"Hayi, Your Majesty the Emperor, this matter is absolutely true and there is no mistake!"

Tada Jun bowed his head heavily, and then said in an extremely excited tone: "And just these 16 sets of coal direct liquefaction devices, the oil production capacity of Imperial Chemical Factory can be 400,000 tons/year."

"What? Wouldn't that mean that if you expand a few times the scale, you can exceed millions of tons per year? Yosi, it's so great that we can greatly get rid of American constraints!"

Hearing this, Hirohito became more and more excited. Japan currently consumes more than 5 million tons of oil every year. It has been hoarding oil for many years and has accumulated more than 4 million tons so far, which is less than a year's use!

Relying on American technology and talents, in 1891, Japan discovered the first oil field, Nise Oilfield. Soon, the Japanese Petroleum Corporation built Japan's first oil well here.

In 1908, Japan introduced a rotating drilling rig from the United States, which could drill deeper oil wells.

A series of mining operations by Japan Petroleum Corporation are believed to have driven the rise of Japan's oil industry.

However, the situation of "oil-poor" in Japan has never changed.

According to a survey conducted by Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, including colonies, Japan's oil mining area is 3.5 million square kilometers. Although the area is wide, there are only a handful of them that can be truly available for industrial mining.

Taking 1930 as an example, Hokkaido, Japan, produced 7,500 tons of oil, 226,000 tons of Honshu, and 32,000 tons of other areas controlled by Japan, China and Taiwan, and 193,000 tons were rented from the Nor Sakhalin Island oil base in Russia, totaling 459,000 tons.

During the same period, the United States' oil production was 123 million tons and the Soviet Union was 18.5 million tons.

Due to the low domestic oil extraction volume, a large part of the petroleum products sold by Japanese oil companies were imported from the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries. Before World War II, Japan's dependence on foreign oil was as high as 90% at its peak.

At present, not only the civil industry, but also the military industry, demand for oil in Japan is increasing.

Most of the Japanese Navy's main battleships have switched to oil fuel. The Japanese Army, which has expanded its troops frantically, has a growing naval oil consumption accounted for 42% of Japan's total oil demand, which also indicates that the Japanese army will fight for oil to a large extent in the future.

Now the coal direct liquefaction factory is put into production successfully, and the first phase of the project alone can reach an annual output of 400,000 tons, which is undoubtedly a heart-warming agent for the Japanese Empire!

After walking back and forth around the house for a few times, Hirohito shouted loudly: "Immediately send a commendation call to Sang Ishihara, ordering him to do his best to expand the scale of the chemical plant and strive to exceed two million tons of annual output as soon as possible!"

"Hayi!"

Tada Jun bent down and paused his head, then said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, there is still good news!

Although our army failed to achieve strategic goals during the Zhanggufeng incident, the German allies were very satisfied with our performance. In order to further strengthen the strength of our Imperial Japanese Army, they are willing to further strengthen the research cooperation on firearms, heavy tanks and anti-tank weapons!”

"Soga!"

Hirohito nodded and chuckled: "The Germans are hoping that we can go north to attack the Soviet Union. In the eyes of the Germans, the Soviet Union is the real enemy!

Not only is the enemy the enemy a friend, but the Soviet Union is also one of our biggest enemies. The Great Japanese Empire should unite with Germany!

Tell Ishihara Sang to let him accelerate the construction of a new tank production line and do his best to develop and strengthen the empire's military industrial system. The empire will give the highest support!"

The steel monsters of the Chinese Tiger Ben Army and the failure of the Zhang Gufeng incident gave Hirohito a very strong sense of crisis, deeply felt the shortcomings of the army and the Navy. He had already made up his mind to seize both hands and be strong!

"Hayi!"

Tada Jun paused his head again with joy on his face, and then said:

"His Majesty the Emperor, the Tuqiao Division stationed on the Changyi line in Weifang, Shandong Province, sent another urgent call, claiming that due to the lack of support from the Imperial Naval Air Corps, the 22nd Division suffered heavy casualties and was difficult to defend the fortifications!..."

"I understand! Don't tell me about this, you can make your own decisions!"

Before Tada Jun finished speaking, Hirohito interrupted, paused and added: "The most important thing we have at present is to attack Wuhan as soon as possible to force the Chongqing government to surrender, and the rest can be put aside for the time being!

That Chinese army can defend the city and fight street battles with the imperial army to fight and consume bloody battles. Why can't we?

Even if the troops are damaged or even lost several cities, what does it matter?

Of course, we must also prepare for military expansion and war, continue to increase recruitment and training, and the scale of war will only increase in the future!"

"Hayi! His Majesty the Emperor is wise!"

Tada Jun instantly understood Hirohito's intention to give up his troops to protect the car, and quickly replied: "What His Majesty the Emperor said is very true. We have occupied nearly half of the territory of China, not that much is the same as a city and one land!

Even if the Chinese Hu Ben Army expands the territory of several counties, at most it will make the cage bigger. As long as the imperial army conquers the Chinese government, we can concentrate our efforts to completely crush them!"

"Yo Xi! That's what it should be!"

Hirohito smiled and nodded, then said, "Baga! Since that Chinese army wants to expand its territory, let him chew more tough things and see how powerful his teeth are!"

"Hayi! I understand!"

Tada Jun paused his head again, then chatted for a few words and stood up to say goodbye!

Starting at 8 am this morning, the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Chinese Tiger Ben Army still launched an attack on the Japanese fortresses outside their respective defense zones according to yesterday's routine.

After air bombing and shelling, the tank armored troops guided the infantry to advance all the way to the anti-tank trenches dug by the Japanese army and no longer attacked forward!

The thick-skinned heavy tank not only acted as an infantry defense bunker, but also turned into a fixed turret, constantly firing Japanese heavy machine guns, combat defense cannons and other heavy firepower that dared to emerge. Even those fire-breaking bunkers were not spared!

After two or three hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese defenders in the two fortresses were once again severely damaged, but today's gains were far less than yesterday!

Given the overwhelming firepower advantages of the Chinese Tiger Army, the Japanese not only did not use field artillery to bombard the enemy, but also adopted the tactic of adding fuel to the battlefield, and the troops deployed to the battlefield were always maintained in a squadron!

"Master, why don't we just call it over, isn't it just an anti-tank trench several meters deep? You can blow it up with a few explosive packs!"

"Yes, Chief Executive, it's no point in knocking like this! The Japanese have learned their skills and will not fight us head-on!"

"Hey, who said no? Our Flying Tigers have been on standby for many days, but we just can't see the little Japanese plane coming to cause trouble! We all want to go directly to blow up his grandma's naval fleet!"

When the summary meeting was held in the afternoon, Miao Dadong, Yang Chengliang and Wang Liguo strongly demanded to expand the scale of the war.
Chapter completed!