"Panama Canal ......" Hideki Tojo frowned slightly when he heard Yamamoto Isoroku mention the Panama Canal, "If you attack with an aircraft carrier, it will be very risky, right?" ”

The plan to attack the Panama Canal has been in place for a long time, and the main role of the I-400 submarine, which is currently being intensified, and the "17 Special Attack Aircraft" (Qinglan), which is being secretly developed, are to attack the Panama Canal. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the original plan, four IL-400 submarines (IL-400, IL-401, IL-402 and IL-403) will be built, and each IL-400 can carry three "17-test special attack aircraft". When four I-400 ships are dispatched at the same time, a maximum of 12 "17-test special attack aircraft" can be dispatched.

According to the design requirements, each "seventeen test special attack aircraft" can carry an 800-kilogram bomb or torpedo and fly up to 1500 kilometers.

The open-minded staff officers of the Japanese Navy envisaged that when necessary, such seaplanes could throw away their pontoons and adopt a "one-way special attack" mode with no return. In this way, four I-400 submarines were able to launch 12 torpedo-carrying attack aircraft in the Pacific Ocean, 1,000 kilometers from the Panama Canal.

These 12 planes will take off at night and use ultra-low altitude to avoid detection by US radar. Fly to the Panama Canal in the early hours of the morning when it is just dark, and then attack the 8 steel gates on the Pacific side of the canal with 12 torpedoes (two waterways, each with 4 gates), and try to destroy them all!

According to the Japanese Navy's own assessment, once all eight gates on one side of the canal were destroyed, it would take the Americans at least six months to repair them. Considering that Germany now controls most of the sea power in the Atlantic, the "dumpling ships" built on the east coast of the United States cannot bypass South America to reach the Pacific Ocean.

So once the 8 floodgates were blown up, Japan would have gained 6 precious months.

But now the situation is changing very quickly, the British mainland is about to end, the British island has been landed, how many days can it be bounced? This is great news for Germany, but not for Japan!

Because as soon as Britain was finished, the US war policy of "Europe first" actually went bankrupt. Then most of the war materials produced by the United States, an industrial tyrant, will be used in the Pacific theater...... That's 100 million tons of steel (that's claimed, but it's actually only 80 million tons) and 200 million tons of oil!

Not to mention the navy, which is already timid, even the army deer have a feeling of horror when they hear that Britain is about to finish.

So before Tojo and Yamamoto went to Cairo to attend the Axis summit, Ito, the deputy chief of the Naval Command Department, devised a plan to raid the Panama Canal to block the massive entry of American aircraft carriers into the Pacific Ocean.

Since the time of the raid on the Panama Canal was brought forward to the first half of 1943, neither the I-400 submarine nor the "Seventeen Special Attack Aircraft" could be counted on.

The Japanese Combined Fleet must dispatch valuable aircraft carriers for an adventure!

If the venture succeeded, the United States would not have wanted to take any initiative in the Pacific in 1943. Japan, on the other hand, could use the precious 1943 year to strengthen the defense of the Hawaiian Islands and complete the southward operation at the same time!

That's right, it's south!

Despite Germany's opposition, Japan was determined to carry out its plan to move south. Even if Australia is not occupied, New Zealand must be occupied in order to cut off the route between the United States and Australia.

In this way, the United States will not be able to launch a counteroffensive from Australia, and the Hawaiian Islands will become the "gateway to the country" for Japan.

In addition, the Japanese military also hoped to complete the development and production of two "Pacific Decisive Aircraft" in 1943, on which they had high hopes - the Army's Ki84 (Hurricane) fighter and the Navy's P1Y (Galaxy) bomber by 1943.

Although they are both shore-based aircraft, they are extremely superior in performance (which the Japanese consider superior).

According to the design indicators, the Ki84 (Hurricane) will be equipped with an 18-cylinder air-cooled engine with a maximum take-off power of 2,000 horsepower, a maximum level flight speed of 624 km/h (6,100 meters altitude), an extreme range of up to 2,500 kilometers, and relatively powerful firepower, with 20mm guns and 2 12.7mm machine guns, and 2 250kg bombs.

According to the opinion of the Japanese army deer, the comprehensive performance of this KI84 fighter has surpassed the German FW-190 series, and it can fully compete with the American P51 and P47 series aircraft.

The Japanese Navy's P1Y is also a twin-engine medium bomber with excellent performance, also equipped with two 18-cylinder air-cooled engines, with a maximum speed of 546 km/h and a cruising range of 5,370 km! It is possible to hang an 800-kilogram aerial torpedo or a 1000-kilogram aerial bomb, and it is also possible to carry out dive dropping.

