Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 320: Military parade (on the stands)
Xu Jun did not arrange the mechanized troops in order from light to heavy like the previous military parade. This is not a carnival parade. The most important role must be left to the finale.
The Führer wants to show a kind of shocking power this time. Just like the military parades of the later generations, the main battle tanks should be placed in the first sequence.
The concept of main battle tanks has not yet appeared in recent years. In the usual sense, most medium-sized tanks are about 20 tons, and their protective power can only barely cope with the attacks of conventional infantry weapons. Even so, they are divided into infantry and cavalry. This genre, it should be said that the British Army successfully introduced the world trend into the pit.
If the Germans were not short of funds and resources in the early stages of development, otherwise they would definitely follow the British. We can still see the shadow of this division of labor in the weapon configuration plans of the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks. .
At the time, Hitler regarded the British Empire as a benchmark. It probably meant that all the British had we had in Germany, and the British didn’t. But if the French had them, then we should have the same in Germany. ... looks like.
The Nazis were eager to catch up with the development of Britain and France, and the only way was to take shortcuts and super shortcuts. So Germany boldly absorbed a large number of untested new concepts and new technologies in the process of re-arming the Wehrmacht. Unintentionally, it came to the front of all countries.
Many of Germany’s military technology has no precedents to follow. You can only rely on yourself to work **** the training ground and sand table, and then test the results in actual combat. The failed products are naturally eliminated by the battlefield, and the successful products are retained. When it was put into production, the German wartime equipment research and development often repeated this process in history. This situation did not stop until the empire was finally defeated.
Germany's new heavy tank has entered the experimental stage. On this project, Rhein Steel and Krupp have conducted close cooperation. In the face of the supreme authority of the imperial government, the future European military-industrial complex has gradually emerged.
The forty-five-ton heavy-duty chassis prototype has passed the acceptance of the equipment department. Now it is carrying a turret model of the same weight as the real object. Various driving experiments are carried out in Kummersdorf. It is said that the experimental results are very good Optimistically, although the finalization of the new tank was a few weeks later than the timetable set by the head of state, the experts of the design team vowed that they would guarantee that the final finalization inspection could be completed by the end of January.
The improvement of the tank turret is still in progress. The engineers are racking their brains to reduce the weight of the turret. They try to reduce the front projection of the turret while squeezing three occupants. Finally, they adopted part of the Tiger King tank. By design, this new tank will have a pig-nosed gun shield in the style of a tiger king.
Since the Führer’s new toy has not been made, it is of course impossible to show it off to the guests, especially when there are Soviets on the scene. The Soviet ambassador was determined to be shameless. They even carried two movie cameras. In this half an hour, they had murdered more than a dozen color films. Moscow seems to have plenty of funds for activities.
Chinese ambassador Chen Jie can hardly conceal his excitement at this moment. In his impression, the government has not been invited to participate in such large-scale foreign affairs activities for a long time. Since Hitler leaned to Japan, Sino-German relations have rapidly cooled down. It has become a little transparency that both sides don’t want to see. Therefore, Chen Jie regarded this participation in the military parade as a diplomatic victory and a proof of the international community's recognition of the state's status.
The Germans deliberately separated the seats of the national ambassador and the Japanese mission, separated the two with a large number of Balkan missions in the middle, to prevent the two sides from conflicting in the stands.
This is not an impossible thing, because no one knows whether the Japanese will suddenly provoke a gangster, and no one dares to test the bottom line of this group of guys, because it turns out that there is no such thing.
The German receptionist maintains a superficial politeness towards the Japanese, and everything is in line with diplomatic etiquette, but the sense of alienation is also expressed clearly. If it weren’t for Ribbentrop to get together and get the heat, the Japanese said Uncertain has been frozen to death in the auditorium by the surrounding eyes.
However, in the words of Oshima Hiroshi, the cold eyes can not freeze the hot and sincere heart of serving the country of the Imperial Japanese commander. All that happened today, the Japanese ambassador saw in his eyes and swears in his heart. One day, the original class will be returned to these barbarians.
Especially the Romanian fat pig sitting on the left who likes to look at people through his nostrils, and the Hungarian **** sitting behind him. This **** kept kicking his own chair back with his feet, and he was just a beast drinking blood.
The Japanese ambassador poked his head and glanced at the Chinese mission that was sitting ten meters away. The other party was also staring here. The eyes of both sides collided in the air for a few seconds, and then they pretended that nothing happened. Move away naturally.
Hiroshi Oshima's thoughts are very clear. Unless his brain is flooded with insults to the host, no one will cause conflict at this time and place. He was once again fortunate that he was sitting next to a technical officer, not the **** red deer of the Army Province or the General Staff Headquarters.
