Battle of the Third Reich

When the Japanese empire was still very weak, in order to narrow the gap with Western countries, they almost did everything they could, and even used special means to send a large number of spies abroad. For a period of time, almost every third overseas Japanese was a Japanese spy.

Some of them are officially sent by the government, and some are spontaneous out of patriotism. These Japanese people are like sponges for absorbing information. They greedily search all the intelligence they can access. Whether it is military technology or industrial commerce, everyone thinks What might be useful to the Japanese Empire, they will find ways to get the information in their hands.

The Japanese are extremely generous in intelligence gathering work, whether it is money, fame or fortune, or even the body of Japanese women, as long as they think there is a need, there will be no hesitation at all. The rapid rise of the Japanese empire, at least 20% of which should be attributed to the spies in their non-editing.

It is because they are good at using espionage abroad, so the Japanese are very sensitive to the control of intelligence information in their own country, because they always think that they can investigate Western intelligence, then Westerners will certainly do this to Japan.

The Japanese military’s secrecy and anti-spyware work is quite meticulous, and in fact it has indeed achieved great success. The island’s closed environment itself is a natural barrier, and the ethnic differences make it difficult for Western spies to do anything. Foreign spies have no Opportunity to access the core intelligence of Japan is one of the reasons why Zorge is famous in history.

The secrecy work of the Imperial Japanese Navy could be regarded as second to none at that time. Compared with the carefulness of the Japanese, the historical Germany and Italy were simply two big colanders.

The Japanese Navy is carrying out intelligence work with a morbid paranoia. From the end of the Taisho period, the Japanese Navy began to modify and revise the externally released equipment data and data, and strictly seal the information on the development of new weapons, not only to guard against outsiders, Sometimes even their own people cheat together, so that many weapons and equipment data are not known to outsiders for the first time until the end of the war.

The most famous is the super-super crossbow-class battleship [Yamato]. Before the Pacific War broke out, not many people in the outside world even knew about the existence of this warship. Even after the US Navy sank it, all about this warship The intelligence data still comes from the speculation of the navy intelligence department, and it turns out that most of them are wrong.

At the beginning of the Pacific War, the intelligence situation on both sides of Japan and the United States was completely unequal. It should be said that the United States was at a clear disadvantage because the strict domestic control system in Japan made American intelligence collection often useless.

Therefore, Huafang's inadvertent statement is already a leak in the Japanese Navy. If anyone wants to deal with him, he can take it out and go online. Huafang realized his mistake, and his face suddenly turned white, and he looked at Guidao with a look of trepidation, hoping that the boss didn't notice it.

Guidao was also the person who had served as a submarine captain. How could he not realize this, but it seems that he didn't care about Huafang's talk, and still talked and chatted with the German captain as usual.

"Your ship seems to have been cruising for a long time, are you ready to return to Saigon Port." Guidao dusted the ashes in the aluminum ashtray while tentatively exploring the German captain.

Guidao does not think that the captain of the singular country was deliberately spying on Japanese intelligence. He felt that the other party was more like showing off the advanced technology of the singular submarine ship.

The noise produced by the DUK submarine under the water is indeed much lighter than that of the Imperial Navy. It is said that the DUK carrier-based diesel engine uses special damping methods. Unfortunately, the DUK has been reluctant to teach the Japanese experts the tips. It would be nice if you could have a chance to enter the power cabin of the Duke submarine ship, and Guidao thought about it.

What's more curious about Guidao is how can an ashtray be installed on a submarine ship of the Duo Kingdom. Do they allow smoking in submarine ships? Usually the Japanese navy only allows crew members to sail or park on the surface of the submarine, and only after the permission of the captain’s rest law is allowed to smoke on the control tower and the front and rear decks. At the same time, all toilets on the submarine are open. This is Japan The navy submarine's "B" rest method (there were three types of rest rules on the Japanese submarine at that time. No one was allowed to go on the deck except for the personnel on the control tower, and the law C was to prohibit personnel from resting on the control tower. The toilet is closed.).

The sailors on the Japanese submarine are mostly smokers. According to the Japanese Navy’s order, each person can be allocated 20 cigarettes per day, which is exactly one pack. If it is a regular cruise, there is no problem. Once you enter the battle cruise, Then it’s all luck to smoke, so few people can exhaust their share. Not every sailor has the opportunity to perform duties on the upper deck, so he goes to the watch tower to watch the whistle, which is often used by officers as a reward for good sailors.

