Rao Jialiang told the Soviet liaison officer Zhang Minghui's idea. The Soviet side never expected that Zhang Minghui would refuse. You must know that Zhang Minghui's benefits were much higher than the Soviet side. Zhang Minghui actually refused. This was something the liaison officer never expected.

, he couldn’t make the decision and could only go back and ask Stalin for instructions!

Zhang Minghui asked to tell Stalin that the Chinese have never been afraid of war. Even if we fight for another ten or twenty years, China will still be China and will not be destroyed!

After Stalin heard the news, he was very surprised. It turned out that Zhang Minghui was not the kind of person who wanted to be king and hegemony, but a man in the true sense. Yes, even if a country is unified, it still has to lose even the most basic territorial sovereignty.

If it is not under its own control, what kind of country is it?

Stalin thought very clearly that if Zhang Minghui was willing, he would not mind having millions of Soviet troops join China's Anti-Japanese War, so that the benefits obtained in the future would be maximized. Of course, he would have to guard against a German comeback, and Stalin did not dare

Definitely attack the Northeast, because little Japan is currently China's enemy. If the Soviet Union declares war on China at this moment, it means joining the ranks of the Axis powers. Stalin cannot express it casually, otherwise he will get the wrong meaning.

alright!

After Stalin expressed his intention to Zhang Minghui, Zhang Minghui was relieved and took the time to train his aircraft team. Zhang Minghui was already ready to attack Tianjin. When the time comes, the land and air operations will definitely look different!

In the early days, Japan formulated two operational orientations, namely "going south" and "going north". Japan initially valued the Soviet Union's rich war resources and planned to invade the Soviet Union and occupy Siberia.

From May to September 1939, Japan, as planned, launched a large-scale exploratory strategic offensive against the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces in the Nomonhan area, 200 kilometers south of Hailar on the Sino-Mongolian border. Both sides mobilized hundreds of thousands of elite troops and advanced

Military equipment engaged in a fierce battle for more than four months on a wasteland overgrown with weeds and rolling sand dunes. Due to its backward military thinking and tactical technology, Japan suffered its first and most disastrous defeat since the Russo-Japanese War.

After the "go north" was defeated, the dream of attacking the Soviet Union and occupying Siberia came to nothing, so they turned around and planned a "go south" to seize greater war resources (oil), etc., so as to annex the world's reserve resources in the future.

At that time, there were colonies of Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States in Nanyang, which added difficulties to Japan's plan to go south. Coupled with the shortage of oil, it did not hesitate to take a risk and bomb the United States' Pearl Harbor.

In 1940, Hitler planned "Operation Sea Lion" against Britain, requiring the Japanese army and Germany to fight against Britain at the same time. The Japanese army expelled all British expatriates in China and seized British interests in China. The Japanese army's actions directly affected the interests of the United Kingdom and the United States.

.In order to give the Japanese army

As a warning, the United States froze trade with Japan, which included high-octane oil necessary for the war. Without oil, the Japanese combat equipment could not travel, and the ships anchored, which meant that they could not continue the invasion. In order to ensure normal aggression and plunder oil, the Japanese decided

Take a risk.

In addition, Japan's oil can only last for half a year. Japan understands that it must either withdraw its troops from China, stop external expansion, and move closer to the United States diplomatically. Or it can form its own flag, go south to seize strategic resources, and continue to strengthen foreign aggression. There is the United States and Britain in Southeast Asia.

, a Dutch colony, marching into Nanyang is tantamount to declaring war on the United States, Britain and the Netherlands.

Pearl Harbor on the Pacific Ocean is a major transportation hub. Hawaii is separated from the west coast of the United States to the east, Japan to the west, the Islands to the southwest, and Alaska and the Bering Strait to the north. They are all between 2,000 and 3,000 nautical miles, spanning the Pacific Ocean from south to north.

All incoming planes used Hawaii as a stopover. Japan believed that seizing air and sea control in the Pacific first meant that the road south would be clear, and Pearl Harbor must be destroyed first, so Japan planned the Pearl Harbor raid.

The Japanese government decided to seize the resources of Southeast Asia as an answer to the embargo. They couldn't assume that if they took action, the United States would stand by and watch. This is why Yamamoto Isoroku considered eliminating American power in the Pacific beforehand. Japanese Combined Fleet

Commander Isoroku Yamamoto's plan to attack the naval base at Pearl Harbor was to accomplish this

A tactical step in the strategic purpose. Japanese data shows that Yamamoto began to consider attacking Pearl Harbor in early 1941. A few months later, after doing some preliminary inspections, he was approved to start preparing for this action. There was strong opposition within the Japanese Navy to such an attack.

The power of action. Yamamoto threatened to retire if the action was suspended.

Sure enough, at an imperial meeting attended by the Emperor of Japan in person, this action was officially approved. In November, at another imperial meeting attended by the Emperor in person, the decision to send troops to the Pacific was approved. At the November meeting, it was also decided that only

The operation was abandoned only after the United States fully agreed to Japan's main demands.

The purpose of the attack on Pearl Harbor was to (at least temporarily) eliminate the main force of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. Yamamoto Isoroku, the planner of the attack on Pearl Harbor plan, himself believed that a successful attack would only bring strategic advantage for about a year.

Japan had been at war with China since 1931, after Japan occupied Manchuria. Japan began planning to attack Pearl Harbor to gain a strategic advantage. After some internal discussions and disputes within the navy, the Japanese navy began rigorous training for this operation starting in mid-year.

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The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on the United States, bombing battleships and military targets at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 350 Japanese aircraft carried out two waves of attacks on the Pearl Harbor naval base, dropping armor-piercing bombs and launching missiles at American battleships and cruisers.

Shooting torpedoes. The U.S. military was unprepared. They woke up to the loud noise of the explosion and hurriedly defended themselves. The entire preemptive attack ended within 90 minutes. At that time, Japan sank four battleships and two destroyers, and destroyed

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There were even more planes, damaged buildings, ships and planes. About 2,400 Americans were killed in the attack; another 1,250 were injured. This was nothing short of a huge shock to the United States. After the attack, Japan officially declared war on the United States.

The next day, U.S. President Roosevelt delivered his famous "National Humiliation" speech. He then signed a formal declaration of war against the Japanese Empire. Within a few days, Nazi Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, and the United States quickly responded by declaring war.

It’s not that Zhang Minghui didn’t know about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it’s just that this incident actually happened. The little Japanese transported the plane to Hawaii under the transport of an aircraft carrier, catching the Americans by surprise. This deepened Zhang Minghui’s love for aircraft carriers.

desire! You must know that in the 21st century, China still does not have an aircraft carrier. It is not known when China will be able to realize its dream of an aircraft carrier and build its own aircraft carrier.

If we want to build an aircraft carrier, the country does not have such large manpower and material resources, so if we want to own an aircraft carrier, we have to rob it. Now that the devil has declared war on the United States, and the Pacific War has broken out, China's battlefield is probably only defense, and there is no time to take care of it. At this time
Chapter completed!