PS: There is a small bug in the last chapter, among the two Ferroride-class battleships, the Florida has been dismantled in 1930 because of the Washington Naval Treaty, and only the Utah remains, my memory is wrong, this error is corrected here, so correspondingly, the number of capital battleships in the United States entering the Pacific Ocean is fourteen instead of fifteen.

The above word count will not be counted towards the charge

When there is a political and diplomatic game between countries, it is very cool to know the opponent's hole cards in advance, because in this way, you can get the first move everywhere in the negotiation.

After June 1942, due to the high-profile travel of the US military's "Second Great White Fleet", a series of chain reactions were caused in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean.

The British, who were stimulated by the Americans' military provocations, rummaged through their homes and reluctantly sent two George V-class and one Brilliant-class aircraft carrier to Southeast Asia to "deal with." The capital ships were overstretched, and they even put together an escort aircraft carrier to make up for it.

Together with the old ships previously located here, the number of capital ships of the British Navy in Southeast Asia increased to five battleships, one combat carrier, and three escort carriers. This was the largest maritime maneuver the British could draw up from their homes.

If the British Navy and the Japanese Navy had joined forces at this time, they would have been able to confront the US Navy from afar in Southeast Asia.

But Britain is Britain and Japan is Japan, and it is simply impossible for the two to unite without gaps. After June, people in the U.S. intelligence service continued to decipher the military communications of the Japanese Navy, and the information they received was all good news.

The Japanese upper echelons were very afraid of confrontation with the United States, and repeatedly asked the Fleet Division to strengthen its control and prevent any misfire with the US Navy. On the other hand, the secret telegram intercepted by the United States from Tokyo to the Japanese Embassy in Washington shows that the Japanese ambassador to the United States, who is now extremely tough in Washington, is in fact very inward-looking.

The Japanese ambassador to the United States' public speech in Washington was completely manipulated by the Tokyo side, and it was basically a mouthpiece for the Tokyo side.

Since May, when the Americans brandished a big stick and announced in a high-profile manner that they were going to conduct military exercises in the South China Sea and trade negotiations with the British, the Japanese ambassador to the United States also jumped out at this time to show off his sense of zài.

When Britain and the United States began negotiations, the Japanese ambassador stepped forward and praised both sides for their important contribution to the protection of world peace by sitting at the negotiating table.

When the negotiations reached an impasse, the Japanese ambassador stood up again, siding with the British, expressing great regret at the refusal of the Americans to budge.

When the negotiations continued to reach an impasse and the British representatives withdrew in anger, the Japanese ambassador came forward again, claiming that he was extremely worried about the future of Anglo-American relations

When the talks broke down imminently, the Japanese side said that it was seriously concerned about the peace situation in Southeast Asia.

When the Americans reaffirmed that the exercise would proceed as it would be, the Japanese ambassador's remarks had become one that could not be ignored.

On the surface, the attitude of the Japanese side was to stand with the British, and the tone of their speech became tougher step by step.

But the information obtained by the U.S. intelligence services from the messages they heard and the deciphered diplomatic code messages were a different story entirely.

The telegram sent by Tokyo to the embassy in the United States shows that they asked the Japanese ambassador to the United States to support the British with "mouth cannons" in public, but asked them not to talk too much at once, but to "increase the weight layer by layer" little by little, but at the same time, they should not speak too hard and too harshly in order to provoke the Americans The situation has fallen into a state of uncontrollability.

During the negotiations in Washington, one day the ambassador was furious, self-explanatory, and spoke too harshly, and only two days later, the ambassador was ordered to return to China for a "vacation." The intelligence gathered from the surveillance of the Japanese Embassy in the United States shows that the ambassador is a hawk figure with a hard-line attitude toward the United States, and he is extremely dissatisfied with the weakness of the current Japanese Government's attitude toward the United States.

Through the "complaints" of the hawkish ambassador, the US intelligence services learned that the current Japanese upper echelons are very aware of how strong the gap between them and the United States of America is, and deep down they do not dare to go to war with the United States of America. The rhetoric of solidarity with the British is just to take the opportunity to ask the British for more benefits and to be generous to others.

