"General!" Behind Yamamoto Isoroku, two naval staff members stepped forward excitedly and said excitedly: "We won! The aviation forces completely destroyed Pearl Harbor!"
Yamamoto Isoroku nodded quietly without speaking.
The victory came too suddenly and far exceeded his expectations. It actually made him, a gambler who had been sitting at the gambling table all year round, feel a little dazed.
"By the way, General." As if he remembered something, one of the naval staff officers quickly added: "The German lieutenant general in the flagship lounge..."
"Quick! Come here immediately! I want to solemnly thank the German Navy in person for the suggestions and solutions provided to us!" After being reminded by the staff, Yamamoto Isoroku suddenly slapped his head and remembered the fee he left in the lounge.
Lieutenant General En.
He was said to be a lieutenant general, but this was just a unilateral description submitted by Reinhardt to the Japanese government. Before that, the Japanese military had never heard of a lieutenant general named Fein in Germany.
Of course, Lieutenant General Fein was promoted temporarily.
In order to better deceive the Japanese into working for Germany in the future and mislead the strategy of the Japanese base camp, Reinhardt found the Chief of General Staff and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, Marshal Redl, and asked him to select an astute and knowledgeable man.
The Japanese-speaking officer, as the leader of the German instructional officer corps, led a corps of officers to the Japanese Navy to do some fooling around.
In the end, Redel only found a major named Finn for Reinhardt.
Even this major was promoted to Finn temporarily by Redel.
After all, Redel was reluctant to send the talents in the navy to the small island country of Japan. After much selection, he chose a captain who was smart and understood Japanese. This captain was Finn.
Perhaps he felt that sending a captain to carry out the order of the head of state would show that the Admiralty did not take it seriously, so Redel simply promoted Finn one level, from lieutenant to colonel, which seemed more serious.
formal.
But when they arrived at Reinhardt's place, things got even more serious. When Reinhardt saw Finn, he just glanced at the epaulets on Finn's shoulders, then dragged his chin thoughtfully and said, "Well
?Major? Does this seem like we don’t value the Japanese too much?”
"Let's do this. I'll ask the naval headquarters to make arrangements and give him the rank of admiral." Since he didn't intend to let this admiral command his own people, Reinhardt made this decision very generously.
In his opinion, sending a general to the Japanese base camp would naturally be more powerful. Moreover, this general was not commanding the German troops in combat and had little impact on the German combat order.
But Redel, who heard the Führer's decision from the sidelines, was not calm anymore.
Although he played a little clever trick, it was just a promotion for Finn. This level directly made Finn go from lieutenant to school officer, so the promotion was well worth the money.
But who would have thought that the head of state would be even more creative, and in one breath he would raise the level by five levels based on Redel's performance!
From major to general, this promotion to Su De is too bizarre!
Therefore, under Redel's persuasion, Reinhard reluctantly agreed to take a smaller step until Finn was promoted to lieutenant general.
On the one hand, the promotion tradition of the Navy and even the entire German Wehrmacht can no longer be bizarre. In the past few decades, the Navy has also produced a rapid promotion maniac Reinhardt, who has been promoted from Navy petty officer to Army general in lightning speed.
, and finally became the head of state of Germany and commander-in-chief of the three armed forces.
Now, suddenly there is a Finn who is promoted faster than Reinhardt. This is not bad. In 24 hours, from captain to general, looking at the entire history of war, there is probably nothing so bizarre!
On the one hand, all German generals are well-known, or at least they are relatively easy to detect by foreign intelligence agents. If General Fein suddenly appears, it might be an own goal. Change the base number.
The huge rank of lieutenant general also seems to be less of a problem.
In this way, Fein received his promotion order to the rank of major in the morning, and in the afternoon he received a special promotion order to become a lieutenant general.
With a promotion order that had gone through the German High Command, the Naval Command, and even the head of state himself, Finn himself didn't know what kind of bad luck he had gotten into.
It’s not unusual to be promoted quickly during the war, but to be promoted so quickly is no longer unusual, it’s bizarre!
In such a confused way, Fein got on the plane with a "guiding officer corps" composed of a platoon he didn't know where, all of whom knew Japanese, and the lowest rank was lieutenant colonel, and assisted Germany in assisting Japan.
The so-called "senior technical expert group" came to Tokyo together.
After that, the expert team stayed in Tokyo, while Fein and the officer team set off with the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor and spent this time in the lounge of the Japanese flagship.
After all, Isoroku Yamamoto finally withstood the pressure, adopted the tactical advice provided by Germany, and targeted the giant oil depot at Pearl Harbor.
Although this is a killer move in theory, no one dares to say that such a unique and unique move is foolproof until it produces actual results.
Therefore, since the German tactics were used, bringing along a German lieutenant general from the officer corps would be an extra bit of psychological comfort.
If it doesn't work, if something goes wrong, you can kill the German lieutenant general to vent the anger of the officers and soldiers.
But now that he has won, the German who might have been slaughtered has transformed into the greatest ally in the minds of the Japanese navy officers and soldiers, and is a foreign friend who helped the Japanese navy win this battle.
"I want to thank General Fein of Germany. Later I will report to the Emperor and apply for a medal for him." At this moment, Yamamoto Isoroku was filled with excitement about the victory at Pearl Harbor.
The Germans gave him vital chips, allowing him to win a lot of money at the gambling table. He would not be stingy in expressing his gratitude to Germany. By thanking Lieutenant General Fein, he expressed his gratitude to the German Navy.
their attitude.
Soon, Fein took two German staff officers with the rank of colonel, and the Japanese officers who led the way, to the bridge to meet Yamamoto.
"General Yamamoto." Fein stretched out his right hand as soon as they met and shook hands with Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese naval admiral.
"General Finn." Yamamoto was stunned for a moment after meeting him. He had not had time to take a closer look before, but now he realized that the German lieutenant general in front of him was so young.
He secretly lamented that in the Japanese army, a soldier of Fein's age would probably be a captain, or at most a major. But in the German Army, soldiers of this age could actually reach the level of general!