The attack on Pearl Harbor and the attack on the Philippines were fought almost simultaneously. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

According to the battle plan developed by the Japanese and Japanese Navy, two assumptions were required for success: first, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was anchored in Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack; The second is that a large aircraft carrier fleet can cross half of the Pacific Ocean without being detected.

This is because, if the US Pacific Fleet is not at Pearl Harbor, it will not be able to rely on the destruction of US naval forces, and the consequence will be the vigilance of the Americans, which will certainly have very unfavorable consequences for the Japanese and Japanese.

Second, if the United States discovers the traces in advance, it may lead to the failure of this sneak attack, and it is possible to pay a huge price.

This battle plan is obviously a bit of a gambler, and only gamblers take this risk.

And Yamamoto Isoroku, the main participant in the development of the battle plan, is precisely a master of gambling.

He often told his advisers that the gambler's mind often worked when he was thinking about problems: half by calculation, half by luck.

Because the "Z Operation Plan" was too risky, some people in the Japanese Navy Command Department strongly opposed it, but of course this could not stop the adventurous actions of the Japanese army.

In order to further confuse the United States, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent former Chinese ambassador to Germany to the United States as a "special envoy for peace" to assist Ambassador Saburo Nomura in holding peace talks with the United States.

On July 27, Yamamoto issued the "Combined Fleet Top Secret Operational Order No. 1" on the instructions of the Military Command Department.

This operation outlined the Navy's strategy for the first phase of the first phase, including not only the attack on Pearl Harbor, but also the landing operation in the Philippines, and the simultaneous attack on the Colombian battlefield.

After the order was issued, the task force, codenamed "Mobile Force", was assembled at Neihaikou.

It was a large fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Tadaichi Nagumo, and it consisted of 6 aircraft carriers, 2 fast battleships equipped with 14-inch cannons, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser, 9 destroyers, 3 oil tankers, and 1 supply ship.

On July 28, 1940, according to Yamamoto's instructions, the ships participating in the battle were assembled and made final preparations for the voyage.

Yamamoto issued a top-secret operational order to Nagumo: "The mobile unit must set out on the same day, do its best to maintain the concealment of its operations, enter the standby sea area on the evening of August 1, and complete its refueling."

Anchored and departed from the harbor, led by three submarines, the mobile force of Nagumo quietly sailed through the rough waters of the North Pacific Ocean, and sailed extremely secretly to the standby sea at 42°N latitude and 170°W longitude, where they would wait for the final order -- to attack.

The Japanese army was lucky, Yamamoto Isoroku's bet was very accurate, the US Pacific Fleet was unprepared, and did not discover the conspiracy of the Japanese people, everything was so good, the Japanese fleet successfully approached the attack area.

At about 4 o'clock in the morning on August 2, 1940, Honolulu time, 250 nautical miles north of Pearl Harbor, the permanent base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the eastern waterline was already white, and a quiet dawn was coming.

A large fleet broke the silence and headed south.

Six aircraft carriers were lined up in two columns, with two high-speed battleships and two heavy cruisers at their four corners, nine destroyers in the outermost circle, and at the head of this steel wreath were guided a light cruiser and two submarines.

The fleet left a thick and wide snow-white trail on the sea before dawn.

The flight deck of each aircraft carrier is lined with warhawks with their wings outstretched and their engines running. Under the belly of the aircraft were some heavy bombs, some were torpedoes, and the lead-gray shells shimmered with cold light.

At about 6 o'clock, the fleet slowed down, the bow of the Akagi slowly turned to the north, that is, the direction of the incoming wind, and Vice Admiral Nagumo on the mainmast commanded a Z-shaped flag on his banner and hunted in the wind.

Thirty-six years ago, in the Tsushima Strait, Admiral Togo flew this flag and defeated the Russian Baltic Fleet in one fell swoop.

The hull of the Akagi shook violently, and all training would be canceled in normal times.

But Mizu Yunakasa Fuchida knew that today as long as the deck was still on the water, it would have to take off.

Fuchida lifted the thousand-needle belt on the armrest and increased the throttle to the maximum, and his Type 97 attack aircraft successfully lifted off.

In the next fifteen minutes, 49 horizontal bombers, 40 torpedo planes, 51 dive bombers, and 43 Zero fighters, a total of 183 aircraft, were lifted off from all six aircraft carriers. The fleet quickly completed the formation, and after circling the fleet for a week, it swooped down on Pearl Harbor like an arrow off the string.

