Compared to other major cities in Japan, Kyoto, the thousand-year-old ancient capital, did not suffer much damage in this brutal war. Although it was also visited by Chinese bombers a few times, it did not see the terrible napalm, only a few bombs. Therefore, this ancient city and the ancient buildings of the city are still largely maintained in their original and consistent style. The Emperor's Imperial Garden, the core of Kyoto, and the palaces of several ancient imperial families around the Imperial Garden did not receive a single bomb. All the people of Kyoto thought it was a miracle, maybe Amaterasu was protecting her descendants, right?

In the palace complex, which had escaped the bombardment for various reasons, in a quaint and elegantly furnished courtyard located southwest of the Emperor's Imperial Garden, an old man of extraordinary equipment was meditating in front of a Buddha statue, holding the Buddha ritual in his hand and reciting profound and difficult scriptures in his mouth, as if he were some enlightened monk. In the silence, I don't know how long the old man has been reciting here.

Outside the courtyard, Toshiro Kohata, dressed in a crisp lieutenant general's uniform, was standing there silently, as if he had been waiting for a long time. Next to the chief of staff of the Japanese Defense Army, there is also a middle-aged man in his thirties wearing a well-made suit, who is none other than Hidemi Ozaki, the confidant and secretary of former Prime Minister Fumiro Konoe. These two people, one secretly returned to Kyoto from the front line filled with gunpowder, and the other did not know why he did not leave Japan, a place of right and wrong, with Konoe Fumiro, and he did not know how to appear here again to meet this old man who was chanting.

This old man is currently in the control of most of Japan, Prince Zaihito Miyaji, the commander of the Japanese Defense Army. He is also the adopted son of Emperor Xiaomei, the younger brother of Emperor Meiji, and a respected elder in the current Japanese imperial family. Also a Japanese field marshal. A cavalry commander who performed great feats in the Russo-Japanese War. However, the prince's mood has been getting lower and lower recently, and his interest in attacking Tokyo to eliminate the national thieves does not seem to be high, and he does not even take care of military affairs. Hiding in his palace all day long and reciting scriptures, I don't know if I am repenting of my sins, or if I want to become a monk?

I don't know how long it took. The old prince, who had been in charge of most of Japan, stopped chanting, bowed to the Buddha statue in front of him, staggered to his feet, and turned his head to see Obata and Ozaki. The old prince seemed to be stunned for a moment before asking, "Obata-kun, you have returned to Kyoto, how is the situation at the front?" Did you lay down Mt. Hakone? By the way, Ozaki-kun, why are you here? Was it appointed by the Duke of Konoe? ”

Toshiro Obata took a few steps forward. Walking up to the prince, he bowed deeply and said in a sincere tone: "Your Royal Highness." I'm sorry. The front-line soldiers have done their best, and they do not hesitate to attack repeatedly with a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. However, our army is short of ammunition and firepower, but the thief army has a steady stream of support."

"Oh, got it, then stop attacking." Kanyuan Gong waved his hand and interrupted Toshiro Obata, but the expression on his face was like a dry well. He sat cross-legged in front of Obata and raised his head to look at his chief of staff coldly: "Kohata-kun, if you have anything else to say, just say it directly, the situation has reached the point where it is now, and I don't care about a few words of truth." ”

Obata suddenly knelt down in front of the prince with a plop: "His Royal Highness! Now that the empire is facing the most important juncture of life and death, His Majesty has been trapped in Hawaii, what is the point of fighting for our soldiers at any time? If Your Majesty had any chance, the national thief in Tokyo would become orthodox, and we would be a national thief! ”

Kanyuan Palace looked straight at Toshiro Obata: "Kohata-kun, what do you want to say?" Even if His Majesty the Emperor dies, the Emperor who ascends the throne will never regard us as thieves. Even if Prince Chongren inherits the throne, it will be the same! ”

"But how could the officers and men of the army and navy and the people of the country accept a traitor like Chongren as emperor?" Obata gritted his teeth and said word by word.

"What then? Prince Takahito is not the emperor, who else can be the emperor? Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace asked lightly.

Hearing this question, Toshiro Obata turned his head and glanced at Ozaki Hidemi, who took a few steps forward, walked in front of the prince, and said in a low voice: "The most suitable heir to the emperor's throne is, of course, Prince Akihito, but because Prince Akihito is young and far away in Germany, it is difficult to return to Japan in a short time, so it is best to have a respected senior of the imperial family, temporarily take the throne of the emperor, wait for the right time, and then kiss Prince Akihito to return to the throne." ”

"Is this what Duke Konoe meant?" Xianyuan Gong asked casually.

