"Ludwig, I think you should be very clear that without the help of Japan, we cannot effectively control the world. Even if we master the heartland of Eurasia, it is not possible, because the power of the United States is beyond imagination and is too powerful. Only when Germany and Japan join forces can we defeat..."

The person who was talking to Hessman was Major General Karl von Haushofer, the German Ambassador to Japan. He was once Hessman's boss, Hessman's instructor when he was studying in the military academy, and Chloe's teacher when he was studying at the University of Munich. He has a deep connection with Hessman's family.

In addition, he has a close relationship with Hitler and Hess. Many of Hitler's ideas about local politics come from this person. Chapter 16 of "My Struggle" about foreign policy is almost all about House Hofer's ideas.

After the news of the Battle of Panama reached Berlin, Hitler immediately instructed Ribbentrop to recall House Hofer from Tokyo to report his duties. The day after House Hofer arrived in Berlin, he personally visited Hesmann and Chloe.

Hessman knew that the purpose of House Hofer's visit was to provide the Japanese as the lobbyist Hessman proposed aid conditions that would be difficult for Japan to accept when he met Hiroshima three days ago, and Hessman's opinion clearly represents the German Wehrmacht.

"Doctor," said Hessman in a somewhat helpless tone, "I know that the United States is very powerful. If it is not severely damaged and contained, Germany will not be able to control the world. In fact, from the beginning, I regarded the United States as its main opponent, and I also knew that Japan could play an irreplaceable role in fighting the United States. But Japan is on the road to failure. If it is not corrected in time, then a "Lease Act" alone is not enough to restore the situation in the Pacific."

"Oh," House Hofer asked with a gray eyebrows, "Is the Defense Force ready to support the Lease Act?"

Germany is different from the United States. The "Lease Bill" is useless just for parliamentary approval, and the National Defense Forces must agree. This is not because the German Defense Forces are domineering and unreasonable, but because Germany does not have such wealthy materials to control. In order to make the most effective use of limited resources, Germany established the General Administration of Arms jointly controlled by the National Defense Forces and the government as early as before the war. All production and resources related to arms are managed by the General Administration of Arms. Spell, the director of the General Administration of Arms (who is also the chairman of the Economic Commission), although he was a Nazi party, he had to obey the will of the Chief of Staff of the National Defense Forces. After all, the General Administration of Arms is now the General Administration of Arms, not Hitler's Prime Minister's Office.

Moreover, even Hitler himself would not reverse the order of the Pacific battlefield and the Soviet-German battlefield. The victory or defeat of the Pacific battlefield only determines whether Germany can dominate the whole world, and the victory or defeat of the Soviet-German battlefield is directly related to the survival of the Third Reich!

"Doctor, of course we are willing to support the Lease Act." Hessman nodded and said, "But our support is conditional. We must obtain guidance for the Pacific War and also guide Japan's arms production. Only in this way can the materials provided by the Lease Act be valuable, otherwise we might as well use all the materials for the Eastern Front. As long as we defeat the Soviet Union, the Third Reich will exist for at least a hundred years or even longer."

Carl Househofer pondered for a moment and said, "How do we plan to support Japan?"

&nbm anti-aircraft guns…” Hessman reached out to get a list from his adjutant Stauffenberg, which was drafted by the General Staff of the German Wehrmacht and the Navy General Command. “A lot of 40mm anti-aircraft guns are needed. Our production lines in France, Britain, Sweden, Norway and Italy must be fully equipped to meet Japan’s needs.”

&nb anti-aircraft guns are indeed an astronomical figure, because they don’t have a single one now!

If you want to be equipped according to the standard equipment for air defense weapons configuration of the European Joint Fleet, 13 battleships (including 4 Yamato-class) alone will require thousands of gates!

In addition, Japan also has about 10 aircraft carriers, 15 heavy cruisers and 15 light cruisers (there were war damages after the war, and the specific situation was confidential, which Germany did not know), and about 70 destroyers (there were also many losses after the war) all had to be installed with a 40mm Bofos anti-aircraft gun system.

In addition to surface ships, the ground troops guarding the island of Japan also need 40mm Bofos anti-aircraft guns. Therefore, the total demand must be 5,000 units if it is less!

