Chapter 43 The Gap in National Strength and Another Big Gamble
10,000 meters above the Pacific Ocean, inside the aircraft.
"What are your plans to trade with the Wokos?" Yadi asked in Wang Fan's mind.
"Plans? Hehe, let them fight more fiercely and kill more people. Historically, since February 1943, after the end of the Battle of Kuah Island, the Japanese have been exhausted to deal with it, and there is no decent counterattack at all. I will increase the strength of the Japanese Koukou side a little, make the balance tilt smaller, consume more of the national strength of the two countries, and spend about a year more for the reconquest and development of Yanhuang. β
"Aren't you afraid that they will really use war to promote peace and sign an armistice agreement?"
"Truce? You don't know the nature of the pirates, they have gambling genes in their bones, and they often gamble on the whole country as a weight. Historically, the Pacific War between the Japanese and the Stars and Stripes should be regarded as the third "big gamble" in the history of the Japanese Bandits, the first two times they were lucky, they won the bet, and also achieved a leap in national strength, which is why they are so keen on "betting on national fortune", the sweetness is too great!! In the first victory of the "First Sino-Japanese Naval War" with the Yanhuang and Qing dynasties, the Japanese obtained hundreds of millions of taels of silver in indemnities and a large area of land, realizing the leap from a weak feudal country to a third-class power in the world. The second victory in the "Battle of the Tsushima Strait" with the Rakshasa Empire in northern Asia realized its transformation from a third-class power to a second-class power. The current Pacific War was actually a gamble in its vain attempt to change from a second-class power to a first-class power in the world, and although the policy of promoting peace through war had been established before the war began, it was nothing more than the wishful thinking of a few people in Yamamoto's 56 years!! β
"Why do you say that?"
"Before the defeat of the Battle of Midway, all the high-ranking Japanese Bandits thought that their combined fleet was invincible, and their self-confidence was bursting, and they tried to conquer the whole world wholeheartedly, after the defeat of Midway, they still thought that their naval strength was higher than that of the Stars and Stripes Republic, until the defeat of the Battle of Kuah, they were like red-eyed gamblers, looking forward to turning the book, and looking forward to severely defeating the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Stars and Stripes Republic, and then holding peace talks, but they also didn't want to think about how the side with absolute strategic advantage could sit down and negotiate with the weak!"
"But your insertion has strengthened the Japanese Navy, maybe it will cause the two countries to really sit down for peace talks?"
"Peace talks? I won't let them really have a chance to sit down, I will participate in their battles below, and the soldiers on both sides are bleeding in the situation, want to negotiate peace? MacArthur, who was driven out of the Philippines and came back to take revenge, would not agree, this guy wants to be ashamed! Although Roosevelt is strong, he is the spokesman of the Democratic Party, and MacArthur is the vanguard of the Republican Party, they are not good men and women, even if it is really possible to negotiate peace, I will also have a strategic bombing of "Japanese Bandits" aircraft (throwing bombs, incendiary bombs and provocative leaflets~~) on the mainland of the Stars and Stripes Republic, hum, at that time to arouse public indignation, see who dares to stand up and say peace talks! β
"And what do you plan to do?"
"The first step is to strengthen the Japanese navy, make up for the losses in the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Guadalcanal, and at least narrow the gap between it and the Stars and Stripes Republic in the Pacific Theater! The reason why it is said that the Japanese are second-class powers is because of the gap in national strength, especially in comprehensive national strength! Compared to the Stars and Stripes Republic: Before the war, the Stars and Stripes Republic had 32.2% of the world's total industrial output, nearly 10 times that of the Stars-Spangled Republic. Originally, the productivity of the Stars and Stripes was only one-tenth of that of the Stars and Stripes Republic, and for every time it took for the Stars and Stripes to produce 1 aircraft, the Stars and Stripes Republic could produce 13.5 aircraft. It is simply impossible and unrealistic for the Japanese to destroy 12.5 US planes without losing their own planes in order to maintain the balance of strength between the two air forces! At the beginning of 1942, when the war had just begun, Roosevelt, president of the Stars and Stripes Republic, ordered: "This year, our country plans to produce 60,000 aircraft and 45,000 combat vehicles." ". Moreover, in terms of shipbuilding capacity, in 1941, when the Japanese were discussing whether to start a war against the Stars and Stripes Republic, the Stars and Stripes Republic had already built 131 new shipyards in addition to the original shipyards. Using these shipyards, the Republic of the Stars and Stripes was able to build one ship a day. Also in 1942, in order to withdraw the soldiers from Guadalcanal, the Japanese army desperately fought for the necessary transport ships; And the shipyards of the Stars and Stripes Republic are methodically building three times the number of warships of last year. This is a war that is doomed from the start! β
"According to the information I consulted, Yamamoto Isoroku had said before the start of the war that the Japanese navy would be able to run rampant in the world about a year after the war, but after a year and a half to two years, I had no confidence at all. He is well aware of the gap between the two countries. Yadi added.
