Six hundred and fifteen. Japan's decision
"The telegram has been sent, and presumably now your 'victims' have been captured by the Japanese."
In the Ziguang Military Base, Wang Weiyi only let out a faint "oh".
The last fuse has also been lit!
I'm sorry, Yuan Wang Weiyi whispered in his heart.
When the war ended, he vowed that he would let all the people know about the outstanding contributions made by these "sacrificers" such as Yuan Wang to victory!
But not now.
"Direct electricity to President Roosevelt." Wang Weiyi said lightly: "Japan is about to launch a sneak attack on the US military base at Pearl Harbor. Alexon. Feng. Brahm! ”
"The telegram has been sent, I think, and that's what President Roosevelt would have liked to see."
"It will be the same as in history, President Roosevelt will just act as if he has never seen this telegram, he needs this sneak attack, he needs this war." Wang Weiyi held his chin and whispered: "President Roosevelt has long wanted to actively intervene in the war, but he has been under great pressure, and this economic crisis throughout the United States has made him impatient to use the war to divert domestic dissatisfaction, so the only ones who will suffer may be those American GIs at Pearl Harbor."
The "sneak attack on Pearl Harbor" incident will still happen in the end, but at another point in time, another person will take the lead.
Xiao Ling said at this time: "I think this sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is very different from the one that happened in history, and there is one person who will gain great benefits from it. ”
"Who?" Wang Weiyi asked with a smile.
"You" Xiaoling said unceremoniously, "after the outbreak of the economic crisis in the United States. The Wittgensteins frantically waved their cheques and bought a large number of companies. Once the war broke out, it was brought to the common people. It is the pain of war, but what it brings to the big capitalists is endless wealth and profit. The huge American companies that you bought will bring you an endless stream of money."
"Look at you, what did you say to me?" Wang Weiyi had a smile on his face: "I just let me make my own money from the war money issued by the United States, and besides, this Japanese sneak attack is very different from history, and Germany will gain huge benefits from the war like me."
"It's been more than ten days since you left Germany. When are you going to go back? ”
Wang Weiyi thought for a moment: "Give Adolf. Hitler sent a telegram saying that I was dealing with something and that it would be about some time before I could go back. Ha. Anyway, for my disappearance, the Germans have long been used to it"
President Roosevelt called back. Xiao Ling's voice interrupted Wang Weiyi's words: "There is only one sentence on the telegram. 'Thank you, my dear friend'"
Wang Weiyi smiled even brighter, with President Roosevelt's words, everything is enough
Now, all he has to do is wait for the Japanese to react
"Intelligence has been confirmed. Judging from the espionage case of the military commander of China that we cracked in Manchuria. China is also preparing to launch a full-scale counteroffensive on the China battlefield after launching a sneak attack by the United States! Qing Shui's face was extremely serious: "It should be said that our intelligence agency in Manchuria is still very good, which confirms the authenticity of the intelligence that Wild Wild brought back at the risk of his life!" ”
"A large amount of intelligence shows that a war between the United States and Japan is inevitable!" Hideki Tojo said with a gloomy face: "Admiral Yamamoto, as the commander of the Combined Fleet, what do you think?" ”
Yamamoto Fifty-six was silent for a moment: "From May to September 1939, the empire was planned according to the plan. A large-scale exploratory strategic offensive was launched against the Soviet-Mongolian forces in the Normenkhand region, located 200 kilometers south of Hailar on the Sino-Mongolian border. The two sides mobilized hundreds of thousands of elite troops and advanced military equipment to engage in a fierce confrontation that lasted for more than four months on a wasteland overgrown with weeds and rolling sand dunes. But the empire suffered its first and worst defeat since the Russo-Japanese War. This can prove that 'going north' will not work at all. Only 'going south' is the most correct choice for us to go south, which will capture greater war resources for the empire, resources mean everything for the war, but in the South Seas, there are British, Dutch, and American colonies, which adds difficulties to the empire's plan to go south. Coupled with the shortage of oil, although I am not in favor of a full-scale war with the United States, I think that in the current situation, I should not hesitate to take the risk and blow up Pearl Harbor."
Yamamoto has always been a hardliner on the United States.
