After flying in the sky for several hours aboard a HE111 airliner, Colonel Chen Xinrui visited the Zhanjiang Military Port, China's largest naval base, in Guangzhou Bay, for the first time in his life. Now it is the home port of China's South Sea Fleet, and the Chinese Pacific Fleet, which was previously based in the port of Rabaul, has now been incorporated into the South Sea Fleet, so more than 90% of the Chinese Navy's combat ships are moored in Zhanjiang's port. When the car sent by the Nanyang Fleet Command drove into Zhanjiang Port, Chen Xinrui's eyes were not attracted by the three Zhongshan-class aircraft carriers and six Guangdong-class battlecruisers in the port, which were as huge as mountains. Instead, he set his sights on two old-fashioned battle cruisers, which were at most 10,000 tons and somewhat outdated, which were Kurama-class battlecruisers that originally belonged to the Imperial Japanese Navy, one of which was "picked up" from the mudflats outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the other was fished out of Hangzhou Bay near Ningbo. The two wrecked ships were later sent to the Mawei shipyard owned by the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group for a little repair, and then served as a practice ship for several years, and after the outbreak of the world war last year, they were sent to the Guangdong Longxue Shipyard for a so-so transformation, and now they are officially incorporated into the Nanyang Fleet, and are also named "Northern Xinjiang" and "Southern Xinjiang". And this time, Chen Xinrui's mission is related to these two old-fashioned battle cruisers.

The headquarters of the Nanyang Fleet is now located on the battlecruiser "Guangdong," and after stepping onto this battleship with a huge appearance, Chen Xinrui realized that the ship was actually very crowded, and Zhanjiang was located in the tropics. The steel cabins were very stuffy, so most of the hatches were open, and officers and men in white naval uniforms came in and out. It's very busy. This battle cruiser was even more crowded with not only more than a thousand crew members of the ship, but also the chief officer, staff officer and staff of the fleet command.

"Report! Colonel Chen Xinrui, deputy chief of staff of the Central Guard Division, was ordered to report for duty! "When she came to the door of the fleet commander's office, Chen Xinrui tidied up the skirt unique to female officers, and then stood up and saluted meticulously." In. It wasn't until Feng Yundong's voice came from inside that she pushed the door in.

Feng Yundong sat behind a desk. The white sleeves are adorned with three hard gold hoops, which are the symbol of the admiral. The only decoration in this modest office is a photo of Chang Ruiqing's military uniform hanging on the bulkhead, and in the lower right corner of the photo, there is the words "General of Gift" written by Chang Ruiqing himself. Feng Yundong and Chen Xinrui have certainly met in the past. At that time, Chen Xinrui was the prime minister's adjutant who everyone had to give three points, but every time General Feng saw this adjutant, he was also official, and now it is the same. He motioned for Chen Xinrui to sit down. He looked at him with unfriendly eyes, in the minds of the Chinese naval officers at the moment. It is still an unlucky thing for a woman to go on a warship, and Chen Xinrui also brought an embarrassing mission.

"Yesterday I received a call from the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy," Feng Yundong said in an official accent from Guangxi, "that the Prime Minister has a special and very important task for you to carry out, and that you need the full cooperation of the Nanyang Fleet?" ”

Chen Xinrui nodded, Feng Yundong gave her a very uncomfortable feeling, as if she was an unpopular person. Feng Yundong was silent for a while: "Okay, let's talk about what you have to do." ”

Chen Xinrui took out a stack of papers from the briefcase she brought with her. handed it to Feng Yundong, it was a copy of the "Intimidator Plan" and Chang Ruiqing's warrant. Then she told Feng Yundong about the general content of this plan. She talked for about a quarter of an hour, but the commander of the South Ocean Fleet remained silent, his face was impassive, and he was slightly suspicious.

