July 2, 3:42 a.m.

On an American minesweeper trained in front of the port of Honolulu.

One of the new sailors shook the sleeping captain and abruptly woke him from his sleep.

"What for! Don't touch me! The disturbed captain squinted his eyes impatiently and waved at the recruits.

Although it is patrol time, as a captain, there is still the privilege of taking a nap. Anyway, there has been no war, and patrols can be handled by the new recruits.

However, this time the recruit did not shut up because of the captain's interruption, on the contrary, he shook even more.

"Captain, the ..... ahead It's a periscope. The recruit swallowed his saliva and said word by word: "I've been observing it for a while, and it should be that the periscope is not wrong." ”

"What!" Hearing this, the captain's slightly narrowed eyes suddenly opened.

As far as he knew, those people in the submarine force did not have the habit of coming out early in the morning for training. At this time, the periscope was found, and no relevant notification was received, so the situation is very strange.

"Report it now!" The captain is now completely sober, and hurriedly ordered according to the process: "Report the situation back." Also, keeping a distance from the periscope sticking out of the sea over there, I have a bad premonition. ”

......

6:05 a.m.

After receiving the news that a minesweeper had discovered a periscope, the US Pacific Fleet's first reaction was not to put it on first-class alert, but to try to determine the authenticity of the news.

As a result, the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier 370 nautical miles away from Pearl Harbor, was ordered to send 18 reconnaissance planes from 370 nautical miles away to Pearl Harbor to reconnoiter the situation around Pearl Harbor.

It is worth mentioning that when Roosevelt received a document stamped "top secret" a week ago, he instructed Admiral Kimmmel, commander-in-chief of the US fleet, to send three large aircraft carriers, which are usually anchored at Pearl Harbor, into a formation with one of the latest battleships, 11 capital cruisers, and 11 destroyers with the best performance, to go out on a cruise mission.

It's not a difficult task, but it's just a matter of going around and spending a few days at some other military port.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of task is symbolically sent to carry out some old fleets with the main warships. This time, Roosevelt personally asked Kimmel to send his most elite warships to carry out this simple but time-consuming task, which seemed to many of Pearl Harbor's naval coordinators to be somewhat inexplicable.

Correspondingly, while Roosevelt evacuated a large number of warships and officers and men, he suddenly sent a large number of medical supplies and medical personnel to Pearl Harbor, and notified him to cancel the one-month vacation time for combat readiness duty.

However, the order to cancel the leave was not in place at the Pearl Harbor barracks.

Finally, Marshall also issued a professional instruction to the Governor of Pearl Harbor on behalf of Roosevelt, requiring the US military at Pearl Harbor to disperse the fighter planes to a small remote airfield, while the remaining planes left at the main airfield were left empty in hangars and neatly arranged on the runway.

This is obviously done to give the illusion that all the planes are at the airport. Although the Governor of Pearl Harbor did not know why Marshall would ask for this, he did so anyway.

In this way, Pearl Harbor ushered in a strange morning under a strange deployment.

......

At 6:10 a.m., Nagumo Tadashiichi's fleet, 220 nautical miles north of Oahu.

"General, the order to attack is here!" Soichiro Arima reported to Nagumo Tadaichi: "General Yamamoto 56 has sent a secret telegram wishing us good luck in the military. ”

Six aircraft carriers, using the technology provided by the Germans, plus the design of the famous Mitsubishi Heavy Industries designer Jiro Horikoshi, to create a super fighter with Japanese characteristics - the Zero fighter.

Jiro Horikoshi, who has studied at Junkers in Germany and Curtis in the United States, has absorbed the world's most advanced design ideas from both countries. That's why he designed this special fighter with extreme performance.

Because of the use of aluminum-magnesium alloy technology, the fuselage is very light, and the range has reached an astonishing nearly 2,000 kilometers, which is much stronger than the German aircraft carrier F-190, so that Japan's naval aviation has the farthest strike radius in the contemporary world.

It can almost be called an important milestone in Japanese aircraft design, such as the first use of fully enclosed retractable landing gear, electric flight suits, machine guns, constant-speed propellers, ultra-duralumin load-bearing construction, large vision cockpit and large disposable drop fuel tanks.

The most crucial thing is that on the issue of the design of Japan's new fighters, there have always been two schools of thought that are incompatible with each other.

One school of thought believes that air combat capability is mainly determined by the ability to fight in turns, and that range and speed must be sacrificed for the sake of combat performance.

On the other hand, the new fighter should focus on speed and range, and that combat performance can be sacrificed appropriately.

However, the ultimate performance of the Zero fighter actually met the needs of both high-speed and combat maneuver. It's a secret weapon that you won't want to put down!

And this time, the Japanese aircraft carrier under the command of Nagumo Tadaichi has just been reequipped with 82 Zero fighters!

"With the Zero Secret Weapon in hand, we have won this battle!" Nagumo Tadaichi nodded confidently and said to Soichiro Arima.

"God bless my emperor!" As soon as Nanyun Zhong finished speaking, he said in a deep voice: "Annihilate the Pacific Fleet of the United States, and give the empire an advantage in the next year!" ”

For this battle, Nagumo Tadaichi is actually convinced that it will be successful.

General Yamamoto Fifty-six, who planned this operation, may be just a gambler with good gambling skills in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Nagumo, it is indeed a generation of military gods!

Yamamoto Fifty-six is where the gambling luck is prosperous, and all the gambling games that Yamamoto has won, in the eyes of Nangumo, are clearly the natural results of relying on General Yamamoto's precise calculation and reasoning.

Trust in Yamamoto gave Nagumo Tadaichi optimism about the outcome of the Pearl Harbor attack. Moreover, if the tactics provided by the Germans were followed, there was really no chance of defeat in this battle.

"The first wave of bombers and escort fighters, take off!"

At 10:10 a.m., Nagumo Tadaichi received the order to attack and ordered the first wave to take off. Ten minutes later, the first wave of 183 bombers and Zero escort fighters took off, target, Pearl Harbor!

At the same time, an American supply ship spotted a suspicious submarine off Pearl Harbor. This discovery was passed on to a destroyer named the USS Ward.

Immediately, the captain of the destroyer USS Ward ordered the sinking of the suspicious submarine and sent back a report of the sinking of the submarine.