The Rise of the Third Reich

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

Natalie Lesinskaya pushed open the oak door of an office, smiled and said to the Imperial Marshal Hessmann inside.

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

"Hiroshi Oshima?" Hersman raised his head from a report about the resumption of navigation in the Panama Canal and looked at Natalie, who was wearing the uniform of a female assistant of the National Defense Forces. "He came here about the Panama Canal? "

The Japanese ambassador is not on the list that Hersman is prepared to meet today, nor is he a senior general of the National Defense Forces who can meet with him at any time. Moreover, Hersman is not an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and dealing with the Japanese ambassador is not his job. However, the Americans' repair of the Panama Canal was a reason for Hersman and Hiroshi Oshima to meet - 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 to establish diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia."

Now that the Russian Empire has been revived, it is no longer White Russia in exile, but a real country, so naturally there is the issue of diplomatic recognition. Both Olga's Belarusian government and Stalin's Soviet government now pursue the foreign policy of "one Russia (Soviet Union)" and "the Soviet Union and Russia are not independent."

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

Therefore, all countries in 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, with the help of Germany, Japan and Russia still started negotiations to establish diplomatic relations, and the person specifically responsible was Hiroshi Oshima.

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

It is natural for Japan that Sakhalin belongs to Japan. 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 low prices. Therefore, it is not excessive at all for Japan to demand sovereignty over the North Island as a condition for establishing diplomatic relations with Russia.

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

However, the issue of Sakhalin North Island was still negotiable in the view of Hitler and Hersmann. After all, it was only a desolate land of 40,000 square kilometers. Moreover... Hitler and Hessmann's "Russian Fusion Plan" only went as far as the Ural Mountains - it doesn't mean that there is no need for the east of the Ural Mountains, it is just that it will not be eaten for the time being to maintain the Soviet-Russian confrontation. When the Germanic people follow the example of Hessmann and Chloe when it comes to having children, and "Western Russia" is fully integrated into Europe, it will not be too late to deal with the Eastern Soviet Union.

However, Japan's Showa staff did not know what medicine they were taking. After Leningrad became Petrograd, they even proposed "the status of the Far East is undecided." It means that we don’t know who owns the Far East of the Soviet Union. It depends on the situation. It is estimated that this group of Showa staff was preparing to go to war with the Soviet Union after Germany captured Moscow and capture the Soviet Far East.

However, this "undecided status of the Far East" was firmly opposed by the Russian government, and the negotiations to establish diplomatic relations with Japan also broke down.

Regarding Japan's request, both Hitler and Hessmann felt that there was nothing to discuss - although the Russian Far East was very desolate, it was such a big area on the map! With one blow, it becomes "undecided". Doesn't Queen Olga's legitimacy become a problem?

Moreover...Hitler and Hersmann do not want Japan to stab the Soviet Union in the back now. With one stab of a knife, there might be tens of millions more Russians in the European Community! The Germans went from being the largest ethnic group to being the minority. How could this be possible?

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

Hirschmann's stance on Russia's eastern territories did not disappoint Oshima, because it had long been expected.

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

Therefore, the basis for Germany's world domination is integration with Russia, and the basis for integration with Russia is Empress Olga and her government.

Therefore, Germany cannot trade the legitimacy of Olga and the Belarusian government under any circumstances. On the map published by Germany today, left-bank Ukraine and East Belarus, which are actually directly ruled by the German government, are still affiliated territories of the Russian Empire. It was just renamed the Kingdom of Little Russia and the Kingdom of Belarus, ruled by the German Crown Prince Louis Ferdinand and the Crown Princess Kira. Both of them are also the legal heirs to the throne of the Russian Empire, and there is no legal problem at all - it is a common situation in European monarchies for the heir to the throne to serve as the monarch of an important territory.

With the arrangement in Left Bank Ukraine and East Belarus, how could Germany stab Olga in the back on the Far East issue?

So after meeting Hessman, 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 Excellency, the Imperial Marshal, our Empire is currently preparing for the final battle with the United States in the Pacific, so we urgently need your assistance and cooperation."

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

"Our Empire is ready to fight a decisive battle with the United States in the Hawaiian Islands!" Oshima Hiroshi said, "The Navy Combined Fleet and some of the Army's elite will gather in the Hawaiian Islands, first take a defensive position, use the nine-stage tactics to consume the strength of the US military, and finally counterattack with 4 Yamato-class battleships and the mobile fleet to completely annihilate the main force of the US Pacific Fleet and force the United States to accept the peace conditions of our Empire."

Dream on?

Hirschman didn't care about the final battle in his heart, but he asked politely for the sake of face: "The strength of the US Navy is growing rapidly now, and several aircraft carriers are put into service every month. Why do they need to rush for a decisive battle now? If the attack on the Hawaiian Islands is postponed 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..."

The rich are the rich!

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

Although Japan received technical support from Germany and 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 is called Ha45). Let the Japanese navy and army have a reliable 2000 horsepower high-performance air-cooled engine, so that the Ki84 Hayate fighter and Shiden Kai fighter, which have been repeatedly delayed due to engine problems in history, can enter the mass production stage in June 1943. The prototype of the P1Y Galaxy bomber was also scheduled for a test flight at the end of June 1943, and it was planned to be mass-produced before the end of 1943.

However, the Ki84 Hayate and Shiden Kai are both land-based aircraft, and their performance is not much better than the American carrier-based F4U and F6F. Japan's carrier-based fighters are still supported by the Zero, and the German Fw-190T does not meet Japan's requirements (because the advantageous airspace is at high altitude, and the landing performance is not good, and the engine is too complicated). The Japanese's own "17 ship test" has not even completed the prototype, and it is good to enter the test flight stage within the year.

So in terms of aircraft, Japan's advantage at the beginning 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. More pilots mean more standing warplanes. Fewer pilots mean fewer standing warplanes.

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 the war breaks out, the US military can recruit many new recruits with flying experience for training.

And the United States has endless oil, which can let new pilots fly freely!

So for the rookie pilots who joined the army after the outbreak of the war, the flight time of the Americans is several hundred hours (including the flight before joining the army, and the standard training flight time after joining the army is usually 300 hours), while the German side has now shortened to 100-150 hours, and the Japanese side has even reduced to 50 hours.

The difference in flight training time directly determines the quality of the pilots' skills of the three parties of the United States, Germany and Japan. Germany has the Soviet Union as an ace sparring partner, which allows rookie pilots to accumulate experience in actual combat, so there are now quite a lot of ace pilots available.

But Japan is miserable. Except for a group of old pilots accumulated before the war, the pilots trained after the war are not reliable. It is basically a dream to want to crush the United States with pilot technology, and the number of American pilots is several times more 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 as time went on, 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.