Hawaiian local shijiān, December 21, 2 p.m.

In the North Pacific, 220 nautical miles north of Oahu, a large Japanese fleet is slowly sailing north on a zigzag course.

This Japanese Grand Fleet did not belong to any battleship or battlecruiser, and the core was all nine Soryu-class fleet aircraft carriers, the Fire Dragon, which had been sunk by a torpedo fired by a Japanese destroyer three hours earlier! This aircraft carrier also became the first heavyweight warship sunk in this naval battle between the United States and Japan!

Due to the loss of the aircraft carrier, the officers and men of the Japanese First Air Fleet were a little demoralized, but Yamamoto Fifty-six was able to calm his breath and remain silent, and in the name of the commander of the Combined Fleet and the first Shuji of the Party Committee of the Japanese Combined Fleet, he issued a commendation order to the Second Sentai that lost the aircraft carrier, and it seems that the morning battle was regarded as a victory.

But judging from the facts, Yamamoto is right. With one aircraft carrier and more than 100 aircraft, the Japanese Combined Fleet lost about 10 percent of its combat strength, while the US Pacific Fleet would probably not be able to come to the western Pacific for more than 12 months after Pearl Harbor was temporarily paralyzed and eight battleships were heavily damaged. With these 12 months, Japan's GCD should be able to plant the red flag all over the South Seas, right?

But what about after 12 months? Yamamoto was not worried about the comeback of American battleships, and the situation in the Hawaii and Okinawa campaigns showed that the battleships of Méiyou air cover were not at all suitable for naval warfare in the current era. Even if the opponent's planes can't sink these battleships, they can still make them bruised and completely incapacitated. What really worried Yamamoto were the five Anglo-American aircraft carriers (Brave, Honorable, Lexington, Saratoga, Rangers) and the latest American fighter to be unveiled in the morning's air battle! It was reported by the returning Soviet pilots. The performance of this fighter is significantly better than that of the Yi-18! If an aircraft like Ruguo is transformed into a carrier-based aircraft and equipped with five British and American aircraft carriers, the good days of the combined fleet will come to an end!

So. It is necessary to find an opportunity to sink at least two American aircraft carriers. To ensure that Japan has absolute control of the Western Pacific before the 15 Essex class ships of the United States are put into service!

"Is there any news of an American aircraft carrier?" Yamamoto turned and asked Takijiro Onishi, who had just received a telegram from the fleet's communications staff officer.

"Half an hour ago, submarine I45 spotted an American fleet with at least 2 aircraft carriers and 8 battleships near 45 nautical miles west of Oahu! They are heading northeast at a speed of 25 knots. ”

Yamamoto Isoroku immediately walked to the chart table and found the approximate location of the American fleet, less than 250 nautical miles from Ziji, which is 462 kilometers when converted into kilometers. This distance is beyond the combat radius of Yijing 18 and Yil-1.

"Commander. The other side kěnéng wants to fight an artillery battle with us. Ruguo: If we want to launch an air attack, we should use carrier-based aircraft at a distance of 150 nautical miles to 180 nautical miles, and it will take an hour and a half before Kěnéng can catch fire. They can use this shijiān to advance 37.5 nautical miles. After the air strike, it will take at least an hour for our carrier-based aircraft to return home and another 20 minutes to land, so that they can close the distance by another 37.5 nautical miles......"

"That's less than a hundred nautical miles." Yamamoto looked at his watch. Yijing was past 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It will be dark in 5 hours. Ruguo is now turning south to meet the American fleet, and it will be able to launch an air attack in about 1 hour, and the whole air attack on Guochéng will take 4 hours, almost exactly as dark. It would be impossible to launch a second wave of air raids, and after dark, the 8 battleships of the Americans would be able to exert their power, and they were sunk in the previous air raids. However, the distance between the two sides is still nearly 100 nautical miles, and there is still a good chance that Ziji's fleet will escape with the help of the night light. But the other side has 8 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, and there should be many escort ships. Anti-aircraft fire should not be underestimated. This morning's air raid lost 115 aircraft, and Ruguo fought again. Isn't this a big loss?

