"Panama Canal..." Tojo Hideki heard Yamamoto Isoji mention the Panama Canal and frowned slightly, "If you attack with an aircraft carrier, will it be very risky?"

The plan to attack the Panama Canal has long existed. The main function of the I-400 submarine that is being built and the "Seventeen Special Attack Plane" (Qinglan) under the secret development is to attack the Panama Canal.

According to the original plan, four submarines of the Iranian 400 will be built (Iranian 400, Iranian 401, Iranian 402 and Iranian 403), each Iranian 400 can carry 3 "Seventeen Special Attack Planes". When the 4 Iranian 400 models are deployed at the same time, up to 12 "Seventeen Special Attack Planes" can be dispatched.

According to the design requirements, each "Seventeen Special Attack Plane" can carry an 800-kilogram bomb or torpedo to fly up to 1,500 kilometers.

The Japanese naval staff, who had a lot of imagination, imagined that if necessary, this kind of seaplane could throw away the float and adopt a "one-way special attack" mode with no return. In this way, the four Iran 400 submarines could release 12 torpedo-carrying attack aircraft in the Pacific Ocean 1,000 kilometers away from the Panama Canal.

These 12 aircraft will take off at night and use ultra-low altitude flight to avoid detection by US radar. They fly to the Panama Canal when the sky just lights up in the early morning, and then use 12 torpedoes to attack the 8 steel gates on the Pacific side of the canal (two waterways, each with 4 gates) to strive to destroy them all!

According to the Japanese Navy's own assessment, once all eight gates on the canal are destroyed, it will take at least 6 months for the Americans to repair it. Considering that Germany has controlled most of the sea rights of the Atlantic Ocean, the "dumpling ships" built on the east coast of the United States cannot bypass South America to reach the Pacific Ocean.

So once the eight gates were blown up, Japan won a precious 6 months.

However, the situation is changing very quickly. The British mainland is about to be finished. The British Isle has been landed. How many days can it be left to jump around? This is a great news for Germany, but it is not good news for Japan!

Because once the British mainland is finished, the US's "European First" war policy will actually go bankrupt. Then most of the war materials produced by the industrial tyrant of the United States will be used on the Pacific battlefield... This is 100 million tons of steel (this is claimed, but it is actually only 80 million tons) and 200 million tons of oil!

Not to mention the navy, even the big red deer in the army heard that Britain was about to finish, they felt frightened.

So before Tojo and Yamamoto went to Cairo to attend the Axis summit, Naval Command Deputy Director Ito Kazuichi made a plan to raid the Panama Canal to block the large number of US aircraft carriers from entering the Pacific Ocean.

Since the raid on the Panama Canal was advanced to the first half of 1943, neither the Iranian 400 submarine nor the "Seventeen Special Attack Plane" could be counted on.

The Japanese Joint Fleet must dispatch precious aircraft carriers to take risks!

If the adventure is successful, the United States will not expect to take any initiative in the Pacific Ocean in 1943. Japan can use its precious 1943 defense to strengthen the defense of the Hawaiian Islands and complete the southward battle!

That's right, it's just going south!

Although Germany opposes, Japan is still determined to implement its plan to move south. Even if it does not occupy Australia, it must occupy New Zealand in order to cut off the route between the United States and Australia.

In this way, the United States will not be able to counterattack from Australia, and the Hawaiian Islands will become Japan's "gateway to the country".

In addition, the Japanese military also hopes that with the help of Germany, the development and production of two "Pacific Decisive Fighters" that they highly anticipated in 1943 are the Army's Ki84 (Breathless) fighter and the Navy's P1y (Galaxy) bomber.

Although they are all shore-based aircraft, their performance is extremely superior (the Japanese believe it is superior).

According to the design indicators, the ki84 (Breath) will be equipped with an 18-cylinder air-cooled engine with a maximum take-off power of 2,000 horsepower, with a maximum flat flight speed of 624 kilometers per hour (6,100 meters altitude), an extreme range of up to 2,500 kilometers, and a relatively powerful firepower. It has 2 20mm cannons and 12.7mm machine guns, and can also plug in 2 250 kilogram bombs.

According to the views of the Japanese Army's Big Red Deer, the comprehensive performance of this ki84 fighter has surpassed that of the German F-190 series, and can completely fight against the American P51 and P47 series aircraft.

