＜ Episode 212 >
Hitler, sitting at the top of the table, was in a very good mood.
The Russian army, which had entered the Ruhr, was advancing one step at a time, risking huge losses as he had planned, and the Italians destroyed the Yugoslav navy in the Battle of Crete.
Although all the battleships of the Yugoslav Navy were sunk, they were essentially worse than the Russian Navy, and they had not developed as much as they did from World War I until now. had little control over the naval force, and no one pointed out that the Italian navy was overwhelming in terms of power differential.
And for this, all but one of the main ships of the Italian Navy, including the aircraft carrier Aquila, Impero, were sunk by Russian aircraft and submarines.
In fact, the Italian navy, which was caught on the delicious bait of the Yugoslav navy, and walked into its limbs, barely fought while being beaten by Russian planes sortie from Cyprus, dragging the Yugoslavian navy together like a water ghost, but it was accepted by the overwhelming power difference. The report card was not lacking even if it was called a disastrous defeat.
However, Hitler congratulated Hitler for thwarting the attempt to land on Crete, and had the guts to warn that the battle resulted in a contraction of the Italian fleet, freeing the Russians from advancing into the eastern Mediterranean, and at the same time making it impossible to retake the Suez Canal. no one had
The Dutch navy lost one battleship to a Russian submarine in the middle of the North Sea, but the report did not even reach Hitler.
And as for the battle on the ground, it has been a long time since all those who would say that the Ruhr, which is now being destroyed, was worth more than all the industrial capabilities that France had had long since been dragged out.
Of course, although the deputy prime minister struggled to move a significant number of facilities to French territory, the number of factories that had not been properly covered with a roof was not properly equipped as an industrial complex.
The deputy prime minister was no longer angry when he heard that the munitions factory facilities had been destroyed by the bombing of the Resistance.
Of course, this did not stop the Nazi slaughter. Villages believed to be the villages where the Resistance hid were initially modeled and executed as a model, but now villagers, men, women, children, and the elderly, are shot, beheaded, hanged, and burned into their homes. shouted
Blood for blood, bullets for bullets, bombs for bombs.
The bloody battle showed no sign of ending.
However, Hitler didn’t even care about that.
Russia’s main force, which was blocked from advancing on the Maginot Line, would not be receiving adequate supplies, so it was only repeating the story that if the French reserve forces were mobilized to annihilate Russia’s main force, Russia would also appear on the negotiating table.
Therefore, an empty order was also issued to put all the troops into the defense of the Maginot Line and to focus on strengthening. In fact, as several German-made cannons were deployed on the Magino Line, and additional concrete fortresses and anti-aircraft turrets capable of firing on the ground were built, the Magino Line became thicker.
An additional fortification line was built in the rear, creating a thick depth that was connected to the vicinity of Ile-de-France in northern France. No matter how much the Russian army is, if you want to break through that defense line, you must shed a lot of blood.
For this purpose, Jews who had been imprisoned in concentration camps and ghettos were put into construction, and even this was not enough, so even the French were conscripted.
“The sabotage of the French in the construction of the Maginot Line…”
“What are you doing without killing them all, Reinhard Heydrich, who oversees the construction! Instilling manners in the French! So that we can have fair respect for the conqueror! That’s what the Gollians do. After all, they are of the lower ranks.”
Hitler, who was screaming and muttering like a man with bipolar disorder, immediately pounded his desk with his fist.
“Tell Heidrich! Randomly execute 100 workers for each sabotage! Workers, it’s enough to pull more! The lives of the lower races are not worth a single thing!”
“The resistance keeps blowing up the tracks. A delay in the transport of goods…”
“Put everything you catch on the guillotine! The resistance kills all of its relatives! Defeatist, spy, kill them all! They don’t deserve to live in the Aryan world!”
That was all Hitler had to offer. He didn’t even assume an appeasement or compromise. He didn’t even think about recognizing the local auxiliary units as a proper ally. As a low-class race, they only think of it as a bullet catcher to be thrown into the battlefield.
***
Bonn, German Empire. Annnerbe.
– Kwak!
Russian Air Force attack aircraft bombed the station.
The last armored train with an iron cross, waiting at the station, exploded and derailed, throwing away a turret equipped with mortars, anti-aircraft guns, and artillery guns.
-Tata ta ta ta ta ta tata!
Russian fighter planes with inverted chevron-shaped wings that descended sharply swept the station, pouring bullets.
Seeing the train that his children should have been riding on ablaze, Dr. Wilhelm rushed in.
“no!”
“Minister! Dangerous!”
It would have been a touching scene if Miu and Gou were worried about the children they had educated, but it wasn’t.
It’s kind of like the reaction you get when you set fire to a car with a one-of-a-kind original paper about to be published, which you’ve been writing for a long time.
