Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 232: Respectively

Standing in the round hatch, Captain Hanabo glanced again at the empty bow torpedo compartment. He didn't find anything unusual. Perhaps he was nervous. The Navy Master shook his head mockingly. Turned around and chased a group of people who had gone away.

From the perspective of the two Germans, it’s all **** time. They have seen the latest high-horsepower MAN diesel engine, but they don’t like the outdated diesel engine of the Japanese submarine. With the latest Nissan-powered cruiser A, it may still arouse some interest in the captains, but the I-60 was completed eleven years ago (1929), and the machinery and design have clearly fallen behind this era.

The ten years before World War II was the era with the fastest update of military technology in the world. The result of standing still and being satisfied with the status quo is to be eliminated by this era. The best example is France. Before the war started, it had the name of the number one army in Europe. Except for a few elite units, most soldiers carried outdated weapons and used them. Outdated combat technology, under the command of a group of outdated officers, fought a war in the era of new technology, and finally got such a result, in fact, it is not surprising at all.

Japan’s basic technology development has actually been stagnant for many years, but the top military level seems to be totally indifferent to this aspect. Japanese society is mostly blinded by the victory of previous wars of aggression.

In the early days of the Taisho era and the Showa era, the Japanese tightened their belts. With the help of British and American powers, they established a complete industrial production system and trained a unique modern army in Asia. By the Showa era, Japan was able to independently produce all types of modern weapons in the world. Regardless of the specific performance, this was indeed an extremely remarkable achievement. You must know that there were still many countries in Europe and America at that time, even the rifles in the hands of soldiers. Need to purchase from foreign countries.

The achievements in the development of the Japanese Empire in modern times are indeed impressive, but after raising their heads, the Japanese gradually became complacent. This is the flaw in the character of the Japanese island nation. It happened to be out of political needs in the early Showa era to resist left-wing revolutionary ideas. , Japan has set off an upsurge of nationalism, and Japan’s achievements have been deliberately exaggerated to prove that the ethnicity of the Yamato nation under the emperor’s leadership is excellent and never lags behind those Western whites. After more than ten years of day-to-day propaganda, at this moment, it has penetrated into the hearts and minds of the Japanese people and the military. In the end, even the Japanese high-level officials believed in themselves. They arrogantly believed that Japan’s military technology was already in the forefront of the world, and could completely compete with Europe and the United States. The great powers competed and rivaled.

In fact, at this time, the domestic technology in Japan is just taking the roots of the Taisho period, because the experts and professors who stand in the leadership positions of the scientific research or design departments are mostly from the Taisho era or even the Meiji era. . The generation that was truly cultivated by Japanese local universities and colleges is in the age of zealous young and strong, full of the emperor’s board of eight hugs and yiyu, but lost the objective thinking and innovative ideas of the older generation of Japanese scholars.

In recent years, in order to win orders from the Japanese Army and Navy, Japanese military industry companies have pursued innovation, and like to piling up a bunch of complicated and immature technologies into the design of weapons. However, the Japanese military is very fond of this set. The high-level military blindly pursues various new technologies and completely ignores the needs of the actual military. It seems that the use of fashionable technology represents advanced performance and can defeat the imaginary in mind. Strong enemy forces.

The power system of the Iraqi 60 completely copied the design of the German diesel engine, and only some of the auxiliary equipment was added with Japan’s own improvements. Robin and Igor did not have any opinion on what the Japanese did. Such problems were common in the early twentieth century. Moreover, when Japan purchased these engines, they had already paid tuition for technology transfer.

In the early days of the German production industry, it relied on copycat British and French industrial products to grab market share in Europe. German industrial products during that period were well-known throughout Europe for their low prices and poor quality. Germans are not born to be so rigorous. They were like the people in other European countries. They were sloppy and maddening. The modern Germanic nation's pursuit of order and obedience is completely dependent on the whips of generations of sheriffs. And the steel scabbards of the officers slowly "trained".

Japan’s current marine fuel engine technology has reached the culmination of what they can achieve. I believe that without outside help, there will be no breakthroughs in the past few years. And at present, Japan will not have the opportunity to obtain more advanced technology, because the German head of state blocked this possibility from the source.

