Five Hundred and Eighty Six Three Feet

The current world situation is very delicate. The Axis powers with Germany at the core have declared war on the East Asian bloc led by Japan. [For more exciting novels, please visit www.wuruo.com] Interestingly, the Axis and Allied powers are also fighting in full swing in North Africa.

At the same time, China and the United States in the Allied Powers did not declare war on Germany, but the Soviet Union did not declare war on Japan. Japan declared war on all the countries in the Allied Powers, but it did not tear itself apart with the Soviet Union. The two sides have exercised restraint in the long East Asia region, and no one is willing to take a step.

The Japanese are now confident, after all, Germany does not have the energy and ability to send troops to the Pacific battlefield. And Australia is now a huge temptation that is almost defenseless. If you don't eat it in one bite, you will be sorry for the kindness of the Americans anyway. It took almost no time for Japan's base camp to analyze the pros and cons of the two trade-offs. Almost all Japanese senior officials believed that Germany's interests in the Pacific region were not core and could be compromised.

Of course, the spirit of optimism in Japan has risen again. They think that the Germans will not be fooled and will not want Australia. As for the declaration of war between the two sides, it is just a bargaining chip. Once Japan defeats the United States and dominates the Asia-Pacific region, the Germans can only hold their noses and compromise.

Some rational Japanese officers felt that it was not wise to fight like the Germans, because in many cases, the Japanese understood Germany, the former ally, better than the Americans, and because of their understanding, they knew the true horror of the Germans.

German tanks have always been favored by the Japanese, but because of the destruction of the head of state, Akado, the two countries did not cooperate in the tank project. As a result, when the German army swept the Eastern Front with Tiger tanks and Leopard tanks and wiped out millions of troops of the Soviet Red Army, the small Japanese tanks, well, calling this kind of thing a tank is obviously an exaggeration, but it is indeed called a tank. Don't mind everyone... Small tanks like Japan can only bully the Chinese army that lacks heavy weapons in Asia.

The opposite example appeared in the navy. The cooperation between the Japanese navy and the Germans has been progressing faster than the army. Therefore, when the Japanese army was still using 20-ton "heavy tanks", the aircraft carriers of the Japanese navy had already The experiment of taking off and landing the new Type Zero carrier-based aircraft has begun. As a result, the Japanese Navy's carrier-based aircraft first fought at Pearl Harbor, and then at Wake Island, earning a great reputation as a zero-war demon.

Zero War is the ultimate product of Japan-Germany cooperation. At least in terms of materials and some designs, the Germans have come up with many useful things to support Japan to go further on the road of fighter jets. It's a pity that the cooperation between the two countries soon ended because of Akado's strategy of running China and disrupting the situation in the Pacific.

The Japanese Navy did not get their coveted German engine.

The Japanese knew that while the U.S. Navy was still keeping its radar detectors secret, the Germans had begun to study how to use radar beams to guide weapons to attack at long distances. The Japanese know that when the Americans were still using M3 tanks to bully small Japanese tanks in the Philippine jungle, the German Tiger tanks could already penetrate two M3 tanks with one shot. The Japanese also know that the Germans have a lot of amazing advanced weapons, from individual tactical camouflage hoodies to the terrifying ultra-long-range early warning radar on the huge Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier.

These middle and lower-level Japanese military officers who have really come into contact with the Germans know how terrible the country that His Majesty the Emperor has just declared war on is. They even feel that they are far behind the German Third Reich, which has already dominated Europe in terms of tactics, strategy, equipment and technology. Unfortunately, this country has changed from an ally to a life-and-death enemy.

"I hope our superiors are just joking, and I hope we can have peace talks with the Germans in a few months." Horikoshi Jiro, the Japanese Zero fighter designer who knows the Germans deeply, said to his assistant after hearing the news of the declaration of war. , He was able to design the Zero fighter, and to a large extent he relied on the inspiration given by the Germans to complete the final design.

And a Japanese officer who had accompanied the German Advisory Group during the Battle of Nomenkan said something even more explicit. When he mentioned the declaration of war in his letter to his wife, he wrote such a passage: "I was really pessimistic when I heard the declaration of war with Germany. The German soldiers I knew were undoubtedly very good. I would not fight against them." Dare to take chances. My dearest love is you, so I can only tell you my frustration. Our Emperor should declare war on Germany, which seems to me more foolish than our war with the United States."

