Although the Japanese navy and army were preparing to launch a strategic operation in Hawaii, the Pearl Harbor Naval Base on Oahu, the biggest target of this battle, was extremely difficult to bite.

There are 4 16-inch shore defense guns and 4 14-inch shore defense guns on Oahu, which are equipped with automatic loader guns and control the harbor, and their locations are extremely hidden. The artillery observation post on Mount Diamond Head has an excellent view, and Pearl Harbor can be seen without a telescope.

Before crossing the crossing, Lynn had traveled to Pearl Harbor as a seaman in the 21st century and had the privilege of visiting the old local battery. In addition to the astonishing caliber of shore defense guns, there are also more than 40 11-inch mortar guns on the island, with a range covering the entire island, many of which are set up in volcanic craters, which can only be obtained by horizontal bombing with World War II technology.

Each road leading to the heavy artillery positions had 4-8 3-4 inch guns, which could not be approached at all without destroying them. In peacetime, two standing divisions were stationed on the island, and the 44 was formed and reinforced with two artillery regiments. In normal times, the island has enough supplies to last more than a year. (Note: It is also said that it is two years, and you have to check the information for the specific situation)

Oahu is surrounded by large coral reefs with extremely shallow waters, and the famous sandy beaches were created by the U.S. government in the 60s when some of the reefs were bulldozed and then brought in sand from the outside. In World War II, there was no suitable place to land. Pearl Harbor, the only landing force available, could itself be covered by fire from three directions, two of the main ones being extinct craters out of reach of naval guns.

The northern part of the island is inaccessible, the surfing spots are very strong, the west side has no beach even in the 21st century, there are coral reefs under the water at a depth of 1 meter, and the central mountain area is very difficult to get to guò with rain all day long. Only the coastal road or the middle mountain road can be used.

Judging from all aspects of the topography, the island is a natural fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even the Japanese navy and army, which were opened by the British and Germans, plus the crossers, were going to be very difficult to take the island - even far above the fortress of Gibraltar. After Lin Han traveled here, he couldn't help but sigh that the Americans had taken advantage of the good place. With the terrain here and the defenses of the Americans, it is difficult to defeat even several times the number of troops.

According to Lin Han's opinion, even if there were Yingde plus traversers on the side to help open the hanging, the Japanese would not have wanted to take Oahu if they did not die here with 100,000 people and paid a heavy price like fighting Fort Arthur. And the time period required to build this place will be unbelievably long.

And Japan is now paying losses for the forcible seizure of Oahu with this capital, as well as the benefits obtained from it. It is likely that the gains outweigh the losses. It is more likely that the Japanese side lost tens of thousands of people and paid an extremely tragic price, and it was difficult to capture Oahu.

The Japanese side also knew that it would not be easy to seize Oahu, where Pearl Harbor was located, so it focused its early strategy on two places.

One is to seize the surrounding islands beyond the main island of Oahu, such as Niihau, Kauai, Maui, and the largest island of Hawaii. After seizing these surrounding islands, a field airfield was established here. Suppression of Pearl Harbor of the Vahu Bird.

The second is to besiege the city and send reinforcements. The attack on Pearl Harbor was only a decoy to lure the remnants of the American home fleet to the rescue. Then the Combined Fleet struck it halfway through, completely annihilating the remnants of the U.S. Navy. As for the most difficult to gnaw at the Pearl Harbor fortress on Oahu, it was a long-term siege as a long-term goal, and then little by little this hard turtle shell was cracked.

In August, the Japanese Combined Fleet began to reorganize in preparation for the Hawaiian Offensive launched in September.

As scheduled. The time of the attack was September 15.

And on 3 September, as the US troops in the Philippines laid down their arms and surrendered to the Japanese army, the US power in the Philippines came to an end, and this information once again shook the entire United States. On the same day, China, the Soviet Union and Germany held secret talks. It also set the tone for "aiding Japan" in the Pacific War.

Of course, the so-called aid is just a nice way to say, and in essence, it is an opportunity to squeeze Japan dry by selling the war materials that Japan urgently needs.

If Japan wants to fight a long-term war with the Americans in the Pacific, the first thing to solve is the problem of oil supply.

Historically, after Japan launched the Pacific War, from 1942 to 1944, it obtained a total of about 5 million tons of oil, including 1.88 million tons in 1942, 2.33 million tons in 1943, and 1.07 million tons in 1944. Most of this oil comes from the oil fields of Sumatra. In the same period of history, the United States consumed more than 100 million tons of oil a year, the Soviet Union also had more than 15 million tons, and even Germany, which was severely short of oil, consumed more than 6 million tons of refined oil (mainly synthetic gasoline) a year.

Japan still wants to challenge the US Navy because of this oil supply capacity, and it is really too desperate to find death.

Despite the occupation of the Sumatra oil fields, Japan is still unable to obtain more oil on the mainland due to two main reasons: insufficient shipping capacity and limited refining capacity.

And this plane, which was changed beyond recognition by the traversers, because the Sumatra region had been forcibly eaten by the British and did not fall into the hands of Japan, Japan still could not solve the problem of autonomy in oil supply. So far, Japan's oil supply is still stuck in British hands.

One of the main topics discussed in the talks between China, the Soviet Union and Germany was to "help" Japan on the issue of fuel.