At the same time, Ambassador Nomura was receiving a 14-part telegram from Tokyo at the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C., and was instructed to deliver the message to the U.S. government by 13:00 Washington time (7:30 Honolulu time, half an hour before the scheduled time of the attack).

After a large number of diplomatic orders, the last part of the cable stated that "the Japanese government is ashamed and angry at the occupation of the Asian region by foreign countries, and regrets that it is impossible for the United States to voluntarily withdraw from Asia."

There is no doubt that the last bit of contact between the United States and Japan will be severed, which is in fact a declaration of war.

As a matter of fact, the militaries of both the United States and Japan should discover that the tiny Pacific Ocean can no longer accommodate two large ships, and sooner or later there will be a decisive battle between the two countries.

However, based on the dependence of the Japanese on US strategic resources, US politicians would never have imagined that war would come so quickly.

The United States did not fail to take any precautions, first moving the Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor in order to make arrangements in advance for the competition in Asia.

This is just a kind of advance planning, at least the Americans believe that they will not be able to develop a Pacific war this year.

However, what the Americans did not know was that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese-Japanese Combined Fleet, had already drawn up a plan to attack Pearl Harbor.

In order to attack Pearl Harbor with a younger brother, the Japanese Imperial Navy developed miniature submarines, modified shallow water torpedoes and armor-piercing shells, accurately deployed offensive aircraft groups, conducted rigorous training in Kagoshima, which is close to Pearl Harbor, adopted blockade-style secrecy measures, and chose the most sheltered sortie route.

In the end, the Japanese finally forgot why they started the war, who their opponents were, and that the United States was much more powerful than the Japanese, and that the United States, despite its very bad economy, was very large.

What will lead to the consequences of the war, the Japanese did not think about it, probably it is no longer important, they only know that the bow is fully drawn, and the arrow must be sent.

A jazz music from Honolulu Radio was heard on the radio of Fuchita's seat, and the music ended with weather preparation, "The clouds are low and high 3,500 feet, the visibility is good, and the north wind is 10 knots." Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on Fuchida's face.

At 7:02 a.m., radar controllers on the northernmost part of Oahu spotted a large group of planes coming from the north, and when they questioned Lieutenant Taylor on duty, they were told that it must be a group of B-17s flying from the west coast.

In this way, Pearl Harbor missed one last chance.

At 7:35 a.m., when Fuchida's plane first arrived at Pearl Harbor, the harbor was still filled with the calm of a Sunday morning.

Over the vast harbor, the clouds were sparse, and several civil aircraft were lazily circling in the air.

The fleet group appeared serene and serene in the oblique sunlight. Military aircraft at the airfield, wing-to-wing neatly arranged to prevent sabotage.

Fuchida fired a signal flare, ordering the group to begin to deploy in a surprise attack formation, and at the same time sending out a signal of "tiger, tiger, tiger" to notify the mothership of the success of the surprise attack. Five thousand miles away, aboard the battleship Nagato, a cheerful clerk handed the telegram to Yamamoto, who remained impassive and continued to play chess with the chief of staff.

According to the surprise attack plan, the attack will be carried out in the order of torpedo planes, horizontal bombers and dive bombers, and the ships will be attacked first. Due to the obscuration of the clouds, some of the planes did not see the signal, so Fuchida fired another signal flare. The dive bombers saw that they had fired two flares, which they considered to be an order to attack, which was a tactic of assault when the enemy was on guard. Enter by air supremacy, dive bombers, horizontal bombers, and torpedo planes.

At 7:55, dive bombers first attacked three airfields on Oahu, and two minutes later torpedo planes began to attack. This small mistake did not affect the effectiveness of the attack. The first torpedo planes tore apart the flags lining the last Nevada in the fleet with their cannons, and then dropped torpedoes.

For the first few minutes, no one in the Pacific Fleet could realize what was happening, and by the time they came to their senses, the West Virginia and the Oklahoma, which were parked on the outermost side of the fleet, had each been hit by two torpedoes, and the latter had been hit by five more bombs and capsized with more than 400 officers and men. The former slowly sank underwater due to the timely opening of the water injection valve.

The Arizona's armor-piercing shell exploded in the cabin and caused a fire, and the California was hit by two torpedoes, and the ship's heavy oil depot burst into flames and gradually sank. After 5 minutes, sporadic anti-aircraft artillery began to sound, but it was also a drop in the bucket.

