Rebirth of the National Marshal

"We cannot change what the headquarters has decided. What we have to do now is to use the existing forces in our hands to create a glimmer of hope in the war situation, so that people in the country will have hope in our Central China Expeditionary Army again, instead of being utterly disappointed in us as before. Our supplies are already a little difficult, so we must make some changes within a week." General Matsui stopped the endless quarrel.

He knew that if he let his men continue talking about this issue, they might end up talking until tomorrow morning. It's not just the Chinese who like to waste time, most Asians do this, the Japanese also have this habit. During meetings, they always like to talk about irrelevant things and criticize other people's lives for being exciting, but when it comes to their own lives, they can't do anything.

"Your Excellency the Commander, the Luodian area is the area we should attack the most. This place has changed hands between the two sides about a dozen times. At present, it is not difficult for us to capture this place, but it is more difficult to defend this place. The Chinese army is best at the death squad. They rushed up at night with grenades all over their bodies. Their desperate fighting style caused us great losses." Although the Japanese seem to be very glorious on the surface, they also suffered a lot in secret.

They have already lost tens of thousands of troops in this place. If they were like China, with vast territory and abundant resources, they could afford the loss. However, they currently need manpower in many aspects of the country. The industry of the entire country needs to develop, and there are still too few young and middle-aged men.

In the historical Songhu Battle, they only lost about tens of thousands of people, but now they have lost that number at the very beginning. Historically, they have seen victory, but now there is still no sign of victory. If the stalemate continues, it will probably be disadvantageous to them. Before, they had the support of the navy, but now the navy has withdrawn to the open sea because they are afraid of the Chinese bombers.

In the historical Songhu Battle, they were supported by battleships. One shot from large-caliber heavy artillery could almost wipe out an entire company of Chinese troops. But now those battleships have not come in. Some time ago, the Chinese Air Force concentrated 20 planes to bomb the battleships, but because their usual training was not very good, they only destroyed one secondary gun. But even so, it made the Japanese Navy feel distressed.

The naval command simply ignored the order from the headquarters and ordered several battleships to take the aircraft carriers outside. It was too dangerous to stay inside. It would be very difficult for the Chinese Air Force to find them in the vast ocean, let alone bomb them. We will just come in and give you a few artillery support when your attack is most intense. It is impossible for us to drive the ships into the Yangtze River as we did before.

In the eyes of the Japanese Navy, your lives are so worthless. One of our battleships is of extremely high value. If we sell this battleship, we can assemble an army of about four divisions. Even if all of you die, you are not as valuable as this battleship. In the eyes of the navy, all the army members are nine-cent soldiers. They recruited you with a postcard worth nine cents. How valuable are you?

Why should we take the risk of using battleships to provide you with resources? Moreover, the reason why the Navy Command made such a decision this time is because all the aircraft produced in Japan have been supplemented to the Army. The First Flying Division in the Northeast, the Fifth Flying Division in North China, and the Third Flying Division in Central China have all suffered heavy losses and have no spare aircraft.

I don't know which guy in the Japanese headquarters was so stupid that he gave all the more than 200 planes produced this month to the army. Since you think the army is so important, why do you want our navy? The planes we lost in the navy have not been replenished for two months. They said that we have planes on other warships and we can use them. If that's the case, then the army's affairs have nothing to do with us. Let's go to the sea and see the sun.

In other countries, if there is a conflict between the navy and the army, at least it will not be manifested on the battlefield. However, Japan is a strange country. The Japanese navy can be said to be the most elite navy in the world, and the Japanese army was at the bottom during World War II, just ahead of the Chinese army.

The conflict between the navy and the army has a long history. Moreover, on the battlefield, the navy fleet just retreated regardless of whether it needed naval support or not. And they even argued that you didn't give us planes anyway, so we couldn't risk our lives to protect the army. We have used up all our navy's resources, and your headquarters won't replenish us. Since you have already replenished the army with planes, then the bombing mission can be left to the Third Flying Division. We are not needed.

"Of course, the soldiers of our Great Japanese Empire are very brave, but Luodian is indeed a strategic location. If the soldiers who died here from both sides were added up, they would have several layers if they were spread out. If we want to defend this place, we must have naval support. Even if their battleships don't come in, we must at least have a few destroyers here." Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko is actually an uneducated and arrogant guy, but the words he says now are still very useful.

All the officers looked at her. The relationship between the Japanese Navy and the Army was very bad, so if they wanted to request naval support, they could only ask a very important person to go out. Now the most important person in their room was Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko.

This guy saw that people around him took a fancy to him and understood what was going on. However, you guys don’t respect me very much in normal times. Now I have to communicate with those guys in the navy. They all see my role. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place. This guy showed a very arrogant look and his colleagues around him were all disgusted with him. If this guy was not the cousin of His Majesty the Emperor, how could he become the commander of the Upper Sea Expeditionary Force?