"This is the only suitable solution at present, and I ask His Royal Highness the Prince to take on this great responsibility of preserving the national capital and maintaining the status of the Holy Spirit of the Emperor's throne!" Hidemi Ozaki looked straight at the old man, Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace, and then bowed deeply.

Toshiro Obata who was kneeling on the side also said loudly: "Your Royal Highness, only you can save the empire now, and the throne must not fall into the hands of a traitor like Chongren, otherwise our army and navy officers will die without a place to bury!" After saying that, he also bowed deeply.

There was a dead silence in the courtyard, and Prince Zairen of the Xianyuan Palace seemed to be stunned by this splashing wealth that was about to fall on his head, and he couldn't say a word to the two people in front of him. Toshishiro Obata and Hidemi Ozaki also didn't lift their bodies. I don't know how long it took before the old prince jumped up suddenly, pointed at the two people in front of him tremblingly, and stammered: "Lingling, are you crazy?" He actually persuaded me to be the emperor! O Emperor! Is this what I can do, a bad old man, a prince? You guys, you two crazy people! Get out of here, get out of here! ”

However, the two guys, who were probably chaotic ministers and thieves, did not get out honestly, but glanced at each other, and Toshiro Obata crawled forward a few steps on his knees, almost crawling to the foot of the Kanin Palace, and said loudly: "His Royal Highness! If you don't do the emperor's throne, who can do it? Do you want a traitor who colluded with the party to carry out a coup d'état as the emperor, and then beat all of us as enemies? The traitor of the country is the minister of the emperor, and the loyal ministers who swear allegiance to the emperor have to bear the infamy of the enemy, how can things in the world be so unjust! ”

"No, no, wouldn't that be one country and two masters. When will Japan's civil war subside? Xianyuan Palace still shook his head. However, the attitude seems to have loosened a little.

Obata and Ozaki watched the play, and hurriedly persuaded again, Obata said, "Your Highness." It is precisely for the sake of the early restoration of peace in Japan that we would like to ask Your Highness to take up the great responsibility at the appropriate time. If His Royal Highness does not take on the responsibility, the traitor Chongren will inevitably usurp the name of the emperor. Wipe out all the brave and brave! Loyal and brave people who are unwilling to be killed will also raise troops to resist, and China, which has ill intentions, will certainly try by all means to play right and wrong, and the country will really never be at peace. And if Your Highness takes on the great responsibility, you can twist the loyal and brave ministers of the country into one, and even if you do not go to war with Tokyo, you will have the capital to negotiate, but it is a big deal that you and Takahito will abdicate the throne and become emperor, and the throne will be given to the young Prince Akihito, and the government will be entrusted to a democratically elected civilian government. ”

Kanin Palace to see Ohata. Look at Ozaki again, his eyebrows tightened more and more, after a while. He exhaled: "I just don't know how the Chinese side will react?" They had always supported Kita Ikki's Japanese Nationalist Party. ”

"Your Highness's statement is not entirely correct." Hidemi Ozaki's eyes suddenly flashed with a different color. He looked at the Xianyuan Palace, which was obviously shaken, and said word by word: "China is just against His Majesty Emperor Hirohito. The attitude towards the Japanese Kuomintang was actually very vacillating. ”

"Swing? How so? Xianyuan Gong asked.

Ozaki Hidemi smiled and explained: "The leader of the Japanese Kuomintang, Kita Yihui, followed the line of Jiang Jishi, and the contradiction between Jiang Jishi and Luo Yaoguo, the actual ruler of China, is well known to the world. Luo Yaoguo absolutely does not want to see a pro-Chiang Japan become the backing of Chiang J Shi's struggle for the supreme power in China! In addition, a large number of Chinese dignitaries, including Marshal Luo Yaoguo, want to see Japan embark on the road of democratic constitutional government, rather than a one-party dictatorship by the Japanese Kuomintang. So"

"Wait!" Xianyuan Gong seemed to have heard a little meaning, and he interrupted: "Ozaki-kun, who is the force behind you?" ”

Hidemi Ozaki straightened his waist and said out loud a name that Prince Zaihito of Kanin never dreamed of: "It's Miss Yoshiko Kawashima!" ”

Uh, this woman is really unwilling to be lonely, and I don't know if there is our Generalissimo Luo behind her?

"Boom"

An incendiary bomb weighing 500 kilograms was thrown from an altitude of 500 meters by an FW-190 carrier-based fighter with a horizontal bomb, and then the thick shell was burst in an instant, and then the gelatinous combustion was scattered with the help of the explosion and shock wave, covering tens of thousands of square meters of ground, with a roar, countless fireballs suddenly rose, covering everything on the ground in flames up to seven or eight meters high! The blazing air wave rushed into the sky, and immediately the FW-190 that had just pulled up the nose of the plane was crooked, and the pilot was in a hurry for a while before he stabilized the fuselage, looked back at the large sea of fire on the ground, and gasped in his heart!

