On April 18, 1943, 59-year-old Yamamoto Isoji was shot down by a US plane while inspecting the army and died. Yamamoto's death was confirmed on the 20th. On the afternoon of that day, the General Secretary of the Military Command, Nagano, entered the palace to report to the emperor . The . The sai minister Shimada Shintaro Shinmiya Fushimimiya Hirokyo discussed countermeasures and the subsequent personnel of the joint fleet. Finally, in order not to shake people's hearts, I decided to block this matter first and use the code of "Naval A Incident" to deal with this matter internally. As for personnel, the commander-in-chief of the ward will be taken over by General Koga Fengyi . On April 21, Koga Feng Ichi personally reorganized (appointed by the Emperor) the commander-in-chief of the Joint Fleet.
According to the Japanese Navy's Military Order, the commander of the Second Fleet will be automatically represented by the commander of the Joint Fleet when there is a vacant time and there is no personal stoppage time. In the three days from the accident of Isori Yamamoto to the personal repair of Koga Feng, the acting position was Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake, the commander-in-chief of the Second Fleet.
Koga Fengichi, who took office on April 25, raised the flag of the general on the battleship of the Musashi, the joint fleet flagship of the Truk Atoll, but outsiders thought that the flag of the general belonged to Yamamoto Is Sixteen. In fact, Yamamoto was also on the ship. To be precise, Yamamoto's coffin was in the chief's office and the new commander-in-chief.
What is left for the new chief Koga is not only a coffin of the former chief, but also a broken headquarters. The command staff who died at the same time as Yamamoto Iroku include Adjutant Shinakasa Fukusaki, Major General Takada Rokuro, Aviation (A) Staff Officer Hiroshio Nakasa, Communication Staff Officer Imai Nakasa, Lieutenant General Ugaki Chan, and Major General Kitamura Motoji Kitamura was seriously injured. It can be said that not only did the joint fleet lose the commander, but even half of the headquarters is left.
Because of "no funeral" in the end, Koga can only use this half of the headquarters first.
Koga Fengyi
Koga Fengyi is the 34th period of the Navy, Hammock No. 14, and the fourth place in the 15th period of the Haida University. If the "saber group" of Haidao is like the Ludao University, Koga Fengichi can also be considered as the saber group, but the saber group only has two chief and second seats. Unlike Iroku Yamamoto, who was once a fleet squad, Koga, who served as military officers in the Navy twice, was a consistent treaty faction from beginning to end, and also opposed the war against the United States, which was expected in the navy.
Koga has served as a captain and fleet commander in the military order system for a long time. He is not an amateur in combat, nor has he been labeled as a particularly eye-catching giant ship cannon faction. On the contrary, because he has worked as a military supervisor and supervisor at the Shimamasa Headquarters, he is more familiar with warship construction. It is one of the few people born in the mid-Meiji (1885) generation who expressed certain understanding of young officers who advocated aviation main soldiers.
At the end of 1937, when it was decided to start building the battleship Yamato , the most radical aviation troop gangster, Yokosuka Air Force Deputy Chief Oshiki Takijiro Colonel rushed into the military command and wanted to fight with people. He said to the military command deputy chief Koga Fengichi: "Building Yamato is a mistake of the era. The money for building a Yamato can build 3,000 aircraft. Give me 3,000 aircraft, and I can sank all the fleet."
Koga Fengichi did not scold Takijiro Oshiki, but found a difficult time finding words to think of ways to convince him: "Oshiki, I don't oppose aviation." Air force, but you have to know that the emperor must take a carriage led by eight horses when he goes on patrol. The same is true for a country. It must have battleships. Others have it, we must have it. This is called the face of the country, and the face of the navy. Do you know that? "
Oshiki Takijiro was still struggling in despair: "Is that a few horses okay? We don't need eight horses, we only use four horses, and the carriage led by four horses is quite grand. "
"No, this is not something I, Deputy Minister Koga, can decide."
This conversation is often quoted when commenting on the Yamato to illustrate the stupidity of building the Yamato and the enlightenment of Koga Fengichi.
