Jiang Cheng didn't sit and watch the world, Pearl Harbor was such a lively scene, it was not okay not to go, he took Jiang Tian to fly to Hawaii in the name of tourism. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

- Sunday, June 7, 1942

Washington was still asleep at this time, the Japanese embassy at four o'clock in the morning Washington time was still brightly lit, and a Japanese man in a suit and leather shoes walked into the confidential room quickly, he was the Japanese ambassador Nomura, he had just received a secret telegram from Tokyo, and the secret telegram asked him to immediately burn all kinds of cipher codebooks, leaving only one ordinary codebook, and at the same time burning all classified documents. and, as far as possible, inform the depositor concerned of the transfer of the deposit to a neutral national bank. At the same time, he was ordered to immediately prepare to receive a more classified document, which was not allowed to be typed on his behalf, and that he was to receive the printing in person, and that the document should be handed over to the United States Government by 13 o'clock Washington time.

Nomura was so nervous by such a strange order that he instinctively felt that something big was about to happen.

"Didi Didi" With the sound of the telegram, he slowly began to receive the code, this is the highest level of Japanese diplomatic code code, this is also the first time Nomura really used it, when he received it word by word, he almost felt that this telegram was not played, surprisingly long, he has been receiving since four o'clock in the morning, until the sky is bright, looking at the thick stack of cipher paper, Nomura gasped, this is definitely the rhythm of something big, what will happen? A thought came to Nomura's mind, and he quickly snuffed it out, this thought was terrible, if it was true... Then the situation in the world will change dramatically.

Nomura began to decipher the code himself, the code was received slowly, and the speed of decipherment was even slower, and by the time he was halfway through it, the gist of the entire telegram had already come out, it was a declaration of war! Nomura jumped up in fright, he immediately wanted to send a telegram to Tokyo to verify, but he held back and sat down slowly, do you still need to verify? It can't be a joke, it's June, and it's not April Fool's Day.

At the same time as Nomura deciphered, in one room, a team of Americans was also receiving this telegram.

"It's strange that this telegram is completely different from the Japanese telegram we usually decipher... Could it be that their embassy is starting to use a new diplomatic code? Kramer, the U.S. intelligence officer in charge of deciphering, looked at the clock on the wall and said, "Something is wrong, at this time, it is also 11 o'clock in the middle of the night when it is changed to Tokyo time, why did you suddenly send such a telegram at this time... Isn't it over yet? This telegram is too long, isn't it? ”

The intelligence was originally analyzed from all the details, and the matter of directly obtaining a complete and reliable plan of the other party was almost impossible in practice, unless there was his own death in the other party's camp, Kramer intuitively felt that something was going to happen, and immediately let people decipher the telegram while quickly informing his leader - Hoover!

It was half past seven in the morning Washington time when Hoover got the news, and no one dared to wake him while he was sleeping, especially on this kind of question that had not yet been determined whether there was anything going on.

Hoover looked at Kramer and asked, "Is this telegram deciphered?" ”

Kramer shook his head and said, "No, this telegram is surprisingly long, it took us more than two hours to receive it, and we can't understand why there is such a long telegram." ”

Hoover squinted his eyes and said, "Such a long telegram, and a new type of password, must be an extremely important matter, and this matter is extremely serious, and it cannot be mistaken, if it is an internal matter of the Japanese, it is impossible to use such a long telegram, the only possibility is that this telegram is for others to see, and it is a formal occasion... The official occasion of the Japanese ambassador, that is, the diplomatic occasion, is a document for us, and what will this document be? At this time.... Sixty percent of the time is likely to be an ultimatum, and four out of ten is a declaration of war! ”

Hoover's brain was analyzed as quickly as a computer, he immediately took a towel and wiped his hands and asked, "Is Nomura out?" ”

Major Kramer shook his head and said, "Not yet, such a long telegram probably has a code, and it will take two or three hours to decipher it." ”

Hoover nodded and said, "Let's go, let's go to the White House!" ”

