As the saying goes, it takes a show to meet a soldier, and it can't be explained if it is reasonable. Song Renjie, the second ancestor, has no choice but to meet a soldier like Zheng Dahai, so he doesn't care who you are or what background you have in your family, lock it up first. More than two dozen detained freighters and cruise ships were escorted together and headed for the Hawaiian Islands.

On 12 November, China's Third Pacific Fleet was still heading toward the Hawaiian Islands.

Zheng Dahai walked into the command cabin and picked up the binoculars to look into the distance, and after a few minutes, he asked Pan Lin, the combat staff officer standing next to him: "How long is it until Pearl Harbor?" ”

Pan Lin said: "General, if our fleet is at the current speed, we can enter the waters near Pearl Harbor in two days, but if the weather changes, it will be difficult to say!" ”

Zheng Dahai took out a cigarette and lit it, and after a long time, he said: "It's so close to Hawaii, you may encounter the Hawaiian fleet on this way, pass on my order, the fleet slows down, and transfers two cruisers, four destroyers, six gunboats, six torpedo ships and a supply ship to escort the more than 20 cargo ships and cruise ships to explore the way in front of eighty nautical miles, the main fleet hangs behind, and the reconnaissance aircraft patrol planes increase the number of reconnaissance and cruises!" ”

"Yes!"

After the order was issued, the entire fleet slowed down significantly, all the seized freighters and cruise ships were required to speed up and walk in front, and a small fleet of separated ships surrounded these freighters and cruise ships in the middle, if you look at it from a distance, in the case of a particularly clear line of sight, it will definitely mistake these fleets, which are mostly freighters and cruise ships, for a fleet, and Zheng Dahai's purpose is to use this fake fleet to lure the Hawaiian fleet out, which will lead the snake out of the hole.

Zheng Dahai can imagine from the position of the commander of the Hawaiian fleet. The Hawaiian Fleet would definitely not wait for a decisive battle with his Third Fleet at Pearl Harbor if he was the commander of the Hawaiian Fleet. Will definitely leave Pearl Harbor with the fleet and then hide aside. When the Third Fleet attacks Pearl Harbor, it will come out from behind.

After the order was given, the dummy fleet began to explore the path in front, and the main fleet followed eighty nautical miles behind, and sailed like this for a day, but the reconnaissance planes still did not find the Hawaiian fleet, and nothing happened to the dummy fleet that explored the way in front.

"General, there's no movement, is the Hawaiian fleet hiding in Pearl Harbor?" Operational Staff Officer Pan Lin asked.

Zheng Dahai shook his head and said, "Impossible." The people from the military intelligence department have sent several reconnaissance messages in a row, there are only a few gunboats in Pearl Harbor, and the main force of the Hawaiian fleet has disappeared a few days ago, which means that this fleet is nearby! There are so many islands around this sea that it is not easy for us to find a small fleet hidden behind the islands! ”

After a few minutes, Zheng Dahai instructed after thinking about it: "Order, the main fleet will once again distance itself from the decoy in front, and wait until the two fleets are one hundred and fifty nautical miles apart before keeping a distance and following behind!" ”

Pan Lin said uprightly: "Yes." Checkmate! ”

Zheng Dahai's deployment was very timely, just after the main fleet distanced itself from the decoy fleet in front, a fleet approached this side from the southeast, four hundred nautical miles away.

The sea was calm for the past two days. The sea and blue sky were blue, and the fleet sailed very smoothly and steadily, and the Hawaiian fleet was not found until the fleet reached the waters of Pearl Harbor.

Nov. 14 at 9:20 a.m. Operational staff officer Pan Lin reported to Zheng Dahai: "General, the decoy fleet has arrived in the waters of Pearl Harbor!" ”

Zheng Dahai smoked a cigarette. The gully on his forehead deepened, and he said to himself, "Where is the Hawaiian fleet hiding?" Pan Staff Officer. Have you searched the surrounding sea for 300 kilometers? ”

Pan Lin said: "Yes, I searched and found nothing!" ”

Zheng Dahai touched his chin and walked around the command cabin thinking, where is this Hawaiian fleet hiding? The bait fleet has been sailing on the surface for two days, but it still hasn't lured the Hawaiian fleet out for three reasons: first, the Hawaiian fleet didn't find the bait; second, the Hawaiian fleet discovered the intentions of the Chinese fleet; Third, the Hawaiian fleet deliberately hid and waited until the Chinese fleet attacked Pearl Harbor before suddenly killing it.

The second possibility is not very likely, the Hawaiian side does not have such a strong intelligence and reconnaissance capability, and only the first and third are the most likely.

Zheng Dahai looked at the chart and thought for a few minutes, then turned around and said to Pan Lin Zhengse: "Give an order to the decoy fleet ahead, and order them to approach the port and attack Pearl Harbor!" ”

Pan Lin said rightly: "Yes, General!" ”

Pearl Harbor.

A huge fleet appeared in the front sea, because the warships surrounded all the freighters and cruise ships in the middle, which made the Hawaiian defenders of Pearl Harbor unable to see the shape of these ships, and could only see that the scale of this fleet was very large, with a total number of more than forty ships, which made the Xavier defenders mistakenly think that this was the main fleet of the Chinese Third Fleet.

