On the evening of December 6, Yoshikawa's intelligence gathering continued. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info He sent an urgent telegram to Tokyo, reporting on the situation at Pearl Harbor: 9 battleships, 7 light cruisers, and 9 destroyers were moored in Pearl Harbor. 3 aircraft carriers and cruisers left the port and did not return.

The express telegram was sent in secret, and no one suspected him.

In addition, he made a call to Tokyo: the weather here is very good. There's a dance party in the evening, and I'm going to take a few girls to the dance.

Now, the Americans have not taken any drastic measures against the Japanese, but the surveillance has long begun. The Americans, of course, snooped on the call, and the listeners listened with disdain: this nasty billet.

The Japanese received the call, but read something different: the Americans were lax and enjoying life, not on high alert.

By the time the telegram reached the naval commander, the Japanese assault fleet was only 250 nautical miles from Pearl Harbor. What's more, the submarines of the Japanese fleet had already reached Pearl Harbor. Yoshikawa provided the last dynamic intelligence for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This information assessed the confidence of the Japanese army in the victory of the sneak attack.

A large number of detailed telegrams were sent to the sneak attack fleet, and they were also received by Xiao Ming, a well-intentioned person on the mainland. Because of the large number of words, the decipherment work has advanced by leaps and bounds, and it has basically succeeded.

On the night of 6 December, more than 200 nautical miles north of Hawaii, six aircraft carriers and two battleships, three cruisers, nine destroyers, and three submarines, in addition to four submarine attack forces. In addition, eight tankers and two destroyers did not come here, but waited in the North Pacific.

The aircraft carriers of the Japanese fleet were Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shozuru and Zuizuru, with Akagi as the flagship. The six aircraft carriers carry a total of 414 carrier-based aircraft, including fighters, torpedo bombers, dive bombers and horizontal bombers.

The Akagi was the first heavy aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy and was part of the 88th Fleet Program, which was the 8 Battleships Plus and 8 Battlecruisers Program.

The original design of the Akagi was a battle cruiser, and construction began in December 1920. In November 1923, due to the Washington Treaty, Japan needed to stop building 2 battleships and 4 battlecruisers. The Japanese took advantage of the loophole, and the Akagi was converted into an aircraft carrier before it was completed.

After refitting, the Akagi aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of 41,300 tons, a main engine output of 133,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 31 knots, and 72 aircraft (up to 91 aircraft).

In January 1932, during the First Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the Akagi and Kaga participated in the bombing of Shanghai. In 1937, the July 7 Incident broke out, and the Akagi fought in the Yangtze River Valley, South China, Hainan and other places.

In 1940, tensions between Japan and the United States intensified, and the entire U.S. Pacific Fleet moved to Pearl Harbor. As the flagship of the First Air Fleet, the Akagi led six carriers in a raid on Pearl Harbor.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet.

In addition to receiving information from nearly 200 Japanese spies, Yamamoto also received a call from Yoshikawa.

The fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi has been on fire for more than ten days, and it has been silent on the radio. The route was the Pacific Ocean, and no one expected them to be attacked from the north, as Japanese naval officers traveled around Tokyo.

Of course, these officers are fake, played by cadets of the military academy. The conscientious American spies must have reported back the news of the Japanese naval officers in Tokyo.

Speaking of time, in fact, the navy has been preparing for this sneak attack for ten years. They gathered all the intelligence, including the drill of the US military's own aircraft carrier attack on Pearl Harbor. This exercise was considered impossible, but it was written into the textbooks of the Japanese army.

Yes, the Americans did do the drills for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The commander of the sneak attack fleet this time was Nagumo, but the command of the entire operation was Yamamoto. Yamamoto was nothing more than a planner and commander, and in fact, this was a manifestation of Japan's national will, the first step in Japan's entire southward expansion plan.

In order to carry out the southward expansion plan, the whole of Japan is like a machine, and every part is running precisely and punctually. The army has long been transferred from China and Japan to the South Seas, and the navy is gradually in place.

The whole plan for the southward expansion was drawn up by many very clever staff officers, and the first step was to attack Pearl Harbor and destroy the US Pacific Fleet. After the success of the sneak attack, the landing of the Japanese army, which had already reached various parts of the South Seas, launched a sea offensive and launched a sea offensive.

The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was the starting gun for Japan to carry out its southward expansion plan.

The entire southward expansion plan was a big gamble for the entire Japanese country, and the key to the whole gamble was the navy, and the key to the navy's action was a big gamble by Yamamoto Isoroku.

Yamamoto Fifty-six is a gambler with excellent gambling products, and once, he and a colleague lost 3,000 yuan in a bet, and he must pay it back, deducting money from his salary every month and returning it to him.

Yamamoto Fifty-six is still an American expert.

Yamamoto Isoroku was originally surnamed Takano and was the sixth son, born when his father was fifty-six years old, so he was called Takano Isoroku. Takano Fifty-six participated in the Russo-Japanese War and lost two fingers, nicknamed Eight Cents, because the geisha gave manicures and charged money according to the number of nails, and others had one piece, and he had eight cents.

After graduating from the Naval University, he succeeded to the old Yamamoto family of the old Nagaoka Domain, and became the righteous son of Yamamoto with a sword, and changed his name from Takano Fifty-six to Yamamoto Fifty-six.

After getting married, he went to Yamamoto to study at Harvard University, which made him realize that the United States is so powerful, that sugar does not need rationing, that women can go to college, and that civilians can buy cars.

In 1925, Yamamoto became the naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy in the United States, and in 1928, Yamamoto returned from the United States to serve in the Navy, and on November 5, 1940, Yamamoto was awarded the rank of Admiral.