Subsequently, Fuchida led horizontal bombers to the offensive. He pressed the bomb dropping button and watched in fascination as his four bombs fell vertically and smaller and smaller in a superb formation like a devil, and he didn't know what it was like for the people below to watch the thing get bigger and bigger.

Clusters of white smoke appeared around the Maryland, which was parked on the inside of the fleet. Subsequently, the Tennessee and the Pennsylvania, which was repaired in the dockyard, also ate a few bombs each.

Suddenly, an earth-shattering explosion occurred in the battlefleet on the eastern side of Ford Island.

At one point, thick smoke billowed out, and the column of fire was more than 1,000 meters high, which was a characteristic red and black column of smoke due to the insufficient combustion of gunpowder and explosives explosion.

It was the Arizona fire that caused the ammunition depot to explode, and in the red-black smoke and sporadic anti-aircraft fire, the bombers were still flying up and down, floating on the oily water, and the officers and men who abandoned the ship were desperately swimming to the shore.

A pocket submarine managed to infiltrate the harbor and fired a torpedo that misses its target before being rammed and sunk by the destroyer Monahan.

At 8:10, another clear-code telegram - "Pearl Harbor was attacked, this is not an exercise" was transferred to the US Department of the Navy, and Secretary of the Navy Knox exclaimed: "This is not true, this must refer to the Philippines." When Secretary of State Hull received the news, the well-dressed Ambassador Nomura was waiting in the reception room to deliver the fourteen parts of the message to Hull.

At 8:25, the first wave of attacks subsided.

Fuchida continued to spin in circles in the air, calculating the results of the battle. Twelve B-17 planes flying from the west coast made a difficult landing on the destroyed airfield.

At 8.40 a.m., a second wave of 78 dive bombers, 54 horizontal bombers and 35 fighters was launched over Oahu.

At 8:42 a.m., 167 planes began their attack under increasingly heavy artillery fire.

The horizontal bomber fleet was responsible for attacking the airfields on Oahu, and the dive bombers continued to attack the ships.

Only a few Army planes were able to take off between the two air raids, and all of them were shot down by the Zero fighter battle, and after the first wave of attacks, the Zero continued to maintain air supremacy.

By this time, Pearl Harbor was already billowing with smoke, which seriously prevented the dive bombers from finding the ship below.

The Type 99 dive bombers all adopted the method of bombing according to the barrage, that is, where the anti-aircraft artillery was the most violent, the aircraft dived there.

One plane swooped down only to realize that the target was a land turret, and quickly pulled it up.

In the harbor, the battleship Nevada, which was parked at the end of the battlefleet, left its berth, and she was also the only battleship to start during the entire attack, but it also ate a lot of bombs, and the Japanese fighters in the air quickly found the target and dropped a huge number of bombs on it.

At the end of the second attack, the bomber team blew up the target ship USS Utah and several other auxiliary ships.

At 9:40 a.m., after the second wave of swaggering withdrawal, Fuchida circled over Pearl Harbor again, filming his victory. Then, he flew to the assembly area to lead the fleet back, and the last group of Fuchida's planes landed.

Soon, the third air raid will begin again, the purpose of which is to cover the landing force to occupy the entire Pearl Harbor.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was indeed unprepared, and the air raids had already caused huge losses to the Pacific Fleet, and the Pacific Fleet's warships caught fire in the explosion, causing the military port to be as bright as day.

Nagumo believes that the basic tasks have been exceeded, and the Pacific Fleet is like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, and the fate that awaits them will be a barbecue.

The chaotic Pearl Harbor was already out of order, and it was even more difficult to organize to prevent the Japanese army from landing, and under the cover of air power, a large number of Japanese and Japanese troops landed on land and quickly advanced in depth.

There were still a few meagre planes at the air base at Pearl Harbor, and they risked great danger to try to stop the ravages of Japanese fighters, but they were left alone and were soon shot down by the swarming Japanese fighters.

The fall of Pearl Harbor has become irreversible, and the fate of the destruction of the US Pacific Fleet is difficult to change, all resistance seems to be futile, countless American soldiers have become dead souls under the bayonets of the Japanese army, and the blood of American GIs has stained Pearl Harbor red.

The gambling of the Japanese is indeed crazy, but they are lucky because they are the winners.