Battle of the Third Reich

"My head of state, the Japanese are already waiting outside. Do you see them now?"

Ribbentrop asked humbly standing next to Xu Jun.

"Uh... let them come in."

Xu Jun turned around from the window and handed the document in his hand to his Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

"The one who will come will always come..."

Xu Jun stroked the broken hair on the forehead, slightly adjusted the entire skirt, and then walked towards the side door leading to the conference room with his hands on his back.

"Mr. Ambassador, the head of state invites you in."

Ribbentrop smiled and stood quietly in front of Oshima.

"Ah, thank you, Mr. Minister."

Oshima has long stood up from the gorgeous sofa in the lounge. Hearing Ribbentrop’s words, he quickly exchanged a wink with his companion, and then slowly lifted him to hold The briefcase in front of the chest sorted out the shirt and put on his German top hat.

"Please wait a minute, Mr. Minister, please tell the head of state that Kettle and General Manstein are already on the road and will arrive here on time."

Disenhofen said loudly on the phone.

"Well, I know, Eric."

Ribbentrop smiled and waved to Disenhofen, then turned his head to the group of Japanese people and urged: "Dear me, please follow me, the head of state is still waiting."

"Ah yes, please ask the minister to lead the way."

The Japanese envoys suddenly bowed respectfully to the Disenhofen sitting behind the desk before starting, and startled the young adjutant. Before the reaction of Disenhofen, the well-dressed Japanese had already walked into the office of Xu Jun behind Ribbentrop with a stern expression.

"Oh?"

Disenhofen scratched his head in doubt, then shrugged his shoulders.

"It's a strange group of people."

For the sudden change of Germany’s top leadership in June, the Japanese government may be the most concerned in the world.

Last year, the German government swiftly signed the "Soviet-Germany Non-aggression Treaty" with Russia without knowing the Japanese government, which struck the Japanese government by surprise. The Prime Minister Hiranuma Kiichiro, who just recently took office, finally survived the huge pressure on him due to the Nomenkan defeat. Ruthlessly hit a sap on his head. The Great Japanese Empire united with Germany and Italy, and the grand plan to get his place back to Maozi was so fragile that the Hiranuma cabinet had to be disbanded in a sad place.

It took only seven months before and after, and the poor prince, the prince, hadn't even had time to sit up, but he couldn't even cry when he was in such a bad situation.

The seemingly fast-growing relationship between Germany and Japan suddenly stopped as if the brakes were stepped on, and the clamour for the German-Japanese alliance in Japan suddenly stopped. For a while, Japan's courts and officials were all accusing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of failing to get half the score in advance. It took so much manpower and material resources to know nothing about such an important diplomatic incident. How can such a Ministry of Foreign Affairs continue to trust people. The officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were punished by a large number of hats such as incompetence, malfeasance, idiots, waste, etc., so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not dare to tell others what they were doing when they went out during that period. .

Then came Prime Minister Abe Nobuyuki, who suffered as much as Prime Minister Hepinguma. Not long after taking office, the army general was devastated by a lot of domestic trade conflicts and food shortages. This general had a chance to fight a battle and set fire. It was his old life to govern the country. Although he struggled a lot, he quickly lost the trust of everyone in Japan. Resign and step down. He was more miserable than Hiranuma Kiichiro, and he was in power for only three months, which was shorter than Xu Jun's time when he was empty. Abe's incompetent performance completely lost the face of the Japanese army general. Immediately after he stepped down, he was kicked aside by the military and took a cold bench.

The hapless successor to Abe was the navy-born General Mine, who was a good prime minister. He maintained his glorious tradition of thinking carefully and calmly conceiving Japanese development policies. But what is unexpected is that in addition to inheriting the navy-like calm way of thinking, this navy general also inherited the navy's tradition of getting close to Britain and the United States. After taking office, the **** has not yet settled and united with the foreign minister Arita to start preparing for diplomacy Shanghai coordinated with Anglo-American to ease the contradiction between the two sides. Mine's attitude completely angered the army system that had always hated the Anglo-American army. With the resignation of the Minister of the Army, Hataru Hataru, Minneto had no choice but to grind his teeth and bow down. He lasted for three and a half months, persisted for more than ten days than that of Abe's stupid, and finally did not embarrass the Navy.

This was followed by the current prime minister Wen Wei, the political veteran who resigned after more than a year under the command of the emperor, and returned to form a cabinet, more than two months earlier than in history.

