The Third Reich in Desperation

This time, when I saw that the newly developed German navy overtook the car in a curve, it even defeated the British navy, which is internationally recognized as the world's number one!

It is conceivable how huge the position of the Japanese navy is.

As a result, many people, including Horitaki, have the willingness to learn new tactics.After all, many of their old tactics are similar to those of the British Navy's cannon giant ships. The unexpected rise of aircraft carriers has fundamentally changed many of the tactics that the Japanese Navy has repeatedly studied.

It's a pity that the opportunity was right in front of us, and Yamamoto couldn't listen to Hori Tikichi's advice: "No, the Americans don't have much time left for us! The domestic oil reserves can last up to one year. After one year, we will You won’t even have the capital to sit on the gambling table!”

"Taking advantage of the fact that the U.S. military's Pearl Harbor combat readiness is obviously weak and weak, we are betting on this after all. But if the Americans react, strengthen their combat readiness, and expand their troops, even if we fully learn the German aircraft carrier tactics, we will have no chance to do so. They made the most of it that way.”

After all, this guy Yamamoto is not a gambler who relies purely on luck.His gambling is often based on a large number of scientific calculations.

After receiving information that the U.S. military's combat readiness at Pearl Harbor was lax, Yamamoto 56 immediately wrote to the Japanese Navy Minister and Shiro Kawako, formally proposing the idea of ​​a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

In his letter, he proposed: "The first strategy that our army should adopt in the Japan-US War should be to smash the enemy's main fleet as soon as the war starts, and put the US Navy and the US people in an irreparable situation and demoralize them. Only in this way can we Occupy the key barriers in East Asia and ensure invincibility, so as to build the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.”

It can be seen from this that what Yamamoto 56 is pursuing is not to destroy the US imperialism in one fell swoop and relieve the future troubles once and for all, but to first hurt the US imperialism and use this opportunity to build its own Pacific barrier and confront the United States.

This is similar to the strategy of the German army to take Britain and build the Atlantic Barrier.

But the difference is that in order to practice its strategic goal of the Atlantic Barrier, the German army only needs to defeat the British army, which lost its main naval and army forces in the North Sea and Dunkirk, and then use the Atlantic Ocean to face the US Empire across the sea.

However, if the Japanese army wants to realize their strategic goal of the Pacific Barrier...they need to beat the US imperialists directly, and they have to beat the US imperialists once, and then they have to take the second step to occupy Southeast Asia. Completed the entire strategy.

Through the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, which is lax in combat readiness, kill the main US fleet, and then quickly go south to snatch the origin of raw materials from the British who have been beaten by the Germans without fighting spirit, and finally use these seized resources to attack the United Fleet in the Pacific Ocean The implementation of mobile defense and holding back the United States forced the United States to recognize the established fact that the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was formed—this is the complete strategic system that Yamamoto 56 thought of.

In Yamamoto's view, after the Japanese navy ate up the main US fleet, it would be able to form a short-term advantage, and then use this advantage to widely deploy long-range and lightweight Zero fighters among the islands in the Pacific Ocean. Provide timely and rapid support in order to maintain local advantages.

Once such a deployment takes shape, if the U.S. military wants to attack, it will be attacked by Japanese fighter jets and fleets in the island chain set up by the Japanese army.

Regarding the concerns of his old friend Hori Tiki, Yamamoto 56 gave an answer that is quite characteristic of Yamamoto 56: "If Japan has God's blessing, our battle at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii will definitely be successful. If it fails halfway, it means that there is no God's blessing. This one, then we give up the whole war and just bow to the United States.”

Text 687 Tungsten ore

Some Japanese officers, including Yamamoto 56, were a little disgusted some time ago, or disgusted with German sentiment.

The reason is simple. Vichy France dared to open the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway to supply supplies to the Chinese battlefield, and the Germans were obviously behind it.

In order for the British to close the Burma Road and cut off the main southern channel for the import of Chinese foreign aid, the Japanese base camp even compromised on the plan to attack Hong Kong, temporarily letting the British garrison there.

As a result, the Germans, who had always been regarded as European allies by the big Japanese island country, actually instigated and even coerced Vichy France, forcing France to withstand the pressure from Japan, and opened up the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway to do what the British dared not do.

Of course, in history, Britain was forced to redevelop the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway soon after the pressure of the United States. Therefore, the development of the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway had little or no impact on the course of the War of Resistance.

However, in this life, due to the preemption of France, the heavy burden of the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway fell on the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway. In other words, this favor has already been counted on the heads of different countries.

Just opening the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway so that American supplies can flow into the Chinese battlefield through here, the Japanese can still bite the bullet and hold back.

What angered them the most was that Italy, which they had always regarded as an ally, also took this opportunity to sell a large amount of arms through the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway.

Of course, the reason why Italy did this is not just because Rossi is a member of Reinhardt.In fact, their former Prime Minister Mussolini was more than happy to do so.As long as it is a profitable business, Mussolini will never fail to participate.

It is almost the same as in history, although the maritime trade between Germany and China, because Japan cut off the transportation line, it can only be interrupted anyway.However, there are still a lot of smuggling in Italy.