It seems that the German Navy’s regulations in this respect are somewhat different from Japan. Although the Japanese and German navies have had some exchanges before, this is the first time between the submarines of the two countries, because the German submarine force has never been It was valued by the top German forces and the result also affected the Japanese navy's perception of intelligence in this area. Hitler didn't have a bad cold for the submarine force. Although he personally participated in several submarine force boat review, it seemed that the head of state preferred the big tubes on those giant ships.

"Yeah, we have been out for twenty days and are preparing to return to the base, but not in Saigon, but in Haiphong Port." Robin replied with a smile.

The Japanese should have noticed that there is a secret anchorage of a German submarine along the coast of Vietnam. Recently, there have been some Japanese freighters with suspicious tracks on the coast of Vietnam. Obviously, the Japanese have not found that the anchorage of the German submarine is located at Saigon. It is not far from Kunshan Island. Of course, this anchorage could not be hidden for too long, and sooner or later it would be noticed by Japanese spies, but then u1001 should also return to Germany. By that time, whether the anchorage was exposed or not had little to do with Robin.

The mechanical wear of the u106 is not too serious. After going to Singapore for docking and overhauling this time, the spare parts shipped from the country will be replaced. This submarine can be fully restored to the state when it left the port from Wilhelmshaven.

"Oh, we departed from Kaohsiung Port and just sailed for three days at sea." Guidao played a bit here. I-60 was actually sailing from Sasebo Port, but I had docked in Kaohsiung four days ago. Hong Kong only.

The design purpose of the Japanese navy large submarine is to build a large submarine with strong firepower and long-range endurance. This was a remedy devised by the Japanese Imperial Navy in response to the weakening of the Japanese Navy by the Washington Naval Treaty, because the treaty did not limit the number and tonnage of submarines, so the Japanese Navy tried to use the construction of large submarines to make up for the number of surface warships. On the gap.

As a result, these loopholes were blocked during the "London Naval Treaty". Eventually, the Japanese were run away from the table and stopped playing with your shameless British ghosts.

The special background of the large-scale submarine at sea makes her have a very strong endurance and self-sustaining ability at the beginning of the design. She can continuously sail 10,000 nautical miles at a speed of ten knots, and can perform tasks for three months after one-time supply. Therefore, for the 20-day voyage of u106, there is nothing to brag about in Guidao, but for the sake of etiquette, he must compliment each other. Anyway, the Dukes will not take this seriously.

"Oh, it was originally from Kaohsiung." Robin reached out and pushed the dessert plate on the table.

"Please try our German butter biscuits, which are especially airlifted from Germany. You can't taste this kind of snacks at sea."

"Oh, did it come from Berlin by plane? This must be tasted." Guidao exclaimed.

It looks like ordinary baked biscuits. I don’t know whether it was actually airlifted from Berlin. However, Guidao feels that it should not be bragging. He carefully picked up a piece and put it elegantly into his mouth.

It really tastes like a cream sandwich biscuit. The taste is not much different from what Tokyo Asakusa bought. Surprisingly, Guidao is that this biscuit seems to be frozen, and the cream sandwich still carries a chill when it is put into the mouth.

"Huh." Guidao raised his thumbs as he chewed the cookies.

"My sister (delicious)" he turned to the flower room and said.

"Oh, it's worthy of independence, and even the ordinary dim sum was transported by plane." Hana Fang nodded while chewing the biscuits.

"Don't just look at the surface. Since the One Kingdom can transport such snacks by long-distance air, then of course they can also transport other supplies. This is the national power of the European hegemon." Guidao warned his subordinates in Japanese.

"Ha, understand, Commander." Huafang quickly bowed his head to be taught.

"Thank you very much for your hospitality, Captain Robin." Guidao took out his handkerchief from his pants pocket and wiped the biscuit crumbs from the corner of his mouth.

"Captain Robin, we have no opinion about your previous request to exchange supplies, but I want to ask, which kind of supplies do you want to exchange." Eating and eating I drank it too, and now I should talk about the "business".

"Any kind, food, vegetables, meat, canned food, cigarettes, drinks, alcohol, all." Robin answered happily.

"Can you provide a specific list? In addition, how many people are your ship prepared to exchange?" This kind of thing was not without precedent before, and it was a way of connecting friendship between foreign sailors. However, this kind of exchange usually happens in private at the harbor terminal. Yes, this is the first time you have encountered such a dry island at sea.

The main reason is that there are very few opportunities to encounter calm sea conditions like today. The submersible ship itself has insufficient water surface stability. When it encounters wind and waves, it will sway severely. Even if it is normal sea supply, it often exhausts the crew half and dead. Who You will also be interested in exchanging supplies with others.

"Changing for ten people, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, I heard that you have just sailed for three days, you should still bring fresh vegetables." Robin asked: "We can exchange it with you for good German smoked ham."

