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 constantly learning from China, and even their words have been plagiarized.

During the Ming Dynasty, the feudal towns in Japan fought against each other, and they stopped learning from China.

During the Yuan Dynasty, they wanted to continue their studies, but if it hadn't been for a strong wind that helped them, Japan would have become a province of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, Japan changed direction and went directly to learn from Western countries. The army is trained in Germany, the navy is in reference to the British navy, and the judiciary is in accordance with American-style commercial law.

Next, Japan fought against China in the First Sino-Japanese War, declared war on Germany in World War I, attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States now, and in the near future, they will send troops to the British colony of Indo-Burma.

A student beat his teacher all over again, and so far, he has basically not lost.

Isn't it scary to be a student like this?

In less than a century, Japan has packaged itself as a "Western country in the East."

It's just that the country is too arrogant and arrogant, and this time, it offended all its teachers at the same time.

Needless to say, China has no distinction between north and south, and people are old and young, and fight it to the end.

Britain, in the face of Japan's downfall, will certainly not gladly accept it.

Germany, Reinhardt alone could not pass the pass, and the entire German core and top brass knew the Führer's true attitude towards Japan in private, but no one bothered to tell Japanese officials about it.

The United States, now also because of the Pearl Harbor incident, has begun to sharpen its knives against Japan.

"Mr. President, the latest statistics have come out. At Pearl Harbor, the Pennsylvania Battleship, the California Battleship...... A total of six battleships, as well as all two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, 21 destroyers, and 24 auxiliary ships in Pearl Harbor, sank ......," a colonel officer reported in Roosevelt's office, bowing his head.

"Lost 6 battleships?! Our combat power in the Pacific theater is equivalent to half of it! An admiral standing behind Roosevelt explained the situation to Roosevelt with an ugly face.

In fact, if he knew that the remaining two battleships in Pearl Harbor were now in a semi-scrapped state, and they were not even worth much repair, it is estimated that the admiral's face would be even more ugly.

But now, there is someone whose face is uglier than his, and that is Roosevelt himself.

Originally, Roosevelt was ready to be attacked by the Japanese army. He thought that in this battle, the loss might be relatively large, but he didn't expect that he would lose all at once!

He couldn't figure out how the Japanese army managed to destroy most of the Pacific Fleet and destroy Pearl Harbor at once.

If he hadn't transferred the aircraft carriers and an escort patrol fleet in Pearl Harbor in advance with various exploits, it is estimated that the current battle report would have been "the total annihilation of the US Pacific Fleet by the Japanese army"!

It's not that he didn't have been mentally prepared, you said that if you lose two or three battleships..... Even if there are four ships, it is not unacceptable. At the very least, Roosevelt had the means to make up for the loss in a short period of time.

If a loss of the Pacific Fleet can be exchanged for the opportunity for the United States to start a war against Japan, it will be worth it.

Originally, Roosevelt was also ready to send the Japanese to victory.

However, he didn't think that he would send so many out, and the bones of the Pacific Fleet were almost gone!

According to Roosevelt's original setup, no matter how much 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 hard-fought war of attrition.

The United States is not afraid of attrition, and if the lost warships were consumed in exchange for the battle loss ratio in the confrontation with the Japanese fleet, Roosevelt would not be so distressed.

The key is that these warships were basically blown up in a daze.

How else to say that Japan is the best country in the world to be a son? They inherited the German aircraft carrier tactics.

In addition to core technologies such as radar, Reinhardt did not give it to the Japanese Navy, and everything else that could be given was called into the hands of 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 played a record beyond expectations, destroying the main fleet of the US Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop, except for aircraft carriers.

The whole of Hawaii was set on fire, and the Japanese army used the oil depot built by the U.S. Army to detonate1, destroying vast swathes of Hawaii's natural forests. as well as artificially built airports, ports, barracks, etc.

An explosion of this magnitude was the first time in their lives that even the Japanese air forces, the initiators of the explosion, had seen it for the first time in their lives.

In addition to the overturned hulls of the ships, the wreckage of US planes was also parked on countless burning field airfields.

When Yamamoto Isoroku heard that the returning Japanese air force had sent back a report on the results of the battle, he immediately wrote a letter of celebration to the Japanese emperor, directly announcing that the Americans were finished, and that the base camp should even arrange to send some army red deer to land and occupy Pearl Harbor.

Of course, the idea of occupying Pearl Harbor was just Yamamoto's excited remarks, and the Japanese base camp would not arrange it, at least not immediately. They are preparing for the invasion of Vietnam, Myanmar and other Southeast Asian regions, annexing large rubber production bases here and local industrial production of canvas.

In addition, the landing force that can be used will also be quickly sent to the Philippines and Southeast Asia, seizing the oil-producing areas there and filling the last gap in Japan's military industry.

Yamamoto Isoroku is a calculating gambler, and while winning this bet, he also calculated where to move next - as long as the Japanese Navy can complete the planned battle of Midway, then Japan can create an impregnable "Siegfried Line of Maritime Defense".

The reason why it is called Siegfried and not Maginot is also a colorful picture. After all, the Siegfried Line of the Germans held it, and even became a sortie position in the end, while the Maginot Line of the French was purely a decoration.

The Japanese base camp is not just an ornament, or even a simple line of defense.

After this battle, his confidence swelled even more, and if he could play this kind of record in the future, it seemed that it would not be a dream to join forces with the Germans to land on the American mainland.

Anyway, the Germans had always intended to lure the Japanese Kwantung Army north, to flank the Soviet Union with them, and to share the pressure on Germany's road. It just so happened that the Japanese army now had naval superiority over the United States, and there was a possibility that it would attack the American mainland from both sides with Germany.

If cooperation on the road and at sea can be carried out together, it looks like there will be a good outcome.

"If the Germans do something to us in the Atlantic, it will be a big problem!" Roosevelt, who had always been civilized, was now full of the urge to curse.

The defeat of the British allowed Germany and its allies to quickly occupy the United Kingdom itself, and the United States completely lost its biggest barrier and ally to the west.

According to Roosevelt's intelligence, the Germans may have owned, or will soon have, a total of eight large aircraft carriers.

And Italy, which has always followed Germany, is also a naval power with an advanced aircraft carrier Ark Royal.

Coupled with an aircraft carrier controlled by Vichy France, and a total of more than a dozen capital battleships from Germany, France and Italy, Roosevelt simply had a headache to think about.

The German Navy, which had annexed the remaining large number of warships of the British Home Fleet, was no longer a target that the American Atlantic Fleet could deal with.

And if we add the fleets of Italy and France, the current Atlantic Fleet and the Pacific Fleet of the US military together will not have a chance of winning.

Now that the Japanese are having a showdown with the United States, it seems that the US Navy is unable to guarantee maritime security on both sides of the country......