,834 Pacific Rebellion II The Japanese were attacked?

"Wei Gong! Wei Gong! Wake up! Major General Wu Chongwu, who was sleeping with a white young woman who had been taken from Hawaii in his arms, was woken up by a sharp and stiff shout. This fat man, these days, has been running around, it is rare to be able to sleep well with a beautiful woman, and I don't know who it is, so unreasonable to wake him up! I don't know who can ruthlessly disturb the sweet dreams of this fat man with a wide heart and a fat body?

Wu Fatzi yawned and sat up from the tatami mat, and after dozens of seconds he felt that his consciousness had returned to him a little. At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of "rumbling" thunder outside. Uh, no. That's not thunder! It's an explosion! After all, he also graduated from the first phase of Huangpu, although he has not been in the army for a few days, but the thunder and cannon can still be distinguished! It's not like the beautiful woman named Janice next to him who doesn't know anything, and is still there looking at him with a confused expression. Wu Chong put on his clothes haphazardly, opened the door, and saw his secretary and the lieutenant colonel Hu Dingxin of the Navy Transportation Command standing at the door. The faces of the two people were already blue, and although Hu Dingxin was still trying to make a calm appearance, the beads of sweat on his face kept rolling down...... Although it was not the Chinese Navy base that was attacked, there were several freighters in the Naval Transportation Command in this hapless Truk Atoll!

"Janice, stay here, don't go anywhere, I'll take you back to China when I get back." Wu Fatzi didn't forget to comfort the beautiful woman at this time, and then followed the two men outside.

Walking outside this Japanese-style courtyard used by the Shipping Bureau of the Chinese Joint Logistics Command, Wu Chong was stunned by the scene in front of him. The entire Truk Lagoon seems to be burning! From a distance, Wu Chong saw at a glance that a 10,000-ton oil tanker belonging to the China Pacific Trading Company (the oil had been transported to the oil depot on the shore) was burning with a raging fire, illuminating a large area of the sea like an oversized torch, and there was obviously more than one such torch. In addition to the seven or eight slowly sinking ships burning in the lagoon, several small islands around the lagoon were also filled with fires, some of which were caused by bomb explosions that ignited something, and some of which were ground anti-aircraft guns firing indiscriminately into the sky. In addition, there were scattered pillars of light shooting into the air, swinging around in search of incoming planes.

"This ...... Who did this? Wu Zhong asked in a muttered voice. Isn't it night? How can they still be dispatched? ”

The answer to this question was a few flares that fell slowly, and the place where these flares fell was a certain distance from Takenoshima, where Wu Chong was located. Still, a large expanse of illuminated sea could be seen, as well as two battlecruisers desperately spewing flames into the air.

"The enemy is attacking the Hiei and Kirishima!" Hu Dingxin watched it for a long time and finally sighed softly, "Wei Gong, I saw the British Swordfish torpedo bombers, they actually used this old biplane to surprise attack the heavily defended Truk Lagoon at night. Really, really well done! ”

Fatty Wu also breathed a big sigh of relief, fortunately it was the British who did it, not the Chinese! If the marshal suddenly turned his face with the Japanese devil, then his two hundred catties would be confessed in the sea in a foreign land. Only then did he turn his head and shout to his secretary: "Go and send a telegram to the top and tell them that it was the British carrier-based planes that attacked Truk!" ”

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"Your Excellency! Please order the air force to be dispatched! Let the aircraft carriers lurking north of Truk Island also send carrier-based aircraft......"

At this time, at the base headquarters on Summer Island in the Truk Lagoon, a naval staff officer who seemed to be stupefied by the sight in front of him was loudly giving advice to Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander of the Combined Fleet, who had secretly arrived here to inspect the military situation. He seems to have forgotten that the Japanese army and naval aviation were not trained in night take-off, landing and combat at all! Let them attack at this time, isn't it in vain?

Although Yamamoto Fifty-six was also shocked, he did not lose his due judgment, he knew very well that on such a night, under such a fierce anti-aircraft fire from ground and surface ships, this night attack by the British would not cause much damage to the warships of the Combined Fleet! Especially those two battle cruisers, they were now protected by layers of mine nets, and the British Swordfish could not hurt them at all. As for dive bombers...... On such a big night, you shouldn't be able to play dive bombing.

So what Yamamoto is worried about now is not the warships at all, but the dozens of transport ships in the Truk Lagoon!

"Toyoda-kun, how many transport ships and tankers are there in the Truk Lagoon now?" Yamamoto turned around and asked the commander of the Truk base, Vice Admiral Toyoda.

"Your Excellency, Truk now has 42 freighters and 7 oil tankers, of which 2 freighters and 2 oil tankers are Chinese." Vice Takeshi Toyoda paused with a gloomy face, and then continued: "All the transport ships and tankers here together are almost 350,000 tons!" If they're all sunk, we'll ......."

Thinking of the heavy burden that had been put on the Combined Fleet to capture Australia, capture the Lanyin, and attack the west coast of the Americas, and then look at the lagoon burning in front of him, Yamamoto Fifty-six couldn't help but smile bitterly.

