You were tasked with guarding the Sihang Warehouse, and you brought out a Tiger tank?

"fart.

You shameless bitch.

Mitsumasa Yonai was furious about losing an aircraft carrier.

Now, forgetting all about elegance, she didn't back down at all, retorting in a sophisticated foreign language:

"Once the transport ship docks, our navy's escort duty ends."

If something goes wrong again, it's clearly your army's own problem, so why should our navy have to pay for it?

We also lost an aircraft carrier, why isn't your army compensating us for it?!

"You bunch of dung-wild bastards (a rural insult), that's because your navy is incompetent."

"You army idiots, you're the real trash."

The generals from both sides stood up and started pointing fingers and hurling insults at each other across the long table.

What started as a heated argument quickly escalated into warm greetings to each other's female relatives.

It's unclear who struck first, but an ashtray flew through the air in a graceful arc and struck a rear admiral squarely on the forehead, causing blood to gush out immediately.

This completely ignited the powder keg.

When the Choshu and Satsuma domains joined forces to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, the Choshu domain then took control of the army system, while the Satsuma domain controlled the navy.

There have always been many conflicts between the two sides.

Now we've finally found an opportunity.

"Kill these army idiots."

"Kill these naval thieves."

A group of Japanese high-ranking officials, who were usually high and mighty and held general ranks, suddenly turned into street thugs and started a full-blown brawl in the Imperial Conference.

Chairs flew everywhere, and documents were scattered all over the floor.

Taking advantage of his strong physique, Sugiyama grabbed Yonai Mitsumasa by the collar and punched him in the eye socket, giving the Navy Minister a black panda eye.

A nearby naval vice admiral panicked and actually reached for his samurai sword at his waist.

"Stop! All of you, stop! What kind of behavior is this!"

It wasn't until the military police rushed in that they managed to pull the group of bruised and battered army and navy officers apart.

However, Lin Feng's bombing has completely escalated the conflict between the army and navy to an irreconcilable point.

But despite the fighting and commotion, the problem still needs to be solved.

A few days later, the Japanese Navy Ministry's Aviation Headquarters held an extremely oppressive closed-door technical meeting.

At this time, although the Japanese were known as a great power, their industrial base was actually very weak.

Building an aircraft carrier requires two to three years of time and a massive amount of steel resources.

The loss of a Ryujo was a devastating blow to the already resource-scarce Japanese navy.

The top leadership had no choice but to grit their teeth, tighten their belts, and urgently allocate funds to prepare for the construction of a new aircraft carrier.

But what made them even more desperate was the huge generational gap in aviation research and development.

"Gentlemen, the situation is extremely serious."

The aviation chief, with a grave expression, tapped the blackboard:

"According to the report of the surviving pilots of Qingcheng Port."

The new Han-imported fighter jets used by the Chinese were extremely fast, with a conservative estimate of a top dive speed exceeding 600 kilometers per hour.

Moreover, its firepower is extremely terrifying, equipped with a 20mm cannon that can tear apart our fighter jets with a single shot.

Their dive bombers made an extremely piercing scream as they dove, and their bombing accuracy was terrifying.

The Japanese aviation experts in the audience looked at each other, deeply doubting themselves.

It should be noted that the main force of the Japanese navy at this time was still the outdated Type 95 biplane.

The Type 96 monoplane, which has been highly anticipated, has just entered production and is being gradually replaced.

The characteristics of their aircraft can be summarized in four words: thin-skinned and plentiful.

In pursuit of maneuverability and range, there were no self-sealing fuel tanks, no pilot armor, and even the radios were often removed.

"Could it be that our newly produced Type 96 tanks are already lagging behind the world as soon as they hit the market?" an expert muttered in despair.

"Therefore, the General Staff has set new hard targets for the next-generation carrier-based fighter jet, the Twelfth Carrier-based Fighter."

The head of aviation loudly announced the high-level demands:

"The new high-performance carrier-based fighter jet must be equipped with two 20mm cannons."

Self-sealing fuel tanks and bulletproof armor for the crew compartment must be installed.

At the same time, the maximum speed must exceed 500 kilometers per hour at an altitude of 4,000 meters, and the range must reach an astonishing 3,000 kilometers.

