombard coastal cities, and sending more troops into Manchuria, Mongolia and North China.

As more and more Japanese young people were instigated, Han Yeping's old accounts were also turned over, and under the guidance of some people, some people began to point the finger at the navy that did nothing in the two conflicts, if the first time Han Yeping could also use the Yangtze River to explain that the Yangtze River was not suitable for large warships, but this time the battle position was within 20 kilometers of the Bohai Sea, even if the navy's guns could not reach, it could also send marines to land, and even send small ships along the Yellow River upstream for direct artillery support, Therefore, many people are beginning to wonder whether the navy, which accounts for more than 70% of military spending every year, is still worth continuing to expand.

Newspapers were filled with photographs of dead soldiers from Yasuo Oshima's brigade taken by German journalists, and accusations of naval inaction grew louder. Standing at the window, you can clearly see the fanatics and young people who are crowded on the streets to petition for war, and from time to time there are officers in army uniforms, and just by looking at these people, the new prime minister, Gonbei Yamamoto, can understand who launched this campaign against China and the Japanese navy.

"These bastards, they're gambling on the future of the Empire!"

Gonbei Yamamoto couldn't help but be angry, it took so long for the navy to get to where it is today after the Southwest War, and Japan finally had a prime minister for the first time, but he didn't expect that he hadn't been sitting for a few days and those people jumped out again! What made him angry was that the person who started this incident knew better than him that Japan was currently powerless to fight! Paying 2 billion yen and sacrificing 100,000 elite young people, a victory that can be called a world-shaking victory is a huge price for the country to be devastated, and what is more serious than this is because Russia has not paid any reparations, and the Manchurian and Mongolian regions need to compete with China and Russia, so they have not received a single war dividend at all!

Inu Yangyi, who was standing behind him, frowned slightly after hearing this, although he is also a veteran, he has always been more objective, and he has also supported the constitutional protection movement, and because of this matter, he has made a little trouble with Youpeng and others in Shanxian County, but compared to this little trouble, he cares more about whether the land and sea can reach a balanced agreement this time, if there is a bigger contradiction, Japan may even split!

But he couldn't say it directly, so he immediately glanced at the short and fat Takahashi Shiqing next to him.

Takahashi was a member of the Constitutional Council, and after Yamamoto Gonbei formed a cabinet, he was invited to join the Constitution in order to fight against the army warlords, and he was also a major figure in the alliance between the Navy and the Political Friendship Association. Seeing his gaze, he was a little worried: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, I think some appropriate compromises should be made, such as stopping the reduction of Privy Council seats. ”

After Yamamoto Gonbei formed a cabinet, he immediately began to weaken the Privy Council, which overrode the Diet, because the Privy Council was a cancer for the army elders to interfere in the Diet, so he wanted to reduce the seats, and now the work has begun, if it is not continued, everything will be done in vain, and if the Privy Council is not weakened, the navy will never come out, so he waved his hand resolutely: "No, the Privy Council seats must be reduced to 24, unless we are willing to be crushed by others for the rest of our lives and unable to breathe ()." ”

"If that's the case, I think there's a good chance that no agreement will be reached." Takahashi Shiqing turned his head and looked at Inu Yangyi, because the other party was also a veteran member of the Constitutional Council who was very disliked, so he spoke a little more tactfully: "If the contradiction between land and sea becomes bigger and bigger, it will be even more detrimental to our country to survive this difficult period." ”

Yamamoto Gonbei didn't know this, took a deep breath to calm himself down, and turned to Inukai Yi: "What does he need?" ”

Inukai Takeshi was the only person in Yamamoto's Gonbei cabinet who could talk to that person, and as a matter of course, he became the liaison in this incident, saying: "Two more divisions in Korea will ensure our interests in Manchuria. ”

Ensuring the interests of Manchuria? Ghost believes! The public hope of Xiyuan Temple was forced to step down by this demand.

This condition was difficult for Yamamoto to to accept, and the army already had more than a dozen permanent divisions and regiments, although most of them were not fully manned, but the military expenses were allocated according to the size of the divisions and regiments. Although the two army divisions and regiments do not cost much, Japan is now financially tight, and it is impossible to increase the number of army divisions and regiments under the condition that it is impossible to increase military spending, and it is necessary to deduct it from the navy's military expenditure. He also wanted to use the opportunity of the Navy to control the cabinet and fulfill the dream of the 88th Fleet.

What's more, if you give two divisions, will you be able to be safe? Those guys in the army are obviously afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and the DPRK already has a 16th division, and if two more are added, it will obviously exceed the normal defense needs, and it will certainly arouse China's vigilance, and once the conflict breaks out again, it will inevitably be a big war involving Manchuria, Mongolia and even the whole of North China, and the navy will also be completely involved! If you win, you still need to face Russia, which is eyeing the tiger, and if you lose, it will be a catastrophe.

So this is obviously using two divisions as an excuse to suppress the navy and drive yourself down! So the waves of calls for naval retaliation outside made him restless. The British ambassador had come to express his desire not to see the war expand and lead to the grave consequences of Russian intervention. Don't look at the fact that the Combined Fleet is already the premier maritime power in Asia, not even inferior to the British Far East Fleet, but technically it is still in the hands of others, seeing that the battlecruiser Kongo is about to return home, and the remaining three ships are almost completed, this time must not go against the will of the allies ().

What's more, in the eyes of the navy, as an island country, it should follow the British line and go all out to develop a large navy, instead of wasting precious national resources by engaging in a large army!

Thinking of this, he had a bit of a headache, and for him, who had participated in the Saxon-British War at the age of eleven, helped carry shells at the Benten Battery, worked together with gunner Oyama Iwa, and his partner Heihachiro Togo (this battery can be described as priceless ~~), and sent the captain and deputy captain of the flagship Yuriales to God, the situation was even more tricky now than a few years ago when he faced the Russian Expeditionary Fleet that overwhelmed Japan.

Of course, in the face of that person's approaching step by step, he is not without means of counterattack, there is also a person in the navy with a higher prestige than him, as long as he can come out, everything will disappear, just.

Just thinking of this, the knock on the door dashed his last hope.

It was Minoru Saito, the new minister of the sea, who came in, and after seeing him, he first saluted Inukai and the others before saying, "He refused my visit, saying that he didn't want to care about these things anymore." ”

Inukai Yi knows who he is in the mouth of Minoru Saito, the only person in Japan who can make Yama Prefecture Yutomo dare not offend, Togo Heihachi!

But what's the use of him not coming out? Yamamoto Gonbei hates to beat up that little old man, so everyone is also a member of the navy, right? It's okay for you to worship Wang Mingyang (Wang Shouren), but you don't need to learn from him to study those deeply mysterious things, right? Holding his forehead, Shan Ben really couldn't cry or laugh, what kind of people are his subordinates! Shimamura was arranged to teach at the university a little more normally, Akiyama Shinyuki has been babbling like a madman since the Russo-Japanese War, and as for Togo, he simply lived in seclusion.

Ay.

Outside, a shout was louder than the other, so that the aggrieved Yamamoto Gonbei had to sigh and wave his hand to Minoru Saito: "Go prepare the car, I'll go meet him." ”

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