-- The White House

After Roosevelt and Hull listened to Hoover's analysis, Hull said, "If it's one or the other, I think it's an ultimatum, we gave them a memo earlier, and I think they're probably going to give us a response." ”

Roosevelt shook his head and said, "No! We have to fully understand our opponents, Japan is an Oriental country, and it is an extremely cunning Oriental country, let's think about it, the first Sino-Japanese war, the Russo-Japanese war, the second Sino-Japanese war, which time Japan gave an ultimatum in advance? I'm even more convinced that they're ready for war. But where will they go to war? ”

Hoover shook his head and said, "There are too many locations, whether it is the Philippines or other places, and we don't have any information on this." ”

Hull next to him said, "But in any case, the battle starts from the outermost part, so we might as well inform those military bases first and let them prepare for defense." ”

Roosevelt's eyes narrowed, he looked at Hoover and said, "The notice is to be done, but don't say that the Japanese army is going to war, just say that the situation is tense, raise the security standard, and in addition, Hoover, you have to find a way to delay the Japanese ambassador and his party, and not let him arrive here at the time they want." ”

Hull asked suspiciously, "Mr. President, why is that?" ”

Roosevelt snapped up, "Our nation and nation have not yet realized what kind of enemy we are facing, and we must show their ugliest side, and I believe that if this is a declaration of war, they must be prepared to give it to us at the last moment, then we will let them be later than the last, and only in this way can we arouse the indignation of all of us to the greatest extent, and make the isolationists understand that we are not willing to participate in things outside the Americas, but others do not!" They have always thought that as long as they abide by neutrality, they will deliberately stay away from war, but war will eventually come, and it will inevitably be followed by anger and humiliation,"

The two immediately understood what Roosevelt meant, the Western world considers itself a civilized world, and pays the most attention to a set of procedures for declaring war, if war is not declared, it will be regarded as a sneak attack, and even if it fails, it will not be reconciled, if Japan really gave an ultimatum or something first, and then launched an attack, then those isolationists will not be able to do a good job and will still publicize that the Roosevelt administration's foreign policy has made a mistake, and should not be so actively involved in the dispute over the world island, if it is a sneak attack, then even the isolationist people will not be able to say anything.

On the other side of the United States, the beautiful Hawaiian Pearl Harbor is still asleep at this time, the time here is six time zones different from Washington, it is two or three o'clock in the morning, when everyone sleeps the most, the weather in Hawaii is very good, the breeze is blowing, the woods are swaying, showing a sense of peace and quiet.

Today's Sunday is a rest day for the U.S. military, so last night, according to the custom, those over-energetic Navy and Army boys had a carnival and were sleeping soundly, and in the harbor, huge ships rose and fell with the waves, and only the lighthouse flashed to show the existence here.

A periscope slowly rose up, this is a Japanese miniature submarine, very small, 23.9 meters long, 1.85 meters in diameter, displacement of 44 tons, its main role is to reconnoiter the enemy, a Japanese army slowly counted "battleships Pennsylvania, California, Maryland, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, a total of eight, aircraft carriers have Enterprise and Lexington, most of our targets are there, good luck." ....”

Another sailor hurriedly recorded it, and then sent a secret telegram to the Japanese Combined Fleet, which was more than 200 nautical miles away.

In fact, he was not the only one, there were a total of five miniature submarines carefully scouting the last information around Pearl Harbor, in the Japanese combined fleet, Nagumo Tadaichi, who had received the confirmed information, let out a long breath, God knows how they got all the way here, maybe it was really God blessed, it was really not discovered by other ships, and now even the most conservative people can't resist the temptation of the huge results after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor, as the largest naval base of the U.S. military, has six military airfields, scattered throughout Oahu, and the battleships at this time gathered 8 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, 3 light cruisers, 3 seaplane supply ships, and 29 destroyers. In total, there are close to 500 aircraft, including those on board the aircraft carrier.