Just as Yamamoto Fifty-six was carefully calculating the charts, there were footsteps behind him, and when he turned his head to look, he found that there was another telegram in Onishi's hand, and he immediately frowned and said, "Onishi-kun, there is shime news again?" ”

"It's from the Second Fleet." Onishi Takijiro said: "They are blocked in the Taiwan Strait!" ”

Hearing his words, Yamamoto and Kuroshima were stunned for a moment at the same time, this news was really unexpected. Didn't the Chinese sign a peace treaty with Japan, but also provided Japan with a lot of raw materials and technical drawings, making it clear that the horses and horses intended to support Japan in liberating the South Seas, how could they now block the 2nd Fleet in the Taiwan Strait? Could it be that they have changed their minds!

"What did those fools in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs do?" Yamamoto fifty-six muttered.

"It's not the responsibility of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs," Kuroshima Kameto shook his head solemnly: "I'm afraid the problem is ours!" The Chinese must have had observers stationed at Pearl Harbor, and Chang Ruiqing Kěnéng thought that our air raid on Pearl Harbor was not successful. ”

"He's going to ......"

Hearing this, Yamamoto Isoroku's eyes widened suddenly, and the muscles in his face twitched again. The Chinese intend to betray the alliance ?! Isn't that unfaithful? Is it still a dignified kingdom of heaven and a state of etiquette?

"Commander, now you can only speak with your achievements! As long as we can severely damage the main force of the US Pacific Fleet, the Chinese will certainly seriously fulfill the agreement. The Black Island Turtle Man snorted, "Commander, please give the order to attack!" ”

Yamamoto pondered for a while, it seemed that he could only fight with the American fleet going north! Otherwise, not only will Japan dominate the Western Pacific in the next one to two years, but even the Chinese will be half-hearted, and they may be drawn by Britain and the United States to betray Japan again!

So he immediately said, "Okay, let's fight again!" With the aircraft carriers Tianlong and Heilong as the core, the second team was formed and went north to continue the search for American aircraft carriers. With the remaining 7 aircraft carriers as the core, the first team will be formed and go south to fight the main force of the US Pacific Fleet!

Also, the Second Fleet was ordered to take the Bass Strait instead. Be sure to do your best to seize the Brunei oil fields! ”

"Hey!"

……

"Provincial Marshal, the Japanese Second Fleet has retracted!"

Jiang Mosan, chief of staff of the Navy, hurriedly walked into the command center of the Ministry of National Defense and handed over the telegram he had just received to Wang Junhao. With the official start of the war between Japan and the United States, China's national defense forces have also begun a comprehensive strategic adjustment, the main force of the navy has temporarily shrunk back to its old nest and is ready to watch the show, and the army units that were originally deployed to defend the coastal areas have also concentrated in the north and northwest to prepare to attack and plunder the Central Asia and Far East of the Soviet Union in the coming year.

However, the Chinese National Defense Forces have also given up on going south completely, but are ready to take some measures to fish in troubled waters. The first is the unexpected blockade of the Taiwan Strait.

According to the secret agreement reached between China and Japan, the surface ships of the Japanese Navy could use the Tongguo Taiwan Strait to march to the South Seas in wartime. Of course, there are still necessary restrictions, such as no more than one Japanese aircraft carrier in the Taiwan Strait at one time, and the Japanese fleet cannot be 300 nautical miles away from the Zhanjiang military port. Japanese warships are not allowed to enter China's territorial waters, and Japanese submarines (including British and American submarines) are not allowed to enter the Taiwan Strait, and so on.

However, the Japanese never imagined that less than a month after the conclusion of this secret agreement, China would actually violate it for no reason. A whole Japanese fleet, including three capital ships, including "Akagi", "Kaga", and "Tosa", has been intercepted in the Taiwan Strait! And also the outrageous méiyou give any reason. As a result, the Japanese side had no choice but to protest through the diplomatic channel of Tongguo, and at the same time detoured south through the Bass Strait, and the originally planned turán nature naturally no longer existed. According to the original plan, the Japanese Second Fleet was supposed to begin attacking Brunei on December 23 (Nanjing Shijiān). Now this toss, it seems that it will be delayed for a few days, maybe this delay will have to say goodbye to Brunei and the whole of Borneo forever.

