Chapter 899 Japan's Big Goal

"Ludwig, Japanese Ambassador Lieutenant General Oshima Hiroshi has arrived."

Natalie Lesinskaya pushed open the oak door of an office and said to Imperial Marshal Hersmann with a smile.

Because the door to negotiations between the Soviet Union and Germany was completely closed, Natalie's mission in Switzerland was over. However, Hersmann did not let her go to Poland again, but let her serve as his personal secretary-this is actually a very important position, equivalent to Hersmann's confidential secretary or office director.

"Oshima Hiroshi?" Hersmann looked up from a report that the Panama Canal had been reopened to navigation and looked at Natalie, who was wearing the uniform of the Wehrmacht female assistant. "Is he here for the Panama Canal?"

This Japanese ambassador was not on the list of people Hersmann was going to meet today, nor was he a senior Wehrmacht general who could meet him at any time. Moreover, Hersmann was not an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and dealing with the Japanese ambassador was not his job. However, the Americans' repair of the Panama Canal was a reason for Hersmann to meet with Oshima Hiroshi-this 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 revived, it is no longer an exiled White Russian, but a real country, so there is naturally a problem of diplomatic recognition. Olga's White Russian government and Stalin's Soviet government now both pursue the foreign policy of "one Russia (Soviet Union)", and "the Soviet Union and Russia cannot coexist."

If any foreign country wants to establish diplomatic relations with Russia, it must sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Similarly, if you want to maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, you cannot recognize Russia.

So countries around the world now have to choose between the Soviet Union and Russia, and can only recognize one of them. The situation of the Japanese Empire is a bit special. As a member of the Axis Powers, it maintains a relatively good relationship with the Soviet Union.

However, under the matchmaking of Germany, negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia were launched, and Oshima Hiroshi was specifically responsible.

But 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 Island (Kurile Island) belongs to Japan and the status of the Far East is undetermined.

It is natural for Japan to think that Sakhalin Island belongs to Japan. Now the southern part of Sakhalin Island belongs to Japan, and the oil produced in the northern oil-producing area of ​​the island is all sold to Japan at a low price. Therefore, it is not excessive for Japan to demand the sovereignty of the northern island as a condition for establishing diplomatic relations with Russia.

The Belarusian government insists that the northern part of Sakhalin Island (north of 50 degrees north latitude) belongs to Russia and cannot be transferred. And the attitude is very firm - Belarus is now going to integrate with Europe, and the backstage is as hard as titanium alloy, so it doesn't take the little Japan into consideration.

However, the issue of the northern part of Sakhalin Island can still be negotiated in the eyes of Hitler and Hersmann, after all, it is only a desolate land of 40,000 square kilometers. Moreover... Hitler and Hersmann's "Russian Integration Plan" only goes to the Ural Mountains - it does not mean that the east of the Ural Mountains is not needed, but it is temporarily not eaten to maintain the confrontation between the Soviet Union and Russia. When the Germans are aligned with Hersmann 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 Eastern Soviet Union.

But the Showa staff of Japan didn't know what they had done wrong. After Leningrad became Petrograd, they also proposed the "undetermined status of the Far East". This means that it is not known who owns the Soviet Far East now, and it depends on the situation. It is estimated that these Showa staff are preparing to go to war with the Soviet Union after Germany captures Moscow and take over the Soviet Far East.

However, this "undetermined status of the Far East" was firmly opposed by the Russian government, and the negotiations on establishing diplomatic relations with Japan broke down.

Regarding Japan's request, Hitler and Hersmann felt that there was nothing to discuss - although the Russian Far East is very desolate, it is a big piece on the map! If it becomes "undetermined" with one cut, won't the legitimacy of Queen Olga become a problem?

Moreover... Hitler and Hersmann do not want Japan to stab the Soviet Union in the back. If it is stabbed, there may be tens of millions more Russians in the European Community! The Germans have directly changed from the largest ethnic group to a minority. How can this be possible?

"Natalie, go and tell Oshima," Hessman exhaled lightly and ordered, "There is no need to discuss the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia. Russia's eastern territory cannot be divided."

Herssman's position on Russia's eastern territory did not disappoint Oshima Hiroshi, because he had expected this.

This Japanese expert on Germany knows very well that European unification has become Germany's fundamental national policy. And the basis of European unification is integration with Russia. As long as Germany and Russia merge, Britain and France can only follow. And if Germany, Russia, Britain and France merge, Europe will inevitably be unified. And a unified Europe will definitely dominate the world!

