Some Japanese officers, including Yamamoto Isoroku, had some feelings of disgust, or disgust, for Germany some time ago.
The reason is very simple. Vichy France dared to open the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway to supply supplies to the Chinese battlefield, and it was obvious that the Germans were behind it.
In order to allow the British to close the Burma Road and cut off the main southern channel for foreign aid from China, the Japanese base camp even compromised on its plan to attack Hong Kong and temporarily let go of the British garrison there.
As a result, the Germans, who had always been regarded as European allies by the Japanese island nation, actually instigated and even coerced Vichy France, forcing France to withstand Japanese pressure and do something even the British did not dare to do, and open the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway.
Of course, historically, the British had quickly redeveloped the Yunnan-Burma Highway under pressure from the United States, so the development of the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway actually had little or no impact on the course of the War of Resistance.
However, due to France's preemption in this life, the burden of the Yunnan-Burma Highway fell on the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway. In other words, this favor has been counted on the heads of different countries.
Just by opening the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway so that American supplies could flow into the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese could still endure it.
What made them most angry was that Italy, which they had always regarded as an ally, also took this opportunity to sell a large amount of arms through the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway.
Of course, the reason why Italy does this is not just because Rossi is a Reinhardt. In fact, their former Prime Minister Mussolini is also very happy to do this. As long as it is a profitable business, Mussolini
There is no one who does not participate in this.
It is almost the same as in history. Although the maritime trade between Germany and China can only be interrupted anyway because Japan has cut off the transportation line. However, there is still a lot of smuggling in Italy.
Mussolini, the former Prime Minister of Italy, was unparalleled in his shamelessness. As mentioned earlier, he first sold a large number of tanks to provide the weapons basis for China to form its first armored regiment. At the same time, Mussolini also participated in the Lebanese
Because of Hart's plan, he followed suit and sold arms to the enemies of the Japanese island nation.
Reinhardt sells old arms, mainly to aid China, eliminate a batch of equipment by the way, make profits and replace it with new weapons, and unify the caliber of existing weapons. In this way, the German army can further optimize logistics and reduce the workload of the logistics department.
While feeling stressed, you can earn a lot of supplies.
But this guy Mussolini, then storage is to make money!
Moreover, in order to take care of the feelings they expected for the two European allies, the Japanese had to knock out their teeth and chose to endure it.
Of course, Reinhardt's behavior is not a stupid attempt to cheat Germany's interests to help China. In fact, Germany is actually the party that makes the most money in this kind of trade.
After all, 83% of Germany’s tungsten ore demand depends on imports! And China’s tungsten production ranks among the top in the world, accounting for 37% of the world’s total production!
According to the original rhythm of history, Germany's tungsten reserves were exhausted by 1942.
Therefore, many people who think that Germany can make a comeback in 1943, 1944, or 1945 are actually all nonsense!
Reinhard was lucky because he traveled to Germany in 1919. If he were to really travel to the end of the Third Reich after 43 years, even if everyone in Germany listened to him wholeheartedly, he would be worse than
Hitler committed suicide in the bunker a few days later.
After all, Germany's defeat in history is really linked to each other, and it is not possible to freeze three feet in a day!
Of course, when China first purchased German mechanics' equipment from Germany, it had already sold it to Germany at a price of about US$800 per ton of tungsten ore.
It is worth mentioning that the current price of tungsten mineral in Europe has risen to a range of US$14,000 to US$20,000!
Among them, Mussolini, the sb, also participated in the action of copying the price of tungsten ore in the past few years.
Reinhard didn't bother to complain about this. If he hadn't imported a large amount of tungsten ore from China, he would have sent people to kill Mussolini in advance a few years ago.
In fact, Germany has always been short of strategic materials. In particular, the United Kingdom can also hoard tungsten ore to prepare for a material war to block Germany's weakness.
Although Spain and Turkey are also exporters of tungsten ore, their output is very small and the price is still very high.
Therefore, some people who thought that the time traveler could lead Germany to a comeback in 1943 could have given up just because the tungsten ore reserves were exhausted.
However, another reason why Germany in history was able to survive for three years after its domestic tungsten ore reserves were exhausted is that after the German army occupied Italy in 1943, it was discovered that Mussolini, a pig teammate, was actually hoarding it.
A large amount of tungsten ore was hidden from the allies, so the German army made a small fortune and used it to save money, barely supporting it until 1945.
Although Italy also needed tungsten ore at that time, it did not need that much at all, and a lot of it was even purchased by Italy between 1940 and 1942. Mussolini, the self-proclaimed "Italy's strongest leader", was at the end of the world.
When he arrived, he actually continued his plan to make a fortune by copying the price of tungsten ore instead of selling it to his German allies.
In addition to Italy's pig teammates, the British in history also bought tungsten crazily after the war, hoping to make Germany unable to defeat it.
There is no doubt that this strategy of the British has been successful in history. They used the 30mm cannon of the German attack aircraft and frugally only used ordinary armor-piercing bullets at the beginning. Until the Germans felt that this was not going to work anymore and bit the bullet and switched to tungsten-core armor-piercing bullets.
, has truly become a nightmare for the Soviet T-34 tank.
Once World War II started, ordinary armor-piercing bullets would become increasingly unable to achieve the ideal armor-piercing capability under the original artillery caliber. As for the German army, the most famous Pzgr.40 series is the tungsten core armor-piercing bullet.
Tungsten-core armor-piercing bullets are actually extremely wasteful. Even the famous Tiger tanks of the German Army in history were only equipped with 5 rounds of tungsten-core armor-piercing bullets to deal with the Soviet IS2 (also known as the Father 2 tank).
Now, when the transportation captain of Kaishen Express heard that 1 ton of tungsten ore could be exchanged for $800 in supplies, he was extremely happy. As a result, almost all the cheapest rare metals in Germany like to be imported from the transportation captain.
Hitler, who liked to play with war economics, once famously lamented: "If you give me 10,000 tons of tungsten sand, I can take the Soviet Union."
If oil is the food of the armored forces, then tungsten is the blood of the armored forces.
For tank armor, tungsten-nickel steel has good protection, and for tank shells, tungsten-core bullets have strong armor penetration.
Therefore, Reinhard is now embarrassed. Just counting the imported quantity, he has seventeen tons more tungsten ore than in history. This does not include the large amount of tungsten reserves that will be seized in the UK in the near future.
In this way, the conditions he needs to win over the Soviet Union are even greater.
