From the time when the U.S. Pacific Fleet entered the Pacific and joined forces with the Japanese Combined Fleet to provoke a war, to the Battle of Palau, which ended with a massive defeat of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Second Pacific War took a total of two months and five days. At the beginning of the war, the Americans and Of course, the Japanese are full of confidence and believe that they will be able to drive the Chinese navy out of the Pacific Ocean. In China, the vast majority of the people are also worried and do not believe that their young Pacific Fleet has the strength to compete with the combined forces of the US and Japanese navies. In this case, when the Central Committee of China The radio station announced the victory of the Chinese Navy in the Battle of Guam and the Battle of Palau in the eight o'clock news slot the next day. For a moment, Ouyang Yun, who was in the Supreme Command, felt clearly that the world seemed to have suddenly stopped. Likewise, the streets outside that should have been filled with the sound of car engines and voices of people were actually silent at this time.
"What happened?" he asked Pan Meiren, who was busy sorting out documents.
Pan Meiren also felt strange. She was about to ask You Xiaolian to come in and ask what was going on. Suddenly, a shout of "Long live" rang out, and a series of cheers burst out like an explosion outside. She vaguely heard "The Great Victory of Guam" With words like "The Great Victory of Palau", his face couldn't help but smile and he said: "It should be the news that we won the naval battles of Guam and Palau has been made public. Listen, everyone is celebrating."
Ouyang Yun stood up and walked towards the window. He saw the crowds on the street outside cheering and jumping for joy. Thinking that this was the morning news report time of China Central Radio Station, a smile broke out on his face and he said: "It is indeed worth celebrating. , In this way, we will not have to worry about the situation in the Pacific for at least a year."
The Second Pacific War ended with a huge victory for China and a huge defeat for the United States and Japan, and it was so short. This also exceeded Ouyang Yun's expectations. He originally thought that this war would last at least one year or even two years. , not that he belittles himself, but that he is well aware of the naval heritage of the United States and Japan, which are traditional naval powers.
"Although we have taken advantage so far, we must see that compared to the United States and Japan, our navy is still too immature. If there are no accidents, I think this new Pacific War will be a protracted one. war, but we don’t need to be discouraged. Although we cannot compare with the United States and Japan in terms of foundation, we are in a stage of rapid growth. I believe that, given time, we will eventually win." These words are the second time. Ouyang Yun said this at a high-level military meeting at the beginning of the Pacific War. The purpose was to build confidence within the entire army. After he finished speaking, many people below were whispering and questioning his words. But now It seemed that those who were whispering among each other were definitely slapped in the face, but Ouyang Yun finally failed to predict and made a mistake.
Some are happy and some are sad. China is entering a national carnival mode because of its victory in the Second Pacific War. Naturally, it is a different scene in the United States and Japan.
Objectively speaking, Li Mei's choice to surrender at the last moment was actually the most responsible choice and a manifestation of the basic humanity that a leader must have. However, because the United States, especially the American government, really can no longer withstand such a situation. It failed, so Li Mei was still criticized both verbally and written throughout the United States, and was immediately promoted to the number one sinner in the history of the United States.
The domestic political situation in the United States is not stable, and the success or failure of the U.S. Pacific Fleet is the node that maintains this stability. If it wins, the Truman government will not only be able to prove the correctness of the treaty with Japan, but Truman will definitely gain lofty prestige and gain more more support and more power to allocate military resources; if it fails, the Truman administration will definitely endorse the alliance with Japan. Not only that, after losing the trust of the people and the support of Congress, they will no longer want to have military and political success. Any movement will inevitably encounter more constraints, so it may be difficult to move even an inch.
LeMay was obviously aware of the Truman government's predicament, so before he decided to surrender, he called Truman to inform him of the surrender. It was also because of his advance notification that Truman was able to make arrangements overnight and avoid the danger. Too passive in this matter.
Truman still had many capable people around him. After knowing that the surrender of the Pacific Fleet to the Chinese army was inevitable, they did not come up with crooked ideas like asking Li Mei and others not to surrender. Instead, they discussed the aftermath overnight and finally decided to use everything they had. The media and public opinion methods first make the U.S. Pacific Fleet and LeMay into tragic heroes.
Li Mei was really a competent soldier. Even though surrender was imminent, he still telegraphed his experience in a series of naval battles to China and reported what he knew about the new technologies and new tactics adopted by the Chinese Navy. It is precisely because of his efforts that Truman's staff made it possible to turn them into tragic heroes. They first infinitely exaggerated the combat power of China's Pacific Fleet and used this method of praising the enemy to set off the hardships and hardships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. tenacious.
It has to be said that the Truman team's crisis public relations skills are really good. Under their exaggeration, the strength of China's Pacific Fleet has been infinitely magnified. At the same time, the US Pacific Fleet would rather die than surrender, and its heroic and tenacious image has been established.
The good news from China only reports how many enemy ships the Chinese Pacific Fleet sank in the Battle of Guam and the Battle of Palau, how many enemy ships were killed and how many enemy troops were captured. Compared with the good news from China, the Americans’ The battle report is much more detailed and can be called a piece of reportage.
"The Chinese used electronic shielding technology against us. The most powerful thing about this technology is that it can paralyze our communication system. Therefore, the real situation at that time was that even if the two ships of the Pacific Fleet were only fifty meters apart, However, radio communication between them was actually impossible. However, even so, our heroic naval officers and soldiers still did not give up resistance. The Chinese paralyzed our electronic communication system, so we used semaphore to communicate...
"...The Chinese have used a total of more than 10,000 missiles. Most people may not know what a missile is. This article is here to popularize science. The so-called missile is actually a missile that can fly autonomously and track the target after being launched. The most terrifying thing about bombs and missiles is not that they can track the target, but that they can be launched two hundred kilometers or even five hundred kilometers away from the target. Even if we were saturated with more than 10,000 missiles from the Chinese, we The heroic naval officers and soldiers still did not give up resistance. They used naval guns, rapid-fire cannons, rifles, pistols and other weapons to organize intensive firepower to intercept the Chinese missiles... What we should be proud of is that precisely because of our heroes' Due to the efforts of naval officers and soldiers, less than one-tenth of the more than 10,000 missiles launched by the Chinese finally hit our ships...
"What we know now is that the Chinese dispatched a total of more than 1,200 flying fortresses in this battle. What is the concept of this? Does anyone know the Chinese's 'sink it' against the Japanese combined fleet? That time, China We only dispatched more than a hundred flying fortresses, but they sank five Japanese aircraft carriers and several ships. Here we have to pay high respect to the pilots of our heroic naval aviation force, because it was they who contributed to China's air force The fortress launched a suicide attack similar to Japan's special attack tactics, which shattered the Chinese strategic intentions time and time again, and this allowed our Pacific Fleet to be bombed and sunk only about 20 ships in the end."