Chapter 389: A Great Fireball Burning in the Pacific Ocean

With the record of two ships, Liu Anshun struck while the iron was hot and gave the order to attack again.

"Three, four, launch immediately, attack target A and target C."

Two torpedoes were fired again, heading straight for the other two Japanese submarines who were about to set sail out of here. The previous two submarines died silently, so that the commanders of the other two submarines gave the order to leave. At this moment, they all know very well that there is definitely a potential enemy here, and they must leave as soon as possible, otherwise their lives will be lost.

However, just as the two submarines started their engines, two torpedoes had already arrived at the same time, just like the previous two Japanese submarines. The moment the torpedo and the hull came into contact, a violent explosion occurred, followed by an explosion of the submarine. The only result was that there were two more splashes on the surface of the sea, and there was a lot more floating debris.

"The goals have been accomplished, and now we will slip away, so that the American destroyers will not beat us as Japanese submarines." Liu Anshun immediately gave the order to retreat, and he knew very well that there were still US destroyers on the sea at this moment, and these destroyers were all those ships that were on guard outside Pearl Harbor, and they did not stay in the harbor. The movement here will definitely attract the attention of the American destroyer, and although he is confident in his car, there is no need to risk it now. The task is completed, and it is better to wait for this time than to go.

"Dive to 250 meters, head home, full speed ahead."

After receiving the order, the submarine began to turn and quickly dived to a depth of 250 meters, heading towards the Ryukyu Islands.

Liu Anshun patted their butts and left, but at the moment the battle on Pearl Harbor continued.

In Kimmel's eyes. Pearl Harbor, once peaceful, is now in ruins, full of burning flames, billowing smoke, and panicked crowds. The proud Pacific power of the United States is now only a few destroyers that are about to sink, and what big ships and what aircraft carriers are now either barely sinking or have been buried in the harbor.

The Japanese planes were still wreaking havoc in the sky, shooting and killing people on the ground, and the American planes that had just emerged were soon surrounded and shot down. The anti-aircraft fire point was also short-lived.

The first batch. In the second and third groups, Kimmel was escorted to safety by guards when the first Japanese planes arrived. A lookout through an underground bunker. Look at the sun flags that pass by everywhere in the sky. He already hated that small island nation to the bitter end.

I thought that after the end of the third batch of Japanese aircraft. This airstrike is finally coming to an end. He was also glad that the oil depot in the rear had not been attacked, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable. However, the arrival of the fourth batch of Japanese planes made a direct attack on the oil depot, which was just over two kilometers from the port.

"Hurry up and stop them. Hurry up! Kimmel was a little heartbroken, and his fists kept pounding against the wall.

But his order was so pale, although there were still many anti-aircraft positions around the oil depot, the Japanese planes just accepted death and did not care about those anti-aircraft fire networks at all. A Type 99 dive bomber swooped down from a high altitude directly to the oil depot, just when it was still a kilometer away from the oil depot. The cockpit was broken by an anti-aircraft machine gun, and the two drivers inside were killed. Even though the plane had lost control, the inertia combined with the gravity of the ground meant that the Type 99 dive bomber did not slow down, and it plummeted into smoke and quickly fell towards the oil depot below.

Amid the panicked shouts of the American soldiers below, the plane landed directly in the middle of the oil depot, and the plane exploded and detonated the bomb under the belly. There was a loud explosion from the oil depot, followed by billowing smoke. Fortunately, the plane did not directly hit the barrels of heavy oil and the oil storage tanks, otherwise the tragedy would have been imminent.

There were also sane American soldiers who hurriedly pulled up the fire extinguishing facilities, trying to extinguish the burning flames. The American soldiers, who had lost their minds because of fear, were panicking to get out of here.

The fire in the oil depot was constantly emitting heat, and the scorching flames were burning next to the oil storage tank. Time seemed to slow down at this moment, and the fear on the faces of the American soldiers in the panic, the angry roars of the officers, the hideous expressions, and the constantly waving arms were all clearly visible in slow motion.

There was no tragedy at the oil depot, but the Japanese planes in the sky were gone, and suddenly more than a dozen dive bombers dropped heavy aerial bombs under their bellies at high altitude. The whistling sound of the shells made the American soldiers who were fighting the fire below feel terrified.

Many American soldiers who were about to put down the fire faucets in their hands and quickly flee for their lives were swallowed up by the flames of the explosion at the oil depot in an instant. Even those American soldiers who have already taken the road and run wildly cannot escape the devouring flames.

The huge oil depot originally built on the mountainside made several earth-shattering explosions, and then the explosions continued to be heard, and the huge flame ball quickly spread. The entire hill has completely disappeared, and it is all shrouded in fire. Oil storage tanks that were blown off by the explosion, burning iron sheets flew everywhere. There were explosions everywhere, not a moment of silence.

