At this point, the door of "Zimi" was finally opened to Chi Buzhou.

Although it is said that the code of the diplomatic code will be changed every once in a while, no matter how much it is changed or even reborn, it will never depart from the original core of the "purple code". Facing the already familiar "Zimi", Chi Buzhou is naturally at his fingertips. So, when he swept his gaze to the beginning of the message and saw the familiar two letters "la", he immediately became excited. The "la" means that this is the password of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which also gives him some confidence in deciphering today's code.

However, the content of today's cipher message made him unexpectedly confused. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs often uses the cryptic mode when generating electricity, and even if it can decipher most of the code, it may not be able to fully understand the original meaning of the message, as is the case with today's messages.

This is a secret telegram from Honolulu to Tokyo, sent by the consul general of the United States, Kita, and the content of the telegram is very strange.

The collated message reads as follows:

“211815749kitatokyogaimudaijin1941512212115757chozame11sodofisshu5maguro10minokasago35same12burugiru15shironagasukujira212615800”

There is no doubt that the number string "1941512" in the message represents the date of the power generation on May 12, 1941, "tokyo" indicates that the receiver is Tokyo, and "gaimudaijin" is the pronunciation of the foreign minister.

“chozame11…… Article 11 ...... Sturgeon? Chi Buzhou frowned, put down the teacup, and drew a heavy pencil under the message. The word for "sturgeon" is "チョウザメ", and the romanization is "ch? zame”。 But how could the word "sturgeon" appear in the message sent to the Foreign Minister in Tokyo? Is there a problem with your own translation? He took off his thick black-rimmed glasses, wiped the crystal lenses with the soft deerskin in the case, put them back on, and continued to read. “sodofisshu…… ソードフィッシュ,swordfish ......" He crossed his hands, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and the surname Suo no longer considered these strange words, but directly translated everything he knew.

The contents of the organized message became like this:

"211815749KITA, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tokyo, December 7, 1941 212115757 'Sturgeon', 10'Swordfish', 8'Tuna', 12'Lionfish', 42'Shark', 12'Sunfish', 15'Blue Whale'212615800"

I still don't understand...... Chi Buzhou shook his head, leaned back, and leaned back in his chair. Compared with deciphering the telegrams, he guessed that this kind of hidden words involving military and political content were not his forte, otherwise he would not have had to go to the Ministry of Military Affairs to find information in the first place.

He was closing his eyes when he suddenly heard a low voice in his ear, "Got a problem?" ”

Chi Buzhou was startled, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was his friend, Yang Zhaoguo, the deputy leader of the sixth group of the military technology room.

Yang Zhaoguo, the fourth son of Treasury Secretary Yang Shuoming, worked as a codebreaker in the Department of Homeland Security's Electricity Division and as a confidential secretary to War Secretary Cai Gong, and was an expert in deciphering Chinese ciphered telegrams. He later served as Chief of the Department of Homeland Security's Classified Unit II. When Chi Buzhou served in the Department of Homeland Security, he was quite taken care of, and the two had an excellent relationship.

The current Yang Zhaoguo is also a member of the Military Technology Office.

Under the surprise, Chi Buzhou hurriedly got up and greeted: "Brother Zhifeng, why are you here?" What a rarity! Sit down, sit down! ”

Yang Zhaoguo glanced around, and even pouted and shook his head: "You are a place, you don't even have an extra chair, where should I sit?" Lao Chi, it's not me saying you, thrift is thrifty, but you can't treat yourself badly. Those who do our job are no better than those field workers, and if there are any requirements, they have to be put forward to the peak in front of the gong. What's the matter with you? It doesn't match your contribution at all, does it? ”

"You know, I'm just a part-time worker, when a monk hits the clock for a day, how can I be qualified to do anything?" Chi Buzhou smiled, got up and gave up his chair.

Yang Zhaoguo was not polite, and sat down at the desk in a big manner: "I heard that your Minister of Water has intended to set up the 43rd Military Radio Station, and is ready to appoint you as the director of translation and be directly responsible to him." Congratulations, you've come full circle and are back to your old job. ”

"Destiny is like this, in vain." Chi Buzhou smiled bitterly, "By the way, why do you have time to come to me?" "Although the two belong to the same military technology room, the military technology room has six groups, the two have different division of labor, and the work place is not the same.

"I'm also here to pass on the news, the cipher research team caught a spy who sent a meteorological telegram to Hankou today, and asked about it, and the other party confessed that he has been collecting meteorological information in the Pacific Rim region recently, and I specially came to inform you and let you pay attention."

"Then wouldn't it be enough to make a phone call, and bother you, the major general, to be the senator?"

