Chapter 926: Shaking on All Sides
"How is this possible? Admiral Yamamoto is the commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Navy, so he won't personally participate in the battle with the ship, right? Has this news been confirmed? Chen Mingxiang pretended to be shocked.
In fact, there is no need to pretend to be enough to be shocked, he knows more about Yamamoto Fifty-Six than the average person, the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Combined Fleet caused a sensation in the whole world, and the battle plan is the handiwork of Yamamoto Fifty-six, a brilliant strategist and tactician.
Why call it a strategist?
Japan's Minister of the Navy, also known as Mitsumasa Yonechi, Vice Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, and Navy Chief Inoue Narumi, were known as the anti-war iron triangle within the Navy, and they unanimously opposed an alliance with Germany and Italy, and opposed war with Britain and the United States.
They are not peaceful people, but they clearly understand that there is an irreparable gap in the strength of Japan and the Western capitalist countries, and to put it bluntly, it is not that they are not warlike but they cannot fight, so they are quite outstanding in terms of strategy.
"I also just received a private message from the Military Command Department, but even the Fleet Command and the Marine Corps Command are unaware, and my classmates in the Military Command Department sent it to me in violation of discipline."
"The news is in the whole of China, and only Nakajima-kun and Shimada-kun know about it, and we don't know what to do, so we came to talk to you, and you listen to me and talk to you slowly," Ono Nakasa said.
What's going on? It turned out that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, arrived at Rabaul, a Japanese military stronghold in the South Pacific, on 7 April and commanded the air force to launch a sneak attack on the US forces on Kuah Island.
However, in order not to disappoint their commanders, the Japanese air force that carried out the sneak attack war misled Yamamoto Isoroku's judgment by lying about its achievements, saying that it had dealt a heavy blow to the US Air Force and Navy.
Thinking that the situation had eased somewhat, he decided to inspect other Japanese bases despite the dissuasion of Army General Jun Imamura, the commander of the Rabaul garrison.
The US military deciphered the secret telegram between Yamamoto 56 and the military base, and carried out an interception operation on 18 April, and the plane on which Yamamoto 56 was flying was shot down by a US plane at 7:45 a.m., and the chief of staff sitting on the other plane was lucky not to die, but was also seriously wounded.
On 20 April, the searching Japanese team found the wreckage of the plane and the body of Yamamoto Isoroku, which was confirmed by the adjutant and reported to the Military Command Department.
"Chen Jun, you may not know very well that Admiral Yamamoto's status in our navy is equivalent to the spiritual pillar of the entire imperial navy, and the impact of his death is incalculable." Shimada Nakasa said.
"It is with this in mind that the current base camp has strictly blocked this news, and the death of Admiral Yamamoto will seriously weaken the morale of the navy and deal a heavy blow to the people of the empire." Nakajima said.
Chen Mingxiang said some clichéd words of comfort, asking Wang Zhen to prepare a table of sumptuous Japanese food, take out the best Japanese sake, and the four of them drank it until dawn.
When Li Hongfei came to Marat's villa, he heard that it was an officer of the Japanese Navy who was drinking with Chen Mingxiang, so he didn't enter the door at all, and told the bodyguard at the door to come to visit again tomorrow and return to the hotel soon.
For the three of Ono Nakasa, this is a typical borrowing wine to drown their sorrows, but for Chen Mingxiang, it is victory wine, he saw the power of Yamamoto Fifty-six through the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and always achieves miracles when it is impossible.
Although a war between these countries could not save Japan from defeat by one Yamamoto Isoroku, the existence of such a person could lead to the war lasting for a year or two.
Soon, Boss Dai received a telegram from Mingyue, but the news was only known to him and Pan Qiwu, and even Mao Renfeng did not tell him, because Chunfeng's telegram began with the word top secret, and the range of insiders who informed the news was very small, and there were only four people in the entire Japanese army in China, including him.
Brigadier General Melles told me that the United States highly appreciated the fact that the undercover agents of the Military Administration were able to receive the news of the attack and the accurate death of Isoroku Yamamoto in such a short period of time, and had higher expectations and stronger confidence in the cooperation between the Military Administration and the US Navy.
"I told Brigadier General Melles that the strategic agent who obtained this information also got the information from the Japanese army about the Combined Fleet's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and even the exact date was accurate, and now the U.S. Navy intelligence is also paying more attention to Chunfeng." Dai Li couldn't help but feel a little proud.
The pilot who attacked Yamamoto's 56-seater judged that he had no chance of survival, but he did not confirm the news of his death, and he was always a little unsure.
The US Naval Intelligence Department did not believe that this information was hiding water, because the plane that attacked Yamamoto Isoroku was also a top-secret mission in the Admiralty, and the pilot who carried out the mission did not know who the target was, but was told that it was a high-ranking general of the Japanese army.
The other side was able to know that the plane of No. 18 Yamamoto 56 had been attacked, and it was determined that it was 7:45, which was beyond the imagination of the US Navy.
In fact, after Brigadier Merles sent the telegram to the Admiralty, he received a quick reply, and even the dignified Secretary of the Navy called to inquire about the senior agent of the Military Administration. Chen Mingxiang is now a brigadier major general, with the rank of colonel in the army, so he is naturally a senior agent.
Boss Dai is not very good at this, his close comrade-in-arms Chief Hu also said that his shortcomings are willfulness, impatience and can't keep secrets, so he opened his mouth and told Chunfeng to Brigadier General Melles, calling him a strategic agent of the Military Control Bureau, the trump card of trump cards, finally sane and did not leak Chunfeng's personal information.
After receiving the information, the Yamashiro government's commission once again greatly praised Chunfeng's ability and added a great degree of credibility to the operational objectives provided by the Japanese 11th Army Headquarters.
"Those American instructors have always questioned the ability and efficiency of our Military Command Bureau, and through the performance of the spring breeze, they have nothing to say, but because of the principle of secrecy, they can't say things now, if he can complete the task of eradicating Li Shiqun, this blue sky and white sun medal is basically no problem." Pan Qiwu said with a smile.
"What's wrong with that? The Blue Sky and White Sun Medal is a certainty, it is nothing more than a matter of time and time, if you don't give it now, the day of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it will inevitably be given, you don't know how much the old man appreciates the spring breeze, call it turning the tide, don't forget, in the 30 years of strategic bombing of the Republic of China, he saved the old man's life. Dai Li said.