Chapter 332 Hirohito's Anger
Because the air force of the [[***] team in the tenth war zone has almost mastered most of the air sipulation power in North China, Meizu Mijiro's appointment has also become very low-key. He added a special train between the civilian trains, which is so shabby and forced. If you use armored trains, I'm afraid you won't go to Shanhaiguan. It will be blown to pieces, let alone take a plane, unless it flies over secretly at night, because the sky has become Chinese. Umezu Mijiro ponders why the war situation has become what it is now? In Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan, there is an entity that can compete with the empire on land? The ability of this entity even exceeds that of China's only legal political axe, the Chinese national political axe? Isn't it a little strange?
Meijin Mijiro believes that there must be [[***] black hands behind Zhang Xuewu. The Soviet volunteer pilots appearing over Wuhan and Xuzhou, as well as a large number of Soviet experts and technical arms of Zhang Xuewu in the tenth war zone, explain this problem. It is not Zhang Xuewu's strength, but the Soviet Russia behind it. It may be easy to defeat Zhang Xuewu, but the precondition is to cut off his continuous support first, either to defeat Soviet Russia or conclude a secret agreement with Soviet Russia.
Moreover, Mijiro Umezu's appointment is not unconditional, that is, to transfer Anan to the commander of the First Front Army, and reduce the existing three fronts of the Kwantung Army to two fronts. Yamashita Fengwen will remain in office, and Isotani Renjie will leave, and he should have the full domestic support to form at least one Japanese reading ability. The goal of the mecha army is to have 1,100 tanks, form a second air force, reorganize the 23rd mechanized division, put the latest medium-sized tanks that have been finalized into production immediately, and equip the Kanto Army on a large scale within a year, making its mechanization and modernization the most in the history of the Japanese army. Gao, and asked Emperor Hirohito to give him power to deal with the departure and stay of the first-class officers of lieutenant generals, so as to correct the evil spirit of the Kwantung Army, which has not listened to command and made its own opinions since its establishment, and defeated the rampant wind.
Mijiro Umezumi gave Emperor Hirohito a difficult problem, but this is exactly what Emperor Hirohito is most worried about with the Ministry of the Army and the Ministry of Staff. They do not admit that they have been defeated by Zhang Xuewu. They think that in fact, they have lost to the black hand behind the scenes, Soviet Russia, give Soviet Russia a lesson, or conclude a secret agreement with it? Obviously, I have two choices. It's hard to say that I've always been too simple-minded, because I'm used to competing with the national fortune at most. I have only one choice. Suddenly, I have one more, and I'm not used to it.
And not only that, the so-called latest new medium tank required by Mijiro Umezu, in addition to the Type 97, is a secretly developed Type I, Type III and Type IV medium tank. Because in the Nanjing World War I, the counterattack of the jackal light tank equipped by the Rehe Army caused the Imperial Army to discard its armor, and there was a brigade. The battle example of the total destruction of the troops, so the army province ordered Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Fuji, Toshiba and other companies to take out a kind of chariot that can fight against more than 20 tons of light tanks. Undoubtedly, in my opinion, the Chinese people are extremely shameless, because of the battle of the most advanced Type 97 medium-sized tank in the empire. The total weight is only 150,000 tons. It carries four passengers. The conductor and gunner are located in the turret, the driver is on the right side of the front of the body, the machine gunner is on the left side of the driver, and the turret is located on the right side of the longitudinal center of the body. The main weapon is a 97-millimeter short-barred gun, which can fire grenades and armor-piercing shells, carrying 120 rounds. The armor-piercing shells can penetrate 50 mm of steel armor at a distance of 1,200 meters.
The auxiliary weapon is two-piece and ninety-seven-type seven. The seven-millimeter heavy machine gun carries more than 4,000 rounds, one of which is a front machine gun, and the other is installed on the right side of the rear of the turret. The 97-type body is a welding structure, and the turret is a mixed structure of casting, welding and screw connection, which is cast in three parts, and then welded. The shield part adopts the screw connection method. This hybrid turret processing method is a big improvement compared with the original riveting method of the previous Type 95 and Type 809, but it is relatively easier technically than the overall casting turret or fully welded turret, but the actual combat has proved that the Type 97 is not the opponent of the jackal light tank, at the same distance of 500 meters. From the top, the Type 97 can only penetrate the tail of the jackal, and the jackal can penetrate any point of the Type 97. In terms of shooting accuracy, armor-piercing thickness, power and rate of fire, the Type 97-type 57mm short-barre gun produced by Japan is far less than the 50mm German tank gun with 60 times the barrel caliber.