"No, the weather forecast of our local radio station has been wrong several times, and I don't take their words seriously now, so I want to refer to how I did it." Yang Zhaoguo said as he spoke, his eyes casually swept to the secret telegram on the table: "What is this?" LA code? ”

"It's a two-character LA code, and I've deciphered the message, but I still can't figure it out in some places. Just so you're here, help me see what these fish and numbers mean. ”

Although it is not Yang Zhaoguo's specialty to decipher secret telegrams, he has been engaged in deciphering for many years and is extremely sensitive to all kinds of military intelligence. With just one glance, he made a rough judgment.

"Quantitatively, these fish are most likely representative of warships. In descending order, the largest 'Blue Whale' undoubtedly refers to aircraft carriers, while the next largest 'Sturgeon' refers to battleships. Yang Zhaoguo's index knuckle tapped on the message, and his tone was very affirmative.

Chi Buzhou thought thoughtfully: "I understand, according to this inference, the 'shark' is most likely a submarine, and the smallest 'lionfish' refers to a torpedo boat or a destroyer." ”

"It should be a destroyer, the 'Lionfish' surname is alert, and the lethality is powerful, which meets the characteristics of a destroyer."

"Then 'Swordfish' and 'Tuna' are heavy cruisers and light cruisers, and what are 'sunfish'? This fish is stupid, although it is large, it has no attack power, is it a transport ship? By the way, it must be a transport ship! As he spoke, Chi Buzhou looked at Yang Zhaoguo and saw that he was giving him a thumbs up.

"Drawing inferences from one another, in one sentence, he is worthy of being the premier deciphering genius of the military technology room." Yang Zhaoguo praised sincerely.

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, if it weren't for Brother Zhifeng's guidance, I would still be touching the loaches there." Chi Mufei said modestly, and then pointed to the first line of message and said, "In your opinion, what does this line of message mean?" ”

"211815749kita......" Yang Zhaoguo read it softly, and then shook his head: "I can't say that the text is good, this kita is romanized, right?" What does it mean in the Chinese language? ”

"The word kita should refer to the north, or north, and it can refer to the place name 'Kida' or 'Kida', or it can refer to the surname 'Kita'."

"It's really hard to say, I don't remember which general of the army is surnamed Kita. Northern? Where is the north? Yang Zhaoguo also fell into deep thought.

Chi Buzhou held a message in one hand and a pencil in the other, and kept drawing symbols under a few numbers: "These numbers all start with '21', and the two numbers in the 5th and 6th digits are '15', that is to say, the number string may be divided into two parts, the beginning is '21' and '15', '21' is followed by the numbers '2' and '1'; '15' is followed by '7' and '8', and the difference between the numbers is only one place." What numbers are distributed according to this pattern? Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he looked at Yang Zhaoguo, and the other party was also looking at him.

"Latitude and longitude!" Both shouted at the same time.

Yang Zhaoguo almost jumped from his chair to the world map, while Chi Buzhou's right index finger had already begun to slide across the map.

“211815749…… At 21°18 north latitude and 157°49 west longitude, Honolulu, the capital of the U.S. state of Hawaii......"

"I remembered that the name of the Consul General in Honolulu was Kita Nagao! This is a secret telegram sent by Honolulu to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tokyo! Yang Zhaoguo whispered beside him.

"This number is 212615800, latitude 21°26 N, longitude 158°00 W, Oahu, the third largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago."

"It must have been a U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling the waters off Oahu, that's why the cable was reported like this."

"The last set of numbers 212115757 21°21 N, 157°5......7 W," Chi Buzhou's index finger glided slowly upwards across the map, all the way across the southern coast of Oahu, stopping at a tiny black bifurcation of bird's feet between the Kolau and Waianai ranges.

"Pearl Harbor...... U.S. Pacific Fleet naval base ......," he said in an almost whispered voice.

Chi Buzhou and Yang Zhaoguo glanced at each other, and each saw surprise and uneasiness in each other's eyes.

"Report it right away!" Yang Zhaoguo said.

The intelligence analysis of the cipher research group can be said to be accurate. It's just that, for the Americans, this intelligence is no longer of much use.

Pearl Harbor, Pacific Fleet Command.

"What about the airports? How much is the loss? Nimitz, the acting commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, asked, looking at the charts.

"Four of our seven major airports have been attacked and severely damaged, and the Ford Island and Hickam airports are now unusable, with a total of 522 of our aircraft damaged and shot down, and nearly 2,000 casualties." Chief of Staff Lockwood replied, "The other three airfields are not badly damaged, and we have taken over the requisitioned John?" Rogers, Halaiwa and other civilian airports have not yet been attacked. ”

"Where is Halsey's fleet? Don't they have news yet? Nimitz asked.

Lockwood was about to answer, when suddenly, a piercing air raid siren once again pierced the quiet night. The low wings hummed through the air, and the violent explosions were like violent thunder, one after another, endlessly destroying people's eardrums.