So the basis for Germany to dominate the world is integration with Russia, and the basis for integration with Russia is Empress Olga and her government.

Therefore, Germany cannot trade Olga and the legitimacy of the White Russian government in any case. On the map published in Germany today, the Left Bank Ukraine and Eastern Belarus, which are actually directly ruled by the German government, are still affiliated territories of the Russian Empire. They were just renamed the Kingdom of Little Russia and the Kingdom of Belarus, and were ruled by German Crown Prince Louis Ferdinand and Crown Princess Kira. Both of them are also the legitimate heirs to the throne of the Russian Empire, and there is absolutely no problem with this in legal terms - it is a common situation in European monarchies for the heir to the throne to serve as the monarch of an important territory.

Left Bank Ukraine and East Belarus have such arrangements. How could Germany stab Olga on the Far East issue?

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

"Your Majesty, Imperial Marshal, our empire is currently preparing for the final decisive battle with the United States in the Pacific, and therefore urgently needs your country's assistance and cooperation."

"The final battle?" Hessman frowned, "How do you plan to fight? How much assistance do you need?"

"Our empire is preparing to fight the United States to the death in the Hawaiian Islands!" said Hiroshi Oshima. "The combined navy fleet and some of the elite army will gather in the Hawaiian Islands. They will first take the defensive position and use nine-stage warfare to consume the strength of the U.S. military. Finally, they will use four Yamato-class battleships. and mobile fleets to completely annihilate the main force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and force the United States to accept the peace terms of our empire.”

Dreaming?

In his mind, Hessmann didn't even care about the final battle, but he still asked politely: "Now that the strength of the U.S. Navy is growing rapidly, and several aircraft carriers are in service every month, why do they need to rush to the decisive battle now? If By postponing the attack on the Hawaiian Islands to the second half of 1944, it is expected that more than 100 aircraft carriers can be concentrated, and the number of carrier-based aircraft will exceed 3,500..."

A rich man is a rich man!

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 became Ha45). This gave the Japanese Navy and Army a reliable 2,000-horsepower high-performance air-cooled engine, allowing the Ki84 Hayate fighter and Shiden-modified fighter jets, which had been repeatedly delayed due to engine problems in history, to enter mass production in June 1943. The prototype of the P1Y Galaxy bomber was also scheduled for test flight at the end of June 2043, and mass production is planned before the end of 2043.

However, the Ki84 Hayate and Zidian Kai are both shore-based aircraft, and their performance has no advantage over the American carrier-based F4U and F6F. Japan's carrier-based fighter jets currently rely on the Zero to support the market. Germany's Fw-190T does not meet Japan's requirements (because the advantageous airspace is at high altitude, the landing performance is not good, and the engine is too complex). The Japanese's own "17-ship "Testing" has not even completed the prototype yet. It would be good to enter the test flight stage within this year.

Therefore, when it comes to aircraft, Japan's advantage in the early stages of the war no longer exists.

In addition, the United States still has a large advantage in the number of pilots - for the United States and Japan, the number of aircraft is not a big problem, the problem is the number of pilots. The more pilots there are, the more ready-made fighter planes will be. With fewer pilots, there are fewer standing fighter planes.

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

Moreover, the United States still has inexhaustible oil, which can completely allow new pilots to fly!

Therefore, for the same rookie pilots who joined the army after the war broke out, the flying time on the American side is measured in hundreds of hours (including the flight before joining the army, and the standard training flight time after joining the army is usually 300 hours), while on the German side, currently It has been shortened to 100-150 hours, and in Japan it has been reduced to 50 hours.

The gap in flight training time directly determines the quality of the pilots' skills among the three parties. In Germany, there are quite a few ace pilots available because the Soviet Union is a sparring partner, which allows rookie pilots to accumulate experience in actual combat.

But the situation in Japan was miserable. Except for a group of veteran pilots accumulated before the war, the skills of the pilots trained after the war were not reliable. It is basically a dream to use pilot technology to crush the United States, and the number of American pilots is several times greater than that of Japan.

Therefore, after the Panama Canal was repaired, the advantage in the Pacific was already on the side of the United States, and as time went by, the advantage of the United States would become greater and greater. Therefore, there was no need for the Americans to attack the Hawaiian Islands in 1943.