Chapter 820 Indian Copy (the Book Has Been Unbanned, Please Subscribe)

"Imperial Marshal, what should we do?"

After confirming that Japan had begun to seek a separate peace, Marshal Raeder asked Hersman with some annoyance.

"What can we do?" Hersman shrugged, "Just pretend to be confused and pretend nothing happened."

"Just pretend nothing happened?" Raeder was stunned, "Imperial Marshal, shouldn't we stop Japan's behavior?"

In fact, Germany is also doing the same thing about a separate peace!

Hersman did not comment, but just said: "Secret diplomatic negotiations always exist, don't take it to heart. What we have to consider now is how to use Japan to bleed the United States... and spend as little European marks as possible."

Germany is not the United States. The current GDP of the United States is about 500 billion European marks (according to the theoretical gold content, 1 US dollar is equivalent to 2.5 marks), while the GDP of Germany (including the monarch alliance) is only more than 200 billion, which is almost 40% of the United States.

In this case, Germany certainly cannot be as generous as the United States, and must consider spending less money and doing more. And there is one thing that the United States cannot compare with Germany, that is, the sea of ​​oil! Germany can't give Japan a drop of oil.

So when Hersman formulated the German version of the Lend-Lease Act, he intended to control Japan's use of mechanized equipment.

The Japanese should work harder and burn less oil! Only in this way can the war be sustained.

But now Japan seems to be unaware of the oil bottleneck problem and still wants to expand the size of the army's mechanized forces.

"There is another piece of news, which I learned when I attended the headquarters meeting this morning," Hersman sighed softly and said, "Japan rejected the additional conditions of the Lend-Lease Act. They don't want us to guide them and want to make their own decisions."

This is expected. How can the Japanese be obedient if they don't suffer a little? So none of the German Wehrmacht senior officials present expressed surprise.

"But their diplomatic delegation did not leave," Hessmann continued, "but made new requests to Minister Ribbentrop... They hope that we can provide 18-cylinder engines of the BMW 801 series, BMW 802 series and the British Bristol Sagittarius series for their reference. If possible, they also want to send aviation engine experts to Europe to work with experts from BMW, Bristol, and Land God-Rona to further improve the 18-cylinder Nakajima Ha-45-44 engine (Yu type). Their engine has many problems. If they are not solved as soon as possible, the mass production of the Ki84 fighter will be delayed."

The Japanese Ki84 fighter is not very useful in Hessmann's view, because the design indicators of this aircraft are not very advanced. It is not as good as the latest German Fw-190 series, nor as good as the latest British Tempest and Fury fighters, and even worse than the "ultimate piston fighter" Ta-152/Ta-153 being developed by Focke-Wulf.

Moreover, the prototype of Japan's Ki84 aircraft had just completed its test flight, and the engine had many problems - Hessman knew that these were all flaws, there was no high-temperature resistant alloy (the formula and process were confidential, and no one would hand it over), the heat dissipation design was not up to standard (the German heat dissipation design could be copied, but the engine would definitely be overweight after copying it, because the Japanese could not make such a good heat sink), and Japan's aviation gasoline was not good enough.

It is impossible to solve all these problems in a short period of time, and Germany can't provide much help - that is the core technology, who is willing to give it to others? If Germany does not give Japan the core technology at the bottom of the box, and let the Japanese overcome the difficulties one by one, even if they get the drawings and samples of German and British engines, they will not be able to make a usable engine without two or three years.

In Hessman's view, instead of messing around like this, it is better to install Japan's own Venus engine (large 14 cylinders) or the low-end products in Germany's BMW801 series on the Zero fighter, just like the Zero **** type in history.

"And..." Hersman said expressionlessly, "The Japanese have also made new demands on the basis of the 'Lend-Lease' we are going to provide. They want to get the Soviet T-34 and KV series tanks captured by us to arm their armored forces, and hope to get them as soon as possible."

"They want T-34 and KV series tanks?" Marshal Halder, the first quartermaster general, suddenly laughed when he heard the news, "Do these Japanese know how difficult Russian goods are to serve?"

The T-34 and KV series tanks exchanged by the German army are mainly T-34/76, KV-1, and KV-2 tanks, and there are quite a few of them. However, the German Wehrmacht, which is well-equipped with mechanized equipment, did not send these tanks to its own troops, but sent the parts in poor condition back to the furnace, and the parts in better condition were sealed up for emergency use.

