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Chapter 355 Ou first or Asia first?

Pearl Harbor is burning.

When the attack happened, because today was Christmas Eve, many ships that had gone out had returned, and the number of ships in the port was higher than usual.

There are a total of nine battleships and three aircraft carriers moored in the port, plus more than 200 other auxiliary ships of various sizes.Because the time of the attack was Christmas Eve, Admiral Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, was not going to play golf early in the morning as in history, but went down to the grassroots to visit the officers and soldiers at the local Navy Club. There was a group of buzzing "flies" flying in the sky.

The first wave of attack instructions started at 4:[-] local time. Four minutes later, the commander of the first wave sent Nagumo the message "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" to report the success of the sneak attack.

Two minutes later, the first wave of attacks by torpedo bombers and dive bombers was launched.

The attack process was as successful as in history, and even more successful.

"Enterprise", "Lexington", and "Yorktown", these three "flat-top fly ships", were hit hard at the first time.

An hour after the attack began, the three ships had turned into three giant torches burning on the berth—the aviation fuel in the ship was all ignited.

Historically, when Tadashi Nagumo attacked Pearl Harbor, he ran away after two rounds of attacks—the reason was that the three aircraft carriers in the port were not there, and he was worried about being attacked by an aircraft carrier.Afterwards, Yamamoto 56 complained bitterly: "Nanyun is like a thief who breaks into a house. When he goes there, he is full of confidence and ambition. Once he succeeds, he is frightened and flees in embarrassment."

In this plane, the three aircraft carriers were ignited on the berth immediately, and burned into three huge torches.Nagumo Chuichi, who had no worries, finally launched the third round of attacks under the strong advice of Yamaguchi Tamon and Mikawa Junichi.The oil depots, maintenance plants in the port, and warships that did not seem to have sunk and were still floating on the water (grounded) were blown up again.

Historically, on the night before the sneak attack, Pearl Harbor warships sank a Japanese ship participating in the sneak attack.Before the attack, the U.S. military dispersed some fighter jets to remote small airports, while the aircraft left at the main airport were empty hangars and neatly placed on the runway, giving people the illusion that all the aircraft were there.After the attack began, the planes that took off for combat took off from small airports, which were described in the blockbusters "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger" and "Pearl Harbor".

Regarding the Pearl Harbor incident, there has always been a controversial statement, that is, the U.S. military already knew that the Japanese were going to sneak attack, and it was a deliberate bitter plan (for details, you can Baidu Pearl Harbor incident by yourself, see Baidu Encyclopedia, I will not quote it) The opposing side thinks there is no such thing A "bitter trick" to send out the entire Pacific Fleet.

Regarding this matter, Huang Ke's opinion is: the U.S. Navy does know, but thinks that it relies on the fortress and port, so what's so terrible about the Japanese sneak attack?I didn't realize the huge strike force and distance of the carrier-based aircraft.The reason why the aircraft carrier is not here is that it is too fragile, so Roosevelt asked them to go out and avoid it first.

The U.S. Navy is prepared, but it doesn’t know the exact time. At the same time, it feels that it can make a wave, and then accidentally make a big wave...

No matter what the specific situation is, the Pearl Harbor incident in this plane, the U.S. Navy was really unprepared, and was shot into Icu by Nagumo Chuichi's sap.

When the first wave of air raids began, most of the planes in the port were parked in the hangars of the main airport, instead of being scattered in small airports as in history. As a result, they were bombed and strafed by Japanese planes. .

The fleet itself was also defenseless—the reason, however, had to do with the codes.

Just as the Soviets warned the Japanese, with the help of transistor computers, the U.S. Navy has already deciphered all Japanese communication codes.

However, in order to gamble big, the Japanese pretended not to know that the password was leaked, did not improve the original cipher machine, and still insisted on using the old cipher machine according to the original frequency.So much so that in the past six months, the U.S. Navy has been well aware of the movements of the Japanese.

In the past two years, the three powerhouses of China, the Soviet Union, and Japan and East Asia have been colluding secretly, and the relationship has improved rapidly. Roosevelt knows it very well. He also knows Japan's ambitions for Southeast Asia and the hostility of the United States.

He and his staff around him, who have read "The Chichibu Palace", can even calculate Japan's possible future strategic adventures.

It's not that they are defenseless, but they are too contemptuous, and at the same time they are too superstitious about their code-breaking ability.

The Japanese also knew that the Americans had broken their code seven months earlier.They endured it for seven months, and before the attack on Pearl Harbor, they sent false information on purpose, allowing the United States to successfully "decipher".

When Chuichi Nagumo's fast attack fleet was rushing towards Hawaii at high speed, Pacific Fleet Commander Kimmel thought that the Japanese navy was conducting combat exercises [-] nautical miles east of Japan's main island. I thought that Japan would not go south until March next year.