At 5:30 a.m., the two Zero surface reconnaissance planes on the Japanese cruiser took off to make a final reconnaissance of Pearl Harbor, and at the same time, the planes on each aircraft carrier that were ready for attack were arranged in the order of first fighter and then attack plane, and the pilots gathered in the pilot's waiting room and waited for the final order.

The wind and waves on the ocean were very strong, and the aircraft carrier was tossed up and down, and from time to time there were large waves with sea water surging onto the aircraft carrier, and the Japanese troops in charge of logistics tried their best to keep the aircraft from being affected by this.

Lieutenant Colonel Fuchita, the commander-in-chief of the air raid team, came to the war room wearing a flight suit and said to Nagumo Tadaichi, "Report to the chief, everything is ready, and you can go at any time!" His voice was extremely hoarse, because he was not idle throughout the flight, constantly simulating combat on the sand table with other pilots and commanders.

The Japanese army did the details to the extreme, on the huge sand table, ports, factories, mountains, houses, and even the location of every warship of the US army, every airport, every oil depot, and even the number of planes at the US military airport, the location, and how much time they could take off, all took into account, Fuchida gathered each pilot team from morning to night every day to explain the combat steps and precautions, and said it more than 20 times a day, and then he really couldn't speak, so he asked the pilots who had listened to it several times to say it himself, if he was wrong, He corrected that under this simulation, every pilot knew the situation at Pearl Harbor and his mission, and they all knew how crucial the battle was.

Nanyun Zhongyi shook Yuantian's hand tightly and said, "It's all up to you." ”

Fuchida nodded, and together with Nagumo Tadaichi, they came to the pilot's waiting room, the lights in the waiting room were very dim, and the small space was crowded, and some pilots were standing in the aisle.

"Stand upright!" Fuchida shouted, and all the pilots saluted Nagumo Tadaichi and Captain Hasegawa together.

Hasegawa glanced at Nagumo Tadaichi, who nodded at him, and he said, "Set off according to the original order!" ”

The pilots rushed directly from the standby room to their respective planes, and Fuchida walked to the command post, at this time, the wind was strong on the bridge, and the sky was still dark, Nagumo Tadaichi asked with some concern, "The ship is very turbulent now, is it okay?" ”

Fuchida said firmly, "If it's a drill, maybe you need to be bright, but if it's a real battle, you can do it at any time, so don't worry." ”

As he spoke, Fuchida walked to his plane and kept greeting the people around him, as the commander-in-chief, his plane's tail was painted with yellow and red paint, and it was also very conspicuous at night.

A ground crew officer who looked quite old suddenly ran forward quickly, bowed to Fuchida excitedly, took out a white turban from his arms and said, "This is a little bit of the heart of our ground crew, we can't go into battle to kill the enemy for the emperor, but we also desperately want to fly to Pearl Harbor, please accept it, take us with you to serve the emperor!" ”

Fuchida nodded affectionately, grabbed the white bandana, and tied it tightly to his flight cap. Walk briskly onto the plane.

"Ready... Takeoff! ”

The blue light of the flight command post lit up, and the first fighter began to take off, and the flight deck also rose and fell due to the turbulence, and with each shake, the hearts of those Japanese soldiers watching this scene also beat once, but before the next turbulence came, the plane had already successfully flown up.

The first, the second, and so on, the quality of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft was manifested at this moment, and immediately, a torrential cheer sounded, and the Japanese officers and men waved their hats and arms to see off the pilot.

The first wave of aircraft groups consisted of 183 aircraft, which took off from 6 aircraft carriers one after another, and about 15 minutes later, the formation was completed, with Fuchida in the center with a horizontal bomber formation, Takahashi dive bomber formation on the left, Murata torpedo aircraft formation on the right, and Itaya fighter formation around it.

The first rays of sunlight appeared, the plane shone silver in the sunlight, Fuchida looked at everything around him, he was deeply attracted and intoxicated by this scene, he only felt that at this moment, the world belonged to them, he shook his lips and looked firmly ahead, there, there was their goal - Pearl Harbor!