Nowadays, various meetings in the Japanese cabinet and base camp are basically bargaining with shameless naval leaders and army giant red deermen, as if they are a vegetable market.

The result of bargaining is of course that the Navy is not satisfied with the Army is not happy, because the Japanese Empire can't get any share of this resource.

Therefore, Yamamoto Izuru's request was not 100% satisfied at the emergency cabinet meeting on March 19, 1943).

The final bargaining result was that the Yunlong-class aircraft carrier was fully built, the Dafeng aircraft carrier, the Shinno battleship, and the Kii battleship also strived to complete and put into service before the end of May, Showa 19, 1944).

In addition, Kaga and Akagi will also be renovated at the right time, install armored decks to improve air defense capabilities.

At the same time, the Army and Navy have also reached the goal of excluding parochialism, coordinated material personnel, and worked hard to save and improve efficiency, so as to eventually increase the annual output of Japanese aircraft to 50,000. The aircraft production plan for Showa in 2018 will also be adjusted to 30,000, of which 20,000 will be returned to the Navy and 10,000 will be returned to the Army.

In return for the Army's concessions on aircraft allocation, Yamamoto Iroji also agreed to support the Army's plans to expand its chariot troops and its plans to move south to New Zealand.

The Japanese Army will complete the formation and training of four chariot divisions by the end of May 2019, but the plans for seven independent chariot brigades were cancelled.

The Japanese Navy Combined Fleet will form a Southern Fleet, dedicated to South Pacific operations, and support the Japanese Army's plan to attack Australia.

As for the most critical oil issue, the Japanese Army and Navy also reached a distribution plan, in addition to ensuring the 150,000 tons of oil required for domestic production, the remaining oil navy earned 70% and the Army earned 30%. At the same time, it increased its investment in the Nanman Oil Shale Project and the Fushun Coal Liquefaction Project. The fuel obtained by oil shale and coal liquefaction are all under the control of the army and are not included in the overall oil distribution plan.

Finally, the top leaders of the Japanese Navy and Army also happily reached an agreement on the issue of seeking help from the European Community and the Roman Empire.

A week later, the new Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi Shigemitsu and Privy Councilor Yoshisaburo Nomura were the Japanese ambassadors who wanted to seduce the stomach at the US State Department), as well as Japanese ambassador to Germany, Lieutenant General Oshima Hiroshima, and others, arrived in Berlin, the German capital, with a long list of requests for help.

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"Tetraethyl lead additives are 500 tons, 10 sets of Beijieus hydrogenation equipment with a daily output of 500 tons of synthetic fuel, 200,000 tons of special marine steel, 50,000 tons of steel for tank armor, 100,000 tons of aircraft special plywood, 3,000 tons of special aircraft glue..."

German Defense Minister Schletcher, who was named Marshal of the Empire and was also given the title of Marshal of the Empire, wore reading glasses and whispered the list brought by Ribbentrop in the command office meeting room at 73 William Street.

"Haha," he put down the list halfway through his reading, smiled at Hessman, who was again in charge of the General Staff, and said, "Our Japanese friends seem to be more mature, and the requests made this time are relatively easy to satisfy."

"That's because you took the British mainland," Hessman said in a complimentary tone. "If there were no British mainland factories, we wouldn't be able to come up with so many tetraethyl lead additives, nor would we be able to come up with 100,000 tons of aircraft special plywood and 3,000 tons of glue. Special steel for marine use is not as wealthy as tank armored steel."

Tetraethyl lead additive is used to increase the octane number of gasoline. The tetraethyl lead added gasoline is a well-known leaded gasoline in later generations! After adding this additive, the octane number of gasoline can be increased by 20-30. For example, the octane number of gasoline extracted from Romanian light crude oil in Germany was originally 87, but after adding tetraethyl lead, it can be increased to 97-107. This is the so-called 3 fuel.

However, 3 fuel is not the aviation gasoline with the highest octane number. In 1943, both the United Kingdom and the United States had already mastered gasoline with an octane number of 130-150. Of course, the high octane gasoline with the British and American label 130-150 is not much ahead compared to the German 3. It’s just that the test methods of both sides are different. The United Kingdom and the United States use a dedicated single-cylinder compression ratio engine to obtain higher test data.

However, it is undeniable that Britain and the United States have a leading advantage in gasoline anti-explosion agent technology. This is because before the outbreak of the World War, Britain and the United States had large oil companies that could invest heavily in anti-explosion agent research. However, without such a company in Germany, it would be impossible to accumulate technology.

Fortunately, under the supervision of Hessman and the efforts of Faben to produce tetraethyl lead additives from the United States through the exchange of synthetic gasoline technology, Germany still gained knowledge in this regard.

