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The Americans signed the "Washington Agreement" with the "British traitor" Churchill and got the desired agreement. But to ensure this benefit, their worst enemy is Japan in the Pacific.

In the past few years, Japan has lost two wars with China, losing the Chinese market once and Northeast China on the other, and its national strength has weakened sharply, and it is no longer able to compete with the United States in the Pacific.

But in 1938, with Li Huamei's success in undercover Japan as Yamato Nadeshiko, in order to obtain more funds to build a navy, the Japanese and the United States signed a new naval agreement, in exchange for a large amount of low-interest loans from the United States at the cost of building only one battleship and slightly reducing the tonnage of the navy.

This year, the president of Ghana received information that the battleship under construction was likely to be a giant ship with a tonnage of more than 40,000 tons — and because the Japanese had done a good job of keeping it secret, the Americans had made a mistake in the exact number of the Yamato that had been obtained. So far, although the battleship Yamato, which has not yet been put into service, has received high-profile publicity in Japan, its true face has never been seen by outsiders.

After Secretary of State Hull left, the President of Ghana opened a report on the development of the Navy on the table, and next to this report was an intelligence document on Japan's movements in the past two years, most of which were related to the Navy.

In 1938, Japan restarted naval construction, and in order to raise funds, they signed a new naval agreement with the United States in exchange for a huge loan at the cost of building only one battleship.

Seeing that the Japanese Navy took the initiative to ask for "self-castration". At that time, the United States cheered the signing of this agreement, believing that the United States would have one less of its biggest competitors in the Pacific.

However, only two years have passed, and the results of the Third Battle of the Norwegian Sea have proved that the protagonist who determines the victory or defeat of the sea is no longer the old king battleship, but the cutting-edge "flat-topped ship" aircraft carrier air ship.

At this time. The Americans, who came to their senses, realized that they had been tricked by the Japanese in the past two years.

By 1940, in the second half of the future, Japan would have three aircraft carriers under water, and it is suspected that three more aircraft carriers were laying keels.

In the past two years, however, the United States has not launched a single aircraft carrier for construction, and the direction and focus of the US Navy's development have all been concentrated on battleships.

In October 1937, the U.S. Navy began construction of two North Carolina-class battleships. They are the BB55 North Carolina and the BB56 Washington. Due to the non-war period, the construction of the two ships was not fast, and they are still unfinished and semi-finished - according to the current completion progress of the ship, its service will be delayed until at least after 1941.

Compared with the Keel laying in the second half of 1938, which had been working in three shifts, and now the progress has reached 85%, and the Yamato, which will be launched within the year, the construction speed of the North Carolina-class battleships is really "slow" enough - the reason for the slow construction of the two ships is peacetime. In peacetime, shipyards in various countries did not carry out general mobilization and production in three shifts, which was added to reduce labor costs. The construction period of battleships was usually more than three years.

In addition, since September last year, American shipyards have started construction of four South Dakota-class battleships, and now all four are in the process of laying keels. And the king of naval battles, aircraft carriers, did not even lay a keel.

The Americans are able to put in the building. The four South Dakota-class battleships that were laying keels were all converted into aircraft carriers. However, the lessons of the Second Battle of the Norwegian Sea made the US Navy dare not aggressively "pure aircraft carrier route". Just as Chiaki Matsuda, the representative of Japan's fleet, said: After all, half of the time in this world is night, and aircraft carriers are worthless in night battles.

Before solving the problem of air forces fighting ships at night, no admiral dared to radically believe that his navy did not need sea supremacy at night. And the aircraft carrier itself is useless when operating at night. During the Second Battle of the Norwegian Sea, the Battle of Bergen, the German Navy could theoretically dispatch five aircraft carriers, but due to the weather and weather, it could only shrink to the side and play soy sauce.

At present, the US Navy attaches equal importance to aircraft carriers and battleships, which is also the general view of the navies of most countries in the world. Even the Japanese and German navies, which had the help of traversers, did not abandon the construction of battleships and took the route of radical pure aircraft carriers.

As the United States moved closer to war, the U.S. Department of the Navy General Congress introduced a proposal to build an Essex-class aircraft carrier – the so-called "Fleet Enlargement Act". The proposal was approved by Congress, and according to the proposal, over the next two years, shipyards in the United States will build up to 13 aircraft carriers. According to this proposal, the United States would start construction of ten ships in fiscal year 1940 and two more in 1941 (all of which are historical) - of course, this was only a proposal from the lion of the Navy, and the United States had only started construction of five ships by the time of Pearl Harbor in 1941.