“Let go of this!”
Tossing the secretary who was holding him by force, he jumped into the burning train and found a dead body while wearing a mask.
The mask made of bakelite melted, and he would have suffered terrible pain, but he did not take it off. It was like showing what the doctor had made.
“Bakelite…. number 78.”
I walked around muttering like crazy. may still be alive
No. 78 and No. 264 were transferred with capsules, but No. 179 and No. 214 were transferred with an anesthetic injection due to lack of time. Still one or two…
It was only then that the two bodies next to him caught in the explosion and left in a disastrous form caught my eye.
Bodies that were anesthetized and caught in the explosion, but would have suffocated if they were still alive. I could say I was lucky. Anyway, I would have died painlessly.
After checking the nameplates on the chests of the boys and girls lying in an upright position, the doctor looked at the capsule that had been thrown out of the carriage by the shock of the explosion.
The capsule was shattered, but nothing was supposed to be in it.
“God damn it!”
He was angry.
If he saw them as humans, he should be happy that at least one survived, but he was furious that the specimen had been mutilated and made useless.
Three of the four medicine bottles were broken, and I wondered if one would be okay, but when I realized that the medicine had changed, did I burst into such anguish?
At that moment, the Russian Corsairs fired the last shot, and the body of the doctor hit by the 20mm high explosive was shattered into pieces of meat without realizing that he was dying.
***
“The US Navy suffered a fatal blow. If we don’t win this time, there may be no next chance!”
Yamamoto Isoroku slammed the desk.
“The U.S. Navy has three battleships and five aircraft carriers! And we have more than 10 battleships available and 8 aircraft carriers. We have a long way to go! If you don’t occupy Hawaii now, there’s no chance! And here to occupy Hawaii! You have to hit Midway!”
If they make emergency repairs, even Sinov and Stolipin could be brought out, but in that case, 4 to 6, the Japanese have an advantage in every way.
“Now is your only chance, if you don’t hit now, you may never have a chance in the future! There are no ships to invest in anything like the Aleutian Islands!”
Australia is also on their side. Now, if you capture Midway, Hawaii will be completely isolated, and if you take Hawaii further, the United States will be completely ousted from the Pacific Ocean.
Then you can negotiate to your advantage.
‘This is the only way.’
In Yamamoto’s mind, there was no other choice.
“We go to Midway.”
***
“They come to Midway.”
Admiral Nimitz was already convinced.
“The Army Air Corps or the Naval Air Corps are gathering all available aircraft to Midway, bombers, fighters, etc.”
“We have greatly increased our supplies and have increased our combat units. We’ve deployed a few more coastal guns. Even if the fleet were to be wiped out, the Japs would never be able to capture Midway in a short time.”
“The development of the new aircraft carrier F5U has come to an end, but it is difficult to deploy it before battle. However, after the naval battle, it will be put into action.”
The F5U is a twin-engined fighter aircraft being developed by the US military, impressed by the Russian Do335 and the German Ho229. Development started in 1938 and was scheduled to be deployed as the next heavy fighter of the US Navy, and it was expected to be equivalent to the Do335 in performance.
“The repairs are less complete, but we will be able to mobilize Sinov and Maryland somehow before the operation begins. The New York shipyard is doing all they can to restore Stollipin’s flight deck, so there’s a good chance he’ll somehow be able to deploy it to Midway before the battle begins.”
However, it is inferior to the Japanese navy. Just by looking at the battleships of the Japanese Navy, whose names were confirmed to be going to Midway through information warfare, information was also obtained that 11 ships and aircraft carriers mobilized for the Pearl Harbor attack were coming.
Eight aircraft carriers were used to attack Pearl Harbor. Everyone in the Pacific Fleet Command, who had even heard of the fact that they were coming, was burning with a sense of revenge.
In particular, Admiral Halsey was inevitably sharpening it.
Admiral Kimmel, who was instantly killed on the spot by fire from Japanese fighter jets during the Pearl Harbor attack, was heavily criticized by public opinion, and his family had to hold a lonely funeral. It was only fortunate that he was able to be buried in Arlington.
Halsey, who could not even attend the funeral of Kimmel, who was a classmate of the military academy, was furious when the intelligence service found out that the Japanese aircraft carriers were members of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and that the fleet’s chief commander was the same person at the time of Pearl Harbor. .
Halsey, who wanted to take revenge on his friend and comrade by commanding all the fleets that were about to attack this time, wanted to lead the field himself.
“Admiral Halsey, take charge of Task Force 17.”
Fletcher and Spruance were both lying wounded in the Battle of the Sea of Labrador, so it was inevitable.
“All right.”
Halsey clenched her fists.
Promising to win, and to bury them all.