ps: Because of the plot changes, there are changes from D day (2) to (7), please re-read, please bear with me for the inconvenience......

King Minoru of Higashikurenomiya said to Horiyoshi with a smile on his face: "You see, everyone supports you, and the army has taken out such elite generals as the Guards Division, just hoping to follow you to do something." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIf you don't think you have enough troops, you can add a little more. Now that the materials, fleet, troops, and even the navy are the strongest, didn't you still run so many aviation schools, and gave the navy military Cao the space to be promoted to officers, it is the moment for the whole country to work together and give the United States a head-on blow. ”

Horikichi sighed and said no more, otherwise it would seem that he was hypocritical.

Indeed, as Ishihara said, the current 2nd Guards Division is not the size and establishment in history, but a rare elite, which is equipped with a chariot wing (the wing commander must be assigned to Osaku according to the regulations, but because of Kuribayashi Tadamichi's insistence and recommendation, in the end, Nishitakeichi, who is also an American expert and a gold medalist at the Los Angeles Olympics, served as the wing leader), and the 2nd Guards Division is closer to Germany's Type 1943 Panzergrenadier Division in terms of organization, with slightly less heavy equipment but one more wing of infantry.

In addition to the armored vehicles, Himmler organs, and hunters imported from Germany, they were also equipped with a new Type 4 tank -- Chito, which was newly produced by Japan.

The Type 4 tank is a new tank that Japan has been developing, and the project was officially established in September 42, which is Japan's first real medium tank, but the progress has not been fast, but in the later period, with the help of German technical experts, the progress has advanced by leaps and bounds.

The Type 4 is said to be a new tank, but anyone who has seen it will recognize that this is actually a Japanese facelifted version of the T-34 model. The chassis is a T-34 chassis, and the turret is the No. 4 turret originally planned by Japan, but the frontal thickness is thickened to 70mm. Initially, it was intended to use the newly developed Type 4 75mm tank gun (an improvement from the 75mm anti-aircraft gun of the Swedish company Bofors), but later it was unable to keep up with the rhythm for the time being, so it directly used the 75mm/L48 tank gun on the No. 4 tank. In order to improve the armor-piercing effect, it also imitated Germany to equip the troops with tungsten core bullets, because Japan is not short of tungsten, so the proportion is relatively high, and each vehicle has one-third of tungsten core bullets

Unlike the T-34 gun, which was deployed in the front, the Chito turret was rear, with a more balanced weight distribution, and then the turret was changed to a five-man crew, and a radio and sight imported from Germany were installed. The overall weight is 26.4 tons, the maximum speed is 42 km/h, and the single refueling trip is 300 km.

It is said that it is made in China, but in fact, Japan has slightly changed the design, and has integrated the respective advantages of the No. 4 tank and the T-34 tank, which is neither comparable to the Leopard, nor the T-43/85, or even the T-43/76 barely. The core components inside, such as the B2 diesel engine and the tank gun, cannot be produced in-house, so they can only use the original product as it is.

However, Japan's idea of excellence in production has been carried out, and the armor is much stronger than that of the Soviet Union, the turret is much better than that of the T-34, and the gearbox has been improved. In addition, the large layout has not been adjusted, and there is not much trouble after the successful trial production, and the performance is relatively stable. Due to the small size and turret of the Japanese soldiers, the turret was redesigned, and the T-34's four-man crew was changed to a five-man crew. Therefore, the German side believes that the overall performance is better than the original T-34/76, basically the same as the No. 4H, and will not fall behind in the competition with Sherman - if Japan can solve the problem of engine and tank gun production, it can become the main equipment.

But now it seems that the tank gun will be able to tackle the problem in another 1 year, and the B2 engine will always be unable to keep up with the level of imitation in the short term, and the engine (whether aviation or vehicle engine) has now become a big problem in Japan - imitation can be imitated, and the performance of imitation is too different from the original, to the point of unbearable, so that it continues to be imported. If this problem is not solved, we will never dare to say that localization has succeeded.

Now, with a variety of parts, Japan's "production" (assembly) is very fast, with production exceeding 150 units per month, and it is expected to reach 200 units per month in half a year. The 2nd Guards Division is the second batch to be reequipped, equipped with a total of more than 80 Chito, while the 1st Guards Division, where Takeda is located, is the first batch of troops to be reequipped, with more than 160 vehicles in place (more than 240 vehicles at full strength), so the 1st Guards Division is positioned as a chariot division.

Hearing that Ishihara said the same, Horikichi nodded with a wry smile: "Then thank you very much." ”

Then there was no more silence.

