Chapter 938 Bacterial Warfare 5 (First Update, Please Give Me a Monthly Vote)

"Humph, do you want to surround Japan and then torture it slowly?"

Hideki Tojo saw through Roosevelt's wishful thinking at a glance. The basis of Japan's hegemony in the Pacific now, in addition to the combined fleet that is short of fuel and carrier-based aircraft pilots, is the Hawaiian Islands that guard the gateway to the central Pacific and the Strait of Malacca that guards the western sea gate of Greater East Asia.

As long as Japan controls the Hawaiian Islands, the United States will be contained on the east coast of the Pacific. Similarly, if the Strait of Malacca is under Japan's firm control, Europe will be blocked from Greater East Asia. In this way, Japan will gain a huge and rich living space to grow and develop. In a maximum of one generation, Japan will grow into a powerful country that can compete with the United States and Europe!

If the Strait of Malacca and the Hawaiian Islands fall into the hands of the United States, and the Philippines is returned to the United States, considering the United States' strong industrial scale and the numerical advantage of the Pacific Fleet, the Pacific will actually fall into the control of the United States.

Japan's territory in the East Indies is also blocked by the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines controlled by the United States. In addition, the traffic between the United States and the East Asian continent will be unimpeded...

This way, Japan is not only in a dangerous situation surrounded by the United States and other hostile forces, but also in danger of being attacked from both sides at any time!

"Mr. Prime Minister," Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru, who reported the progress of the peace talks to Tojo Hideki, looked very worried, "Although the conditions of the United States are harsh, there is room for negotiation. If we can ensure the independence of the Philippines and the independence and neutrality of Malaya, we can withdraw from those areas.

After all... the situation of the war has gradually become serious."

The situation of the war is not gradually becoming serious, but very serious!

Due to the retreat of the Japanese Navy in the North Pacific, a large and critical sea area was completely out of control. The US Navy did not miss this opportunity. At least two anti-commie fleets with two "Independence" class aircraft carriers as the core broke into the Western Pacific!

However, it was not the two carrier-based fleets that caused Japan heavy losses, but the fact that the range of activities of the US submarine supply ships was pushed westward by 2,000 nautical miles because the Japanese bases on Amakenak Island and Unalaska Island were suppressed. This expanded the range of activities of large US ocean-going submarines with a cruising range of more than 10,000 nautical miles based in the United States to the vicinity of the Strait of Malacca.

And this substantial expansion of the range of submarine activities turned into a new high in the loss of Japanese merchant ships in November 1943.

Faced with the rising number of merchant ship losses, the Japanese Navy was at a loss because the Japanese Navy did not have enough destroyers for escort, and did not have enough large reconnaissance aircraft for patrolling the South Pacific Islands.

The huge gap in national strength has now been fully reflected in the Pacific battlefield. Although Japan has a strong aircraft carrier and battleship force, and the strength of the heavy cruiser force is not weak, it cannot establish a large light cruiser and destroyer force.

Among them, the total number of destroyers was only more than 200, mainly first-class destroyers used to participate in fleet decisive battles, and second-class and third-class destroyers used for anti-submarine escort (most of which were outdated reserve ships) were only more than 100, and their anti-submarine capabilities were very weak, and they often became prey for American submarines.

Hersman was worried about the Japanese for a while, and even instructed the Naval Armament Bureau to provide Germany's most advanced sonar system to Japan, and gave the Japanese samples and drawings for them to imitate.

However, until November 1943, the Japanese destroyers were still using the 93-type probes and 93-type listening machines that were copied from American and German products in the 1930s. Moreover, many ships used to perform escort missions did not even have the 93-type probes and 93-type listening machines, and relied entirely on the eyes of the "cat-eye warriors" to search for submarines underwater...

Faced with this dangerous situation of emergency transportation lines, the Japanese Navy did not try to get more destroyers and frigates (escort destroyers), but placed all its hopes on the "Operation Jie No. 1".

"You can talk to them," Tojo Hideki did not tell the Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru about the content of the "Operation Zhe-1" plan, "Just according to the conditions you just proposed... Shige-kun, you go to Switzerland in person to meet with the US Ambassador Kennedy. Leave around December 10th, and do not end the negotiations before December 30th."

"Before December 30th..." Shigemitsu Mamoru heard this and knew that Tojo Hideki had no intention of making peace with the Americans at all, and sending him to Switzerland was just a trick. However, he still nodded heavily: "Please rest assured, Prime Minister, the peace talks will continue before December 30th."

...