The bombardment of the Japanese army came again as scheduled.

Nimitz turned his head to look out the window, only to see a dazzling fire rising again in the harbor, and in the firelight, he saw the figure of a huge ship that had been half submerged in the water, and tears flashed in the corners of his eyes.

That is the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, the USS Arizona.

Due to a considerable degree of preparation in advance, although they were taken by surprise by the enemy, the defenders of Pearl Harbor still launched a counterattack with great composure and courage.

As soon as the battle began, the group of US fighters that took to the skies engaged in a fierce battle with the attacking fighters, but because the surnames of the "Gale" fighters of the Japanese army were much higher than those of the P-40 "Eagle" fighters and P38 "Lightning" fighters of the US military, although the US troops bravely resisted, they suffered heavy casualties, a large number of fighters were shot down, and many American pilots spilled their blood in the blue sky and died heroically.

However, the sacrifice of the US fighters was not in vain, and their heroic resistance interfered with the actions of the Japanese troops, and the US warships anchored in Pearl Harbor also anchored one after another, and the sailors on the ships were also in position at their combat posts, and immediately launched a counterattack against the incoming planes, inflicting great casualties on the Japanese troops, and shooting down dozens of enemy planes one after another. However, due to the strength of the army, the Pacific Fleet suffered heavy losses in the first round of attacks. The main purpose of this book was to attack the large warships in the harbor. The attack on the ground naval aircraft was carried out to prevent the US side from counterattacking. Under the frenzied attack of the Japanese army, all 10 capital battleships in the harbor were seriously damaged, of which seven battleships, including the "Oklahoma," and the aircraft carriers "Enterprise" and "Hornet," capsized and sank. The flagship battleship "Arizona" was completely damaged in two rounds of bombardment, and the other three main battleships were also seriously damaged and sank to the bottom of the sea. At the same time, a large number of light ships of the US military also suffered bad luck. Twenty-nine warships were shot, including six cruisers, which suffered the most damage. Another 12 destroyers were shot and suffered serious damage. Of the 202 naval aircraft that had been prepared for combat and lifted into the air, 170 were shot down, and most of the rest lost their combat capability. Another 52 aircraft took off after the air raid, but another 14 were shot down during takeoff, and most of the 38 aircraft that managed to take off were also lost in the ensuing battle. The same was true for the U.S. Army's 473 aircraft, with a total of 225 aircraft shot down, about half of which were shot down during takeoff.

On this side, the US side confirmed the loss of more than 80 planes. The planes were shot down mainly by anti-aircraft fire. There were also aircraft that failed to return due to lack of fuel.

Nimitz was most saddened by the death of Admiral Kimmel in action.

Admiral Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet, had a rigid surname and was regarded as a model military officer by the officers with whom he came into contact. At the very beginning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kimmel rushed to the flagship "Arizona" to direct the operation as soon as possible, but because he was outnumbered, under the brutal bombing of the planes, the battleship "Arizona" finally sank in the harbor, and Admiral Kimmel was unfortunately shot when the bridge was strafed by the Japanese fighters, and died a heroic martyr at the age of 59.

Just now, in the new round of night raids that began the Japanese army, they still refused to let go of the "Arizona" that had lost the ability to resist, and when they saw that the "Arizona" was located and the fire rose again, Nimitz's eyes seemed to have a flame burning.

"I'm going to turn Pearl Harbor and Oahu into my grave." Nimitz said in a deep voice.

"What did you say?" Lockwood asked. The explosion outside was so loud that he couldn't hear the commander clearly.

"I said I wanted to turn Pearl Harbor and Oahu into my own grave!" Nimitz took a deep breath of the smoke-filled air, looked at Lockwood and his men, and said loudly.

"I don't understand what you mean......" Lockwood asked tentatively, looking Nimitz in the eye carefully.

"Look outside, I say I'm still bombing us." Nimitz pointed out the window and said calmly, ignoring the dust falling from the ceiling in the sound of the explosion, "From day to night, they have destroyed most of our airfields, as well as ships, and port facilities, but they have not left yet, which shows that their intention is to occupy this place." ”

Listening to Nimitz's words, the faces of many officers suddenly turned pale.

"I believe that their landing force will arrive later." Nimitz said calmly, "So, from now on, the real battle is coming." ”

"Do you want your children to learn Chinese in the future?" Nimitz looked at everyone and suddenly asked in a loud voice.

“no！”

"Do you want to be a captive of yourself?"

“no！”

"Do you want to avenge your dead comrades?"

“yes！”

"Alright, let's give them some awesome taste!" Nimitz shook his fist and roared, "We're going to turn every inch of land, every inch of the sky, every inch of the ocean here into my own graveyard!" ”

“yes！”

With the roar of the officers, the curtain of battle was opened.

(To be continued)