"So, Colonel Chen, are you ready to single-handedly provoke a war between the Great Chinese Federation and the British Empire?" Feng Yundong said with some sneer: "This plan is going to succeed, you are probably the first female general of the National Defense Forces, right?" ”

"The Prime Minister's judgment, Sir, is that this operation will not provoke us into conflict with Britain or the Netherlands, and that I am confident that it will be completed without them noticing."

"You're very confident. But what if things don't turn out the way you expected? If instead of being scared away, they are desperately resisting, then what do you do? ”

"Admiral, if they want to die, my opinion is to send them to God!"

Feng Yundong smiled appreciatively. "Hehe, it's a bit ruthless, it seems that all these years by the Prime Minister's side have not been in vain. I am also in favor of taking the oil fields of Borneo and Palawan, the eastern gate of the South China Sea. But did you think about the British fleet? Ever thought about the battlecruiser 'Hood'? Its speed was much faster than that of the 'Northern Xinjiang' and 'Southern Xinjiang', and its firepower was several times stronger, and now it had left Singapore and did not know what to do. ”

"Thought, Admiral, if the British fleet is nearby, I hope that seaplanes and submarines will be able to detect them in time so that we can get out of the way."

Feng Yundong said: "What if it is not discovered in time? ”

"Then, I will sink into the South China Sea with the Northern Xinjiang!"

Feng Yundong paused for a moment, looked back and forth on Chen Xinrui's face like a monster, and then sighed and picked up the phone.

"Pick me up Rear Admiral Chen Shukang...... Colonel Chen, how many people do you have? When will it arrive? ”

"There were 3,000 people in total, and they came by transport ship, and they set off from Nanjing the morning before yesterday."

"Okay, we can arrive the day after tomorrow at the latest, these people are all trained in landing operations, right?"

"Yes, all of them are trained, and we still have our presence in Brunei."

At this time, a Hunan accent had already come from the telephone receiver, and it was Rear Admiral Chen Shukang, commander of the Navy's 10th Fleet. Feng Yundong said in a low, formal tone: "Major General, there is a special task assigned to you now, please come to my office on the Guangdong immediately to ......"

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Dutch East Indies, Java Sea.

Flagship of the British Far East Fleet, battlecruiser HMS Hood. Cunningham looked up at several Dutch Air Force Fokker D.21 fighters hovering in the air, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Where is the main force of the Australian fleet?"

"It is on standby in the Arafura Sea, about 50 nautical miles from the Melville Islands, the rendezvous point."

Cunningham's fingers slid slowly over the chart. I found this archipelago off the northwest coast of the Australian continent, and my face showed an expectant expression.

In a similar position to China, the British Empire sent the USS Valiant to Hawaii, but for the most part it was on the sidelines. However, while waiting and watching, Britain's maritime power in the western Pacific was still ready to attack. This time, Cunningham pulled out the main forces of the Far Eastern Fleet in preparation to form the Z Fleet by meeting with the main forces of the Australian Fleet in the Melville Islands.

As for the mission of this Z fleet, it will be decided according to the situation on the Hawaiian side. If Japan wins, then the Z fleet will immediately go north. Hunt for a decisive battle in the waters of the Philippine Islands in search of the Japanese capital ship fleet! to defend the colonies of the British Empire. If the United States wins or both the United States and Japan lose, then the Z fleet will be allowed to sail to Port Jackson in Sydney, Australia.

Looking up, the distant hazy beyond sea level is Sulawesi, an important island in the middle of the Dutch East Indies. Cunningham could only sigh helplessly about the Dutch-controlled archipelago and sea between British Malaya and Australia, and the Dutch had until now dreamed of being outside and neutral, refusing to let the British Empire help them protect these rich and important islands. And for China and Japan, two Asian maritime powers. The Dutch East Indies were simply a huge undefended treasure. Judging from the current situation, in the event that Japan wins the Battle of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies will soon be swept away by the Japanese Navy, and even the Chinese will jump out and fish in troubled waters!