And this is not enough for 5,000 guns. The carrier-based Bofors anti-aircraft gun is a system with quite automated loading and operation equipment, very advanced sight-seeing and fire-control instruments, and even fire-control radars are required to be installed on some large ships. Of course, it is inevitable to provide tens of millions of 40mm anti-aircraft gun ammunition. Although Japan has the ability to produce various ammunition, they do not have a 40mm shell production line now, and Germany still has to provide assistance.

Therefore, the funds and resources required for this project to install anti-aircraft guns alone exceed the expense of providing thousands of aircraft!

As for the project of replacing another useless 25mm machine gun with a 20mm Eritano machine gun, and the issue of providing radio near-fighting fuzes for 127mm guns, it is not considered because it needs to control overhead and speed up progress.

"The second is various carrier-based radars..." Hessman continued, "The project to provide radar to Japan will be carried out simultaneously with the project of replacing new radars with the European Joint Fleet. We will hand over the eliminated radar to the Japanese."

Because of the British radar technology, the European Combined Fleet is now preparing to replace more advanced radars in batches. So the old radar was eliminated and just given to Japan. This project costs less, but it is a lot of trouble. It also needs to help install and train Japanese radar operators to install anti-aircraft guns by the Japanese, so the radar is not good.

"Another, it is to provide the "Union" class cargo ship and the "Union" class tanker." The "Union" class cargo ship and the "Union" class tanker mentioned by Hessman are actually copycats of the American Freewheeler and T3 tanker.

From the end of 1942 to the beginning of 1943, the European Joint Fleet captured many American freighters and tankers. Some of them were handed over to shipyards in Germany, Italy and France for research. The results after the study showed that although these two ships were not technically advanced, they could be manufactured in large quantities at low cost, and were also "assembly line" products, which were easy to produce.

So Hessman immediately instructed the General Administration of Arms to imitate the "Freedom" and the T3 tanker to deal with the Americans' destruction of war. On the Atlantic battlefield, the role of the United States and Germany also changed. Now it is the American submarines attacking the European Community and the Roman Empire's transport ship!

Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japanese merchant ships have been prey for American and British submarines and aircraft carriers. Since the second half of 1942, the loss figure has been rising all the way, with an average monthly loss of more than 100,000 tons. And this was achieved when American submarines were unable to fully exert their power due to torpedo quality problems!

However, the torpedo problem will not always bother the United States. The Americans only use advanced but immature products, and at worst they can use backward but reliable products. Therefore, as the size of the American submarine force grows, the Japanese will soon face the siege of the American wolf pack.

Faced with the siege of sea wolves, the Japanese Navy could not guarantee that their transport fleet was safe and sound in any way. Even the European Joint Escort/Transportation Command could not do this now.

Therefore, the only way to maintain transportation is to build more ships. As long as the number of new ships exceeds the number of losses, sea transportation can be maintained. Japan's shipbuilding ability cannot cope with the United States' "submarine sea" in any case.

If Japan cannot maintain its shipping, Japan will not be able to carry any number of planes given by Germany!

"The fourth focus of aid is large caliber artillery!" Hessman continued.

"Cannon?" Carl Househofer asked, "Japan can produce large-caliber artillery."

"But not enough!" said Hessman. "They have many islands that need to be defended. Large-caliber coastal defense guns are very important, otherwise they will not be able to deal with American battleships approaching bombardment. Considering the number of islands that Japan needs to be defended, they may need hundreds of large-caliber artillery. Only Europe can provide so many in the short term, and they themselves will not have time to make them."

He paused and said, "The fifth focus of aid is suicide aircraft!"

"Self-success?" Carl Househofer frowned, "This will go to hell!"

"I don't care how many Japanese there are in hell," Hessman smiled. "They are making too slow in this regard, and we have more reliable products... v1 people are fucking missiles. They are carried on aircraft, propelled by rocket engines, with a maximum range of 100 kilometers."

This space-time v1 missile is developed as a tactical weapon rather than a strategic weapon, so it does not pursue large ranges, but only pursues high accuracy and great power. There are three ways to guide: one is human chore; the second is radar guidance; and the third is television guidance. However, the current relatively mature methods are only human chores, which is tailor-made for the Japanese!

"The 6th aid project is the ju88 bomber used to launch V1-man missiles. Launching V1-man missiles with Ju88 will be the main anti-ship mode of the future Japanese aviation force."
Chapter completed!