Xu Jun did not arrange the mechanized troops in order from light to heavy like in previous military parades, this is not a carnival parade, and the most important role should be left to the finale.

The Führer wanted to show a shock force this time, just like the military parades of the great powers in later generations, and the main battle tank should be put in the first sequence.

In these years, the concept of main battle tanks has not yet appeared, and most of the medium tanks in the usual sense are about 20 tons, and the protection force can only barely cope with the attack of infantry conventional weapons, even then it is divided into two schools: infantry and cavalry, it should be said that the British Army has successfully introduced the world trend into the pit.

If the Germans were not short of funds and resources in the early stage of development, they would have followed the British in this way, and we can still see the shadow of this division of labor from the weapons configuration scheme of the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks.

At that time, Hitler regarded the British Empire as a benchmark, which probably meant that whatever the British had, we in Germany should also have, and the British did not, but if the French had it, then we Germans should also have it... The way it looks.

The Nazis were eager to catch up with the development of Britain and France, and the only way was to take shortcuts, so Germany boldly absorbed a large number of untested new concepts and technologies in the process of rearming the Wehrmacht, and as a result, it inadvertently went ahead of all countries.

Many of Germany's military technologies are not precedent to follow, and they can only rely on their own efforts to explore on the training ground and sand table, and then test the results in actual combat, and the failed products are naturally eliminated by the battlefield, and the successful products are retained and put into production.

Germany's new heavy tank entered the experimental stage, on which Rheinsteel and Krupp worked closely, and in the face of the supreme authority of the imperial government, the future European military-industrial complex was gradually taking shape.

The 45-ton prototype of the heavy chassis has passed the acceptance of the armament department, and is now carrying a prototype of the turret with the same weight as the real thing, and various driving experiments are being carried out in Kummersdorf, and the results of the experiments are said to be very optimistic, although the finalization of the new tank is a few weeks later than the schedule set by the Führer, but the experts of the design team swear that they will be able to complete the final final type inspection by the end of January.

Work was still underway on the turret, and the engineers were racking their brains to reduce the weight of the turret, cramming as many crew members as possible while reducing the frontal projection of the turret, and finally they adopted part of the King Tiger design, which would have a King Tiger-style pignose shield.

Since the Führer's new toy had not yet been made, then, of course, it was impossible to show it off to the guests, especially if there were still Soviets on the scene. The Soviet ambassador was determined not to be ashamed, and they even carried two movie cameras, and in this half an hour they had murdered more than a dozen reels of color film, and Moscow seemed to have plenty of money for the event.

Chinese Ambassador Chen Jie could not hide the excitement in his heart at this moment, because he had the impression that the government had not been invited to participate in such a large-scale foreign affairs event for a long time, and since Hitler leaned towards Japan, Sino-German relations had cooled rapidly, and the ambassador of the national government had become a small transparency that neither side wanted to see. Therefore, Chen Jie's participation in the military parade was regarded as a diplomatic victory and a proof of the international community's recognition of the status of the national government.

The Germans deliberately separated the seats of the ambassador from the Japanese mission, and separated them with a large number of missions from the Balkan countries to prevent the two sides from clashing in the stands.

It's not impossible, because no one knows if the Japanese will suddenly provoke and commit a crime, and no one dares to test the bottom line of this group of guys, because it turns out that it doesn't exist at all.

The German hosts maintained a superficial politeness towards the Japanese, and everything was in line with diplomatic etiquette, but the sense of alienation was equally clear, and if it hadn't been for Ribbentrop's warmth, the Japanese might have frozen to death in the audience.

However, in the words of Hiroshi Oshima, the cold gaze could not freeze the hot heart of the Imperial Japanese Colonel's sincere service to the country, and what happened today, the Japanese ambassador saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, and secretly vowed that sooner or later he would return the original class to this group of barbarians.

In particular, the Romanian fat pig who likes to look at people through his nostrils on the left, and the Hungarian mongrel who sits behind him, this bastard keeps kicking the back of his chair, and he is simply a hairy and blood-drinking brute.

The Japanese ambassador poked his head out and glanced at the Chinese mission, which was sitting ten meters away, only to be staring at the other side, and their eyes collided in the air for a few seconds, and then they both naturally moved away as if nothing had happened.