Then, the entire Pacific Fleet, including the whole family, including nine battleships and three aircraft carriers, was neatly organized by the more than 400 planes released by Chuichi Nagumo's attack fleet. white magic liquid,

so cool...

Pearl Harbor was raided, the Pacific Fleet was severely damaged, and the news that all capital ships had lost their combat effectiveness came. Roosevelt, who was preparing for Christmas, took several seconds to recover.

"Damn!"

He suddenly remembered the description in the last volume of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", that the U.S. Navy dispatched a large number of aircraft carriers to release planes to attack the Japanese Combined Fleet, sinking them all in Yokohama Port in Tokyo Bay.

When he saw this passage, he just laughed, but he didn't expect that this scene really happened—it was just that the identities of the victim and the perpetrator were reversed.

The specific loss figures of the Pacific Fleet have not yet been counted, but Roosevelt knows that in the coming year, the US Navy will be in an extremely passive state in the Pacific Ocean.To make matters worse, the Japanese successfully attacked and completely disrupted his plan.

At this time, the inside of the US Intelligence Agency is also jumping around.

Just last week, Roosevelt asked the person in charge: How has the Japanese been doing in recent months? Is it possible to use Christmas to attack us?

Answer: They are all staring at Nanyang, and the navy is also in the country...

At that time, the intelligence personnel took out the map and pointed out the approximate current location of the Japanese fleet in front of Roosevelt, and then Roosevelt expressed his relief.

Then, on Christmas Eve, Roosevelt's face was swollen...

As for this period, the "diplomatic error" that the Japanese ambassador to the United States had time to send the declaration of war after the attack was nothing more than raising the blood pressure of the angry Roosevelt by a few mercury columns.

Not to mention that the United States was stunned by the Japanese with a stick, and the whole people were in a state of anger and runaway. Churchill, who had just flown back to London from Washington, was first happy and then very sad after hearing the news.

He was very worried that after the "Pearl Harbor Incident", the United States would abandon its established strategy of "first Europe and then Asia" and devote all its energy to the Pacific battlefield. This would undoubtedly be an unpredictable disaster for Britain.You must know that in Africa, the remnants of the British Empire have been forced by Rommel to retreat to the east of the Suez Canal, where they have built a defense line. If they retreat further east, they will retreat to the Persian Gulf, and then they will be completely driven into the sea. .

After occupying Cairo and Alexandria, Germany and Italy are using all their sea power to transport equipment and supplies to Cairo. From a geographical point of view, after retreating to the east of the Suez Canal, the British Empire has been driven out of North Africa by the Germans up.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on this day, turning Christmas Eve into a disaster night, and more successfully made every American unable to forget this humiliating day when celebrating Christmas in the future.

Whether British or American, many people lost sleep in the middle of the night.

"Führer, the United States has declared war on Japan...we should..."

In the Chancellery in Berlin, Hitler had just been delighted that Rommel had successfully captured North Africa, obtained half of the Suez Canal, and was about to win the North African campaign. When the news of the Pearl Harbor incident came, his first emotion was fury.

Escorting anti-submarine and attacking wolves, in the past six months, the German Navy and the U.S. Navy have fought against each other in the Atlantic Ocean many times, and both sides have lost each other.Hitler knew a long time ago that there must be a battle between virtues, he just thought that the fateful node would come so soon.

After calming down, he ordered the people below to "wait and see what happens."Then, he picked up the German translation of the American version of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" written by Huang Ke, and read it repeatedly.

After taking over North Africa, as long as he got the oil from the Middle East, Hitler felt that he could eat enough. The rest was to take over all the other territories in North Africa. The status quo has been going on for a few years, and when he digests and integrates the whole of Western Europe...

It was the best "dream" he had ever had.

But now, the variable has appeared ahead of time.......

On December 25th, after the Times of England reported the Pearl Harbor incident on the front page, the following editorial touched on the most important topic: the United States has been completely drawn into the war, but its focus will be lowered. where?

Is it Europe first or Asia first?

The British are very scared. From a common sense point of view, the Americans after the runaway must have focused all their attention on the Pacific Ocean. …

And on Christmas Eve, the U.S. military in the Philippines encountered a large number of Japanese aircraft air strikes from Taiwan Airport at this time, and a large number of aircraft were destroyed at the airport.At almost the same time, the four "missing" Japanese aircraft carriers also dispatched carrier-based aircraft to bombard the U.S. military indiscriminately off the coast of the Philippines.

Japan's southward plan has officially begun!

PS: The Pearl Harbor incident, I don’t write much about the old rules. I have covered it in one chapter. The key is to write about China-related plots. The dog-eat-dogs of the United States, Japan and Germany are not the focus of this book.