To carry out a comprehensive technical blockade of Japan. This is what European countries are currently doing. The governments and media of various countries have maintained a considerable understanding, so this blockade does not exist to the outside world, because you can’t get it. Any relevant evidence.

The German head of state proposed the establishment of a unified European military technology control standard. This has been supported by countries such as Britain, France, Netherlands and Italy. They have also seen the proliferation of advanced military technology that may pose a threat to their national security.

There are two main sources of Japanese new technology in history. One is the United States on the other side of the ocean, and the other is the German-Italian alliance in Europe. Today, the German-Italian alliance has changed. Italy has become a hard-core vassal of Germany. The domestic scientific research results in Italy are under stricter control. All the requests for "communication" recently put forward by the Japanese are all tactfully evasive. Not to mention on the German side. The new head of state obviously has a special habit of protecting food, if it is only in the economic field, but the trouble is that he has extended this habit to the field of science and technology, and is concerned with these technical problems. , He is more enthusiastic and familiar than the former head of state. Oshima Hiroshi's report mentioned that the head of state was a genius inventor himself, who had personally designed and improved many German equipment and weapons in active service.

After the loss of technical support from Germany and Italy, it is still unclear whether the Japanese military industry will stand still or be strong, but what is certain is that the development of new weapons in Japan will definitely be affected by this.

The floor of the tail torpedo cabin is much higher than the power cabin. You need to climb a few steps before entering the door. Robin did not enter this small cabin, but looked inside on the platform at the doorway, and it was hastily. End of the visit to this cabin.

German and Japanese military officers talked and laughed at each other, and stepped back to the command cabin. At this time, a group of Japanese sailors, under the command of two special agents, passed through the deck entrance on the top of the power cabin and transported them to the rear deck. Supplies for the Germans. So when Robin and his team returned to the outside of the boat along the control tower shaft, the cartons with vegetables and cans and the wooden barrels with condiments were neatly placed on the rear deck of Yi 60.

Then the two parties shook hands and hugged and said goodbye enthusiastically. Robin did not take a Japanese rowing boat, but instead got on a powered rubber boat sent by U106. During the period, the small gasoline external engine at the tail of the German rubber boat attracted the attention and curiosity of many Japanese naval officers and soldiers.

"Okay, I saw it all. What did you just take?" The rubber dinghy passed the midline between the two submarines. Igor turned around on the wooden seat in the boat and faced Robin asked aloud.

In the bow torpedo compartment of the Japanese submarine just now, Igor clearly saw that Robin took something from the supply pile next to the torpedo tube and stuffed it into his trouser pocket, while tapping the torpedo with his other hand. Take care of it, and divert the attention of the Japanese. This method of Robin is very familiar with the deputy captain, and it was "learned" from an Italian military police when they traveled to Italy together.

In fact, in the second half of the visit, the deputy captain spent time in fear. He was really worried about the boss’s behavior and was discovered by the Japanese ~ IndoMTL.com~ until he boarded himself Igor finally let go of the human boat. He had some complaints against Robin in his heart, and he was also curious about why the other party took such a risk.

"If you don't tell me, I want to find you too. I took a small notebook, which seemed to have some data written on it. When I got back to U106, you could help me translate it. Maybe there would be something interesting." Robin smiled and patted his pockets.

The delivery of materials went very smoothly. The Germans used a lot of canned beef and sardines in exchange for a batch of Japanese-made fresh vegetables and special products such as canned Yamato. Both Germany and Japan expressed their appreciation for their harvest. "very satisfied. The Japanese thought they had obtained the "secret training method" of the German Navy, while the Germans had close contact with and learned about the training and equipment of the Japanese Navy. And until the two sides waved goodbye and each turned to leave, the Japanese never noticed the "crime" committed by Captain Robin from beginning to end.

U106 and Iraqi 60 immediately dived, and the first frontal contact between the German and Japanese navies in Southeast Asian waters ended. The ending was happy and it was really gratifying.

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