"Give up...... Does New Zealand fight? ”

When Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese ambassador to Germany, heard Hersmann's request for Japan to abandon the conditions for going south to New Zealand in the Heinsberg manor in Tsosen, his face was suddenly filled with embarrassment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"This, this ......"

"Questions?" Hirschmann met with Mr. and Mrs. Oshima over dinner - Oshima, a Japanese devil who was a German fan and had many friends in the German military and political leadership, but Hirschmann had a mediocre relationship with him. But Chloe and Lady Oshima were good friends, so they also frequented the Heinsberg estate.

Today, however, he came to visit on official business, in order to persuade Hirschman to support the plan to aid Japan.

Japan now wants not only the items on that list, but also the EC to follow the example of the United States in passing a Lend-Lease Act to aid Japan, so that Japan can still have much-needed war supplies when it cannot afford to pay for enough gold, rubber, and rare metals.

"Questions?" Hersmann glanced at Oshima's face, then took a sip of the Champagne of the Heinkel family (that is, Ribbentrop's father-in-law), and said, "What you want must be produced by British factories, and if you do not abandon the national policy of invading New Zealand, it is difficult for me to guarantee that you will receive a high-quality product in time." Other than that...... You don't have the capacity to occupy New Zealand now, and if you insist on attacking, there will be serious consequences. ”

"Will it be defeated?" Hiroshi Oshima was stunned, and then immediately shook his head, "Your Excellency the Imperial Marshal, this is impossible. The Southern Army is strong, and the sea supremacy of the South Pacific is still in our hands. ”

"South Pacific sea supremacy?" Hersman glanced at Hiroshi Oshima and said, "Lieutenant General, the report I got is not at all like that. ”

Hiroshi Oshima was stunned and thought, "Could it be that the shameless navy is lying about its achievements?" They actually lost badly in the Battle of Panama? ”

"According to the reports I have received, your combined fleet has great shortcomings." Hersman said, "Do you know about the barrel effect? ”

"Barrels?" Oshima Hiroshi shook his head, he hadn't used a wooden barrel for a long time, as a rich and powerful German fan, he used Villeroy & Boch and Hansgrohe's enamel basins for bathing, washing his face, feet and buttocks, and didn't need backward wooden barrels.

"No matter how tall a bucket is, the height it holds depends on the lowest plank in it." Hersman said, "Vice Admiral, do you know where the shortcomings of the Japanese Combined Fleet are? ”

In shameless naval officers! Hiroshi Oshima wanted to answer like this, but in the end he couldn't help but say it.

"In air defense." Hirschman sliced the steak on the plate and said, "The air defense of the Japanese Combined Fleet is weak. According to the reports of our military observers, in the battle for Panama, your 127mm anti-aircraft guns were useless and completely scrapped. The range of the 25mm machine gun is insufficient, it cannot reach the American dive bombers, and the method of feeding bombs with magazines is too inefficient to hit the net of bullet rain and fire at all. In fact, the Japanese Combined Fleet was a fleet without anti-aircraft firepower! ”

This conclusion was drawn by the Eastern Detachment of the Combined European Fleet, which participated in the Battle of Panama.

"Ah......" Hiroshi Oshima was stunned and stunned, and said in his heart: "The navy is so shameless, it has spent so much money, and it doesn't even have a useful anti-aircraft gun." ”

"So in the Panama Campaign, when the U.S. dive bombers broke through the defenses of the Zero fighters, they could easily blow up and sink your Soryu and Wyvern." Hersman's brow furrowed as he spoke.

The Battle of Panama is, in a way, a replica of the Battle of Midway, another time and space! It's just because Ozawa's luck is better that the losses are relatively small. The main reason for the failure of the Panama and Midway battles was actually the same, that is, the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese fleet was too tragic.

If it is replaced by a European combined fleet full of 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns and also has a radio proximity fuse, it will definitely not lose 2 fleet carriers.

"If the Americans find out," Hersman said slowly, "they could even do away with carrier-based dive bombers and carrier-based torpedo bombers, and just let the F4U and F6F hang bombs and attack." ”

"Cancel carrier-based dive bombers and torpedo bombers? Can this really be the case? Hiroshi Oshima didn't know much about the navy, and asked with some uncertainty.

"Why not? Isn't our FW-190T in the Pacific Ocean a dive bomber? Hirschman shrugged and said, "The Americans have a lot more F4U than our FW-190T, and they also have very good hydraulic catapults (currently being installed), and the plane can fly with 500 kg of bombs on it." If the Americans use F4U to attack your aircraft carriers, your Zero will not be able to stop it at all. ”

What Hersman is talking about now is actually his son's opinion, and although Hesman Jr. is not a top fighter pilot (also an ace, but not very good), he is a tactical expert in carrier-based aircraft.

Immediately after witnessing the Battle of Panama, several tactics that the Americans might use to quickly defeat the Japanese Navy were proposed.