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Chapter 356 Roosevelt's Fear

In the next three days, other than the media, all countries in the world were still clamoring, but the high-level governments, except the British Empire, couldn’t wait to declare war on Japan, and the rest of the countries, such as China and the Soviet Union, only expressed concern about the safety of overseas Chinese in the Philippines.

However, Germany and Italy temporarily shut up and did not speak, while a vote of American or European countries, such as Spain and Portugal, expressed concern and condemned Japan's undeclared war.As for the three families of Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, at this time, it all depends on the faces of the two monster powers around them, the Soviet Union and Germany.

And the backyard of the United States, the South American countries, stood up and expressed angry accusations against Japan's actions.Among them, Argentina and Brazil were the most active. The two countries immediately seized the property of the local Japanese expatriates...

The Pearl Harbor attack, the losses suffered by the US Pacific Fleet, were counted three days later: nine battleships, four were sunk (referring to no repair value), and the other five were capsized or sunk, but all without exception Lost the ability to fight.As far as its losses are concerned, compared with another time and space in history, the effect of one more round of bombing by the Japanese army is only to make these warships suffer more serious injuries.

The main reason is that the maximum bomb load of the Japanese dive bombers during this period was only 250 kilograms, which was too small.The U.S. Navy warships are all parked at the berth and attacked. If they are flooded in time when they are hit by a torpedo, they will sink on the bottom and will be very easy to rescue in the future.If the water injection is not enough, it will roll over and sink.

Of the four battleships that were sunk, except for the unlucky Arizona, which was dropped by the 97th ship attack and dropped a bomb modified with 410 shells for horizontal bombing, it fell in the air and penetrated the deck and detonated the ammunition depot. It is too old and too old to be worth repairing, or it was too badly damaged when it overturned, and it is not worth the loss if it is repaired, so the loan is removed. (During the attack on Pearl Harbor, the carrier-based aircraft was dispatched to take off the 97 ship attack, and the bomb was modified with artillery shells, weighing 800 kilograms. However, the aircraft used by this torpedo aircraft cannot perform high-precision dive bombing, and can only drop bombs horizontally. not tall)

Because they were all shooting dead targets at the berths, the hit rate of all Japanese bombers was astonishingly high.Incomparable to the battleships protected by hard armor, the fate of the three most critical weapon aircraft carriers that will determine the future Pacific naval battle is quite miserable.

The Enterprise swallowed three bombs in front of it, and one was nearly missed, and the aviation fuel tank was ignited. The cabin under the line caused a large amount of water ingress, causing it to roll over and sink. Although the ship suffered heavy casualties, it escaped the crisis of the ammunition depot being killed. Judging from the situation, it seems that there is still a possibility of recovery and repair.

But the other two friendly ships were all sucked by him: the Lexington swallowed all four bombs, detonated the ammunition depot and the aviation fuel depot, and exploded all over the place like a festival, and finally turned into a ball The huge torch, due to the shallow water level of the berth where it stayed, finally sank to the bottom of the water.But after the evaluation: the keel and the overall structure were damaged, and it could be directly salvaged to the ship breaking yard.

The Yorktown was even more unlucky. It swallowed four bombs in the first round of bombing. It was also ignited by the aviation fuel tank and turned into a giant torch. But as long as it floats on the water, it will not sink.As a result, during the third round of the Japanese army's supplementary gun attack, it was focused on taking care of it again, and it was repeatedly dive-bombed by four Japanese planes.

As a result, a bomb smashed into the aviation torpedo compartment and exploded. Although the ammunition compartment was submerged in seawater at this time, the aviation torpedoes stored in it were continuously detonated.In the end, it was broken into two parts and sank in the shocking explosion.

After this battle, the only combat aircraft carriers that the U.S. Navy can use are the Hornet, Saratoga, Wasp, and Raider.As for the fifth Langley aircraft carrier, this is an old aircraft carrier converted from a coal carrier, which is basically incapable of combat.

As for the local facilities in Pearl Harbor, such as the oil depot, although the Japanese army carried out a third bombing, which caused greater losses, the impact was not great.The ship repair yard has also suffered some damage, but with the strong industrial capabilities of the Americans, it can be completely repaired in half a year at most.The real headache for Roosevelt was whether he should take advantage of this wave and directly declare war on Germany.

That's right, Roosevelt understood: Before the U.S. Navy fully recovered its strength, any active attack in the Pacific direction would be death.After discussing with the staff, the Minister of War and many other people, the high-level US officials have set up a strategy of defending Asia and attacking Europe. The only question is when to turn against Germany.

It is impossible not to turn around, because the United States needs the European market!

The current Third Reich can take North Africa and even most of the Middle East at any time.