At the sound of an order, the fleet began to bombard, and the main guns of all ships opened fire together, which was the first round of salvo, and the overwhelming shells fell on the sea in and out of Pearl Harbor, and a huge explosion sounded, and the mushroom cloud also rose, and the smoke billowed out, and the sea surface was also blown out of a column of water that rushed to the sky, and the whistling sound of shells flying through the air was endless.

After the fleet began to bombard Pearl Harbor, there was a panic in Pearl Harbor, and most of the defenders in the harbor were not fully prepared until the fleet opened fire and the shells exploded in the harbor, which shocked most of the defenders in the harbor, and many Hawaiian defenders rushed out of the barracks.

The fleet carried out three rounds of artillery bombardment, and the shore defense batteries in Pearl Harbor began to return fire, and the fire of the shore defense batteries was not weak, and the shells continued to fall on the sea around the ships and explode.

The ships of the fleet began to constantly shift their positions to prevent being hit by the shells fired by the shore defense batteries, when the ships on the sea moved, the shore defense batteries had to readjust the shelling elements, which took time, and the ships adjusted the parameters in a very short time according to the distance they moved to carry out shelling again, this is where the sea surface ships have an advantage over the shore defense batteries, the shore defense batteries have a long range, but with the movement of the ships on the sea surface, the artillery accuracy of the coastal defense batteries will be poor, and the shore defense batteries are more likely to be hit by naval guns.

This is the case now, the ships of the Chinese fleet at sea are constantly moving their positions to avoid the shells, and the shore defense batteries in Pearl Harbor are constantly hit by naval guns, and the shells explode in the batteries, and in some cases, the batteries even cause explosions.

The decoy fleet was under full fire and carried out an artillery bombardment of Pearl Harbor for two hours, although there were considerable losses in Pearl Harbor, but it was still within the bearable range, and the decoy fleet was also damaged by two battleships, and after two hours, the fleet stopped shelling and retreated.

Subsequently, small boats, gunboats and torpedo ships were dispatched to follow and reconnoiter in Pearl Harbor, so that the decoy fleet was always under their surveillance and sight.

Main fleet.

Operational staff officer Pan Lin reported to Zheng Dahai: "General, the decoy fleet has been shelling Pearl Harbor for more than two hours, according to observation, there are some losses in Pearl Harbor, but the defensive force is still there, and now the decoy fleet has retreated fifteen nautical miles and is on standby, there are several gunboats and torpedo boats in Pearl Harbor following to monitor and reconnoitre, and the Hawaiian side has also sent two reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance!" ”

Zheng Dahai asked, "Is there any news of the Hawaiian fleet?" ”

"Not yet!"

Zheng Dahai thought for a moment, picked up the intercom and shouted: "Communications staff officer come to the command cabin!" ”

The communications staff officer who received the order quickly came to the command cabin, "General, are you looking for me?" ”

Zheng Dahai nodded and said: "From now on, your communications department must closely monitor the unfamiliar radio signals in the surrounding seas, if you find the same frequency radio signal several times in a row, you must report it, if you can crack it, try to crack it!" ”

The communications staff officer immediately said: "Yes, general, I know!" ”

"Go ahead!"

A few hours later, the communications staff officer reported that an unfamiliar radio station of one frequency had sent three signals in a row within twenty minutes, and that an unfamiliar radio station of another frequency had also sent three signals, all of which had been between three and five minutes.

This situation made Zheng Dahai judge that the Hawaiian fleet might already be on its way back to Pearl Harbor, and he immediately asked the reconnaissance plane to expand the scope and intensity of reconnaissance.

After two boys, a reconnaissance plane finally came with good news, a fleet was found about two hundred and twenty nautical miles northeast of Pearl Harbor, for fear of being discovered, did not dare to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance, according to the size of the fleet, it was judged that it should be the Hawaiian fleet, and now this fleet is heading in the direction of Pearl Harbor, it seems that it should be headed for the decoy fleet.

After Zheng Dahai received the report, he immediately ordered: "The main fleet immediately accelerates, sails to the north, and orders the reconnaissance plane to monitor at any time!" ”

After a four-hour voyage, Zheng Dahai ordered the fleet to sail southeast, so that the Hawaiian fleet ran to the front of the Third Fleet, which was far behind the Hawaiian fleet.

With the fleet moving at full speed, the Third Fleet quickly caught up with the Hawaiian fleet.

"General, our fleet is thirty nautical miles from the Hawaiian fleet!" Operational Staff Officer Pan Lin reports.

When Zheng Dahai heard this, he ordered: "Order, the whole fleet of warships to prepare for battle, order the Dawn aircraft carrier to take off, the carrier-based aircraft will be divided into three bombing formations to bomb the Hawaiian fleet in turn, and the aircraft carrier Jellyfish will be ready to reinforce at any time!" ”

"Yes, General!" After Pan Lin agreed, he immediately conveyed Zheng Dahai's order, and the fleet began to sound the business of battle alarm, and all the naval officers and men began to be nervously busy. (To be continued......)