Chapter 377: Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Li Lei sat in Boss Luo's office and looked at the date, December 1.
If the trajectory of history has not changed, then there should be six days left before the island nation attacks Pearl Harbor.
Boss Luo has obviously been very nervous these days.
He received more and more information about the imminent sneak attack of their troops by the Japanese.
Because the number of telegrams from the island nation and Nomura is increasing and frequent.
Recent intelligence indicates that the island nation has instructed Nomura to begin destroying the embassy's materials and preparing for evacuation.
The meaning of war is already very clear.
Boss Luo was very entangled, and Li Lei had already told him that the navy of the island country was likely to launch an attack on Pearl Harbor in the next few days.
Now Boss Luo has sent out all the aircraft carriers and most of the battleships and destroyers in Pearl Harbor, but in order to attract the Japanese army, there are still a lot of warships parked in Pearl Harbor.
These battleships were destroyed, and the losses were no less.
Boss Luo was a little distressed.
These warships are not easy to build, this is a symbol of the strength of their M country's navy.
It's a pity that so many warships were destroyed.
Boss Luo asked Li Lei if he could send the warship out a little more.
Li Lei directly denied it.
If warships are sent out again, the anger of the people of country M caused by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will be greatly reduced.
This is not conducive to future wars, and there will even be many people in country M who sympathize with the island country.
That's not a good thing for the whole world.
Boss Luo nodded.
He knew that what Li Lei said was right, and he was also thinking about this question repeatedly.
War always comes at a cost.
The warship sent out by Boss Luo did not find anything unusual at sea.
Their search radar was always on, but nothing came of it.
The Japanese fleet was completely gone.
The more this happened, the more Boss Luo believed that the Japanese fleet was very likely to have arrived at an ambush site.
Li Lei felt that something was wrong, under normal circumstances, the Japanese warships should have already walked half the way.
With such a huge fleet, how could Boss Luo's sea fleet not be discovered?
Although the other side has carried out radio silence, if the distance is not too far, with the radar capabilities of the Pacific Fleet, it is completely searchable.
If they don't find it, it's likely that they're going in the wrong direction.
"Boss Luo, I think there is a problem, your fleet is very likely not to follow the route I specified." Li Lei thinks it is very likely.
If they did not deviate from the course, then with the detection range of their radar, the Japanese warships could almost be seen.
Boss Luo also felt strange.
He immediately sent a telegram to Nimitz asking about the situation.
The answer was that the fleet sent out had found a very suspicious unidentified fleet in the North Pacific, and they went to chase it.
North pacific?
Li Lei shook his head, no, Yamamoto Fifty-six's huge fleet is impossible to go to the North Pacific.
Their goal was Pearl Harbor, and not anywhere else.
There are simply no strategic targets in the North Pacific that they need to sneak attack.
The only possibility is that the Japanese fleet discovered Nimitz's fleet, or...... Nimitz changed the battle plan on his own.
In either case, Li Lei felt that he needed to go to Pearl Harbor.
By the time Li Lei arrived at Pearl Harbor, it was already noon on December 3.
It's lively here.
Many of the daughters-in-law and children of soldiers and officers were nurses at Pearl Harbor Hospital.
It's not a Sunday, but it's still crowded.
It would be more appropriate to say that this is not so much a military base as a tourist attraction.
There are many beautiful women, but all Li Lei's thoughts are on Pearl Harbor now.
Nimitz's adjutant told Leo that the commander was not there.
Li Lei was stunned at that time.
Nimitz is not there?
Are you kidding?
He's the commander of the Pacific Fleet, and he's not here, so where can he go?
Li Lei's first feeling was that Nimitz was avoiding him.
What the hell is this old man?
Now Li Lei has determined that the reason why the fleet sent out did not discover the huge fleet of the island nation is because Nimitz changed the location of their fleet.
It was already December 3rd, and even if Nimitz had changed his mind, his fleet would probably not have been able to reach the scheduled location.
Li Lei was very depressed, this was the best opportunity to ambush the naval fleet of the island country.
Now that all Yamamoto Fifty-six's attention was on Pearl Harbor, it was impossible to imagine that there would be an ambush halfway.
O old nun!
It was a great opportunity for you to waste.
If you can successfully ambush the Japanese wing this time, then how can you get two or three aircraft carriers from the island country.
This can surprise the victory of the world, and it has nothing to do with you.
After Li Lei briefly told Boss Luo about the situation here, he told him that he was ready to return to China.
He's been in country M long enough.
It's time to go back.
The entire expeditionary force has been reorganized, and several units have been assembled in Yunnan.
