Chapter 583: Pearl Harbor (Part II)

Jiang Tian asked incomprehensibly, "What does the owner mean by this?" ”

Jiang Cheng looked at the Japanese planes that kept throwing bombs and torpedoes to attack the American warships and said, "Do you remember how Cao Cao won the battle of Guandu?" ”

Jiang Tian nodded and replied, "Rob the black nest and burn the grain and grass!" ”

Jiang Cheng snorted and said, "Yes! Since there is an opportunity to attack the rear of the enemy, then it is the choice of the soldier to cut off the grain and grass to accumulate grass, of course, the most important logistics support in modern warfare is no longer the grain and grass that people eat, but the black blood eaten by these steel giants, battleships and aircraft carriers are indeed very important and powerful, but without oil, they are just iron coffins, it is impossible for a battleship to go to sea without thousands of tons of heavy oil, and now there are more than 4.5 million tons of heavy oil hoarded in Pearl Harbor, if these heavy oils are blown up, Even if the United States wants to regroup at Pearl Harbor, I am afraid that it will not take two or three years to do it, and such a large amount of heavy oil is basically equivalent to the annual oil production of Germany in 1941. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Thick smoke billowed from Pearl Harbor, and the American sailors who had been completely awake desperately wanted to start the battleship and leave the port, and more sailors ran to various anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, wanting to attack the Japanese fighters, but they were still on vacation just now and they were horrified to find that all the weapons had no ammunition, and they could only wave these anti-aircraft guns as cold weapons, and by the time they found the ammunition, many battleships had sunk.

The first wave of attacks was mainly aimed at the battleships in Pearl Harbor, and the second wave of attacks began at nine o'clock Hawaii time, and these Japanese soldiers divided into two groups, all the way to the Kaneohei airfield and Beres airfield, and all the way to the Seacam airfield before continuing to bomb the American warships in Pearl Harbor.

The US military, which thought that the war had nothing to do with itself, suffered a heavy loss, and because the more than 500 fighters were not prepared, many of them ran out of fuel and ammunition, and until the end of the entire bombing, no more than 30 US planes successfully flew into the sky to engage the Japanese army. In the sky, there were more than 400 Japanese planes, and the US troops were almost passively beaten throughout the battle.

Fuchida on the plane kept reporting the results of the battle to the rear, and at the same time began to prepare for the return with the first wave of aircraft.

Nagumo Zhongyi in the rear walked around anxiously, and a communication soldier excitedly waved a telegram and shouted, "It's successful!" It worked! Our attack was extremely successful! The enemy army suffered heavy losses! ”

Nagumo Tadaichi hurriedly asked, "What happened to the enemy's aircraft carrier?" ”

The signal soldier said firmly, "The two ships in the harbor have been sunk, except for the USS Saratoga. ”

Nagumo Tadaichi was happy and worried, and said, "The Saratoga is missing? Where will they be... Let's send the battle report to Tokyo first! ”

-- Tokyo

Sitting in the war room with his eyes closed, Yamamoto Fifty-six looked at the time and knew that the attack had begun, and he suddenly said, "We should have declared war with the United States before attacking, is this done?" ”

The staff officer next to him bowed his head and said, "In accordance with His Majesty's instructions, before one o'clock in the afternoon Washington time, the diplomatic ambassador has been asked to submit a declaration of war, which is half an hour earlier than the time of our attack, there should be no problem, in addition, the embassy has said that Ambassador Nomura will leave at half past eleven Washington time, please rest assured." ”

Yamamoto fifty-six nodded, indicating that he understood.

At this moment, there was a burst of cheers, Yamamoto Isoroku's eyes opened and looked, the door of the war room was opened, and a group of officers smiled and gathered around a communications officer who came in, and the communications officer saluted Yamamoto Isoroku and said, "Tiger Tiger Tiger!" We succeeded, Your Excellency the Commander, the enemy suffered heavy losses, and the front line constantly sent losses of enemy ships. ”

Yamamoto Isoroku immediately pointed to the strings of names of American warships on the wall and said, "Quick! Hurry up and mark it out according to the telegram!! ”

"The Enterprise is sinking! The USS Lexington sank! The Pennsylvania was damaged! USS California sank! The USS Maryland was damaged...."

