The Army Military Advisory Corps, sent by the General Staff of the Wehrmacht, is now also on the Hawaiian front, specifically requested by the head of the advisory group, Lieutenant General Paulus. www.biquge.info He hoped to personally participate in a large-scale landing operation initiated by the Japanese -- although the Wehrmacht was far superior to their Japanese friends in many respects, the Germans were far inferior to the Japanese in amphibious landing operations.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Paulus came to steal the division with his advisory group this time, and if he can learn the true skills of fighting a landing battle from the Japanese, when he returns to Germany, he will have the opportunity to participate in directing the landing in Britain as the chief of staff of the Western Front, which is a shortcut to the rank of general and general!

It's hard to say whether Lieutenant General Paulus has learned anything these days, but it's an eye-opener. He saw in the Japanese Army a weapon that no other army in the world had - aircraft carriers!

It turns out that the Japanese Army has aircraft carriers!

Seeing such awesome weapons, Lieutenant General Paulus no longer dared to say that the Japanese Army was poorly equipped, and the German Army did not have aircraft carriers no matter how awesome the equipment was. Moreover, the Japanese Army does not have one aircraft carrier, but two aircraft carriers, one is the "Shenshu Maru" with a standard displacement of 8,000 tons, and the other is the "Akitsu Maru" with a standard displacement of 11,800. If there is to be a naval war, the Wehrmacht Army is certainly no match for the Japanese Army!

After studying these two Japanese army aircraft carriers, Paulus also made a special report to Field Marshal Hersmann, suggesting that the German Army also develop and equip the same army aircraft carriers!

Of course, Paulus's suggestion was not to compare with the Japanese Army, but to see the military value of such an army aircraft carrier.

In fact, the so-called army aircraft carrier is not a laughable toy, but an amphibious landing ship with a straight-through deck. In addition to carrying 8-12 carrier-based aircraft, it can also carry 27 large landing craft of the B type, and can also carry a landing force of more than 2,000 people, and also has 12 75mm guns, which can be used for air firing or supporting the landing force.

Such an army aircraft carrier can independently conduct a small-scale landing battle even without the support of naval ships. If the German Army could have 10-20 of these aircraft carriers, it would be able to send 20,000 to 40,000 soldiers to the British coast at once, while at the same time using the ship's guns and aircraft to directly attack targets on the shore - which meant that the senior officer commanding the landing operation could give orders for the use of aircraft and artillery directly from the army aircraft carriers, without having to go through a complicated process to request support from the Navy and Air Force.

Now Vice Admiral Paulus is standing on the island of the "Akitsu Maru" army aircraft carrier, watching the dense sea surface with large engine boats dragging white splashes and rushing to the beach of Kauai Island one after another.

In Paulus's view, these large engines were also needed by the German Army, and the 9.5-ton landing craft could carry 70 heavily armed Japanese soldiers. When fully loaded, it can also travel at a speed of 8 knots. And the bow design of this large engine boat is also very distinctive, which is a whole steel plate that can be put down. When the bow is closed, the steel plates protect the soldiers inside, and when the steel plates are lowered, they become a gangway that the soldiers can use to rush up to the enemy's beachhead. In addition, according to the design, the engine boat could also carry an 11-ton light tank - this was obviously a little smaller for the German Army, but it was enough for Japan, which did not have any medium and heavy armored vehicles.

During this landing operation, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade carried several Type 95 light combat vehicles. At this moment, together with the landing officers and soldiers, they rushed to the beachhead of Kauai Island. A small squad of Japanese soldiers is now following behind several Type 95 light tanks, holding the ultra-long rifles unique to the Japanese, advancing in depth.

And in the sky, more than a dozen Type 1 fighters of the Japanese Army, hovering at low altitudes, attacked targets on the ground with bombs and machine guns they carried.

Lieutenant General Paulus lowered his binoculars, turned his head to look at Ensign Ribbentrop, who was fiddling with a video camera, and asked, "How's it going?" All filmed? ”

"Yes, it's all filmed." Rudolph. Feng. Ribbentrop replied. He originally thought that he would teach Japanese soldiers how to use iron-fisted anti-tank grenade launchers, but he didn't expect that because he could fiddle with cameras and cameras and his skills were good, he became a "reporter with the army".

"Good!" Paulus nodded and smiled, "This is very valuable information...... You must keep them well, and when we return to Japan, we will send them to Germany immediately. ”

"Yes, General."

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While the Japanese Army's aircraft carriers were busy, the eight aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy, which had been fighting hard for days, retreated into the open sea to join up with a transport fleet that had just sailed from the Japanese mainland.

After several days of continuous operations, these eight aircraft carriers have consumed too much fuel and ammunition, and now they must be resupplied before they can continue the operation.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the pilots of carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers also rarely rested and relaxed. Most of them are sleeping in their cabins, replenishing the excess energy they have consumed these days.

However, there was no way for a cover-up pilot like Hirschman Jr. to be lazy, and he still had to fly the Zero fighter into the air and hover over the Japanese fleet, ready to engage the approaching American planes at any time.

There was nothing abnormal in the sky, and Hessman Jr. did not think that the U.S. military on Oahu would have the spare strength to send fighter planes to bomb the Japanese aircraft carriers at this time. As for the U.S. aircraft carriers, most of them should still be on their way from the waters near Saipan, and now they are up to the Wake Island area.

Feeling a little bored, Little Hersman turned his gaze to the sea, and suddenly a very familiar figure of a battleship appeared in his sight - a huge hull of 20,000 tons carrying six 280mm small cannons. Isn't this the German armored ship of the "Wilhelm II" class (P-class)? Although the Japanese Rising Sun flag was hung and the livery was changed to a Japanese style, Little Hersman still recognized it at a glance.

Such a chicken-like armored ship was actually sent to Hawaii? When Little Hersman was wondering, a very strange-looking "seaplane" was suddenly ejected into the sky, and then flew in the direction where Little Hersman was.

Little Hersman was immediately attracted to the plane, which was so odd, with a slender fuselage, thick and short wings, and a stubby pontoon hanging from each of the two wings. But the strangest thing is that there is a liquid-cooled engine mounted in the rear (which is mounted on the tail of the "plane").

After flying for a while in the direction of Little Hersman, the "plane" suddenly began to dive towards the surface of the sea again, almost plunging headlong into the water. Just when Hirschman Jr. thought that the "plane" had an accident, the "plane" had already begun to fly flat against the sea. It flew quickly towards the nearby aircraft carrier Akagi, skimmed over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, and finally stopped firmly on the sea less than 5,000 meters away from the aircraft carrier.

"Nangumo-kun, what do you think of this weapon? How should I use it? ”

At this moment, on the bridge of the USS Akagi, Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet, Ugaki Tsuchimasa, pointed to the training V3 man-operated flying bomb on the water and asked Nagumo Tadaichi.

"This ...... How far can this guy fly with a flying bomb? Nagumo Zhongyi asked with a surprised face.

Of course, he has already seen the value of this V3 man flying bomb! Just now this bomb flew over the Akagi at a speed of at least 550 kilometers per hour! Moreover, the wings of this flying bomb are short, the fuselage is slender, and the flight speed is fast, so it should be difficult to be hit by anti-aircraft guns. If it wasn't a training bomb, but a live bomb that was really filled with 800 kilograms of explosives, I'm afraid that just one hit would have hit the Akagi hard, right? If there are 100 of them, I am afraid that all 8 aircraft carriers of the 1st Mobile Fleet will have to be accounted for.

"According to the design of the Germans, the V3 can fly up to 30 kilometers with a missile." Ugaki replied. "However, we have made some simple improvements to it, increasing the capacity of the fuel tank, allowing it to fly more than 200 kilometers."

"200 km...... That's almost usable as an airplane! Nagumo Zhongyi took a cool breath, "If there are 100 flying bombs like this, the battle of Hawaii should be a sure victory, right?" ”

"100?" Ugaki glanced back at Nagumo and said with a smile, "This kind of missile is not easy to pilot, I'm afraid we can't get 100 pilots who can fly V3." ”

"So how many people can fly V3 now?" Nanyun hurriedly asked.

"Not counting the German instructors, there are now a total of 10 V3 special attack team members, all of whom are elite cadets recruited from the Navy's flight school, and they are all cadets who have completed all the courses."

Ugaki's voice was a little emotional, he had completed all the pilot courses, and he was a cadet of the standard courses established before the outbreak of the war, which was an elite who could enter the front-line aviation units to serve, and now they were all disposables.

"All elite students? I don't know if it's worth it? Nagumo Tadaichi's brows furrowed, the engagement in the past few days had caused the Combined Fleet to lose quite a few excellent carrier-based aircraft pilots. Nan Yunzhong felt pain when he thought about it, now this kind of V3 missile actually needs elite pilot students to fly. It's a bit of a waste......

"Whether it's worth it or not depends on this battle!" Ugaki said with a smile, "Commander Yamamoto is ready to hand over this German 'missile cruiser' and the 10 V3 missiles on it to the First Mobile Fleet!" Nagumo-kun, please make good use of them! (To be continued.) )