"Father, is it possible for us to drag the British into the water this time and lead the United States to declare war on Britain?"

"It's hard, it's very hard. Because the key is not how deeply involved the British were in this incident, but the fact that the Americans still have the courage to challenge the British and Japanese navies at the same time in the face of the total destruction of the Pacific ships. ”

On the bed in a secret room prepared for Li Huamei in the bilge of the Yamato, Lin Han also hugged Li Huamei, who had a few cups larger in her chest, and was doing exercises frantically.

Once again, he won an unprecedented victory in a sea battle, Lin Han is very excited now, and Li Huamei has absorbed the massive power of faith of the Japanese people, and the cup position in his chest has swelled sharply in a short period of time, which also makes him more playful and excited.

After venting fiercely on Li Huamei and celebrating last night's big victory, Lin Han hugged Li Huamei and explained his opinion to her.

"Unlike the historical sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, this time the Pacific ship was completely annihilated! It's useless to have a ship, you need people, but there is no one in the United States for the time being. ”

Historically, although the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and damaged and sank a bunch of American battleships, the losses caused to the US Navy were not large, including land-based personnel, a total of more than 3,000 people, and the loss of sailors on the warships was only about 2,000.

For a battleship to be able to exert full combat effectiveness, it requires the cooperation of 1,200 to 1,500 sailors. Secondly, the training cycle of sailors in key departments such as boiler rooms, sights, artillery, chart rooms, maintenance stations, and radar rooms ranges from several years to more than ten years, or even 20 years.

Warships are easy to build, but it is difficult to train qualified sailors, and it is even more difficult to train excellent and qualified sailors. Historically, the Pacific Fleet was heavily damaged in the harbor with small losses in personnel. And this time. However, the number of crew members captured and killed in battle amounted to 30,000.

The U.S. Navy permanently lost more than 70 percent of the U.S. navy's accumulated territory over the past few decades -- the Americans, who have deep pockets, could rebuild a much more powerful Pacific Fleet in two to three years by virtue of their huge domestic industrial strength, but those ten years of training that were lost in this naval war. Elite sailors for more than ten years, or even twenty years, can't make up for it.

The navy is a technical arm, and talent is a more precious resource than the warships themselves.

A warship, not to mention anything else, is just in terms of the power system, take the boiler room as an example. Many people think that burning a boiler is to light a fire and add heavy oil. It's okay to add coal or something, but in fact this is a big fallacy. The training of a qualified boilermaker is calculated in ten years, and the difficulty and energy spent on training are even longer than the training of a modern fighter pilot, and it takes long-term practice and experience accumulation, and it takes more than ten years to train a qualified boiler worker.

(PS: It's not my nonsense.) Even in modern times, it has come to the era of computer and mouse control zhì room operation. Excellent on-site technical skills are also rarer than engineers. I used to be a retired boiler burner in my former unit, and after retirement, he was asked everywhere to ignite the newly opened boiler. A good boilermaker can succeed in igniting a fire the first time. In large factories, the failure of a boiler ignition can cost hundreds of thousands or even millions. And there would be no more than three good boilermakers like this in the province at that time. These are veteran mechanics with decades of experience. It's basically a national treasure)

On the evening of 22 July, when the Yamato held a celebration party, Li Huamei told Yamamoto Isoroku that what she was most pleased about in this battle was not the destruction of the entire Pacific Fleet. Rather, the Americans permanently lost 30,000 experienced sailors, a loss that no amount of money could make up for by burning more. He will directly lead the discontinuation of the U.S. Navy's personnel training system." In the next few years of the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy will be forced to use a bunch of rookie sailors to fight in the war, and this situation will lead the Americans to pay a greater price.

On the other hand, at the White House in Washington, D.C., President Wilkie and his aides gradually recovered from the bad news they had heard of the total destruction of the Pacific Fleet, and they began to calmly discuss the problems that the United States would face next.

The first question that the United States has to face first now is the question of who to declare war on.

There is no doubt about the declaration of war on Japan.

The main issue was the question of declaring war on Britain.

Although the British have repeatedly denied that the Royal Navy was involved in the attack on the Pacific Fleet, intelligence gathered from all sides shows that the British played a role in the attack on the US Pacific Fleet. As for the Germans, although they are most likely to have a share, because the Germans have done a clean job with their hands and feet, they have not yet let the Americans grasp the handle.

