0p0 Third Reich Episode 505
Third Reich Episode 505
I have to admit that Japan is indeed the best student in the world.
Since the Tang and Song dynasties in China, Japan has been learning from China, and even their characters have been plagiarized.
During the Ming Dynasty, the separatist regimes in Japan fought against each other, and they stopped learning from China.
In the Yuan Dynasty, they wanted to continue studying, but if it wasn't for a strong wind to help them, Japan should 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 is trained with reference to Germany, the navy with reference to the establishment of the British Navy, and the judiciary with reference to American commercial law.
Next, Japan fought against China, the teacher, in the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], declared war on Germany in World War I, and now attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States by surprise. .
A student beat up his teacher all over the place, and up to now, he has basically never lost.
Isn't such a student scary?
In less than a hundred years, Japan has packaged itself as a "Western country in the East".
It's just that this country is too arrogant and arrogant. This time, it offended all its teachers at the same time.
Needless to say, China, there is no distinction between north and south, and people regardless of age and age will fight it to the end.
Britain, in the face of Japan's downfall, will certainly not accept it readily.
In Germany, Reinhardt alone can't pass the test. The entire core of Germany's top management knows the true attitude of the head of state towards Japan in private, but no one talks about it to Japanese officials.
The United States is now also sharpening its sword against Japan because of the Pearl Harbor incident.
"Mr. President, the latest statistics. In Pearl Harbor, there are battleships in Pennsylvania, battleships in California...a total of 6 battleships, and all 2 heavy cruisers and 3 light cruisers in Pearl Harbor, 21 destroyers, and another 24 auxiliary ships, are sunk..." a colonel officer reported from Roosevelt's office with his head bowed.
"We lost 6 battleships?! Our combat power in the Pacific battlefield is halved!" A naval general standing behind Roosevelt explained the situation to Roosevelt with an ugly expression.
In fact, if he was told that the remaining two battleships in Pearl Harbor were also in a semi-scratched state, with little repair value, the admiral's face would probably be even uglier.
But now, there was someone who looked uglier than him, and that was Roosevelt himself.
Originally, Roosevelt was prepared for an attack by the Japanese army.He thought that the losses in this battle might be relatively large, but he didn't 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 one time.
If he hadn't mobilized the aircraft carrier and an escort destroyer fleet in Pearl Harbor in advance by various means, it is estimated that the current battle report should be "the Japanese army wiped out the US Pacific Fleet"!
It's not that he hasn't been mentally prepared. You said that if you lose two or three battleships... even four, that's not unacceptable.At least, Roosevelt has a way to make up for this loss immediately in a short period of time.
If the loss of the Pacific Fleet can be exchanged for an opportunity for the United States to go to war against Japan, it will be worth it.
Originally, Roosevelt was also ready to give the Japanese a victory.
However, he didn't expect to send so many out, and the Pacific Fleet's muscles and bones were almost gone!
According to Roosevelt's original plan, no matter how surprise the Japanese army attacked, it would be impossible to slaughter the entire Pearl Harbor, right?At most, the Pearl Harbor troops were caught off guard, and then the U.S. military reacted, which was a head-to-head war of attrition.
The United States is not afraid of consumption. Roosevelt would not be so distressed if the lost warships were exchanged for the loss ratio of the Japanese fleet.
The key point is that these warships are basically blown up in a daze.
How else can I say that Japan is the most suitable country in the world to be a son?They have inherited the German aircraft carrier tactics almost exactly.
Except for core technologies such as radar, Reinhardt did not give the Japanese navy, and everything else that could be given was called to the Japanese army.
Even the tactics of launching a fire attack on the Pearl Harbor oil depot were sold by Germany to the Japanese base camp.
Perhaps even Reinhardt himself did not expect that the Japanese really achieved a record that exceeded expectations, destroying the main fleet of the US Pacific Fleet except for the aircraft carrier in one fell swoop.
The whole of Hawaii was set on fire, and the Japanese army used the oil depot built by the US military to detonate 1, destroying stretches of natural mountain forests in Hawaii.And artificially built airports, ports, barracks and so on.
Explosions of this scale, even their instigators, the Japanese aviation soldiers, are the first time they have seen it in their lives.
In addition to the sunken ships, the wreckage of US aircraft was also parked on countless burning field airports.
When Yamamoto 56 heard the results report from the returning Japanese aviation unit, he immediately wrote a congratulatory letter to the Emperor of Japan, directly announcing that the Americans were finished, and that the headquarters should even arrange to send some army red deer to land and occupy Pearl Harbor.
Of course, the talk of occupying Pearl Harbor is just Yamamoto's excited speech, and the Japanese army base camp will not arrange it, at least not immediately.They are preparing to enter Vietnam, Myanmar and other Southeast Asian regions, annexing large rubber production bases and local industrial production of canvas.
In addition, the landing forces that can be used will also 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 56 is a gambler who is good at calculating. When he won the bet this time, he also calculated the position of the next move-as long as the Japanese navy can complete the established battle to capture Midway Island, then Japan can create a The impenetrable "Sea Siegfried Line of Defense".
The reason why it is called Siegfried instead of Maginot is also a trick.After all, the German's Siegfried line of defense was held, and even became an attack position in the end, while the French's Maginot line of defense was purely a display.
What the Japanese base camp wants is not a decoration, or even a simple line of defense.
After this battle, his confidence was even more inflated. If he could achieve this kind of record in the future, then it would not be a dream to join forces with the German army to land on the American mainland.
Anyway, the Germans have been deliberately luring the Japanese Kwantung Army to go north, and they will attack the Soviet Union with them, sharing the pressure on Germany's road.It just so happens that the Japanese army has now gained maritime superiority over the United States, and there is a possibility of attacking the mainland of the United States with Germany on both sides.
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, there will be a big problem!" Roosevelt, who has always been civilized, is now full of the urge to swear.
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 8 large aircraft carriers.
And Italy, which has always followed Germany, is also a naval power with an advanced aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal.
Coupled with an aircraft carrier controlled by Vichy France, and a total of more than ten main battleships from the three countries of Germany, France and Italy, Roosevelt had a headache just thinking about it.
The German Navy, which has annexed a large number of remaining warships in the British home fleet, is no longer a target that the US Atlantic Fleet can deal with.
And if the Italian and French fleets are added, the combination of the current Atlantic Fleet and Pacific Fleet of the US military will not have a chance of winning.
Now that the Japanese have another showdown and want to directly fight the United States, the US Navy seems to have no way to guarantee the safety of the ocean on both sides of the country...
Text 764 War once and for all
Will Roosevelt be devastated by the deterioration of the situation?of course not!
This was the opportunity he had been looking forward to for a long time, but the price he paid was slightly higher than expected.
But on July 1941, 7, the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Roosevelt gave a speech calling on Congress to declare war on Japan.
In order to create enough atmosphere of public opinion for this speech, Roosevelt also asked people to print newspapers the night before, describing July 7 as a day of national humiliation for the United States, recalling how Japan pretended to be a grandson in front of the United States and talked about peace.
In front of countless spotlights and under the gaze of countless eyes, Roosevelt held his speech and opened the prelude to the United States joining this world-class war.
Unlike the last world war, the United States' participation in the war this time did not enter the war in a relatively balanced situation.
During World War I, the United States relied on the sale of arms and other strategic materials and used its neutral status to make its economy the number one in the world. It was almost at that time that the United States really rose.