So what caused the contradiction between the Japanese navy and the army to be so deep? Today I will tell you about the history of hatred between the Japanese navy and army.
The discord between Lu Haijun and Japan has a historical origin, which can be traced back to the end of the curtain movement.
At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the samurai class with political power was poor, and the macho class without political power was poor. The samurai class began to feel dissatisfied with the Tokugawa era. The samurai class of Samo, Changzhou, Tosa and Feiqian, which are economically developed in southwest China, overthrew the Tokugawa era with the slogan of "respecting the king and resisting the foreign countries".
In the closing movement, Samak and Changzhou governors entered the power center because of the "Dragon's Merit". Later, after the new emperor came to power, he handed over the power of the army to Changzhou Fan and the power of the navy to Samo Fan. However, there have always been contradictions between the two vassals in the past, which are not pleasing to the eye and incompatible with each other, laying the groundwork for the dispute between the Japanese army and the navy in the future.
After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese navy began to learn from the British navy, while the army first learned from the French army and then from the German army. The two sides embarked on different roads to strengthen the army. Britain's thought of "valuing the navy over the army" and France's thought of "valuing the army over the navy" also had an impact on both sides.
In terms of external expansion, the two sides are also full of contradictions. The army advocates "going north" and the navy advocates "going south". Fighting abroad, the two sides do not give in to each other.
During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese navy packed up and went home after defeating the Russian navy, while the army was still fighting the Russian army. In this way, the Japanese army died more than 40 thousand people because there was no backup.
Having suffered such a big loss, the Japanese army naturally refused to let it go, and then retaliated against the navy in other wars. For example, not providing oil field resources to the Japanese navy.
The contradiction between Japan and Lu Haijun is mainly manifested in three aspects: resource competition, arms competition and intelligence gathering.
Oil can be said to be an extremely important strategic material in wartime. Both sides are very jealous of this resource. The Japanese oil is mainly used in aviation, and the navy needs more oil. After all, so many warships cannot be propelled by seawater.
So the two sides fought for oil, and whoever occupied that place, the oil in that place was whose.
But obviously, the army occupied more oil fields and the navy occupied less.
In this case, the distribution of resources is uneven. There is no oil field with more oil, and there is no oil field with less oil. To this end, the Japanese navy has even begun to intercept Japanese cruise ships. This kind of dispute caused the Japanese navy to lose many battles in the later war because of lack of oil.
In order to avoid the interception of cruise ships, the Japanese even began to organize their own shipping and build their own ships. At the beginning of the war, the total tonnage of Japanese army ships reached 265,438+10,000 tons, while the total tonnage of ships controlled by the navy was only 1.5 million tons. Sometimes you can't tell who is the army and who is the navy.
You may not know that both the Japanese army and navy have their own R&D teams. During World War II, the Japanese army developed its own submarine because of disagreement with the navy.
Not only that, the army did not involve the navy while developing submarines. This kind of struggle has caused a great waste of resources. It is ridiculous that the same thing is studied by two departments and kept secret from each other.
Japan's intelligence organizations have also been divided up by the army and navy, that is to say, there are both naval personnel and army personnel in Japan's intelligence system. The terrible thing is that the army won't tell the navy when it gets information, and the navy sometimes won't tell the army information, which leads to the low utilization rate of information and makes it almost impossible for Lu Haijun to cooperate in wartime.
The dispute between Lu Haijun and Japan is basically a power dispute and a class dispute.
First of all, during the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese army and navy represented two different forces. The army represents Chang and the navy represents Samofan. Before the end of the campaign, their political views were not consistent.
Among them, Changzhou Francisco is an exclusive faction, demanding the expulsion of Tatars and the overthrow of the shogunate. Satsuma Sect, on the other hand, is a general faction and advocates "the combination of the public and the military." Is to respect the emperor and then carry out reform and transformation through the shogunate. In other words, their thoughts and political views are essentially different.
Although both sides became unveilers later, contradictions always existed. In the later political situation, both sides wanted to kick the other side down and dominate Japan.
Meanwhile, the army and navy represent different classes. Most people in the army come from ordinary poor families, representing the middle and lower classes, and most people in the navy come from nobles and wealthy businessmen, representing the powerful class. The difference in birth causes both sides to dislike each other. Both sides consider themselves the main class in Japan.
During the war, the food in the navy was many times better than that in the army. The navy's on-board dining room often says "No military dogs allowed". The army is naturally not easy to mess with. On one occasion, the pilot of a naval aircraft carrier wanted to land at the army airport because of running out of fuel, but was rejected by the army, saying, "If you dare to come down, I will dare to fight, and don't die at the army gate."
Coupled with Japan's lack of resources, the two sides often compete for resources because of their own contradictions. Over time, a "deep hatred" was formed. But this struggle vanished with the defeat of Japan. After the defeat of the Japanese army, Lu Haijun was completely dismembered, and most of the faction representatives in the army were removed. With the collapse of Japanese imperialism, the century-long feud between the Japanese army and navy ended.