Wang Junhao took the telegram and handed it to the staff officer beside him, and then looked up at a row of wall clocks hanging on the wall showing each time zone. It's now 11 a.m. on December 22 in Nanjing. The Hawaiian shijiān is 18 hours behind the Nanjing shijiān, and it's now 5 p.m. on December 21. The Battle of Hawaii is supposed to be still in Jiliè Jinháng.

"Is there any news from the Navy's Deputy Chief of Staff?" Wang Junhao turned his head and asked Jiang Mosan: "The prime minister's Yijing has made several calls to ask questions." ”

"Also méiyou receive any message." As soon as Jiang Mosan's words were finished, the salute of the guards sounded behind him, and the two turned their heads to look only to find that Chang Ruiqing and Wang Jingwei had walked into the command center together, and hurriedly saluted each other. Wang Junhao said: "Brother Yaoru, there is still news from Hawaii, it is estimated that the Americans deliberately blocked the news, it seems that the war is beneficial to Japan." ”

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yijing received a notification from the Japanese Embassy," Chang Ruiqing smiled and sat next to Wang Junhao: "The Japanese claim to have sunk or severely damaged 8 battleships, shot down and destroyed more than 300 American planes, and blew up the large oil depot at Pearl Harbor. ”

"Blow up the oil depot at Pearl Harbor!" Jiang Mosan laughed when he heard the news, "It seems that the Americans are in big trouble this time, and the main force of the Pacific Fleet is going to return to San Diego." ”

"An oil depot, as for nàme Yan zhòng?" Chang Ruiqing had heard this kind of saying in his previous life, that Japan had neglected the oil depot and naval yard when it attacked Pearl Harbor, otherwise the US Pacific Fleet would not be able to gain a foothold in Pearl Harbor for the time being, and this would have won Japan a lot of shijiān.

"Of course, the oil depots and dockyards at the Pearl Harbor base are fundamental to the Pacific Fleet in the middle of the Pacific. This oil depot I visited in Shihou in Pearl Harbor a few years ago, it is four times larger than the one we have in Zhanjiang, and it is said to be able to hold 5 million tons of fuel! If this is blown up, it will take two years to repair or rebuild. During this period, the home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet had to move back to San Diego. ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded, although he didn't know much about the navy, but it was still time-consuming and laborious to build a super-large oil storage depot. Because the Ministry of Energy of the Federal Government, the National Defense Force, the Navy, Army and Air Force, as well as PetroChina, which is controlled by the Iron and Blood Comrades, have built large-scale oil storage facilities, and now have a total of 15 million tons of various fuel oil reserves. And an oil storage base that can store 5 million tons of various fuel oils will not be able to be built in a year or two at the current pace of infrastructure construction in China. That oil storage base at Pearl Harbor in Ruguo is really completely destroyed, and the Pacific Fleet of the Nàme Yankees will not want to return to Pearl Harbor for at least 12 months! With such a result alone, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in this life is no worse than in the previous one!

"Chief of Staff Jiang. Will the relocation of the home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet back to San Diego affect their operations in the Pacific? Wang Jingwei, who does not understand the navy, is still very interested in this war between Japan and the United States, and many of China's foreign policies will be formulated around this war.

"It's more than an impact!" Jiang Mosan smiled coldly and said, "It can be said that it has basically paralyzed the operational capability of the US Pacific Fleet in the western Pacific. Although naval warfare does not have many lines of defense and geographical advantages to rely on like land warfare. But the significance of key ports and bases is in some ways more important than the defense lines and moats on land. For example, Singapore and Gibraltar in the hands of the British, Constantinople in the Russians, Vladivostok in our country are all such key points. However, compared with the Americans' Pearl Harbor, the importance of these key points is really too different, and the Pearl Harbor base Ruguo cannot be used for a year and a half, and if the main force of the US Pacific Fleet wants to come to the South China Sea and East Asia, it will have to cross the entire Pacific Ocean for thousands of miles. ”

"Oh. In this way, the Japanese have temporarily defeated the United States? Wang Jingwei looked at Hawaii on the map and asked.

"If the ruguo Japanese méiyou boast about the results of the war, it should be that they won." Jiang Mosan replied.

