The battle was historically decisive in that it had only a small military role due to Japan's failure to sink the American aircraft carrier. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But even if Japan sank an American aircraft carrier, it would not be able to help Japan in the long run.

The attack drew the United States and its deep industrial and service economies into World War II once and for all, freeing the United States from its domestic isolationism and freeing it to enter the war.

From the point of view of military history, the attack on Pearl Harbor marked a turning point for aircraft carriers and submarines, as well as carrier-based aircraft to replace battleships as the main force of the Navy.

The era of decisive battles for large battleships has passed, aircraft carriers have replaced battleships as the new trump cards in naval warfare, and naval aviation has entered the arena of naval warfare as a new decisive force.

However, the United States, which has a strong navy in the world, did not understand this point of "winning by aviation" until the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor marked the outbreak of the Pacific War.

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Historically, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and Japan officially went to war, and Hitler considered that it was impossible for Japan in the Far East to escape, and that Germany no longer had to worry about the United States pressing all its forces into the Atlantic.

Considering the current state of German-American relations at that time, even if Nazi Germany did not declare war, Roosevelt would find an excuse to declare war on Germany, and in a desperate situation, Hitler decided to prepare to declare war on the United States in the German Reichstag.

On December 9, Hitler ordered the German Navy to attack whenever and wherever it encountered American ships, and on December 11, Germany officially declared war on the United States.

At this point, under the pressure of Roosevelt's United States, Hitler's Germany finally went from the policy of trying to prevent the United States from entering the war for more than two years, and finally met Roosevelt's American army.

Now because of Rommel as a traveler, Germany is no longer in the same situation as it has faced in history, and the most important thing is that Rommel is the head of state.

How will Rommel face the current crisis?

Ten minutes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Rommel's spies planted in the United States received the news, and a telegram passed the news to Rommel.

Rommel was watching the battle around Moscow in the wolf's den at this time, and when the telegram reached Rommel, Rommel took the telegram in a daze after reading it.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor still happened, more than four months in advance, and it was still when Germany was attacking Moscow with all its might, and 70 percent of Germany's troops were dragged to the Soviet Union.

If the United States immediately sends troops to Britain and then quickly launches a landing operation, what will Germany do to deal with the landing operation of millions of British and American troops?

Germany did not have the surplus forces to cope with the landing of the Anglo-American forces, and the whole of France only had 300,000 German troops, and the Pétain government had about 560,000 French troops.

When the Anglo-American and French landed in France, it was very good for the French troops of the Pétain government not to defect, and it was absolutely impossible to expect them to fight to the death with the Anglo-American forces plus de Gaulle's French army.

It is certainly not realistic to transfer troops from the Moscow front to France for defense, and at this time the Moscow campaign has entered the most critical time, and Rommel will not send a single soldier from the Moscow front to France.

Rommel's face was solemn after a moment's thought, and he began to dictate orders to the communications officer in a deep voice:

"Immediately announce to the world in clear code, the notice is as follows:

Germany and its allies were indignant at the sudden news that despicable Japan had attacked our sacred and great ally the United States today, and Germany entered a state of war with despicable Japan with immediate effect.

Head of Germany: Rommel

August 17, 1941"

Then Rommel dictated a second telegram:

"Immediately order the allies and their occupying powers to declare war on Japan immediately."

After Rommel had finished the two telegrams, he paced the room and sent a third telegram a little later:

"Dear President of the United States, and Dear Americans,

I am the German Führer Rommel, and I have heard that you have suffered a vile sneak attack, to the point that your Pacific Fleet has suffered heavy losses, in order to fight the most vicious Japanese invaders.

I have decided to send two aircraft carriers (Zeppelin and one merchant converted carrier), four battleships, eight cruisers, twelve destroyers, and twenty-four state-of-the-art U2 submarines to support you, and to delegate command of this large fleet to the U.S. Congress and President Thong Roosevelt.

Germany and the United States are traditional allies, and you have given us the most important help in our most difficult time. ”

Yes, Rommel handed over 80 percent of the surface ships of the German Navy to the command of the United States, and Germany had more than 200 submarines, and sent out 24 of them, which accounted for only a dozen percent of the German submarines.

Rommel was not a fool either, he did so with one stone, and the surface ships of the German Navy, under the suppression of the British Navy, could hardly get out of the port.

With so many warships nested in the harbor, sooner or later they will be blown up and sunk by the British, so it is better to send them to the United States now, so that they can play a role in changing the American strategy of "Europe first and Asia later." ”

That's right, Rommel paid attention to this, the US Navy is not enough to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese Navy at present, and it is only under this actual situation that the United States has formulated a "strategy of Europe first and then Asia." ”

After the defeat of Europe is over, the United States' powerful shipbuilding capability will also give the United States a huge naval force, and when the time comes, it will attack Japan, and the US arrangement will not be wrong according to the actual situation of the United States.

Now that Rommel has transferred the surface ships of the German Navy to the United States, the effect is immediate. Rommel sent a huge fleet to the United States, plus the American Jewish financial predators, plus Rommel's many fans among the American people, even if Roosevelt wanted to "Europe first and then Asia strategy." "It's impossible.

The United States can only fight Japan first, and then find an excuse to fight Germany, and wait for the United States to kill little Japan, at least in two years! By that time, Germany had completely destroyed the Soviet Union, and was Germany still afraid of the United States at that time? Feel at ease.

This was the effect Rommel wanted.

After thinking about it, Rommel sent another telegram to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and King George VI:

From the Head of Germany to His Majesty the King of Great Britain and his Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill:

Germany will send a large fleet through the English Channel in three days to reinforce the American allies.

Since the Great Voyage of England, your interests have been at sea, and Germany's interests have been on land, and Germany has now sent 80 percent of its navy's capital ships to the United States, and Germany has no place to threaten Britain.

Why, then, can't Germany and Britain share it peacefully? I know that you are afraid that after Germany unifies Europe, it will threaten Britain's global hegemony, but we have no navy, so what can we do to compete with you for sea dominance?

I can tell you responsibly that it will definitely not be Germany that will compete with you for hegemony in the seas in the future, because Germany does not have the ability to develop the army, navy and air force at the same time, and Germany's resources determine this.

So who will be your competitors in the ocean in the future, you can find the answer by analyzing it yourself......"

…… (To be continued.) )