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Different from the diametrically opposed reactions of China and Germany, when Britain and Russia learned that the United States had been attacked by Japan, Britain was the first to issue a statement denouncing Japan, and solemnly declared that it was on the side of the United States, and that they would eagerly support any US counterattack against Japan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who had been worried about when the United States would enter the war, finally relented, and now that the Americans were attacked, the United States could no longer be out of trouble.

And once the Americans entered the war, it meant that Britain, which was also an ally, would receive a large amount of aid. And the same countries of the Atlantic Rim, with the help of the Americans, they Britain no longer have to face the fierce Germans alone.

As good as Churchill was Comrade Stalin, who was far away in Russia, when he heard that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, he excitedly came to the map and looked at the current world map.

Although the territory of Russia under their control was pitiful, he could finally relax and go all out against the Germans, as long as the United States declared war with Japan, Japan would not be able to divide its forces to attack Russia.

Without the Japanese in the Far East, he could mobilize more manpower and material resources from the Far East to reinforce the Battle of Stalingrad.

Although he had just signed a secret agreement with Li Tie to send troops, everyone knew that it was just a piece of paper, and how the contract would be fulfilled ultimately depended on the strength of both sides after the war.

Now that Stalin confirmed that the Americans would enter the war, he naturally regretted signing a land lease contract of thousands of square kilometers with Li Tie in exchange for the Huaxing Group sending troops to Russia.

For this reason, what he wants to do most now is to quickly pull the troops of the Huaxing Group to Stalingrad, and he has already thought that together with the Stalingrad war, whether it is the Foreign Legion of the Huaxing Group or the millions of bandit troops of the Huaxing Group in the Far East, he will be sent out as cannon fodder as soon as possible.

He believed that no matter how bad the Huaxing Group's armament was, in the face of the Germans' steel torrent, it would only be torn apart, and the Huaxing Group, which had lost a large number of armed forces, would be just a tiger without sharp claws, and he could break the contract at will.

In this way, on 7 December 1941, the Japanese task force attacked the Pearl Harbor base of the US Pacific Fleet in the Hawaiian Islands, and almost completely annihilated all the ships of the Pacific Fleet stationed at the Pearl Harbor base.

Just when the heads of state of the world were mixed with the news in front of them, they got another update.

It turned out that in the afternoon of the same day, several hundred planes of Japan and the United States respectively engaged in an unprecedented naval and air duel with each other's naval vessels.

The naval and air duel lasted until sunset that night, and neither side could decide the winner, neither the United States nor Japan dared to say that they had defeated each other, but could only say that they had lost both.

As a result of the naval and air battles, the US Pacific Fleet suffered heavy losses again, with the USS Enterprise and the USS Lexington sinking, 16 destroyers, and 10 other frigates and various support ships.

It can be said that the Pacific Fleet deployed by the United States in Asia has lost 70 percent of its combat strength.

To use a common saying, it is not an exaggeration to say that the entire Pacific Fleet was beaten by the third wave of Japanese troops that poured out of the nest, and only three or two kittens remained.

It can be said that if the Pacific Fleet wants to be reorganized, even with the strong industrial capacity of the United States, it will not be possible to recover it in three or two years.

Fortunately, the industrial base of the United States is really strong. Sooner or later, they will be able to rebuild the Pacific Fleet. However, if one thinks that the US Navy will not be able to recover from then on, and the Pacific Fleet will be disillusioned from then on, it will look down on the Americans too much.

Because the U.S. fleet is not just a fleet in the Pacific, they also have the Atlantic fleet.

What is more important is that the US fleet is very different from other countries, and the US Navy is actually composed of two huge fleets, the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet.

In reality, however, both the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet are actually just two fleets of the United States, because the two fleets are actually composed of five battle fleets of different sizes.

It's like the Pacific Fleet which is actually made up of one, three, five, seven, ninety-five battle fleets, while the Atlantic Fleet is made up of two, four, six, eight, fifteen fleets.

Each of the 10 fleets of the United States is composed of an aircraft carrier and more than a dozen ships, so even if the Pacific Fleet suffers such heavy losses, it still has a small combat strength and is responsible for defending the long coastline of the United States on the west coast of the continental United States.

By the same token, even the Atlantic Fleet, which is as powerful as the Pacific Fleet, is responsible for defending the east coast of the United States. And even if the Atlantic Fleet did not suffer any losses, they would not be able to draw enough warships to support the Pacific Fleet.

Because the Atlantic Ocean, which they were responsible for defending, was separated from the Germans, and now the German navy was also eyeing the East Coast of the United States.

So that the entire US Atlantic Fleet could not move at all. In other words, now in the First World War at Pearl Harbor, the Americans have lost control of the entire Pacific region, and even more so of the overseas colonies in the entire Pacific Rim region.

The American Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and other regions will all be attacked by Japan.

It can be said that the United States suffered so much loss in this naval and air war that the Americans really regretted it.

Relatively speaking, the losses suffered by Japan in this naval battle were much smaller, although the Japanese task force was also bombed by nearly 200 American planes. However, because the US planes were in a hurry to respond to the battle and extremely lacked effective means of attacking the sea, the US Navy's carrier-based planes achieved very little success.

The entire Japanese task force was sunk only a few destroyers and frigates. The aircraft carriers and battleships were only damaged to varying degrees, and these damaged battleships could be re-entered after several months of repair.

However, because Japan's resources are really short, even if Japan only suffered such a slight loss, they still feel sorry for themselves, and more importantly, in addition to those few sunken warships, Japan is most distressed by those hundreds of planes and pilots.

Because the naval and air battles were really arduous, the Japanese planes attacking the US fleet not only ran out of the last drop of fuel, but many of the planes did not return to the aircraft carrier even if they ran out of fuel because it was late when they returned to the task force.

Even if a few planes returned to the sea area where the task force was located, due to the extremely low success rate of recovering the planes at night at this time, the few Japanese planes that were lucky enough to return to the task force also crashed into the sea.

The sea search and rescue at night was even more difficult, so in this naval battle, although the Japanese only lost a few ships, they lost 400 aircraft and more than 300 pilots.

The pilots of the Navy's carrier-based aircraft are the best among the pilots, and each and every one of them is selected from among the thousands of experienced air force pilots.

And in order to organize this sneak attack, Japan even gathered all the outstanding carrier-based aircraft pilots of several major fleets. In other words, from this battle, the Japanese army will have a shortage of carrier-based aircraft pilots for a long time.

Fortunately, the tremendous results of the battle still covered up the shortcomings of the Japanese army, and when the course and results of the naval and air battle between the US Pacific Fleet and the Japanese task force in the waters off Pearl Harbor were revealed, all circles were even more shocked.

Everyone was shocked by the astonishing combat effectiveness of Japan, and they were also amazed at the speed with which the Americans counterattacked.

However, it was also on this day that the Chinese government, which had been an ally of the Americans and had fought with Japan for ten years, finally officially declared war on Japan, and on the same day, the Chinese government also declared war on Japan's allies, Germany and Italy, as well as several German client states.

The United Kingdom, Canada, and other traditional allies of the United States also declared war on Japan and other countries at the same time, and from this day on, the unprecedented World War II finally began.