Of the Hawaiian archipelago, Oahu, which serves as a base for the Pacific Fleet, is the third largest.

Hawaii Island is the largest island in the Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific Ocean, with an area of 10,458 square kilometers. The topography of the island is saddle-shaped. Multi-volcano. To the south is Mauna Loa Volcano at 4,176 meters above sea level and to the north Mauna Kaya Volcano at 4,205 meters above sea level. With a diameter of 5 kilometers and frequent lava eruptions, Mauna Loa Crater is one of the world's most famous active volcanoes.

Since it is an unstable and active volcanic island (volcanoes erupt on average every three years), it is not suitable as a base for the Pacific Fleet, despite its large size. After the Japanese launched the Hawaiian Raid at the end of August, the defenders of Oahu deployed two regiments to defend the island. However, due to the large size of the island, the Japanese army did not know the defenders of the island until the end and completely captured the island. However, because the island is hilly and plain, it is not suitable for the construction of a large aviation base, and after the Japanese occupied the island, they only repaired the original two airfield runways on the island, which was to build houses in the local area so that they could be used by the army from the mainland. This will be one of the most important bases of the Japanese army in the event of a future Oahu attack.

With an area of 1,800 square kilometers, Maui is the second largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, about 77 kilometers long and 41 kilometers wide.

The island is made up of two tectonic plates, east and west, connected by a bottleneck-like land segment in between. The center of West Maui is the West Maui Mountains, and East Maui is dominated by the 10,000-foot-high extinct volcano Mount Haalala. All the roads are arranged around these two impassable mountains.

Maui, because of its proximity to Oahu, was large enough to be a natural forward base for an attack on Oahu.

After the Japanese army captured the island at the end of October, what the Japanese troops stationed on the island did was to build. Non-stop construction, building airstrips, repairing ports, repairing houses, building loading equipment. By early December, 20,000 day-long homes had been built on Maui.

Despite the fact that before the war, Japan formed two marine divisions, but seized the island of Hawaii. The military estimates that more than 100,000 troops will be needed and at least 50,000 casualties will be paid. This alone is not enough for the Marine Corps, and the Army must also help.

The Japanese mainland is thousands of kilometers away, and it is unrealistic for the Japanese mainland to directly plunge into the island seizure and landing operations without resting on land and experiencing 20 days of turbulence at sea. The Japanese troops who occupied Maui in advance had the early construction work to prepare for the upcoming landing battle.

Maui is now garrisoned by the newly formed 1st Marine Division two years ago, and its commander, Major General Hitokazu Yamada, is stationed on Maui. It was during the 1935 Chinese War that Hitoshi Yamada and Osa, who stole back to the interior and shot Churchill in the ass at the entrance of the Emperor's Palace.

The shot of Yamada Hitokazu that year, as well as the subsequent fermentation, changed the political situation in Japan and laid the groundwork for the later imperial sect Tongguò mutiny.

Yamada was later arrested and sentenced to six years in prison by a military court, but he did not suffer much in the military prison, when Yamada was considered a hero by the entire lower middle and upper classes of Japan. He was also cared for in prison and even received a large number of love letters from young women in the country.

After the Imperial Dao faction mutiny successfully came to power. Originally, it was planned to detain Hitokazu Yamada symbolically for half a year, and then release him from prison on pardon. Who knew that the war situation in China continued to deteriorate, and soon the imperial faction fell sharply because of the tragic battle of Xuzhou, and then Emperor Chongren came out of the "secret of treachery", and the imperial faction was ousted from power by the naval and land armies of the "Shangluoqin King" in various places.

Although Hitokazu Yamada was not a member of the Imperial Sect, he played an unavoidable role in the process of the Imperial Sect's mutiny to come to power. It has long been regarded as a member of the imperial faction by various factions in the country, and has been deeply branded as the imperial faction.

After the reunification faction returned to power, Hitokazu Yamada continued to spend time in prison, and at this time he was almost forgotten.

sat until Li Huamei went undercover in Japan as a "god Yamato Nadeshiko" and succeeded in convincing the Empress of Heaven. At her suggestion, Hitokazu Yamada received an amnesty from the emperor.

Then, after several years in prison, Yamada Hitoshi was transferred from the Army to the Navy and appointed commander of the newly formed Marine Division. And his subordinates were also frustrated after the Second Tokyo Incident, and the officers of the imperial faction who were coldly treated.

Over the years, Emperor Chonghito has not grown at all, and after the dominance of the ruling faction, his experience of being set aside, made him understand the truth of "political balance". In the past few years, he has deliberately and secretly promoted the officers of the Imperial Dao Sect who had been beaten into the cold palace before.

