I have to admit that Japan does have the best students in the world.
Since the Tang and Song dynasties in China, Japan has been constantly learning from China, even plagiarizing their writing.
During the Ming Dynasty, Japanese feudal vassals and towns fought against each other, and they stopped learning from China.
During the Yuan Dynasty, they wanted to continue studying, but if a strong wind hadn't helped them, Japan would have become a province of the Yuan Dynasty.
In the Qing Dynasty, Japan changed its direction and went directly to learn from Western countries. The army learned from Germany for training, the navy learned from the British Navy for organization, and the judiciary learned from American commercial law.
Next, Japan fought against China as its teacher in the Sino-Japanese War, declared war on Germany in World War I, and now surprises the United States at Pearl Harbor. In the near future, they will also send troops to the British India-Burma Colony.
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A student beat his teacher all over, and so far, he has basically never lost.
Isn't this kind of student terrible?
In less than a hundred years, Japan has packaged itself as a "Western country in the East."
However, this country is too arrogant and arrogant. This time, it offended all its teachers at the same time.
Needless to say, China has no distinction between north and south, and people regardless of age and age will fight it bloody battles to the end.
The UK will definitely not accept Japan's insults.
In Germany, Reinhardt alone would not be able to pass the test. The entire core German leadership knew the president's true attitude toward Japan in private, but no one told Japanese officials about it.
The United States, now also starting to sharpen its sword against Japan because of the Pearl Harbor incident.
"Mr. President, the latest statistics. In Pearl Harbor, the Pennsylvania battleship, the California battleship... a total of 6 battleships, as well as all 2 heavy cruisers and 3 light cruisers in Pearl Harbor,
21 destroyers and 24 additional auxiliary ships were sunk..." A colonel reported in Roosevelt's office with his head lowered.
"Lost 6 battleships?! Our combat power in the Pacific battlefield has been reduced by half!" A naval admiral standing behind Roosevelt explained the situation to Roosevelt with an ugly face.
In fact, if he were told that the remaining two battleships in Pearl Harbor were now in a semi-scrap state, with little repair value, the admiral would probably look even more ugly.
But now, there is someone with a uglier face than him, and that is Roosevelt himself.
Originally, Roosevelt was prepared to be attacked by the Japanese army. He thought that the losses in this battle might be relatively large, but he did not expect that he would lose everything in one go!
He couldn't figure out how the Japanese army managed to destroy most of the Pacific Fleet and destroy Pearl Harbor at once.
If he had not mobilized the aircraft carriers and an escort cruiser fleet in Pearl Harbor in advance through various uses, the current battle report would probably be "the Japanese army completely annihilated the U.S. Pacific Fleet"!
It's not that he hasn't been mentally prepared. If you say the loss of two or three battleships...even four, that's not unacceptable. At least, Roosevelt has a way to make up for this loss in a short period of time.
If a loss of the Pacific Fleet can be used to exchange the United States for an opportunity to go to war with Japan, it will be worthwhile.
Originally, Roosevelt was also prepared to give the Japanese a victory.
However, he never thought of sending so many out, the bones of the Pacific Fleet were almost gone!
According to Roosevelt's original plan, no matter how surprise the Japanese army was, it would be impossible to massacre the entire Pearl Harbor, right? At most, the Pearl Harbor troops would be caught off guard, and then the US military would react, which would be a head-on war of attrition.
The United States is not afraid of attrition. If the battleships lost were consumed in the exchange of battle losses with the Japanese fleet, Roosevelt would not be so distressed.
The key is that these battleships were basically blown up out of nowhere.
How else can we say that Japan is the most suitable country in the world to be a son? They have inherited the German aircraft carrier tactics to the fullest.
Except for core technologies such as radar, Reinhardt did not give it to the Japanese Navy. Everything else he could give went to the Japanese army.
Even the tactics of launching a fire attack on the Pearl Harbor oil depot were sold to the Japanese base camp by Germany.
Perhaps even Reinhardt himself did not expect that the Japanese really achieved results beyond expectations, destroying the main fleet of the U.S. Pacific Fleet except the aircraft carriers in one fell swoop.
The entire Hawaii was set on fire. The Japanese army used the oil depot built by the US military to detonate1, destroying large tracts of natural mountains and forests in Hawaii, as well as man-made airports, ports, military camps, etc.
It was the first time in their lives that even the Japanese airmen, the instigators of them, had seen an explosion of this scale.
In addition to the capsized hulls, the wreckage of US military aircraft was also parked on countless burning field airports.
When Isoroku Yamamoto heard that the returning Japanese air force had sent back a victory report, he immediately wrote a congratulatory letter to the Emperor of Japan, directly announcing that the Americans were finished. The base camp should even arrange to send some Army Red Deer to land and occupy Pearl Harbor.
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Of course, the talk of occupying Pearl Harbor is just Yamamoto's excited remarks. The Japanese base camp will not arrange it, at least not immediately. They are preparing to march into Vietnam, Myanmar and other Southeast Asia, annexing large rubber production bases here, and canvas local areas.
of industrial production.
In addition, the available landing forces will be quickly sent to the Southeast Asian region of the Philippines to seize the oil producing areas there and fill the last gap in Japan's military industry.
Yamamoto Isoroku is a gambler who is good at calculation. When he won this bet, he also calculated the next move - as long as the Japanese navy can complete the planned battle to capture Midway, then Japan can
Create an impregnable "Sea Siegfried Line of Defense".
The reason why it is called Siegfried instead of Maginot is also a bonus. After all, the German Siegfried Line was defended and even became an attack position in the end, while the French Maginot Line was purely a
furnishings.
What the Japanese base camp wants is not just a decoration, nor even a simple line of defense.
After this battle, his confidence grew even more. If he could achieve this kind of performance in the future, then it would not be a dream to join forces with the German army to land in the United States.
Anyway, the Germans have always intended to lure the Japanese Kwantung Army northward, so that they can attack the Soviet Union with them and share the pressure on Germany on the road. It just so happens that the Japanese army has now gained maritime superiority over the United States, and there is the possibility of attacking the United States from both sides with Germany.
If road cooperation and sea cooperation can be carried out together, it seems that there will be a good result.
"If the Germans attack us in the Atlantic, something will really go wrong!" Roosevelt, who had always been civilized, was now filled with the urge to curse.
The failure of the British allowed Germany and its allies to quickly occupy the mainland of the United Kingdom, and also caused the United States to completely lose its largest barrier and ally in the west.
According to Roosevelt's intelligence, the Germans may already have, or will soon have, a total of eight large aircraft carriers.
Italy, which has always followed Germany, is also a naval power with an advanced aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal.
Coupled with an aircraft carrier controlled by Vichy France and a total of more than ten main battleships from Germany, France and Italy, Roosevelt simply had a headache just thinking about it.
The German Navy alone, which had annexed a large number of remaining warships in the British Home Fleet, was no longer a target that the U.S. Atlantic Fleet could deal with.
And if the fleets of Italy and France are added, the current Atlantic Fleet and Pacific Fleet of the US military together have no chance of winning.
Now that the Japanese are showing off their plans to directly fight the United States, it seems that the U.S. Navy cannot even guarantee the maritime security on both sides of the country...
