The Americans are rightly worried that the Japanese will make irrational decisions. If they were a time-traveler like Li Le, they would have fully understood how simply Japan would have started the Pacific War.

The Japanese base camp will use the most disgraceful sneak attack methods to preemptively start a war. They will expand the war to the entire Pacific Ocean, and no one will be spared.

Because of the emergence of Li Le's variable, Japan did not join the Axis powers in the end, but received technical support and help from the Axis powers. This gave Japan a lot of courage to dare to provoke a larger war at a critical time.

The victory in China gave Japan a taste of expansion. But it was also the aggression in the Chinese region that plunged Japan into the quagmire of war.

As already emphasized, World War II was mainly a process of competing for raw materials for the three basic industries.

After occupying areas such as Northeast China and Korea, Japan had no choice but to find that they had not found any resources that could stimulate their industrial economy.

At that time, the three northeastern provinces only had coal mines and steel, and there was only one important strategic material that Japan urgently needed.

There are still oil resources for the remaining rubber, but in fact Japan is still insufficient, which is the main reason why Japan is choked by the throat by the United States.

According to the relevant documents that have been revealed, in the real history, the content of the negotiations between the United States and Japan before the Pacific War is simply unbearable to look at.

They all believed that the conditions offered by the United States must have stimulated Japan and made Japan unbearable, which eventually led to the occurrence of the Pearl Harbor incident.

In fact, however, this is not the case at all, and the United States and Japan have even made some concessions during negotiations that make the Japanese feel somewhat relaxed.

In the bottom line given by the United States, the United States is willing to maintain peace with Japan as long as Japan retreats to the Line of Control after the September 18 Incident and returns part of China's occupied territory.

Listen to it! This is the so-called fairness of the world policeman of the United States: in 1940, it was even willing to compromise with Japan, carve up China and delay the arrival of war!

On the contrary, it was Japan's last unwillingness to accept this condition that it brazenly launched the attack on Pearl Harbor, which opened the prelude to the war between the United States and Japan in the Pacific.

As a Chinese, if you don't applaud the bite of two mad dogs at this time, you are sorry for such a wonderful piece of history.

Is Japan so greedy and insufficient, and would rather block the national fortunes than pick up the three eastern provinces and North Korea for nothing? In fact, this is not the case.

In fact, Japan was willing to sign this peace treaty with the United States at that time, but the military had other concerns.

As soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Empire, they had an obligation to ensure that their country was not threatened in any way – and that was another matter if the threat did not threaten others.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Japanese military, although the conditions given by the Americans are good, there is a fatal loophole: resources!

Japan's oil reserves at that time were probably enough for the Japanese army to use for one year. This is the limit, and it is also the weakness that Japan has always been stuck in the throat.

If a peace treaty is signed with the United States, Japan will withdraw its troops from most of China's territory, and Japan will of course have to bear 80% of the oil expended.

It is estimated that it will take half a year to come and go. When Japan ended its withdrawal and the Americans suddenly turned their faces, who would guarantee the security of the Great Japanese Empire?

At that time, Japan's oil supply was only enough for Japan to resist for half a year, and once half a year passed, the whole of Japan would collapse, and there would be no power to fight back at the mercy of others.

Putting the fate of the country on someone else's board is something that the Japanese military cannot tolerate. So at the last moment, the Japanese military raised a problem that caused headaches for the Japanese high-level.

The question is: "If the war starts now, I can still keep the empire safe for three years; If the U.S. imperialists break the treaty a year later, how will the empire deal with itself? ”

Such a sharp question made officials and generals unable to answer, and everyone thought about it and decided that it was in line with their usual style to gamble on a wave of national fortune.

The Americans never imagined that the favorable conditions they put forward still failed to impress the Japanese Government, and the people had been thinking about going to war for a long time, and they had not considered the so-called peace at all.

Of course, based on the performance of the United States today, if Japan had really withdrawn its troops in the first half of 1941, the United States would have gone to war around 1942 and would have taken Japan by surprise.

As for whether the territories occupied by Japan will be returned to China after defeating Japan, only God knows.

Leaving aside the analysis of the grievances and grievances between the two countries for the time being, let's first talk about Japan's decision to prepare for war against the United States.

Japan suffered a setback when it went north to Nomenkan, and the army no longer insisted on its original plan to attack the Soviet Union.

The various shadows when fighting Soviet Russia made the army feel bottomless. So when the Navy proposed to go to the Americans for bad luck, the Army's opposition was very weak.

