Chapter 68: The Verge
"Junko, are you really sure?" As the head of the special high school agent lurking in the Philippines, Takahashi looked at the woman standing in front of him with scrutinizing eyes, the stakes were very high, and Takahashi ignored that this woman was under the direct control of the headquarters of the special high school headquarters.
"I'm sure" Junko nodded at Takahashi, and said in a slightly heavy tone, "In order to get such information, I lost 6 of my subordinates, all of whom were trained by the base camp" Junko came to the Philippines this time to have other missions, if it wasn't for the order from the base camp directly, her subordinates would not have lost their lives because of the night visit to the US military airport.
"It seems that the base camp's worries are real" Looking at the numbers recorded on the intelligence, Takahashi's heart tightened for a while, if so many weapons and ammunition were transported into the battlefield of China, how many imperial soldiers would die in a foreign land, it seems that it is not a rumor that the Yankees are secretly supporting the people of China, this is true at all.
"Junko, work hard for you, can you ask your men to draw me a map of the US military airfield" Takahashi suddenly made a decision, he would never allow the Americans to send such a large batch of weapons and ammunition to the battlefield in China, he would organize people to infiltrate the airport and destroy those things. There are not many other things in the Philippines, and there are many homeless outlaws who can't eat, and Takahashi often hires some locals to do things for himself, as long as he can afford to pay for it, it is not a problem to gather three or five hundred people.
Junko didn't speak, just looked at Takahashi without blinking, and nodded gently after a while. Junko could guess what Takahashi's idea was, and agreed to provide him with a map of the U.S. military airfield, which did not mean that Junko agreed to Takahashi's plan. The airport was guarded by the US military troops stationed in the Philippines, and if it weren't for that, she wouldn't have lost those men, Takahashi obviously thought of the airport too simply, maybe he regarded it as his own vegetable garden.
It is true that there is a struggle where there are people, even the Japanese, who are known for their grouping, are also divided into factions within the special high school, and it just so happens that Junko and Takahashi belong to different factions. So when Junko ordered his subordinates to draw the drawings of the US military airport for Takahashi, she deliberately forgot about the two hidden forts, and these two hidden forts were the only way to raid the airport, originally Junko thought that Takahashi would probably take the drawings of the airport back to the base camp to invite credit, but what she never expected was that Takahashi would really take people to attack the airport, and it was the two hidden forts that she had intentionally forgotten that became a weapon to send Takahashi to hell.
After handing over the information, Junko's temporary mission was completed, and Junko, who was quite favored by the base camp of the special high school, didn't care that Takahashi was the person in charge of the Philippine station of the special high school, and left directly with the rest of his people, because they had other things to do. Takahashi didn't care, first ordered his men to send the information they had just received back to the base camp, and then began to gather men to prepare to attack the American airfield at night, in his opinion, the Yankees would never have thought that the people who infiltrated the airport during the day to attract their attention would come back to the airport again at night.
Things went very well, and after Takahashi threw out a lot of bills, before the sun went down, he gathered more than 400 locals and distributed rudimentary weapons, and Takahashi personally led them to the perimeter of the American airfield. The scheming Takahashi didn't plan to storm the airfield with his own people, he was the commander, so he should stay where the commander should be, and after dark, the tide of 400 locals began to storm the airfield with long knives and crossbow arrows. It's not that Takahashi doesn't have guns in his hands, he just made these 400 locals into bait, a bait to divert the attention of the American troops at the airport, and the bait doesn't need to be very well equipped.
Takahashi's real main force is dozens of black-clothed men hidden among the 400 locals, they are all the most elite guys under Takahashi, especially Takahashi also equipped them with a large number of explosives and grenades, and their purpose is only one, to destroy the materials and warplanes hoarded in the airport as much as possible, especially transport planes. Looking at his subordinates who were hidden in the night, Takahashi hung his heart for no reason, and Takahashi, who had experienced the Russo-Japanese War, didn't know that he was afraid of it.
"Tong", "Tong", "Tong" accompanied by the sudden sound of sirens in the airport, several flares were shot into the air, and under the miserable white cold light, those people assembled in Takahashi were exposed. The Browning heavy machine guns began to rain bullets, knocking down the 400 locals outside the airport cordon like wheat, and under the crossfire of as many as 7 Browning heavy machine guns, Takahashi's men burst into flames one after another.