Hiroshi Oshima was born in an artillery, but he spent most of his military career as a military attache overseas. He was promoted to a major general in the army smoothly and peacefully. In contrast, he was a classmate of Lu University in the same period. Most of them are still playing their lives on the battlefield in China with the rank of Dazhongzuo, and it has to be said that fate is sometimes so unfair.
The Japanese Army has a custom in sending military attaches overseas, that is, if there is military trade between the two sides, the Army Ministry usually selects a technical officer who has served in the Military Reserve Division to take office, in addition to spying on the other party’s military technology At the same time, you can also make a more professional assessment when purchasing weapons. It will not be like the officials in the Qing Dynasty who spent a lot of money to buy back a bunch of obsolete products.
Osaka Komatsu has worked in the Japanese Army Arsenal and the Military Affairs Division of the Army Ministry. He has a considerable understanding of the Japanese Army’s equipment. He knows the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese Army and knows what weapons Japan needs. He also shoulders the arduous mission of Tokyo. Japan wants to get technical support from Germany. It would be better if it could buy a batch of newly developed equipment, such as the fighter jets used by Germany over Chongqing. Both the army and the navy are right. This is very interesting.
But Komatsu is more interested in tanks, which are tanks equipped by the German army. By the way, China’s name for tanks was quite confusing at the time. Some people learned to call them tanks in Japan, some who followed the fashions and used English directly, and some local media newspapers were transliterated as Tonk, Tonk, and Tank. If not, Looking at the content, I really don’t know that it refers to the same thing, and the complicated situation in China can be seen from here.
The Japanese Army really wants to import tanks from Germany, which is obviously not realistic. Japan’s domestic economy is rapidly declining. If it were not for the government’s full control, Japan’s finances would have collapsed in the mid-1940s.
Because it did not sign the Treaty of the Three-Power Alliance as in the past, of course it did not have the financial and economic support of Italy and Germany. The original attempt to seize the northern French Indochina has also gone bankrupt. Japan’s current economic situation is more than historical It is even more severe.
Although Oshima Hiroshi knew about these issues, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs concealed the real data from him. This is a strategic secret of the Japanese Empire. They were worried that this guy might accidentally leak it to the Germans someday.
If no new economic stimulus is found, the domestic situation in Japan will worsen. At that time, the cabinet will not be able to restore the situation at all. Fumaki Kanae may not be able to survive the year, so he can only take the blame and resign to the people.
Unless national treatment and social consumption are drastically reduced, the whole country tightens its belts again and begins to drastically cut government expenditures, especially the annual military expenditures, and stop at the same time as in the Meiji and Taisho eras. In the foreign conquest, the whole people worked together to overcome the difficulties.
But is this possible? The answer is of course no. Now even the emperor can't ignore public opinion, and without the unanimous support of the cabinet, the army and the navy, he will never decreed to stop the war.
As the saying goes, it’s difficult to change from extravagance to frugality, and from frugality to extravagance. It has already tasted the sweetness of war dividends. After a few years of comfortable life, how can Japanese citizens allow politicians and bureaucrats to stop the trouble that brought them A war of less profit.
The Japanese citizens have not tasted the suffering of the war at this moment. They only know that war can make the country more prosperous. Who would know that under the heat and flowers, the Empire of Japan has reached the end of the war.
The vitality accumulated in the Meiji Taisho era is rapidly being consumed~IndoMTL.com~When Japan began to implement wartime economic control, Japan’s foreign trade almost stagnated because it was difficult for manufacturers to obtain what they needed to produce export goods. Raw materials.
After Germany resumed its overseas trade, the sources of strategic resources began to become diversified. It no longer needed to import rare metals and agricultural products from Japan. They also connected with Chongqing to obtain what they needed directly from the government. The bristles and tung oil made the Japanese government extremely passive in diplomacy.
"Chariot No. 4, this is the latest model that has never been shown." Komatsu excitedly held up the camera and began to snap pictures.
Under the stage, passing a team of No. 4 G tanks painted in two-color camouflage. The long 75mm gun barrel is raised high, and the barrel is painted with a circle of destruction signs. The leader of the car In the company commander, a beautiful shield-shaped pattern was painted on the turret, and in the middle was a white unicorn with its front hoof raised. As the shutter sounded under Komatsu's finger, this picture remained in the film forever.
ps: The situation is not good. I have been suffering from insomnia for a few days, and the jet lag will still affect it. Today, the time for the boiling water code is too late. Second, I can only delay one day.