Another country that was dissatisfied with this was the newly independent Korea, but as a junior brother, it did not dare to question the eldest brother, but cooperated very well to suspend all propaganda of the southward reconquista and quickly reached an armistice agreement with Japan.

However, some insiders said that the North Korean government was actually just taking the opportunity to step down, and they did not want to fight with Japan from the beginning, because in the previous peace treaty between China and Japan, the 39th parallel north latitude was used as the national border between North Korea and Japan, resulting in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, directly adjacent to the national border, so that Japanese artillery could even directly hit the urban area of Pyongyang from outside the national border. Moreover, they also know very well that without China's support, it is impossible for the "Korean People's Republic," which is less than one-third of the Korean Peninsula alone, to defeat Japan, which is far more powerful in all respects, and you must know that even the new China, whose industrial development rate is miraculous, is not as good as Japan's expected total industrial output in 1941

The third method that Roosevelt came up with was to ask Japan to "temporarily" lease Okinawa to the United States as a naval base in order to build an encirclement network against China and further increase the pressure on the Chinese government, but this demand once again aroused strong dissatisfaction from Japan, knowing that before that, the United States had already taken away the Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Palau Islands from Japan by means of forced debts, and if this continued, it would not be long before the outer barriers of Japan's four islands would all be controlled by the Americans. And Japan will be completely reduced to a watchdog on a leash with the United States

For a time, there was a lot of excitement in Japan, and even the relatively calm Japanese Navy Minister Isoroku Yamamoto urgently met with Emperor Takahito to ask for war. "If you don't do it again, after the ghost beast of the rice country ties the rope tightly, the empire will no longer have the ability to fight back!"

"No, the preparation is not sufficient now, and hastily starting will only ruin our previous efforts", Chongren gritted his teeth and shook his head although his face was blue, and then said his plan, "Now there is only one way to learn from the Chinese, one word - drag"

"That's all it can be." Yamamoto fifty-six sighed secretly. He is not unaware that Germany and the United States have not yet started a war, and if Japan takes the lead in making a move with the United States, it will be the United States that will go all out to face the war, and the gap between the national strength of the two countries is too great. Even if the number of aircraft carriers in Japan has reached 10 at present. There are 3 more ships than the U.S. (Note 1). Moreover, the two largest giant aircraft carriers on the Shijie (Note 2) are about to enter active service, and there is no chance of winning alone, because the United States still has a full 17 battleships and hundreds of cruisers and destroyers. Even if the Japanese Combined Fleet succeeds in completing a sneak attack, it will take a long time to destroy the main force of the US Navy, and with the terrible industrial production capacity of the United States, which is unparalleled in the world, I am afraid that during this period, I am afraid that more new warships have been built than the total number of ships in service

"By the way, you're also paying attention to the war in Europe, right? The air defense capabilities of warships of various countries are improving very quickly, do you think the aircraft carrier formations of the empire will be able to cope with it? Although Chonghito became the emperor of Japan, he was still quite commoner, not only lived a frugal life, but also rarely liked to use formal titles such as "qing" like the emperors of the past, except on very formal occasions, in the current difficult period in Japanese history, which not only did not affect his prestige in the country, but made him the most prestigious emperor of Japan since the Meiji Restoration.

The Japanese Navy is deeply influenced by Western thought, and it is actually more supportive of the emperor's style, but after hearing Chongren's question, Yamamoto Fifty-six's face was a little ugly, "This, according to the analysis of the Military Command Department, with the current air defense capabilities of the main ship types of the United States and Britain, if the target of the Imperial Aircraft Carrier Formation is a large fleet with several capital ships and complete auxiliary ships, unless the enemy is negligent, at least a large flight formation with a scale of more than a hundred dive bombers is needed, to ensure that at least one new battleship is incapacitated in one attack"

"So many?" Although Chongren was a little mentally prepared, he was immediately shocked when he heard the figure reported by Yamamoto Fifty-six, and immediately stepped down from the throne, came to Yamamoto and asked, "And even if there are so many planes, it can't be guaranteed to be blown up?" ”

"Yes, the new British battleships were extremely strong, their horizontal armor was greatly thickened, and their resistance to sinking was excellent, while the bombs dropped by dive bombing were not fast enough to penetrate the horizontal armor and explode inside them, and if they only exploded outside the armor, it would be difficult for them to sink even if there were more than one. And the latest Iowa-class battleships in the United States not only have strong horizontal defense, but also have super anti-aircraft firepower, and it will only be more difficult to sink them with dive bombers alone," Yamamoto replied, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

Chongren frowned after hearing this, and asked a little unwillingly, "Even if the newly developed Zero bomber (that is, the Japanese carrier-based dive bomber improved from the Stuka JU87D dive bomber) is equipped with a 1.8-ton super-heavy aerial bomb?" ”

"Unless you start a dive from a high altitude beyond the conventional cruising altitude and then drop the bomb at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and it must be an armor-piercing aerial bomb, there is a possibility of sinking it, because the power of a high-explosive bomb is not greatly affected by the height of the bomb. However, if the bomb is dropped at high altitude, it is equivalent to using the dive bomber as a horizontal bomber, and the advantage of extremely high accuracy no longer exists, but because of its slower speed, it has become a better target for the enemy's anti-aircraft fire, and the pilot of the dive bomber is far more difficult to train than the pilot of the horizontal bomber," replied Yamamoto Isoroku, biting his lip.

Note 1: One of them is about to be decommissioned, in fact, 6 ships, the construction of the "Hornet" aircraft carrier that began in 1939 was canceled due to the butterfly effect caused by Hu Weidong's crossing (the reasons mentioned above), and although the more powerful Essex-class aircraft carrier has begun construction, due to the late start of construction, even if this space-time assembly line shipbuilding method appeared in advance, the completion of the first ship will not be until the second half of 1942

Note 2: That is, the two giant ships "Yamato" and "Musashi", but it is worth mentioning that these two giant aircraft carriers were not modified from the hull of the battleship of the same name, under the strong advice of Yamaguchi Tawen, the Japanese Navy Command Department did not hesitate to dismantle the unfinished hulls of the two battleships in order to ensure that the performance of the aircraft carrier was ahead of Shijie, and redesigned and built the two aircraft carriers of the same name with the saved manpower, material and material resources, so it was not completed until October 1941, otherwise it should have been completed a year ago. (To be continued......)