"Attack the American fleet, go to war with the Americans? No kidding, count how many chimneys there are in American factories, and then talk about the joke here. Before I came, His Majesty the Emperor personally met with me and told me bluntly that the Japanese Empire would never go to war with the U.S. Navy for the interests of the British in Southeast Asia. Now I support the British here, but I have to make a gesture as a last resort. Long Tianjun, your task to the outside world is just to make a gesture, don't fake the real thing, talk too much, and the unpredictable crisis suddenly erupts. ”

This was how the Japanese envoy reprimanded the hawkish ambassador for saying the wrong thing in public, and his words were recorded by a bug installed in the ambassador's chamber and then passed on to the president through the guò intelligence service. After knowing the cards of the Japanese, the US government was able to confirm that the "Anglo-Japanese alliance" was nothing more than a false alliance. As a result, the attitude at the negotiating table has become increasingly tough, which eventually leads to the breakdown of negotiations.

After the breakdown of negotiations, with the departure of the American fleet from the Pacific Ocean. The rhetoric of the Japanese ambassador to the United States has also become tougher.

First, "if the U.S. government insists on conducting military exercises in the South China Sea and disrupts the peaceful atmosphere here, we will reserve the right to make further responses." ”

In contrast to these tough rhetoric, Tokyo privately sent a telegram to "purge" the navy, urging the commanders of all fleets to take good control of their subordinates and strictly prevent the Japanese from leaving alone.

And when the fleet was approaching the Philippines day by day, the Japanese ambassador to the United States said that "the consequences arising therefrom will be borne by the US Government itself, in accordance with Tokyo's request." ”

Correspondingly, it was a secret telegram deciphered by US naval intelligence, which showed that the Japanese Navy Headquarters demanded that surface ships and submarine units that were cruising and training in the Pacific Ocean that month return to port, and that a small number of submarines that remained in the Pacific Ocean to monitor the movements of the US fleet were also ordered to surface to avoid "misunderstandings" with the US Navy.

"The words on the lips are getting harder and harder, but the heart is getting softer and softer!"

President Wilkie, who thought he knew the cards of the Japanese, laughed and talked to his staff about the increasingly tough words of the Japanese on the surface. He even jokingly told the secretary of state that what he wanted to hear most when he got up every morning was to know what kind of "jokes" the Japanese who was "strong from outside and strong from the middle" said today.

On 12 June, when the U.S. fleet was passing through Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean, there was a "small" "unrest" in Japan.

Large numbers of Japanese people took to the streets to protest the government's softness in Southeast Asia.

It turned out that in the past few days, some "hawks" in Japan have distributed leaflets among the people, declaring that at the critical period when the US fleet is about to arrive in the Philippines, the Japanese Government has not only not transferred the Combined Fleet to the Southeast Asian colonies that are already "in danger" to flex its muscles against it, but has quietly retreated to China at this "turning point of fate." According to the contents of the leaflet, the main ships of the Japanese Navy are now parked in the Hakodate and Aomori areas of Hokkaido in the north as "shrunken turtles".

Officials came forward to refute the rumors that the Combined Fleet was training at sea, and that there was no fleet in the Hakodate Aomori Belt. After some official explanations, I finally persuaded the group of organized middle school students to go home -- it was really middle school students, all Japanese junior high school and high school students who had been brainwashed by militarist ideology.

On 13 June, a newspaper in Tokyo called the "Chaoyang Daily" broke the news and published several photos of the fleet stationed in the Hakodate-Aomori area.

Although the newspaper was seized in a timely manner, thousands of copies still found their way into the market, and then there was a wave of chaos. In the end, the army had to be dispatched to suppress the bombs, and the greater unrest was stopped.

After the incident, several American spies stationed in Japan quietly rushed to Hokkaido, and sure enough, on the hill of Aomori Port, they saw the Japanese fleet stationed there from a distance, and several large warships were moored on the sea surface of more than 10 kilometers. In the local tavern of Aomori, there are also many naval sailors who have fun here

On 18 June, the Pacific Fleet arrived safely on Saipan, where it rested for a day, replenished with a large quantity of tropical fruits, and then pulled anchor on 20 June and set sail for the Philippines.