Although I had known the tremendous power of this napalm in the air raid on Japan from the battle report sent from above, I still felt unbelievable when I saw this sea of fire with my own eyes.

A 500-kilogram napalm is enough to turn tens of thousands of square meters of ground into a sea of fire, and Chinese and American carrier-based aircraft are throwing this terrible weapon on the ground in a dozen. 13 large aircraft carriers, 8 light aircraft carriers, and nearly 800 FW-190, A-4 Thunderhawk, F-4U Hellcat, and SBD Dreadnought and other fighters were dispatched to drop thousands of napalm ranging from 250 kg to 1,000 kg at a time, enveloping the entire Pearl Harbor docks, forts, batteries, dormitories, headquarters, and all other ground buildings into a sea of fire. Even Emperor Hirohito, who was hiding inside the core fortress of the Pearl Harbor fortress, felt a wave of heat coming from the reinforced concrete roof several meters thick overhead, and the flames were terrifying!

When all the planes had thrown out the incendiary bombs and left, countless terrible screams and various shouts and noises suddenly sounded around the Pearl Harbor fortress.

"Be careful, these smoke can be poisonous, wear a mask and breathe!"

"Quick, quick, connect the water pipes, cough cough, put out the fire!"

"You can't use water, these fires will float on the surface of the water and burn! with sand. Use dirt to extinguish the fire! ”

This kind of napalm has left a great reputation in almost every large and medium-sized city in Japan. The Japanese troops at Pearl Harbor were more or less trained, and they all rushed out of their bunkers and fought with shovels or drums filled with sand to fight the red-hot fire.

But not yet, the fire was brought under control. A screeching sound like a train moving at high speed broke through the air again!

"Shelling! Hide! Before the shouts fell, the earth-shaking loud noise sounded in the ears of these Japanese officers and soldiers, and the large-caliber shells falling from the sky were busy fighting the fire. Exploded among the Japanese officers and soldiers exposed on the flat ground! The shrapnel and the stirred up sand and the huge shock wave churned the flesh-and-blood Japanese officers and soldiers into a pulp piece by piece, or threw them into the sky.

On the bridge of the Nagato, Captain Fukuru Shigeru Osaku held a telescope and witnessed the disaster at Pearl Harbor in front of him! Seeing huge mushroom clouds rising into the sky, he knew that the enemy's battleships were just outside the harbor! He hurriedly turned around, pointed his telescope at the outside of the harbor, and searched the dark night sky for a while, but still found nothing!

"Radar! Did you find a target? The enemy's battleships are just outside the harbor! Fu Liufan turned his head and shouted at a sweaty radar director: "What's going on with the radar? Is it broken? Why were enemy air strikes not detected? ”

"I'm sorry! Your Excellency Osa. I'm sorry! The radar director just wept and bowed vigorously to apologize. I don't know what went wrong tonight, the radar imported from Germany on the battleship Nagato suddenly went wrong! There are showers of snow on the screen, and you can't see anything! Even enemy planes were not aware of the attack. And now it has not been found either, where is the formation of enemy battleships that are firing at Pearl Harbor?

Committing such an unforgivable crime. Probably going to apologize for seppuku, right? The officers inside the bridge all cast sympathetic glances at the hapless colleague.

"Your Excellency, we should contact the headquarters. Please tell me where the enemy fleet is. The first mate of the Nagato reminded Fukuru in a low voice.

"Alright, hurry up and send a telegram to the headquarters." Fuliu gritted his teeth and reluctantly gave the order. In such an extraordinary period now, such a thing happened to the Nagato, and the captain of the ship naturally could not escape the blame, and he would be punished for driving the ocean-shaking motorboat!

However, the subsequent report of the communications staff surprised all the officers on the bridge of Fukuru and Nagato.

"Sir, the command says that the radar station at Pearl Harbor is also broken! The radars of several other battleships, such as the Mutsu and the Yamashiro, also failed! ”

"What? All out of order? This, what's going on? Fukuru Shigeru felt that it was dark in front of him, and all the radars actually failed at the same time! Could it be that Amaterasu has abandoned her descendants?

"Why is there such a thing? Why is this happening......" In the bunker where the Combined Fleet headquarters was located, Yamamoto Isoroku was repeating these two sentences. After receiving the report from the radar detection department, Yamamoto immediately sensed that things were not so simple. If the radar fails, it won't be the entire Combined Fleet and all the radars on Oahu that will fail at the same time! There is only one possibility of such a scenario, and that is that China and the United States have found a way to deal with radar!

