Chapter 376 The Japanese Combined Wing set off
Li Lei has not been idle these days.
While giving lessons to Boss Luo's subordinates, Li Lei began to formulate a battle plan after entering Burma.
Qiu Fatzi's army is unreliable.
Therefore, when Li Lei formulated the plan, he did not consider Qiu Fatzi's troops at all.
With those big noses, it's hard to protect yourself.
Before I saw the Japanese army, I retreated in a swarm. There is no combat capability at all.
And Stilwell, who has been running to Li Lei here for the past two days, has been extremely diligent.
Because Boss Luo had informed him that he would be the chief of staff of the entire Burmese army, responsible for coordinating Lao Qiu's troops and Li Lei's troops.
For this task, Stilwell was very interested.
He hadn't fought in a long time, so he was very excited.
I kept asking Li Lei about the Japanese army.
It makes Li Lei very strange.
Old Shi, your task this time is not easy.
You can't command Qiu Fatzi's troops, and you can't command my troops, why are you so active?
You don't really think that our two troops will obey your command, do you?
Li Lei did not doubt Stilwell's command ability.
But that was in command of his own troops.
Command other troops...... That's a different story.
Stilwell didn't know anything about Qiu Fatzi and his Li Lei's troops.
How does he command?
Although Qiu Fatzi in Europe was very dissatisfied with Boss Luo's suggestion, he still agreed.
However, he was not interested in Stilwell as a person.
Qiu fatzi instructed his troops in Burma to decide whether to fight or not based on their national interests, and not to obey Stilwell's command.
So Stilwell's chief of staff is destined to be an ornament.
At this time, the base camp of the island country is stepping up its plans to invade Burma.
The crushing defeat of the Japanese Eleventh Army in Hunan and Hubei cast a shadow over the entire Japanese army.
Many units of the Japanese army are now very unstable.
Questions arose as to whether the final victory would be achieved.
In order to improve morale as soon as possible and at the same time save the entire war situation, the base camp of the island nation felt that it was very necessary to send troops to invade Burma.
Kill the troops of the fat man there and block the Yunnan-Burma road.
Completely cut off international military aid to the old bald head.
Anan Weiji has returned to China, and he is about to cut his abdomen because he is afraid of pain, so he has never done anything to himself.
became the object of ridicule.
When he heard that he was going to attack Burma, Anan volunteered to use Burma's victory to avenge his shame.
But it was directly rejected by Hideki Tojo.
Joke!
The Eleventh Army has been almost wiped out by you, and only one Saeda detachment is left to run back to Anhui, which is considered not to be completely annihilated.
This time the dispatch of troops to Myanmar is very important, how many of your Anan are complete, right?
In order to invade Burma, the island nation formed the Japanese 15th Army.
It has four divisions and 100,000 people.
They were the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, and the division commander was Shinichi Tanaka.
The 11th Division, the commander of the division, Sakurai Province.
The 55th Division, the division commander Takeuchi Kan.
The 56th Division, the division commander Watanabe Pifu.
On the other hand, the island's navy, which has completed its training and is waiting for the final order, is heading for Pearl Harbor.
Li Lei has been very busy in country M these days.
I almost stayed in Boss Luo's office and never went out.
According to Li Lei's suggestion, Luo Laoda sent three aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet, as well as several battleships and cruisers.
Destroyers were also sent out quite a bit.
Stopped at Pearl Harbor, there were three battleships, three light cruisers, and a part of the destroyers.
The troops sent out were deployed by Luo Boss to ambush the Japanese fleet where it might appear.
After the Japanese planes took off, the planes on their Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers could immediately go out and bomb the Japanese fleet.
The reason why all the ships of Pearl Harbor were not sent out was to lure the Japanese army on the one hand, and on the other hand, to wait for their own troops to receive losses before Congress and the people agreed to declare war on the island country.
Nestor was shocked by the large number of warships sent out.
Boss Luo, what do you want here?
Why such an order?
He did not understand, and neither did the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz.
all felt that Boss Luo was brainwashed by Li Lei.
The explanation given by Boss Luo was that their intelligence department had received intelligence from the Japanese army and suspected that the island nation was going to launch an attack on their troops.
It is necessary to be vigilant just in case.
At the same time, Boss Luo suddenly decided to convene a meeting of burn experts.
The location is in Hawaii.
The burn specialists who received the notification were confused.
It's just a meeting of burn experts, so why go so far?
Strange as it may be, the experts are more than happy because after all, Hawaii is a good place to be.
The scenery there is very nice.
The climate is very pleasant.
It's like a vacation.
Nestor felt that Boss Luo was a little too cautious.
It is simply impossible for the island nation to launch an attack on them.
Aren't their Nomura ambassadors preparing to accept their terms?
Our diplomacy has achieved so much that there is no need for war at all.
