On December 6, 1941, two days before the air attack on Pearl Harbor, bad news spread to the official residence of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Five aircraft carriers and five heavy cruisers of the US Pacific Fleet left Pearl Harbor, and there may still be the possibility of exercises. However, the emergency withdrawal of Britain from Hong Kong, the evacuation of expatriates and military families by the United States from the Philippines, and the departure of all ships of the American Asian Fleet from Cavite clearly demonstrated the fact that the United States and Britain must have learned that Japan would start a war in early December.

A sneak attack or something, it's simply impossible!

Now the remaining way is to attack hard, and it depends on whether the US Pacific Fleet is powerful, or the Japanese Combined Fleet can fight?

"Baga!" At the cabinet meeting on December 6, Hideki Tojo couldn't help but scold, "The First Mobile Fleet has really been discovered by the Americans!" I knew Yamamoto's Z battle plan wouldn't work, Yamamoto's big idiot! ”

Shigetaro Shimada, the Minister of the Navy, who had just come to power, suddenly turned blue when he heard Tojo's words. Hideki Tojo, this idiot, wants to put the responsibility for the defeat on the navy, this can't be done!

"Your Excellency, there is now no evidence that the First Mobile Fleet has been discovered by the Americans. Moreover, although the U.S. military at Pearl Harbor has raised its combat readiness level, it has not entered a state of imminent war, but the British and American troops in the Philippines and Malaya are like facing a great enemy. Shigetaro Shimada hurriedly spoke, pushing the responsibility far away. This indicates that the 1st Mobile Fleet was not discovered...... It is quite possible that the war readiness of the Americans and the British was leaked by someone who had leaked the news of the start of the war. ”

Leaked messages? Tojo glanced at Shimada, thinking that the people who leaked the news must not be the army, the army is all loyal and patriotic, and the traitors are either the navy or those "Anglo-American" diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!

"Shimada-kun, there may have been a leak now!" "Then we should find out what went wrong, otherwise there will be another leak...... If this continues, the empire will lose the initiative in the war! ”

"Prime Minister, is it possible that the Americans deciphered our telegram code?" Shigetaro Shimada then suggested a possibility. As a matter of fact, the Japanese Navy's Command Department has also been looking for reasons internally in the past two days, and has checked the background of all the personnel who may have come into contact with the "Z Operation Plan," but all of them look like loyal servants of His Majesty the Emperor, and they cannot be American spies at all.

Therefore, the Navy Command Department finally proposed the "only possibility", and the telegram was deciphered.

"Then change the password as soon as possible," Hideki Tojo immediately decided, "The passwords of the Navy, the Army, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must be completely changed." ”

Hideki Tojo also felt that it was possible for the telegram to be deciphered, and if it was not discovered by the First Mobile Fleet, then the telegram must have been deciphered - in fact, the United States and the Soviet Union had been trying to find a way to decipher the Japanese code, and both had achieved great success. Now the secret telegram sent by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the embassy in the United States can be deciphered by the Americans very quickly.

Foreign Minister Shigetoku Togo did not expect at this time that the secret telegram he sent to the ambassador to the United States, Nomura Kichizaburo, would probably let Colonel Donovan see it first. Togo, who had been ambassador to the Soviet Union for a long time, still thought of internationalist fighters at this time.

"Prime Minister, now that the Soviet Union and the United States are so close that they are almost about to form an alliance." Togo frowned, looking like a catastrophe was about to come. "The Third International, controlled by the Soviet Union, has long infiltrated our empire, and this leak is likely to be the result of cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union......

US-Soviet cooperation!

It sounds scary, but it's happening. During this time, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were really good, and the Soviet Union even approved for the first time that American companies invest in the second Baku oil field and sell cars on its territory.

Such a thing was not allowed during the NEP period, but now it is happening. This shows that the cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union is now quite close, and it is only a matter of time before an alliance is formed.

And the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union was almost a catastrophe for Japan. After all, the USSR and Germany have not yet started fighting. And if the Soviet Union and the United States beat Japan together, it is estimated that Hitler and Hersmann will breathe a sigh of relief -- now they don't have to worry about the Soviet Union stabbing in the back, and they can finally happily beat the British!

"There is a non-aggression pact between our empire and the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union should not break its promise, right?" Hideki Tojo looked at Shigetoku Togo and asked.

Shigeto Togo shook his head and said, "The Soviet Union is very untrustworthy, and if it is profitable, it is possible to betray Japan." ”

Hideki Tojo snorted coldly and said, "If that is the case, the Imperial Army will definitely give the Soviet army a head-on blow, and maybe the problems of the north and China can be solved once and for all." ”

The US imperialists have not yet done it and want to challenge the Soviet Union! Hideki Tojo's cattle are about to blow to the sky, but after the bragging, they still have to solve practical problems.

