Compared with the national mobilizations of Germany, Britain, Red Russia, and Japan, China and the United States also entered the war, but it does not seem to have brought much change to the lives of ordinary people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoChina has more than 5 million well-trained soldiers who can be mobilized because it has only adopted the second level of mobilization, and the United States did not find that its country except for the "powerful" two-ocean fleet, the air force is not as good as the Japanese Xiaozi, and the army is indistinguishable from the level of the Mexicans, and it is relatively reliable to deal with the Indians, the scale of 100,000 people, the equipment of the First World War and the reserve that was not formed because of the self-confidence of all the people. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the level that a strong country should have.

Fortunately, the United States lacks nothing but battle-hardened generals, grassroots officers and soldiers who have gone through life and death, and no ready-made advanced equipment, and the United States, which has industrial capabilities that are not inferior to China, are by no means comparable to any other country in terms of war potential. But the rhinoceros has not yet turned its heavy butt around, and the rat is already desperately moving corn to the house.

In January of the twentieth year, Secretary of the Navy Knox proposed to Secretary of the Army that the Hawaii Naval Base was extremely vulnerable to a surprise attack, and that a joint Army and Navy exercise aimed at strengthening the defense should be held for this purpose. Stimson's Feb. 7 answer was titled "The Defense of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor," which included the status of Hawaii's defense and instructions for Hawaii's Army commanders and Navy to work more together. On January 27, the twentieth year of the First Lunar New Year, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Murphy. In his telegram to the State Department, Gru read: "The Japanese military seems to be planning an attack on Pearl Harbor at a time when the United States and Japan are at odds with each other," a message that attracted the attention of the War Department and the Admiralty, and the results of the study showed that an attack on Pearl Harbor was technically feasible. On April 1, Chief of the General Staff Marshall stated in his judgment of the situation: "The Empire of Japan has not issued a declaration of war in past war operations,......, and the attack on Hawaii should have been a high-speed invasion by aircraft carriers supported by high-speed cruisers." Prior to this, on the instructions of Stimson on February 7, Vice Admiral Short, commander of the Hawaiian Army, and Rear Admiral Bullock, commander of the Navy's 14th Military District, developed the "Joint Defense Plan for the Hawaiian Coastal Front" on March 28; On 9 April, Rear Admiral Bellinger, commander of the Hawaii Naval Air Corps, and Rear Admiral Martin, commander of the Army Air Corps, also concluded the "Army and Navy Joint Air Operations Agreement." The agreement envisaged a scenario in which six Japanese aircraft carriers were attacked, at dawn on a Sunday - exactly as what happened later. Therefore, the attack on Pearl Harbor was expected for the US Army and Navy, because the possible attack on Pearl Harbor was already expected from the central to the local level. But when the Japanese actually moved all this from paper to reality, the Americans found that they were still not prepared.

In fact, since May of the twentieth year of the First Lunar New Year, the number of secret telegrams between the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Consulate General in Honolulu (now the capital of the US state of Hawaii) has suddenly increased. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also repeatedly asked which day of the week the largest number of ships were berthed, and the Consul General of Honolulu replied: "After many investigations and observations, it is a Sunday. This was an important basis for the Japanese army to choose to attack Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 8. In particular, the message also frequently mentions the weather in Hawaii: it says that there has been no storm in the area for 30 years, and the weather is mainly sunny. On 3 December, China's telecommunications center in the Ryukyus intercepted a special secret telegram from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Japanese Ambassador to the United States Nomura, demanding that he immediately burn all kinds of cipher code books, leaving only one ordinary code book, and at the same time burning all classified documents. 2. To the extent possible, notify the depositors concerned of the transfer of deposits to neutral national banks. 3. The Imperial Government decides to take drastic action in accordance with the resolution of the Imperial Council. China's intelligence agencies have established that this is a harbinger of "east wind, rain" (war between Japan and the United States). Of course, China was very happy to see Japan challenge the United States, which had posed a major threat to its strategy of moving south in the Pacific Ocean, so the Chinese National Defense Forces did not take any measures to stop this; on the contrary, the "Whale Shark" special submarine squadron of the Chinese Defense Forces Navy also went to the eastern Pacific Ocean as soon as possible to serve as the Japanese Navy's mover and clear out the two US aircraft carriers and open the way for Japan to attack Alaska.

Although China did not put obstacles in the way of the Japanese army, the Japanese army itself did not perform satisfactorily. First of all, the Japanese erroneously targeted aircraft carriers. The battle plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor was first formulated by Minoru Genda, a Japanese flight staff officer, and because he insisted that the focus of the attack should be on the US aircraft carriers, he used 90 bombers as the main force for the first attack when formulating the plan. 411 torpedo attack planes attacked the anchorage of the aircraft carrier and the battleship in two directions. The key to the first attack is to achieve suddenness, after which the US anti-aircraft fire will inevitably begin to react. The second wave of attacks will be launched in an hour's time, and the mission is to wait for an opportunity to blow up and sink the carrier. However, what Minoru Genda never expected was that the American aircraft carrier was not in the port at all. Of course, with the replenishment of Chinese submarines, there were not many actual losses at this point, but only to make the first wave of Japanese air raids a little cumbersome.

