765 young lieutenant general
"General!" Behind Yamamoto Fifty-six, two naval staff officers took two steps forward with excited expressions and said excitedly: "We won!" The Aeronautics completely destroyed Pearl Harbor! ”
Yamamoto Fifty-six nodded quietly and did not speak.
The victory came so suddenly, and far beyond expectations, that he, a gambler who has been sitting at the table all year round, felt a little trance.
"That's right, General." As if remembering something, one of the naval staff officers hastened to add: "The German lieutenant general in the flagship lounge ......"
"Quick! Please come now! I would like to thank the German Navy in person for the proposal that it has provided us! After such a reminder from the staff officer, Yamamoto Fifty-six also snapped his head and remembered the Lieutenant General Finn who he had left in the lounge.
He said that he was a lieutenant general, but this was just a one-sided description submitted by Reinhardt to the Japanese government, and before that, the Japanese military had never heard of a German lieutenant general named Fein.
Of course, Finn's lieutenant general was promoted on an ad hoc basis.
In order to better fool the Japanese into working for Germany in the future and mislead the strategic formulation of the Japanese base camp, Reinhardt found the chief of the German Navy's General Staff and deputy commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Raeder, and asked him to select an officer who was astute and knew Japanese, as the leader of the German Guiding Officer Corps, and led an officer corps to the Japanese Navy to fool around.
In the end, Raeder only found a major named Fein for Reinhardt.
Even this major was promoted by Raeder to Finn.
After all, Raeder was reluctant to send talents in the navy to the small island country of Japan, so he chose a clever and Japanese captain. This captain is Finn.
Perhaps thinking that sending a captain to carry out the Führer's order would seem to be too unimportant to the Admiralty, Raeder simply promoted Finn by one rank, and promoted him from lieutenant to the rank of colonel, which was considered more formal.
But when it came to Reinhardt, things got even worse. Reinhardt, who saw Finn, just glanced at the epaulettes on Finn's shoulders, and dragged his chin thoughtfully: "Huh? Major? Doesn't this mean that we don't pay too much attention to the Japanese? ”
"In this case, I'll let the Navy Command arrange it and give him the rank of admiral directly." Anyway, he didn't plan to let this general command his own people, so Reinhardt made this decision very generously.
In his opinion, sending a general to the base camp of the Japanese army naturally seemed more compelling. What's more, this general did not command the German troops to fight, so he did not have much influence on the German combat sequence.
But Raeder, who heard the Führer's decision on the side, was not calm.
Although he played a little trick, it was only a step up for Finn. This level directly made Finn from a lieutenant officer to a school officer, and it was worth the promotion.
But who would have thought that the Führer's hand was even bigger, and on the basis of Raeder, he made a full five levels in one breath!
Major to general, this promotion to Sude is too bizarre!
So, under Raeder's persuasion, Reinhardt reluctantly agreed to take a smaller step and promote Fein to lieutenant general.
On the one hand, the tradition of promotion in the Navy, and indeed in the entire Wehrmacht, could no longer be more bizarre. In the past few decades, the Navy has also produced a rapidly promoted madman Reinhardt, all the way from a naval non-commissioned officer to an admiral, and finally became the German Führer and commander-in-chief of the three armed forces.
Now, there is suddenly a Finn who is even crazier than Reinhardt's promotion speed back then, and this is still a problem. Within 24 hours, from captain to general, looking at the entire history of war, I am afraid there is no such bizarre thing!
On the one hand, all of the German generals are also famous, at least relatively easy to be spied on by foreign intelligence agents. There is a general Finn in the sky, and it is not possible to calculate the oolong. Changing to the rank of lieutenant general, which has a larger base, is also less problematic.
In this way, Finn received an order for promotion to the rank of major in the morning and a special promotion order to become a lieutenant general in the afternoon.
With a promotion order that had passed through the German High Command, the Navy Command, and even the Führer himself, Finn himself did not know what shit luck he had stepped on.
It's not uncommon to be promoted quickly during the war, but it's not uncommon to be promoted so quickly, it's bizarre!
In such a daze, Fein took a platoon of size that he didn't know where to get him, all of them knew Japanese, and the lowest rank was a lieutenant colonel, and he got on the plane in a daze, and came to Tokyo with the so-called "high-level technical expert group" that Germany had aided Japan.
The group remained in Tokyo, while Fein set out with the officer corps with the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor and spent the time in the lounge of the Japanese flagship.
After all, Yamamoto finally withstood the pressure and used the tactical advice provided by Germany to target the giant oil depot at Pearl Harbor.
Although theoretically this is a big killer move, no one dares to assert that such an unconventional trick must be foolproof until the actual result is produced.
Therefore, since the tactics of the Germans were used, bringing the German lieutenant generals in the officer corps was also considered a little more psychological comfort.
It really can't be done, and if something goes wrong, the German lieutenant general can be slaughtered to vent the anger of the officers and soldiers.
But now that they had won, the Germans who might have been slaughtered had become the greatest allies in the minds of the officers and men of the Japanese Navy, and were the foreign friends who helped the Japanese Navy win the battle.
"I would like to thank this German General Finn, and I will go back to the Emperor and apply for a medal for him." Yamamoto was now full of excitement about the victory over Pearl Harbor.
The Germans gave him crucial chips to win at the table, and he did not hesitate to express his gratitude to the Germans, expressing their attitude to the German Navy by thanking the Vice Admiral Finn.
Soon, Finn, with two German staff officers with the rank of colonel, together with the Japanese officers who led the way, walked to the bridge to meet with Yamamoto.
"General Yamamoto." As soon as they met, Finn stretched out his right hand and shook hands with Yamamoto Isoroku, the Japanese admiral.
"General Finn." Yamamoto was stunned at first after meeting, he didn't have time to take a closer look before, but now that he was communicating face-to-face, he found that the German lieutenant general in front of him was so young.
He secretly sighed that if it were in the Japanese army, a soldier of Finn's age would probably be a captain, or at most a major. But in the German army, a soldier of this age can actually reach the level of a general!