However, in this plane, stimulated by the Battle of the Norwegian Sea and the drastic changes in the situation of the war in Europe, the US government decided to speed up the construction of new ships instead of slowly swallowing them at the beginning as in history. Another reason for this is Japan, on the other side of the Pacific.

According to information received by the President of Ghana, in the last two months of 1938, a year before the start of the war in Europe in 1939, the Japanese government, which was "so poor that it almost begged for food," spent real money to buy large 10,000-ton ships in the United States while smashing pots and selling iron to build the "Yamato battleship."

From October 1938 to October 1939, before the outbreak of the war in Europe, Japan bought a total of 15 10,000-ton merchant ships with a tonnage of more than 20,000 tons and 40 merchant ships of 10,000 tons in Britain and the United States. In addition, in September 1939, forty merchant ships were urgently purchased and a huge default clause was attached. In the past year, almost all of the mobile merchant shipping markets in the British and American markets have been wiped out by the Japanese.

At that time, the whole world thought that the Japanese were crazy.

However, in October 1939, after the start of the war in Europe, the German Navy began to fight against each other. Merchant shipping became a sought-after cargo, and the British and American governments suddenly realized. In order to get the merchant ships that were bought in advance by the Japanese and had already made an advance payment, the British had to take out the money and beg the Japanese to change hands, and they were slaughtered by the Japanese.

The President of Ghana learned from the intelligence service that he was just taking advantage of the time difference between before and after the outbreak of the war to play the trick of buying low and selling high. The Japanese government made a net profit of more than $100 million from it, and the profits obtained by these empty gloves and white wolves were later invested in naval construction by the Japanese.

The windfall profit of more than 100 million dollars is nothing more than the cost of three Essex-class aircraft carriers for the deep-pocketed Americans. What really alerted the president of Ghana was a piece of intelligence sent by the Navy.

Among the merchant ships bought by the Japanese, there are 10 high-speed cruise ships with a maximum speed of more than 24 knots, and the types of ships are very suitable for transforming into escort aircraft carriers. The Japanese play with empty gloves and white wolves, and become international masters. When the large number of merchant ships purchased from Britain and the United States were sold back to the British, none of these merchant ships, which were suitable for transforming into escort aircraft carriers and accompanying the battleships, were sold.

Although the maximum speed of these merchant ships with a maximum speed of only 24 knots will be around 234 knots, it is not a problem to cooperate with the old battleships.

In view of the mysterious situation along the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the US Navy cannot but be wary of this point, because this has also led the President of Ghana to speed up the construction of the Essex-class aircraft carrier.

Although in the last month, the pro-American faction in Japan has made a flattering voice. shouted that the United States of America should take more responsibility for maintaining stability in Asia, while the Japanese ambassador to the United States. It also sent the opinion of the Japanese official upper echelons: they hope to work with the US government to maintain the "new order" in the Pacific Rim region. And the pro-American faction in Japan, Inoue Narumi. He will even come to Washington this month for a "goodwill visit" to the United States to discuss the issue of the so-called "new Pacific order."

The US intelligence department listened to and deciphered the radio communication messages of the Japanese Embassy in the United States, and the contents of the decipherment were all "good news" to curry favor with the United States.

Japan, a vicious dog that has always been at odds with the Americans in the western Pacific, suddenly became so honest and obedient in the China incident, which made the Americans "surprised."

The opinion of the domestic "experts on Japan" on this is: The Japanese wanted to get a piece of this "happy beef feast" after the fall of Britain, but considering their own limited national strength, they were afraid of being excluded and kicked out by the United States, so they had this kind of flattery.

The Japanese bowed their heads and kept a low profile, which made the US government and the people very satisfied. However, it did not allow the US Government to completely relax its vigilance and slow down the pace of armaments. As the war in Europe intensified, the importance of the navy became even more prominent. The President of Ghana is now considering wasting time on the proposal to build a ship without waiting for the people in Congress to discuss it slowly, and he has decided to use the power of President Guò now and directly issue an order to ask the two shipyards in China to start the keel laying work of the Essex-class aircraft carrier in advance.

Of course, the president of Ghana would take a big political risk in doing so, but he thinks it's worth the risk. Once the United States enters the war and the front line needs a large number of aircraft carriers, his direct order by bypassing Congress will not only not be an excuse for the political attack, but will become a proof of his "resoluteness and courage to take responsibility." In addition, such an approach can also greatly curry favor with the industrial giants of the United States and the shipbuilding, steel, and manufacturing industries, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)

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