"Come on, drink and go, drink and go...... Drink a glass for the victory in the Battle of Sakhalin......" King Minoru Higashikuremiya could see that everyone's interest was not very high, so he cheered everyone up, "The empire is still good, and it will be even more powerful when I bring back rockets and jets in August - the United States doesn't have this thing!" ”

On June 17, while Japan was discussing the next phase of the war and its future prospects, the situation in Brazil changed dramatically: when Germany eliminated the 1st Expeditionary Division of Brazil, occupied the three southern states and declared their annexation to the American Republics, and the forces of the countries of the La Plata bloc were piling up near the border, the Chief of the General Staff, Montero, brazenly staged a coup d'état, imprisoned President Vargas, and sent a request for an armistice to the Axis bloc, expressing his willingness to withdraw from the alliance camp.

What caught the Americans even more off guard was that Montero not only controlled Rio and São Paulo with his henchmen, but also agreed with Germany in advance to cooperate with the German fleet to directly blow up the US military aviation base in Rio, and also let Sauken's troops land in Rio.

The police and some of the internal forces (including the Presidential Guard) and the U.S. forces supporting Vargas tried to open fire on Montero's army, but no one could withstand the German armored forces. The jaw-dropping situation in the Icelandic campaign appeared, and this time it was even more exaggerated - Iceland was 30,000 German troops who lost their armor and 80,000 British and American troops, and this time Schauken used less than 8,000 troops to directly overthrow an American division of 20,000 men.

What made the US side even more shocked was that the reconnaissance planes in the Recife area showed that there would be a steady stream of German convoys coming in the future, and that they would land in Rio in four to five days.

In fact, the coup d'état was a departure from Montero, and it was originally said that he would not act until the end of June, and the German army would divide the troops into two routes, one from the ground assault in the state of São Paulo, and the other from the sea, promising to use his troops to control the Brazilian side, and leave the American division to the Germans to fight. Unexpectedly, there was an accident when the troops were in tandem, someone turned back on Vargas, and then Vargas, who had always been suspicious, tried to take the lead, but was put under house arrest by Montero, who had been in business for many years, and sent a telegram asking for help to Sauken as soon as possible.

Knowing that his situation was urgent, Sauken asked him to delay as long as he could, and on the other hand, he hurried to board the ship and attack. He knew very well that he did not have time to take the whole division with him, so he hurriedly took more than 10,000 troops near the port and went to Rio - which included not only the troops of the Flying Fortress Panzer Division, but also the troops of two marine brigades.

Fortunately, the German Marines were all drawn from the Army, and their tactical style and even weapons were the same, and they were immediately integrated with the Army without any sense of obstruction.

Montero struggled for 3 days, but Vargas did not show up for three days to arouse the suspicion of his henchmen, and finally the news leaked that the two sides exchanged fire, and the Americans were baffled at first, but then immediately reacted and prepared to intervene. But with these precious 3 days, the German landing force arrived. After all, Montero was the chief of the general staff for many years, and he knew that he had controlled the docks, and there was no need for the Germans to bother with a landing battle, so Sauken led his troops to fight. Hit 20,000 with 8,000.

The Brazilians watched in amazement as the Sherman tanks were knocked out by the German Tiger and Leopard at a long distance and turned into fireballs, and then they watched the German Navy carrier-based aircraft pilots strike at low altitude and take out the defensive positions that the American troops had painstakingly managed for a long time.

By the time the Cannons of the Richelieu and the Gnaisenau roared outside the port of Rio, the outcome of the battle was clear -- the American troops began to flee in a hurry. And the armies that fought against Montero were swept away one by one. Other German troops in the American republics then moved in one after another, increasing their strength to more than 20,000 men.

In the midst of the war, the once prosperous Rio de Janeiro became a ruin, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian civilians fled, and the crowd blocked the retreat road of the American army. Montero, who was worried that there was no reasonable and legal material, was overjoyed, and the reporter took countless photos.

On June 18, a press release titled "I Accuse" shocked the wreckage and corpses of American tanks that crushed the crowd on the "bloody road". According to the official statement of the Montero government: because President Vargas was unpopular and was protested and impeached by the Brazilian people, the Americans, in order to support this puppet, ordered the garrison to dispatch heavy weapons, including tanks and armored vehicles, to suppress it......

The whole country is in turmoil, and the people in the rest of the region are at a loss to know what the news is true. There are not many places that Montero can control, and the areas with US troops in the north and east are all under Rio's orders, and the rest of the areas where there are no US troops are still waiting and seeing.

Hoffman was unhappy with Montero's performance, and he wanted a Brazil in full control of the Rio government, not a fractured and chaotic Brazil, but he still praised Sauken's decisiveness. The High Command quickly responded and prepared to send additional troops south to Brazil for reinforcements to help stabilize the situation in Brazil.

In this case, in addition to the two Marine Brigades that Cranker had taken with him, Mandolfir, the closest and most convenient, led the 7th Panzer Division from the Falklands to prepare for the first line of support in the state of São Paulo. Keitel and Zeitzler decided to send another 100,000 troops and three air wings to South America in view of the temporary end of the fighting on the Eastern Front.

However, as a result, the ship strength was insufficient, and the solution of the South African question, which was originally to be discussed, had to be postponed......