It wasn't until this time that the Japanese diplomatic service finally took a breath. Foreign Minister Yoshinori Matsuoka of the Guardian Cabinet, the famous "Continental" diplomat once again picked up a plan to form an alliance with Germany and Italy. But this time the goal behind Japan's alliance with the Three Nations is no longer Russia to the north, but the United States across the Pacific. The radical Matsuoka is even ready to start negotiations with Russia immediately after the successful alliance of the three countries, and strives to draw Russia into the alliance of the three countries to fight against the United States with the power of the four countries.

Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs began to fight hard after getting a clear goal to revive the former glory of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, the Germans, who had not been settled for a few days, had once again made major events that shocked the world before they had completed the basic adjustment of Japanese foreign policy.

After rigorous preparations, Germany suddenly launched a lightning attack on the European lowlands. When they first heard about this news, the Japanese side was really taken aback. They did not expect Germany to be so impatient, and challenged the most powerful European Union alone. The subsequent development of the situation made the Japanese even more dumbfounded. The German team showed extraordinary fighting power. The seemingly powerful British and French Army had no power to fight back in front of the German ** team, watching the German ** team rushing into the unmanned land in Europe.

Public opinion in Japan is boiling again, and the topic of the German-Japanese alliance once again occupies the dominant position of the people after tea and dinner. Especially the young officers in the army, who were agitated by the glorious victories of Germany, their eyes turned green and bloody. This group of fanatics even shouted out that we must not miss the slogan of this bus, and won the big army. The recognition of some senior generals.

It is not just the military that thinks that most people in the cabinet agree with this view. Many people believe that with the good relations that Japan and Germany have maintained, plus the bottom of the previous "International Production Agreement", Japan will certainly be able to take the ride of Germany to dominate the world.

Seeing that Britain and France are going to be completely defeated by Germany, there will be no other country in the Asian region except the United States on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Too. But no one thought of it. Just as the whole country cheered up and down, the Germans once again made a super joke with the Japanese, and their head of state changed.

When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was informed of this news, the Minister of Foreign Affairs could hardly believe that this was true.

What exactly are the Germans doing and how many Japanese prime ministers want to die? Last time, I played a handicapped Hiranuma, and caused Japan to change the three-world government in more than a year. Two of them were less than half a year in total, and the Japanese political situation was in chaos. Now that the brand-new Guard Cabinet has just come to power, the strategy of advancing south has been finalized. Japan is preparing to launch a new round of diplomatic mediation by the German-Italian-Japanese alliance, but the Germans have made such a situation again. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had previously specifically studied Hitler's personal character and habits in order to please the German head of state, but now it is better. The researched target did not even say hello.

When they learned that it was the young deputy head of state who had kept a low profile, Reinhardt von Steide, the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs felt that the problem had become serious. Originally ranked second on the German heads of succession list was Air Force Marshal Goering, and now the German head of state is ranked third, and he has been serving as an idle minister in the government and as a military commander. Before, it had not attracted the attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ intelligence department collected a lot of information about the German leaders earlier, most of them were Hitler and Goring, and three file cabinets were installed. Not many of these documents are about this deputy head.

It's also blamed that Reinhardt is usually too strict, and has always been sneaky. Except for the high-level Nazi gatherings, all other activities flashed within three minutes of the scene. He did not attend the diplomatic banquet held by the Japanese embassy. And he never accepts interviews with reporters. Compared with his lively predecessor, he is like a person from two worlds. Because of his incomprehensible low-key, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ intelligence department chose to ignore him after finding that it was difficult to obtain valuable information from him.

Now the magnificent Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Great Japanese Empire knows little about the situation of this new German head of state. The information in the Intelligence Service about this von Stead, all the photo files are less than ten pages in total, how can this not depress those diplomatic officials. When he learned that Germany's new head of state was this man, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Japanese Empire suddenly panicked. Yoshinori Matsuoka was dumbfounded on the spot. If this matter spreads, the hats of idiots, dereliction of duty, and waste from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will never be taken off.

The angrily corrupted foreign minister gave a death order, and he must have all the information of the new German head of state before the defeat and surrender of France, otherwise he will expel all related personnel, even if the guy is sealed by the emperor, there is no good fruit to eat. . The Minister of Foreign Affairs ordered that the poor group of officials below had to jump up and down to find the personal information of the German head of state. All kinds of routines and relationships, both light and dark, were all used up. For their expensive salary, Japanese diplomats were out.

