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Due to the small number of defenders on Wake Island, there are only a few planes, and the Japanese army is the main fleet in person, the difference in strength is more than a hundred times? Therefore, the U.S. troops defending the island suffered more than half of the casualties after resisting for half a day, and had no choice but to surrender. However, although the seizure of the island went smoothly, the Marshall Islands south of Wake Island had already been ceded to the United States, so it was not easy to hold the island, so the fleet had to stay on Wake Island for a few days, and only after a fleet of planes transferred from the mainland was stationed that the fleet sailed back to the Ogasawara Islands, which were already considered the Japanese mainland

At this point, Yamaguchi was relieved that although he had lost nearly 400 planes and no less than 200 tanks and armored vehicles, and that the total number of killed, missing, and disabled people had exceeded 4,000, and that he had lost two destroyers and one light cruiser (Note 1) on the way back to the U.S. submarines, the operation was overall, and he was able to return to Tokyo with his head held high to meet the emperor

Since Japan's aviation industry production capacity had secretly begun mobilization more than a month before the Pearl Harbor incident, a total of more than 500 Zero fighters and Zero bombers were produced in December 1941 (no less than 1,000 if other models were added), and this production was still increasing, so there was no need to worry about aircraft at all, but experienced carrier-based pilots could not find so many for a while. However, Yamaguchi has no room to pick and choose now. Fortunately, in the next few months, the Japanese carrier-based aviation units will be strong and weak, and this is undoubtedly a good time for military training, and Yamaguchi Tawen can only hope that those young pilots can grow up as soon as possible in the war

Due to the lack of strength of the southbound fleet, and the reinforcement of the army units in Hawaii and other Pacific islands also needed fleet escort, the main force of the combined fleet of Yamaguchi Tashiwen had not been repaired for a few days after returning home, and immediately divided the troops into two routes: Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Flying Dragon, four old aircraft carriers, plus more than a dozen equally old-fashioned auxiliary ships, formed the First Air Fleet to go south to join the Japanese-German combined fleet, and at the same time escorted two army divisions to the south to support the Nanyang battlefield; Eight newer aircraft carriers, including Yamato, Musashi, Shozuru, Zuizuru, Taiho, Unryu, Amagi, and Katsuragi, plus dozens of newer auxiliary ships, formed the Second Air Fleet, escorting two army divisions and a large number of shipbuilding technicians and workers to the newly occupied island of Wake and the Hawaiian Islands. And take back the Xizhu 1st Brigade that remained there temporarily. At the same time, if they encounter them unexpectedly, with their strong strength, they do not need to avoid the opportunity of a decisive battle with the remnants of the US aircraft carriers.

The reason why he brought Japanese shipbuilding technicians and workers was because Yamaguchi was not at ease with the captured American mechanics and workers. Although due to the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor. Shortly after the capture of Oahu. Most of the sunken or stranded U.S. warships were salvaged and sent to Oahu's large Pacific Rim shipyard that could be among the top three shipyards for repair, but he was not satisfied with the progress.

After learning about the situation for himself, Yamaguchi Tamon believes that although some of the warships are indeed too damaged to repair. However, the main reason for the slow progress was that the captured American technicians and workers were unwilling to work hard for the enemy, and although they did not dare to resist openly, they were generally passive and slacking off, did not contribute to their work, and even secretly made trouble. However, it is difficult for non-professionals to see the problems in this kind of jishu work, so Yamaguchi Tawen specially brought many shipbuilding technicians and workers from China this time, who on the one hand were responsible for the repair of capital ships, especially aircraft carriers, in order to improve the strength of the Japanese Navy as soon as possible, and on the other hand, they also undertook the task of supervising the work of the Americans

Although the strength of the First Air Fleet is relatively weak, it will not encounter the American Grand Fleet before the convergence with the Japanese-German forces, so there is no danger on the road, and after the convergence with it, its strength will increase greatly, and there is no need to worry about safety. After receiving more powerful support, the Japanese army in Luzon took advantage of the victory to launch an attack on Mindanao and other islands, and the greatly strengthened carrier-based air force and the Japanese air force stationed at the airfield in the northern Philippines successively achieved a comprehensive suppression of the US air force in the southern Philippines

Immediately after occupying the Philippines, the Japanese launched an all-out attack on East Malaya, the British colony in Zuihou, Southeast Asia, and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), which had been occupied by Germany but still refused to enter the Philippines, because of the oil and rubber resources that Japan had long-cherished. Due to the lack of British troops in East Malaya (the current British really have no spare time to take care of this isolated colony), the Japanese army soon occupied all of East Malaya, and the Indonesian army was even more vulnerable, Kalimantan, Java and Sumatra, the three most important islands fell successively, the Indonesian governor announced the surrender to Japan, only the island of New Guinea and some nearby islands because of the presence of American troops and Australian and New Zealand troops did not fall for the time being.

From the beginning of the Pearl Harbor incident, it took less than three months for the Japanese army to sweep through almost all the islands in the South Sea, and the Japanese also obtained their coveted copper, nickel, and chrome mines in the Philippines, nickel ore in Indonesia, and large oil fields such as the iron-rich mines in Padang and Minas. But before Yamaguchi had time to rejoice, he discovered a serious problem, the Americans (even those minerals in Indonesia, the major shareholders are American companies such as Ford. According to the estimation of a petroleum engineer accompanying the army, with Japan's industrial strength and shipping capacity, the annual crude oil production of Indonesia and East Malaya oil fields could only be restored to 70% of 1941 levels in one year at the earliest

Note 1: Two of them were sunk as a shield for aircraft carriers, and the track of ordinary thermodynamic torpedoes is too obvious, so this method can still be used. Also because of the obvious track and the fact that the underwater speed of the ship-type submarine was too slow to transfer, although the submarine force of the US military achieved certain results, it also suffered heavy losses of its own, and 6 of the 7 submarines that launched the attack were ......sunk by the Japanese