News of the Führer's assassination also inevitably spread to the Japanese fighting in Hawaii.

"Sir, what do you think of the German statement? I always felt that there was something special in the German statement in the "

Faced with Ryunosuke Kusaka's inquiry, Horikichi smiled: "The Führer is a politician who is very good at seizing opportunities, and his sense of smell is very sensitive. On the surface, this incident is a strong protest against the United States, but in fact, you and I are well aware that only the Churchill government can implement it. ”

"Yes, it's just a little hard to understand that."

"This shows that due to the change in the battlefield situation, the German side is not satisfied with the results at hand and the conditions agreed by the US side, and has begun to raise the offer, but it is always bad to break the treaty, and the assassination of the Führer is a very good reason and excuse Otherwise, according to Minister Goebbels's statement, Germany will desperately project its forces on the United States, which obviously does not coincide with the facts."

Kusaka Ryunosuke nodded in understanding, and then asked, "When the next wave of reinforcements arrives, will we hit Hawaii Island or Oahu first?" ”

"Don't fight!" Hori Jiji paused, "After taking Maui, we built fortifications on the spot, and the army mainly attacked and harassed, but the large-scale offensive came to an end for the time being. ”

"Why is that? Don't you strike while the iron is hot? ”

"Oahu has 40,000 troops, Hawaii Island has at least 30,000 troops, and there are tens of thousands of people in both places combined.

"But Americans are greedy for life and afraid of death, and their performance on Lanai and Molokai Islands"

Horikichi shook his head: "This is different, I have investigated on the spot, and the army also thinks that the defense system of the two islands occupied this time is very average, but the two islands of Oahu and Hawaii Island are the core of the entire Hawaiian Islands, and the US military has been operating for many years, and it has been reinforced many times in wars, so it must be cautious!" The next step is to use the second batch of domestic reinforcements to attack Fiji, New Caledore, American Samoa and other places, and at the same time cooperate with the German army to isolate Australia and New Zealand from a strategic posture in the hope that Germany can promote a political settlement. ”

"You don't advocate military occupation?"

"It's too difficult, it's beyond Japan's capabilities, and at the same time it stimulates undue ambition, and do you think the Europeans will easily watch us occupy ANZ?" Horikichi sighed, "The empire is now an ally with Europe, and they are jointly against the United States, once we occupy Australia and New Zealand, the empire's territory will be too big, and the offensive and defensive momentum will shift, Europe and the United States may join forces They are all white after all, but we are not!" ”

Kusaka Ryunosuke doesn't need to look to know that he has occupied almost all of India and Southeast Asia.

How big will Japan be if it wins Australia and New Zealand, and it will become the largest country in the world (East and West Russia are counted separately), he nodded respectfully: "The sir's plan is far-reaching. ”

"This is the main battle in January, as for February"

"The next step of the chief is to cooperate with the Germans to fight Panama! It will fundamentally cut off the possibility of the US military carrying out the rebuilding of the east and west coasts through the Panama Canal, and extend the absolute naval supremacy of the empire in the Pacific as much as possible. ”

"That's just part of the reason." Horiyoshi added, "Germany has sent a request to us to cooperate with them in the war, and the request to take Panama should be granted." ”

On the one hand, Germany considered internationalizing the Panama Canal after the war, and Japan would also have a larger stake and want to take a stake if it did not send troops. On the other hand, in the Hawaiian Raiders, Germany not only provided a lot of support to Japan through Peru, but also helped Japan in various aspects such as oil tankers and ordnance, and gave a lot of aviation equipment that the United Fleet urgently needed, especially after the earthquake in the East China Sea destroyed almost all the aircraft manufacturing plants in that area, not to mention the navy, even the army aircraft had to rely on imports to make up for the production gap.

"So, in a reasonable way, we have to cooperate. And my main task at present is to avoid as much as possible the rapid rapprochement between Germany and the United States, and the greater the achievements we have made in helping Germany, the more Germany will offer high prices, and the more the United States will be unable to bear it and express its doubts, and the German-American armistice will be postponed step by step, dragging Germany to fight together, and the empire will have a good chance of winning. Otherwise, it's hard."