"Withdraw, withdraw" saw that the momentum was not good, Takahashi mourned like a dog with the withdrawn subordinates wanted to return the same way, but Junko did not mark the two bunkers outside the airport on the drawings given to him, when Takahashi approached the airport with people, he had already been discovered by the US troops on duty in the bunker, and informed the US troops in the airport by phone, so Takahashi's operation would be defeated, and now, they want to leave all the guys who dared to attack the airport.
From the sudden flare over the airport to the time when the US troops came out to collect the bodies, it was only about half an hour, and the more than 400 people brought by Takahashi were all dead bodies or severely injured screaming on the ground. Fortunately, Takahashi had already transmitted the information about the US military airport back to the base camp before the operation began, otherwise it would really ruin Zhao Zhi's plan.
"Our intelligence station in the Philippines has established the fact that the Yankees are transporting weapons and ammunition to the people of China through the Philippines, but unfortunately, our people missed when they went to destroy that batch of weapons and ammunition, and were hit by the US troops guarding the airport.
As Zhao Zhi came to the same conclusion, the Japanese side was also very interested in the US navy, and in their view, the arrogant Yankees only relied on their warships to do whatever they wanted, and as long as they could defeat the navy on which they depended, the Japanese Empire would really be invincible in Asia. "Judging from the current course of the US Pacific Fleet, the information we have obtained from the United States is true, and the Pacific Fleet is indeed going to Pearl Harbor to rest." Combined with a series of information obtained from the base camp, the General Staff finally came to a conclusion.
Everyone's eyes fell on the commander of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, who had been saying a word, and the man who had been advocating the theory of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor had not said a word since he entered the conference room, and everyone did not know why. Pearl Harbor, where the US Pacific Fleet rested, is located in the Hawaiian Islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean between Japan and the United States, about 3,500 nautical miles from Japan and about 2,000 nautical miles from the US mainland, and is the most important base of the US Pacific Fleet.
On January 7, 1941, Isoroku Yamamoto wrote a letter to the Minister of the Navy and Shiro Kawako, formally putting forward the idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor: The first strategy that our military should adopt in the war between Japan and the United States should be: to smash the enemy's main fleet as soon as the war begins, leaving the US Navy and the American people in an irreparable place, and demoralizing them. In this way, we can occupy the key obstacles in East Asia and ensure an invincible position, so as to build an East Asian co-prosperity sphere,......, once the main US fleet is defeated, the idle forces south of the Philippines will inevitably be demoralized, and it is difficult to consider being able to fight bravely.
After that, Sanmoto Fifty-six and several of his staff officers (Onishi Takijiro, Minoru Genda, and Kuroshima Kameto) secretly formulated an operational plan for a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. In June, when the formal plan was proposed, there was a debate in the upper echelons of Japan, with some people not believing that the huge fleet would cross 3,500 nautical miles without being detected, and doubting the feasibility of the plan. What if it doesn't work out? What about the fact that there is a much greater chance of failure than the likelihood of success?
Yamamoto Fifty-six's answer is very simple, and it is also very Yamamoto Fifty-six: If Japan has God's blessing, the Hawaii operation will definitely be successful, and if it fails halfway, that is to say, without God's blessing, just give up the entire operation. Yamamoto was stubborn and even threatened to resign. Senior General Nagano Shuse, the chief of the Military Command Department, said: If Yamamoto has such self-confidence, he will do as he says. The plan was approved in mid-October. So, Yamamoto commanded the combined fleet to choose Kagoshima Bay, which is similar to Pearl Harbor, and began full preparation and rigorous simulation training, and then this attack plan was reported to Emperor Hirohito by someone who had a heart, and it was worried about the concealment of the fleet, this attack plan was finally shelved, and it has been almost a year since Yamamoto 56 began to formulate this plan, and now almost a year has passed, and the ambitious Yamamoto 56 sees that his plan can be implemented, and he can't help but be excited.
"The Navy is ready for action" Yamamoto is now thinking not only about the Pacific Fleet, which was hiding in Pearl Harbor to recuperate, but also about the U.S. Fifth Air Force stationed in the Philippines. When the Germans were engaged in the English Channel with the British and French navies, there was an incident in which the cruiser was sunk by a direct-throw torpedo from a British fighter, and Yamamoto did not want to be destroyed by a warship that he had risked his life in the hands of the US Fifth Air Force.