He knows the great power of the United States. He knows that the United States is dozens or hundreds of times stronger than Japan in terms of steel, shipbuilding, weapons manufacturing, and aircraft manufacturing.

Therefore, he knows that he cannot easily provoke the United States. He did not agree to an alliance with Germany and Italy. But this is by no means a pacifist, on the contrary, he is nothing more than a calculating gambler.

Knowing that the United States cannot be easily provoked, and still carrying out a sneak attack on the Battle of Pearl Harbor is a big gamble.

Prime Minister Konoe asked Yamamoto about the chances of winning the war with the U.S. army, and Yamamoto said, "The first six months or a year will be about a smooth attack." But I had no confidence in the second and third years of war. ”

However, the whole Japanese army carried out this campaign in earnest for the sake of the southward expansion plan.

Who is the dealer in this bet?

Apparently not Yamamoto, nor Konoe.

Who is it?

In the early hours of December 7, 1941. Pacific Ocean, near Hawaii.

It's a moon, winter, Sunday morning. It was a well-chosen day.

In the morning light, after taking a great detour of 6,000 kilometers and overcoming the treacherous climatic conditions, the task force came to the vicinity of Hawaii and anchored 220 nautical miles north of Oahu. The fleet is like a wild wolf, watching over its prey.

Vice Admiral Nagumo, who commanded the fleet, received a telegram from the naval base camp Yamamoto Isoroku: "Generator: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. Receiver: Commander-in-Chief of the Mobile Fleet. Message: Reaching new heights. ”

Nagumo read the order and gave orders to all members of the various fleets: "Execute as planned!" The loudspeakers on the various warships amplified his voice and spread it to all corners.

The submarine had already set off to approach Pearl Harbor, preparing to intercept the submarine of the US military that might be attacking.

Aircraft on aircraft carriers began to start. The warships and aircraft of the aircraft carrier fleet shone on the sea. These lights are brighter than the morning light in the east, and they are more hideous than the morning light.

Koji, the original Japanese text of this message, was aware of it, and he translated it into code using the code he had previously deciphered. When the code received was exactly the same as the code compiled by Xiaolu, Xiaolu patted his head and said, "It's done!" Science and technology are the first combat power! ”

At the same time, the capital of the United States, Washington.

At the same time, it was almost noon in Washington, the capital.

Recently, Japan sent a peace envoy, Suzaburo, who, together with Ambassador Kichizaburo Nomura, met with the United States in what seemed to be a hope for the last hope for peace. During the night, a long telegram came from Japan, the last of which never came.

Japan's calculation was to let the Americans know the news of the war only before the start of the war, and not only declared war, which was justified, but also made a sneak attack.

Only now does the last paragraph turn. It was translated in cipher, and it turned out to be a document for the cessation of peace talks and a document for the declaration of war.

When the two Saburo saw it, they were shocked. It's now an hour since the time for the declaration of war manuscript.

At the same time, there was an order from Japan to destroy the password.

The two immediately rushed to the U.S. State Department.

Meantime. U.S. Department of State.

The US State Department, the Presidential Administration and other departments have already received a telegram from the Pacific Fleet: "Pearl Harbor was attacked. This is not a drill. ”

This is reminiscent of the intelligence of the Chinese military command, according to deciphered Japanese intelligence: "Japan is going to exchange rubber and the USSR for wood." "So he sent intelligence to the United States and concluded that Japan was going to do it.

This also reminds people of the hidden words deciphered in the famous telegram: "East wind, rain." ”

This code phrase comes from the emperor's poem, haiku: "The vast seas are all brothers, why is the turmoil surging about?" ”

There are several different translations of Emperor Meiji's haiku:

"I regard the four seas as brothers, why are the waves so turbulent?"

"Within the four seas, they are all brothers. In the vast sea, what is the competition? ”

"All over the world are brothers, why is there a turmoil?"

"The vast seas are not compatriots. In the vast world, what is the competition? ”

In fact, this is nothing more than post-war American and Japanese propaganda. For the researcher of history, this is a smokescreen, a garbage.

The purpose was to portray the emperor as a passive recipient of the war, and to portray the real executors of the war, such as Hideki Tojo and Isoroku Yamamoto, as the chief criminals of the war.

It is true that the emperor does not directly issue military orders, only that the emperor agrees to the orders issued by either the emperor or the base camp.

In essence, however, the most important staff officers of the various staff headquarters in the base camp were basically those who held real power among the emperor's cronies. These people are heaven and cannot be offended. Their actions reflect the emperor's true intentions everywhere.

The ministers could not resist them, that is, they could not resist the emperor.

At the same time, U.S. intelligence deciphered a message sent from Japan to the Japanese embassy.

At this time, two Japanese old Saburo, Laisu Saburo and Nomura Kichizaburo came. They handed over a deciphered manuscript that Secretary of State Hull had just read.

Hull, who had already read the deciphered manuscript, pretended to read the Japanese reply carefully, and then said with unconcealable anger: "This is what I have never seen in my fifty years in office such a despicable government and such a hypocritical and distorted document!" ”

It's a funny scene. Just like playing cards, the United States has already peeked at what cards Japan is going to play, and it still waits for the Japanese to play cards, pretends to see this card for the first time, and reprimands it in a very indignant and stern tone.

Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and undeclared war immediately spread throughout the United States and the world.

It was precisely because Japan launched an attack before the formal declaration of war was submitted, which aroused the indignation of the entire United States.

However, Japan's next series of moves, like an extremely beautiful combination of punches, beat the United States to the point where it was completely powerless and shocked the world.

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1. The Chicheng was later sunk in the Battle of Midway.