The U.S. warships on the wall were sketched off with a red pen, and the staff officer next to him excitedly said to Yamamoto Isoroku, "Our results are much greater than we imagined, this is really great." ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six said excitedly, "This must be God bless my emperor, and immediately tell the military department that the Z battle plan is successful, and all armies can act!" ”

As he spoke, Yamamoto Fifty-six looked at the top two lines of the wall, which were almost all in red, and said, "We can have at least a year and a half of advantage, and the empire must make good use of this year and a half... A year and a half..."

"A year and a half? Your Excellency, I think we can have at least three to five years of naval superiority. The staff officer next to him said disapprovingly.

Yamamoto Fifty-six smiled bitterly and said, "You don't know what kind of country we are attacking now, if they want to go all out into battle, then two aircraft carriers, seven or eight battleships, is just their output for a year or two..."

-- Washington

Hull looked at the time, felt that it was almost up, got up and was about to go to see Nomura, suddenly the phone rang, he slowly picked it up and said, "I'm Hull." What's the matter? ”

"Mr. Hull, I just received a telegram from Pearl Harbor that Pearl Harbor has been attacked by the Japanese, and this is not a drill! Mr. Hull, do you hear me? Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, this is not a drill! ”

Hull only felt that the whole person was confused, he opened his mouth, and said in a trembling voice, "Are you sure you are not mistaken?" Isn't it somewhere like the Philippines? ”

"That's right, it's Pearl Harbor, and General Marshall also got the news through the Army."

Hull tried to keep his voice as calm as he could, and asked, "What about our losses?" When did it happen? ”

"It's been almost half an hour, and what we already know is that there are heavy losses in Pearl Harbor, and at least five large capital ships of our army have been sunk."

Hull slammed back in his chair, not knowing whether to blame himself for deliberately delaying the forty minutes, and said, "I'll report to President Roosevelt right away." ”

After Hull put down the phone, he clenched his fist and walked out quickly, he walked faster and faster, came to Roosevelt's office, and found that Hoover was also inside, Roosevelt's eyes were straight, and it was obvious that he had known the news.

"Mr. President... We made a mistake in judgment, and it was not our outlying bases that Japan attacked, but our Pearl Harbor! Hull said slowly: "The Japanese ambassador Nomura has been waiting for us for forty minutes. What are we going to do? ”

Roosevelt slowly raised his head and said, "We absolutely cannot forgive the Japanese government's sneak attack on us. Receiving their declaration of war, since they have chosen to start like this, then, how to end it is none of their business! Hull, you have to stay calm and graceful, and then get rid of all these yellow-skinned monkeys!! ”

Nomura looked anxiously at the clock on the wall, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, he stood up and said to the guard next to him, "Please remind Mr. Hull again, okay?" The Imperial Japanese Empire had extremely important credentials to be forwarded. ”

The guard nodded and opened the door, just in time to see Hull, who was pale, and hurriedly saluted Hull, Hull ignored him, walked in front of Nomura, and said nothing.

Nomura hurriedly took out his credentials and said, "Mr. Hull, Secretary of State of the United States, I have been instructed to submit my credentials before 1 p.m. ”

Hull took it and asked, "Why is this time?" ”

Nomura shook his head and said, "I don't know, I'm just doing what I'm told." ”

Hull looked at him coldly and said, "Whatever you say, I received your note at 2:13. As he spoke, as if he was afraid that Nomura would not remember, he gritted his teeth again and said, "It's 2:13 p.m. Washington time!" 9:13 a.m. Pearl Harbor time!! ”

Nomura swallowed and slowly lowered his head.

Hull opened the credentials, glanced at them, smiled contemptuously and said, "Declare war... This is not a declaration of war, this is a sneak attack!! In my 50 years in public office, I have never seen a more lie-like, brazen and distorted statement than this note, and I cannot believe that there is such a shameless country in the world. ”

As he spoke, Hull stretched out his hand to stop Nomura, who was about to open his mouth to refute, and pointed to the door, Nomura slowly closed his mouth, bowed to Hull, and retreated.

