Chapter 463 Lazy and incompetent Americans do not deserve these lands!
"If you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences!"
"This is Amaterasu's gift to us!"
"It must be the gods who saw the suffering of the Yamato nation and pointed out a new way for us."
At the high-level meeting, the "Navy Faction" began to clamor crazily.
As we all know, during World War II, there were always disputes between the "going north" and the "going south" factions of the little devils.
The army supports going north to invade the Soviet Union, because in this way they can occupy a dominant position; the navy supports going south, because after going to Southeast Asia, the main battlefield is at sea, and the navy can get more resources and have more weight.
The "Sea and Land Struggle" ran through the entire military period of Japan, and its roots can be traced back to the conflict between the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain during the "Collapse" period.
The "Navy Faction", which was originally dominated by the Satsuma clan, did not agree to expand the China War. However, Xiaoliuzi had no courage and gave up the territory. The "Army Faction" succeeded time and time again with small gains.
If it can bring profits to the Chinese and plutocrats, the "army faction" will naturally have a hard back. The southbound war advocated by the "naval faction" has never been put into action.
It was not until the China battlefield fell into a quagmire and the United States interrupted its oil trade that the base camp finally agreed to the "Navy Faction"'s plan to go south in order to absorb the essential oil.
Now that all the soldiers and expats in China have been wiped out, the empire has suffered heavy losses, the powerful are in urgent need of blood, and the civilians need to divert their attention.
The "Army Faction" also knew the significance of this wormhole to the empire. What was in front of them was a life-saving straw. For drowning people like them, they had no choice at all.
Just to prevent the "Naval Faction" from completely taking away the right to speak, they put forward new opinions to show their presence.
"Have you ever thought about who created this wormhole? What are the intentions of the people behind the scenes?" Army Minister Shunroku Hata asked.
Although they clamored that this was the miracle of Amaterasu, none of the imperial elites here truly believed in the gods. The proud "recruitment" generation preferred to believe in the weapons in their hands.
"Even if the rice balls are poisonous, what difference does it make to those of us who are about to starve to death?" Navy Minister Zengo Yoshida retorted sharply.
"With the military strength of Washington State and even the entire western United States, we only need to send the Guards Division there and quickly occupy the state capital Olympia and Seattle. We can guard the Columbia River and completely capture this state."
"At that time, the Navy only needs to defeat the U.S. Pacific Fleet to respond to the Guards Division. Even if it cannot monopolize the Pacific Ocean in a short period of time, the resources of Washington State will be enough for the army to hold on for a long time without fear of being alone."
"The U.S. Navy is somewhat impressive, but their army is just a piece of shit!" Zengo Yoshida sneered at Hata Shunroku: "Is the Army of the Empire of Japan even worse than a piece of shit?"
"Baga!" The army generals glared angrily.
Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro, who presided over the meeting, quickly smoothed things over: "The empire has reached its most critical moment, and all of you must work together to tide over the difficulties."
The base camp quickly formulated a battle plan. As Yoshida Zengo said, they were already a group of people who were about to starve to death. Even though they knew that there might be something wrong with this sudden wormhole, they had to jump in.
If the citizens continue to die like this every day, they will either be torn apart by the crazy citizens, or the self-defeating citizens will actively seek death. The population will decrease sharply, and the Japanese archipelago will return to the primitive era.
This time the combat mission fell to the Guards Division. Originally, this division was supposed to be stationed on the outskirts of Tokyo and was responsible for guarding the emperor and the capital, but now they have no troops available.
The Kwantung Army and the China Expeditionary Force were completely wiped out. Among the 17 Category A divisions, only the Asahikawa Division and the Guards Division of the 7th Division stationed in Hokkaido survived.
Even the Kurume Division of the 12th Division, which was stationed in a curved position, "self-destructed" after being attacked by a few bold Chinese.
Even if we continue to recruit troops, we still need time for training. For this expedition to the United States, a division with combat effectiveness must be produced. Although the combat effectiveness of the Guards Division is not very good, its equipment is absolutely first-class and it has a large number of technical weapons.
Soon, the Guards Division got the order and set off, rushing into the wormhole and arriving in the distant state of Washington.
The vanguard has built a simple defense line in the basin of Washington State, and the scattered scouts have even quietly killed several western cowboys.
When the army arrived, they quickly rushed towards the nearest town.
A large number of engineers stayed behind to build permanent fortresses to protect this magical wormhole and prevent the road back from being cut off.
As mentioned before, at the beginning of World War II, the number of U.S. Army troops was less than 100,000. Most of the 48 states did not maintain military organizations, and only had some peace officers and police officers to maintain law and order.
In 1939, Washington State was just a small state in the northwest with a sparse population. It was far from the high-tech industrial complex that would later host Boeing's production lines and the headquarters of Microsoft and Amazon.
How could the existing police and sheriffs in Washington State be able to stop the wolf-like Guards?
In addition, in order to capture Washington State as quickly as possible, the general commanding the Guards Corps in this battle was not the prince of the imperial family, but Seishiro Itagaki, who had just resigned as Minister of War on August 30.
The prince also knew that it was not the time to grab the credit, and he could wait until the situation stabilized before going to pick peaches.
With the support of "The Courage of Itagaki", the Guards Division easily entered Olympia, the capital of Washington State, with overwhelming momentum, and divided its forces to rush towards Seattle and Portland on the Columbia River.
The Guards Division encountered almost no enemies along the way. With the help of state highways newly built by Roosevelt's New Deal in the past few years and cars seized, these Japanese devils spread across Washington State faster than an armed parade. and headed south toward Oregon.
"This is the American army?"
Itagaki Seishiro watched in disbelief as the only organized regiment stationed in Portland was defeated by a squadron of the Guards Division in five minutes.
"Is this even considered an army?"
As the leader who personally planned the incident and engulfed Manchuria, Itagaki Seishiro had seen Zhang Xiaoliu's army, and later participated in two major battles in the Central Plains.
He can responsibly say that except for the better equipment of the American troops in front of him, their fighting will is simply rubbish among rubbish!
Put in any army in East Asia, these garbage soldiers should be shot by the supervising team.
The old Japanese had heard about the incident of tanks driving away veterans who were asking for wages before. As a general, he naturally knew the impact this kind of thing had on the morale of the army, but he did not expect that the top leaders of the United States did not pay attention to military construction so much, and the impact has not been eliminated after so many years.
"It's really your own fault! Relying on the strategic advantage of the territory, you are used to being pampered." The old devil sneered: "Since you are not prepared, don't blame me for not practicing martial ethics."
"Instruct the entire army to speed up the progress and continue to capture Oregon!"
"A large area of fertile land is waiting for us to occupy!"
"Lazy and incompetent Americans do not deserve these lands!"
The original battle plan only occupied Washington State, but Itagaki Seishiro saw that the American army was too stretched, so he simply pushed to the end.
There was no other way. In the battle to capture Washington State, the Guards Division's casualties were only in single digits, and half of them were accidents while on the road.
Anyone who becomes a commander must take advantage of the victory and pursue it, so as to have more strategic depth in the later defensive battles.
(End of chapter)