It turned out that there were no military supplies in the container at all, all women's nylon socks and linen pajamas, the quantity was as much as 6 tons, and after asking the captured US quartermaster, I learned that this was the material that the United States was preparing to exchange with the local residents, and all of them were purchased from various manufacturers and large shopping malls on the eastern coast, with the purpose of winning over the Arab natives.

Nobutake Kondo immediately said in a sarcastic tone: "Oh, the Americans are really thoughtful...... With all my thoughts on this, can we still fight the battle? ”

"Isn't there intelligence that American GIs can spend the night with an Englishwoman on the island of Britain with a pair of socks? The British have actually been reduced to the ...... of Sri Lanka" Hearing Vice Admiral Mitsumi Shimizu say this, a group of people all laughed, showing a smile of "you know".

Speaking of which, the Japanese Navy learned from the British, and 20 years ago, the British Navy was still an unattainable teacher that Japan looked up to from afar, but they did not expect that now they would be pressed to the ground and beaten by the Combined Fleet.

Horikichi shook his head slightly, the Americans exchanged materials for much more than the Japanese direct plunder, but everyone was in the mood, he really couldn't bear to spoil the atmosphere, and he looked at it with the same interest as everyone else. The top brass of the Navy had seen the world, and if nothing else, they were fluent in English, and they did not need an interpreter at all to talk to the American quartermaster, and they soon knew the actual value of these things, which were of little use in view of the figure and tradition of Japanese women, and with the exception of some officers who took some to keep as commemorative gifts for returning home, it was decided to give the goods to the Germans as a reward for the Führer's generous gift of planes.

The German side was also stunned, they didn't know that there would be such a harvest, they wanted to laugh but didn't laugh in the end, and after receiving this batch of supplies, they hurriedly sent the request to the country to ask how to deal with it.

At the high-level meeting, Speer clamoured for the department store to sell the treasury bonds, and Himmler and Baumann agreed, but Dr. Goebbels took a different path: "Don't sell, send it!" Issued to military families, the number is counted first, and then issued according to the medal grade standard, such as 2 pairs of socks for the second-class iron cross, 4 pairs of socks for the first-class iron cross, knight's cross and linen pajamas, if there is any leftover, and then according to the rank and level of the major general, starting from the major general from high to low, the major general and above are counted, they can't look down on these. And give some to the Italians, who must love this stuff from leaders to officers. ”

When it comes to the virtues of Italians, everyone smiles.

"Good!" Hoffman exclaimed, "Doctor, this is a good idea!" The spoils of war should be enjoyed by soldiers and their families, which is an affirmation of honor and sacrifice, and cannot be bought at will by money. ”

"Some of the seized canned Spam meat, rum, coffee, candy, and biscuits were also handed out?"

"The products are more abundant! If it is not enough, exchange it with equipment and the Japanese, they should have a lot of them in their hands. Party branches in all localities must organize this activity well and prevent corruption. Comrade Bowman, this work is entrusted to you. Hoffmann knew that after the implementation of the General ******, the working hours of the German working class were extended and the remuneration and treatment were substantially reduced, and although the morale of the German army was boosted by the successive victories on the battlefield, there was also an urgent need for substantial benefits to increase prestige and prestige.

Another thing that made Hoffman extremely happy was that the first shipment of Iraqi crude oil in the Middle East had finally been shipped this morning. It took a lot of effort to transport this ship of crude oil, which was loaded from Mosul and then transported by rail to Alexandria, a total of 1,600 kilometers long, and only 1,500 tons per train at a time, and it took 2 days (4 days round trip) on the road to make up the first tanker. All the oil tankers seized at the remaining two ports are on their way back to China and will be able to reach China by about the end of the month.

Speer quickly mobilized domestic train transport management experts to the Middle East to calculate, after on-the-spot investigation, if he believes that without considering economic factors, the maximum oil carrying capacity can only reach 10,000 tons a day, and if you consider the transportation of troops and normal transportation, this figure is only half or even less.

Therefore, he frowned and reported: "The most economical way is to build an oil pipeline from Mosul to Beirut, Lebanon, and then ship from Beirut to Croatia and send it back to China, this method costs only one-fifteenth of rail transportation, even if you count the construction cost, it is less than one-tenth, the only problem is that it requires a lot of steel pipes, labor and time; The other option is to use large oil tankers to load ships from Basra or Abadan, and then take the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean route to Croatia, which costs about one-eighth of the cost of rail transportation, and does not have to wait for the construction time, the problem is that it is not safe enough, if the British send planes to bomb Basra or Abadan, or bomb the ships in the Persian Gulf, we will lose a lot. In addition, the Mediterranean Malta is a very dangerous nail, and now the British have little strength, and once they have caught their breath, it is difficult to say. ”

Hoffman knew that this route of tens of thousands of kilometers was the main transportation route for Europe to obtain crude oil supply after the war, but the problem was that the oil tankers after the war were getting bigger and bigger, and ships of more than 100,000 tons abounded, and now the oil tankers are still at the level of tens of thousands of tons, and the 30,000 tons of oil tankers are large, and it is quite troublesome to ship, and now they are not free to build large oil tankers.