At a military airport near Brandenburg, Germany, a small jet with a slender fuselage, a pair of wings that looked very short and an even shorter tail slid onto an extra-long concrete runway and finally stopped steadily at the end of the runway.

Several ground crew members drove a small truck to the side of the small plane. They took two ladders from the truck and placed them on both sides of the cabin of the small plane. At this time, the teardrop-shaped canopy of the small plane had been pulled open. Two pilots sat in the cabin, one in front and one behind, respectively, Rudolf and Genda Minoru.

Today was the first time in Genda Minoru's life that he had driven the "Silver Reaper" manned missile produced by Rolls-Royce. Of course, he was driving a training missile with landing gear and a two-person cockpit.

In fact, this is a jet plane, but because the aerodynamic shape of this plane is not conducive to landing, only the best pilots can control it to land. And Rudolph just has such excellent technology - his air combat experience may not be top-notch (he has also won the Blue Max, which is considered an ace), but his technology is definitely first-class.

"Genda-kun," Rudolph seemed to be in a good mood after completing a perfect landing, "How do you feel?"

"Very bad!" Genda looked very unhappy and his face was a little pale. Although he was wearing a special anti-gravity suit, Rudolph still caused Genda to have "black vision" when he controlled the missile to dive at a large angle just now, and he almost fainted.

"Get used to it." Rudolph helped Genda, who was a little dizzy when walking, "No one feels good when they bear such a large overload for the first time, and you are old."

"Old? Am I an old man?" Genda pushed Rudolph away with some dissatisfaction, and staggered towards the small truck, but his heart was shrouded in clouds of worry.

It's not because he's about to turn 40, but the training over the past month has made him realize that jet planes and Silver Reaper missiles are not that easy to drive!

Without rigorous training, even if you have jet planes and Silver Reaper missiles, you can't play their power.

And the fuel consumption of jet planes and Silver Reaper is so amazing. Just the training of 400 people consumed 80,000 tons of aviation kerosene!

With Japan's current fuel supply, it's only possible to maintain a "common scale" of 200 or 300 jet planes (in fact, Germany only had a common scale of more than 100 Me262 in history). With this number, it's impossible to fight against the Americans' "sea of ​​planes" and "sea of ​​fleets".

Moreover, it seems unrealistic to imitate the "Silver Reaper" on a large scale. It's not that it can't be made, but the pilots of the Silver Reaper are really hard to train-Genda has found that it's more difficult to use the "Silver Reaper" for "dive bombing" than to use the liquid-cooled Comet dive bomber!

If an inexperienced and poorly skilled rookie pilot were to fly the imitation "Silver Reaper", he would probably not even have a 10% hit rate, and the possibility of falling into the sea would be even greater.

Therefore, Japan now only has 180-200 "Silver Reapers" that are truly usable combat power...

"Marshal, our research results and the report of Colonel Minoru Genda both point out that the Silver Reaper is not suitable for us... Although this weapon is powerful, it is also very consuming. And it cannot hit the target without an elite pilot."

Takijiro Onishi, who stepped down from the position of commander of the 10th Fleet (the fleet was disbanded), is now the general manager of the newly established Aircraft General Administration, responsible for integrating the aircraft production and research and development resources of the army and navy.

Minoru Genda's report on the "Silver Reaper" and Me262, as well as the report of the technical department on the Silver Reaper and Me262, were finally delivered to Onishi.

Yamamoto Isoroku was also reading the report written by Minoru Genda, and the content was the same as what Onishi said - the Silver Reaper was difficult to fly, and the Me262 was also difficult to fly. The Me262 was very inflexible and could not fight in a dogfight. It could only play "hit and go". It was very powerful at medium and high altitudes, but it was not good at medium and low altitudes...

"What should we do?" Yamamoto Isoroku closed Minoru Genda's report, looked at Onishi Takijiro and asked, "Can we win the Hawaiian decisive battle with a maximum of 200 Silver Reapers?"

200 missiles are indeed too few Some...

"Let's use the Zero special attack aircraft!" Onishi thought for a while and proposed to use the Zero aircraft for suicide attacks. "The Zero is relatively easy to fly. You can fly it after a few dozen hours of training. And its range is large enough. If it is equipped with explosives to hit the US aircraft carrier, its power should be no less than the Silver Death missile. I think... it is entirely possible to assemble 1,000 Zero special attack aircraft and the Army's Hayabusa special attack aircraft in the Hawaiian Islands."

"Okay!" Yamamoto Isoroku said, "Let's do it!"