"As for the middle two months, let's leave it to the U.S. military in Hawaii to enjoy it, let them experience the taste of isolation, declining morale, public anxiety, and the gradual depletion of supplies. Horikichi said categorically, "We can't afford to expend too many troops to attack the island, even if it is the army that dies!" One more dead now, one less person defending Hawaii in the future! ”

Chiaki Matsuda deeply agreed: "It's best for the U.S. military to fall into panic every day, so that Hawaii residents finally despair of the U.S. government and the U.S. team!" In this way, in the future, they will not adopt a fierce attitude of resistance to the imperial rule of Hawaii, and they will not be able to continue the harassing bombing and harassing shelling if they are not humble enough, so that the Americans will not be too comfortable."

Ryunosuke Kusaka agreed.

Horikichi sighed slightly: everyone's mainstream idea is still to fight down as Japan's territory, he never dared to have such an optimistic attitude, and he didn't think that the United States would swallow the bitter fruit of losing its territory, but the failure he wanted was delayed, what did he use to persuade his domestic and arrogant subordinates?

Just when Horiyoshi and everyone were arranging the next stage of the war, Rommel, Gauss, Sauken, Mandolfer and others were also discussing the next stage of operations, and now the South American army group can be described as an elite gathering, like Sauken and Mandolfer are already at the rank of general, and they can all serve as the commander of the group army independently, and now they are still wronged in these 120,000 troops, but the supreme command has not wronged everyone, although the South American army group is only 120,000, but it is equipped according to the group army group in terms of specifications and supply guarantees, Rommel and others don't care about these things, as long as there is the trust of the Führer, everything is easy to say, without trust, what can you do if you are a Minister of Defense, not a bare-bones commander?

According to the latest formation, the South American Army Group is organized into two wing clusters, the left wing cluster is commanded by Sauken, the right wing cluster is commanded by Mandolfel, Rommel's command and other branches of the army are responsible for intermediary coordination, Gauss is now also a general, still serving as chief of staff, and the whole team is completely extravagant to the extreme.

"The Panama campaign is initially scheduled for late February, and the two armies will join forces, of which Japan will dispatch the main force of the combined fleet to cooperate, and our side will be responsible for dispatching the navy to contain and the ground forces will attack the main attack" Gauss pointed all the way on the map, "This Panama campaign is aimed at occupying, unlike in 1943, which was dominated by raids, so it is necessary to pull out the obstacles in the way of advance first." ”

Germany was initially determined to occupy Panama in late December, but later found that the Panama Canal could not be opened earlier than May, and that there were still a number of islands along the Caribbean Sea, so it postponed the time until February 1945.

Gauss revised his plan to occupy LinkedIn Guiana and Trinidad and Tobago in January, with Guyana directly occupied by Mandolfil using the Army and Air Force, while Trinidad and Tobago apparently had to conduct a landing operation to occupy on January 18 with the cooperation of the main forces of the Combined Axis Fleet.

"During his visit to Britain, the Führer had negotiated with the authorities in London to send troops to British Guiana and Trinidad and Tobago, so that our army would mainly win the battle and do not have to consider subsequent occupation and management."

Mandolfelton breathed a sigh of relief, having spent more than a year on the Falklands, knowing how difficult it was to run a business after the occupation.

"After completing the first phase of the mission, we have two obstacles on the way to Panama, the first is Venezuela, and the second is Colombia," Gauss pointed to the map, "There is news from the Supreme Command, Colombia has communicated with us at the diplomatic level, as long as our troops are stationed, they will openly switch camps to join the axis, but Venezuela is a bit troublesome, there are more than 50,000 US troops here, and the strength is not too weak, and they are scattered inland, and it takes too much time to strangle them one by one." ”

"So the chief of staff gave a suggestion, after the end of the first phase of the campaign, with the cooperation of the navy, to feint on Venezuela, but in fact, skip this target and attack Panama directly" Rommel said with a smile, "Please discuss it today, you all know that I am very persistent in this kind of leapfrog tactic, but now the number of troops is limited, and the naval battle factor must be considered, so we must be cautious." Now is not the time for the Kungunir plan, I have to play leisurely, I can't give the Americans a chance to fight back"