Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Navy and Army Undermining Each Other

Before he transmigrated, Ye Shaohong watched spy dramas, and almost all the Japanese spies in them were die-hards.

If captured by the Kuomintang or the Communist Party, most of them would choose to end their own lives.

But after actually traveling through time, Ye Shaohong was surprised to find that he had been deceived.

The reality is not as exaggerated as depicted in movies and TV series. Indeed, some people have been blinded by militaristic ideology and the Bushido spirit.

But that's only a small part.

When faced with death, Japanese people also experience fear and trembling, and they too will kneel and beg for mercy. Just like the man in the suit and the woman in the cheongsam in the interrogation room now.

When Ye Shaohong questioned them, they dared not hide anything at all. In fact, in order to win Ye Shaohong's favor, the two of them would even supervise each other and compete with each other.

Sometimes, even without Ye Shaohong asking, they would still reveal some important information.

Under these circumstances, Ye Shaohong quickly learned the truth of the matter.

Pretty much what he guessed.

These two were indeed not professional intelligence agents; they came from the Japanese Navy and the Japanese Army, respectively.

This time, Tanaka Tsujin brought a pocket camera and film to Nanjing. His main purpose was to deliver these items to the Eastern Navy.

It's strange, isn't it? Why would the Japanese navy steal intelligence from the Japanese army? Actually, it's quite normal.

During the Republic of China era, the famous military strategist Jiang Baili once commented on the internal contradictions within the Japanese army.

He said that the strength of the Japanese army was rare in the world, and the strength of the navy was also rare in the world. However, the combination of the two strengths resulted in weakness.

Why would Mr. Jiang Baili say that?

the reason is simple.

The relationship between the Japanese army and navy had deteriorated to the point of undermining each other.

They also did a lot of bizarre things.

Have you ever heard of the army building ships and the navy building tanks?

At the time, a high-ranking officer of the Japanese Army said something like this: "If the navy has shipyards, we must have them too; if the navy has aircraft carriers, we must build them in imitation; if the navy has submarines, we must have them too!"

And so, Japan went further and further down the path of maritime affairs, and in increasingly bizarre ways.

It eventually reached an amazing level.

Before the war between Japan and the United States, the total tonnage of the East Asian Navy was only 150 million tons, while the total tonnage of the Army's ships at the same time had reached a terrifying 210 million tons.

Meanwhile, the army also has a series of aircraft carrier-like ships such as the "Shenzhou", "Akitsu Maru", and "Kumano Maru", as well as a large number of submarines.

In response to the increasingly diversified development trend of the Eastern Army, the Eastern Navy was not idle either.

They independently developed artillery and tanks, and put them into mass production and deployment.

When it comes to building airplanes, the Japanese navy and army are also incredibly peculiar.

Logically, since both the navy and the army need aircraft, wouldn't it be simple for them to place orders with the military factory together? But these two entities insist on not doing so.

At that time, the Japanese army and navy needed a water-cooled engine while developing aircraft.

They were wary of each other and kept their secrets from each other, which ultimately led to both sides spending huge patent fees at two different companies owned by Hanscat to purchase the same design blueprints.

That's bizarre enough, right? But there are even more bizarre things to come.

The 30 Company, which was responsible for manufacturing aircraft for the Japanese Army and Navy, actually built two separate factories due to the special requirements of the two militaries.

The land, factory buildings, raw materials, personnel, and machinery are all kept in duplicate. The factory staff also keep each other's information confidential, and different teams are not allowed to communicate technically about aircraft manufacturing.

To prevent communication between the two sides' aircraft, naval and army aircraft operate in different ways.

Pilots from different sides could not fly each other's planes, and in terms of maintenance, the screws on naval and army aircraft were in opposite directions and were not interchangeable. They also concealed war intelligence from each other.

In June 1942, the Battle of Midway broke out, and the East Asian Navy was defeated. In order to save face for the navy, the East Asian Navy did not inform the East Asian Army of the military report of this disastrous defeat, in which four aircraft carriers were lost.

Hideki Tojo, who was then Prime Minister and concurrently Minister of the Army, later lamented that he only learned of the defeat at Midway a month later.

As for the detailed information, he never managed to find out anything.

This is only the apparent conflict.

Behind the scenes, there were even more conflicts and struggles between the Japanese army and navy. It is said that in the early stages of the invasion of China, the navy plundered tens of tons of gold from China.

They wanted to use ships to bring the gold back to their homeland.

However, halfway through the journey, these tens of tons of gold were robbed. Afterwards, the navy sent people to investigate and discovered that the perpetrators were actually from the Japanese army. Quite unusual, isn't it?

Don't treat this as a joke. In fact, the conflict between the Japanese army and navy was closely related to the national wars of China.

When the war first broke out, the Japanese army declared that it would destroy China in three months.

During this period, the Japanese Army held a dominant position.

That's why they were able to continuously send troops into our country and escalate the war. But by 1941, facing the increasingly stalemate between China and Japan, the naval power of the East Asia began to emerge.

They proposed the idea of ​​shifting the strategic core to Southeast Asia within the Eastern Army.

Then, they secretly attacked Pearl Harbor, the US's home port.

This shifted the strategic focus of both China and Japan from mainland China to Southeast Asia, leading to the deployment of 100,000 expeditionary troops to the region and ultimately resulting in the confrontation between the two countries on the main battlefield.

Ye Shaohong's soul came from the future, and he was also full of curiosity about this history. He had also specifically consulted these materials, which is why he was clear about the conflicts and struggles between the East Asian Navy and the Army.

That's why he could see at a glance the differences between Yamaguchi Jiro and the other two when they met at Huiquan Tea House.

Then, during the interrogation of Jiro Yamaguchi, they used a combination of truth and falsehood, reasoning and reality, to trick Jiro Yamaguchi into giving a confession.

This was used to get the man in the suit and the woman in the cheongsam to talk.

"That's it!"

"So, Tanaka Tsujin and the people behind him were bribed by your Navy Department, which is why he brought a pocket camera and intelligence film, and instead of reporting to the Army Department and the Special Higher Police, he came to Nanjing instead."

"His mission was to deliver the pocket camera and intelligence film to your Navy Department, and then have your Navy Department take advantage of the situation to harm the Army?"

"Now all the questions are answered!"

"Interesting, really interesting!"