On December 5, 1904, Nogi Hidn was carrying a saber at his waist and drinking a bitter cold wind with his beard, and his mood was complicated when he looked down on the whole picture of Lushun Port from the newly occupied Lushun 203 Highland (Laoye Mountain) to the whole scenery!
Lushun military port during the Russian occupation period
He is no longer a spirited teenager, nor does he have the joy of winning. Even less would he have thought that the Japanese Army, which regarded him as the "god of war", would choose his stubborn and worthless "death charge" in the battle for the islands after a gap of 37 years; in a desperate situation, it would choose his stubborn and worthless "death charge"...
It coincides with the changing times of Japan, when new stars rise or superstars suddenly fall, only in an instant. Fighting in a war that follows the rules, does things rigidly and pedanticly, and even for Nogi Kitenon, whose imperial power has reached the point of family martyrdom, no one has given this old-time soldier a lesson in the thinking of the times; he is confused and afraid in his heart, and he writes a lot of oil poems at home that Chinese...
Nogi Norinori
What is even more surprising to the author is that a "Cloud on Sakaue", which reflects the Russo-Japanese War, also had the same face, and appeared in the play again and again in the ancient Chinese verses!
The Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War forged the blades of the old Japanese army. If someone canonizes a god, someone is beheaded. It was their guidance that brought disasters and sufferings rarely in history to the Chinese civilization that they chanted in their mouths!
Equally fortunate and unfortunate as Nogi, he was caught up in this torrent of Japanese history, including Heihachiro Togo, Iwayama Iwa, and Kodama Gentaro. Without mentioning the success or failure of these people, it is difficult to understand the "model room" effect caused by Hideki Tojo, Isoroku Yamamoto, and Tadaichi Minamimoto! Unable to return to heaven was the naval battle against the United States in the Pacific, and it was Heihachiro Togo and Nogi Nogi who were worshipped as spiritual gods. Japan under siege has gone from rising to falling suddenly, and even falling into the abyss...
As the saying goes, "The water rolling east of the Yangtze River, the waves exhaust the heroes." Success or failure turns empty. How many things in ancient and modern times are in laughter and discussion...". There are many discussions about the pseudo-propositions of history, and the old Japanese Navy chose Togo Heihachiro, right? Or was it wrong to choose Nan Yun Zhongyi to sneak up on Pearl Harbor?
Higashigo Heihachiro
With these two figures at its core, this article explores a pseudo-proposition about the rise and demise of the Japanese Navy. Take history as a mirror and look at the role of people and luck in war!
In the historical script of Higashigo Heihachiro, Nogi Nogi, and Tadaichi Minamiun, Higashigo Heihachirō is undoubtedly the one who is the least wrong. Higashigo Heihachiro, a native of Kagoshima. The biggest difference from Nogi Ishinori is that he knows how to adapt to the times, understand that an island country like Japan can only establish a country with a strong navy, and was one of the first people to enter the navy established by satsuma domain!
He and Liu Butou, who is known as the "Beiyang Marine Division Sabre", studied at the British Naval Academy, but the two eventually had very different fates! Liu Butou committed suicide because of the painful loss of his beloved ship "Dingyuan" and committed suicide under the oath of "mourning the ship, you will cut yourself".
In the subsequent battles of Lushun and Tsushima, Dongxiang ate two successive "Pacific Fleets" of Tsarist Russia. With the adventurous tactics of seizing the first place of the "T" head ship, it narrowly defeated the Russian Pacific Second Fleet. The cruiser Aurora, which later shelled the Winter Palace, was the fish that slipped through the net in this naval battle. Although the ship escaped, it had to be captured in western colonial ports such as the Philippines until the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
At this post-war celebration banquet, Togo Heihachiro was initially silent in the face of honor and praise. Maybe it was a drunken whim, or maybe it was the military's choice of him as the supreme commander of the combined fleet, just because he was more "lucky" than his competitors. During the banquet, he showed everyone a waist plate with 7 large characters written on it, "Pray to Yang Ming for a lifetime", Chinese. Taking advantage of the threat of victory, he casually warned or taught a few words to several American sailors who came to congratulate him. This preaching may have made the Americans very unhappy, in the film "Decisive Battle of Midway", the Americans pretended to be Yamamoto Fifty-Six, and performed a good performance...
Five-star Admiral - Chester William Nimitz
The reason why Americans do this in the movie is because among the several American sailors who "preached" in Togo Heihachiro, there was a man named Chester William Nimitz (1885.2.24~1966.20)."
With Japan's wings full, ambition, complacency and arrogance, there are really not many options left for Nanyun Junichi!
...... If Heihachiro Higashigo under the tombstone could have known that his colleagues and the Japanese government had negotiated a 5:5:3 (US: British: Japanese) ratio of armaments to the Navy at the 1922 Washington Naval Conference, I wonder if it would have been as long as the result of the Russo-Japanese War!