The actual problems are two: one is to strengthen anti-G and anti-espionage, and it is necessary to strictly investigate the agents of the Third International; The second is how to carry out the war against the United States -- although the war has not yet been fought, there are already signs of an unfavorable start.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, the Navy is fully confident that it can win in Hawaii!" Navy Minister Shigetaro Shimada gritted his teeth.

Now the 1st Mobile Fleet is refueling for the last time before launching a surprise attack, and when it is fully fueled, the fleet will move at a high speed of 24 knots towards the offensive position north of Oahu. Air raids will be launched in the early hours of December 8th!

It can be said that it is now ready to fly, and if it is not launched, the Japanese Empire will be completely overwhelmed by the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of momentum. Moreover, in order to carry out this offensive, the Combined Fleet has already consumed a large amount of fuel reserves, and if it is abandoned now, it is difficult to say whether the Combined Fleet will have enough fuel to launch another full-scale offensive.

Moreover, Japan's retreat now does not mean that the United States will not create any excuse to pounce on Japan with the Soviet Union to fight Japan's water dogs.

Hideki Tojo has already figured out the stakes in a blink of an eye, and Japan must now rush forward and fight a bloody way!

"That's good!" Tojo touched his bald head, "That official is waiting for Commander Nagumo's good news in Tokyo!" ”

……

"Spotted a plane! At 8 o'clock, the speed is fast, Prince, come with me to see. ”

At this time, Hersman Jr. was leading a four-finger formation around Japan's 1st Mobile Fleet when he suddenly noticed a small single-engine plane drilling out of the clouds. He estimated that a "Comet" dive bomber on a search mission had flown back. However, because it was too far away to see clearly, he beckoned Prince Lip Wissenfeld to lean in and take a look.

The two Zeros flew for a while, and little Hersman finally saw clearly that it was indeed a "comet". Then he said to Prince Lip-Wissenfeld over the radio: "It's a 'comet', we will return now, and continue to be on guard." ”

Then little Hersman turned around and flew back, and after flying for a while he did not hear the prince's answer, and knew that it was wrong, so he quickly looked around, only to find that the prince's plane had not followed.

"Damn the radio!" Little Hersman muttered, knowing that the on-board radio had gone wrong again.

Although the Japanese carefully built dozens of Japanese versions of the Fokker Zero (the Japanese side numbered Zero 024) according to German drawings, these planes still had various problems, and the most common problem was that the radio produced by Toshiba Ura Electric was always broken. It is no wonder that those Japanese pilots liked to dismantle the radio station on the Zero plane, and it was better to use this radio station than to gesticulate. However, fighter pilots can play sign language, and pilots who fly "Comet" dive bombers out to reconnoiter can also use sign language to inform the rear of the news? If it really gets involved with the US aircraft carrier, this kind of broken radio station will delay a big deal.

While Hesman Jr. was worried about the Japanese devils, Prince Lip Wissenfeld's Zero 024 was already escorting a Comet dive bomber. It turned out that it was the radio station of Hersman Jr., who had broken down, and Prince Lip-Wissenfeld had a conversation in sign language and handed over the command of the 4-plane detachment to the prince.

In the bridge of the "Akagi" aircraft carrier, Nagumo Tadaichi, who had not closed his eyes for several days and nights with red eyes, saw a "Comet" plane firmly parked on the flight deck, and then turned around and asked the staff officer behind him: "Still nothing has been found?" ”

"Nothing has been discovered," replied Minoru Genda, an aviation staff officer, "and the plane has approached 500 kilometers north of Oahu, and further south it will be easy to encounter the American reconnaissance plane, and it seems that we have not been discovered by the Americans." ”

Nagumo Zhongyi frowned and said in a low voice: "Now the distance of the fleet from Oahu Island is more than 600 nautical miles, except for long-range bombers like the B-17, the combat radius of most American aircraft cannot reach the Japanese fleet. Therefore, the Americans, even if they had already discovered the 1st Mobile Fleet, would pretend that they did not know anything. They will ambush five aircraft carriers south of Hawaii and engage us with shore-based aircraft on Oahu...... According to intelligence, there are hundreds of combat aircraft on Oahu! ”

"Commander," Minoru Genda looked melancholy, as if he was suffering from depression, and the commander of the 1st Mobile Fleet, Nagumo Tadaichi, whispered a suggestion. "Either the third assault wave will be canceled, and the first and second assault waves will be concentrated on the first and second assault waves, and the first assault wave will be especially strengthened. It is possible to put all the Comet planes into the first strike wave and send planes to destroy the oil depot at Pearl Harbor. In this way, even if the Americans put a trap on Pearl Harbor, as long as we destroy the millions of tons of heavy oil stored in Pearl Harbor, we can greatly limit the combat operations of the US Pacific Fleet. (To be continued.) )