Section 792 Strange US-Japan Relations
In fact, the Japanese devils have such an idea, and it will definitely not be a day or two. The Japanese devils' comprehensive strength in the entire Pacific region cannot be compared with the Americans. Now the Japanese devils have failed on the battlefield in China and want to open up a new battlefield even more. For the Japanese devils, their ultimate goal is either to the north or the south. There is no place in the north that can be used to show their strength. The Kwantung Army is not an opponent of the security team, so they can only develop to the south. However, if they develop to the south, they will definitely encounter strong opposition from the superpowers in the Pacific. This superpower is the Americans. Originally, Asia was the sphere of influence of the British, but now the British do not have much ability. Whether they can be supported by the Germans is a major issue.
If the Japanese want to dominate Asia by themselves, they must first defeat the Americans, but now the Americans are stronger. As the world's largest industrial power, the US's naval strength is much stronger than that of Japan. The Japanese devils have never stopped collecting intelligence in recent years. Since they established the plan to advance south, the intelligence departments of the Japanese devils have been collecting intelligence from the US Pacific Fleet.
In fact, the Japanese devils were still a little happy at this time. Although the United States' industrial strength is more developed than Japan and its US navy is stronger than the Japanese navy, the problem is that the United States faces two countries, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and they have to guarantee their own interests in Asia and Europe at the same time. This determines that their naval strength cannot be placed alone in the Pacific region, nor at the bottom of the separate Atlantic Ocean. Even if the United States is much stronger than other countries, facing the navy of the two fleets, he is still a little powerless. The Japanese joint fleet is still not as powerful as the US Navy, but compared with the US Pacific Fleet alone, he still has his own advantages, especially in terms of aircraft carriers. Japan's Yamamoto 56 General has already seen the advantage of aircraft carriers being advanced than battleships.
The US Navy has great family and great business. It is definitely impossible for them to switch from battleships to aircraft carriers as a whole, because within the US Navy, battleships still have a very strong market, and the political direction of the US is determined by arms dealers. The arms dealers have put so many production lines into production because of the appearance of aircraft carriers. They have not yet earned their capital. If they are asked to dismount the battleship production lines now, they will face huge losses. Although President Roosevelt is a powerful person, he does not have the courage to offend the arms dealers of the entire country. If this is the case, I am afraid that his own position will not be stable. Those arms dealers have powerful power and can be said to be able to walk sideways in both the political and business circles.
However, some people in the navy have seen the huge advantages of aircraft carriers, so they firmly demand that the development of aircraft carriers be developed. The country must see hope. Although American arms dealers are unwilling to develop aircraft carriers, some young and strong officers of the navy have beaten this resolution to their congress. There are still some members of Congress in the United States who are patriotic, so they promoted the passage of this bill to deploy a certain number of aircraft carriers in the US Navy. So now the US Navy has formed this strange appearance. Their main ships have battleships and aircraft carriers. According to their statement, they are moving forward together. Only Americans with rich vigor can develop aircraft carriers while developing battleships.
In fact, at this time, not only Americans, but also people from other countries in the world basically didn't know what to develop. For them, the development of the navy is almost at a fork in the road. If they give up the battleship, then some of the existing accessories will definitely be useless, and maintenance will also become a problem. If they do their best to develop aircraft carriers, after all, the aircraft carrier has not been verified by war. How powerful it is in the end is just staying on paper, and no one dares to take this risk.
Other countries also want to do this with the Americans. On the one hand, they develop battleships and on the other hand, they need to develop aircraft carriers. But the problem is that their comprehensive national strength is not as strong as the Americans. If they want to walk with two fists like the Americans, there will be a big gap. The Japanese thought it was like this, but in the end, they developed their navy into a four-dimensional one. Fortunately, the commander-in-chief of their joint fleet is more capable of making decisions, and the Japanese navy is still dominated by aircraft carriers.
In the early stages of World War II, the development of the Japanese Navy was very good, and basically did not take any detours. It was not until General Yamamoto died that the Japanese Navy began to develop four-way battleships, using the national strength of the whole country to build two huge battleships and misappropriate resources that originally belonged to aircraft carriers. This is also an important reason for the failure of the Japanese devils. When the two huge battleships came out, they were almost out of date.
The relationship between the Japanese and Americans now makes Mao Yuanshan feel very strange. The two sides obviously want to compete for hegemony in the Pacific region, but they are still unwilling to tear apart. Just like now, I can't figure out why the Americans sold a batch of scrap steel to Japan. You must know that this is an absolute strategic material.
Japan is now very short of these things. If these things are not available, Japan's military production may be affected. But at this time, the Americans still sold a batch of steel as scrap iron to the Japanese. They could only do such a concealment. If Mao Yuanshan had not had many senior spies in Japan, he would really not know about this matter!
To be honest, this matter was absolutely unexpected by Mao Yuanshan. Judging from Mao Yuanshan’s familiar history, it should be time for the Americans and the Japanese to be at a strife. Even if Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, the United States did not know it on the surface, but the upper class of the United States had known this matter for a long time. They would not sell strategic supplies to the Japanese again. They just thought that you would lead the Japanese to perish step by step. Now there is only one reason to sell strategic supplies to the Japanese, that is, they grew up too fast, making the Americans feel dangerous.
Chapter completed!