"Then February 1 will be the moment when the cooperation between the Empire of Japan and the German Empire will be suspended."
Hearing Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's question, Lieutenant General Hiroshi Oshima, who had just returned from Berlin, nodded with regret and said: "It was a temporary suspension of cooperation because the Black Death appeared in Lisbon, and now the whole of Europe is in a panic, and it is said that the German Emperor and German Chancellor Hitler are very angry, so" "Hahaha," Hideki Tojo interrupted Hiroshi Oshima with a burst of laughter, "I didn't expect Europeans to panic because of our Great Japanese Empire. ” "Your Excellency Prime Minister" Hiroshi Oshima looked at Tojo with some blankness.
Hideki Tojo smiled and said, "There is no need to be nervous about the changes in Japanese-German relations, because there are no permanent friends in the world.
Wait until we defeat the United States in the Second Battle of the Hawaiian Islands and win a decent peace.
Japan and Germany are naturally adversaries rather than allies, and now that Japan can possess a weapon that can threaten Germany, it will be very beneficial for Japan to maintain its hegemony in Greater East Asia and the Pacific coast in the future. ” As the prime minister, Tojo naturally saw far ahead, not only the upcoming Second Battle of Hawaii, but also the post-war relations between Japan and Germany.
In Tojo's view, Japan was not a vassal of Germany, but a first-class power on an equal footing with Germany.
The world of the future should be one in which Japan, Germany, the United States, and Rome are on a par with each other, not led by Germany.
So it is very advantageous for Japan to have bacteriological weapons that can pose a huge threat to Germany.
"Yes, doesn't Germany also have a uranium weapons program," Takeo Yasuda, head of the Army Aviation Headquarters, who also attended today's meeting, interjected, "and the Germans probably kept the fission phenomenon under wrap for at least three years." ” After establishing that the United States had learned of the phenomenon of nuclear fission and had begun to develop nuclear weapons, the Germans announced the phenomenon of nuclear fission in the first half of 1943.
Subsequently, a large number of world-class physicists, including the Japanese scientist Yoshio Nishina, realized that it was entirely possible to create nuclear weapons.
Moreover, with the disclosure of the phenomenon of nuclear fission, the situation of Germany's control of Europe's leading physicists and chemists from 1940 onwards was gradually detected by the Japanese side.
Therefore, Takeo Yasuda, who was responsible for the development of Japan's secret weapon, guessed that Germany was likely to start developing nuclear fission weapons long ago.
In order to allow Japan to keep up with the process of nuclear weapons research and development in a timely manner, Takeo Yasuda also asked the German side to assist in nuclear weapons technology through Hiroshi Oshima, but Hirschmann refused.
So Japan's nuclear weapons program, the "Ren Plan", which was led by Takeo Yasuda and Yoshio Nishina, is now progressing slowly, or at least at a complete standstill.
"But now, after all, Japan is still asking Germany for more," said Hiroshi Oshima, "in case the empire gets into a bitter war in the Hawaiian Islands."
"Impossible" Ishihara, who was in charge of drawing up the plan for the "Jie-1 operation" on the army side, said loudly.
He was also summoned to the Prime Minister's Mansion by Hideki Tojo today, perhaps because there was no 918, Ishihara's prestige was not enough to pose a threat to Tojo, and he didn't dare to be too presumptuous in front of Tojo, so the relationship between the two could be maintained so-so.
Hearing that Hiroshi Oshima had doubts about the "Jet-1 Operation", Ishihara immediately interjected: "The Imperial Army has been deploying defenses in the Hawaiian Islands for two years, and has built a large number of defense facilities on the islands and hoarded abundant supplies. 11 elite divisions, 1 mixed brigade, 8 tank brigades, 10 aviation divisions and 4 antiaircraft artillery divisions were also deployed.
In addition, there is the Navy's Central Pacific Fleet and the 8th Fleet, and the main force of the Combined Fleet can strike at any time to deal a fatal blow to the invading American fleet. ” The Japanese army has really invested a lot in the deployment of the Hawaiian Islands, the number of army units alone is as high as 280,000, with more than 800 tanks of various types, mainly the T3476 and KV176 captured by the German army, various types of artillery, excluding more than 3,000 security guns of the navy, more than 2,000 aircraft, excluding suicide planes and missiles.
In addition, the Japanese military department also appointed Senior General Yamashita Fumi, who had made great achievements in the southward operation, to serve as the commander of the Hawaiian Front to defend Hawaii, and to take unified command of the Japanese Army units in the Hawaiian Islands, Christmas Island, Midway, and other places, and there was a division on Christmas Island, and a detachment at the wing level was stationed on Midway.
In other words, the actual strength of the Hawaiian Front exceeded 300,000 men In addition to the Army, the Hawaiian Islands and the neighboring islands of Christmas and Midway are also home to the Japanese Navy's Central Pacific Front Fleet.
Although this "fleet" does not have many large surface ships, it has a large number of shore-based aviation and coastal artillery.
Aircraft of all kinds, excluding suicide planes and missiles, have nearly 700 large-caliber shore defense guns, as many as three or four hundred, and have built a large number of shore forts with armored turrets on Oahu, the core of the Hawaiian archipelago.