"Report, an urgent telegram from Deputy Chief of Staff Bai." The sound of the staff officer's report interrupted the discussion of several people. Jiang Mosan immediately took the telegram and swept it through it at a glance. laughed excitedly: "Haha, little Japan is quite kind, méiyou exaggerates too much, the oil depot at Pearl Harbor has indeed exploded." The fire burned half of the base. However, Méiyou sank 8 battleships. Instead, it was heavily damaged, and a few ships ran aground, and they couldn't be repaired in less than a year and a half. In addition, the losses of the Japanese Ziji were not light, at least 100 planes were shot down, and the Americans also captured dozens of Soviet pilots! It seems that the guānxi between the United States and the Soviet Union will not be repaired for a while. And the Americans also have a fighter with quite good performance, which is better than our J-2 series aircraft, and the Soviets' I-18 is obviously not an opponent.

Also, the Americans launched an air raid on the invading Japanese fleet. It is said that three aircraft carriers were sunk! ”

“shime？！”

When Chang Ruiqing heard the news, he stood up with wide eyes. The Japanese lost three aircraft carriers! The Americans had three large aircraft carriers, the British had two, and the Japanese turned out to have ten. Ruguo Japan lost three ships, that's 5:7! If the Japanese are careless, they will lose their naval supremacy in the Pacific...... Although the main force of the Pacific Fleet will not be able to come for a while, it is still a matter of sending three aircraft carriers to Australia. Ruguo's news was true, and the situation of the Pacific War suddenly became uncertain again.

Wang Junhao beside him also changed his face, now the big war between the north and the Soviet Union has not yet been decided, and the south wants to take the opportunity of Japan to temporarily suppress Britain and the United States to expand its power, but if Japan lets Britain and the United States defeat lightly, China's expansion in the South Seas will be like a tiger's mouth.

Facing the hesitant eyes of Wang Junhao and Wang Jingwei, Chang Ruiqing also pondered for a long time, expansion to the South Seas is necessary, compared with cold Siberia and dry Central Asia, the warm and humid resources rich in South Seas are more suitable for the survival of the Chinese, so the Chinese have always been the largest ethnic group in the South Seas! Although the number of Chinese may not be the majority in a single Nanyang colony or country, the number of Chinese is still the largest in the entire Nanyang region, and they also have huge wealth and political resources, which is very rongyi to guide their region to tolerate the Great China Federation. Ziji also has an obligation to free the land and people there from the clutches of Western colonialism (as it sounds righteous) and to admit them as members of the future federal state......

"Generate electricity for the 10th Fleet and activate the Intimidator Program!"

At this moment, Wang Junhao and Wang Jingwei's eyes also became firm, and Chang Ruiqing's authority or personality cult against him was formed. Anything, ruguo and méiyou finally make up their minds, then there is room for discussion, once he, the supreme leader, has made a decision, nàme others can only carry it out, even if it is not a task that kěnéng completes, they must find ways to turn it into kěnéng!

"Colonel Chen, now that the intimidator operation has officially begun, how can I cooperate with my 10th fleet?"

Rear Admiral Chen Shukang hurried towards the bridge while handing Chen Xinrui the telegram that the communications officer had just handed to Ziji, and from time to time there were busy sailors around the two of them saluting them, indicating that the fleet had entered a wartime state.

And Chen Xinrui, who has a special mission, can make people dizzy today, the skirt of the female officer of the Wehrmacht has been changed into an ugly dark blue men's military uniform, and it is not the national defense force standard, but the Japanese Red Navy standard, and where did you get a bushido in your hand. There are several people dressed in the same way as her, all of whom follow her respectfully, all of them are middle and lower-level officers of the Central Guard Division, looking at their behavior, they really look a bit like Little Japan, that is, they are taller, including Chen Da Beauty, all of them are above 1.7 meters.

Hearing Chen Shukang's question, Chen Xinrui smiled faintly and asked, "Are the Japanese Navy flags and Japanese flags ready?" ”

Chen Shukang glanced at the ugly Japanese military uniform on the big beauty, nodded and said, "It's all ready, is it going to rise now?" ”

Looking at Chen Shukang, who looked a little nervous, Chen Xinrui nodded with a smile: "Rise up, from now on you are the 4th Fleet of the Japanese Red Navy, and we are the Japanese Red Marines!" (To be continued......)