Yes, this is the hope that the Japanese government will end the Pacific War diplomatically within a year and a half to two years. That is, in a year and a half to two years, the Woko gave the Stars and Stripes Republic a head-on blow, and then seized the time to start diplomatic negotiations with the Stars and Stripes Republic, and then ended the entire Pacific War. Wang Fan concluded.
"But it is true that such a brilliant achievement in the early stage, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the heavy damage to the Pacific Fleet of the Stars and Stripes Republic, and then taking advantage of the weakness of the other party, wantonly occupied the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, Southeast Asia, and the unlimited expansion of the mainland is the easiest to arouse the ambition in the heart."
"The shortcomings of the Japanese are too obvious, although the human resources are okay, but the small size of the local area and the lack of resources, so that he can only take the pace of external expansion, if he takes the method of encroachment to invade my motherland, and does not conflict with the United Kingdom, France and the North American Stars and Stripes Republic, then after the end of World War II, the Japanese who are completely concentrated on the Yanhuang Continent will definitely be much more difficult than in history, and the Allies may not directly send troops~" Wang Fan continued.
"Why?" Yadi asked.
"Because compared with the fruits of the victory of Europe, the interests of the Stars and Stripes Republic in Asia are pitiful, and the Philippines alone is hardly worth his big attack. History really has to develop like that, I feel that the Stars and Stripes will support weapons and ammunition in large quantities, and the counterattack of the Yanhuang troops against the Japanese is probably going to be extended for many years, and the most terrible thing is that there is no Pacific naval war with the Stars and Stripes Republic, and its naval strength remains intact, relying only on Yanhuang's own strength, how to capture the coastal cities is a headache, and even if the port is captured, the Japanese can completely achieve the fatal blow of the Inchon landing like the Korean War with their navy, We can't afford to have a large garrison in every port, and the coastline is so long! β
"It's really troublesome!"
However, these assumptions are meaningless, and the Japanese who were blinded by greed in history played a stupid move early! History has no ifs! β
"I think you have to add that." Yadea said.
"Plus what?" Wang Fan asked suspiciously.
"Except for us!!"
"Huh? Haha, yes, yes! History has no ifs, but we exclude! After Wang Fan finished speaking, he burst out laughing.
In the original history of World War II in the Pacific, that is, when Wang Fan and Yamamoto Isoroku had just traded aircraft carriers, the Japanese had just experienced the defeat of the Guadalcanal campaign, and the commander of the combined fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku, originally planned to be the four divisions of the Japanese Army, coupled with the full cooperation of the Japanese Navy, so that the Stars and Stripes Army, which had been confronting the Japanese Army under a disadvantage, would definitely dispatch maritime troops in order to rescue the troops of Guadalcanal. At that time, the Japanese navy, which was good at night raids and surprise raids, would definitely make the Star-Spangled Banner army suffer. If the Stars and Stripes Army on Guadalcanal can be completely annihilated and the Stars and Stripes Navy can be dealt a heavy blow, the Stars and Stripes, who cherish the lives of their soldiers, will definitely reconsider the timing of the counteroffensive, and it is very likely that the two countries will stop the war under the appeal of the Stars and Stripes people.
But good luck could not always cover Yamamoto, the Combined Fleet and the Japanese Bandits, and the Battle of Guadalcanal, which took place from August 1942 to February 1943, did not follow Yamamoto's script at all, and in this protracted battle, the Stars and Stripes Republic lost about 5,000 killed, 6,700 wounded, and lost 24 warships, 3 transports, and about 250 aircraft. About 50,000 Japanese troops were killed, 24 warships, 16 transport ships, and 892 aircraft. As a result of the battle, the Japanese not only failed to realize their operational attempt to regain the strategic initiative, but on the contrary, their military strength was further weakened, and they finally completely lost the strategic initiative in the Pacific War.
When Wang Fan and Yadi were chatting, after the meeting in front of the Imperial Palace, in the office of the Combined Fleet Command on the Japanese mainland, Yamamoto was looking at the map of the Pacific Ocean, thinking about a new sea battle in his mind, with the newly arrived 5 "Xianghe"-class aircraft carriers, with graduates of the Army Aviation and some naval academies, plus the 3 to 4 aircraft carriers that survived the previous battles, Yamamoto 56 can completely reorganize the combat power comparable to the original Combined Fleet in its heyday, and even in terms of the number of aircraft alone, it is even more powerful than in its heyday!
"It's a pity that the Pacific Fleet of the Star-Spangled Banner is no longer what it used to be!" Yamamoto, looking at the map of the Pacific Theater, muttered to himself.
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