Invincible from the sword

Chapter 377 Who Should I Ask For Reason?

The name Shouichi in the temple is also very meaningful.

Because when his mother was pregnant with him, she was in a temple in an island country.

Shouichi's father in the temple seems to be a little bit dead.

So his mother had to go to the temple to borrow seeds.

That's how he got his name, Shouichi Terauchi.

Terauchi Shouichi was sitting in his new office.

In front of him was a huge map of the Pacific Ocean.

It is densely marked with the location of their island troops.

There are also miniature plaster flags attached.

Tsukata Gong held a telegram in his hand: "Report to General Terauchi, all our troops have arrived now.

At present, our Southern Expeditionary Army has a total of four armies.

They are No.14 Army, No.15 Army, No.16 Army and No.20 Fifth Army.

Among them, the commander of the No.14 Army is Masaharu Monkaku.

The commander of the No.15 Army is Anan Weiji.

No.16 army commander is Kanda Minoru.

The commander of the No.20 Fifth Army is Fengwen Yamashita.

The No.14 Army has four divisions under its jurisdiction, namely the No.16 Division, the No.30 Division, the [-]th Division, and the [-]nd Division.

The No.15 Army has four divisions under its jurisdiction, namely the No.15 Division, the No.30 First Division, the No.30 Third Division, and the Third Division.

No.16军下辖两个师团四个旅团。分别为第二师团、第四师团、25旅团、No.20六旅团、No.20七旅团和No.20八旅团。

The No.20 Fifth Army has four divisions under its jurisdiction, namely, the First Guard Division, the Fifth Division, the No.18 Division, and the Sixth Division.

The troops directly under the expatriate army include No.20 First Division, No.20 First Brigade, Third Flying Group and Fifth Flying Group.

Among them, the four divisions of the No.15 Army are all newly formed divisions.

Combat power is average.

The troops of the No.16 Army are basically drawn from the Kwantung Army and the North China Dispatch Army.

Combat power is considerable. "

Baga road!
Shouyi in the temple became angry when he heard it.

What kind of discount is the island country base camp offering him!
Didn't it mean that No.15 Army and No.16 Army are all elite troops?
How come the No.15 army has all become new devils?
How can such an army fight against the Lighthouse Country?

The old man in the temple has a long face.

It's all dark.

Tojo Hideki and Hata Shunroku, do you think his Terauchi Shouichi is an idiot?
The four divisions of the No.15 Army were all reorganized.

Although they bear the designations of the first-tier and second-tier divisions, everything from the division commander to the soldiers is new.

Originally, he wanted to use the No.15 Army to attack the Kangaroo Country.

Now his thoughts are disrupted.

The base camp of the island country actually played this hand with him!
This must be Hata Shunroku's bad idea!
Shouyi in the temple was very upset.

He, the commander of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army, had done a good job.

Suddenly he became the commander of the Southern Dispatch Army.

Who's to make sense of this?

Because of this, Terauchi Shou was very dissatisfied with Tojo Hideki.

Anyway, Shouichi in his temple is from Tojo.

Throwing him to Southeast Asia just like that is a bit too much.

In Terauchi Shouichi's view, fighting the Lighthouse Kingdom is not as easy as it appears on the surface.

The reason why Fengwen Yamashita played so smoothly in the early stage was mainly because the Lighthouse Kingdom was not prepared enough.

This allowed Yamashita Fengwen to gain a lot of military exploits.

But it is different now.

Beacon Country has been suppressed for a long time.

During this period of time, the domestic war machine in the Lighthouse country has been operating rapidly.

Weapon production doubled.

The mobilized soldiers also exceeded 200 million troops.

If you add the original troops, the troops of the entire Lighthouse country will exceed 300 million.

This is already a very scary number.

It will be very difficult to fight against the lighthouse country now.

To put it bluntly, as soon as Shou from the temple came, he came to put out the fire.

It is my duty to save this.

If you don't save them well, then you have to take the blame.

idiot.

Hideki Tojo did this without saying hello to him in advance.

In contrast, it is better to be the commander of the North China Dispatch Army.

When Terauchi Shou thought of this, he became angry.

That Neiji Okamura was able to climb to the position of commander of the North China Dispatch Army.

Damn.

This kid can climb.

After losing several battles in a row, nothing happened.

The position is still going up all the way!

If he said that there were no cats in it, he would not believe it at all.

Terauchi Shouichi received the telegram from Tsukada Ko.

He frowned and read it again.

If this is the case, then the plan to attack the kangaroo country may have to be postponed.

You can't give away your head, right?

Thank you for the newly arrived troops, we must train a bit.

Even the Kwantung Army transferred over must have a process of adaptation.

The Dutch East Indies, located near the equator, are too hot.

If you don't get used to it, the Kwantung Army will die of heat.

Moreover, the equipment that Hideki Tojo promised to give him is not yet in place.

If you want to win the Kangaroo Country in one fell swoop, that batch of equipment is essential.