The temporary first division has also set off from Wuhan.
It won't take long to reach Yunnan.
It was time for him, the new commander of the expeditionary force, to return and organize his troops to prepare for Burma.
Li Lei was very sure that within a few days of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army would certainly launch a large-scale attack on Southeast Asia.
When the time comes, their troops will definitely enter Burma.
Regarding Li Lei's request to return to China, Boss Luo had a little headache.
He begged Li Lei to be a few days late, because there were still a series of things that needed Li Lei's help later.
What Boss Luo is thinking about now is that after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in response, his troops should attack where the island country should be.
It is necessary to fight back, and only in this way can the enthusiasm of the domestic people to participate in the war be completely ignited.
Just when Li Lei was about to leave for country M to find Boss Luo, something unexpected happened.
Nimitz hurried over with a look on his face, and said to Li Lei excitedly: "God, General Li Lei, it's great that you are here. We've discovered a big secret! ”
Li Lei was stunned, what secret could Nimitz discover?
Nimitz said nervously: "Our radar on the ground has detected a large number of planes, which are flying towards Pearl Harbor. ”
What the?
Li Lei was stunned when he heard the news, isn't it only December 3 today?
The time for the attack of the naval fleet of the island country was brought forward?
Nimitz immediately rushed to the ground radar station with Li Lei, and saw the dense shining highlights on the radar, and Li Lei's scalp was also numb.
Needless to say, this must have been the cluster of Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor.
The time for the sneak attack was actually advanced!
This surprised Li Lei.
But now I can't take care of it so much, let's advance in advance, at least the whole big event still happened truthfully.
Li Lei said: "General Nimitz, this must be a Japanese plane, they are coming to bomb Pearl Harbor." ”
Li Lei's judgment made everyone in the room blind.
This is crazy, those little people from the island country, did they eat pig?
Nimitz now fully agrees with Lee's analysis.
He asked Li Lei to come over just to make the final confirmation.
"Immediately notify the troops, a state of emergency. All the battleships left the port at once, and all the planes took off at once, ready for battle. ”
The whole of Pearl Harbor was in chaos.
The news that the Japanese were about to attack Pearl Harbor immediately spread.
All the troops began to move into combat positions, and the planes immediately refueled and prepared for takeoff.
But it was too late.
The first wave of Japanese planes had already appeared at Pearl Harbor.
Dense planes whizzed and flew close to the ground.
Like locusts.
Li Lei saw a plane flying close to the sea level, and then dropped a huge torpedo.
The torpedo fell from the plane and plunged into the water in one fell swoop.
A small engine in the tail propelled the huge torpedo forward at a rapid pace.
The target is a huge battleship docked in the harbor, the USS Pennsylvania.
At this time, it was very quiet on the Pennsylvania, and several soldiers were hanging on the strings of the battleship, touching up the battleship.
Seeing the huge torpedo rushing from under the water, several soldiers did not react for a while.
Watch as the huge torpedo hits the bow of the ship.
Boom!!!
A deafening explosion rang out, and the entire Pennsylvania shook violently.
The sky-high flames rose into the air.
The first torpedo dropped by the Japanese successfully hit the target battleship.
After the first torpedo was dropped, the planes behind the Japanese threw more torpedoes.
The entire Pearl Harbor port was torpedoed all at once.
Torpedoes swooped down on the battleships inside Pearl Harbor from all directions, leaving light white trails in the water.
Then rush towards their respective goals.
In the blink of an eye, the whole of Pearl Harbor was in flames.
Several battleships were hit, and immediately a fire broke out. Nimitz and his generals stared blankly at the Japanese planes flying in the sky and the warships that were constantly being bombed, not knowing what to do.
Li Lei immediately shouted to Nimitz: "General, you also ordered all the troops to counterattack!" ”
After finishing speaking, Li Lei immediately ran to the airport.
There were their planes there, and Li Lei felt that he should contribute at this time.
At least a few Japanese planes can be killed.
While Pearl Harbor was in chaos, the commander of the bombing, Nagumo Tadaichi, was nervously waiting for news.
The first wave of sneak attack planes has already taken off from the aircraft carrier, and there are more than 300 of them.
A large number of torpedoes and giant bombs were mounted.
He also didn't know if the sneak attack would be successful.
Although he has experienced a hundred battles, his head is still sweating constantly, and he is very nervous.
The Japanese aircraft carriers had already prepared ammunition for the second wave of attacks.
As soon as the plane returned, it immediately hung up the bomb and launched a second attack.
According to the pre-planned plan, their planes would carry out three bombings.
Three times, you can almost kill all the battleships at Pearl Harbor.