Chapter 0857 Pearl Harbor II
Six Japanese aircraft carriers converged here, in the middle of the black cliffs of the archipelago, hidden under the tangled trees that had grown under the sea breeze and prolonged frost.
Pilots aboard six aircraft carriers practice throwing torpedoes into shallow water under the fierce sea winds.
At the same time, a steady stream of battleships, cruisers, destroyers, oil tankers and supply ships arrived.
Except for the officers and men on board and a limited number of high-ranking generals, no one knew about this assembled fleet.
When the battleships set off to the east at the scheduled time, only a few fleet commanders knew where they were heading and why.
The fleet did not have a scheduled time or date for an attack, and no one could be sure that the attack would be launched.
They exist only to prevent the breakdown of negotiations in Washington.
The Japanese ambassador to the United States is trying to reach a mutually acceptable compromise with the United States. ’
This 'compromise' demanded that the United States should lift restrictions on the transportation of Japanese oil and ore and recognize Japan's domination of East Asia.
Among them was the demand to turn China into a colony, and if the United States agreed to these conditions, the fleet would return without firing a shot.
However, the U.S. 'compromise' demanded that Japan abandon the war against China, completely withdraw from the Southeast Asian continent, and abandon the gains it has made.
Only by doing so will the United States commit itself to restoring normal economic relations.
The Japanese leadership has long decided that if the American leadership does not change the existing decision, then they will resolutely go to war.
In this case, the fleet would attack Pearl Harbor at the scheduled time and plan.
The United States has three strong strongholds in the South Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Manila, and Singapore.
According to Japan's plan, the United States will eliminate the naval and air forces at Pearl Harbor from the air, surprise Singapore from the sea, and land and occupy Manila in the Philippines.
Then sweep through all the remaining enemies in the East Indies, completely destroying the resistance.
After the completion of the victory, the new resources plundered by the victory were used to launch a powerful large-scale offensive against the Chinese country, and completely occupied the whole of the Chinese country.
At the same time, the joint Anglo-American counteroffensive will be repulsed.
In Europe, the war of white fratricide waged by Germany gave Japan an opportunity to take advantage of World War II, which may exhaust the combined forces of Britain and the United States.
In the end, Japan will maintain the great gains it has made, regardless of the outcome for Germany.
Japan's top brass, including the emperor, was skeptical that this dangerous plan would succeed.
But the fact is that Japan now has no choice, and like the German dwarfs, they have all brought their country into a terrible war that they cannot end.
With the passage of time and the dwindling supply and diminishing advantages, they had to change their tactics in the hope of changing the fate of themselves and their country.
There was more than one reason to force Japan to go to war;
The United States had long been dissatisfied with Japan's occupation of islands and the construction of bunkers in the Pacific Ocean, and gradually became wary.
A growing number of aircraft, warships, anti-aircraft guns, tanks, and fortifications on the American homeland are strengthening the defenses of three important military positions.
Japan's short-lived dominance in the South Pacific and East Asia is fading, and domestic pressures are mounting.
If it does not expand its superiority and achieve a new brilliant victory, Japan will exhaust all its forces and will have to rush to end the war, and may even lose everything it hastens.
In this way, they will have to give up their ambition to establish a co-prosperity sphere in East Asia.
So, without receiving news that night, the fleet quietly sailed away from the Kuril Islands and into the dark and turbulent seas and headed for Hawaii.
At this time, the military defense of Hawaiian Pearl Harbor was also being mobilized.
The task force, with small battleships as its flagship, departed from Pearl Harbor and headed west in an umbrella shape.
The USS Enterprise carries twelve Lightning-powered fighters and sails to Wake Island at the same time.
Japan illegally occupied every island in the Pacific Ocean and fortified it with atolls.
Despite Roosevelt's many efforts, Congress never agreed to approve the appropriation of-for-tat bunkers on the American islands.
Recently, Roosevelt finally persuaded Congress that the appropriation had been approved and that the fortifications were about to be strengthened.
On Wake Island, the work is halfway complete, but the atoll is still devoid of air defense equipment, and the Enterprise is going to be stationed there to defend it.
Before leaving, the Enterprise received a new order;
The Enterprise is currently operating in a combat situation.
At all times, day or night, the Enterprise must be ready to go into battle immediately.
With the possibility of encountering enemy submarines or fleets, the Enterprise is now a test of perseverance and courage.
This order was given by the commander of the USS Enterprise, Vice Admiral Wiharsey, and the commander of the Air Force of the American Navy fleet.
This time, he will be the commander of the Enterprise, heading to Vic Island to command a possible battle.
Several other aircraft carrier groups docked at Pearl Harbor were also transferred to other islands for coordinated defense as ordered.
On the eve of the war, there was still a lot of uproar in the United States about the Chicago Tribune's revelations about Roosevelt's secret battle plan.
The plan, called the 'Victory Program,' called for the conscription of eight million soldiers for a defensive war against Japan, and called for the air force to take off from British bases to carry out an all-out air raid on Germany, and to end the war by invading Europe two years later.
In fact, the matter was being analyzed on the radio, and the local broadcaster in Hawaii was a Japanese-American woman with a sweet and clear voice.
"President Roosevelt's criminal conspiracy to stand behind the colonial plutocracy and drag America into the clouds of war is now exposed,
The people of America have stood up angrily, and members of Congress are planning to call on Congress to impeach the Washington crooks.
The Roosevelt administration has been shamelessly silent, and Japan's recent behavior has undoubtedly shown that they are just and peace-loving......"
Such reports were well received by the nation in the run-up to the attacks.
On her way home from her work on the air, the woman with a good voice was greeted and warmly applauded by people along the way, and she walked home proudly.
However, such an announcement caused a great uproar in the army, and most of the officers felt very bitter.
I know people who feel that the United States has reached a point of incorrigibility.
The Japanese might occupy the East Indies, or even the Philippines, while the United States remained reluctant to enter the war.
In their view, such acts of wantonly leaking top state secrets in newspapers and broadcasts lack a basic sense of honor.
This is a rare situation in history, and Americans are cheering about it?
The only reassuring thing is that this act of treason has been carried out so unabashedly and astonishingly.
Perhaps this is why the Germans and the Japanese would not have believed it at all, although they would have taken advantage of the fact that the story was hyped up.