On 4 March, 150 kilometers north of the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, an aircraft carrier formation consisting of the aircraft carriers Baiqi and Huo Qubing was sailing rapidly against the sea breeze. As the planes on the flight deck prepare for takeoff, HNA pilots sit in enclosed cockpits for final checks, ground crews on the escalators help out, and ground crews below perform final checks on ammunition, engines, aircraft parts, and fuel – their duties and HNA's strict regulations make them efficient and meticulous.

The sabotage fleet with the aircraft carrier Huo Qubing as the core perfectly cut off the US logistics and transportation lines for nearly a week, and during this time, the American defenders on the Hawaiian Islands did not get a single bullet of supplies, did not get a barrel of oil, and did not get a single steel plate of materials.

After that, the sabotage fleet was divided into two, and the Daqin battle cruiser, two cruisers, and four destroyers continued to block the U.S. transportation line, and the Chinese ocean-going submarine group from Midway Island also sent ten submarines to the east of the Hawaiian Islands to cooperate with the sabotage fleet to block the transportation line.

The other two aircraft carriers are the core of the fleet, whose mission is to seize air supremacy over the Hawaiian Islands, annihilate the US Air Force planes on the islands, destroy their anti-aircraft firepower, and send bombers to bomb important military targets and defense facilities on the islands. The construction of a military airfield on Midway had been completed and manned by Army fighters and bombers, but the distance from Midway to the Hawaiian Islands exceeded the maximum range of the aircraft, and the task of air supremacy could only be carried out by HNA.

The continuous operations have made the fleet a little tired, the soldiers and pilots need to rest, and the warships need to be maintained and repaired, but maintaining two aircraft carriers in the western Pacific is an inevitable requirement for sea supremacy, and at present, we can only hope that the fifth and sixth aircraft carriers in the local shipyard will enter service as soon as possible, so that the fleet will have time to take turns to rest.

The fleet commanders knew very well that after taking Hawaii, the direction of China's attack would be directed at the Japanese archipelago, so that the task of the navy would not be lightened. On the one hand, it will be unbearable to guard against the nouveau riche United States, on the other hand, to support the army in operations, and the two aircraft carriers of the South China Sea Fleet in the southwest also have to guard against the British.

But I can't think about it so much now, because the offensive and defensive battle of the Hawaiian Islands is about to begin. By the time the fleet dispatched its planes, the landing fleet from Midway had approached a range of about 200 kilometers west of Kauai Island under the cover of the escort fleet, and the escort fleet consisted of two super battleships, the Taishan and Huashan, as the core, accompanied by a large number of cruisers and destroyers. The fleet was asked to move in anti-submarine formation, and there were no surface warships in Pearl Harbor, but intelligence showed that the U.S. Navy still had three submarines at Pearl Harbor, which were currently the biggest threat to the fleet.

After more than a month of preparations, the Chinese army was well fed with supplies, and the islands such as Wake Island and Midway Island had built relatively complete port facilities and land barracks; when they set out from Midway Island, there were troops of the 1st Marine Division and the 10th Army of the Fourth Army on the island, and the 1st Marine Division as the main force for the landing on the beach, and the army units followed suit, and there was also the 11th Army on Wake Island as a reserve, and once a difficult situation arose in the battle for the islands, the 11th Army would immediately support it.

The transportation of these nearly 100,000 troops was not the most difficult, and the reason for the delay of almost a month was caused by logistical supplies. For this battle for the islands, China invested 600 transport ships and hired more than 300 civilian transport ships, most of which were merchant ships of more than 5,000 tons, which greatly supplemented China's maritime capacity.

Every transport ship, every merchant ship, perfectly reflects a country's industrial strength, and the "Ziqiang Ship", which has been built since more than eight years ago, can reflect this even more. From the beginning of industrialization, standardization and assembly lines have filled every corner of Huaguo Industry, which makes Huaguo Industry have a huge scale at the same time, but also has a very high efficiency.

For example, in the case of strengthening materials, structures and power systems, the life of self-strengthening wheels was greatly extended, and in 1909, Huaguo Shipyard actually produced 960 such transport ships, with an average of 80 ships per month. Although the price has risen, it is still popular with the military and civilians, and orders are lined up in the shipyard office. After the start of the war, the statistical department expected that the production of such ships would increase to 95 per month, with room for further increases.

Despite this, it is not an easy task to transport supplies to the central part of the Pacific Ocean, and the fuel for armored vehicles produced from the Chengdu Petrochemical Plant must first be transported to Yibin by rail, then replaced by transport ships, cross the Yangtze River, rest in Shanghai for a period of time, and then sail to Okinawa, Midway, and Wake Island, and finally reach the hands of the front-line armored troops.