He finally clapped his head: "Two prongs!" The oil pipelines were produced by the French, the Dutch, and the Belgians, and the coolies were to be done by the Jews and Polish prisoners of war, and then some local workers were hired through the Iraqi government, and we could exchange weapons for the Iraqis; As for the second, until the pipeline is built, it will be temporarily transported by tankers. Don't worry about Malta, the next step will be our goal. What I'm concerned about is that the crude oil supply problem has been solved now? ”

"It can only be said that it is basically solved." "After assessment, experts believe that the existing annual oil production of Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia can stabilize at about 6 million tons, and with the progress of the restoration project, it can rise to more than 8 million tons next year." I had expected a shortfall of 5 million tonnes from July this season, and now I can make up for it. Significant progress has also been made in oil exploration on the Libyan side, with the discovery of several highly productive wells - which would require a one-and-a-half-year construction period, i.e. 2 million to 3 million tons of crude oil as soon as July 1944, which would help to fill the shortfall that might have occurred in 1944. ”

Hoffman looked disappointed: "I thought there was enough crude oil, and I thought about stopping the liquefaction of coal." ”

"This ...... Why? ”

"First of all, the quality of liquefied oil is very poor and the cost is too high; Secondly, I think there is another use for this coal -- I plan to use it to generate electricity. ”

As soon as Hoffmann talked about power generation, Speer immediately reacted - this was prepared for the super bomb project, and although the recalculated equations of other experts did not fully deduce the results shown by the "intelligence", at least they were inconsistent with Heisenberg's conclusions, which showed that the original calculations were problematic, and experts, including Heisenberg, recognized this and agreed to continue in-depth theoretical research. While there is still controversy over whether to use uranium-235 or plutonium as the charge of a superbomb, given the availability of funds and Hoffman's insistence, the project team is prepared to attempt to enrich uranium and plutonium at the same time, which would require a lot of electricity. In addition to this, the rising aircraft manufacturing requires large quantities of aluminum alloys, which are also obtained by electrolysis. As a result, electricity supply is quickly becoming the second largest energy gap after crude oil.

"Then we can only count on taking down the Persian oil fields again." Speer calculated, "If you can get another 6 million tons of crude oil in Persia, without considering transportation restrictions, you can basically replace the liquefaction part, the only pity is that the Abadan refinery was bombed by the British, and the engineers said that after emergency repair, it can only provide 1 million tons of refining capacity, and it may take a year to a year and a half to restore to 3 million tons." ”

"If there are 1 million tons, at least the military oil in the Middle East does not need to travel thousands of miles from the mainland. As for the additional 6 million tons......" Hoffman said through gritted teeth, "well, then we have to keep fighting, it seems that I have to throw another 10-150,000 people into the Middle East, and Kesselring and Guderian are also going to fight Kenya and Madagascar." ”

Kenya is still within everyone's expectations, but Madagascar is so far away that it took a long time to look at the map and find this island tens of thousands of kilometers away from the German mainland - the location is very important, and the distance is really far enough.

"I don't doubt that we can take it down, but it's easy to occupy and it's too difficult to hold on." Speer, who was not a soldier, sensed the risk, "This is all up to the navy, the Japanese fleet cannot be permanently stationed in the Indian Ocean, and our navy is so weak." ”

"There will be a naval armaments meeting in five days, and you will communicate with Marshal Raeder first."

Speer's final report was on the issue of equipment exports to Japan: according to the original agreement, the core part was to provide Japan with 1,000 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. Germany's newest tank is the Tiger, not to mention giving Japan 1,000 units, Germany itself has not built 1,000 until now, and the same is true for airplanes.

After the mediation and communication of the Japanese trio in Germany and with the consent of Tokyo, the two sides agreed that the tank model was based on the No. 4, but unfortunately the supply of No. 4 in Germany was also insufficient, whether it was the expansion of the 1943 armored division or the filling of the existing gap in the existing establishment of some armored divisions, they were looking forward to the new tank off the assembly line, and the entire production task was filled in 1943, so a compromise plan was finally proposed, and the weight of No. 4 26 tons was converted to Japan. (To be continued.) )