The Japanese Navy's p1y is also a dual-engine medium-sized bomber with excellent performance. It is also equipped with two 18-cylinder air-cooled engines, with a maximum speed of 546 kilometers per hour and a range of 5370 kilometers! It can hang 1 800 kilogram aerial torpedo or 1 1,000 kilogram aerial bomb, and can also dive and drop bombs.

In addition, this p1y twin-engine bomber also has certain air combat performance and is equipped with air combat flaps, so that it has the ability to fight enemy fighters. In this way, it does not require the cover of fighters and can independently penetrate the US aircraft carrier formation.

However, it takes precious time whether it is to capture New Zealand, strengthen Hawaii, or complete the development of two "decisive battle models".

The only way to get time for Japan now seems to be the only way to use aircraft carriers to raid Panama.

"The risk is very high," Yamamoto Izuru nodded, "but it is imperative. According to information, there are now as many as 5 aircraft carriers used in Atlantic transportation in the United States, and they are all fleet aircraft carriers with very fast speeds! At the same time, there are at least 5 fleet aircraft carriers used in the Pacific battlefield. If the five aircraft carriers currently operating in the Atlantic are transferred to the Pacific Ocean, then the US Pacific Fleet will have aircraft carrier forces that compete with the Joint Fleet!"

It turned out that there was no need to wait until the end of the year. Now the United States has 10 fleet aircraft carriers (including light fleet aircraft carriers). If the end of the year, the Americans will definitely have more than 20 fleet aircraft carriers. At that time, they will all rush into the Pacific Ocean, and even if the Japanese Combined Fleet has three heads and six arms, they will not be able to withstand it.

"However," Yamamoto Iroji said, "if the European Combined Fleet can cooperate with us to launch an offensive in the Caribbean and attract American troops, then the plan to raid the Panama Canal will be very sure to succeed."

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While Tojo and Yamamoto were discussing how to convince the Germans to cooperate with their adventure plan to raid the Panama Canal, Hitler, Hessman and others had arrived in Cairo. At the warm invitation of Mussolini, the leader of the Roman Empire, who arrived in advance, he moved into the majestic Saladin Castle.

Egypt has now become part of the so-called Roman Empire, but the throne of the Egyptian king Farouk I who likes beauty and steals things is still there, but he has become a vassal of the Roman Emperor. This relationship is said to be in line with the Roman Empire's legal system!

According to Mussolini, after the demise of the Western Roman Empire, the Roman rule of law was transferred to the Eastern Roman Empire with Constantinople as its capital. Egypt was part of the Eastern Roman Empire. Later, the Eastern Roman Empire was replaced by the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, the Ottoman Empire claimed to have inherited Rome, so it can also be regarded as a continuation of the Roman Empire. Now that Italy revived Rome, it can of course inherit the Ottoman Empire's legal ruler and became the sect leader of the Egyptian Kingdom. Mohammed, the founding monarch of the Ali Dynasty. Ali was once a vassal of the "Ottoman Roman". Now the "Ottoman Roman" legal ruler has been transferred to "Italian Rome", so "Italian Rome" should become the sect leader of the Egyptian Kingdom...

Although this statement is very strange, history is written casually by the winner after all. Mussolini's military fortune in this time and space seems to be the winner. He will write it like this, neither Hitler nor Hessman wants to ask about it.

However, there are some differences between Germany and Italy regarding the border issues of the Neo-Roman Empire. Although Greece has long been spotted by Mussolini and has reached an agreement with Germany, it should become a part of the Neo-Roman Empire.

However, the Italian army's invasion of Greece was defeated. Later, under the command of Halde, the German army captured most of Greece's territory (except Crete). Later, under the mediation of William II's daughter Victoria Louis, Germany and King Paul I of Greece (he was Victoria Louis' son-in-law) reached an agreement to protect Greece by Germany and support Paul I to continue to be king.

At the same time, the Greek people happily joined the European Community and the European Mark Region, and began to integrate economically with Germany.

But in this case, Mussolini refused. Why did Greece change its homage to Italian leaders? But if he didn't agree or not, Mussolini would not be so stupid as to turn against Germany because of a small Greece. Of course, Hitler was not willing to have a strife with Italy for Greece, after all, the European Union Fleet still relies on Italy's franchise.
Chapter completed!