On June 10, the fire at Pearl Harbor was still not over, but the losses of Pearl Harbor had already been counted, and the details of the losses in Pearl Harbor were immediately released by the US government, two aircraft carriers were sunk, five battleships were sunk, two battleships were seriously damaged, one battleship was slandered, one cruiser was sunk, seven cruisers were sunk, three cruisers were seriously damaged, one cruiser was slandered, one cruiser was seriously injured, two cruisers were slandered, other ships were not counted, and more than 420 warplanes were destroyed or injured. 3,700 soldiers were killed in the war, 1,300 were wounded, more than three million tons of heavy oil were blown up, the fire in the port has not been extinguished until now, and the battleships that can still be driven can only hide outside the port to avoid the fire, and those who are so injured that they can not move can be pulled out, and those who can't be saved can only be grilled in the fire, and I don't know what it will look like after the fire is extinguished. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The casualties of the Japanese army were also announced by the Japanese government as combat exploits, 32 fighters were shot down, four mini-submarines were sunk, and less than 100 people were killed.

Such a result once again shook the world, after Hitler in Germany got such a war report, he didn't know what to say, whether it was the low combat effectiveness of the US military or the high combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, but the only thing that relieved him was that it seemed that the Americans just wanted to meddle in European affairs, and it would take a year and a half, and in his schedule, Moscow at that time should have been planted with a swastika.

Stalin of the Soviet Union simply wanted to pull Roosevelt out and beat him up, how did you fight this war, I thought that my Red Army had fought enough, and your American Navy was better than us, and you would get into all the battleships of our Soviet Union in one battle.

In the White House in Washington, Roosevelt convened the first high-level meeting of the US military.

-- The White House

Roosevelt looked at Leahy and said, "General Leahy, you are the person who knows Southeast Asia best, and you are the chief of staff of the Navy, so let's talk about the current situation first." ”

William. Daniel. Raisi, the chief of staff of the U.S. Navy at this time, participated in the Spanish-American War and the suppression of the Philippine uprising, and even came to China in 1900 to participate in the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China, and was very familiar with the whole of Southeast Asia or the entire Pacific Rim.

Leahy nodded and said, "Let me talk about our situation first, now our Pearl Harbor fire has not been extinguished, but it is extinguished, and those battleships will not be repaired for a while, because our dockyard was also burned by fire, the only good news is that there is still a part of the oil depot that has not been blown up, and the oil is about more than a million tons, which makes the materials although they are tight after all, but they will not start from scratch." It would take at least eight months to completely restore Pearl Harbor, and it would require the Japanese to stop attacking...

And our warships have suffered extremely heavy losses, now our troops in the Pacific have only one aircraft carrier and one battleship with relatively complete combat strength, which is far from the Japanese army, and the troops in the Philippines are still fighting the Japanese army, it is expected that they can hold out for at most one to two months, and in such a short period of time we will not be able to rescue in time, in addition, due to Germany's declaration of war on our country, those German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean will also pose a threat to our ships, until now, Nor do we have an effective way to spot their Seawolf submarines.

We still have two aircraft carriers in the home fleet that can go to support Pearl Harbor, and since whether or not to abandon Pearl Harbor will need to be analyzed after the Pearl Harbor fire is extinguished, whether or not to dispatch it needs to be clearly stated by Mr. President. ”

Such a disadvantaged situation made everyone's hearts heavy.

Roosevelt looked at Hull and said, "We have a large number of ships under construction, so how much time can these ships be put into battle?" ”

Hull replied, "Our destroyers and frigates have been built in the dockyard of nearly 150, but most of these warships were promised to Britain before, as for the cruisers, we still have 10 Cleveland-class light cruisers under construction, 4 Atlanta-class light cruisers under construction, of which the Atlanta-class light cruisers will all be enlisted within this year, the Cleveland-class can only be enlisted this year according to the plan, and the construction of the Baltimore-class heavy cruiser has not yet passed the review, so there is no construction of it in the dock."