In all fairness, the defense of this Truk lagoon was also world-class, with more than 300 anti-aircraft guns, 265 aircraft, and more than a dozen batteries, and since the Truk Lagoon was surrounded by a circle of coral islands, the guns of enemy battleships could not hit the targets in the lagoon at all. Therefore, after Japan got the place, it immediately began construction, and after more than 20 years of construction, it became the base camp for Japan to go south to Australia. But who would have thought that those British, who seemed to be in the waning days, would actually come up with such an amazing way of playing as the night attack on Truk! At once, the Japanese Combined Fleet, which was good at surprise attacks, was caught off guard......

"Boom! Rumble! "Two more loud bangs. Yamamoto looked in the direction of the explosion and saw two more fireballs on the sea! Apparently two more freighters were hit by the British. Looking at the Kirishima and Hiei, there is no longer a single aircraft attacking. Yamamoto's face was a little more gloomy, these British were much more cunning than expected, they did not continue to attack the well-defended battle cruisers, but made cargo ships and oil tankers their main targets! As long as all the transports here are sunk, their southward attack will have to be postponed for a long time.

"Can you figure out the approximate location of the other party?" Yamamoto put down the binoculars in his hand and turned to the chart table. Q: Lying there, he sketched with a pencil and a ruler for a long time, and the chief of staff, Ugaki, was entangled.

Ugaki shook his head and said with a wry smile, "It is estimated that they are about 150 nautical miles away from us...... The location should be to the south, but I don't know exactly where. As he spoke, he looked up at Yamamoto, "Your Excellency, do you want to send a seaplane to search?" ”

Yamamoto circled around the chart table a few times and asked, "Where is Nagumo's Second Air Fleet?" ”

"150 nautical miles due north of the Truk Lagoon."

When answering this sentence, Ugaki looked at Yamamoto with admiring eyes. According to the original plan, Nagumo's Second Air Fleet was also to be on standby in the Truk Lagoon. But Yamamoto thinks that this arrangement is not safe, what if the British eat the bear's heart and leopard gall to sneak attack? As a result, the general was really blindfolded, but no one expected that the British would come to attack at night.

Yamamoto raised his hand and looked at his watch, "It's 10 o'clock in the evening, how many times do you think the enemy will come?" ”

Several people were stunned when they heard this, and Commander Yamamoto was looking forward to how many more times the British would come? Yamamoto crossed his fingers and calculated seriously, "The British's swordfish is very slow, if it is 150 nautical miles, it will take at least 3 hours to go back and forth plus take-off and landing, and it will take 1 hour on Truk Island...... That means a raid will take four hours, and if they want to do it again, it will take five and a half to six hours without moving. Nagumo should be 300 nautical miles away from them, and 180 nautical miles in 6 hours! ”

"Your Excellency means to let Nagumo rush south and shorten the distance between the two sides? An air strike tomorrow morning? Ugaki already understood what Yamamoto meant, he thought for a moment and said: "Six hours later, it will be 4 o'clock in the morning tomorrow, this is close to the equator, the sky dawns early, and it is almost able to dispatch carrier-based aircraft." However, the general direction of the other party is still unknown, so where should they pursue? ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six sneered, and pointed his finger at the narrow New Island of Ireland on the chart: "I don't want to guess the specific location of the British, and it is difficult to guess, but I am sure that they will go back to Australia after the attack!" To return to Australia, you have to go to the Solomon Sea or the Bismarck Sea. And the entrance to these two seas is on both sides of the New Island of Ireland, so let Nagumo's fleet move forward with the goal of the New Island of Ireland! He was ordered to pursue as far as 100 nautical miles from the island of New Ireland. ”

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"Auxiliary marshal, the Admiralty has received another telegram from Truk that it was the British carrier-based aircraft that launched a night attack there!" Chen Si held a telegram in his hand and said to Luo Yaoguo: "In addition, about dozens of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers and British Blenheim bombers that flew from New Britain Island to Truk Island also participated in the air raid. Now that the first round of attacks is over, about a dozen steamers have been sunk and eight are seriously damaged, including one of our oil tankers and one freighter. However, the losses of the Japanese combat ships were not large, and their aircraft carriers were not on Truk Island. ”

"Oh, so the Japanese don't have much to lose!" After listening to Chen Si's report, Bai Chongxi suddenly came out with such a sentence, and his tone seemed to be more disappointed than happy.

"It should be a big loss!" The corners of Luo Yaoguo's eyes twitched slightly, the commander of the British Australian Grand Fleet seemed to be Cunningham! He was the most outstanding British admiral of World War II in history...... If it weren't for tonight's night attack, I would have almost forgotten about this person, and it looks like Yamamoto Isoroku has met a good opponent again.

"The assistant commander is right, the losses of the Japanese are very large." Chen Si took Luo Yaoguo's words and explained: "Cunningham played beautifully, not targeting Japan's warships, but switching to transport ships, which is precisely to hit Japan's death hole. Little Japan is now spread too big. It covers almost the entire Pacific Ocean, but the total tonnage of their merchant ships is only more than 3 million tons, and since the start of the war, they have been sunk by American submarines and the Z Fleet at least 700,000 tons, even if we lease 300,000 tons of ships to Japan, their total tonnage will still drop to about 3 million tons, if they lose another 400,000 tons in Truk, how can they continue this war? ”

At this time and time, Japan's national strength was far less than that of the same period in history, and the tonnage of merchant ships was much less. However, the rate of loss after the start of the war was greater than in history. In just 3 months, the Japanese lost more than a quarter of their shipping capacity! I don't know how the Japanese will maintain the supply of the entire Pacific theater next?

