Chapter 225: Visiting and Exchanging (Part II)
In the face of the suddenly solemn atmosphere in the cabin, Guidao and Hanafang did not panic, these two Japanese are also knowledgeable, and they have long been accustomed to similar scenes, and the Imperial Navy is also calling out to the Emperor Long Live when there is nothing to do.
They have also seen news films about the independence of the country, and have seen the spectacular scene of Hitler's speech before and after the scene of raising their arms. Now that they have encountered the live version in person, Guidao and Hanafang hurriedly stood solemnly to show their respect for the German Führer.
The discipline of the Prussians was highly regarded by the Japanese military leadership, and Showa Taisho's decades of national military education trained a bunch of lazy and ignorant mud-legged peasants into disciplined Imperial Army and Navy soldiers.
If you want to ask the two Japanese officers at this moment, whether they believe Captain Robin's statement, then the answer they get is undoubted, and the two of them firmly believe in it.
There are good reasons for this judgment, because the German captain has just said that the inventor of this method of training is none other than the Führer of the Greater German Reich himself. It is impossible for this captain to make up such a story to joke in front of so many subordinates, and if it were Japan, which officer would dare to fabricate the emperor's imperial prowess, would he not be afraid of being punished by his angry subordinates. Just the vigor with which these crew members saluted just now proved that what the captain said was definitely not a lie.
Besides, this kind of training method sounds very logical, and the submarine may indeed be damaged in battle, so the submarine training in this damaged state is obviously formulated for the sake of actual combat considerations. These German naval officers and men had participated in European naval battles and had far more combat experience than their own, and Guijima had also been exposed to such officers in real combat, and they could not have received a means of training that was useless on the battlefield.
"Excuse me, how do you train? Mr. Captain. "Guidao's attitude is very respectful, and he doesn't care that the other party's military rank is two levels lower than his own.
Navy Zhongsa has secretly made up his mind that he will learn the latest training method of this independent navy no matter what. From the words of the captain just now, he could hear that the navies of various European countries should have mastered this method, and the dignified Imperial Japanese Navy has not received a trace of relevant news until now, and the group of staff officers of the Third Department and Eighth Section of the Naval Command Department (Western European Intelligence Section) should really apologize in shame.
"It's actually quite easy to say." Robin tossed Igor aside, who was quietly tugging at his sleeve.
"First of all, we cover all the important nautical instruments on the submarine, there is no specific standard for covering, basically we can use whatever we have in our hands, as long as we can cover the numbers and pointers. I don't know very well on other boats, but on our U106 we use butter. Captain Robin pointed to the depth gauge, looking like a good teacher.
"Next, you can conduct submarine and attack training without instrument reference." Captain Robin reached out and grabbed the steering wheel in front of the helmsman, and spun around in a pretended circle.
"So how can the sailors judge the various navigation parameters of the submarine, if there is no instrument, isn't it blind sailing, so that there will be no danger?" Hanafang couldn't help but ask a series of questions, as an active submarine captain, he really couldn't think of any alternative.
"That's a good question." Captain Robin pointed his finger at the flower room with a look of relief, not caring at all that the other party's rank was a naval major.
"By what? Of course, it's the experience gained from a lot of training, and the feeling that you have developed over a long period of time. But I think the most important point is that our soldiers, with their boundless love for their homeland and their loyalty to the Reich Führer, will bring out the potential of our German naval soldiers, who will be able to control the submarine without a reference to instruments, to sense the trajectory of the submarine from every sway and tremor of the hull, and to judge the depth of the submarine from the subtle deformations of the hull. As for danger, of course there will be danger, as long as the ship sails on the sea, there will be danger, but under the spiritual guidance of the Reich Führer, we, the Imperial German Navy, are not afraid of any danger, because our sailors know that everything we do is for the sake of the motherland and the people. Captain Robin replied impassionedly.
"I see, Sbarassi, it's amazing." Hanafang nodded respectfully in admiration.