The oil storage tanks that had been lifted off also exploded when they hit the ground, splashing oil and water everywhere and causing flames everywhere. The port at the foot of the mountain was also turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and the oil pipeline exploded one after another. Heavy oil from the explosion was sprayed everywhere, and where there was oil and water, there was a fire.

In just five minutes, the entire Pearl Harbor was in flames. And this is just the initial performance, to know what tens of millions of tons of heavy oil means, if piled up, it is comparable to a mountain. And it's a very combustible heavy oil, and unless there is a massive tsunami in Hawaii that floods the entire island of Oahu several times, there is absolutely no way to extinguish the fire.

For the Americans, this is a great disaster. At this time, most of Oahu (the same place as Oahu) was in flames. The flames even spread to residential areas at one point, and Honolulu literally turned into a fire.

Located at the lowest point in the plain between the Kolau and Waiana Mountains on the south coast of Oahu and adjacent to the only deep-water port, Port Honolulu, Pearl Harbor is a U.S. Navy base and shipbuilding base, as well as one of the largest and best safe anchors in the North Pacific Islands.

The heavy oil depot of the United States is built in the Kolau Mountains, and the explosion of 10 million tons of heavy oil is comparable to that of a million-ton nuclear bomb, except that there is no nuclear radiation, and the lethality is not weaker than that of a nuclear bomb at all. Roosevelt of the United States got the state of Hawaii from the aborigines, and it took decades of hard work to build. The industrial facilities above are already very well developed, shipyards, repair shops, various machine-building plants.

But now, these facilities, which Americans spent nearly half a century building, have been engulfed in burning fires. The American soldiers who had survived the Japanese air raids were all engulfed in fire that was quickly satisfying. Even the American soldiers who were hiding in bunkers were not spared, they were already surrounded by fire, either suffocated in the smoke or roasted alive. Even Kimmel will not be an exception, such a catastrophe can no one predict.

In less than half an hour, the entire port of Hawaii was covered in thick smoke, and the fire had already formed and spread. The inhabitants of Oahu have fled as much as they could, and the back of Oahu is littered with departing ships. A large number of plantations have been burned, and even the houses have not been spared.

The fire borrows the wind, and it is a flame that cannot be extinguished. The only way out for the residents living on the island is to get out of here as soon as possible, and such a disaster is worse than a volcanic eruption.

Fortunately, this is an island, and if there is a fire, it is also burning on the island, and it will not burn anywhere else. If this is landlocked, that would be a real disaster.

Flames kept disappearing in the smoke, and the surrounding sea water seemed to be tumbling in the flames. The morning sun had been obscured, and the sky was gradually darkening under the thick smoke.

Oahu has become a fireball burning in the Pacific Ocean, and the fire will destroy everything, especially with the help of heavy oil, which lasts for a long time, and it is already a foregone conclusion.

As the executioners of the matter, the Japanese planes, having completed their final mission, immediately left. They left the United States with a wound that would be difficult to recover for a hundred years, and there were only a handful of American soldiers in the entire Pearl Harbor who could really survive.

When Nagumo Tadaichi's aircraft carrier fleet group received the last batch of carrier-based aircraft, they saw the aerial pictures of Pearl Harbor, especially the last few photos of Pearl Harbor in the burning.

In the picture, the industrial facilities were engulfed in flames, and in the last photo, nothing can be seen except burning islands and billowing smoke rising into the sky.

This made Nanyun Zhongyi's admiration for the deputy chief of staff of the base camp even more serious. Their previous plan did not think of destroying the US logistics facilities at all, but only aimed at the US Pacific Fleet. Compared with the expected results, such a scene is now too big to be a big victory.

"Send the good news of victory to the base camp, announce the results of this battle to the whole army, and comfort the more than 100 outstanding pilots of the empire."

In this sneak attack, Japan won a huge victory, and it also lost nearly 100 planes of its own, mainly the second and third batches of aircraft, and the casualties were very heavy. However, with these achievements, not to mention more than a hundred pilots, all the planes were lost, and it was also a huge victory for Japan.

As a result, the United States will have completely lost Pearl Harbor, a strategic location in the Pacific, in the next two to three years. It was more strategically important to Japan than it was to occupy all of Australia.

After the news of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the defeat of the US fleet spread, the whole country in Japan rejoiced, and Hideki Tojo even said: "I promise that we will finally achieve the final victory, and the United States has been trampled under the feet of the Great Japanese Empire!" ”

Yamamoto said: "The war is finally about to begin, and although there is a lot of noise everywhere now, all this will disappear, and although the victory at Pearl Harbor is too important to be used for hype, it will make the Japanese people ignore the seriousness of the matter." After all, the United States still has a very strong industrial foundation, and Japan must make new decisions as soon as possible to deal with the future situation. (To be continued.) )