"The Japanese are going to be unbearable?" He Yingqin took a breath and asked rhetorically: "They even grabbed the home port of the US Pacific Fleet, so they can't fight just because they lack a few merchant ships, right?" ”

"It's not that we can't fight, it's just that the pace of the Japanese will be slower and slower." Luo Yaoguo looked at Australia on the map table and swallowed, "That's also a good thing, at least it's not bad for us, it's been 3 months since the one-year appointment, and there are still 9 months left If the Japanese can't take Australia, then we have to justify it!" ”

"Brother Fuwen, listen to what you mean, we won't attack Australia for the time being." Bai Chongxi knew that Luo Yaoguo had always coveted Australia, so he asked.

Luo Yaoguo smiled: "It's only nine months, don't worry, let Britain and Japan consume it first, we still have a lot of things to do." It's almost time to start there in India. Wang Junhao had already negotiated with the Khan of Afghanistan to exchange the equipment of five light infantry divisions for the support of the Zahir dynasty. In addition, Zhongg can't wait, they have been sending people every day these days, and they are also asking for an increase in the strength of the southward marching army......" As he spoke, the corners of his mouth slipped into a wicked smile, "Our Chairman Chiang is also impatient in Tbilisi, it's time for him to march to Persia." Otherwise, Comrade Stalin would have squeezed it dry, and it would have been time for the great leader to move his nest, and the people of India would need him! ”

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At the moment, the South Pacific.

Great Britain and Australia Grand Fleet, flagship, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

Under the morning glow, the sparkling waves were split by the V-shaped bow, and the 20,000-ton hull rose and fell, galloping south.

On the island, Admiral Cunningham stood by the chart platform with his arms crossed, watching the staff officers discuss calculations around the charts, and his face gradually showed a solemn look.

The second wave of air strikes on Truk Atoll has ended, and the fleet is fleeing in an all-out southeasterly direction. A total of forty-eight ships were sunk or damaged in two waves of air raids, including two battleships, two heavy cruisers, and three light cruisers...... However, there are just no aircraft carriers!

Of course, this result must be exaggerated, and if the actual result can be divided by two on this basis, Cunningham will be satisfied. However, even in this exaggerated victory, there are no Japanese aircraft carriers! It's clear that they're not inside the Truk Atoll, but hiding in the depths of the ocean nearby, and they should be heading south now, right?

Cunningham frowned slightly, and a hint of mockery slipped across the corners of his mouth. It is a pity that the Japanese aircraft carriers did not sink them, but those Japanese aircraft carriers wanted to find themselves in the South Pacific, but it was delusional. This sea area was originally the sphere of influence of the British Empire, and it was as long as you advance a few hundred nautical miles southeast to enter the Solomon Islands, and from the Solomon Islands to the south is a maddeningly complex sea with thousands of islands dotted among them, and it is like looking for a needle in a haystack for the Japanese to find their fleet there!

And as long as their aircraft carriers are not wiped out by the Japanese, their Truk Atoll could be attacked again at any time! Do they dare to concentrate the southbound fleet in Truk again? Do they dare to regard Truk Island as the foundation of Japan's foothold in the South Pacific?

The threat of Japan's southward movement should be lifted for the time being, unless they annihilate American aircraft carriers off the west coast of America, and then concentrate all 8 aircraft carriers in the South Pacific, so that there may be a chance to force themselves to lead aircraft carriers to meet the Bismarck Islands! Otherwise, there may not be a chance of victory against the 300 American planes on the island of New Britain with more than 300 planes on four Japanese aircraft carriers.

But what about China? Thinking of this ancient empire that has dominated the East since ancient times, Admiral Cunningham's expression has never been more solemn, more than 20 million square kilometers, 600 million people, no less than the industrial strength of Britain, plus a Germany allied with China, and a Tsarist Russia restored with the support of China and Germany...... What makes him even more disturbing is that the Chinese have now seized Singapore, opening the gateway to Australia in the south and India in the west! And will the next target for the Chinese be Australia?

Just as Admiral Cunningham was considering how to use his six aircraft carriers to deal with both the Japanese and Chinese threats at the same time, hurried footsteps came from behind.

"Report, radar spotted an unidentified aircraft, about 50 kilometers away from us! Sir, are we going to send planes to intercept us? ”

This voice suddenly made the air in the island tense, Cunningham hurriedly walked to the chart table, groaned slightly, raised his hand to look at the time, and slowly spoke: "It's 5:10, the B-17 and Blenheim who took off from New Britain Island should have returned a long time ago, this plane must be Japanese!" They found us. ”

"Your Excellency, what should we do then?"

"Head southeast at full speed, and as long as we get into the Solomon Islands, we'll be safe."

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