When Terauchi Shouyi was preparing to attack the Kangaroo Country, Zhang Lei took his A Brigade to the Lighthouse Country by plane.

Their plane departed from Wuhan and refueled at Pearl Harbor, the Pacific naval base in the lighthouse country.

There, Zhang Lei made a brief stop.

On the one hand, it is to refuel the plane.

On the other hand, it was because Stilwell was there to meet him.

Lighthouse Country attaches great importance to Zhang Lei's trip this time.

This has been waiting for almost a month.

After finally looking forward to Zhang Lei's arrival, the wheelchair Luo of the Lighthouse Kingdom felt that Zhang Lei must feel at home.

In the entire Beacon Country, the person Zhang Lei is most familiar with is Stilwell.

Therefore, Wheelchair Luo specially asked Stilwell to go to Pearl Harbor to make a stop.

Responsible for welcoming Zhang Lei.

By the way, let Zhang Lei briefly introduce the current situation of their lighthouse country and the framework of the entire Pacific Fleet.

After all, the army structure of the Lighthouse Country is very different from that of the old man in Shancheng.

And this time, the Lighthouse country will not only invest in infantry, but also invest in a large number of naval and air forces on the Pacific battlefield.

In order to let Zhang Lei integrate into the role as soon as possible, he must understand these as early as possible.

Before Zhang Lei set off from Wuhan, he had already received his official appointment from the Lighthouse State.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Pacific Theater.

Although this position is not very high level, it is very important.

The entire staff group is responsible for providing operational plans and suggestions for operations in the Pacific theater.

It is the think tank team of the Pacific Theater Command of the Lighthouse Nation.

Stilwell was the Chief of Staff.

Stilwell is now the Lieutenant General of the Lighthouse Country.

Because of his good performance in the Burma campaign, now Wheelchair Luo thinks highly of him.

More importantly, Stilwell and Zhang Lei are very familiar with each other.

In this way, Zhang Lei's role can be brought into full play to a greater extent.

At Pearl Harbor, Stilwell introduced Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Fleet, to Zhang Lei.

The Pacific Theater of the Lighthouse Country consists of the Central Pacific Theater and the Southwest Pacific Theater.

Nimitz is in charge of the Central Pacific theater.

Pipe Mike was in charge of the Southwest Pacific theater.

These two people are directly under the command of Nestor, the naval commander of the Lighthouse Kingdom.

Both are of the same level.

But Zhang Lei had a better impression of Nimitz.

This old man is a relatively pure soldier.

And command ability is also good.

But the pipe mic is completely different.

A pipe mike is a great fountain pen.

It doesn't matter if his command ability is not very good, the key is that this guy still doesn't admit to being cowardly.

I always feel that I am number one in the world.

Simply.

When retreating from the country of Filipino servants, I insisted on muttering that I will come back.

As a result, when the Lighthouse Country counterattacked the island country, Pipe Mike would lead his troops to land in the Filipino Maid Country.

Strategically, it's completely unnecessary.

But just for his own face, he strongly urged the army troops in the Southwest Pacific to counterattack the Philippine mercenary country.

Although the Filipino servant country was regained, it caused a large number of casualties.

Nimitz is an old man.

skinny.

He is not tall either.

And he admired Zhang Lei's fighting style very much.

Before Zhang Lei came, Nimitz heard a lot about Zhang Lei from Stilwell.

Astonished.

And very welcome Zhang Lei's arrival.

Now Nimitz is very worried.

As the commander of the Central Pacific Theater, he was very aggrieved.

After Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese army, he was under a lot of pressure.

Because of the insufficient number of battleships, his fleet hardly dared to take the initiative to fight the combined fleet of the Japanese army.

The combined fleet of the Japanese army now occupies almost half of the Pacific Ocean.

And his Pacific Fleet can only defend from Midway Island to the Aleutian Islands.

If it weren't for the fact that he still had a few aircraft carriers in his hands, Nimitz would have collapsed.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor overturned Nimitz's understanding of the entire naval battle.

As a naval commander who has been in the army for decades, Nimitz has always been thinking about giant ships with cannons.

Naval battles have been like this for more than 200 years.

If your ship is big and your artillery caliber is big, you can win.

It has been like this until now.

But the combined fleet of the island country actually uses the aircraft carrier as the center of the naval force.

The operations of the entire island nation's combined fleet revolve around the aircraft carrier.

I drop mom.

This battle can still be so big.

Nimitz was shocked to find that powerful battleships and cruisers were so helpless in front of the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier.

Large-caliber artillery fire is useless at all.

I can't use my strength.

The opponent can destroy a large warship just by losing a few planes.

Nimitz felt that both himself and his commanders had to change their minds.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to stop the Japanese attack.

It is precisely because of this that Nimitz persuaded Nestor and Wheelchair Luo to build a new type of aircraft carrier.

Nimitz believes that there are two key points in order to gain an advantage over the Japanese combined fleet.

One is an aircraft carrier.

The other is the carrier aircraft.

The role of battleships and cruisers has been greatly weakened.

(End of this chapter)