As for the battleships among the capital ships, the USS North Carolina and the USS Washington are still under construction and are expected to be completed by the end of this year and early next year, and three of the four South Dakota-class battleships will be delivered to the Navy within two months, and the other will be delivered by the end of the year, but all four of them are in the Atlantic direction.

Of these aircraft carriers, we have only five aircraft carriers under construction, and they will not be completed until next year at the earliest. ”

Roosevelt nodded in distress and said, "Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor has dealt a great blow to our strength, the Atlantic Ocean is not important now, there is the British Royal Navy, the Germans are at most a big sabotage war, I suggest that we only need to leave one aircraft carrier there, and transfer the Wasp to the Pacific region, so that we have four aircraft carriers, and the battleships will also transfer the Mississippi and the Idaho to the Pacific region, we must guard our home first." Japanese bombs can no longer be allowed to fall on American soil. General Leahy, what do you think? ”

Leahy agreed and said, "Mr. President's suggestion is very good, the Japanese army is attacking our Wake Island, Wake Island only has a thousand defenders, it is difficult to hold on, we must prepare for the worst, my idea is that we must hold Midway, Midway Island is the gateway to Pearl Harbor, as long as we hold Midway, then we can slowly recuperate, and relying on the current strength, it is very difficult." ”

Roosevelt waved his hand and said, "The matter of fighting is the business of your army, I can only give you the greatest support, now our battleships can only have 10 at the end of this year at the earliest, and this is still the case of repairing all the four damaged ships in Pearl Harbor, before October, you can only use three ships in the Pacific, and you must hold until October anyway!" ”

Leahy nodded, in understanding.

Roosevelt continued: "The industrial sector is going to speed up the construction of battleships, the construction of battleships is taking too long, we can't wait, first build cruisers and aircraft carriers, I am ready to persuade Congress to continue to build 10 Essex-class aircraft carriers this year, how long will it take us to build one of these aircraft carriers now?" I mean the fastest! ”

The person in charge of the industry next to him replied, "It will take 20 months at the earliest. ”

Roosevelt looked at Leahy, who shook his head and said, "This is too slow, so it will take at least two years to form combat effectiveness, and we must find an aircraft carrier that can be launched into battle within a year." ”

Marshall, who was next to him, said, "Although I don't know much about the Navy, I think the aircraft carrier is just a kind of water platform that allows planes to fly. ”

Leahy said with a smile: "I think it's okay, we have a lot of large merchant ships and oil tankers in the United States, many of these ships are large ships of tens of thousands of tons, as long as they are transformed, they can become aircraft carriers, although they are smaller, but they are better than nothing." ”

Hull next to him also came up with an idea and said, "In addition, we have a lot of destroyers under construction, can we also try to transform them?" ”

One person is short-minded, three people are long-witted, Roosevelt watched everyone say their ideas one by one, and suddenly had confidence, he clapped his hand and said, "Then it's decided, first change ten Cleveland-class light cruisers into aircraft carriers, and then try to use cargo ships and tankers to rebuild escort aircraft carriers." ”

Leahy asked: "How many of those first aircraft carriers were these remodeled?" ”

Roosevelt waved his hand and said, "The more the merrier, let's try thirty first." ”

If Hirohito, Hideki Tojo and others had been listening to this meeting at this time, I am afraid that they would have vomited blood with fright, where in the world is there a country that builds ships like this, and dozens of aircraft carriers have not been ordered like this.

At this time, the Japanese army had 12 battleships and as many as 13 aircraft carriers, and the pressure on the US military was too great in the face of such combat power.

"Now that the main direction of the Japanese offensive is Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, should we abandon the Philippines?" Roosevelt spoke.

No one wants to give up the United States' already few overseas colonies, but they also understand that it is too difficult to hold on, and there is no way to rescue them.

"I think it's okay to give up at critical moments, and we should have a strategy of retreating and then attacking," Marshall said. ”

"So where should we retreat?" Hull asked.

