Cole thought to himself: Fortunately, there are no dead people in training, otherwise this weapon would really not work, but the Japanese are very clever, why haven't I heard of such a training method in Germany?

"That ......" Vice Takeshi Toyoda walked over with a gloomy face, opened his mouth for a moment, and suddenly stopped there after saying half a thoughtless sentence, and it took a long time to squeeze out the next half of the sentence, "Now...... Application...... How many fighters are there in the Task Force? ”

"We have successfully trained more than a dozen team members, they are the seeds of the whole team, all of them have mastered the skills of rocket control, I have to admit that this thing is much easier to get started than flying a plane, and the operation is also simple, even I can drive!" Onishi pointed to the special attack team members in navy uniforms with white cloth wrapped around their heads and said, "Many of them are not suitable for flying planes, but they have a strong desire to stand up for the country, so they were selected." ”

"Is it all voluntary?" Inoue asked.

"They can only participate after voluntarily signing up and writing an application, and many people even bite their fingers and write bloody letters, and they can't undertake special attack tasks without the courage to see death as home."

Cole's heart suddenly struck: Writing a bloody letter to sign up for the special attack team, the national personality of the Japanese is indeed as the Führer said -- crazy cannot be resisted.

"Onishi-kun, let's make 100 pieces first, and deploy them on Bougainville Island and other places, they may be able to use them there." Vice Takeshi Toyoda asked with a solemn look, "Can it be completed by the end of November?" ”

"In such a hurry?" Onishi Takijiro was a little surprised, "I'm afraid that the recruitment and training of team members will not reach so much." ”

"Then step up the training. The situation is urgent, and it is really impossible to go to the front line and recruit on the spot. "It's not that you're not confident in the new weapon, right?" Or is it difficult to produce? ”

"Not really. Production and training are not difficult, now what is lacking is time and personnel, you should know that the technology of performing this task is the second, and the courage to move forward is the first, except for the front-line soldiers and some of our senior generals, many people are not ready for this, and their mentality has not been adjusted. ”

"Even my mentality hasn't adjusted well." Toyoda sighed. "It's a last resort, and in my opinion it's best never to use it, but a lot of things don't depend on our will. The defensive pressure on the South Sea Islands is simply too great...... You get ready and wait for the order from the Military Command Department - no one is allowed to use it without a clear order from me and the head of Fushimi Palace, not even if the team members themselves apply. ”

"Understood." Onishi's own mentality is also very ambivalent. He didn't really want to use it, either. But as Cole said, it's all about winning. After thinking about it, he finally nodded and agreed, and said confidently: "I can't guarantee 100 pieces, 30 pieces will definitely be done, it's time for the Americans to taste it, but can you please give the rocket a name?" ”

Vice Takeshi Toyoda said in a sad tone: "Let's call it cherry blossoms - the rocket launch and explosion are as colorful and rapidly withering as cherry blossoms, and this poignant beauty will stay in the world forever!" ”

When leaving the test site. Both Inoue Narumi and Kohl were silent, thinking only about their own thoughts: the order to shrink from the southeast front seemed to have been given with certainty. Combined with the content of the afternoon talks, it is almost certain that there has been a definite change in Japan's position.

After getting on the plane, Cole thought that he was flying back to Tokyo to attend a meeting, but he did not expect that the Type 2 boat made a turn on the way and went to the other side of Sado Island, and only then did the attaché of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tell him that he would hold diplomatic talks in the conference room of the secret naval base on Sado Island in the afternoon, and that Foreign Minister Ko Masayuki had been waiting there in advance.

The negotiations were held in a tense atmosphere, and the Japanese side attached great importance to it, except for the personal attendance of Prime Minister Masayuki Furuko, Vice Admiral Shimomura and Navy Vice Admiral Inoue Narumi were also present. It was only then that Cole understood why he chose such a remote place for negotiations, and the Japanese side was completely for secrecy, because they were all old acquaintances, and Gu Zheng did not say too much to each other, and directly introduced the situation of Indian independence to Cole:

After the 20th century, the Indian independence movement transformed from an armed war led by the Maharaja to a relatively peaceful national independence and self-government movement led by the Congress Party. Later, due to serious differences over the method of struggle, the Congress Party also split into two factions: one faction, led by Gandhi and Nehru, always adhered to the political line of "non-violent non-cooperation" and was regarded as moderate; The other faction, led by Chandra Bose, gradually shifted to a position of armed struggle and was seen as radical. During the First World War, in order to gain the support of India, Britain promised Indian autonomy in empty words, which gave the moderates the upper hand in the Congress Party, but with the victory of the First World War, Britain's so-called autonomy and constitutional reform were nothing more than a change of colonial rule, and the ideas of the moderates lost their market and the radicals began to gain the upper hand. In the process, Chandra Bose founded and served as the supreme commander of the National Volunteers, an Indian youth student organization, who advocated armed struggle against the British colonizers in order to achieve complete independence of India. In 1938, Bose was elected chairman of the Congress Party, advocating a radical line and having fierce conflicts with moderates such as Gandhi, and finally broke with the Congress Party and was secretly arrested by the British colonial authorities. In 1941, he escaped from prison in Calcutta and fled to Moscow, where he sought support from the Soviet Union, but was transferred to Germany.