Mussolini, the former Prime Minister of Italy, has a thick skin, which is simply unique.As mentioned above, he first sold a large number of tanks to provide the basis for China's first armored regiment.At the same time, Mussolini also participated in Reinhardt's plan to resell arms to the enemies of the Japanese island nation.

Reinhardt sold old arms, mainly to aid China, and eliminated a batch of equipment by the way. After making a profit, he replaced them with new weapons to unify the caliber of existing weapons.In this way, the German army can further optimize its logistics and earn a lot of supplies while reducing the pressure on the logistics department.

But Mussolini, the storage is to make money!

Moreover, in order to take care of the feelings of these two European allies they expected in their hearts, the Japanese had to knock out their teeth and choose to endure it abruptly.

Of course, Reinhardt's behavior is not stupid to help China by exploiting Germany's interests.In fact, Germany is actually the party that earns the most in such a trade.

After all, 83% of Germany's demand for tungsten ore has to be imported!And Huaxia's tungsten output ranks first in the world, accounting for 37% of the world's total output!

According to the original historical rhythm, Germany's tungsten reserves were just used up in 1942.

Therefore, many claims that Germany can come back in 43, 44, and 45 are actually nonsense!

Reinhardt was lucky because he traveled to Germany in 1919.If you want him to really travel to the doomsday period after 43 years of the Third Reich, even if everyone in Germany listens to him wholeheartedly, he will at most commit suicide in a bunker a few days after Hitler.

After all, the defeat of Germany in history is really a series of links, and it is not a day's cold to freeze three feet!

Of course, Huaxia had already sold tungsten ore to Germany at a price of about US$800 per ton when it first purchased German mechanic equipment from Germany.

It is worth mentioning that the current price of tungsten minerals in Europe has fluctuated between US$1.4 and US$2!

Here, Mussolini, the sb, also participated in the action of copying the price of tungsten ore in the past few years.

Regarding this, Reinhardt was too lazy to complain.If he hadn't imported a large amount of tungsten ore from China, it is estimated that he would have sent someone to kill Mussolini in advance a few years ago.

Germany has always been in short supply of strategic materials.In particular, the United Kingdom can also hoard tungsten ore, preparing to trap Germany's weakness in the material war.

Although Spain and Turkey are also exporters of tungsten ore, their output is very small and the price is extremely high.

Therefore, some people who thought that the traversers could bring Germany back in 43 could give up just because the tungsten ore reserves were exhausted.

However, there is another reason why Germany can continue to last for 3 years after the domestic tungsten mine reserves are exhausted in history. After the German army occupied Italy in 43 years, it was discovered that Mussolini, a pig teammate, had actually hoarded tungsten mines. A large number of tungsten mines were hidden from the allies, so the German army made a small fortune to save money and barely supported it until 1945.

Although Italy also needed tungsten ore at that time, it didn't need that much at all, and even a lot of it was purchased by Italy between 1940 and 1942.Mussolini, the self-proclaimed "Italy's strongest leader", continued his plan to make a fortune by copying the price of tungsten mines instead of selling them to the German allies when the end was approaching.

In addition to the pig teammate Italy, the British in history also bought tungsten frantically after the war started, trying to make Germany unable to fight.

There is no doubt that this strategy of the British has historically succeeded.They allowed the German attack aircraft to use 30mm cannons, and they used only ordinary armor-piercing ammunition frugally at the beginning.It wasn't until the German army felt that this would not work, and they bit the bullet and switched to tungsten-core armor-piercing ammunition, that it really became a nightmare for the Soviet T-34 tank.

Once World War II started, ordinary armor-piercing projectiles would become less and less able to achieve the ideal armor-piercing ability under the original artillery caliber.For the German army, the most famous Pzgr.40 series is the tungsten core armor-piercing projectile.

Tungsten-core armor-piercing projectiles are actually extremely wasteful. Even the famous Tiger tanks of the German army in history are only equipped with 5 rounds of tungsten-core armor-piercing projectiles to deal with the Soviet army's is2 (that is, the famous Father 2 tank).

But now, when the transportation team leader of Kaishen Express heard that 1 ton of tungsten ore can be exchanged for $800 in materials, he was very happy.Therefore, almost most of the cheapest rare metals in Germany like to be imported from the captain of the transport team.

Hitler, who liked to play war economics, had a famous lament: "If you give me [-] tons of tungsten sand, I can take down the Soviet Union."

If oil is the food of armored forces, then tungsten is the blood of armored forces.

For tank armor, tungsten-nickel steel has good protection, and for tank shells, tungsten core bullets have strong armor penetration.

Therefore, Reinhardt feels embarrassed now. Just counting the amount of imports, he has [-] tons more tungsten ore than in history.

In this way, the conditions he needs to win the Soviet Union are more consistent.

Text 688 The Germans are interesting enough

The exchange of arms for mines is huge profits.

Therefore, even though the Japanese army base knew about Germany's arms trade in Asia, it still made sense.Perhaps, the German head of state is just like the Italian sb named Mussolini, a guy who fell into the eyes of money.

Although Reinhardt's behavior can be explained, this incident really made the high-level officials of the island country very aggrieved.