The ascent to 3,000 meters should take less than 9.5 minutes.

It must also maintain extremely high maneuverability in close combat and must be equipped with retractable landing gear.

In short, the high command's requirements are that the aircraft must have strong firepower, high defense, and be fast, far-reaching, and agile.

As the client, I want everything, except for a vibrant, multicolored black.

A well-mannered young engineer wearing round-framed glasses, sitting in the corner of the conference table, twitched violently at the corner of his mouth when he heard these metrics.

He is Jiro Horikoshi, the famous chief designer of the Zero fighter in the original timeline.

Jiro Horikoshi roared inwardly:

"You bunch of laymen don't know anything."

Our engine technology is just at this low level; at most, we can only squeeze out 1000 horsepower, and it's extremely unstable.

With such limited power, you want to add heavy machine guns, heavy bulletproof steel plates, and self-sealing fuel tanks.

It also needs to guarantee a range of 3000 kilometers and high maneuverability.

How is that even possible?! Unless the plane is made of paper!

I won't listen, I won't listen, you're just spouting nonsense.

Jiro Horikoshi knew all too well that it was impossible to reason with these fanatical militaristic lunatics about science.

He stood up, bowed extremely respectfully, and said loudly:

"Yes, sir, please rest assured."

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries guarantees to meet design specifications and build the most powerful fighter jet for the empire.

On the surface, they agreed readily.

But once Jiro Horikoshi sat down, he had already made up his mind.

"To hell with the armor and self-sealing fuel tanks."

To meet speed and range requirements, we dismantled all those life-saving gadgets when we got back.

Not only do we need to disassemble it, but we also need to drill holes in the frame to reduce weight.

As for whether the pilot is alive or dead?

"I'm a designer, I don't need to fly planes!"

Meanwhile, in a senior office at the Naval General Staff.

The butterfly effect triggered by Lin Feng is now stirring up an even bigger storm.

Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Vice Minister of the Navy, and his trusted confidant, Major Minoru Genda, the Air Staff Officer, were staring intently at the battle damage report of Aoshiro Port on the table.

Unlike the naval commanders outside who seemed to have lost their parents.

At this moment, Yamamoto Isoroku's eyes gleamed with an extremely fanatical and excited light.

"Genda-kun, did you see that?"

Isoroku Yamamoto pointed to the photo of the Ryujo being blown up in the report, his voice trembling slightly:

"Real combat has proven that shipborne bombers have an extremely terrifying killing power against large surface ships."

A few inexpensive single-engine bombers can easily destroy expensive aircraft carriers and cruisers.

Within the original Japanese navy, "big ship and big gun doctrine" held absolute dominance.

Those old-school generals stubbornly believed that the battleship's massive guns were the decisive force in naval warfare, and that aircraft carriers were merely auxiliary tools to provide reconnaissance and escort for battleships.

But Lin Feng's bombing, through bloody real combat, proved the power of the air force to the world.

"Sir, this is a golden opportunity!"

Genda Minoru was overjoyed and excitedly said:

"With this report, we 'aviationists' finally have the confidence to refute those die-hards who are obsessed with cannons."

The next day, Yamamoto Isoroku slammed the battle damage report onto the conference table of the Naval General Staff.

Faced with irrefutable facts, the generals of the "Big Gun" faction were speechless.

The aviation faction seized this opportunity to slightly outmaneuver the artillery faction and secure a larger budget.

The Japanese navy began to invest even more frantically in the research, development, production, and pilot training of new carrier-based bombers, such as the Type 99 carrier-based bomber and carrier-based torpedo bomber.

In the stillness of the night.

Isoroku Yamamoto stood alone in front of the huge Pacific Ocean chart in his office.

His gaze slowly moved eastward from Qingcheng Port in Daxia, across the vast Pacific Ocean, and finally fixed firmly on a small point in the Hawaiian Islands.

"Since Lin Feng can easily destroy our stationary fleet in the port with just a few planes..."

Yamamoto Isoroku muttered to himself, an extremely crazy strategic idea, capable of changing the course of world history, prematurely emerging in his mind:

"What if our Japanese Empire gathers six aircraft carriers?"

"What if we used hundreds of carrier-based aircraft to launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor?"