"Big Killing Weapon?" Many people in the venue were stunned.

Hoffman laughed: "Just just as the Anglo-Saxons were good at building ships and often invented all kinds of incredible warships, the German nation was good at casting cannons. We were not only good at casting cannons, but also good at dealing with those fortifications that were claimed to be indestructible. The Liege Fortress in the last war, the Maginot Line of Defense in this war, the Sevastopol Fortress were all defeated by our men. There was no solid fortress in the world that the German nation could not conquer. Now it is Gibraltar's turn to be tested to see if the British were of high-level construction or the Germans' ability to cast cannons."

The killer in Hoffman's mouth includes two types. The first type is currently owned by Germany, with a number of up to 16 k5 train guns. This caliber can be hit as far as 57 kilometers without using rocket extended range bombs (the extended range bombs are not ideal for accuracy). The power is enough to bombard most of Gibraltar's defenses. Now these train guns are mobilized one after another and are about to cross the German and Italian borders. They will decide based on Spain's attitude whether to go to Spain by railway network or to port Ceuta from the sea.

In addition to the k5, the two-caliber train cannons (Gustav and Dora) are also in the process of intense disassembly and preparation. Hoffman hopes that they will not need them, because transportation, assembly and use are too troublesome. A cannon requires thousands of people to serve it to normally, which involves a lot of energy and engineering and technical personnel. Now for Germany, every technical talent is very valuable. But if he encounters a target that the k5 really cannot deal with, he doesn't mind pulling out this 7 million mark toy and using it.

"It is expected to take 2-3 weeks to prepare after the Battle of Malta, and then these giant artillery will be transported over and aimed at the Gibraltar Fortress to open fire." Hoffman told everyone confidently, "Don't worry, I will not take the precious battleships to take risks."

The Supreme German Command evaluated the Battle of Gibraltar and believed that saturation bombing and naval guns alone could not be used to capture such strong fortresses, but after using train guns, they were fully sure that the maximum caliber of the gun in the Gibraltar Fortification Group was that the effective range was no more than 35 kilometers. Whether it was Dora or K5, the high-precision range was above 40 kilometers, and the artillery was fully capable of carrying out orderly artillery fire outside the opponent's range.

The only train gun air defense that needs concerns is not a problem now: Gibraltar has only one airport, and although the specific number of aircraft is unknown, it is probably not too many. The airport location is completely fixed and can easily be destroyed. Under the full suppression of the German army, the more advantageous point is that the British did not have any other military bases available for utilization within the combat radius of Gibraltar aircraft. Even if Spain does not cooperate, the German army can still use any French and African colonial airport, which can ensure effective air supremacy.

In Hoffman's eyes, Gibraltar is a large Malta, nothing scary. The reason why it is boasted as the most indestructible fortress in the world is because the British have the power to control the sea. The Royal Navy can unscrupulously attack any force that wants to attack Gibraltar. Now the joint axial naval forces have completely overwhelmed Great Britain. The remaining strength of the Royal Navy will never dare to come. If it comes, it will die. Even reinforcements may not dare to enter the German air defense circle. What's more, Hoffman also prepared a more headache-inducing tsunami plan for Churchill, which has even surpassed Gibraltar.

"Let us wish the German giant cannon flag a victory!"

The first meeting of the Three Kingdoms Summit ended soon. Mussolini was anxious to communicate with Franco about the explosive news he heard today, and Hoffman also rejected the invitation to the night event on the grounds of exhaustion on the journey.

"Sir, it seems that the situation in Europe is much more complicated than we think." Tsukahara Nishizumi asked Horitoshi, "Do you think the Spaniards will submit?"

"It's hard to say that Europeans' ideas are usually out of place with us, but I don't care about this. The German head of state will definitely find a way if they want to fight." Hori Teki suddenly shifted the topic to other aspects. "I decided to lead all major generals and above officers who have no combat missions to Germany after completing their visit to Italy."

"Do you look into the 1 billion mark procurement case?"

"It's not exactly the case. I hope they can see Germany's production and economic layout, see how the German army started in logistics and supply. The Imperial people have too little consideration in this regard. The Navy still knows a little bit of the international situation and modern trends. The army's red deer are full of Bushido spirit, and they don't know the importance of production. Only the deputy chief Ishihara's brain is clear, but he can't change too much by himself."

"Now the Ishihara Sect is in full bloom, and I don't know how many eyes are staring at him..." Chief of Staff Kuro Ren sighed, "I heard that someone has criticized him for making too many concessions to the Navy."