On 16 July, Admiral Kimmelly, commander of the Pacific Fleet, received information from the intelligence department that it could be confirmed that four battleships and one aircraft carrier were anchored in Keelung Bay on the Japanese side, and two battleships and one aircraft carrier could be confirmed on the Tokyo Bay side. These warships have returned to Hong Kong one after another in the past two days, and in the next few days, Japanese capital ships from other places will also return to their home ports one after another.

And this information also corresponds to the Japanese telegram deciphered by the personnel of the Naval Intelligence Department not long ago: In order to prevent a possible "accident" from happening, the Japanese upper echelons are ordering warships from all over the country to return to port in case of "accidents."

For the officers of the Pacific Fleet, which is getting closer to the Philippines, this information is great news. So much so that during a stop in Saipan, the U.S. troops on board the ship got off the ship and had a day of partying, so that the local bars were full. Merchants with a keen sense of smell had already brought in large quantities of American whiskey in advance, and took advantage of the Pacific Fleet's docking to recuperate and earn a lot of money from these energetic American sailors. When the U.S. Pacific Fleet set sail on the 20th, they also left two cases of U.S. sailors beating local residents, and these two vicious cases were soap bubbles in the ocean, which had just floated and were soon washed away without a trace by huge waves.

On the evening of the 21st, while the fleet was sailing on the vast ocean, Admiral Kimmelli was sorting out the intelligence received from all sides these days on the battleship South Dakota, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet.

Admiral Kimméli was disgusted by the president's show move of "the second Great White Fleet marching westward."

The situation in Southeast Asia is too complicated, with Japan and Britain colluding together, and another China with an unclear attitude. There are too many islands and too many land-based airfields, and it is too risky to pull the Grand Fleet to this sensitive location in the South China Sea for military exercises.

Although the news from all sides is good news, Japan, the most dangerous enemy in the western Pacific, has been tough on the surface, but secretly it has shrunk and caused a lot of turmoil in the country because of its "shrinking eggs." Admiral Kimmelly has seen a pen name called "James. The book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" written by the British author of the Japanese expert of Bond (in fact, this is Lin Han's vest), which introduced the Japanese culture and Japanese way of thinking to the West in detail, and from the book, Admiral Kimmelly learned about Japan's two "specialties": solo walking and shitokagami". Now seeing the Japanese top brass busy recalling the navy back to China and stopping it in the harbor gave him a great sense of security.

Before the exercise began, Admiral Kimméli habitually reviewed the strength chart of the navies of the countries of Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean so that he could have a good idea of what to expect.

He knows the strength of the Japanese Navy very well, his bedroom is full of photos of various types of Japanese capital ships that can be collected by the official, and the British Navy is also an "old friend", and he knows them very well.

What he's looking at now is some of the "variables" that have been added here in the past few months.

In February, the German government announced that it would sell 40 S3 torpedo boats to China at a very "friendly" price. To make this statement, the torpedo boat was actually transported to Shanghai, China, where it was assembled.

In March, the newly formed Republic of Lanfang, six 200-ton torpedo boats purchased by the Germans also arrived at this time.

These dozens of two-hundred-ton torpedo boats are not worth mentioning at all for the huge Pacific Fleet of the United States. Admiral Kimmey glanced at it, snorted coldly in his heart, and skimmed by.

An old piece of information that the admiral paid a little attention to was that in April, a Valkyrie-class air defense cruiser from Germany, Freya, ended its "goodwill" visit to China in April, went to Japan at the end of April, announced that it had left Japan in mid-April, and then disappeared.

The Freya is only an air defense cruiser with a displacement of about 7,500 tons, and it is impossible for him to pose a threat to the US Navy in any way. The "sudden loss of trace" is doubtful, but it is not a big deal. It is quite possible that the warship is making some small moves in the Pacific Ocean on Berlin's orders. But given the U.S. Navy's current presence, these small movements are just flies buzzing.

Admiral Kimmelly thought left and right, how to think that he was overly worried, the Pacific Ocean was quiet at the moment, the Japanese were frightened, the British fleet was huddled in the port of Singapore, his fleet was safe now, there was no need to worry too much.

With this in mind, Admiral Kimmel cleaned up the text on the table, turned off the lights and fell asleep. R1152