"You don't fly missiles...... Rudolph looked at Minoru Genda in confusion, "Then why is your name on the list of students?" ”

"I'm here to learn how to fly jets. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Minoru Genda didn't hide his intentions, because he still needed the help of an old friend like Rudolph.

"Jet aircraft represent the trend of aviation development," Genda said, puffing on his cigarette, "We in Japan are also working hard in this regard!" Especially in the Pacific theater, the Americans have absolute numerical superiority, and we, Japan, can only pursue qualitative superiority. In the area of piston aircraft, it is difficult for us to achieve an overwhelming advantage over the United States in terms of quality. Therefore, we have to find another way to focus on the development of jet aircraft. ”

Rudolph nodded, noncommittal. He is very aware of Japan's current predicament, which is now an all-round weakness, and if it wants to reverse the decline, it must make surprising and dangerous moves. Although the "Silver Reaper" is strange and dangerous, the price is too high.

In order to help Japan train 180 pilots of the "Silver Reaper", the Wehrmacht had to come up with at least 80,000 tons of valuable aviation kerosene! It even delayed the mass installation of jet aircraft in Germany itself...... Therefore, this kind of help can only be done once, and there will be no next time.

If 180 "Silver Reaper" still cannot repel the American forces - Rudolph and Novotny are very skeptical about the effectiveness of the "Silver Reaper" - then what will Japan rely on to fight it?

However, the development of jet aircraft, which is a "high-priced" and "high-consumption" aircraft, is obviously not in line with Japan's national conditions, and this kind of weapon is not at all something that Japan can afford at present.

But as a German militarist who genuinely loved Japan, Rudolph really couldn't think of any good way to save Japan.

"I understand," he could only say to Minoru Genda in the end, "Genda-kun, I won't let you pass the driving test of the 'Silver Reaper'...... In fact, it is very difficult to drive the Silver Reaper into a dive attack, because the dive is so fast, over 900 km, and it has to be a success. ”

"Thank you so much." Minoru Genda smiled and nodded, the purpose of his kamikaze enrollment was not all to learn to fly jets, but also to take the lead...... After all, flying a missile to hit a U.S. ship is a fatal mission, and if the officers are unwilling to take the lead, it is almost impossible to meet the recruitment target in a short period of time.

But he didn't come to Rudolph to "cheat" on himself - it was difficult to score 100 points on the exam, and it was not easy to fail?

"Besides," Genda paused, then smiled embarrassedly, "There are some people who are not suitable to pass the assessment. ”

Passing the assessment is a dead end, and failing to pass the assessment can continue to contribute to the cause of militarism...... Therefore, whether you can pass the assessment or not, you must consider the value of the students!

However, some Japanese militarists are not flexible in their brains, and they do not know that sometimes they have to score zero points in the test for the cause of militarism. So Minoru Genda can only ask Rudolph, an old friend, to help cheat.

"I understand, I understand." Rudolph had an understanding expression on his face, "Some people are essential and cannot be sacrificed casually. ”

"Yes!" Genda nodded in agreement, "Those of us who survive have to bear greater responsibilities, and this is also a last resort." ”

"Yes, yes." Rudolph said, "Then Genda-kun will make a list, and I will promise to make them fail the exam when the time comes...... I'm the vice-principal, and I can handle this. ”

Maybe Rudolph has been in Japan for a long time, and he is not as dead-eyed as the ordinary German Junker officer, and he has even learned to help people cheat - helping people to fail is also cheating!

"One more thing to please." Minoru Genda first handed Rudolph a list that had been drawn up in advance - it was all the names of naval officers, but there were no names of army red deer, and the army was shameful, and it was not okay to cheat, and it was not okay to be cheated. Then he added: "We hope to be able to complete all the training subjects by Christmas 1943." ”

"Christmas 1943?" Rudolph was taken aback, "There is still more than a month...... Time is too tight, right? ”

Minoru Genda nodded with a bitter face: "There is no time...... Time is not on our side. Now the Americans have destroyed our bases on the islands of Amaknak and Unarasca, and have also laid mines outside the port of Holland. ”

Because the Japanese Navy did not dare and was unable to cope with the battle (there was not enough fuel, and there were not enough pilots, it could not fight a decisive battle at all, so it could only send some submarines to sneak attack, but it did not achieve any results, but 3 submarines lost contact), so Japan's most important stronghold in the North Pacific has been paralyzed, and now the Japanese have no way to monitor the North Pacific shipping lanes.