Imagine Germany, which has the best part of Europe, plus the resources of North Africa and the Middle East.Give Mustache a few more years to develop and accumulate strength, who knows what kind of monster he will swell into?

Historically, after the Pearl Harbor incident, the major premise that the United States was able to launch a war against Japan and Germany at the same time was that Germany had just suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Moscow at that time.After half a year of the Soviet-German War, Hitler's Germany suffered a great deal of wear and tear, and it has initially shown its decline.Half a year later, the Japanese army suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Midway Island, and the offensive and defensive momentum of the two sides in the Pacific began to reverse. One year after the United States entered the war, the Battle of Stalingrad ended in a complete victory for the Soviet army.Roosevelt was completely relieved, and he could fight on two fronts as much as he wanted.

But this plane has none of these advantages.

As for the war between the Soviet Union and Germany?Up to now, the Soviet Union and Germany are still tacitly not stationing large troops and sending observers to each other [-] kilometers east and west of each other's border.In the past year, the generals on both sides of the Soviet-German border held another party to "remember the history of friendship between the Soviet Union and Germany"....

During the bombing of the Libyan oil fields, Stalin also increased the monthly oil exports to Germany from 20 tons to [-] tons.In addition, an additional [-] tons of oil was sold to Italy to make up for the shortfall.This kind of Soviet-German friendly atmosphere made Roosevelt and Churchill feel their scalps go numb.

As for Asia, facing Japan, which played Tianhu in the first round, Roosevelt and a bunch of his staff are now holding the famous "Chichibu Palace Rivalry", Huang Ke and Saiyuanji Gongwang. "Crazy talk", everyone's head felt cold when they saw it.

Who Said Nazis and Communism Are Sworn Enemies?National socialism, that is also socialism!Not to mention that Huang Yuanxing, who is still fighting tit-for-tat between China and Japan. I wish that when you were dying, you would clamor for "the rationalist who supports each other between China and Japan". Back then, everyone thought he was a madman and a lunatic, but now it seems that this person is simply Scary as a monster, maybe Li Runshi, the leader of the Communist Party of China behind him, is the real big boss.

Combined with the perfect cooperation between the Soviet Union and the CCP in the past three years...

"Japan united with China and the Soviet Union to fight against the British and American white animals..."

Imagine the combination of China's manpower, the Soviet Union's army and military industry, and Japan's navy... If Santoku is also brought in, China, Japan, Sude, and soy sauce Italy, they form the Five Axis.....

Thinking of this scene, Roosevelt and their staff felt collectively cold.

As soon as the New Year passed, Stalin in Moscow received a telegram from Roosevelt. He sent an invitation to Stalin, hoping to discuss with him the topic of "new European pattern and new order".At the same time as the telegram was sent, Roosevelt's assistant Wilkie was ordered to secretly visit the Soviet Union. At the same time, the US ambassador to China Stuart also met with Li Yunshi at this time, bringing Roosevelt's "good intentions".At this time, the Japanese army heading south had already launched a campaign against the Philippines.

As an expression of "goodwill", Roosevelt secretly instructed the lifting of sanctions against the Soviet Union and China.In the telegram he sent to Situ Leitu, he specifically reminded him: No matter what, Li Runshi must be persuaded to prevent the formation of an implicit alliance between China, the Soviet Union and Japan.

When Roosevelt mentioned China and Li Runshi, he suddenly remembered what Huang Ke said to him when he met Huang Ke in the White House three years ago.

"China is on the road from chess pieces to chess players..."

Let's post a small chapter first, and it will be updated tomorrow during the day.Go to bed first.

Chapter 357

When the Pearl Harbor incident happened, the time went to the period of the Battle of Moscow in history. What was the top leadership of the Soviet Union doing at this time?

A: We are discussing to appropriately reduce the monthly production of T34 tanks in the first half of next year, reduce the production of explosives, and transfer resources to heavy tank trailers, heavy infantry fighting vehicles, and some civilian needs, such as increasing fertilizer production.

how so.

The reason is that after four years of preparation and three years according to the second-level mobilization standard, the Soviet Army has completed a major refit of its armored forces.

At the end of this year, various military regions reported that all warehouses were filled with produced ammunition.

1 T[-] tanks, [-] IS heavy tanks, and [-] T[-] tanks. (all of the above include various deformed cars)

The world's only BMP series infantry fighting vehicles have also produced more than 4000 vehicles.As for the piles of T26 and BT series produced before [-], there is no need to say more, and there are piles of various large artillery.

In terms of tanks, cannons, and army weapons, the Soviet Union is ready for equipment.What is lacking is only the proficiency of the personnel and the command level of the officers. In addition, the number of trucks needs to be increased, and the logistics maintenance personnel still need time to train and exercise.