For the Japanese attack, the British Empire may be able to fight, but ...... against China As a former chief adviser to the Chinese Navy, Cunningham could not be more aware of the strength of the navy that he had trained himself. If the U.S. Pacific Fleet were temporarily disabled, Britain's naval forces alone would not be able to cope with the joint attack of the Chinese and Japanese navies. The only way to do it. It is to sacrifice some interests to win over China and let them continue to remain neutral.

Cunningham looked at Kalimantan Island a short distance to the north. The Chinese called it Borneo, and long before the arrival of Western colonists, the Chinese established a colonial state there called the "Lanfang Great Unified Republic". More than fifty years ago, this small country was wiped out by bloody means by the then Dutch colonizers and the natives of Borneo! It seems that this blood feud of Chinese will soon be avenged......

"Lieutenant Admiral, telegram from E33, found that a Chinese fleet had just left Canton Bay and was sailing southwest."

"The Chinese fleet has been dispatched?" A hint of surprise slipped through Cunningham's eyes, and he took the telegram and read it carefully: "Two heavy cruisers, eight destroyers, three transports...... Are they going to Yalong Bay on Hainan Island? Or ......"

Before he finished talking to himself, the staff officer beside him shouted again: "Lieutenant General, an urgent telegram from the Admiralty in London, the representative of Soviet Japanese interests in the United States has officially submitted a declaration of war!" ”

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December 21, 5:30 a.m. Hawaii time.

The silence of the command center of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Command was broken by a loud bang, and the closed door was slammed open by a communications officer of the fleet. Woke up the Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet's battleship unit, Hirschbend, who was on duty and dozing off in the command center. Colonel Kimmel.

"War has broken out! Colonel, Soviet Japan has declared war on the United States of America! ”

"Oh God, is that true?" Kimmel couldn't believe his ears, the Japanese authorities must be crazy and dared to declare war on the United States! Then the expression of this historically very unlucky American admiral was enriched, with surprise, anger, contempt, and of course, the main thing was ecstasy. For an old colonel in his 50s, the significance of this war cannot be overemphasized! The rank of brigadier general is ironclad, and if the battleship unit can get by in the battle that will soon break out, maybe the throne of the commander of the battleship force will soon be his own......

Thinking of this, Kimmel immediately grabbed the telephone on his desk and quickly dialed a few numbers, and the bell rang in the bedroom of Admiral Yanel, the commander of the fleet. A few minutes later, the whining of the alarm echoed throughout the Pearl Harbor naval base. A series of radio waves also flew through the night sky towards the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

Bai Siwen was woken up in the living room of the hotel suite, and because he had to pretend to be a gentleman, he didn't dare to sleep in a big bed with that big ** beauty spy. During this time, I could only spend the night on the sofa in the living room, and I didn't sleep well for several days, and today I finally slept to death, but I didn't expect to be woken up by Leshinskaya's ears.

"Japan has declared war on the United States!" Lesinskaya, dressed in a military uniform, said to Bai Sven: "We will go to Pearl City now, and the Americans have arranged a better observation position for our two Chinese observers...... It is clear that they are confident of victory. ”

Outside the window, Honolulu and Pearl Harbor, which were originally pitch black, have been lit up with a lot of lights. From time to time, vehicles pass by on the street leading to the military port.

At the same moment, in the Pacific Ocean north of the Hawaiian Islands, radio waves from Tokyo also activated the sunken Japanese fleet. In the darkness, 10 aircraft carriers scattered in a radius of dozens of nautical miles were busy at the same time, and elevators lifted the white-painted I-18 and Il-1 carrier-based planes one after another onto the deck from the humble and crowded hangar. The ground crews were busy on deck, they didn't know how many times they had repeated similar work, but they were still excited at the moment, and the bright red Z-flag had been raised on every aircraft carrier. An agitative speech by the political councillor of the Combined Fleet was heard over the loudspeaker.

