Chapter 354: Japan begins to innovate its current weapons and equipment

"As for this issue, please rest assured, I have already thought about it, Your Excellency the Prime Minister can send one more submarine to my Qingdao dock to load supplies! After all, it is not very safe for surface ships to appear in the waters of our country! Joanbang thought for a moment and replied that if Hitler hadn't asked the question, he would have really planned to have the aircraft produce oil and rubber locally in Germany.

But now that Mustache asked, he definitely couldn't tell him that he had a long-distance transport plane that could cross the Eurasian continent, so he had to settle for the next best thing and put the responsibility and risk of transportation on Mustache's submarine convoy.

"So? The transportation route is too far away, and the risk is a little high, but it doesn't matter, at present, our German submarine forces have not yet dared to intercept it! Hitler said in a big tone.

Although Qiao Anbang is a little unhappy that the mustache is so arrogant and arrogant in front of him, he is really helpless, and at present, the mustache really has this, whether it is the British Navy or the American Navy, or the Chinese army that has blockaded China for nearly 20,000 kilometers and the coastline, they dare not and do not want to find the bad luck of the German Navy.

Although both sides are driven by interests and use each other, because the navy has always had a strong desire to go south (that is, to attack the Pacific Ocean and compete with Britain, the United States, France, and other countries for the affiliated islands in Southeast Asia and the Pacific waters), it will not offend Germany, which is the only country that may ally with Britain, the United States, France, and other European and American countries in the future.

Moreover, even if the above-mentioned countries wanted to embarrass Hitler's transport submarine force, they would have to be able to discover it, because the German U-boats were the most advanced in the world at this time.

In fact, until the outbreak of World War II, the advanced U-boats of the German army also made the British Navy helpless and powerless, and was repeatedly attacked by the wolf pack tactics of the German submarine forces, and suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, Hitler used a submarine to transport the strategic materials sent to him by Joanbang, although there was a surprise, but there was no danger.

"General Qiao, may I ask, where did the advanced tank design drawings you gave us come from? What was the model of that tank," Hitler asked again.

"Oh, that tank, that is the first tank developed by our army's military personnel, called the Kirin 27 tank! Because it is now the twenty-seventh year of our Republic of China! Joan Bangtian shamelessly fooled Hitler.

Germany began to develop the Leopard tank in 1941, that is, three years later, and was officially named the Leopard tank by Hitler in 1944, so now Qiao Anbang can say that the Leopard tank is the latest tank developed by China.

Sure enough, the mustache was convinced after hearing this, and was also very grateful to Qiao Anbang for generously sending the latest advanced tank they developed to Germany, in view of this, the mustache looked up and said to Qiao Anbang after a moment of silence: "General Qiao, after my careful consideration, I have decided to officially cooperate with your ministry, but can the general now replace the entire national political axe?" ”

"Replace it in three years!" Qiao Anbang said confidently.

"Okay, I like bold people, we will sign a cooperation agreement tomorrow, and I have decided to send fifteen U-boats to assist your troops in the form of mercenaries, and I can train your own submarine sailors for you!" Hitler stood up with great joy.

"Thank you, Your Excellency, happy cooperation!" Joan Bang also got up and stretched out his right hand to Hitler.

"Happy working together!" The mustache also rarely showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, and shook hands with Qiao Anbang, probably because he usually didn't smile, so he smiled so ugly.

At this moment, the hands of the two future world giants are tightly clasped together, Qiao Anbang is for the rise of the Chinese nation, and the mustache is also for their Germanic nation, so in their respective nations, both of them are national heroes, but they are kings and losers.

History has always been based on success or failure of heroes, because it is written by the victors, after all, as long as there is no war without bloodshed and immortality, Mao Weiren is right, how can there be immortals in war? Regime comes out of the barrel of a gun.

As a traveler, Qiao Anbang certainly knew that the reason why China needed to import a large amount of oil in later generations was because Siberia, which originally belonged to China, and the entire Far East was plundered by the Russians, and according to incomplete statistics, most of the oil exported by the Russians in later generations came from Siberia.

There is also Sakhalin Island, which is also rich in oil, and at the same time, it is also an excellent natural outlet to the sea, which was originally the natural outlet of China in the northeast.

It has been the territory of China since ancient times, but now it has also fallen into the hands of the Russians and themselves, and at the same time, the despicable and shameless Russians have also used force to support foreign countries, so that the inherent territory of the Chinese nation has been reduced by more than one million square kilometers.

Qiao Anbang will regain everything for the future generations of the Chinese nation in his lifetime, because these inherent territories will provide indispensable strategic and industrial resources for the rise and sustainable development of the Chinese nation in the future.