But what disappointed them was that the information received from any channel was as terrible as short. The resume of the German head of state is like a blank sheet of paper, which makes the Japanese wonder whether this guy has fallen from the sky. The most surprising thing for the Japanese is that they originally wanted to find out something from General Eugene Ott, the German ambassador to Japan, but he never expected that this ambassador's Understand that they are as poor as they are. Fortunately, he still hangs the portrait of the new head of state in the embassy, ​​and he can't even tell how tall his big boss is.

Finally, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who were forced into desperation had to risk their ridicule and asked for help from the military intelligence department of the Japanese Army and Navy. But the results still disappointed them. The Japanese military did not establish a reliable intelligence network in Europe. It's no wonder that the Army and Navy have no other sources of intelligence in Europe except the military attachés of the embassies. Moreover, they only care about military-related intelligence. The information about political leaders of various countries is less than that collected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

When the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were completely desperate, they received unexpected help, and the personal assistant of the German ambassador extended a helping hand to them. The German named Zorge provided detailed information about the new German head of state to officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including the head’s personality, habits, personal preferences, and even his personal financial situation. All the information is detailed and accurate. I can't believe it. Zorge claimed to have studied the head of empire in Berlin. At that time, the man was only a deputy head of empire. Although the leader of the Nazi Party did not like to be interviewed by journalists and attend rallies, he often participated in activities within the Nazi Party. These materials were Zorge personally heard from the people around Reinhardt as a reporter. Sorge also joked to Japanese officials that he originally wanted to write a few touted articles for the deputy head of state based on these materials as a stepping stone, but he was sent to Japan before he could write. After he arrived in Japan, he had been busy with the work of the newspaper office and embassy, ​​and he no longer had time to engage in private creation, and these materials were put aside. When he heard from Ambassador Ote that Japan wanted to find information about the German head of state, as a most sincere friend of Japan, he very much hoped that he could do some meager efforts for Japan, and then he remembered these previously collected data , I immediately found it out, I hope these materials can help Japan.

The officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are like a long drought, and they are really grateful for Zorg’s enthusiasm for helping. Several officials secretly made up their minds. When this matter is over, Zorg must be rewarded with great rewards in return. Virtue.

Looking at the detailed information on his hand, Matsuoka's face finally showed a smile. The Italian embassy has sent a telegram, and the Mussolini government has agreed to form an alliance with Japan. Now it is up to the German new head of state’s decision. Now that we have these materials on hand, we have greater control over the young head of state in Germany.

In fairness, Yoshinori Matsuoka is not worried about what will really change in Germany. Even if you change a leader, the achievement of the Japan-Germany-Italy alliance is already the general trend, and no one can change it. The friendly relations between Germany and Japan have not developed for more than a year or two, and both sides have had good cooperation in various fields. Germany and Japan signed the "International Industry Agreement" before this, which can already be seen as an informal alliance. Moreover, Germany has just defeated France and occupied a number of low-lying countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands. It is now at a time when it needs political assistance. The only countries that can respond to Germany politically are Italy and Japan. Matsuoka sees no reason for Germany to abandon these two allies. Unless that Reinhardt is crazy, he will be very happy to establish an alliance with Japan.

At the cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister of the Guards has determined that the later strategic direction of the empire will be placed in the south, taking advantage of the opportunities of Britain and France and other countries that have just been defeated by Germany and unable to protect their colonies in South Asia, expanding into Southeast Asia and occupying Southeast Asia’s rich resources From the origin, only by relying on these resources can Japan continue the war. Japan must make full use of the impact of Germany’s current victory and direct the attention of the United States to Europe as much as possible, so that Japan can free up its hands to solve the problems of Asian colonies as soon as possible.

Just when Matsuoka Yoko was sitting at his desk, studying the draft agreement between the Cabinet and the German Union, an urgent encrypted telegram from the Japanese Embassy in Italy was placed in front of him.

Before waiting to read the beginning of the telegram, the Japanese Foreign Secretary stood up in surprise.

"It's a group of idiots! Sooner or later, the great ideal of His Majesty the Emperor will be destroyed by this group of idiots."

Matsuoka pressed his right forehead weakly and collapsed slowly on the seat. The telegram between his fingers slowly fell to his feet.

A few lines of small letters written on the electronic newspaper with red pencil

"I received a report from the German side today that the Imperial Army sent the German Observation Mission to the German side and there was a fierce conflict. The exact situation is unknown. The two officers of YT have been detained by the German side. I have tried my best to communicate with the German side and there is no result. The German side is unclear about this matter, it seems that the problem is more serious than expected. w."