Chapter 586

Now the world situation is very delicate. The axis powers with Germany as the core declare war on the East Asian group led by Japan in an all-round way, and the allies are also inseparable from Japan. Interestingly, the axis powers and allies are also in a hot fight in North Africa.

At the same time, neither China nor the United States declared war on Germany, but the Soviet Union did not declare war on Japan. Japan declared war on all the countries in the alliance, but it did not tear its face with the Soviet Union. Both sides have exercised restraint in the long period of East Asia, and no one is willing to take a step.

The Japanese have no fear now. After all, Germany does not have the energy and ability to send its troops to the Pacific battlefield. And now Australia is a huge temptation that is almost undefended. If you don't take a bite, you will be sorry for the kindness of the Americans anyway. It took little time for Japan's headquarters to analyze the pros and cons of the two kinds of trade-offs. Almost all the Japanese high-level officials believed that Germany's interests in the Pacific region were not the core and could be compromised.

Of course, the optimistic spirit of Japan has risen again. They think that the Germans will not be fooled and will not want Australia as a chicken rib. As for the declaration of war between the two sides, it is only a bargaining chip. Once Japan defeats the United States and dominates the Asia Pacific region, the Germans can only compromise by holding their noses.

Some rational Japanese officers feel that it is not wise to go to war like the Germans, because in many cases, the Japanese know more about the former ally of Germany than the Americans, and because they do, they know the real horror of the Germans.

German tanks have always been favored by the Japanese, but because of the destruction of akkado, the two countries did not cooperate in the tank project. As a result, when the German army swept the eastern line with Tiger tanks and leopard tanks and wiped out millions of troops of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, the Japanese small tanks, well, it's obviously exaggerating to call this kind of thing a tank, but it's really called a tank, and we don't mind... The Japanese small tanks can only bully the Chinese * teams that lack heavy weapons in Asia.

On the contrary, the cooperation between the Japanese Navy and the German army has been progressing faster than that of the Japanese army. Therefore, while the Japanese army is still using 20 ton "heavy tanks", the aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy has begun to take off and land new type zero carrier based aircraft. As a result, the Japanese Navy's carrier based aircraft first attacked Pearl Harbor, and then fought against Wake Island, making it famous as a zero war demon.

Zero war is the ultimate product of the cooperation between Japan and Germany. At least in terms of materials and part of the design, the Germans put forward a lot of useful things to support Japan to go further on the fighter road. Unfortunately, the cooperation between the two countries soon ended because of akado's strategy of managing China and disrupting the situation in the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese Navy did not get the German engine they had been dreaming of.

The Japanese know that while the U.S. Navy is still keeping its radar detector secret, the Germans have begun to study how to use radar beams to guide weapons to long-range attack. The Japanese know that even when the Americans were still bullying Japanese tanks in the jungle of Philippine, the German Tiger tank could have shot through two m3 tanks in one shot. The Japanese also know that the Germans have a lot of amazing advanced weapons, from individual tactical camouflage blouses to the terrible ultra long range early warning radar on the huge Zeppelin class aircraft carrier.

These middle - and lower level Japanese officers who had really come into contact with the Germans knew how terrible the country that their emperor had just declared war was. They even feel that they are far behind Germany's Third Reich, which is already powerful in Europe in terms of tactics, strategy, equipment and technology. Unfortunately, this country has changed from an ally to a life and death enemy.

"I hope our officials are just joking. I hope we can make peace with the Germans in a few months." After hearing the news of the declaration of war, Japanese Zero fighter designer hori yueerlang, who knows the German foundation well, told his assistant that he was able to design the Zero fighter, largely relying on the inspiration given by the German to complete the final design.

The words of a Japanese officer who had accompanied the German Advisory Group in the battle of Nomenkan were more explicit. When he mentioned the declaration of war in his letter to his wife, he wrote such a paragraph: "I am really pessimistic when I hear about the declaration of war with Germany. The German people I know are undoubtedly excellent. I dare not take any chances to fight with them. My dearest love is you, so I have to tell you my depression. Our emperor declared war on Germany, which in my eyes is more stupid than our war with the United States. "

However, the views of these people will never be passed on to the senior staff in the base camp. These senior Japanese bureaucrats are very confident that the Germans can not appear in the Pacific Ocean: first, the Germans are not able to come; Secondly, even if they have the ability, there is no need to come; Finally, Americans, like the Japanese, don't want Germany to come. Based on these three points, all senior officials, including the emperor, do not feel that there is anything wrong with declaring war on the axis powers.