Therefore, he decided to visit Europe in his busy schedule to seek cooperation with Germany, because at this time, looking at the world, only Germany can truly cooperate with China, because the two sides have no conflict of interest, but have many common interests.

The next day, Qiao Anbang officially signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with the German political axe headed by Hitler in the conference hall of the Chancellery in Berlin, and this agreement includes comprehensive cooperation between the two sides in the military, industry, education, and other fields, and mutual help.

After signing the agreement with the mustache, Jo Anbang took the three beauties to continue his European journey, and the next stop was naturally the British Empire on the other side of the ocean, and the British naval strength was second to none in the world at this time.

Therefore, if the Tiger Army wants to develop the navy, Qiao Anbang must go to England, even if he cannot cooperate with Britain and Germany, Qiao Anbang must also hire some retired sailors and sailors from Britain to go back to his naval recruits as instructors.

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Just as Qiao Anbang set out for the British Empire, the elite of the 3rd Theater of Operations suffered heavy losses in the attack on Shanghai, and Chairman Chiang was forced to stop the military operation to recover Shanghai.

The Tiger Army is also actively recruiting and reorganizing, and as for the North China Army, since it withdrew from the Guannei, it is also in urgent need of recuperation, so the Chinese battlefield has taken a break for a while.

However, at the same time, Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is undergoing a pivotal discussion meeting.

The content of the meeting was proposed by Ishihara Wanji, who had just been promoted to the new prime minister, that is, to immediately follow the example of China's Tiger Army and reform the army's current weapons and equipment.

Naturally, Ishihara's move was strongly opposed by the admirals of the first series of naval forces, led by the Minister of the Navy, Mitsumasa Yonechi, because once the active equipment of the Imperial Army was renovated, it would mean that the allocation of strategic resources such as steel, which was not abundant in the Empire, would be tilted towards the Army.

However, although Mitsumasa Yonechi and other naval generals opposed it, the army generals led by Seishiro Itagaki were extremely in favor, and what made Mitsumasa Yonechi and others even more unexpected was that Hideki Tojo, the commander of the Kwantung Army, who had always been at odds with Ishihara, actually sided with Seishiro Itagaki and other army generals for the first time and agreed to vigorously innovate the army's current weapons and equipment.

The reason for this was that Hideki Tojo had seen the power of the advanced weapons of the Chinese Tiger Army, and believed that it was obviously impossible to compete with them with the army's active weapons and equipment, so in order to keep Manchukuo and Korea, it was necessary to renovate and replace the weapons and equipment of the army.

Seeing that Hideki Tojo, who had always disagreed with him, had made a rare correct decision this time, Ishihara was both relieved and excited, and immediately decided on the development policy of renovating and replacing the army's weapons and equipment in service with a large number of people.

Because the Army's main weapon in service, the Type 38 rifle, was too slow, Ishihara, who was more discerning, decided to introduce the Garand semi-automatic rifle from the United States for imitation, and at the same time sent diplomats to Germany, one of the Axis powers, to discuss the purchase of a production line for the MG34 general-purpose machine gun.

However, what Ishihara didn't know was that no matter how he innovated his weapons and equipment, it was impossible for the weapons and equipment of this army to catch up with the development pace of the Tiger Army, and by the time their semi-automatic rifles were put into service, Qiao Anbang's armored infantry divisions of the Tiger Army should have been fully equipped with STG44 fully automatic assault rifles.

Inside the newly established Ishihara Cabinet Prime Minister's Office.

Ishihara Wanji, Itagaki Seishiro, and other army generals are gathering to celebrate the complete victory of today's meeting.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Ishihara Wan'er took Itagaki Seishiro's hand with a sense of wine and said: "Itagaki-kun, with the perfect industrial base and leading scientific and technological level of our empire, as long as our army catches up with the Chinese people in terms of weapons and equipment, we will definitely be able to win the war against China again, and wipe out the Tiger Ben Army and all the Chinese resistance army, and then the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle will be just around the corner!" ”

"Ishihara-kun, you're right, at the same time, I will also train a new army in the country as soon as possible, so as to restore the strength of the Imperial Army as soon as possible!" Seishiro Itagaki is also drunk and hazy.

In the final analysis, there are still abundant sources of soldiers, and there are nearly 2 million reservists with experience in enlistment, and these 200 are all soldiers of appropriate age who are in line with the requirements of the army's conscription, and with a little training, they can quickly form up combat effectiveness and then go into battle on the battlefield.

The only thing that is lacking is the country's foreign exchange reserves, and after the war against China in the past two years, the national and financial resources of the country have been consumed too much, so it must go through a period of recuperation before it can recover.

(To be continued)