The Rise of the Third Reich

In the early morning of June 5, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Japan was brightly lit, and the cabinet conference room was filled with senior officials wearing army and navy uniforms. Staff officers came in and out, constantly sending in the frontline battle reports they had just received.

"The Americans used mustard gas bombs!" Lieutenant General Kanji Ishihara, deputy chief of the Army Staff Headquarters, looked at the copy of the telegram sent by the staff and immediately started shouting. "This shows that the Americans are going to fight tooth and nail, and this behemoth is going to fight us tooth and nail... Unless the empire is willing to make peace with the United States before the Soviet Union completely collapses, the empire will fall into a real bitter war!"

The Deputy Chief of Naval Command, Seiichi Ito, also shouted: "More than a hundred American B-29s dropped terrible incendiary bombs on the Palembang oil field and refinery. Now the entire refinery has turned into a sea of ​​flames. The losses in the oil fields are not small... It seems that the Americans have made the greatest determination to fight the imperial country to the death before the collapse of the Soviet Union. "

The two deputy commanders of the army and navy actually used the same tune and came to the same conclusion.

Although neither of them said that the battle in front of them was boring, looking at their current expressions and the tone of their words, it was obvious that they didn't want to fight.

Prime Minister Hideki Tojo just glanced at them both coldly. In fact, he did not want to continue fighting with the United States. But how do the Germans explain it? Today's Germany is not what it used to be (before June 1st). They have nuclear fission bombs that are said to be very powerful... If Japan ignores Germany's objections and makes a separate peace with the United States, and at the same time invades Russia's Far East, who knows whether it will be annoying How about giving Japan a dozen atomic bombs instead of Hitler and Hersmann?

It doesn’t matter if you blow up everyone here. Everyone is loyal and will definitely become a god after death. But if His Majesty the Emperor is killed by a bomb, that big guy will be the eternal sinner of the Imperial Kingdom.

Ishihara Wanji looked at Tojo Hideki's expressionless look and knew that the Prime Minister was worried about Germany's reaction. He fully understood this, because Japan now not only had to make peace with the United States, but also had to take over the Soviet Far East. Only in this way can Japan win an external environment in which it can rest and rest with peace of mind.

However, the two things Japan must do now both offend Germany's interests, and may really cause Japan and Germany to fall out.

Once Japan and Germany turned against each other, the Soviet Union might not be able to take over the Far East, and Japan might even be hit by an atomic bomb...

"Prime Minister, now the German Empire needs Japan more than Japan needs the German Empire." Ishihara Wanji said after considering, "The relationship between the Japanese Empire and the German Empire is similar to that of Mongolia and the Song Dynasty in the past, with the United States dominating the The Great Jin Kingdom in the Central Plains.”

Tojo Hideki glanced at Ishihara Wanji. This genius consultant actually used the allusion of China's Southern Song Dynasty to unite Mongolia and destroy Jin to describe the current relationship between Japan, Germany and the United States. Does he think Germany will attack Japan after defeating the United States?

"Being on guard against others is indispensable," Kanji Ishihara said. "Even if the war with the United States continues, the empire should receive sufficient remuneration from the Germans in order to accumulate capital to resist Europe's eastward advance after the war."

"Remuneration?" Tojo asked, "What kind of compensation?"

"Heisenberg device!" Kanji Ishihara said decisively, "The empire must possess nuclear fission weapons to ensure that it can compete with Europe and the United States after the war. If Germany treats our empire sincerely, then it should provide relevant information to manufacture the Heisenberg device. technology."

Japan now does not have a question of whether to build an atomic bomb. It only has a question of when it can build an atomic bomb.

However, Takeo Yasuda, who was in charge of this matter, told Tojo Hideki after a discussion with Japanese nuclear expert Yoshio Nishina: Without technical assistance from Germany, it would take at least 15-20 years for Japan to independently manufacture nuclear weapons. Fission bomb.

And 15-20 years is too long for Japan, so many people in the Japanese military immediately thought of asking Germany for help.

But how can Germany be willing to share its trump card with Japan?

"We should at least give it a try." Army Chief of Staff Genya Sugiyama told Tojo. "If the Germans reject our request, Japan should also have reservations in future cooperation."

"Does reservation mean... to make peace with the United States alone?" Tojo asked.

Yamamoto Isoroku took over Tojo's question: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, if Germany is unwilling to provide the Heisenberg device, then the longer their war with the United States goes on, the more beneficial it will be to our empire... Our empire can just take the opportunity to seize it. The Soviet Far East and developed nuclear fission weapons on its own.”

It seems that the Japanese army and navy have really reached an agreement on the development of atomic bombs and peace with the United States this time.

"But it will take at least 15 years for Japan to develop nuclear fission weapons on its own!" Hideki Tojo frowned bitterly, "The war between the United States and Germany will not last for 15 years anyway, right?"

