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Chapter 840 Sharpening the knife

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    After Emperor Hirohito ascended the throne, he had a fierce power collision with the military. The constraints of the military headed by the Choshu Domain forced Hirohito, who was filled with old and new hatreds, to vigorously cultivate his own power - mainly young people.  The lower-level officers want to lead the military on behalf of the Choshu clan and turn the army into a real "locust army".

    In the early Showa era, Japan's militaristic right-wing forces developed rapidly. Militants in the military ignored the government and insisted on expanding foreign aggression. Their main target was Northeast China.

    During this period, because Emperor Hirohito, who had just come to power, focused mainly on controlling the military, Japanese militarism had many constraints.  Overall, this group of militants was not as politically and diplomatically ready as it was later.

    Nagata, who was trusted by Hirohito, took advantage of the emperor's control over the military. In Japan's gradually implemented national mobilization plan, Nagata's suggestions were not only adopted, but also the main promoter. Some of the practices were similar to those recommended by China's Zhang Hanqing.  The actions are astonishingly consistent:

    Japan has established a general mobilization system and added a "Maintenance Bureau" in the Army Ministry, which has jurisdiction over the two sections of "mobilization" and "control"; at the cabinet level, a new "National General Mobilization Organ Preparation Committee" has been established, with the Cabinet Legislative Affairs Bureau serving as the chairman concurrently. Each province recommends  Appoint one member and one officer each.  Nagata, as the officer representing the Army Ministry, actually presided over the work of the committee and led the planning of the general mobilization system.

    With China as a reference, Nagata not only requires the rearmament of armaments, but also requires that politics, education, economy, and society be brought into the scope of general war, and a system of national general mobilization be established. This is consistent with China's current concept of people's war under the guidance of Zhang Hanqing.  Different approaches but similar results.

    However, Nagata catered to Hirohito's intentions, thereby overpowering the party politics that flaunted freedom and creating a militaristic country.  At this point, the congenital shortcomings of a soldier born in Nagata were exposed-military is a continuation of politics rather than the opposite. Zhang Hanqing firmly grasped the degree.

    In the field of ideology, in 1919, when Nagata was assigned to study ideological issues, he studied the general mobilization of the national spirit.

    Due to his suggestions and planning, young and outstanding retired officers were successively placed as instructors in liberal arts schools to implement student military training; a "youth training center" was set up for young people in society; at the same time, in conjunction with the strengthening of the "Rural Soldiers Association" activities, Zhongjun  The idea of ??patriotism and the consciousness of imperial theocracy are injected into all strata and corners of society to unite the national spirit and unify the national action.

    Therefore, Ugaki Kazunari once boasted in his diary: "Whether it is peacetime or wartime, if 70 million compatriots rush to die under the control of the Supreme Being, I alone have generally touched more than 200,000 active-duty soldiers and 3 million  The army of more than 10,000 soldiers in the countryside, 500,000 to 600,000 middle-level and upper-level students, and more than 10 million young people are enough to cope with it." This result was the famous "Imperial Civilization" movement in Japan.

    Tanaka Giichi, the founder of the Rural Soldiers Association and soon to be Prime Minister, once proudly declared: "I have 3 million Rural Soldiers!"

    His experience on the European frontline made Nagata realize the huge role of modernization of weapons and equipment: During the war, aircraft, submarines, tanks, giant cannons, light machine guns, and even poison gas became weapons on the European battlefield. Ten years ago, Japan  The guns and artillery from the Russian war era have become completely useless; if Japan cannot implement the weapons revolution in time, it will not be able to survive in the world.

    Prime Minister Tanaka also advocated the "industrial founding theory" that was closely related to the policy of invading China. He believed that Japan's "natural resources are extremely safe and its population growth rate is the highest in the world." Therefore, "the abundance of food and the security of industrial raw materials are really decisive."  The great question of the fate of the empire.¡±

    On this point, although the two did not come from the same school, they had the same opinion.

    In 1924 and 2052, Nagata Tetsuyama, in his capacity as a senior lecturer (equivalent to deputy section chief) of the Military Affairs Section of the Army Ministry, was responsible for the review and coordination tasks of budget allocation, administrative support, etc.  He once followed the instructions of Prime Minister Ugaki Kazunari and decided to reduce the standing troops of four divisions (reducing twenty-one divisions to seventeen), and used the saved personnel costs to develop aircraft, tanks, heavy artillery, etc.  New weapons.

    For example, the range of field artillery was extended from five or six kilometers to more than ten kilometers. At the same time, Nagata also advocated protecting the domestic automobile industry, promoting the development of heavy industry, and supporting the research of national defense technology; there was even a military doctor Ishii Shiro who was one of the most important figures in history.  The establishment of a secret agency in Harbin, the "731 Unit", which used Chinese living people to test toxin weapons, was also strongly supported by Nagata.

    There is nothing we can do about it.  China has been rejuvenated under the leadership of the People's Party. According to Japanese intelligence personnel in China, the People's Army has armed at least eight heavy howitzer regiments, and vehicles have also begun to be equipped with artillery regiments and tanks at the division level.  and aircraft have increased significantly.

    If we don¡¯t catch up, we will fall behind in the arms race with China.Risks in the future - in fact, in terms of army armaments, it has lagged far behind.

    During the European War, the German army fired 20 million artillery shells at the Battle of Verdun, and the French army fired 34 million shells at the Battle of the Somme.  On the other hand, the United States temporarily banned the export of steel to Japan because of the war against Germany.

    These two situations made Nagata realize that in future wars, the supply of large amounts of coal, iron, and other strategic resources must be ensured; otherwise, not to mention the competition for Eastern hegemony, even the survival of the country cannot be guaranteed.

    To this end, the Ministry of War specially set up the "Combat Material Preparation Conference" in 1921. Later, Nagata, who had just returned from Europe, served as the "officer" of the conference, and in 1926 he served as the "specialist"  ¡± in an effort to address strategic resource needs.

    However, Japan is an island country with poor resources. You cannot turn stones into "iron" and dig up soil into "coal". Many of the strategic resources it needs must be obtained from abroad. Therefore, Nagata is determined to promote national mobilization.  Tieshan had long harbored the so-called fantasy of "establishing a Japanese-Manchurian economic bloc and becoming self-sufficient", and developed an aggressive consciousness that "the Manchu-Mongolian issue must be solved by force."

    With their advanced military strategy, they realized that due to the gradual development of aviation, the Soviet air force deployed in the Vladivostok area has been able to directly bomb the Japanese mainland. Considering the understanding of air power by personnel in this era, the air force as a service is not only in China  In addition to being recognized, all countries regard it as an auxiliary service of the army and navy. Nagata Tetsuzan's forward-looking vision is indeed worthy of admiration.

    Therefore, they believe that Japan must capture Manchuria so that it can keep its troops outside the country when fighting Russia and preemptively destroy the Russian military power in the Far East. Japan lacks strategic resources and must obtain them from Manchuria.  If Manchuria can be truly controlled, on the one hand, it can deter the Soviet Union from moving south, and on the other hand, it can increase pressure on China.  Therefore, it must be "Japan's central national policy to resolve the Manchuria-Mongolia issue."

    The solution is to "launch force."

    This means that the peaceful situation between China and Japan for many years has the risk of changing into war.  ?(Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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