It turns out that it is based on the experience honed in long-term training, which sounds quite reasonable. If this is the case, then this kind of training is not difficult for the Japanese Navy, the sailors of the Imperial Japanese Navy can withstand the most tempering, the independent navy has their patriotism, we also have the Yamato spirit of the Japanese Empire, and the spirit of Etajima, which is unique in the world.
"Thank you so much for being so attentive." Guidao bowed directly to Robin and thanked him, and Hanafang hurriedly bowed when he saw this.
Learning the latest German "training methods", Guidao and Hanafang felt that the trip was worthwhile, and their minds were no longer on German submarines, but they were anxious to go back and report this harvest to their superiors. So the next few cabins were visited, and it was almost a matter of sightseeing, anyway, the Germans had buttered all the instruments and nameplates, and the rest of the equipment was similar to that of the Japanese Navy, and nothing was particularly noticeable.
As for the noise reduction facilities of the German submarine oil extraction machine that Guijima wanted to know, because the power compartment was parked and the engine side was equipped with a safety fence, the navy Zhongsa had been touching up and down for a long time, but he couldn't see any tricks. The shock-damping chassis of the German diesel engine had to be removed from the floor to be seen, and no matter how thick-skinned you were, you could not make such a request, he was a professional naval soldier, not a trained spy.
After visiting the bow torpedo cabin, Guidao and Huafang returned to the command cabin with satisfaction, and the guests and hosts looked at each other, just looking at the photos of the scene, they really thought that the two countries had established an alliance. Robin and Kijima sip the coffee the chef brings them as they begin to discuss the list of goods exchanged.
In addition to vegetables and canned food, they also have a bunch of strange nutrients to replenish the protein and vitamins lost by sailors during sailing.
The Japanese Navy and Army have each developed a food called "calorie food", which is a high-calorie snack similar to compressed biscuits. This food comes in a variety of flavors, for example, one of the caloric recipes is glucose, butter, starch, sugar, egg powder, yeast and matcha powder, which are stirred and mixed and machine-pressed into cubes. Each caloric meal weighs 50 grams, which contains about 250 calories, and theoretically only 10 such caloric foods can provide a Japanese soldier with the calories needed for a whole day's combat.
In fact, the price of this biscuit is not cheap, and the shelf life is relatively short, the summer type can only be stored for one year, and the winter type is only four months, the difference between the two models is only the content of butter and yeast, and the content of the winter type is relatively high, so it usually needs to be refrigerated.
For each serving of 50 grams of caloric food, the cost purchase price of the Japanese army was 10 yen (one yen is one cent), and ten servings of this food were one yen, and at that time, the monthly salary of a Japanese private was only five yuan and five cents.
The calorie food distributed by the Japanese Navy is almost the same as the recipe of the Army, which was copied from the Italians anyway. You read that right, the inventor of this caloric food is the European Army, Japan got a lot of good things from Mussolini, this food was originally an emergency food for the Italian mountain troops, but it was taken by the Japanese who like sweets, and immediately returned home to imitate it after getting the formula.
However, because some of the raw materials of the original version are relatively high-end, such as chocolate cocoa powder and the like, in order to reduce the cost, Japan tried to find a way to replace it with locally produced matcha powder, and the feedback from the troops was good, which was welcomed by many grassroots officers and soldiers.
However, Captain Robin was not interested in this caloric food, and the German Navy rationed canned soda biscuits, which he thought was something similar to the Japanese caloric food. He wanted canned Japanese finished food, as well as fresh vegetables, which he could exchange for the same portion of canned meat and bread.
In the end, it was Guidao who made the decision, and the I-60 will do everything in its power to meet the needs of its German friends. Kijima felt that Robin was a rare German naval commander who had a good impression of Japan, so this relationship must not only be pulled, but also cultivated with all his might, once the captain climbed to a higher position one day, the value of this favor could not be measured in terms of mere material.
Historically, Japan relied on all kinds of sugar-coated shells to win over a large number of British officials, many of whom had entered the core institutions of the state, and as a result, they leaked a large amount of important strategic intelligence and technical information to Japan.
After finally negotiating the amount of supplies, Guidao and Hanafang took Robin and Igor and returned to the I-60 submarine in the rowboat they had been sitting in.
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