In addition, the 8th Fleet, which had been stationed in the South Pacific for a long time, was also transferred to the Hawaiian Islands and became the "garrison fleet" of the Hawaiian Islands.
In addition to the conventional navy and army, the Japanese navy and army also deployed a real killer 1,000 suicide planes converted from Zero and Hayabusa planes on Oahu.
"More than 300,000 defenders, thousands of artillery pieces, more than 800 tanks, more than 2,700 combat aircraft, and more than 1,000 special attack aircraft," Ishihara said to Hiroshi Oshima with great certainty after introducing the defense of the Hawaiian Islands, "Even if the combined fleet is not considered, the defense of the Hawaiian Islands is enough to resist the attack of the entire US Navy and millions of US Army."
"Regardless of the Combined Fleet" Hiroshi Oshima seemed to hear the key, and he glanced at Hideki Tojo.
Tojo smiled and said, "Ishihara-kun, tell Oshima-kun, Oshima-kun is not an outsider. ” "Hay."
Ishihara nodded and said, "The purpose of the Jie-1 operation is not to sink how many American ships, but to kill and injure a large number of US military forces.
Therefore, the main force of the Combined Fleet will be concealed at the single crown bay anchorage in the early stage of the decisive battle, so the initial operations will be carried out by the Hawaiian Front, the Central Pacific Fleet, and the 8th Fleet. ” It has always been Ishihara's idea to kill and injure US troops in large quantities, and in his opinion, it is useless to kill and injure US warships in the navy.
Because the American man-made must have sunk faster than the Japanese Navy Japan sank one US ship, and the United States changed hands and built eight out of ten, and it was impossible to finish the battle Moreover, the Japanese Navy is now mainly fighting naval and air battles, fighting for planes and pilots, and in the final analysis, fighting for oil.
And the United States has dozens of times more oil than Japan, how can this be overcome Therefore, when the army and navy jointly formulated the plan for the "Jie-1 operation," Ishihara put forward the two major principles of "fighting hard first, and then fighting ships" and "luring the enemy to the island."
To put it simply, the main force of the Combined Fleet and the "Silver Reaper" missiles, which are regarded as killers, will not move first, and will only rely on planes and suicide planes on the Hawaiian Islands to fight with the Americans.
Seeing that the fight is almost exhausted, if the Americans land again, only if the Americans land, it is possible to kill a large number of people If the United Fleet and the "Silver Reaper" were defeated by the United Fleet as soon as it came up, the United States would have lost some ships, and it would have been similar to the Battle of Christmas Island, with the Americans sinking many ships and the Japanese dying many elite pilots The United States, which has sunk many ships, will be resurrected again in a few months, and even if it does not have a fleet of aircraft carriers, it can fight Japan with escort aircraft carriers.
And Japan, which has died of all its elite pilots, is really about to lose its country, and its planes are inferior to people, and its pilots are no longer as good as people, so how can the war be fought Therefore, in the revision of the "Jet-1 operation" plan carried out after Christmas Island, Ishihara simply proposed to allow the United States to land Let hundreds of thousands of Yankees go to the island first, so that the invincible Imperial Japanese Army can kill them in large numbers.
Waiting for the fierce battle on the island to reach its climax, the main force of the Combined Fleet and the "Silver Reaper" missiles suddenly dispatched again, and instead of seeking to completely annihilate the opponent, Ishihara Waner believed that the Combined Fleet did not have the strength to completely annihilate the US Pacific Fleet, but only wanted to use the Yamato-class battleships and the "Silver Reaper" missiles to drive the main force of the US Pacific Fleet away from the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands.
The U.S. troops who went to the island in this way are like turtles in an urn "Mr.
President, as of 6 p.m. yesterday, we have confirmed 223 more cases of plague, including 53 cases of pneumonic plague.
The total number of patients who died from pneumonic plague, cholera and anthrax has risen to 4,216."
Before the start of the White House military meeting on January 25, Senator Harry S.
Truman, the newly appointed director of the US Committee on Epidemic Prevention and Chemical Prevention, first reported to the President of the United States on the development of the plague epidemic, and the US Committee on Epidemic Prevention and Chemical Prevention, a temporary department nominally subordinate to Congress rather than the government.
Senator Truman was appointed by Roosevelt as the chairman of this committee, and it was obvious that President Roosevelt was deliberately cultivating this junior of the Democratic Party.
"In addition," Truman reported, "the epidemic continues to spread, with Oregon and Iowa reporting their first outbreaks of plague yesterday afternoon."
New outbreaks have been reported in Mexico, Guatemala and Haiti, and the first case of plague has been detected in Vancouver, Canada.
In Europe, the first cases of plague have been detected in Spain and in Sardinia, Italy. ” Roosevelt nodded, took over the heavy topic, and said, "Gentlemen, the Black Death is spreading, and if we don't take the Hawaiian Islands in time, there will be countless bomb balloons filled with plague fleas flying to the United States, and if one of them falls in New York or Chicago, the consequences will be unimaginable." ” t1706231537: