"Ludwig, the Japanese ambassador, Lieutenant General Hiroshi Oshima, has arrived. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Natalie. Leshinskaya pushed open the oak door of one of the offices and smiled to Imperial Marshal Hersmann inside.

Because the door to negotiations between the Soviet Union and Germany was completely closed, Natalie's mission in Switzerland came to an end. However, instead of sending her to Poland, Hersmann made her his personal secretary, a very important position, equivalent to Hirschmann's confidential secretary or chief of staff.

"Hiroshi Oshima?" Hersman looked up from a report that the Panama Canal had been restored to navigation and looked at Natalie, who was wearing the uniform of a female assistant to the Wehrmacht, "He's here for the Panama Canal?" ”

The Japanese ambassador is not on the list of plans to meet with Hersmann today, nor is he a senior general of the Wehrmacht who is ready to meet with him. Moreover, Hersman is not an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it is not his job to deal with the Japanese ambassador. But the Americans' restoration of the Panama Canal was a reason for Hirschman to meet with Hiroshi Oshima -- the ambassador with the rank of lieutenant general actually represented not the Japanese government, but the Japanese military.

"For two things," Natalie replied, "one is joint operations, and the other is negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia." ”

Now that the Russian Empire has been revived, and it is no longer an exiled White Russia, but a real state, then naturally there is a question of diplomatic recognition. And Olga's White Russian government and Stalin's Soviet government now pursue a foreign policy of "one Russia (Soviet Union)", and "Soviet Russia is not mutually exclusive".

If any foreign country wants to establish diplomatic relations with Russia, then it must cut off diplomacy with the Soviet Union. In the same way, if you want to maintain diplomacy with the Soviet Union, you cannot recognize Russia.

So all the countries of the world now have to choose a side between Soviet Russia and can only recognize one of them. The situation of the Japanese Empire was a bit peculiar, as a member of the Axis powers, it maintained relatively good relations with the Soviet Union.

However, with the mediation of Germany, negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia were launched, and the specific person responsible was Hiroshi Oshima.

However, the negotiations between Japan and Russia did not go smoothly. In the negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations, Japan put forward two major conditions: Sakhalin (Sakhalin) belongs to Japan and the status of the Far East has not been determined.

The fact that Sakhalin is a Japanese is a matter of course in Japan, and now the southern part of Sakhalin is owned by Japan, and all the oil produced in the oil-producing areas in the north of the island is sold to Japan at a low price. Therefore, it is not at all too much for Japan to make the claim for sovereignty over the North Island a condition for establishing diplomatic relations with Russia.

The Belarusian government, on the other hand, insisted that the North Island of Sakhalin (north of the 50th parallel) belonged to Russia and could not be ceded. And the attitude is very resolute -- Belarus is now going to integrate with Europe, and the backstage is as hard as titanium alloy, so it doesn't take little Japan seriously.

However, the question of the North Island of Sakhalin was still negotiable in the eyes of Hitler and Hersmann, after all, it was only 40,000 square kilometers of desolate land. And...... Hitler and Hersmann's "plan to fuse Russia" only went to the Ural Mountains -- not that they would not want it east of the Ural Mountains, but that they would not eat it for the time being and maintain the confrontation between Soviet and Russian countries. When the Germans are on par with Hirschmann and Chloe on the issue of having children, and "Western Russia" is fully integrated into Europe, it will not be too late to clean up the East Soviet Union.

However, the Japanese Showa staff officers did not know what medicine they had taken wrong, and after Leningrad became Petrograd, they put forward the theory that "the status of the Far East is undecided." Meaning that it is not known to whom the Far East of the USSR was owned, it depends. It is estimated that these Showa staff officers are preparing to start a war against the Soviet Union after Germany seizes Moscow and take the Soviet Far East.

However, this "theory that the status of the Far East is undecided" was resolutely opposed by the Russian Government, and the negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations with Japan broke down.

Hitler and Hersmann felt that there was nothing to negotiate about Japan's request - although the Russian Far East was very desolate, it was a large piece of the map! With a knife going down and becoming "undecided", isn't the legitimacy of Empress Olga a problem?

And...... Hitler and Hersmann did not want Japan to stab the Soviet Union in the back now. With a single stab, there may be tens of millions more Russians in the European Community! How can it be that the Germanic people have gone directly from being the largest people to being a minority people?

"Natalie, you go and talk to Oshima," Hersman exhaled lightly and commanded, "There is no need to discuss the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia, and the eastern territories of Russia cannot be divided. ”

Hirschmann's position on the eastern territories of Russia did not disappoint Hiroshi Oshima, as this had long been expected by him.

The Japanese German expert knows very well that European reunification is already Germany's fundamental national policy. And the basis of European unity is the integration of Russia, as long as Germany and Russia are combined, Britain and France can only follow. And if Germany, Russia, Britain and France merge, Europe will inevitably be unified. And a united Europe will surely dominate the world!