Originally just an excuse to come up with my head, now it seems that this is actually better than a deal, because it is located in the Southeast Asian sea area, the cabin temperature is hot and humid, u106 did not carry too many fresh vegetables, and in two days It’s all done before.

"We brought some radishes and dried vegetables." Guidao turned to look at the flower room.

Here I would like to mention the food problem of the Japanese Navy. I am afraid that everyone has heard this statement. The food standard of the old Japanese Imperial Navy is so high that even later generations have the Yamato Hotel and Musashi Hotel.

There is not much exaggeration to say this. Compared with the hard-working Japanese Army, the Navy really eats a lot more. In addition, it is necessary to add that the meals of Japanese naval officers and subordinate soldiers are completely different, and can even be described as far apart.

Everyone knows that the Japanese Navy has been following the example of the British Royal Navy since the day it was built, and the greatest feature of the British Royal Navy is the development of aristocratic officers. Therefore, the daily meals of Japanese naval officers are all based on the British. The Navy’s standards were developed.

In fact, when the Army is in the country, there is not much difference between the food and the Navy. The Japanese Army soldiers can eat meat, vegetables, canned food, various fruits, coffee or tea, various desserts, sake and cigarettes, although they are not big fish. Big meat, but much better than living in the country. At that time, three meals a day in ordinary Japanese farmhouses were just brown rice with miso soup, and at most a little pickled vegetables. The luxury of meat was only available during the Chinese New Year.

But after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army traveled to mainland China, and supplies had to cross the ocean before they could be transported from the homeland to the battlefield. In the beginning, in order to reduce transportation costs, most of the Japanese army ordered the troops to requisition food on the spot. To put it plainly, they grabbed it from the local Chinese people. At first they were able to "collect" some grain, but when the stored grain in the hands of the Chinese people was robbed, the "collection" on the spot became a blank paper. In addition to the staple food, a large number of non-staple food supplies still need to be purchased from domestic distribution and transported to the Chinese battlefield across the ocean.

The supply cost of the Japanese Army gradually increased with the extension of the front, so that the cost of the same food, the Army spent several times higher than the Navy, so of course it is impossible to continue to maintain the level of the domestic garrison period.

However, the sailors on the Japanese navy warships had no problem of supply losses, so each of their food expenses was spent on the purchase of food materials, plus the convenience of deploying local supplies, so until the end of the war, The standards before the war can still be maintained.

Of course, there are also some unlucky ones. For example, the island garrison unit belonging to the navy, when the maritime supply line was cut off by the US military, they were as devastated by hunger as the army on the island.

The submarine is a special ship in the Japanese navy. Because of the special conditions, the standard of the crew’s meals is set separately by the Navy Ministry. From Taisho to the Showa 15 years, the standard has been changed three times before and after.

Because the submarine's internal environment is special, it is often in a high temperature and high humidity state. At the same time, the pressure in the cabin changes greatly during submarine, and the cooking conditions are also harsh. These are very different from surface ships. Of course, it is impossible to copy the supply menu of surface ships.

The food supply on Japanese submarines is very different from surface ships. For example, rice, the staple food of Japanese sailors, must be equipped with hard rice that is not susceptible to moisture on the submarine, and the inner layer of the rice bag must be covered with a layer of oil paper. To prevent moisture. At the same time, in addition to the wheat and rice used to cook the traditional navy rice, the submarine also carried a lot of canned rice.

This is to prepare for cooking in a kitchen pressure cooker during snorkeling. These canned rice is mainly glutinous rice cooked with a lot of sugar and red beans, which is the Japanese favorite red bean rice. It's hard to describe your feelings in words, because even if it's mountain and seafood, you will get tired of eating it every day, but if anyone says that they can't eat this kind of red bean rice, it will definitely be condemned.

The variety of vegetables on the Japanese submarine is not too monotonous. There are various fruits, potatoes, and radishes, as well as various dehydrated vegetables and canned vegetables, such as canned bamboo shoots and bean sprouts.

There are several cartons of Nerima white radishes on I-60 now. To say evenly to the Dudu people, it should not have much impact on the subsequent voyage. Moreover, the Duo people are still willing to use bacon for replacement. I don’t know. How does the Dukoku bacon taste.

"Captain Robin, is it possible to allow us to enter your submarine for a visit before exchanging supplies? Although I know something is too much, this is a dream I have long had." Guidao tried his best to make his smile look more sincere. , But the trembling of the eyes completely exposed the tension in his heart.

"Of course, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel." Captain Robin answered very succinctly, and even without thinking for a second, he agreed to Guidao's request.

"Thank you very much!" Guidao sat in a hurry, thanking Robin for his solemn indifference.

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