Finally, the first batch of supplies were stored on Wake Island and Midway Island, and the Chinese army couldn't wait to launch the offensive and defensive battle of the Hawaiian Islands. After taking off from the Baiqi, the navigator Wang Wei flew quickly in the direction of Kauai after piloting his own pirate formation, his plane did not carry bombs, but was loaded with ammunition in machine guns and nose cannons. This time it was an air supremacy mission and did not require a ground attack. The most exciting thing is that he will face dozens of planes deployed by the United States in Hawaii, which is even more exciting for Wang Wei, who lacks the baptism of air combat, than entering the cave room.

Ground attack is the task of the bomber squadron behind him, and he hopes that the Americans can hold on a little longer, so that they can fight more air battles, and he also wants to hone his air combat skills through American pilots!

Even without much warning, Raymond, the commander of the garrison on Oahu, knew that the storm was coming, and the tension could condense into droplets. Beginning two days ago, he successively dispatched two small torpedo boats and 15 reconnaissance planes in an attempt to obtain information that could be used for reference, but the two torpedo boats returned in vain, and the reconnaissance planes were even more miserable, with only three returning in their entirety. Arnold then reluctantly suggested abandoning the aerial reconnaissance operation, on the grounds that if the reconnaissance continued, there would be no aircraft on the two airfields to take to the air at the time of the war. Raymond accepted Arnold's suggestion, and the previous reconnaissance had not been for nothing, and the downing of the reconnaissance plane at least indicated that the Chinese would soon attack.

Without reconnaissance planes, the US military would have no long-range early warning means, and they would not have the various types of radars equipped on Chinese warships, nor would they have long-range early warning radars, and even the concept of radar had just been produced in Britain, and scientists had not yet had time to study it after it was included in the research catalogue of the Military Research Council. Raymond's method was to set up reconnaissance posts on the islets and reefs around the archipelago, and to arrange the most primitive early warning by artificial means.

At this moment, the three American soldiers stayed on the reef about three kilometers north of Oahu, and they were forced to build a pergola of grass and trees, set up in two layers, with a log support at the bottom, and the living area and observation area of the three soldiers on the top. Every three days, Kauai sends three other soldiers to replace them, and these three days are extremely tormenting, and they cannot be moved to avoid falling into the sea, and they have to be unsheltered and subject to the sea breeze at all times. Eating, drinking, and sleeping all three of them have to be carried out in this small pergola, and it can be said that not to become mentally ill is the greatest wish.

"Luffy, do you see if there's a black spot over there?" One soldier lowered his binoculars and pointed to the distant sky and asked another.

One of the three was sleeping, and a young soldier named Lucci was playing with his stubble, and when he heard the question, he took the binoculars and looked at it, at first it was not clear, but after a few seconds the black dot became clear, and after a minute Lucci finally saw what the black dot was.

"It's planes, many, many planes! It must be a Chinese plane, immediately send electricity to Oahu! With that, Lucci tossed the telescope aside and tried to lift the canvas that was on the equipment in the deepest part of the pergola, a wireless transmitter that could make short contacts. It was the most important piece of equipment, and the only means by which the three soldiers could contact the rear, and the commander had said that he would value this equipment more than his own life.

But the problem is that the canvas that was originally covered on this device has become a quilt for the three soldiers when they sleep, and the waterproof canvas has replaced the blankets carried by the soldiers, and it is the important canvas on the soldier who was woken up!

"Why is there no response?" Lucci was in a hurry, the radio didn't respond at all, and the equipment needed to be carefully maintained in a good environment, let alone in the humid sea, and had been abused by three soldiers.

The more anxious he was, the more he couldn't, the three soldiers were lying on the equipment trying to influence this old man with their sincerity, the Huaguo plane was getting closer and closer, and Lu Qi could even hear the huge roar of the aircraft engine.

"It's over, it's over!" Lucci sat down in the hut in despair, but the device still did not respond to the prayers of the three men, because the sea water had already eroded the electrical circuits inside the device, and even professional maintenance personnel could not get it back to work in a short time.

The bright red five-pointed star on the Chinese plane caught the eyes of the three people, and these planes swaggered over the guard post without attacking the three American soldiers who were scared to death. However, the surviving three were not remembered until fifteen days later, and the Chinese pilot, who had already captured the Hawaiian Islands, happened to remember that there was also an American observation post here, and when the ships were sent to search, they found that the three soldiers had already been turned into human beings. (To be continued.) )