"It is enough to last for five years." Yamamoto Isoroku said, "Although five years is not enough for the empire to create a nuclear fission bomb, Germany and Germany must have been severely weakened if they fought hard for so long. Without ten years of cultivation, it would be impossible. It may continue to expand. Our empire just uses this time to go all out to build nuclear fission bombs. Only in this way can we compete with Germany in the future. So..."

Before Yamamoto finished speaking, he was interrupted by an officer from the Ministry of War who suddenly broke in. The man ran in, his military boots thumping on the floor, and he shouted a report before he could stand still. .

"...The General Defense Forces Headquarters reported that the coastal areas of Fukuoka, Kochi, Aichi, Shizuoka and Miyagi Prefectures were attacked by enemy rocket launchers! The enemy used white phosphorus incendiary bombs and mustard gas bombs, causing a large number of Casualties and serious fires!”

There was sudden silence in the conference room, and all the big shots were stunned by the news. After a while, several army and navy generals jumped up, and the chairs rattled.

"American aircraft carrier! The American aircraft carrier must have arrived on the coast of Japan, but your navy didn't notice it. It's so incompetent!"

A major general in the army didn't know if he was anxious because his homeland was being attacked, but he immediately accused the navy. Although it is well known that the Japanese army and navy are at odds, most of the time during the base camp meeting the two sides were in harmony.

"It's not the Navy's fault!" Ito Seiichi, deputy director of the Navy's Military Command Department, also had a fiery temper. He didn't buy the Army's fault at all. He glared and said angrily, "The Navy does not have enough reconnaissance aircraft, and there are too many battlefields to consider. Much, this is..."

At this point, Ito Zhengichi suddenly realized that something was wrong. Instead of saying anything further, he glanced at the Army Lieutenant Colonel who reported the news: "Fukuoka Prefecture was also attacked by rockets?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure?" Ito asked again.

"Sure!"

"Baga!" Ito cursed, "It was not done by American planes! It is impossible for American planes to fly near Fukuoka Prefecture on the coast of Tsushima Strait without being noticed, and American carrier-based aircraft No such voyage is possible."

"It wasn't American planes that did it. Could it be that American ships were firing rockets?" Army Chief Gen. Sugiyama looked at Ito in a daze and asked.

"It can't be a ship..." Ito rolled his eyes, "Maybe... maybe it's an American submarine!"

"Submarine?" Hideki Tojo was stunned again and again, "A submarine can also launch rockets?"

"Prime Minister," Ishihara Wanji interjected, "Since we can think of putting airplanes on submarines, it's not surprising that the Americans think of putting rocket launchers on them. But..." Ishihara glanced at several people in white military uniforms in the conference room. The naval general said, "But the Americans' method seems to be better than ours!"

After hearing Ishihara's words, Yamamoto Isoroku's face felt a little warm. He now has the same view. The I-400 submarine with an underwater displacement of 6,560 tons is really expensive to build, but its function is nothing more than a sneak attack. Installing rocket launchers on ordinary ocean-going submarines like the Americans can also have the effect of sneak attacks, and the cost is much cheaper.

But Ito Zhengyi's face turned a little ugly. He frowned and said: "The Americans will definitely launch more attacks. After all, Japan is an island country. The coastline is too long and there are too many coastal towns. And the navy's There are too few destroyers and not enough anti-submarine reconnaissance aircraft..."

Japan's mainland coastline is about 30,000 kilometers, and now North Korea, South Sakhalin Island, Taiwan Island and the Kanto Prefecture Concession are added, and the total length is probably 40,000 kilometers. How could Japan's few destroyers and anti-submarine patrol aircraft be able to prevent it?

Moreover, Japan's destroyers still have to fight and escort, so how can they be used to protect the mainland coastline?

Just when the navy leaders in the conference room felt that the matter was troublesome, Ishihara Wanji suddenly interjected another sentence, which immediately frightened everyone.

Ishihara said: "Will the Americans use rocket launchers on submarines to release bacterial weapons?"

Definitely! Everyone immediately came up with exactly the same answer in their hearts.

The Americans now even use mustard gas, so why should they worry about using bacterial weapons? And the Americans definitely have germ weapons. Even if they didn't have them before, they can now find some germs dropped by Japan and multiply them.

Maybe the Americans have already used bacterial weapons against Oahu and Japan, but bacterial weapons have an incubation period, and those infected will not get sick so quickly! This bacterial weapon may not pose much of a threat to the Imperial Army on Oahu. After all, the troops stationed in Hawaii have considered the issue of retaliation from bacterial weapons and therefore have a large stockpile of anthrax vaccines and plague vaccines.

However, Japan does not have enough vaccines in stock to vaccinate the entire population. Once the Americans use bacterial weapons in disregard of international justice, the consequences may be quite serious!