November 26, 1941. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info 6 o'clock in the morning. then catch the island. Single Crown Bay.

It's actually very far to the east, and it's already dawn. It's winter, the sun hasn't come out in the Northern Hemisphere yet, and there are some thin clouds in the sky in the morning. Morning mist floats above the sea. The morning fog is very thick, and if you look at this morning fog from the air, you will see that there is something dark and dull in the fog, something like a steel monster.

It's a huge fleet.

At six o'clock sharp, the signal light on a warship flashed. Soon, the light signals of other warships were answered. The warship's engine thought in a low voice, and soon, the warship lifted anchor and slowly sailed out of the harbor and headed east.

Air Raid Force: The commander is Vice Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi, and the unit consists of aircraft carriers, including the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shozuru, and Zuizuru, a total of six ships. Japan now has ten aircraft carriers, six of which are here. All aircraft carriers were fully loaded with fighter reconnaissance aircraft, carrying a total of 423 aircraft. The ammunition depot was filled with torpedoes and other types of ammunition.

Alert Force: The commander of the 1st Destroyer Squadron is Rear Admiral Omori Sentaro, and consists of the following warships: the light cruiser Abukuma, and nine destroyers, Tanikaze, Urakaze, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Shiranui, Kasumi, Hail, Yohino, and Akigumo.

Support Force: The commander of the 3rd Sentai Force, Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi, consisted of two battleships, the Hiei and Kirishima, and two heavy cruisers, the Tone and Chikuma. This is a powerful attacking fleet of combat machines.

Patrol Force: The commander of the 2nd Submarine Group is the commander of the 2nd Submarine Group, Imaizumi Kisa, and is composed of the following heavenly courts: I-19, I-21, and I-23.

Midway Raid Force: Commanded by the Commander of the 7th Destroyer Group, Konishi Dignita, and consisting of two destroyers, the Shio and Ripple, and the supply ship Shiriya.

Supply troops: All oil tankers: Polar Maru, Gokuto Maru, Kenyo Maru, Kokuyo Maru, Shenguo Maru, Toho Maru, Toei Maru, and Nippon Maru.

The commander of the advance formation was Vice Admiral Mitsumi Shimizu, commander of the Sixth Fleet, and consisted of three submarine units.

The 1st Submarine Force: The commander of the 1st Submarine Squadron is Rear Admiral Tsutomu Sato, and it has four submarines under its command: I-9, I-15, I-17, and I-25.

Second Submarine Force: The commander of the Second Submarine Squadron is Rear Admiral Shigehui Yamazaki, who has seven submarines under its command: I-1, I-2, I-3, I-4, I-5, I-6, and I-7.

The Third Submarine Force: The commander of the Third Submarine Squadron is Rear Admiral Shigai Miwa, which has nine submarines under its command: I-8, I-68, I-69, I-70, I-71, I-72, I-73, I-74, and I-75.

Special Attack Force: The commander of the 3rd Submarine Group is Sasaki Hanjiu Navy Osa, which has five submarines under its command: I-16, I-18, I-20, I-22, and I-24, each carrying a pocket submarine.

Reconnaissance unit at key sites: Composed of two submarines, I-10 and I-26.

Supply troops: Composed of six oil tankers: Hidden Maru, Toa Maru, Shintamamaru, Yoto-Maru, Hitachi Maru, and Fujiyama Maru.

This is the essence of the Japanese naval power.

Actually, there are no submarines in this bay now, because twenty-seven submarines have already departed ahead of schedule.

The direction of sailing of the fleet was to the east.

Shortly after the fleet left the bay, the weather changed, the wind picked up, and the sky was overcast. The sea is stormy.

The fleet continued to move forward in the rough waves. If it's a ghost, there's something huge about it.

At present, the four northern islands are still Japanese.

This is Kunashir Island, which is called Kunashir Island on the map of the Soviet Union, transliterated from the Japanese Kunashir; The Russian word for the island is the island of Iturupu, transliterated from the word "the word for the catch" in Japanese; Tooth Dance Islands, the Russian name is transliterated from the Japanese word Tooth Dance; Shikotan, the Russian island of Scotan, is transliterated from the Japanese word Shikotan.

The Soviet Union called these islands the South Kuril Islands.

It's not that the Soviets were lazy and didn't take the right names, these islands were originally the territory of the Ezo people. Around 1760, Russians went here, and later, some Ezo even became Russian citizens.

In the eighteenth century, the hand of the Japanese also reached here. In 1855, Japan and Russia signed the Treaty of Friendship between Japan and Russia, which divided the Kuril Islands.

The two countries agreed that the strait between the island and the island of Defu would be boundary, and the south of the strait would be called the South Kuril Islands, which would be owned by Japan, and that Japan would set up administrative divisions in the South Kuril Islands.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's Hokkaido Pioneer Vice-Minister Kiyotaka Kuroda advocated abandoning the distant island of Kata. Kata Island is the place where Sugimoto Okada and the two of them defected. The Russians call it Sakhalin, the Chinese Sakhalin. At the heart of his proposal was to speed up the development of Hokkaido.

This proposal was adopted, and in 1875, Japan and Russia signed the Sakhalin Kuril Islands Exchange Treaty in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia at the time, in which Japan relinquished sovereignty over Sakhalin to Russia in exchange for sovereignty over the entire Kuril Islands.

Since then, the Northern Kuril Islands have been incorporated into Japan's territory, expanding Japan's territory northward to the island of Chamsho, which is only 11 kilometers away from Kamchatka. Japan has sovereignty over the entire Kuril Islands.

The Akagi is the flagship. Vice Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi was on this aircraft carrier.

After giving the order just now, Nagumo Tadaichi returned to his office. He wanted to quietly think about all the things that had happened during this time.

The Navy has been making plans for the south for a long time. The central figure in the development of the plan was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Since the southward expansion plan was set as a national policy, the entire southward expansion strategy began to turn into a series of campaign plans.

The first component of the campaign: a fleet of six aircraft carriers attacked Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is the home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and a sharp sword hanging over Japan's head. The aircraft carrier fleet secretly departed from Hokkaido, sailed eastward, and after reaching a certain place, turned south. In this way, it was possible to avoid the American warning ships, and the sneak attack was established.

The second component: as long as there is an army component. The troop carrier landed on the Kra Isthmus in Thailand, south to the Malay Peninsula.

The third component: an attack on Hong Kong.

The three attacks were launched over a three-day period, almost simultaneously.

Several other components were attacks on the Philippines, among other places.

At the heart of the Pacific campaign was the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, because the main opponent of the Pacific campaign was the United States, the Pacific Fleet of the United States. If this fleet was destroyed, the Japanese navy would run rampant in the Pacific Ocean, and victory in the Pacific campaign would be in sight.

However, Nagumo had some concerns about this sneak attack. According to intelligence, it is possible that some US warships and aircraft carriers will leave Pearl Harbor. These warships will pose a huge threat to the Japanese fleet after a sneak attack, because after a sneak attack, the combat effectiveness of the air force will be weakened, and air supremacy will be in the hands of the Americans.

After the sneak attack, the fleet will return to the mainland, resupply and renovate, and then go south again to participate in the Pacific campaign. Therefore, a smooth retreat after a sneak attack is crucial to the success or failure of the subsequent battle.