Hiroshi Oshima's thinking is clear, unless his brain is in water and wants to insult the host, no one will cause conflict at this time and place. Once again, he was glad that it was a technical officer sitting next to him, not the bloody red deer of the Army Department or the General Staff Headquarters.

Hiroshi Oshima was born in artillery, but most of his military career was served as a military attache overseas, and he was promoted to major general all the way.

There is a practice for the Japanese Army to dispatch military attachés overseas, that is, if there is military trade between the two sides, the Ministry of War will usually select a technical officer who has worked in the armament section to take up his post, in addition to spying on the other side's military technology, and at the same time, he can also make a more professional assessment when purchasing weapons.

Komatsu Osa, who has worked in both the Japanese Army Arsenal and the Military Affairs Section of the Ministry of the Army, has a considerable degree of understanding of the equipment situation of the Japanese Army, knows the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese Army, and knows what kind of weapons Japan needs. He was also shouldering the arduous mission of Tokyo, and Japan wanted to get technical support from Germany, and it would be even better if it could buy a batch of newly developed equipment, such as the fighter used by Germany in the skies over Chongqing, and both the army and navy were very interested in it.

But Komatsu was more interested in combat vehicles, that is, tanks equipped by the German army. By the way, at that time, the name of tanks in China was quite confusing, some learned from Japan to call them tanks, some caught up with the fashion and directly used English, and there were also local media newspapers transliterating as Tonke, Tonk and Tank, if you don't read the content, you really don't know that it refers to the same thing, and the complicated situation in China can be seen from here.

The fact that the Japanese Army really wants to import tanks from Germany is obviously somewhat unrealistic. Japan's domestic economy is in rapid recession, and if it were not for the government's full control, Japan's financial system would have collapsed by the mid-40s.

Because the Triple Alliance Treaty had not been signed as in history, and of course it had not received financial, economic, and trade support from Italy and Germany, and the original attempt to seize French Indochina in the north had failed, Japan's current economic situation was even more severe than it was in history.

Although Hiroshi Oshima was aware of these problems, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had concealed the true data from him, which was a strategic secret of the Japanese Empire, and they were worried that this guy would one day get drunk and accidentally leak it to the Germans.

If no new economic stimulus can be found, the situation in Japan will deteriorate even further, and the cabinet will not be able to recover the situation.

Unless national treatment and social consumption are drastically reduced, then the whole country will once again tighten its belts, as in the Meiji and Taisho eras, and begin to drastically reduce government spending, especially the annual military spending, and at the same time stop foreign conquests, and the whole people will tide over the difficulties as one.

But is this possible? The answer, of course, is no, and even the emperor cannot ignore public opinion and without the unanimous support of the cabinet and the army and navy, he will definitely not give an order to stop the war.

As the saying goes, it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality, and from frugality to luxury, and they have already tasted the sweetness of the war dividends, how can the Japanese people, who have finally lived a comfortable life for a few years, allow the politicians and bureaucrats to put an end to this war, which has brought them many benefits.

The Japanese people have not yet tasted the bitterness of war at the moment, they only know that war can make the country more prosperous, who would know that under the heat of cooking oil and flowers, the Japanese Empire has reached the end of the crossbow.

The vitality accumulated during the Meiji Taisho era is rapidly being consumed.

When Japan began to impose wartime economic restrictions, Japan's foreign trade came to a near standstill because manufacturers had difficulty obtaining the raw materials they needed to produce goods for export.

After the resumption of overseas trade, the sources of strategic resources began to diversify, and there was no longer a need to import rare metals and agricultural products from Japan, and they also linked up with Chongqing, which could directly obtain the required bristles and tung oil from the national government, which made the Japanese government extremely passive in diplomacy.

"Tank No. 4, this is the latest model that has never been shown before." Komatsu excitedly picked up the camera and began to take pictures with a click.

Passing off the stage was a two-tone camouflage painted No. 4G tank, with a long 75-millimeter barrel raised high, with a circle of wreck marks painted on the barrel, and the leading company commander in the front, with a beautiful shield on the turret, and a white unicorn with its front hooves raised in the middle, which remained on the film forever as the shutter sounded under Komatsu's finger.

PS: The situation is not good, insomnia for a few days, the time difference still has an impact, today the time of boiling water code words is late, and the second can only continue to be postponed for one day.