newbobooks Chapter 487: The Devil's Highlight Moment
Chapter 487: The Devil's Highlight Moment
487 Devil's Highlight Moment
In the original time and space, the Americans did not start fighting the Japanese in Asia until more than half a year later because of the loss of the Pacific Fleet.
So, in this time and space, the Americans' Pacific Fleet and Pearl Harbor base suffered greater losses.
Wouldn't it take them a long time before they could arrive in Asia and engage in a full-scale war with the Japanese?
"Damn, it's true that man proposes, God disposes."
Ye Qingshan couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Sure enough, even if one could predict the future, there are too many variables.
“But this may not be a bad thing.
It would not be good if the Americans interfered too much in the war in Asia.
In this way, after the victory of World War II, China's right to speak will be deprived of a lot.
I secretly feed Little Mustache because I hope he can get stronger in Europe.
This caused the Americans to be mired in the quagmire of war in Europe in the later period.
The intensity of the war over there is extremely high.
In comparison, the Japanese are much easier to deal with.
Let the American army reduce its participation in Asia and be replaced by our Chinese army.
This way, when the pie is divided after the war, we will naturally be entitled to a larger share."
Ye Qingshan changed his mind and thought again.
In the short term, this incident seems to have more disadvantages for Ye Qingshan and China, but in the long run, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Of course, this will only happen if the National Army's war against the Japanese in Asia goes more smoothly in the next few years.
Even without the participation of the Americans, we were able to achieve a huge victory.
"It seems that the next war in Asia will be even more arduous and long."
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In the following days, the news of the Japanese attack on the American Pearl Harbor base spread quickly throughout the world.
So, some are happy while others are sad.
The senior officials of the National Government were naturally happy.
Senior officials from Britain, France and the United States cursed the Japanese emperor's ancestors for eighteen generations.
They also knew that the Japanese were attacking the American Pacific Fleet at this time.
The real purpose is not to go to war with the Americans.
Instead, they were competing for their colonies in Southeast Asia.
By this calculation, the countries that suffered the greatest losses were not the Americans, but Britain and France.
Of course, the impact on Ye Qingshan is also not small.
At least, the trade between the Americans and Ye Qingshan has been interrupted.
Along with the Yankee Pacific Fleet, it was almost annihilated.
The Japanese and the Americans officially broke off relations, and the Japanese no longer had to fear the Americans and dared not attack their merchant ships.
Therefore, if the Pitt family's cargo ship comes again, it will definitely be sunk by the Japanese warships without hesitation.
In fact, in the next six months or even longer, the Pacific Ocean will be dominated by the Japanese naval fleet.
Fortunately, Ye Qingshan had anticipated this.
Over the past six months, Ye Qingshan has been stockpiling goods crazily, purchasing large quantities of machines and supplies from the United States.
Enough for them to use for a long time.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has shocked the world and continues to do so.
The American top brass are holding an emergency meeting behind closed doors.
The American top leaders were divided over whether to go to war with the Japanese immediately.
Because, according to Roosevelt's plan, intervention in the Asian war was necessary.
But not at this point in time, it's too early.
However, if we do not intervene and go to war with the Japanese.
Public opinion at home can no longer be suppressed.
Originally, isolationism was prevalent in the United States before World War II because ordinary people had never experienced the pain of war.
Therefore, they don't pay much attention to wars in the outside world.
What I mean is that no matter whether they are the Germans, British, French, or the Japanese outside, they can fight as much as they want as long as it doesn't prevent them from making money and living a good life.
But now, the Japanese directly attacked Pearl Harbor, which was equivalent to giving the Americans a slap in the face.
Under such circumstances, ordinary people cannot tolerate it, as this involves the issue of national dignity.
If we don't fight this, the Americans will be inferior to others when they go abroad in the future.
Therefore, it is inevitable to declare war on the Japanese.
But the top American elites feel that now is not the right time to start fighting themselves.
Now is not the time to go out and pick peaches.
It just so happens that they need time to rebuild the Pacific Fleet.
In this way, they would have a reason to explain to the people why they would not send troops to fight the Japanese for the time being.
Without a fleet, we can’t get through.
Once the Pacific Fleet is rebuilt, we will naturally have a decisive battle with the Japanese, but that will take at least a year.
If the timing is still not right by then, then just keep putting it off.
Anyway, Roosevelt and others have the final say on when to end.
When it comes to the unique skill of picking peaches, the top American elites are quite experienced.
Ye Qingshan was paying attention to the subsequent developments on the American side.
Soon, the Americans and the Japanese declared war, but they did not say when they would send troops.
He only announced that the Pacific Fleet would be rebuilt as soon as possible.
Ye Qingshan knew that the Americans were in no hurry to enter the market, even if they had lost their colony on Luzon Island.
The loss of interests to the Americans is not great.
On the contrary, the Japanese naval fleet quickly continued to attack fiercely.
First, they occupied Guam, Wake Island, Midway Island and other important islands in the Pacific Ocean owned by the Americans, and seized these key nodes in the Pacific Ocean.
Subsequently, the Japanese naval fleet commanded by Isoroku Yamamoto attacked the American base on Luzon Island.
This also became the first territory in Southeast Asia that the Japanese wanted to take over.
In particular, another powerful air force that annihilated the Americans on the island was the Far East Air Force commanded by the famous five-star General MacArthur.
Many pilots before Ye Qingshan received pilot training here.
As long as this place is destroyed, the only force that can threaten the Japanese in Southeast Asia will be the British fleet.
As for the strength of the colonial armies of other countries, in the eyes of the Japanese high-ranking officials, they were nothing more than chickens and dogs.
Just half a month later, this British naval fleet was also defeated by the Japanese naval fleet.
At this point, all Western military forces that could threaten the Japanese in Southeast Asia have collapsed.
The Japanese navy and army accelerated their conquest of Southeast Asian countries and major islands in the Pacific.
At this point, the Japanese thought that the entire Southeast Asia was already in their pocket.
It had only been two months since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
In the past two months, Ye Qingshan and the top brass of the headquarters have been paying close attention to the development of the international situation.
Ye Qingshan was still calm.
However, the top brass in the command were very uneasy; they had not expected the world situation to change so rapidly.
Let’s not talk about Europe, it’s too far away.
In Asia alone, the Japanese invaders' devastating attack in Southeast Asia shocked the top leaders of the Nationalist government.
When did the Western powers become so vulnerable?
At this moment, the Japanese devils were truly the most powerful.
The colonies of Western countries such as Britain and France in Southeast Asia fell one after another.
The Japanese devils ushered in the most glorious moment of World War II!