However, the views of these people will never reach the ears of the senior staff in the base camp. These senior Japanese bureaucrats are very sure that it is impossible for the Germans to appear in the Pacific Ocean: first, the Germans have no ability to come; There is no need to come either; in the end, the Americans do not want Germany to come any more than the Japanese do. Based on these three points, all senior officials, including the emperor, did not feel that there was any inappropriateness in declaring war on the Axis powers.

Many high-level officials even believe that when Japan provoked the Pacific War, the Axis powers not only failed to fulfill their ally obligations, but also expelled Japan from the Axis power group. This kind of humiliation must be returned. At that time, the reason for not declaring war immediately was that the time was not ripe. Now that the time is ripe, it is natural to let the Germans see the majesty of the Japanese.

However, the Japanese don't understand Germany too well, or in other words, the Japanese don't understand Germany with a head of state like Akado too much. Akado has always felt that the phrase "Those who offend China will be punished even if they are far away" in the Han Dynasty was a very refreshing slogan; Somewhat with a bit of cynical feeling of beating devils; Akado must give an explanation to the allies of the Axis powers to consolidate his political status as the leader of Europe.

It's pretty good that the Japanese devils can guess the last one of these things. Even if they want to break their heads, they can't figure out why the German head of state made up his mind to trap Japan as soon as he came up. Therefore, although the assumptions and analysis of the Japanese are very reasonable, they were wrong from the very beginning, and they were outrageously wrong.

On the day of the declaration of war, the German Navy dispatched its expeditionary fleet and rushed towards the Pacific Ocean aggressively. There are as many as 10 ships in this fleet, and it is considered to have assembled a lot of elite German troops. The German Navy did not dispatch its main fleet, but dispatched 10 submarines to kill Japan in such a mighty manner.

In order to supplement this submarine force, the German Navy also dispatched 3 destroyers from the northern United Kingdom to protect 3 supply ships to Australia to provide logistical support for these submarines.

Akado has studied Japan so thoroughly that even he himself feels a little embarrassed. He knows that Japan's sea and land battles have a long history, he knows the Japanese Navy's complex of large ships and cannons, he knows that the Japanese Navy does not attach importance to anti-submarine warfare, and he also knows that the Japanese still do not have radar...

In another time and space, even the U.S. submarine force, which has never fought a war, can cause a devastating blow to Japan’s maritime transportation and supply lines. They can sink Japanese aircraft carriers off the coast of Japan and then escape. What will happen to Germany's ace submarine force? Akado touched his forehead involuntarily, he felt sorry for the price Japan was about to pay.

Not paying attention to anti-submarine warfare has always been a weakness of the Japanese navy. Surprisingly, the Japanese navy has never planned to correct this mistake. They endured huge losses, gritted their teeth and turned a blind eye to the record of American submarines, while their precious submarines were taken away. It is used to do some work like moving companies and taxis (the Japanese navy likes to use submarines to transport personnel and supplies and even deliver food to besieged islands on the front line). coming.

Moreover, the core of the Japanese Navy's submarine tactics is to attack high-value targets, which is fundamentally different from what the German Navy's submarine force catches and hits. The German Navy is unscrupulous. The 3,000-ton transport ship and the 30,000-ton battleship will attack whenever they have the opportunity, so the German Navy's submarine record is so high that it is amazing. The Japanese navy is just the opposite. They were ordered to attack the opponent's core warships, and they did not hesitate to launch a suicide attack for this. Therefore, the record of the Japanese navy submarine force in another time and space is so pitiful.

That's why Akado didn't send his own high seas fleet to fight the Japanese aviation force to the death, which would be useless except for cheap Americans. He calculated the weakness of the Japanese, and the submarine went to fight against the autumn wind to interfere with the speed of Japan's eastward advance, so as to prevent Japan from really possessing itself this time and surrendering the United States.

Akado now has to deal with the problems he faces carefully. What he knows can only be used as a reference in many cases, and the current world trend is already the same as the cruel second time he knew. The world wars were very different. In that time and space, the Axis powers toppled each other and challenged the Allies, which was regarded as bipolar hegemony, but now in this time and space, because of his butterfly flapping its wings, it has become a three-legged confrontation beyond recognition.

This three-legged confrontation is definitely a real three-legged confrontation. The three groups declare war on each other. Everyone has to worry about another opponent coming to take advantage of it after a full blow. Thinking of this, Accardo couldn't help but smiled wryly. He looked at the Tobruk Battle Report written by Rommel, raised his head and looked out the window: The world is different, how far can he, the head of state, go this time?

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