Jiang Yunzhi refused, the German paratroopers were indeed elite, but the two countries implemented different standards in the armament of the paratroopers, and in such an operation, adding too many combat units from different countries would add more trouble to the already stressful air force transport troops.

As for the use of the Japanese paratrooper corps, there is no problem in this regard at all. After Japan's surrender, when the Toei Corps was organized, it was transferred separately from the Toei Governor's Office, and the paratrooper establishment was restored and expanded into one corps, that is, three airborne corps.

In terms of armament, it is to the same standard as the Imperial Standing Thirteen Legions. Of course, there is still a certain gap compared with the Guards Airborne Army, but in terms of logistics and supply specifications, it is the same as the Imperial Army.

Not only the Japanese army, but also the entire Great China Alliance, whether it is economic or military, whether it is a coalition state or a colonial area, many aspects implement the same set of standards, it seems that His Majesty also invented a word, which is called military and economic community.

In another sense, the mustache's active sending of troops to Africa is nothing more than seeing the dawn of a victorious end to the war in Africa and wanting to increase Germany's military presence in Africa.

It cannot be denied that although Germany has concentrated its military and financial resources on the Eastern Front in Europe, it has not made no contribution to the African theater, and even if it ignores Rommel's German-Italian Afrika Korps, which is all armed with Chinese weapons, it cannot erase the exploits of the German sea wolves commanded by Dönitz.

When Truman took over as president, he sadly discovered that even if all the shipyards on the East Coast of the United States were to open up their production capacity, the tonnage of transport ships built could not keep up with the total number of ships destroyed by Allied submarines in the Atlantic. This situation became even more serious after the South African Front of the Grand Alliance commanded by Wang Yizhe abandoned the tactics of the Grand Army to seize land and instead marched directly to the Congo and Cameroon, directly into Niger, captured the Niger River Valley, and captured Port Harcourt at the hands of the French colonial army.

The Dongfeng-class AIP submarines of the Royal Navy of Dahan are too large to use the ocean current to smuggle in like the German U submarines. Other types of submarines, such as the Zephyr-class, which do not have an AIP system, cannot cope with the increasing number of escort ships in the United States. In the last month, more than 40 German U submarines were sunk by British and American escort ships.

The participation of a large number of escort aircraft carriers, as well as the increase in the anti-submarine forces in the air, made it more and more difficult to attack U submarines. The application of advanced sonar, magnetic submarine detectors, and hedgehog bombs, especially the appearance of the American P-3 "Orion" anti-submarine patrol aircraft, has made the U submarine activity space that cannot dive for a long time more than smaller.

Relying on the P-3 "Orion" anti-submarine patrol aircraft designed and developed on the basis of the old turboprop passenger plane "Irektra," the Allied powers extended the scope of air patrol from Greenland in the north to Freetown in the south, and could be covered by long-range bombers within 800 nautical miles of all bases in the Atlantic.

After the appearance of the P-3A "Orion", together with the S-2 "Seeker" patrol aircraft equipped with a large number of escort aircraft carriers, they jointly undertook the anti-submarine escort mission on the Atlantic route.

In the first month of Orion's war, Dönitz had to withdraw the German sea wolves operating in the Atlantic Ocean and move them to the southwest sea area of the Azores. Because in this month, the ratio of losses of German submarines to British and American merchant ships was 41 to 34, and the German naval commander lost one-third of his underwater forces in almost a few dozen days.

The German Führer had to send another telegram to the Han Emperor, inviting the Han Royal Navy to join the Atlantic raid and strongly demanding that the Han transfer its AIP submarine technology.

Zhong Yi's reply to him was: Please hold on to Germany, which has a glorious tradition, for a while longer, and the submarines of the Royal Navy have already departed.

This telegram was a bit of a slap in the face, but it made the mustache speechless!

What is a glorious tradition? During World War I, the High Seas Fleet sank by itself, and in World War II, it was blocked by Britain in the Baltic Sea and couldn't get out at all, and the only Bismarck that broke out and wandered around was sunk! You say that being brave and good at fighting is better than "glorious tradition", right?

However, the AIP submarine technology is currently unique to Han alone, and Germany has long begun to develop such systems, but it has been stuck in technical difficulties such as underwater combustion and gas recirculation, and it has not been put into production for a long time.

Dönitz now calls the Führer's office almost every day to inquire about the introduction of AIP submarine technology. The arrogant mustache had no choice but to pinch his nose and endure the "glorious tradition" of the Han Emperor, who was half mocking and half teasing!

However, the Han Emperor did not break his promise, and the ship attack battle in the Atlantic Ocean was of great significance to the duel of millions of troops on the African battlefield. After the Mediterranean route was largely controlled by the Allies, and after the loss of a series of colonies in Africa, American material aid was equivalent to a life sustaining pill for Britain.

If the Atlantic sea lines of communication can be effectively disrupted, the more than one million Allied troops in Africa will be in a dilemma. Rommel must have experienced this kind of encounter the most.

When you can't even guarantee the fuel of the tank during the counterattack, let alone the "Desert Fox", even the God of the Desert can't play any tricks, right?