In terms of power, the Type 97 is equipped with a 12-cylinder air-cooled diesel engine with a power of 125 kilowatts, which is located at the rear of the car body. The maximum speed of the vehicle is 38 kilometers per hour, and the active wheel is in the front. The power needs to be transmitted to the gearbox and parallelizer in the front of the car body through a long drive shaft, so the steering start is slow. It can't be the same as the jackal, so Meijiro Umezu asked for the immediate production of new tanks that have been launched to deal with the rolling iron flow in the tenth war zone. The reason is that after all, the warships can't get a bayonet, and the battle on the land will eventually depend on the army. If the whole Manchuria is lost, even if the Imperial Navy It is useless to equip a thousand battleships.
Emperor Hirohito knew that he wanted to let Umezu Mijiro take the blame at ease, and he didn't want to stop too much. Umezu Mijiro's five-minute secret telegrams on the train mentioned the chariot, especially in Baotou that there was a new type of chariot, so Emperor Hirohito could only drag his tired body to hold the imperial meeting again. If Mijiro Umezu's request is met, the previous naval shipbuilding plan will be delayed again. Several steel mills put into operation in the northeast are always frequently bombed, and the output is almost negligible. Therefore, the biggest dependence on Japan at present is scrap steel imported from the United States.
American loans, oil and rubber made Japan maintain the war. Emperor Hirohito ordered the decision to produce a large number of Type 4 chariots, but Colonel Yamamoto from the Military Engineering Department of the Staff Headquarters regretfully told Emperor Hirohito that whether it is Type 3 or Type 4, or even the Type 5 on the design, it is needed. Powerful power, otherwise it can only become a soft-footed shrimp or a target. The original plan to use the Type 98 800 horsepower engine improved by the BMW YB800H aviation gasoline engine for the four model cars. Although the design power is 800 horsepower, in fact it can only reach 550 horsepower, for those weighing nearly 30 tons. For the chariot, this power is too small.
The Type 4 is prepared to use a 520 mm wide track, which is unprecedented for a Japanese tank. The maximum speed of the design is 45 kilometers per hour. Many surnames are still on the data and have not been actually tested. Moreover, the main weapon on the Type 4 medium tank is the Type 4 75 mm anti-aircraft gun, accurate The automatic loader is used. If the progress is accelerated and the development time is tight, it can only be forced to remove the automatic loader and temporarily install it on the Type IV tank.
And the modified chariot cannon based on the 88mm German anti-aircraft anti-aircraft gun captured in the Chinese battlefield has also entered the final test. Whether the Type 4 chariot can be installed is still a question now.
Emperor Hirohito listened to it for a long time, and finally knew that the so-called Type 4 medium-sized chariot Chito, which was boasted to sweep through the tenth war zone, was simply an unreliable thing. The 88mm chariot cannon that could break through any chariot in the tenth war zone could not be installed on the chariot? Is the self-loading device that boasts amazingly a vision that has never been practiced?
Emperor Hirohito wants to look in the mirror at this moment to see if he really looks like an idiot? Idiots who are confused by the generals of the army and navy all day long? The frontier has been beaten to pieces, and I am still sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai in Tokyo, making bold and wild words, and becoming the object of ridicule all over the world?
Bang! Emperor Hirohito clapped his palm on the table, looked at the shining generals in the meeting, and said in a low voice with anger, "What I want is the result!" If the latest chariot cannot be put into mass production within two months and cannot be loaded within the time required by the Kwantung Army, the relevant person should commit suicide by caesarean section! Do you understand?"
After the roar, Emperor Hirohito left directly, leaving a bunch of generals looking at each other. Emperor Hirohito's anger naturally knew the reason. Regardless of the real situation on the front line, they read all kinds of results and good news on the radio every day, inspiring all the people to be loyal to the king and carry out the holy war to the end. As a result, they were internationally It is natural to laugh generously. It is a shameless thing to brag.
And the most critical thing is that now it has become a pot of porridge with the tenth war zone of the middle [***], and the trusted commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army actually proposed the so-called final solution? That is, to solve the [[***] black hand behind Zhang Xuewu first. If you don't solve the Soviet-Russian problem, you can't completely solve the threat of the tenth war zone. With the Soviet Union's blood transfusion empire, it is difficult to defeat Zhang Xuewu in the tenth war zone in a short time, and the enemy is also constantly developing and growing. Every day, the empire will solve Zhang in the future. The price of learning martial arts is a lot higher.
If he could have sacrificed all things and sent troops to fight again immediately after the Battle of Chengde, I'm afraid it would not be the current situation. Zhang Xuewu, who became stronger and bigger, has become almost as powerful as China's political axe. Personnel entered from Shanxi and northwest, and weapons and military reinforcements entered from Mongolia. There were people, guns, With bullets and food, it's really not easy to completely solve Zhang Xuewu, and does Zhang Xuewu still have a card? No one knows this.
(to be continued)