Therefore, the basis of Germany's hegemony in the world is the integration of Russia, and the basis of the integration of Russia is the Empress Olga and her government.

Therefore, Germany could not trade the legitimacy of Olga and the White Russian government in any case. On maps published in Germany today, Left-Bank Ukraine and Eastern Belarus, which were actually under the direct rule of the German government, were still dependent territories of the Russian Empire. It was only renamed the Kingdom of Little Russia and the Kingdom of Belarus by the German Crown Prince Louis. Ferdinand and the crown princess, Grand Duchess Kira. And the fact that both of them were also the legal heirs to the throne of the Russian Empire was absolutely fine in law - it was not uncommon for European monarchies to have the heir to the throne as the monarch of an important dependent territory.

With both left-bank Ukraine and eastern Belarus arranged, how could Germany stab Olga in the Far East?

Therefore, after meeting Hersman, Hiroshi Oshima did not mention the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia again, but directly informed a big plan that was being prepared.

"Your Excellency the Imperial Marshal, our Empire is currently preparing for the final decisive battle with the United States in the Pacific, so we urgently need your country's assistance and cooperation."

"The final battle?" Hersman's brow furrowed, "How are you going to fight?" How much assistance is needed? ”

"Our empire is ready to fight the United States to the death in the Hawaiian Islands!" Hiroshi Oshima said, "The combined naval fleet and some of the elite of the army will gather in the Hawaiian Islands, first take the defensive position, use the nine-stage method of operation to consume the strength of the US military, and finally counterattack with four Yamato-class battleships and a mobile fleet, completely annihilating the main force of the US Pacific Fleet, and forcing the United States to accept the peace conditions of our empire." ”

Dreaming, right?

Hersman didn't care about the final battle in his heart, but he still asked politely on his face: "Now that the strength of the US Navy is growing rapidly, and several aircraft carriers are in service every month, why do they need to rush to a decisive battle now?" If the attack on the Hawaiian Islands were postponed until the second half of 1944, it was expected that more than 100 aircraft carriers would be concentrated, and the number of carrier-based aircraft would exceed 3,500......"

A local tyrant is a local tyrant!

Although most of the more than 100 aircraft carriers are escort aircraft carriers, they can still take off and land aircraft, and they are still high-performance fighters such as F4U and F6F.

Although Japan received technical support from Germany, it solved the heat dissipation problem of the 18-cylinder Nakajima "Yu" series engine (this engine is shared by the army and navy, and the army becomes the Ha45). The Japanese Navy and Army were equipped with reliable 2,000-horsepower, high-performance air-cooled engines, which enabled the Ki84 Hurricane and Purple Electric Fighters, which had been repeatedly delayed due to engine problems, to enter mass production in June 1943. The prototype of the P1Y Galaxy bomber was also scheduled for a test flight at the end of June '43, and mass production was planned by the end of '43.

However, the Ki84 Hurricane and the Zidian are both shore-based aircraft, and their performance has no advantage over the F4U and F6F carried by the Americans. However, Japan's carrier-based fighters are still relying on the zero type to support the market, and the German Fw-190T does not meet Japan's requirements (because the superior airspace is at high altitude, and the landing performance is not good, and the engine is too complicated), and the Japanese own "17 ship test" has not even completed the prototype yet, and it would be good to be able to enter the test flight stage within the year.

Therefore, in the area of aircraft, Japan's advantage in the early days of the war no longer exists.

In addition, the United States has a big advantage in the number of pilots -- for the United States and Japan, the number of planes is not too big a problem, the problem is the number of pilots. The more pilots there are, the more fighters there are. With fewer pilots, there are fewer standing fighters.

Before the outbreak of the World War, there were a large number of flying clubs in the United States, and there were hundreds of thousands of Americans with pilot licenses. Therefore, when war breaks out, the U.S. military can recruit many recruits with flying experience for training.

And the United States still has an inexhaustible supply of oil, which can completely allow pilot recruits to fly openly!

Therefore, the rookie pilots who joined the army after the outbreak of the war, the flight time on the American side is measured in hundreds of hours (including the flight before enlistment, and the standard training flight time after enlistment is usually 300 hours), while the German side has now shortened to 100-150 hours, and Japan has reduced it to 50 hours.

The difference in flight training time directly determines the quality of the pilots of the United States, Germany and Japan. On the German side, because of the Soviet Union, an ace sparring partner, which allows rookie pilots to accumulate experience in actual combat, there are now quite a few ace pilots available.

However, it was miserable on the Japanese side, except for a group of old pilots accumulated before the start of the war, the pilots trained after the war were not reliable. It is basically a dream to crush the United States with pilot technology, and the number of American pilots is several times greater than that of Japan.

So after the Panama Canal was repaired, the advantage in the Pacific Ocean was already on the side of the United States, and over time, the advantage of the United States will become more and more great, so there is no need for the Americans to storm the Hawaiian Islands in 1943. (To be continued.) )