In addition, this P1Y twin-engine bomber also has certain air combat performance, and is equipped with air combat flaps, which makes it capable of fighting enemy fighters. In this way, it does not need the cover of fighters and can penetrate the American aircraft carrier group alone.

However, whether it is the capture of New Zealand, the strengthening of Hawaii, or the completion of the development of the two "decisive battle models", it will take precious time.

And the only way to buy time for Japan at the moment seems to be to use aircraft carriers to raid Panama.

"It's risky," Yamamoto nodded, "but it's imperative." According to intelligence, there are now as many as 5 aircraft carriers used by the United States for Atlantic transportation, and they are all fleet aircraft carriers with fast speed! At the same time, there are at least 5 fleet aircraft carriers for the Pacific theater. If the five aircraft carriers currently operating in the Atlantic are transferred to the Pacific Ocean, then the US Pacific Fleet will have an aircraft carrier force to compete with the Combined Fleet! ”

It turned out that there was no need to wait until the end of the year, and now the United States has 10 fleet aircraft carriers (including light fleet carriers). If it is by the end of the year, the number of aircraft carriers in the American fleet will definitely be more than 20. When the time comes, they will all rush into the Pacific Ocean, and the Japanese Combined Fleet will not be able to carry it even if it has three heads and six arms.

"But," said Yamamoto, "if the Combined European Fleet can cooperate with us in launching an offensive in the Caribbean to attract American forces, then the plan to raid the Panama Canal is very certain to succeed." ”

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While Tojo and Yamamoto were discussing how to convince the Germans to cooperate with their adventurous plan to raid the Panama Canal, Hitler and Hersmann had already arrived in Cairo. At the invitation of Mussolini, the leader of the Roman Empire, who had arrived earlier, he lived in the majestic Saladin Castle.

Egypt is now part of the so-called Roman Empire, but the Egyptian king Farouk I, who loved beauty and stealing, still has the throne, but has become a vassal of the Roman Emperor - a relationship that is said to be in accordance with the laws of the Roman Empire!

According to Mussolini, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the legal system of Rome was transferred to the Eastern Roman Empire, with Constantinople as its capital. Egypt was part of the Eastern Roman Empire, which was later replaced by the Ottoman Empire, which in turn claimed to inherit Rome and could therefore be seen as a continuation of the Roman Empire. And now Italy has re-established Rome, of course, it can inherit the legal system of the Ottoman Empire and become the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Egypt - Muhammad, who now rules Egypt. Muhammad, the founding monarch of the Ali dynasty. Ali was once a vassal of "Ottoman Rome", and now that the legal system of "Ottoman Rome" has been transferred to "Italian Rome", then "Italian Rome" should be the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Egypt......

Although this set of statements is very strange, but after all, history is written casually by the victors, and Mussolini is at the head of this time and space, and it seems that he is going to be the victor, so he can write it as he wants, and neither Hitler nor Hersmann wants to ask.

But now there was a bit of a disagreement between Germany and Italy over the boundaries of the new Roman Empire – in Greece. Although Greece had long been favored by Mussolini and had reached an agreement with Germany that it should become part of the new Roman Empire.

However, the Italian invasion of Greece failed, and the Germans, under the command of Halder, captured most of Greece (except Crete). Then later in Wilhelm II's daughter Victoria. Under the mediation of Louis, King Paul I of Germany and Greece (he was Victoria. Louis's son-in-law) reached an agreement for Germany to protect Greece and support Paul I to remain king.

At the same time, the Greek people happily joined the European Community and the Euromark Area, and began to integrate economically with Germany.

But Mussolini did not agree. How did Greece, which was said to be the leader of Italy, change its hexagram? But if you don't agree, Mussolini won't be stupid enough to turn against Germany because of a small Greece. And Hitler, of course, did not want to quarrel with Italy for the sake of Greece, after all, the European Combined Fleet now depends on Italy to join.

Therefore, Germany and Italy began to quarrel over the Greek question from the beginning of 1942, and I don't know how, and they actually pulled Yugoslavia and Croatia-Hungary into it - it turned out that Mussolini said that he could give up his claim to Greece, but he would get a Greater Albania as compensation, and this Greater Albania would include part of the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As a result, not only the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was involved, but even the Kingdom of Croatia-Hungary, the head of the German-supported Balkan Peninsula, joined in the bargain, further complicating the situation. (To be continued.) )