Chapter 389: Attack on Pearl Harbor (Fourth update!)
How could Wu Aihua use troops against the Soviet Union at this time? But in terms of attitude, China repeatedly explained to Germany: "It is winter in Siberia, it is very cold, and your German armored groups are too frozen to move. Could it be that China
Will our tanks not be afraid of the cold? Therefore, let’s wait until next spring and let’s take action together.”
During the period when China reoccupied Mongolia, the world situation had changed. On December 7, 1941, Japan launched an undeclared war and suddenly attacked Pearl Harbor, where the U.S. Pacific Fleet was stationed! At the same time, more than 400,000 Japanese Southern Front troops were stationed in the Japanese Navy Fleet.
With the cooperation, we will attack Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Myanmar in a fractional way!
The next day, the United States, Britain, and France (the government-in-exile) declared war on Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries; and almost at the same time, Germany, Italy, Japan and other Axis powers declared war on the United States, Britain, and France. History finally entered the fateful path.
World War II, the greatest catastrophe for mankind!
In this unprecedented war, there were two special countries, one was Soviet Russia, and the other was China. Soviet Russia only "declared war" on European countries such as Germany and Italy, but did not declare war on Japan; and China
At this time, he did not "declare war" on any country in the world, and continued to develop his own business, doing business with countries around the world that made everyone rich.
Japan's war with the United States, Britain and other countries, as well as Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Pacific Fleet base, were not the whims of Japan's current leaders, but the result of Japan's expansion ambitions over the past several decades.
Throughout Asia in the 19th century, in addition to the stupid government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that implemented the policy of "closing the country apart", there was another government that was equally stupid, and this government was the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.
The Tokugawa shogunate prohibited foreign missionaries, businessmen and civilians from entering Japan, and did not allow Japanese overseas to return home. It even prohibited the construction of ships suitable for ocean navigation. During this period, trade was only allowed with China, North Korea, the Netherlands and other countries, and
It was only allowed to be held in Nagasaki; in addition, the Tokugawa Shogunate also strictly prohibited Christian beliefs.
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy led a fleet into Uraga on the shore of Edo (now Tokyo) and handed over a letter from the President of the United States to the Emperor of Japan to the Tokugawa Shogunate, requesting the establishment of diplomatic relations and trade with Japan.
.Historically known as the "Black Ship Incident". In 1854, Japan and the United States signed the Kanagawa Treaty of Goodwill between the United States and Japan, agreeing to open two ports, Shimoda and Hakodate (Hakodate), except Nagasaki, to the United States, and granting the United States the most favored nation status.
Treatment, etc. Due to the signing of a series of unequal treaties that followed, the Tokugawa shogunate once again became the target of Japanese society. Yoshida Shoin, Takasugi Shinsaku, Okubo Toshimichi, Kido Takayoshi, Saigo Takamori, Yokoi Kokusu, Omura Masujiro
They gradually became the representative figures who opposed the shogunate, respected the king and repelled the foreigners, and ushered in the "Meiji Reform" on October 23, 1968, and Japan began to open up to the outside world (compared with Japan, China officially proposed "opening up" much later
110 years) to develop industry and commerce.
As soon as Japan began to embark on the road to becoming stronger, it set its sights on the Kingdom of Hawaii in the Central Pacific and attempted to annex it. As a result, in 1885, Japan and the Kingdom of Hawaii signed a ferry treaty, and a large number of Japanese citizens began to immigrate to Hawaii.
In 1894, during the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, Japan had actually occupied the Liaodong Peninsula. However, with the intervention of Russia, Germany, and France, Japan was forced to return the Liaodong Peninsula to China. This is the famous "Three Kingdoms Intervention and Return to Liaoning Incident"
"With this incident, Japan began to hate Russia, Germany, France and other Western countries again.
The victory of the Sino-Japanese War greatly increased Japan's strength, and it suddenly became a developed country very close to the West. However, the United States was not a vegetarian country. In 1898, the United States won the Spanish-American War and annexed the Philippines.
The national power was as strong as ever. Although there were obviously more Japanese expatriates in Hawaii than the United States, the Kingdom of Hawaii turned into the Republic of Hawaii under the leadership of the United States, and Japan eventually lost the opportunity to annex Hawaii.
In 1904, in order to curb the expansion of Russian power in the Far East, especially in Northeast China, the United Kingdom vigorously instigated Japan to go to war with Russia based on its own interests. At this time, Japan pursued a mainland policy, and the two sides hit it off. Japan passed the Battle of Port Arthur, the Battle of Tsushima and
The Battle of Fengtian finally defeated Russia and gained its interests in Northeast China. Japan suffered about 170,000 casualties in this war and spent about 2 billion on military expenses.
Japan originally hoped to obtain huge compensation from Russia through the war, but the Russian Tsar rejected this request and claimed that if the two sides could not reach an agreement, they could fight again (at this time, the elite Russian army troops were still in the European part, and Japan was almost
Mobilizing all its military forces). The Japanese government and military realized that continuing the stalemate would be detrimental to Japan, and were forced to accept the mediation of Western countries led by the United States and finally signed the "Portsmouth Peace Treaty". This war broke out again
Japan's domestic dissatisfaction with the West, especially the United States and Britain, was serious. It believed that the West was instigating Japan to achieve its own political goals, and at the same time, it also sold Japanese weapons at high prices through arms trade to obtain economic benefits.