But Nimitz seemed to smell a hint of danger in the air.
Because during this time, the intelligence forces overheard that the island country and their embassy in country M suddenly had more telegrams.
It's a bit unusual.
Judging by the deciphered telegrams, the island nation has always been concerned about the weather conditions on their side.
This is unusual.
The weather in our country is about your island country!
So since the island countries are so concerned about the weather in their country, they must have a ghost in their hearts.
Maybe it's really like Boss Luo said, the island nation may want to launch a surprise attack on them.
This feeling made Nimitz very unsure.
In order to prove his guess, he went to find Boss Luo again.
Boss Luo glanced at Nimitz meaningfully: "General, my intuition tells me that there must be a war between us and the island nation. ”
Nimitz was shaken.
Boss Luo said this, which means that he must have received some kind of definite news.
Could it be that their negotiations with the island nation have broken down?
Is it possible?
Now he sees that Nomura, the ambassador of the island nation, is still actively negotiating?
Could it be that this is a smoke bomb for the island nation?
Nimitz always felt that something was wrong there.
But he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Back in Nimitz, Hawaii, the defense rating of Pearl Harbor was raised just in case.
He put the whole army into a state of emergency.
The entire Pearl Harbor troops were very surprised.
The state of emergency came somewhat suddenly, and many soldiers and officers found it incredible.
So at the beginning, there was a high level of tension, and there was a feeling that war was coming.
But a week passed, and there was not a single movement in the entire Pacific Ocean.
This made the soldiers and officers of Pearl Harbor begin to relax a little.
Although Nimitz's state of emergency order has not been lifted, it is clear that the whole of Pearl Harbor has slackened a little.
Nimitz also saw it.
After all, it is impossible to maintain a high level of alert throughout Pearl Harbor all the time, in that case, his soldiers will not be able to stand it.
So a week later, Nimitz lifted the state of emergency.
Unbeknownst to him, a large fleet of the island nation, led by Isoroku Yamamoto, had left the island nation and was rushing towards Pearl Harbor.
In order to prevent the huge fleet from being discovered by country M, Yamamoto 56 implemented radio silence throughout the voyage, and only received and did not transmit.
It was a very dangerous voyage.
Because of the radio silence, the various warships of the island nation's fleet could not communicate with each other.
You can only sail forward with your head down according to a plan in advance.
If the vanguard suffers an attack, the fleet behind simply does not know.
A long and dangerous voyage began.
Yamamoto Fifty-six stood at the bow of the ship, staring at the endless deep sea with a solemn expression.
For this sneak attack, Yamamoto Isoroku has great confidence that it will succeed.
But for the war after the success of the sneak attack, Yamamoto Isoroku is not optimistic.
He knows too well the strength of country M.
As a general with an international perspective, Yamamoto Isoroku knew very well that Country M was a country that they could not afford to provoke as an island nation.
In terms of land area, resources, population, degree of industrialization, and science and technology, their island countries are completely backward.
It is easy to achieve a temporary victory, but it is basically impossible to achieve victory in the entire war.
If he had a choice, Yamamoto Isoroku would not want to go to war with country M.
But the enthusiasm of the entire island nation for war has reached an uncontrollable level.
In addition, Hideki Tojo became the prime minister of the cabinet, and it was impossible to go to war without thinking about it.
He could only draw up an operational plan for the Pacific Fleet of country M according to the requirements of Hideki Tojo.
The whole program is fraught with uncertain risks.
Although their intelligence officers have carried out a comprehensive and meticulous reconnaissance of Pearl Harbor.
But Yamamoto Fifty-six always felt unsteady.
His eyelids kept jumping.
This made him very irritable.
The core force of this attack was the aircraft carrier formation led by Nagumo Tadaichi.
The other warships were all protecting Nagumo Tadaichi's main force.
It's a gamble.
In order to achieve the success of the sneak attack, this sneak attack, the fleet warships of the island country almost poured out.
There were six aircraft carriers alone.
There are up to four hundred carrier-based aircraft.
The other warships combined, large and small, were more than a hundred.
Such a huge fleet gambled on the sea power of the entire island nation.
Although the island nation has not dispatched four aircraft carriers at present, it is not of much use to have aircraft carriers alone.
It was necessary to have a considerable number of warships to protect it.
Moreover, Yamamoto 56's use of aircraft carriers is only in the plan.
He also did not know whether it was right to use aircraft carriers as the core of the operation in the plan.
Previously, aircraft carriers were used as auxiliary ships.
Now that it has suddenly become the core of the plan, Yamamoto Fifty-six has no bottom in his heart.
After all, no one had ever used an aircraft carrier like this before.
The vast fleet was black and oppressive on the sea.
Looking down from the sky, dozens or hundreds of white waves appear above the blue ocean, which is very spectacular.