In the ensuing submarine hunting battle in the Bay of Biscay, the German submarines were equipped with advanced radar and magnetic anti-submarine systems P-3 Orion and other shore-based aircraft that took off from the United Kingdom, and a total of 28 U submarines of various types were sunk by night attacks, creating the "Submarine Massacre in the Bay of Biscay", forcing Dönitz to temporarily abandon the submarine base in the Bay of Biscay.

This strengthened the determination of the submarine force of the Royal Navy of Dahan to join the Atlantic raid war. Zhong Yi once said at the wartime military committee meeting of the Weiqing Pavilion: "The huge industrial potential of the United States cannot be underestimated, and the multinational force must not take a chance to breathe." Before the surrender of the British, the Atlantic attack ships had to fight not only on a larger scale. The Germans can't hold on, here we come! ”

Wang Yizhe's South African Front gave up its entanglement with the British and French colonial forces in Central Africa, and the long-distance march into Nigeria was part of His Majesty's strategy to expand the Atlantic attack on ships -- the submarines of the Han army needed to have their own bases in the Atlantic.

And this base, the North Atlantic does not make sense; In the vicinity of the European continent, because Gibraltar is in the middle, it is also unable to meet the needs of submarine forces. Then this base is only in West Africa.

His Majesty consulted with Navy Commander Zhang Zheng for a long time, and after soliciting the opinions of the Navy's submarine forces, it was finally settled on the Gulf of Guinea. The large number of sea basins in the Central and South Atlantic Oceans is suitable for the activities of submarine forces. The Guinea basin outside the Gulf of Guinea makes it possible for the Dongfeng class, which has a large tonnage and is not suitable for operations in diving areas, to enter the deep water area at any time.

Port Harcourt, at the mouth of the Neil River, was an important port in West Africa during the French occupation of Nigeria, and the port facilities are relatively complete. Lin Jie, who was sent to fight in the Atlantic and had been appointed by His Majesty as the "Commander of the Royal Navy's Atlantic Fleet", immediately fell in love with Port Harcourt as the home port of his thirty Dongfeng-class AIP submarines.

Lin Jie, the captain of the submarine Shangyong of the Northern Fleet of the Imperial Royal Navy, commanded the Shangyong boat to sink the American CV-4 Ranger aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean naval battle, and was promoted to colonel in the new round of awards of the Imperial Army in the New Year, and served as the commander of the Atlantic submarine formation.

The empire does not yet have the establishment of the Atlantic Fleet, and in the Atlantic, there are only these thirty Dongfeng-class submarines, so it is not an exaggeration to call Lin Jie the "commander of the Atlantic Fleet".

It's just that at this time, no one thought that the day when Lin Jie officially became the commander of the Imperial Atlantic Fleet really wouldn't take long.

What I didn't expect was the main commanders of the major theaters who were ordered to return to Chang'an to report on their work in the New Year.

On January 1, 1943, when the people of the Grand Alliance countries were celebrating the New Year, in the Weiqing Pavilion Longxiang Auditorium, in front of the huge five-clawed golden dragon figure, there were twenty-four new generals of the empire who were excitedly accepting the title ceremony presided over by the Han Emperor himself.

The novices of the Han Emperor replaced the golden two-star epaulettes on their military uniforms with three-star ones, which meant that they became a new batch of imperial generals.

Among these twenty-four people, not only the generals of the 13th Army of the Han Dynasty, the Guards Legion, the Coastal Army and other local armies, but also a considerable proportion of the senior officers of the Imperial Colonial Army.

In His Majesty's words: They are both members of the Han Imperial Army, and they are also fighting bravely under the guidance of the Golden Dragon Banner, and they are certainly eligible for promotion.

Therefore, among the twenty-four newly promoted imperial generals, there were short and dark-skinned generals of the 3rd Army of the Nanyang Army, General Su Tito, and General Linsig of the 1st Army of the Nanyang Army. The Nanyang Governor Qian Zhihao's measures to remove the Han from the west were quite effective in Nanyang, and these Nanyang soldiers who were the first to integrate into the Han society took the lead in changing their names to two or three characters that the Han people were accustomed to, and their surnames were also changed from the original surnames to Han surnames with similar pronunciations. This reminded Zhong Yi of how similar to the current situation in Nanyang after the fall of the Qing court in China, the process of changing the name of the Manchus?

Of course, among the newly promoted generals, there is another rather special figure who has caused a lot of controversy within the Imperial Army, and that is the commander of the Transbaikal Military District of the Soviet Red Army, Kovalev. As a candidate recommended by the Siberician Governor's Office, Kovalev, who commanded nearly a million combined forces of the Far East, the Sakha Kingdom and the Evenki Kingdom, was definitely qualified to be one of the candidates for the promotion of general, but it was only because of his background in the Soviet Red Army that it caused a lot of controversy. You must know that General Chen Shukang, who captured Kovalev alive, was only promoted to general during this period.

Isn't it a bit that a battle, a winner and a loser were captured, and at the same time promoted to general? Although they all understood that His Majesty's conferral of titles on the generals of the colonial areas was a political need and a need to strengthen the rule of the imperial colonial areas, the commanders of the 13th Army of the Han Dynasty, who were almost all newly promoted generals, felt a little uncomfortable in their hearts.