After the Russo-Japanese War, the development of the Japanese navy has always regarded the United States as an imaginary enemy. After World War I, Japan occupied the Caroline Islands, a German colony in the Pacific, and was already adjacent to the U.S. defense circle in the Pacific. In its confrontation with China
In terms of attitude, Japan has always dreamed of monopolizing China, while the United States has demanded equal benefits. In 1931, Japan launched the September 18th Incident and occupied Northeast China, and once again tasted the benefits of expansion.
Historically, Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China in 1937. Although it did not ultimately annex China, it still occupied half of China and gained huge war benefits from China, which also made its "mainland policy" popular.
However, with the emergence of Wu Aihua, China in a short period of time had a strength comparable to that of Japan, and even significantly stronger than Japan in military terms. Japan's "mainland policy" was severely challenged, and Japan had to point the finger at
Southeast Asia and the entire Pacific region. As for going north, although Japan in parallel time and space won the Nomonhan local war, it did not dare to easily challenge Soviet Russia because Japan knew that the main military power of Soviet Russia was in Europe. In addition,
China obviously wants to "take back" the territory occupied by Soviet Russia. Under the pressure of China, Japan has no choice but to go north. It cannot go north to Siberia, nor can it go west to mainland China. Japan has only one way to go, and that is to go south!
On October 18, 1941, the main combatant Hideki Tojo became the Prime Minister of the Japanese Cabinet, clearing the final obstacle for Japan to move south.
However, history is still different. Although Germany, Italy, and Japan finally came together, the three countries did not sign the "Germany, Italy, and Japan Covenant." In other words, the three countries did not form the Axis Group;
The attitude towards world war is very consistent.
Another point is also very different from history. That is in history, in the summer of 1941, Japan had begun to occupy some places in Southeast Asia, which triggered the intervention of the United States. This was also the main reason for the negotiations between Japan and the United States before the outbreak of the Pacific War.
.Japan requires the United States to recognize its vested interests and agree to its main demands. If so, Japan can quietly abandon its plan to attack Pearl Harbor.
However, Japan in this era did not take any action in Southeast Asia. Moreover, when Japan was formulating its plans for the Pacific War and Southeast Asia War, it consciously avoided Hong Kong, North Vietnam, Northern Laos and other areas to avoid conflict with China.
Because of this, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was more resolute, more decisive, and larger in scale than in history.
Historically, Japan dispatched 6 aircraft carriers including "Akagi", "Gaga", "Soryu", "Hiryu", "Shōkaku" and "Zuikaku", as well as 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers, etc.
A total of 55 warships conducted a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and also conducted a diversionary attack on the U.S. Navy at Midway Island.
The U.S. ships at the Pearl Harbor base include 3 aircraft carriers (USS Enterprise, USS Lexington, USS Saratoga), 9 battleships, 20 cruisers, 69 destroyers and 27 submarines.
But in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in parallel time and space, Japan not only dispatched the above-mentioned 6 aircraft carriers, but also added the "Ryujo", "Kasuga Maru", "Sendai Maru", "Shouryu", "Sadaigan", "Zuiryu"
"(the last four are newly built Japanese aircraft carriers) and other aircraft carriers. In addition, the number of battleships has increased from 2 to 6, the number of light cruisers has increased from 3 to 12, and the number of destroyers has increased from 9 to 18, including submarines.
, Japan dispatched a total of 98 warships of various types. And Japan’s carrier-based aircraft also surged from 414 in history to 1,050!
Japan in parallel time and space is also very lucky. It turns out that the three aircraft carriers in history are not in port, but there are actually two aircraft carriers (Lexington and Saratoga) in port.
And the evolution of the entire war, like a blockbuster, gradually unfolded in front of people.
At 6 a.m. local time in Hawaii on July 7, 1941, the Japanese frontline commander, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, ordered the first wave of 420 attack fighters to take off, targeting Pearl Harbor!
At this time, the Japanese fleet was located 190 nautical miles north of Oahu.
At 6:30, an American supply ship discovered a submarine outside Pearl Harbor. This discovery was quickly passed on to the American destroyer USS Ward; at 6:45, the destroyer USS Ward launched an attack on the submarine, and the submarine was sunk.
This is the first submarine of the Japanese submarine force sunk by the United States!
At 6:53, the destroyer USS Ward reported to the US military headquarters that it had attacked the submarine and achieved the result of sinking the enemy ship.
At 6:55, a radar station located in the northern part of Oahu discovered a large number of unidentified aircraft in the air 130 nautical miles away from Oahu. Five minutes later, the radar station reported the sighting of unidentified aircraft to the US Air Force Air Defense Command.
The situation of the aircraft.
At 7:10, Japan's second wave of attack aircraft consisting of 365 bombers, fighters, attack aircraft, torpedo planes, etc. took off from the aircraft carrier group. At the same time, the U.S. Air Defense Command believed that the unknown aircraft was a B-17 bomber from the mainland. The command
Radar stations were ordered to be shut down.
ps: Guys, don’t say that the king is dishonest. The king is working hard to make up for the debt.