However, the production of tetraethyl lead additives in Germany has never been large. After all, the oil output currently controlled by Germany is very limited, and there is no need for much gasoline anti-explosion agent. Moreover, the production of tetraethyl lead additives dedicated to aviation gasoline is expensive and the technical difficulty is also very difficult. If it were not for the British mainland, Germany would not be able to even out the 500 tons of tetraethyl lead additives that Japan wanted to obtain.

In terms of aircraft-specific plywood wooden aircraft) and special glue, although the levels between Britain and Germany are almost the same, Germany does not have rich production capacity to supply Japan. Because the British mainland has been blocked by Germany for a long time, it has focused on developing the plywood industry, and now it has a large production capacity to provide.

In addition, Germany is now working hard to build ships and tanks, and there is not much wealthy special steel to sell to Japan. Therefore, the 250,000 tons of special steel proposed by the Japanese side must also be produced by British factories.

"Two Imperial Marshals," regardless of Minister Hess asked Hitler, who was visiting Britain at this time, "the Japanese did not give up their plans to attack New Zealand. Will the UK refuse to provide tetraethyl lead, plywood, glue and special steel?"

"They won't refuse," said Hessman, who knew the British more well. "Instead, they will get the order actively and then slowly harm the Japanese!"

"What should we do?" Hess asked, "You can't punish Britain for Japan, right?"

The Nazis were all racist at heart. Hitler and Hess were not satisfied with Japan's insistence on attacking New Zealand. They were expected to secretly cause trouble to the Japanese people in the future.

"What can we do?" Hessman shook his head, "It's better to do the job of the Japanese and let them give up attacking New Zealand. In my opinion, the Americans will not wait until 1944 to attack again. Our Japanese friends will soon fall into a tough battle!"

He glanced at the naval commander-in-chief Raidel again because the German Navy's aircraft carriers and missile cruisers participated in the Battle of Panama and sent military delegations to the Japanese Navy. Therefore, he had some understanding of the situation of the Battle of Panama and Japan's subsequent deployment.

Redell said: "In the Pacific battlefield, the Battle of Panama should be a turning point, and Japan's strategic offensive situation is actually unable to maintain. The top leaders of the United Fleet are more pessimistic about the war than the Japanese side informed us, and they believe that the American offensive will begin soon.

Because the Japanese Navy exposed a very serious shortcoming in the Battle of Panama, their surface ships had seriously insufficient air defense capabilities. The American dive bombers paid almost no price when breaking through the Japanese ship's air defense fire network. Moreover, Japan's Zero fighter jets also had difficulty in fighting the US p51, 4u and 6... If we cannot provide effective emergency assistance to Japan, the Battle of Panama would not be the only setback encountered by the Japanese Navy in 1943."

"What is the priority?" Schletcher asked.

"It is to provide Bofos anti-aircraft gun systems," said Raidel. "The air defense systems of Japanese ships can only withstand torpedo attack aircraft and cannot withstand dive bombers because they do not have medium-range anti-aircraft gun systems."

The anti-aircraft gun system is not a 40mm cannon with a high firing angle, but involves a series of problems such as the control, protection, sighting, and firing control of the artillery. It is also very troublesome to integrate this anti-aircraft gun system into Japanese ships.

Schletcher nodded, asked without comment, "Is there anything else?"

"We also need to help Japan improve its Zero fighter jets," Raidel said. "If Japan faces a decisive battle in 6-10 months, then their new fighter jets simply don't have time to equip the troops."

"Perhaps we can provide them with airplanes or aircraft engines," Hess reminded.

"It can provide some, but it doesn't work much," Hessman took over the topic and said, "In 1942, the Japanese produced 18,000 aircraft, and consumed no less than 15,000 aircraft. How many can we provide?"

Aircraft during World War II were consumables. With the fleet size of less than 10,000 commonly used aircraft in Japan, the number of aircraft consumed in a year was more than 15,000 of which only 30-40% of the damage was used), and the number of engines consumed was more than 20,000. It was useless for the Germans to provide 2,000-3,000 units. If they were to provide a large number, then Germany's own aircraft engines would not be enough.

"What should we do?" Hitler's successor, Minister Hess, asked. "You can't watch the Japanese be defeated by the United States like this?"

Hessman snorted softly and said, "Even if we provide engines or even a large number of planes, these confused Japanese people will still be defeated by the United States! And it was around 1944... They would be beaten up by the Americans first, and then beg for mercy to seek peace that can preserve some of the fruits of victory. In this way, we have to face the behemoth of the United States alone!"

"Is that serious?" Hess was stunned by Hessman's words, and his face looked ugly.

"Yes." Hessman nodded and said, "So the problem now is not to aid Japan, but to use aid to force Japan to obey our will. Japan must obey our command in order to defeat the United States with us in the future.
Chapter completed!