If the Pacific Fleet is intact, President Wilkie will not be afraid to declare war on Britain and Japan at the same time. However, the U.S. Navy was defeated by the Japanese in World War I, and it fell from the world's No. 1 to the same level as the Italians, and asking the Americans to declare war on Britain and the United States at the same time at this point in time was really a matter that challenged the president's courage.

Just as Lin Han said, for the top level of the United States, whether the British really participated in the sneak attack on the Pacific Fleet is not important in itself, but whether the Americans are willing to be enemies of Britain and Japan at the same time.

After a night of discussion, the conclusion was not long in coming.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of June 22, US time, the US Congress passed a resolution to declare war on Japan by unanimous vote.

As for the issue of declaring war on Britain, the US Government demanded an explanation from the British and cooperated with the Americans in their investigation, and the British side also pretended to agree.

Under the guidance of Li Huamei, the Japanese poured a bunch of on the British through guò propaganda and propaganda, although because the Americans shrank their eggs, they could not drag Britain into the water to start a war against the United States. However, the contradictions between Britain and the United States have been brought to the fore, and the consequences of this will be revealed little by little in future wars.

The American president, of course, knows that neither the British nor the Germans are innocent in this matter, but what can he do in this terrible situation?

Although the U.S. Navy suffered heavy losses, in the second half of this year, the Navy will also acquire two South Dakota-class battleships and two Essex-class battleships, and several cruisers built in the Ghana era will also be commissioned during this period.

Wars between major powers are all about vertical and horizontal alliances.

On 22 June, after the US Congress passed a bill declaring war on Japan, the Americans asked the British to join the embargo against Japan.

Japan is a country that strictly relies on overseas material imports, and a bunch of rare minerals, rubber, oil, and other strategic resources must be imported from foreign countries, and Britain and the United States were Japan's most important sources of resources before the war, and as long as the British join the trade blockade and sanctions against Japan, the United States can win without a war.

But at this delicate moment, the British, although they secretly hated the Japanese for dragging them into the water, also knew the severity. Japan is finished, and Britain, which has such a stiff relationship with the United States, will inevitably be the next target of US retaliation. According to the Japanese side, Japanese officials claimed that after the naval battle on 22 June, the Japanese navy suffered considerable losses, with the battleship Mutsu and the battle cruiser Kirishima both sunk in the naval battle, and a number of heavy and light cruisers sank. The loss of destroyers also exceeded twenty units. In addition, the two battlecruisers and several battleships that participated in the battle also suffered varying degrees of light and severe damage.

Of course, the loss of the Japanese Navy was a false information deliberately publicized by the Japanese upper echelons on the basis of Li Huamei's opinions, and in a broadcast broadcast to the whole nation on the morning of 22 June, Japanese time, the official came up with a script that had already been prepared, and while publicizing the great achievements of the Pacific Fleet, it also hinted to the whole world from a different angle that this was also a victory for the Japanese Combined Fleet.

There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.

Both Li Huamei and Lin Han know very well that if the Japanese Navy is "intact" in this naval battle, for its own interests, and for the so-called "balance of power", it is good at stirring up, and the British are likely to change their faces at the first time, and even turn around to give Japan a black knife behind their backs.

Therefore, at Li Huamei's strong request, the Japanese official also deliberately exaggerated its own losses to appease the British.

As for the United States, now that the Pacific Fleet has been completely annihilated, the US military is also unable to accept the outcome of its own side in an all-round way without any loss of the enemy's capital ships. As for the losses falsely reported by the Japanese, whether the US Navy believes it or not, on the contrary, the US propaganda department believes it.

From 22 June, after the United States declared war on Japan, trade between Britain and Japan continued. The Germans, who knew that the Japanese had little capital, also continued to sell British-made weapons to Japan at low prices through China and the Republic of Lanfang.

At the same time, the Japanese navy and army also launched a long-prepared campaign to seize the Philippines.

Before the war, the United States stationed 60,000 American soldiers in the Philippines, more than 500 aircraft, and more than 200,000 local colonists. But after the navy is completely destroyed, the garrison here will become a tree without roots, a water without a source, and total destruction is an inevitable end.

At the same time, military operations were launched to seize many islands in the Pacific Ocean, and close to the battlefield of naval warfare, close to Saipan and Guam, was the first US military to lose an important strategic transit point in the Pacific. (To be continued......)

PS: It's updated first, let's take a look at it first, and then go back and correct the typos. Work hard to write in the evening and see if you can watch three more today