The Soviet Union was the largest oil producer among the three countries and developed oil fields in the Sakhalin region. China, which is close to Japan, also developed the Daqing oil field just last year. After the Beidaihe meeting, China and the Soviet Union took the initiative to contact Japan and expressed their willingness to sell a large amount of fuel oil and ready-made refined oil to Japan at a "friendly" price. The Soviets, who were rich in oil production, shouted even more arrogantly, "As long as you can afford the money, you can give as much as you want."

For Japan, which was accused by Britain of oil pipelines, the "good intentions" of China and the Soviet Union were great news. In the past few months, although the Japanese Navy has not been able to develop in the Pacific Ocean, its fuel consumption is also huge. Hawaii is far from the Japanese mainland, and the fuel consumed by the Grand Fleet is even greater, and when the Grand Fleet is dispatched, hundreds of thousands of tons of heavy oil are used up in the blink of an eye.

Although the British are still resisting the pressure of the Americans to supply oil to Japan, there is only one oil pipeline for supply, and the Japanese side is also very uneasy. Now China and the Soviet Union have offered to supply oil to Japan, which is like a "charcoal in the snow" for them.

With the guarantee of sufficient fuel supply. The Japanese side has been able to be more liberal, at least when it comes to pilot training. Historically, the root cause of the shortage of Japanese pilots in the middle and late stages of the Pacific War was the lack of fuel supply, and the root cause of the excessively strict training mechanism was caused by the lack of fuel. With the guarantee of fuel supply from China and the Soviet Union, plus the Sumatra oil pipeline controlled by the United Kingdom. On the Japanese side, oil was solved at once.

What made the Japanese "extremely moved" was that China and the Soviet Union did not dominate the oil price, and both offered Japan a "conscience price." It's just that the Soviet side is asking for gold and silver hard currency. China, on the other hand, is more simplistic, arguing that Japan could use copper ore instead of hard currency payments.

China is a copper-deficient country, but in 1942, the demand for copper was not as huge as that of later generations. But if you can use other people's mineral resources, it's best not to use your own. The Philippines is a country rich in copper resources, after the Japanese occupied the Philippines. Copper ore was also obtained, which was just right for the ore to act as hard currency.

Germany also lacked copper, and the manufacture of the atomic bomb required a large amount of copper. At the Beidaihe Conference, China and Germany reached an agreement that once the agreement with Japan on copper ore for resources was reached, Germany would provide technology and equipment to help China build a large-scale copper plant in Guangdong, which would be responsible for refining these copper mines from the Philippines. The refined copper ingots were divided by agreement between China and Germany.

The Japanese are very satisfied with this copper-for-resource agreement. The two parties quickly reached an intent to make a deal. In order to obtain more copper mines, Germany also signed an agreement with Japan on the exchange of copper mines for arms. In order to help the Japanese side transport copper ore to China, the German side not only sent dozens of transport ships to the Philippines to help use the ore, but even provided Japan with engineering equipment for mining ore. During the Pacific War, ore ships from the Philippines with German flags could be seen docked in Guangzhou almost every week.

The Philippines is a country rich in mineral resources. In addition to copper, it also has nickel ore, chrome ore, bauxite, and many more. China and Germany secretly signed three mutual trade agreements with Japan, and the agreement basically stipulates that Japan will provide minerals as "hard currency" and ship them all to China. At the same time, Germany provides China with ore refining technology, and after processing and refining these ores, the two companies share the benefits. China and Germany supplied Japan with much-needed oil. In particular, petrochemicals, while Germany "cheaply" supplied Japan with all kinds of "high-precision" weapons.

In order to extract more ore in exchange for war resources, the Japanese also increased the enslavement of the local natives of Southeast Asia. In particular, the local natives on the island of Kalimantan became the target of Japanese plunder. In the process, Li Huamei also stepped up, reminding the Japanese that the Filipinos, who were slaves in the past, were not good for Japanese rule in the local area, and it was better to use "outsiders".

As a result, the indigenous inhabitants of Kalimantan and Sulawesi fell in bad luck, and in the next few years, the Japanese army captured a large number of strong and strong laborers to serve as mines, and the local resources of the Philippines were also exploited predatorily. And this is exactly what Lin Han wants, the future Republic of Laman Mang, is going to expand in Kalimantan. Lin Han has always advocated that people stay on the ground, and he is embarrassed not to follow Hitler's example of building gas chambers, and Japan's approach is simply doing him a favor and doing dirty work for him.

Lin Han was also a chauvinist at heart and had a great greed for land. The current Lanfang is just a small country, and his vision is to build Lanfang into a regional power. Those who are not of my race will have different hearts. Directly learning from Hitler to send those aliens into gas chambers to make soap, this kind of political incorrectness is no longer suitable for this era, and the Japanese plundered the local labor in Kalimantan and sent them to the mines of the Philippines, which is exactly what he could not ask for.

China and the Soviet Union provided Japan with oil that was the blood of the war, and the Soviet Union also agreed to export chemicals to Japan "without restrictions" in view of Japan's insufficient production of gunpowder.

The problem with chapter 384 yesterday is that when I proofread the typos at night, I made a mistake when pasting them, and I accidentally posted two chapters, and this has been corrected

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