In 1925, Yamamoto served as naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy in the United States, and in 1928, Yamamoto returned from the United States and served as captain on the cruiser Isuzu and the aircraft carrier Akagi. In 1929, Yamamoto was promoted to rear admiral, and served as chief of the technical division of the Naval Aviation Department and commander of the First Air Force. In 1929 and 1934, he went to London twice to attend the Conference on the Limitation of Naval Armaments. At that time, he was also an out-and-out fleet faction, and he was opposed to compromise with the United States. At the time of the Second London Conference, the representative sent by the Ministry of Finance was the later Minister of Finance, the Class-A war criminal Kaya Konobu, who advocated accepting the Anglo-American plan from the perspective of financial burden, and Yamamoto Isoroku said viciously to Kaguya: "Shut up, if you don't shut up, beware of me beating you!" ”
But what humiliated Yamamoto was that after Kawaya shut up, the Japanese had to shut up in front of Britain and the United States. To solve this problem, Yamamoto proposed the method of aviation warfare. At the Second London Naval Armaments Conference in 1930, Isoroku Yamamoto suggested to Nobumasa Sueji, the deputy chief of the Military Command Department: "The Imperial Navy, which was forced to accept the inferior proportions, could only deal a severe blow to the enemy by air attack at the very beginning of the battle against the superior American Navy. ”
In a letter to his subordinates, he said: "The day of war with Britain and the United States is not too far off, and how to make a leap forward in aviation before the war is the most urgent priority!" ”
He glanced at everyone: "We have been preparing for this war for a long time, but we have not been able to argue for a long time. Ladies and gentlemen, I still have the same view as before, that war with the United States is inevitable, and that the first strategy that our military should adopt in the war between Japan and the United States should be to smash the enemy's main fleet as soon as the war begins, leaving the US Navy and the American people in an irreparable place, and demoralizing them. In this way, we will be able to occupy the key obstacles in East Asia and ensure an invincible position, so as to build the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Hideki Tojo listened very carefully, and then asked slowly, "What if it doesn't work out?" What about the fact that there is a much greater chance of failure than the likelihood of success? ”
Yamamoto didn't even hesitate for a minute or a second: "If Japan has God's blessing, the Hawaii operation will definitely be successful, and if it fails halfway, that is to say, without God's blessing, just give up the entire operation!" In fact, we have not many options, either to withdraw our troops from China, stop foreign expansion, and move closer to the United States diplomatically. Either they will form their own banners, go south to seize strategic resources, and continue to strengthen foreign wars. The purpose of the attack on Pearl Harbor was to destroy, at least temporarily, the main forces of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific, and a successful attack would give the Reich a huge strategic advantage."
Japan is a very strange country. The Japanese army went through the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and from these two wars, the Japanese inexplicably confused war with battle, believing that as long as one key battle was won, the whole war would be considered victorious.
Driven by this kind of thinking, a large number of Japanese generals believed that as long as they won a battle against the United States, they would be able to firmly grasp the dominance of the victory in the war in their own hands.
Now, all the intelligence is telling the Japanese that they must start this battle before the Americans!
At this time, Yamamoto fifty-six aggravated his tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, Pearl Harbor in the Pacific Ocean is the main hub of transportation, Hawaii is east to the west coast of the United States, west to Japan, southwest to the islands, north to Alaska and the Bering Strait, all between 2,000 nautical miles and 3,000 nautical miles. To seize air and sea supremacy in the Pacific Ocean first means that the road to the south is unimpeded, and Pearl Harbor must be destroyed first! ”
Yamamoto Fifty-six has been constantly implementing this plan for a long time.
In 1921, the United States published the book "Maritime Supremacy in the Pacific". Four years later, parts of the book were written as novels, titled The Great Pacific War, which described a Japanese fleet's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam, and the Philippine Islands. The book was translated into Japanese by the Japanese Navy Staff and included in the curriculum of the Naval University. At the time of its publication, Yamamoto was serving as a military attache in Washington, D.C., and it was impossible not to notice the book, a tireless student of naval scholarship and a considerable knowledge of English. The creation of the plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor is also closely related to Yamamoto's personality.
Someone in the West said in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor that only gamblers would dare to take such a big risk. Yamamoto was an adventurer and was particularly fascinated by gambling. Gambling and games of chance are more important than food, and poker, bridge, Go, and bets are all experts in poker. He gambled with his colleagues, with his subordinates, and often with geisha, and he gambled seriously.
In short, the American novel, together with various factors such as Yamamoto's personal temperament, contributed to the formation of the plan for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
Hideki Tojo was silent, silent, and after a long time, he said slowly:
"Since you want to do it, then do it!" (To be continued......)