At noon on September 25, 1942, the civilians of Tokyo were disturbed by a humming sound from the sky. Someone opened the window and looked into the sky, only to see a dense row of black dots flying from the west. The few people who were looking at the telescope took out their binoculars and looked at them, and they saw that the black dots were all large airplanes with four engines.

This is the four-engine heavy bomber HE177 transferred by the German side to the Soviet Union after the Beidaihe Conference.

As early as half a year before the Beidaihe Conference, a series of military cooperation agreements were signed between Germany and Japan, which also included an agreement to sell HE177 heavy bombers to Japan.

However, the stingy Japanese at that time could not come up with much real money, and only bought two prototypes from Germany for testing.

After the Battle of Guam, the Japanese Navy annihilated the U.S. Pacific Fleet and won a great victory in the Philippine Campaign. Looking at Pearl Harbor, which was run like a hedgehog by the Americans, and the Japanese lacked the heavy firepower to destroy the fortress, they realized the importance of heavy bombers and asked the Germans for the HE177 again.

The Germans delivered the planes very quickly. On 1 September, the Japanese side proposed to buy it, but the German side agreed without saying a word. As for the price, the German side only asked for a "conscience price". In order to enable the Japanese to obtain these planes earlier, the German side, after consulting with the Soviet Union, carried out an air transfer through the Soviet Union, traveled half the world, and finally delivered the first batch of 20 HE177s to the Japanese on September 25.

HE177 is also one of the military technologies that the Soviets asked the Germans to import, and the prototype has been sold to the Soviet Union. The planes first erased the German logo at the airport, and then took off from Germany and sent them to the Soviet border airfield, and then the Soviet pilots took over to help carry out the "transfer." Fly to the Far East, and then fly back to Japan at the Far East airfield where Japanese pilots take over. The reason for this trouble is that it is impossible for any country to allow pilots from other countries to fly lightly through its own airspace, and this is also due to the consideration of homeland security.

The first batch of twenty HE177s arrived in Japan on the day the Combined Fleet attacked the Hawaiian Islands. In the coming month, 40 HE177s will be delivered to Japan.

With regard to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese side had the idea of referring to the means used by Germany in attacking the fortress of Gibraltar.

After the European War in 1940. At that time, the HE177 was still very imperfect and was used as a front-line aircraft, dropping hundreds of huge bombs over Gibraltar, leaving a deep impression on the world. After the armistice in Europe, the British were forced to abandon the fortress of Gibraltar and return it to Spain. After the incident, the Japanese sent military personnel to "visit" Gibraltar, where they saw hundreds of huge tons "smashed" by the "Little Herax" bombs, and also saw the tragic state of the remains of the fortress that was directly hit by the "Little Herax" after the explosion.

When Hawaii began, looking at Oahu, which was pierced like a hedgehog, the stingy Japanese finally remembered the giant crater in Gibraltar.

After two years of refinement. The current HE177 four-shot bombardment is now a mature product, and the specially built G model, which can carry a "big Herax" weighing more than ten tons for the fortress, is a sharp weapon against the thorny iron turtle of Pearl Harbor.

As long as you have patience and can afford to burn money, this practice of smashing a bowl of beans on the tip of a needle can always slowly smash open the shell of the turtle at Pearl Harbor.

As an "addition" to the deal, Germany provided the Japanese with free drawings for the manufacture of the Big Herax bomb and a product sample. Due to the time constraints. Japan, which is relatively backward in industry, has not yet had time to manufacture the "Great Herax", and the Germans have generously stated it. Able to supply Japan with an unlimited supply of a thousand large Herax shells. The first batch of 500 "Big Herax" bombs, which were not filled with gunpowder, were already on their way from Germany to Japan.

Before launching the Hawaiian Campaign, Li Huamei had already determined the goal of the battle with the Japanese military department: not to quickly take Pearl Harbor, but to first seize the surrounding islands, and then turn the pearls into bait, on the one hand, to take the opportunity to annihilate the US troops who came to help. On the other hand. The heavy bombers supplied by the Germans, little by little, grinded his hard shells.

The actual general assault on Oahu would be months away, and now the Japanese military could afford to wait for them to familiarize themselves with the newly acquired aircraft.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War. The Japanese side received much more "assistance" from the three countries of China, the Soviet Union and Germany. An arms agreement signed between Germany and Japan also included the sale of a batch of No. 3 tanks to Japan, the supply of 50,000 G32 semi-automatic rifles of 6.5 mm caliber, and even a small number of No. 4 Leopard tanks and their variants. In addition to this, the Germans provided the Japanese side with a large number of military advisers.

The battle for Hawaii that was about to break out was of great reference significance to Germany, because it could provide Germany with valuable experience in "landing warfare," and the appearance of a large number of new German weapons on the battlefield was also an excellent training ground.

It's just that what the Japanese don't know is that in the future, the G32 semi-automatic rifles sold to Japan under the German label and using 6.5mm bullets are not produced by German factories at all, but out-and-out Chinese products.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the excessive number of German weapons in China, the military initially positioned the general caliber of the army at 7.92 mm. However, the 7.92 mm caliber rifle aimed at the European body shape is not very suitable for the figure of the Oriental, and Lin Han, who comes from the rear style, also knows that the miniaturization of the rifle caliber is also a historical necessity. After the end of the European War in 1940, when the new Chinese side began to copy the G32 semi-automatic rifle imported from Germany, the caliber was positioned at 6.5 mm.

Although Germany got an order for G32 rifles, Germany's labor costs were much higher than China's, and the official did not want to open another production line for these 30,000 rifles of different calibers, so he became a second sakazi. The order was handed over to the Chinese to do.

Half a year later, the Chinese side completed the production task, and this batch of Chinese-made, but German-labeled "OEM" G32 semi-automatic guns, was secretly loaded in Shanghai one night and sent to Japan with the "logo of German origin". (To be continued......)

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