In Japan after the Russo-Japanese War, not many people knew the United States very well. The Japanese people are only concerned about the incorporation of the Korean Peninsula, and the three northeastern provinces have come and gone, from Puyi's puppet State of Manchukuo to the Japanese garrison, and then to the use of troops to take...
As everyone knows, the annexation of northeast china and north China and the conflict with the Soviet Union must rely on a large amount of oil, scrap steel and even instruments and equipment from the United States to support. Isoroku Yamamoto, the initiator of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is one of the people who understand the United States. Nan Yun Tadaichi is far less fortunate than Togo and Yamamoto, has never been to the British Naval Academy to expand his thinking, and he can't have the leisure to understand monaco and Las Vegas's thriving gambling industry like Yamamoto!
Is6 Yamamoto
He couldn't understand what Yamamoto meant when he said, "Give him a year and win back an aircraft carrier for Japan." Moreover, the reason why Japan has developed such a new thing as an aircraft carrier is because of the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty. Otherwise, whether the "Yamato" battleship is full of military ports, it can only be seen how much steel has been shipped back from the United States...
Throughout Nanun Tadaichi's military career, his slot points and defeats were in a fight with the "military god" Nogi Nogi Who lost more than he won, so he was jokingly called "Kengri Famous General"! His biggest defeat, of course, was the naval and air battle against Nimitz at Midway!
Nanyun Tadaichi
Tadaichi Minamimoto studied at the Edajima Naval Academy in Japan, specializing in neither artillery nor aviation, but as an expert in torpedoes. He excelled in his studies and ranked 7th out of 191 graduates over the same period. He once served on the "Drafting Committee of the Naval Aviation Combat Teaching Model" with a strong theoretical nature, and was considered to be one of the people who stepped into naval aviation warfare with half a foot...
He commanded the front-line naval and aviation forces, and had a strong rival, Jinzaburo Ozawa. In contrast to the studious Nanun, he served as the commander of Japan's First Air Force. Experienced and flexible. During naval exercises in early 1940, Ozawa used the aircraft carriers Akagi and Ryūjō to organize 81 aircraft to attack the formations of nagato, Mutsu, and Soryu, led by Isoro Yamamoto, and eventually "sank" Nagato and Mutsu...
Jizaburō Ozawa
With this achievement, why did the Japanese military finally choose the cautious and lack of decisiveness of Nanyun Junichi? From the perspective of human factors, Nanyun has the advantages of excellent academic performance, qualifications, interpersonal relations, experience and character alignment, not to mention that Nanyun is also Ozawa's senior! In a country as clearly distinguished as the inferior and seniority in Japan, few people can choose the courage of Heihachiro Togo!
Saying that Nanyun has the advantage of "character alignment" mainly refers to his personality traits. It is not excluded that out of the consideration of protecting the Japanese Navy's family foundation, this point is similar to Li Hongzhang's consideration of resolutely not allowing the Beiyang Marine Division to go out to fight and seek the enemy in a decisive battle!
If you taste Yamamoto's "famous sayings", you will know that the Japanese Navy is still very short of warships! They can't afford a war of a hundred aircraft carriers and warplanes! It is only the production of rifles, and even Yamamoto has counted them for the United States...
Japanese aircraft carriers that fly fighter jets
Nanyun's meticulous caution, even conservative and dull, will make him do things step by step, will not fight the battle too much, and obediently point to the sore spot of the Americans, just in line with Japan's policy of "forcing peace by war" to the United States! And this point is basically in line with the fear of the United States and Yamamoto's war policy against the United States...
Adding up the above points, the "Navy," which advocates offensive and enterprising spirit, is regarded as a tool and means of political operation! It has departed from the spirit of the Japanese Navy that it once inherited from the British Navy - "resolutely destroy the enemy in the port"!
Japan's defeat in the Pacific Naval Battle was planted long before the war began! Because the people of the island nation cannot understand the ambitions and political ambitions of the land powers!
The tragic situation after pearl harbor was attacked
At that time, the United States' ambition was not to be German and Italian, nor to where to fight, for whom to fight, what kind of war to fight, or by whom... And it's the position of global hegemon in the hands of the British!
This is different from Japan's desire to destroy only one U.S. Pacific Fleet, a few aircraft carriers, to inflict pain on the United States and facilitate negotiations, and to cede its sphere of influence in Asia!
Therefore, Japanese politicians and military departments let people like Yamamoto Fifty-Six, who are good gamblers, wishfully pull the United States to gamble; and let the naval soldiers under the obsession of Nanyun and other Togo Heihachiro to carry out a war that is definitely not related to the national fortune and seems to be the national fortune! This is different from the nature of the Russo-Japanese War!
The end result was that Pearl Harbor did not hurt the United States, but also stabbed the sore spot of Midway - in fact, the plan and action had long deviated from Japan's earlier defensive strategy...
Therefore, it does not matter whether to choose Tadaichi Minamiun or Jisaburo Ozawa. Even if Togo Heihachiro is alive and does not give the resolute navy full authority, it will be in vain...