"Sir, the reports from all radar stations are about the same, the cause of the failure is unknown, there are a large number of snowflake or cotton-like white spots on all radar screens, and nothing can be distinguished." Chief of Staff Ugaki had already spoken to all the radar stations on Oahu by this time, and the results obtained confirmed Yamamoto's suspicions.

"Baga! How did these Chinese come up with it! After listening to Ugaki's report, Yamamoto Fifty-six slapped the chart table heavily, and his eyes darkened for a while. The current situation could only be described as hopeless for the Japanese troops on Oahu. Without radar guidance, the more than 100 large-caliber guns of more than 12 inches owned by the Combined Fleet on Oahu and in Pearl Harbor could not even find a general direction of fire! However, the other party can locate it by the fire emitted by the burning of napalm, and it can almost be missed! I thought that the battle for the defense of Oahu would be vigorous, but now it has become a nest battle that only takes a beating and does not fight back! No matter how thick the shell of the turtle on Oahu is, I'm afraid it won't last long, right?

"Quick, let all the reconnaissance planes and airships rise into the air, and then order all the observation posts to search carefully, and not let go of any targets!" Yamamoto, who felt that something was wrong, roared loudly.

The last dozen or so reconnaissance planes on Oahu roared from several hidden airfields and flew toward the dark night sky. At the same time, the Japanese battleships and heavy cruisers in Pearl Harbor also released airships, and the observation posts on the commanding heights on Oahu were all in high spirits, widening their eyes, and carefully searching the sea surface shrouded in darkness with high-powered military binoculars. But the enemy battleships that were firing their guns could not be spotted......

At this time, about 23 kilometers southwest of Oahu, nine battleships were in a double artillery formation, breaking through the waves at a speed of about 20 knots, and all the main gun muzzles were aimed at the place where the skyrocketing fire was burning on Oahu in the distance. Dozens of cruisers and destroyers stood guard, releasing smoke to cover up the muzzle flames from the battleship's main guns!

On the bridge of the battleship Zhongzhenyuan, Admiral Yu Yanshou, commander of the Sino-US joint artillery formation, was holding his arms and admiring his "masterpiece." Tonight's battle plan was entirely based on his whimsy, using the night to cover the artillery formation, and then using the planes to drop napalm to ignite Pearl Harbor in its entirety, and using the light of the fire to guide the direction of the ship's guns...... Of course, the way to jam the radar of the Japanese army was not something he came up with.

The genius idea of interfering with the radar of the Japanese army came from the genius mind of our generalissimo Luo! In fact, for Luo Yaoguo, a "prophet" with the soul of an air force pilot in the 21st century, the shortcomings of early radar technology are no secret at all. The solution he "came up with" was as simple as rolling some long, thin strips of aluminum foil together and hanging them on a small parachute. Then the FW-200 transport aircraft threw thousands of parachutes hung with aluminum foil strips from an altitude of 5,000 meters, thus forming a large "cloud" in the air that could reflect radio waves, and because these aluminum foil belts were hung on the parachute, they could stay in the air for a long time, which was enough to make the Japanese radar system on the entire island of Oahu "blind" for a long time! Of course, jamming a radar system with aluminum foil strips is not as simple as it seems, because those aluminum foil strips must be exactly half the length of the radar wavelength. But this restriction is not a problem for Chinese today. This is because the radar technology of the Japanese was originally imported from China and Germany, and in fact, all the radar models that Japan currently has are also owned by the Chinese side.

"Commander, the radar has spotted more than a dozen planes taking off from Oahu and is searching everywhere!" The voice of the communications staff officer suddenly sounded inside the bridge.

"Want to spot us by plane?" A hint of mockery appeared at the corner of Yu Yanshou's mouth, and he waved his hand: "Tell our night fighters and let them deal with these Japanese flies!" ”

In fact, there was no need for Yu Yanshou to give an order, Colonel Gao Zhihang, who was on an FW-200 reconnaissance plane in the air, commanded tonight's air raid operation, and had already given orders to the four squadrons of night fighters equipped with BF-110 (belonging to the Chinese Air Force) or P-38 (belonging to the US Army Air Force) that were cruising in the night sky. Under the joint guidance of the radars of surface ships and large reconnaissance planes in the air, these fighters lurking in the night sky quickly found their respective targets, and most of the Japanese reconnaissance planes were quickly shot and crashed as the flames swept through the air...... As a matter of fact, it was difficult for these reconnaissance planes to spot the Sino-US joint artillery formation that was hidden by smoke on this dark night without moonlight. Because these reconnaissance planes are not equipped with radars at all, they completely rely on the naked eye of observers to find targets. It seems that on this night, the Japanese batteries and fleets on Oahu and Pearl Harbor were destined to be tragically blinded......