"We can go to Australia, which is the place of the British, and they will accept us, and we can persuade the countries of South America to support us, so that we can come to Australia's aid, and then we can launch a strategic flanking attack on Japan based on Australia and the United States." Leahy said.

"China! We must not forget China, the Chinese have been fighting with Japan for five years, if you count from 1931, it is ten years, they have extremely rich experience in fighting against Japan! Roosevelt did not forget the chess pieces he had laid in China, and he said: "The Chinese government of Chongqing is our reliable friend, and yesterday Mr. Chiang sent a telegram asking us to send a representative to Chongqing with the British representative to discuss the matter of joint operations." ”

"This is an excellent idea, Mr. President, and I have to say that if China can contain the main force of the Japanese army, then our pressure will be greatly reduced, and let's not forget that our enemy is not only Japan, but also a much stronger Germany." "Mr. President, between Europe and Asia we have to choose a direction and concentrate our main forces in that direction, either Germany first, or Japan first," Hull said. ”

Roosevelt looked at Marshall and Leahy, and Leahy said, "I suggest that the easy first and then the difficult, first Japan and then Germany, Germany's strength is actually much stronger than Japan, and Germany is contained by the Soviet Union and Britain, unlike Japan, Japan's opponent is only one China except us, as for the British troops in Southeast Asia, they can only defend, and it is difficult to counterattack." ”

As the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Leahy had to stand in the position of the Navy and speak, the Japanese army had inflicted heavy losses on the US Navy, and the US Navy had to return the color.

Marshall shook his head and said, "I suggest Germany first and then Japan, Japan's real industrial strength is not strong, so it doesn't matter if it is left for a few more years, but once Germany completely defeats the Soviet Union, it will be difficult for us to contain them." ”

Roosevelt thought about it, and it was difficult to make a decision now, and finally said, "Let's talk about this later, let's solve the current Japanese problem first." After all, even if it is a policy of putting Europe first and then Asia, it must be based on the premise that Japan in Asia cannot threaten us. ”

At this moment, a knock on the door disturbed the thinking crowd, and Roosevelt looked up, and a secretary walked in with a telegram and handed it to Roosevelt and said, "This is the urgent telegram I just received." ”

Roosevelt took it and looked at it, he frowned and sighed, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is extremely unfortunate news, the main force of the British Far East Fleet in Singapore was discovered by the Japanese army, and at six o'clock local time today, it was attacked by the Japanese air, and the British lost a battleship and a battlecruiser, and we and our friends no longer have even a battleship in Southeast Asia." ”

Hull narrowed his eyes and said, "This is indeed bad news, but such a war should make the British completely understand the current situation, and I believe that Churchill will agree to our proposal and work with the Chinese." ”

-- London

Churchill has been standing at the window for a long time, because the Soviet-German war has greatly reduced the intensity of German bombing of Britain, Churchill looked at the crowd coming and going outside, sighed and said, "We will have to face a problem, whether to want Chinese, or Japanese, we can know that no matter who it is, it will no longer be us British." ”

In the next week's offensive, the Japanese army was almost unstoppable, all parts of Southeast Asia were in a comprehensive emergency, Hong Kong held out for three days and then declared the fall, after the Japanese army entered Hong Kong, they couldn't wait to break into the large and small financial institutions of Britain and the United States in Hong Kong, plundered the precious metals and foreign exchange stored in them, and then began to clean up the whites in Hong Kong, unless they were whites who had joined the Axis powers, they had to pay a ransom of almost all their net worth before they could come to the concentration camp alive, here, They will be sent to mines everywhere to do manual labor that they have never thought of in their lifetime.

After the Japanese army took Thailand, it did not immediately enter Burma without stopping, after all, there were still tens of thousands of British troops in Burma, whether it was logistics supplies or personnel, the Japanese army needed some time to transfer to the Thai border closest to Burma.