Hull came to the White House with the military attachΓ©, the car had already rushed over, he sat in, turned on the radio, the radio was still singing and dancing, but not far away, a nervous announcer voice interjected, constantly repeating a paragraph "At thirteen o'clock Washington time, Pearl Harbor, the Pacific naval base of the US military, was attacked by the Japanese army, and now the battle is still ongoing, our army has suffered heavy losses, Japan has not declared war on the United States, and it has now entered a state of war!" ”

As soon as Nomura sat down at the embassy, he found that countless Americans had begun to flock to the embassy, they were burning the Japanese flag, throwing stones, a group of American troops rushed in, Nomura slowly stood up and looked at them, an officer said to him, "Please don't leave the embassy, we will protect you!" ”

-- Pearl Harbor

The second wave of aircraft attacks was almost over, Jiang Cheng slowly shook his head and said, "It's not saved, I still didn't blow up the oil depot and ship repair yard, but went to bomb those cruisers, so what's the point of fighting... Be prepared to help them. ”

Jiang Tian nodded, walked quickly to a garage, and slowly drove out a giant car, there are more than a dozen incomparably thick pipes behind this car, if there are future generations who will call his name when they see it - rocket artillery!

This is the blizzard that Jiang Cheng got from Ying Tianlin before.

"With an error of 220 meters, how can you hit it, the Japanese aircraft attack is almost over, prepare to attack!!" Jiang Cheng took the binoculars and continued.

In the sky, the Japanese planes began to regroup, which meant to leave, at 9:45 Hawaiian time, and the bombing had been going on for two hours.

The U.S. oil depots were actually divided into several places, most of which were concentrated in the oil depot area near the dock, and about a third were scattered around the headquarters on the right side of the port.

There is a great difference between the heavy fuel oil used by the navy and the gasoline or diesel oil in peace, that is, the ignition point of heavy oil is extremely high, the ignition point of heavy oil is as high as more than 6,000 degrees, but its boiling point is only more than 200 degrees, which makes the heavy oil always evaporate into oil vapor before combustion.

Among Jiang Cheng's twelve rockets, four incendiary bombs, high-explosive bombs, and armor-piercing shells were all fired, also just in case.

"The Japanese are starting to return! Launch!!! Jiang Cheng shouted loudly.

Jiang Tian pressed the button suddenly, and the blizzard rocket car roared angrily, and twelve rockets rose into the sky with tail flames, and then rushed quickly towards the dense oil depot on the left side of Pearl Harbor.

"Do we have time to do it again?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Jiang Tian shook his head and said, "If there are only two of us, I'm afraid it will take more than seven minutes, and the nearby US troops can already arrive here in such a long time, don't forget that there are US planes in the sky." ”

Jiang Cheng said with some pity, "Okay, let's go." ”

As he spoke, the rocket began to dive downward, plunging into the oil depot, the warhead of the rocket exploded violently, the huge shock wave tore through the steel tank wall of the oil depot, and the incendiary bomb burst open violently and then burned, although the temperature of more than 3,000 degrees could not directly ignite the heavy oil, but it made the heavy oil quickly evaporate into oil vapor, and then the oil vapor burned violently, and after continuous circulation, the quantity changed into a qualitative change, and exploded violently again.

Jiang Cheng looked at the violent explosion, slowly put down the binoculars and said, "Let's go." With that, he walked over to the rocket car, activated the space-time sphere, and left Pearl Harbor, which was in the midst of war.

Jiang Cheng patted his ass and left, the U.S. troops in Pearl Harbor were unlucky, more than three million tons of heavy oil leaked and burned and exploded, such a monstrous fire could not be saved at all, the most terrible thing is that the storage location of these heavy oils was actually very close to the dock, and it didn't take long for it to burn to the dock, and the heavy oil burning on the sea floated on the sea, and the U.S. troops who died in battle in the sea slowly wafted out bursts of fragrance, which made people smell intoxicated at first, and then repulsed. The fierce fire slowly spread with the ocean current, and soon surrounded the small half of Pearl Harbor, and even some battleships were not lost under the Japanese bombardment, but were lost in the raging fire.

Kimmel of the headquarters watched all this in a daze, a stray bullet broke the glass and hit him, and the last trace of strength could only leave a small black dot on his snow-white officer uniform, Kimmel picked up the warhead and said bitterly, "Why don't you kill me?" ”

The fire at Pearl Harbor puzzled the Japanese pilots who were the last to leave, and they could only guess which stray bullet had concentrated in the oil depot and caused the explosion.

On the Japanese aircraft carrier, countless people waved their hats to welcome the return of the warriors in their hearts, and as soon as Fuchida got off the plane, he saw the old ground officer, he nodded to him and said, "Thank you for your blessings, quick, let's hurry up and prepare for the second round of attack." ”