Some of the Japanese officers, including Yamamoto Isoroku, had been a little disgusted, or rather, disgusted with Germany for some time before.

The reason is simple, Vichy France dared to open the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway to supply the Chinese battlefield, and it was obvious that the shadow of the Germans was behind it.

In order to allow the British to close the Yunnan-Burma Highway and cut off the main southern passage for the import of foreign aid from China, the Japanese base camp even compromised on the plan to attack Hong Kong and temporarily spared the British garrison there.

As a result, the Germans, who had always been regarded as European allies by the island countries of Japan, actually instigated and even coerced Vichy France, and insisted that France resist the pressure of the Japanese side, and drove away the British did not dare to catch up, and opened the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway.

Of course, in history, Britain was soon forced to redevelop the Yunnan-Burma Highway under pressure from the United States, so the development of the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway actually had little impact on the course of the war effort, almost nothing.

However, in this life, due to the preemption of France, the burden of the Yunnan-Burma Highway fell on the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway, that is to say, this favor has been counted on the heads of different countries.

Just by opening the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway so that American supplies could flow into the Chinese battlefield through here, the Japanese could still hold back.

What made them most angry was that Italy, which had always been regarded as an ally by them, also took this opportunity to sell a large number of arms through the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway.

Of course, Italy did not do so simply because Rossi was Reinhardt's man. In fact, their former prime minister, Mussolini, was more than happy to do so. As long as it is a profitable business, Mussolini is not involved.

Almost as in history, although Germany's maritime trade with China could only be interrupted anyway because Japan cut off the shipping lines. However, there is still quite a bit of smuggling in Italy.

Former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini is so thick-skinned that he is unique. As mentioned earlier, he first sold a large number of tanks to provide a weapon basis for the formation of the first armored regiment in China. At the same time, Mussolini also participated in Reinhardt's plan to resell arms to the enemies of the island nation of Japan.

Reinhardt sold old arms, mainly to aid China, to eliminate a batch of equipment by the way, to make a profit and replace it with new weapons, to unify the caliber of existing weapons. In this way, the German army was able to further optimize logistics, reduce the pressure on the logistics department, and at the same time earn a large amount of supplies.

But Mussolini, that's to store to make money!

Moreover, in order to take care of the feelings of these two European allies in their hearts, the Japanese had to knock out their teeth and choose to endure it.

Of course, Reinhardt's behavior is not stupid to help China by cheating German interests. In fact, Germany is actually the one that makes the most money in this trade.

After all, 83% of Germany's tungsten ore demand has to be imported! Huaxia's tungsten production ranks among the best in the world, accounting for 37% of the world's total output!

According to the rhythm of the original history, Germany's tungsten reserves were just exhausted in 1942.

Therefore, many people think that Germany can turn around in 43, 44, and 45 years, but in fact, they are nonsense!

Reinhardt was lucky because he crossed over to Germany in 1919. If he were to be allowed to travel back in time to the apocalyptic period after the 43 years of the Third Reich, even if all the people in Germany listened to him, he would at most commit suicide in a bunker a few days after Hitler.

After all, the defeat of Germany in history is really a link after a ring, and freezing three feet is not a day's cold!

Of course, Huaxia was actually selling tungsten ore to Germany at a price of about $800 a ton of tungsten ore as early as when it first purchased German equipment from Germany.

It is worth mentioning that the price of tungsten minerals in Europe has risen to between 14,000 and 20,000 US dollars!

In this, Mussolini, the SB, also participated in the action of copying the price of tungsten ore in previous years.

In this regard, Reinhardt didn't bother to complain. If he hadn't imported a large amount of tungsten ore from China, it is estimated that he would have sent someone to kill Mussolini in advance a few years ago.

In fact, Germany has always lacked strategic materials. In particular, Britain can also hoard tungsten ore, preparing to jam Germany's soft underbelly in the material war.

Although Spain and Turkey are also exporters of tungsten ore, the production is very small, and the price is still high.

Therefore, some people who think that the traverser can lead Germany to turn around in 43 years can already give up just because the tungsten ore reserves are exhausted.

However, the reason why Germany can continue to hold out for 3 years after the domestic tungsten ore reserves are exhausted in history is that after the German army occupied Italy in 43 years, it was found that Mussolini, a pig teammate, actually hoarded a large amount of tungsten ore to hide from his allies, so the German army made a small fortune to save money and barely supported it until 1945.

Although Italy also needed tungsten ore at that time, it did not need so much at all, and even many of it was purchased by Italy between 1940 and 1942. Mussolini, the self-proclaimed "strongest leader of Italy", continued his plan to make a fortune by copying the price of tungsten ore when the end was approaching, rather than selling it to German allies.

In addition to Italy, the pig teammate, the British in history also frantically bought tungsten after the war, trying to make Germany unable to fight.

There is no doubt that this strategy of the British has historically succeeded. They had 30-mm guns for German attack aircraft, which at first used only ordinary armor-piercing shells frugally. It wasn't until the Germans felt that this was not going on and switched to tungsten core armor-piercing shells that it really became a nightmare for the Soviet T-34 tank.

Once World War II starts, ordinary armor-piercing shells will become less and less able to achieve the ideal armor-piercing ability under the original artillery caliber. On the German side, the most famous Pzgr.40 series, played with tungsten core armor-piercing shells.

Tungsten core armor-piercing shells are actually extremely wasteful, even the famous Tiger tanks of the German army in history, each vehicle is only equipped with 5 tungsten core armor-piercing shells to deal with the Soviet Army's IS2 (that is, the famous Father 2 tank).

And now, when the captain of the transportation team of Kaishen Express heard that 1 ton of tungsten ore could be exchanged for 800 US dollars, he was very happy. As a result, almost all of the cheapest rare metals in Germany prefer to be imported from transport captains.

Hitler, who liked to play war economics, famously lamented: "If you give me 10,000 tons of tungsten sand, I can take the Soviet Union." ”

If oil is the food of the armored forces, then tungsten is the blood of the armored forces.

For tank armor, tungsten nickel steel has good protection, and for tank shells, tungsten core bullets have strong armor piercing.

Therefore, Reinhardt is embarrassed now, just counting the amount of imports, he has seventeen tons more tungsten ore than in history, and this is not counting the large amount of tungsten reserves that will be seized in Britain in the near future.

In this way, the conditions for him to take the Soviet Union are even more always.