The first Il-1 dive bombers were slowly pushed to the end of the flight deck. The leather tube connected to the oil depot was quickly connected to the refueling port, and the mechanics were doing the last inspection in earnest, and some sailors, under the command of the officer, used carts to push 425 kg armor-piercing bombs, 450 kg aviation torpedoes, and 50 kg high-explosive bombs under the belly of the aircraft, and then pulled out the safety latch and pressed the bombs and torpedoes to the hooks under the belly.

In the officer's room, Japanese and Soviet pilots sat in chairs. Look at the blackboard with various tactical symbols and lines drawn on the front, and listen to the flight officer explain the route of the attack on Pearl Harbor or the route of the patrol search for a U.S. aircraft carrier. Dotted lines radiate south from the sea where the fleet is located. By the way, since most of the Soviet pilots in the room did not know Japanese, there were several Japanese female translators in the officer room of each aircraft carrier, who were also comfort personnel for the Soviet internationalist fighters! Although the proletarian revolution has passed, this hobby of the Japanese has not changed, and there are still comfort women in the Japanese Red Army at present!

Suddenly, the red light in the officer's room came on, and the majestic "Internationale" began to play on the radio speaker, which was the signal for the beginning of the operation! The pilots left the officer's room one after another, rushed onto the deck, and sat in the open cockpit of the Red Navy Warhawk, which had long been ready, and the glass industry of the Soviets was not up to par, so the I-18 and Il-2 did not have a fully enclosed cockpit.

The aircraft carrier also pointed its bow in the direction of the wind, and thick black smoke began to rise from the chimney, and the bow of the ship continued to cut through the waves and began to accelerate with all its might.

On the flight deck, the propellers of the two Yi-18 carrier-based fighters at the front have suddenly rotated, and the 1,000 horsepower M35 engine has output strong power, pushing the warhawk to rush towards the front of the deck, and it will break away from the bow deck in an instant, like a light swallow, flying to the clouds in the eyes of everyone.

Two-, three-, four-wave...... Seeing that all the 62 Il-18 and Il-1 aircraft on the Shenlong aircraft carrier were lifted into the air, Nagumo Tadaichi, who was in charge of commanding the second team, took a deep breath, it won't take much time, and that lame president of the United States is probably going to regret shedding tears, the Great Japanese Empire, oh, it should be the Great Japan GCD that will use bombs and torpedoes to teach the Americans what is a truly cruel war! Teach Americans to respect the sovereignty of other countries and not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries with any democratic constitutionalism when there is nothing to do!

Looking at the black-pressed group of planes gradually gathering in the sky, Nanyun Zhong sneered at the corner of his mouth, although there were 17 capital ships in Pearl Harbor, and the Americans also deployed hundreds of anti-aircraft guns there by surprise, and also sent tens of thousands of ground troops, but those could not stop the surprise attack of their hundreds of fighters at all.

Seeing the huge group of hundreds of planes roaring to the southeast, Nagumo Tadaichi raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was 6:10 a.m. local time in Hawaii, and in less than two hours, the first bomb should have landed on the head of the American warship in Pearl Harbor, maybe the strategic pattern in the Pacific Ocean can be completely changed after today, right?

"Uh......h Woo ......" At this moment, the sound of air raid sirens suddenly appeared in Nagumo's ears.

"Comrade commander, it's the enemy's reconnaissance plane!"

Following the direction of the Captain of the Shenlong, Nan Yunzhong raised his telescope and looked into the sky, and two blue biplanes suddenly appeared in the mirror!

"Baga!" Nagumo Tadaichi coldly spit out these two words between his teeth, and the Americans actually discovered themselves! U.S. bombers on Oahu are probably coming soon, right? It seems that a fierce battle is inevitable!

"Order, form an air defense formation, and prepare for battle! Cancel the radio silence and report the situation to Commander Yamamoto! ”