Horitiki smiled bitterly: "We must keep these senior army leaders who are currently willing to cooperate with the navy, not only because they can achieve sea and land unity, but more importantly, this is more beneficial to the empire. Some practices can be flexible and flexible, and some things we say that the army cannot listen to, and the Germans say that they will listen to some foreign monks chanting scriptures? So the introduction of German submarine officers and army officers is urgent, so they can brainwash the group of red deer and cooperate sincerely between different countries in Germany and Italy. Can't we, as imperial men?"

"That means 50 naval officers will be transferred." Cao Lu Ren Yi said with some distress.

"Don't be reluctant to let go. Yamamoto and I have the same attitude towards this. Let's select from the existing fleet to give priority to young and excellent officers with good foreign languages, and arrange more aircraft carrier officers."

Tsukahara Nishisan sighed: "Okay, since the commander has made up his mind, I will arrange the aircraft carrier officer, but at most 20 can be given."

"20 are fine, Caolu Jun is responsible for drawing the remaining 30."

Sending officers is the second major agreement after the barter transaction between the two sides. The two sides will send 50 schools and lieutenant-level officers to conduct reciprocal exchanges. Germany urgently needs Japanese experienced naval officers. Japan is very interested in German army officers and submarine backbones, especially armored soldiers officers, otherwise a bunch of tanks will be transported back and no one understands combat command. On this point, the army is asking for the navy, and the navy has different opinions on whether to bear this cost. Yamamoto Iroku obviously supports it, but the military command system has different opinions. Both sides kicked the ball to the joint fleet, and Hori Teiki also supports it, but the subordinates need to convince their subordinates to draw back the backbones.

In Italy in the past two days, Japanese senior officials such as Hori Teiki have visited various types of Italian industries, especially heavy industry and military industries under the guidance of Mussolini. After the effective transformation of Germany, Italy's industrial level has been improved to a higher level. Hori Teiki has served as the chairman of the company and has a deeper understanding of production and manufacturing than other senior officers. He can clearly feel that Italian workers are not as hard-working as Japanese workers, but their technical level, equipment capacity and production efficiency are incomparable to Japan. At least in Italy, the important equipment factories in Italy have fully realized that standardized operation parts can be completely interchangeable, and there is no need to rely too much on the hands of skilled workers like Japan. This is very critical to rapidly expanding output while ensuring quality.

He saw many German engineers on the spot guiding technical details and optimizing and adjusting the operating procedures. What touched him the most was that after the German-Italy axis was integrated, many equipment between Italy and Germany began to be unified. For example, rifles, including Italy, all countries in the axis began to replace German Mauser 98k, and the Italian arsenal was doing their best to produce the production lines that relocated from Germany's local ammunition. As for the local ammunition in Italy, they have been cleaning up one after another.

Only then did he understand why the Germans delivered a lot of Italian weapons among the infantry light weapons. This batch of arms was part of the Japan-German trade. Germany first delivered to Japan and sold them. He knew that the domestic arms exported to China had reached a peak. Now it was said that the inventory was insufficient. After this batch of German arms exports, the army would first pick up the best part, and then turn them back to China or Siam to make a net profit of a lot of money. At first, he thought it was all foreign weapons seized by Germany, but now he realized that there were old goods replaced by Italy.

"What is Mauser's company in your country producing?"

"They are focusing on producing thin-shell ammunition and new rifles with higher technical requirements. The 20mm machine cannon ammunition sold to your country is all thin-shell ammunition."

New rifles include stg43 assault rifles and g43 semi-automatic rifles. Germany did not intend to hide them from Japan, and they could not hide them. These weapons have begun to be equipped on the Eastern Front one after another. Sperer ambitiously stated that he would basically complete the replacement within two years. Japan was also quite excited after seeing the new rifles, but after inquiring about the ammunition consumption, he could only sigh if Japan also used such rifles, the weak logistics supply would probably collapse first. The thin shell ammunition made the Japanese sigh. After being matched with the German cannon, the carrier-based pilots of the flying B-219 said that they were 2-3 times stronger than domestic cannon ammunition. After asking the major arsenals, they replied that it was difficult to produce domestically, so they had to be imported.

When he learned that Germany had moved all important equipment such as the B-109 and No. 3 tank chassis production lines to Italy for production, he was extremely surprised. Now he finally understood why the Italians were willing to hand over all the command of the navy and air force to the Germans, because Germany really gave Italy benefits. Horitiki was considering whether he could move some production lines to Japan. Not to mention anything else, the batch of machine tools alone made him very interested. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!