The Japanese could have achieved greater results if they had attacked according to the established plan, but on the eve of the attack fleet's departure, Minoru Genda found that they had overlooked one important thing: all plans were directed at the opponent and sat still. What if the Americans were on guard? After the fleet departed, Minoru Genda quietly convened a secret meeting with his commander behind his back. The result of everyone's discussion was: Minoru Genda went to the scene to deal with it in a mobile manner. This major adjustment at the last moment caused a lot of confusion -- all the officers and high-ranking staff officers were not present, and only three middle-level colonels were made on the spot. This caused the raid to be messed up from the start.

So over Pearl Harbor, the Japanese began to bomb indiscriminately without any target. According to the predetermined plan, the battleship's torpedo attack aircraft attacked in two teams. The two teams attack 500 meters apart. But in fact, the harbor has long been in chaos; The actions of the attack fleet were seriously deformed, and the actual separation between the two teams was 1600 meters. The rear team could not see the front team, and the wingman could not find the formation commander plane. After a bombardment, only three battleships were actually sunk, so the overall hit rate of the Japanese was 31%. If it weren't for the fact that Chinese submarines couldn't enter Pearl Harbor for a sneak attack, there might have been a chance to leave half of the American battleships behind as islands and reefs.

The Japanese scheduled the attack for Sunday morning. On this day of the week, nine out of ten US soldiers are not in the cabin, but spend Sundays in various parts of Hawaii, which is of course conducive to the success of the sneak attack, but the US personnel losses have not become too great, and the Japanese army attaches too much importance to the destruction of naval and air equipment, and neglects the killing and wounding of personnel, especially the officers and men of the US Navy.

Incredibly, the Japanese only bombed the ship and not the dock. If the dockyard is blown up, the only remaining US ships will have nowhere to moor, and there will be nowhere to repair the large number of damaged ships. Even the intelligence staff officer Kameijima Immortal Osa, who was gathering information on the way back, found this unbelievable, and Nagumo Tadaichi commented on it, "Maybe in the near future, we will use these docks." Obviously, the admiral was overly optimistic in estimating the strength of the Japanese Navy.

What is even more incredible to the babies is that Japan did not blow up the oil depot of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the mountains five miles from Pearl Harbor. Under the circumstances, even a single Japanese fighter flew there and could blow them up to the ground. If this is the case, all the ships and planes of the US military will be turned into a pile of scrap metal that cannot be moved within half a year. Could it be that the little devil thinks that he will soon occupy Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. Navy will be very reluctant to put the oil on the label that Uncle Sam gave to the Japanese emperor and wait for the Japanese to receive it.

What if Pearl Harbor's factory facilities and heavy oil were destroyed? In Nimitz's words, "The Japanese Navy, which focused its attacks on ships, completely ignored the machine shops, did not take action to repair facilities, and ignored the 4.5 million tons of heavy oil stored in the harbors. Given the commitment of the United States to Europe, there is no substitute for these heavy fuel oils, which have been accumulated over a long period of time, without which it would be impossible for the American fleet to launch any combat operations starting at Pearl Harbor for several months. Actually, Nimitz's words were quite understated. If Nagumo had blown up the oil storage tank and caused a fire, the fire of 4.5 million tons of heavy oil that had burned would have been extinguished by any firefighting means. Nothing else is needed for this fire to completely burn down Pearl Harbor, to burn down the possibility of its continued existence as a military port, and to rebuild this military port, even in the United States, where civil construction has been mechanized, it will be impossible in a few years. Without a forward base, the U.S. Navy had to retreat 3,500 kilometers back to San Diego, California, and from there to fight again would not have the freedom that the U.S. Navy enjoyed throughout the Pacific War.

Of course, under the circumstances, due to the slow recovery of the planes after the end of the first wave of attacks, there were quite a few planes that had not been recovered when the second wave returned, and in this case, Japan's third wave of attack force was insufficient, and in addition, it was necessary to empty the deck to recover the attack force first, replenish the attack force, and then launch an attack It would take more than six hours, so that the end of the third wave of attack would be at night, and it would be very difficult to recover the planes at night, which would cause huge losses, which Japan could not afford. At the same time, Japan was worried that it would be discovered and attacked by undiscovered American aircraft carriers or submarines, so it was in a hurry to retreat. In addition, after the start of the second wave of attacks, the number of Japanese planes lost began to rise sharply because the United States had already prepared, and the combat losses, plus scrapping after landing and mechanical failures, at this time more than 50 planes could not be used, and the defense of continuing to attack Pearl Harbor was bound to be tighter, and Nagumo was worried that the loss of pilots would be too great.

If any two of the Chinese Navy's task forces were to be replaced with the same mission, it was questionable whether the U.S. Pacific Fleet would have a chance of returning Kimmel to the U.S. mainland. China's naval aviation, which has long-range early warning and instrument flight capabilities, will not be bothered by the problem of taking off and landing at night, and China's powerful intelligence network knows every move of the US Pacific Fleet well, coupled with high-performance carrier-based aircraft and the world's first-class naval pilots, the US Pacific Fleet will be only a paper establishment for at least a year.