"So the leader of Indian independence is now in Germany?"

"Exactly, half a year ago, the empire sent a telegram inviting it to return to Asia and launch an independence movement, and the other party agreed, but it has not been able to make the trip, and we think that your country has different considerations for this, so I ...... it."

Kohl immediately agreed: "No problem at all, I will return to Germany in two days to report to the Führer, and next time I will directly let this independent leader fly to your country, and your country can directly negotiate with this leader, and as long as the relevant results do not harm the interests of the German and Italian allies, we will jointly recognize them." ”

After exchanging glances with several people on the Japanese side, they all nodded slightly, and Cole knew in his heart: The Japanese side seemed to have taken a fancy to Boss's qualifications and energy, and was ready to support him as a puppet, and he had no objection to this -- Hoffman had made it clear to him before he came that Germany's hand would certainly not reach as far as India, so as long as Japan's demands and conditions on the Indian issue were not too outrageous, it might as well agree to them.

Gu Zhengzhi was secretly happy in his heart, and it seemed that Germany would not at least boycott Japan on the question of Indian power, and he continued:

Encouraged by the war in Southeast Asia, the situation in India deteriorated in March this year, and London sent Keeper of the Seals Clepps to India to mediate and convene a British-Indian conference, but the "Dominion Plan of India" proposed by the British side was fiercely opposed by the Indian side, and on April 11, the Congress Party and the ******-Christian League unanimously rejected the plan, and the work of the US special envoy to India, Louis Johnson, was also unsuccessful. On June 10, anti-British riots broke out in Sindh in northwestern India, and on the 15th of the same month, the Indian Independence Congress was held in Bangkok, and Gandhi's idea of not cooperating with the British swept throughout India, and on August 9, 20 Congress leaders including Gandhi, Nehru, and Azad were arrested by the British military police, which further accelerated the development of the anti-British movement......

Ko said: "The original goal of the Triple Alliance was to first force Britain to submit as soon as possible, which was an important policy of Japan in guiding the war, but as Germany's attention turned to Russia, this goal was shifted, and if you were to advance a new strategy, you would inevitably withdraw your forces from the Eastern Front and increase pressure on Britain -- in order to force Britain to submit, we wanted Germany to continue to blockade Britain and land on British soil. ”

Cole understood what Gu Zhengzhi meant, and Japan hinted at whether the Soviet Union and Germany could make peace so that Germany could withdraw as soon as possible and do its best to deal with Britain, but since the other party did not say it explicitly, he was also happy to pretend to be confused, and after thinking about it, he replied: "The Eastern question is very complicated, and the war on the Eastern Front, in addition to reducing Britain's will to fight for a long time, is itself the implementation and practice of the "German, Italian, and Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact." Of course, we recognize your country's desire to make an all-out effort against Britain, but this desire is not easily attained. In view of the current imbalance in the balance of British and German naval forces, our country is temporarily unable to adopt this method, but after the United States intervenes, the British and American maritime superiority is even more obvious, and our country has fallen into a resource blockade and sea encirclement, and if we cannot obtain sufficient resources and materials from the eastern front, we will lack the ability to fight for a long time. ”

Shimomura did not give up, adding: "We believe that it is necessary to directly link the forces of Japan, Germany, and Italy, which constitute each war situation in Asia and Europe, and strive to play a role in the most valuable places of Britain, where the ruling power is the weakest, and where the loss is most painful." There is no doubt that this possibility is India, and how its belonging will directly determine the fate and future status of Britain. ”

"Can I understand that in the future, Japan will completely withdraw its troops from the Chinese battlefield in order to concentrate its efforts on advancing into India and defeating the British, especially the most powerful Kwantung Army and the largest number of Chinese troops sent to carry out the Indian Ocean Raid?"

This rebuttal hit the soft underbelly of the Japanese Army: Didn't you want me to make peace with the Soviet Union and concentrate on dealing with the British? Then do you agree to do the same on the Chinese issue -- this is obviously something that the Japanese Army is unwilling or unable to do for the time being, and in turn Japan has lost its legitimacy to demand peace between the Soviet Union and Germany, and Shimomura is speechless but speechless.

Inoue Narumi held back a smile, he had already learned Cole's sharp teeth in the morning encounter, and now it was Shimomura's turn to experience it all. (To be continued.) )