Another important reason for Japan's southward expansion is actually related to vital resources.

Even if the Soviet Union had a soft persimmon, Japan did not have much to gain from attacking the Soviet Union: Siberia, a vast cold zone, also did not have many resources.

The absence of oil and rubber resources, the nowhere to deploy a powerful navy, and the stronger Soviet forces than expected, forced Japan to turn its attention to the south.

At least, in regions such as the Philippines and Myanmar, there were oil resources that could be exploited at that time. Rubber resources are also abundant, which just makes up for Japan's shortcomings.

Therefore, when it came to planning the target of the operation, the voice of the south overwhelmed the voice of the north, and Japan finally decided to fight the powerful opponent of the United States.

According to Japan's calculations, the chaotic war situation in Europe has disrupted the strategic deployment of the United States. Germany's rampage in the Soviet Union forced the United States to divert its attention.

Against the backdrop of this great era, as long as Japan gains superiority in the Pacific, it is quite possible that they will drag it out until the United States negotiates peace and ends the war with dignity.

Many people have a misconception that Japan did not clearly realize the strength of the United States before it attacked the United States.

In fact, on the contrary, Japan was very serious about the strength of the United States before the war, and carefully designed a complete set of naval tactical systems to deal with the strength of the United States.

They all think that Japan's strategy in the Pacific is very naïve, but Japan has indeed carefully prepared a whole set of methods to deal with the United States before the war.

From the very beginning, Japan had no intention of landing on the US mainland, and the tactics it drew up were a set of strategic defense systems that turned from offense to defense.

The Japanese top brass has long been aware of the strength of the United States, so their plan is very simple: sneak attack and then blitzkrieg, moving to total defense before the Americans can react.

A sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the destruction of the main U.S. fleet, and then a swift move south, an attack on the raw material production areas, and finally a mobile defense in the Pacific Ocean with the Combined Fleet, dragging down the United States -- this is the complete strategic system of Japan.

Under this tactical system, the core new tactics are spear torpedoes and Zero fighter units!

Before the start of the war, the Japanese developed fleet tactics around spear torpedoes to counter the American battleship forces.

If a decisive battle of the Jutland fleet emerges, Japan will use cruisers to strike a wave of spear torpedoes to deal with the decisive battle fleet of the United States.

Relying on the large range and lightness and flexibility of the Zero fighter, Japan can quickly support the transition of fighter jets between islands in the Pacific Ocean and form a local superior defense.

Once Japan is allowed to complete its strategic plan, the United States will encounter the stubborn defense of the Japanese Army, suffer the attrition of superior Japanese fighters, and be flanked by the Combined Fleet when the battle for the island is stalemate.

At night, the American fleet would be attacked by Japanese cruiser forces armed with spears and torpedoes, and during the day they would be closely cared for by Japanese aircraft with a long voyage......

Just think about it, the Japanese top brass feel that they have won the game! And the only thing that worries them is whether they can get an advantage at the beginning!

That's why they planned Pearl Harbor so carefully; Therefore, they will be sure that they will be invincible after gaining an advantage.

In real history, Japan failed in three links: the first was that they did not complete the planned deployment of the defensive circle, and suffered a miserable defeat when fighting for the last link of the defensive circle, Midway.

The second is the rise of aircraft carriers, which were not expected by the Japanese, which has brought about fundamental changes in the various tactics that Japan has carefully prepared.

The third point is that the use of American submarines, inspired by German submarines, insisted on breaking the war, paralyzed Japan's shipping, and terminated Japan's industrial hematopoietic capacity.

And in the time and space rewritten by Li Le, Japan has a greater advantage than in the real historical time and space.

Germany has now taken out Britain, which has forced the United States to really turn its attention to Europe.

At the same time, Japan got the "intelligence" of the Germans and knew about the weakness of American fighters.

With these unavailable advantages, the Japanese base camp believed that the advantages they had in their hands were even greater, and they could smoothly survive the early stage of the war in which they had fought for superiority.

After this matter was determined, the Japanese top brass became more confident in attacking the United States and winning the war.

At the same time, a series of German victories in Europe also stimulated Japanese speculation. All they are thinking about now is how to divide up the influence of Britain, France and the United States in Southeast Asia.

But then again, in fact, the top level of the United States has almost nothing on their minds: they are also dreaming of destroying Japan and dismembering China, so that the vast Pacific Ocean can be turned into a swimming pool in their backyard......