Even many high-level officials believe that when Japan provoked the Pacific War, the axis powers not only failed to fulfill their allies' obligations, but also expelled Japan from the axis group. This humiliation must be recovered. At that time, there was no immediate declaration of war because the time was not ripe. Now that the time is ripe, it is natural for the Germans to see the prestige of the Japanese.

However, the Japanese don't know much about Germany, or that is to say, they don't know much about Germany with akkado as the head of state. Akkado always felt that the sentence of the Han Dynasty that "those who offend China will be punished even though they are far away." Let people comfortable to the bone, is a very exciting slogan; From the depths of his soul, akado had a little angry feeling of fighting the devil; Akado must give an account to the axis allies to consolidate his political position as a European leader. It's good for the Japanese to guess the last one. They just want to break their heads and can't figure out why the German head of state decided to pit Japan as soon as he came up. So although the Japanese hypothesis and analysis are very reasonable, they are wrong from the very beginning. On the day of the declaration of war, the German Navy sent its expeditionary fleet to the Pacific. There were as many as 10 ships in this fleet, and a lot of elite German troops were gathered. The German Navy did not dispatch its main fleet, but sent 10 submarines to kill Japan in such a mighty manner. In order to supplement this submarine force, the German Navy also sent three destroyers from northern Britain to protect three supply ships to Australia to provide logistics support for these submarines. Akado studied Japan so thoroughly that even he felt embarrassed. He knows that Japan has a long history of sea and land fighting, he knows that the Japanese Navy's complex of big ships and huge guns, he knows that the Japanese Navy does not attach importance to anti submarine operations, and he also knows that the Japanese do not have radar yet... In another time and space, even the U.S. submarine troops who have not fought much war can cause devastating damage to Japan's maritime transportation supply lines, They can sink the Japanese aircraft carrier off the coast of Japan and then escape. What will happen if the US submarine force is replaced by the German ace submarine force? Akado involuntarily touched his forehead. He felt sorry for the price Japan was going to pay. It has always been a weakness of the Japanese Navy not to pay attention to anti submarine operations. Surprisingly, the Japanese Navy has never intended to correct this mistake. They have endured huge losses and turned a blind eye to the achievements of American submarines, However, their precious submarines are used to do some jobs like moving companies and taxis (the Japanese Navy likes to transport personnel and materials by submarines, and even deliver food to the front-line trapped Islands). If you still think it's not wonderful enough, you really can't find a more wonderful naval decision. Moreover, the core of the submarine tactics of the Japanese Navy is to attack high-value targets, which is essentially different from what the submarine forces of the German Navy catch and fight. The German Navy is unconcerned. 3000 ton transport ships and 30000 ton battleships attack whenever they have a chance. Therefore, the submarine performance of the German Navy is amazing. The Japanese Navy, on the contrary, was ordered to attack each other's core warships, so they did not hesitate to launch suicide attacks. Therefore, in another time and space, the Japanese Navy's submarine troops had a poor record. So akado didn't send his high seas fleet to fight with the Japanese air force, which was useless except for the cheap Americans. He figured out the weakness of the Japanese. The submarine went to strike the autumn wind, interfered with the speed of Japan's eastward advance, and avoided Japan's real soul attachment this time, and defeated the United States. Akado now has to be careful to deal with the problems he faces. What he knows can only be used as a reference for many times, and the current world situation is quite different from the Cruel World War II he knows. In that time and space, the axis powers broke down to challenge the allies, which was regarded as a struggle for hegemony between the two poles. Now, in this time and space, because of the butterfly's wings, it has become a tripartite situation. This tripartite confrontation is definitely a real tripartite confrontation. The three groups declare war on each other. We all have to worry about another opponent coming to pick up a bargain after a full blow. Thinking of this, akado couldn't help laughing bitterly. He looked at Rommel's report on the battle of Tobruk and looked out of the window: the world is different. How far can he go this time as the head of state?