May 8, Koga held a Nanyang combat readiness meeting on its flagship, and the relevant staff members of the fleet, team, base areas and garrisons gathered the Joint Fleet flagship to participate.
was held at the meeting. The staff members at the meeting felt that the atmosphere was wrong. Chief Yamamoto, who had never been late, had not been present yet, but it might be that General Koga, the chief of the Yokosuka governor who passed by and attended the meeting. What's going on? Have you changed the chief? Why haven't you heard of it?
was held at the meeting, and General Koga said slowly but clearly:
"General I6, the commander-in-chief of the Joint Fleet, died heroically on April 18, 1943. Now I am the official to personally add to the position of commander-in-chief of the Joint Fleet. Please work together to repay you with kindness."
's sentence shocked the staff members attending the meeting by the bad news. The whole venue was as quiet as death. Everyone was biting their lips, as if they were trying to control their trembling. What? Our chief died? What should we do now? Since "our commanders" have all died in battle, what other way can we have besides dying in battle? The atmosphere at the venue suddenly became a little tragic.
Koga cleared his throat and continued: "Now I will explain the observations and countermeasures of the Joint Fleet Command on the current war situation."
For the staff members attending this meeting, every word that Chief Koga said was like a hammer hitting the conference room. The air in the conference room was shocked by this knock, making people breathless.
Koga Feng said this one by one: "The ratio of the Japanese Navy's troops to the United States is already less than half."
The next sentence is: "And, the result of the Labaoer land aviation war (referring to the 19th battle) has led to a large loss of decisive forces. Now, even if the decisive battle against the fleet we hope can be carried out, our chances of victory are significantly low, which should be said to be less than 30%.
This is the first time in fifty years since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 that the commander of the Joint Fleet, one of the three giants of the Navy, publicly declared that he had no confidence in the ongoing war.
Koga continues: "Although the chance of victory is very low, it is not completely missing. If Marshall Islands , which is strategically and geographically beneficial to me, can fight the US military in the early days, even if it is a Yuzai battle, it is the only chance for us to achieve the greatest results."
Although there is still a little parallax, in any case, this is the first time that the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet opened its eyes to see reality.
Koga accepted a mess to take office, but what's interesting is that there are still many Japanese naval officers who don't think it's a mess, so when Koga Feng got off the car, he asked everyone to "don't lose their fantasies and prepare for the struggle". This new term "Yazakuan" made the staff members present even more frightened.
Since the commanders have all died in battle, isn’t it a natural ending for everyone to be broken?
But the Americans' actions were faster than Koga expected, and they were completely different from the direction that Koga expected.
The Americans' action this time is the Aleutian Islands, and the Americans are going to take back the occupied territory.
After giving the initial instruction, Koga led the flagship Musashi back to the country. No matter what, the remains of the former chief had to be dealt with. It was not the same as working in the chief's office with a coffin in the chief's office. Koga decided to send Yamamoto Izuru back first.
On May 12, when Koga was still on the road, the Americans skipped the Kiskaga Island occupied by the Japanese army and launched the first "frog jump attack" in the Pacific War on Artu Island , which was also occupied by the Japanese army.
Koga Fengichi's "Jade Broken" combat speech was unfortunately fulfilled immediately: The Jade Broken Guard of Atu Island was broken.
Influenced by the decisive battle idea of "finding one battle" by Admiral Togo in the victory in Tsushima Strait, Koga Fengichi, the new commander-in-chief of the United Fleet, devoted himself to dreaming of a war to change the course of the war. Because he is a practical person, he also understands that success is very small, but it is Japan's last hope. On March 8, 1944, he issued a battle plan. Once the U.S. fleet invaded the Mariana Islands or Palau archipelago or New Guinea, the combined fleet would attack with all its might. He began to concentrate most of Japan's sea power efficiently.At the end of March, he ordered the headquarters located on the Musashi ship to move from Palau to the Philippines.
"Let's attack together and sacrifice our lives together!" Koga said to his chief of staff, Lieutenant General Fururu, and then they flew to the south by plane. He said, "Yamamoto died at the right time" and he "envied him." At 9 a.m. on March 31, 1944, they set off on two four-engine seaplanes in western Sichuan, flying westward towards Mindanao for a 3-hour flight. But before they arrived in the Philippines, they encountered a storm and Koga died of a plane crash. Fullius almost became a prisoner of MacArthur because the plane ran out of fuel in a fight against the storm. The Joint Fleet lost two commanders in less than a year, and both died on the front line by plane.
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