But to be honest, the German Wehrmacht did not like these Soviet tanks because they were unreliable and consumed a lot of fuel.

"I don't think they know," Hessman shook his head, "but these T-34 and KV tanks can at least be buried on the beach as fixed firing points, so I plan to give them 1,000."

"I have no objection," Halder replied. "Then will you give us the engine samples and drawings?"

"We can't give them the most advanced ones," Hessman said, "because they are now secretly making peace with the United States, and we must be on guard."

"Then what about the Lend-Lease Act?" Raeder asked, "Should we support it?"

"Support!" Hessman thought for a while and said, "Japan is an ally anyway, and we must give them spiritual encouragement."

Whether the Lend-Lease Act can be passed is not up to Hessman, as it is under the jurisdiction of the German Congress. But whether supplies can be allocated to the Japanese, and what can be given to the Japanese, that is up to Hessman.

"What about the Far East Fleet?" Raeder asked again, "Should they go to Pearl Harbor or..."

"Retreat to the Indian Ocean," Hessman said, "The Japanese will not allow them to destroy the Soviet Union's North Pacific lifeline again. And... our next move will be to increase the naval forces there to guard against American submarines and commerce raiders."

"Are the Soviets about to invade India?" Marshal Halder frowned slightly, "I heard from Mountbatten that India is in chaos now."

Mountbatten had just been appointed as the British Governor-General of India. When he went to India to take office a few weeks ago, he passed through Berlin and discussed the Indian issue with Marshal Halder. At the same time, during Hitler's visit to Britain, the British Provisional Government formally proposed to ask Germany to intervene in the Indian issue.

"It was because India was in chaos that Stalin invaded." Hersman smiled and said, "The Soviets spent more than a year building roads in Afghanistan. I heard that tens of thousands of Afghans died in the process. Wasn't it at such a high cost to open the door to India? Now he has finally found an opportunity to cause trouble for us."

The German intelligence department had long sent "British military advisers" to Afghanistan. Although they failed to help the Saints defeat the Soviet invaders in the end, they still established an intelligence network in Afghanistan. Although the Afghan revolution was successful with the help of the Soviet Union, various feudal remnants were still active. In the mountainous areas and remote areas of Afghanistan, there are still many tribes that do not obey the Kabul people's government.

So it is still very easy for "British spies" to collect intelligence in Afghanistan.

"Since the opening of the Afghan railway at the beginning of this year, the Soviet Red Army has been coming in continuously." Galen, the intelligence chief of the General Staff, said, "The total force has now exceeded 300,000, and it is said that an Indian front has been established.

In addition, the headquarters of the Indian Bolshevik Party has recently moved to Kabul. There is also intelligence that the Indian Bolshevik Party is still in contact with Gandhi, preparing to support Gandhi as the president of India after independence."

"What does Gandhi say?" Hersman asked indifferently.

"Gandhi does not seem to be managing the Indian Bolshevik Party. He is still leading non-violent non-cooperation in prison."

"Is there any way to make him cooperate?" Hersman asked.

"It's difficult." Galen shook his head, "He has too high a status in the minds of Indians."

Hersman turned his head and looked at Halder, who was the new commander-in-chief of the Indian front. He was just waiting for Guderian to take over the baton of the first quartermaster general and go to India to make deals with a bunch of bad-minded Indians.

This is really a headache!

"Can't touch Gandhi?" Halder asked with a frown.

"No," Hersman replied, "at least we can't touch him... There is also Nehru who is also confused, but he also has a very high WeChat. The other one is Bose, who is also a confused guy."

"What about the Soviet side?" Halder asked, "Are the Indian Bolsheviks smarter?"

"Smart?" Hersman smiled bitterly, "The slave master led the slaves to engage in GCism. This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life."

Hersman already knew some of the situation of the Indian Bolshevik Party. The main leaders and even members of the party were mostly noble Brahmins or Kshatriyas. And most of them were very rich. I don't know what was wrong with them, but they believed in the Bolsheviks.

"Are people on both sides equally confused?" Halder smiled, "That's good news."

"There are also some who are not confused." Hersman said, "The people of the MSL Alliance are not confused. They know what happened in Afghanistan. The Sikhs are not confused either. They have always been followers of the British Indian government. So when you arrive in India, you must first arm and help the British to raise an MSL army and a Sikh army."