U.S. submarines and carrier-busting carriers can now safely advance to waters south of Attu Island, part of the Aleutian Islands, 1,700 nautical miles from Tokyo. The threat to the western Pacific and the islands of the South Sea has increased considerably.

So Isoroku Yamamoto and Shusei Nagano have already made a decision to launch a biochemical attack on the United States on Christmas Day 1943!

Until then, all Me264s and Silver Reaper missiles, as well as pilots trained in Germany, had to return to Japan.

This was to prevent Germany from seizing the Me264 and the Silver Reaper missile on the pretext that Japan had launched germ warfare against humanity -- and now Germany, believing that victory was in sight, had begun to pretend to be a victor, saying that it was fighting a knightly war and that it was impossible to support Japan's bacteriological warfare. And germs can be transmitted, who knows if they will reach Germany itself?

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"Nagano-kun, the Germans have agreed to complete all missile pilot training subjects by Christmas, and another 42 Me264s and 198 Silver Reaper will arrive in Japan before Christmas."

Hearing Yamamoto Fifty-six's report, Nagano Shusei, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Looks like Christmas is ready to attack." Nagano said with a solemn face.

December 25, 1943 is the time of the biochemical attack! Forty-two Me264 long-range bombers will carry 4,200 ceramic germ bombs from Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands to attack Southern California, the southern part of the U.S. California Valley, where the warm winter weather is conducive to germ warfare.

Because Oahu is nearly 4,000 kilometers from the California Valley, it has reached the limit of the Me264 range. Therefore, the 42 aircraft participating in the attack will not form a formation (it is more fuel-intensive to form a team), and they will be as light as possible.

The detachable self-defense weapons and armor on the plane will be removed, and the number of crew members will be reduced from 12 to 4 (captain, co-pilot, bombardier, navigator/telegraph operator), which is no exaggeration to say that this is a complete "suicide mission".

In order to improve the penetration rate of these 42 Me264 aircraft, Vice Admiral Tsukahara 243, chief of the Japanese Naval Aviation Headquarters, who formulated the air attack plan, set the time for the planes to take off at 7 o'clock to 8 o'clock on Christmas Eve Western Time (there are 42 planes to fly). The distance of 4,000 kilometers takes about 10 hours, so the time to penetrate the defense is about 5-6 o'clock in the morning the next day.

At this time, the sky on the west coast of the United States was very dark, which was not conducive to fighter interception, but the 42 planes only had to make a few turns in the sky to have enough visibility to help them find small and medium-sized towns in the California Valley -- if the situation was more urgent, they would not even have to find the town, they could just drop ceramic bacteriological bombs over fields or rivers in the southern part of the California Valley......

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"Mr. President, Ambassador Kennedy has sent a telegram from Switzerland saying that Marquis Ziano, Foreign Minister of the New Roman Empire, has expressed his willingness to facilitate peace talks between the United States and Japan."

While the Japanese were on the verge of a biochemical attack, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the news that Japan wanted peace talks.

"Marquis of Ciano?" Roosevelt looked at Secretary of State Cordell. Hull, very surprised, "What's going on?" Aren't we talking to the Japanese? ”

The secret peace talks between the United States and Japan were brokered by the Soviet Union, and the United States and Japanese embassies in Cheryabinsk (the wartime capital of the Soviet Union) are currently in charge of the matter.

However, the asking price of the two sides was too different, so the negotiations were very slow.

The Americans demanded that Japan give up all the land they had seized after Pearl Harbor, but that they could keep the French Indochina and Dutch East Indies that had been seized before Pearl Harbor, and that they should apologize to the United States and compensate for the damages.

The Japanese, on the other hand, refused to cede any of the land they had seized.

"Are the Japanese willing to accept our offer?" President Roosevelt asked.

"The Marquis of Ciano did not say," Cordell. Hull replied, "Kennedy's telegram says that Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi and the new ambassador to Rome, Yosuke Matsuoka, want to meet with him...... I guess there might be some breakthrough conditions, right? Compared to those Japanese, I can't stand it. ”

Roosevelt nodded and said, "I'll send Hopkins to meet the Japanese...... The original conditions could not be compromised, and Japan had to promise not to wage a new war on the East Asian continent and the Far East after the armistice. In addition, Singapore, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines must be handed over to us immediately. Cordell, what do you think? ”

"I think that's acceptable," Cordell. Hull shrugged, "At least millions of American deaths and injuries have been averted." And in the future, we will have the opportunity to clean up the Japanese...... As long as at least half of the Soviet Union can be kept, and the Germans are held back west of Malacca. ”