One of the most worrying is the "all-war bombardment". Hesman Jr. believes that the Americans are likely to abandon the SBD dive bombers and TBF torpedo bombers, which are not very survivable on the battlefield, and adopt an all-fighter-bomber configuration, with bomb hooks on the F4U and F6F.

Although the anti-ship attack capability of the war bomber is not as good as that of dive bombers and torpedo planes, and the protection is inferior to that of bombers and attack aircraft, it is very suitable for dealing with Japanese surface ships that actually have no air defense capability.

For example, let the American USS Essex go head-to-head with the Japanese USS Akagi. The Essex is equipped with 45 F4U and 45 F6F, while the Akagi is equipped with 24 Zeros, 24 Comets, and 24 Tien Shan. Then the ratio of fighters between the two sides is 90:24.

With 18 F6Fs left behind as direct cover, the Essex was still able to send 72 F4U or F6F to attack the Akagi.

And the anti-aircraft fire of the Akagi is basically unable to fight against dive bombing, and can only rely on 24 Zeros to fight against 72 enemy aircraft! And the Zero aircraft is not the material of a dry interceptor at all, and it is impossible to succeed in one hit when encountering a big guy with rough skin and thick flesh like the F4U, so the 24 Zeros will entangle 24 F4U or F6F at most, and the remaining 48 F4U and F6F Even if only 10% of the bombs hit, the Akagi will not be able to take off and land the aircraft again, and then it is not waiting for death?

Hersman paused and continued in a student's tone: "Therefore, our naval experts believe that the main task of your naval combat ships in the next 12 months is not to fight, but to carry out large-scale refits. All ships must be equipped with 40mm anti-aircraft artillery systems...... It's up to us. ”

It turns out that changing the anti-aircraft gun is more important than changing the plane! Otherwise, even if the gale was completed in 1943 ahead of schedule, it would not be able to stop the F4U with bomb assaults. Historically, in the Battle of Midway, the U.S. Navy, which only had F4F, still sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers with Zeros and a large number of ace pilots?

"In addition to the anti-aircraft guns, your shipboard radar system must also be replaced." Hersman went on to talk about a series of proposals that were also made by the Far East Squadron. "Your radar performance is so poor that you can only spot enemy aircraft at a very close distance. And you don't have a fire control radar yet, and you rely on optical aiming for air and sea shooting, which is very insufficient......"

"Also, the anti-submarine capabilities of the Japanese Navy are also very weak. The sonar is poor, there are no hedgehog shells and anti-submarine rockets, the number of anti-submarine patrol aircraft is insufficient, and the performance is relatively backward and needs to be strengthened urgently. Because sooner or later the American torpedoes will pass, and then your sea lines will be several times more threatened than they are now.

In the end, neither will your aircraft carriers, how can they do without catapults? In the Battle of Panama, there is almost no way for your Zero to land on the ship to refuel and ammunition, so it will not be able to cope with high-intensity confrontation, and it must be retrofitted. These are the top priorities. ”

"In addition, what do you want 50,000 tons of armor steel for combat vehicles? You're still trying to form an armored division? What do you want the armored division for? To go to war with the Soviets? ”

Mention of Japanese purchases (I wonder if there is a means of payment?) As for the armor steel of the tank, Hersman is not very angry. Of course, he knows the purpose of the Japanese man-made tanks, these Japanese devils are about to be in great trouble, and they don't forget the little territory in the north! In one go, 50,000 tons of armor steel for combat vehicles will be purchased, how many tanks are being built? Do they think the oil supply is not tight enough?

When Hiroshi Oshima heard Hersman's question, he actually nodded and said, "Your Excellency the Imperial Marshal, our country needs armored divisions to fight against the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union is the common mortal enemy of our two countries!" ”

Hersman snorted, looked at Hiroshi Oshima and said, "The Soviet Union is not our mortal enemy, nor is it your enemy. For both of our countries, there is only one truly dangerous enemy, and that is the United States!

If you agree with this, then we will consider passing a European version of Lend-Lease to provide you with supplies. But what kind of supplies to provide, and how you use them, must be decided by our military advisory team. And every one of your next campaign-level military operations, our people will be involved. Only in this way can we ensure that both sides work together to defeat the great enemy of the United States.

Finally, I would like to give you a word of advice: stop trying to go to war with the Soviet Union. Because your national power simply cannot afford a new war...... USSR, let's just deal with it alone. You should do your best to resist the American attack in the Pacific! ”

Before the Panama campaign, the German high command hoped that Japan would start some conflict with the Soviet Union and cut off the Soviet Union's lifeline in the North Pacific.

But now, the offensive and defensive positions in the Pacific are shifted, and the Japanese Navy has exposed a lot of problems. If Japan does not concentrate all its forces on the Pacific Ocean and at the same time refit and upgrade its naval ships, it will probably be defeated by the United States in 44. Therefore, Japan no longer has the strength to challenge the Soviet Union and solve the so-called Manchurian problem. (To be continued.) )