In Japan, the navy and army formed their own system, and Emperor Chongren, who suffered from not having his own personal soldiers, with the help of Li Huamei and the prestige of Yamato Nadeshiko, formed a marine corps, which he named the "Royal Marine Division". The main members of the army and half the navy are from the background, and the reason is that it is to bridge the long-standing gap between the land and the sea.

Originally, the Royal Marine Division, which was directly under the Emperor, had two missing "half-divisions", and a quarter of its military expenses were paid by Emperor Takahito out of his own pocket. In the past few years, Emperor Takahito, with the help of Li Huamei, has made a lot of money by relying on his foresight and foresight to accurately judge the international form. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Chongren took the opportunity to expand and enrich these two divisions into full-strength divisions, and their weapons made the army even more jealous: half of the infantry was equipped with G32 semi-automatic rifles imported from Germany, and more than 200 M2 tanks sold by the German side at scrap metal prices, and even 100 were directly assigned to these two divisions, which can be said to be the best equipped units of the Japanese army.

Currently, the 2nd Royal Marine Division remains in Tokyo, while the 1st Division is sent to the Hawaiian battlefield to earn military merits.

Standing on the top of a hill on Maui Island, Rear Admiral Hitokazu Yamada looked at the disembarking Army soldiers on a transport ship moored at the Shinzo Port at the foot of the mountain, and his heart was filled with emotion. For three days, Maui continued to receive troops and equipment from the mainland in preparation for the upcoming Oahu attack.

The adjutant beside him said, "Thank you, Your Excellency, it is because of her that I didn't expect the army of the Great Japanese Empire to set foot here on this day." ”

His aide-de-camp, Taro Hirano, was transferred from the Army after he was appointed division commander by the Emperor and was his deputy during the 1935 China War. The two rolled together in the mud in the Pudong area of Shanghai, and it can be regarded as a friendship that crawled out of the pile of dead people.

"I hope that the red deer of the army will stop playing this good hand."

Hearing that his adjutant was also like a member of the navy, calling the army a red deer, Yamada Hitokazu couldn't help but laugh.

"Hirano-kun, don't forget that we were also from the Army."

Hirano said disapprerovingly: "But the upper echelons of the army are all controlled by the red deer. Otherwise, His Majesty the Emperor would not have bypassed the army and used the navy's signboard to create this Royal Marine Corps. ”

Taro Hirano was also a member of the Imperial Road faction in the past, and after the Second Tokyo Incident, the Imperial Road faction was uprooted by the ruling faction, and he was also suppressed by the impact. Similar to Renwa Yamada, he was also reused after Li Huamei's undercover success.

"There are still many shrewd people in the Imperial Army, such as Lord Okamura and General Ishihara. If it weren't for their own reputation, they would have given up the Northeast as a strong man with a broken wrist. The empire could not have come out of the terrible quagmire of China so early, and we would not have stood on the land I have longed for for a hundred years as we do now. ”

The Japanese Army has always dreamed of being full of Mongolia, and for the Japanese Navy, they dreamed earlier than the army's red deer, and this dream is Hawaii.

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan was civilized, and it was time to enter the sea. Because of its special strategic position, Hawaii has become a plot that Japan cannot get rid of.

Hawaii is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. It is located in a strategic location in the Pacific Ocean. At the same time, it is also the tipping point of the security border between the United States and Japan, and together with Midway and others, it constitutes the bottom line for the United States to tolerate Japanese expansion.

XIX in the first half of the old century. Hawaii is a relay station on the U.S.-China Pacific route and a supply base for whaling ships. The United States recognized the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1842 and concluded a treaty of commerce with the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1849. After that, Hawaii in the United States fought with Japan and forced Japan's eastward expansion to a halt.

In the second half of the old century, the United States sought to annex Hawaii. Japan, on the other hand, wants Hawaii to remain independent, and tensions between the two sides have risen.

In June 1871, Japan established diplomatic relations with Hawaii and concluded a treaty of reconciliation.

On January 6, 1873, U.S. Minister to Japan, De Lang, asked the State Department to instruct "the Government of Japan to endeavour to annex the island by peaceful means, with the consent of the people of Hawaii." Does the U.S. government have any objections to this move? U.S. Secretary of State Fish categorically replied that the United States did not agree to the annexation of Hawaii by any other country.

In 1884, the Japanese government approved immigration to Hawaii, and by 1890, there were 12,360 Japanese immigrants to Hawaii, accounting for 13% of the total population of Hawaii. During the same period, there were only 1,928 immigrants in the United States.

Three years later, in 1893, there were 100,000 immigrants from Japan, 10 times as many as those from the United States during the same period. January 1893. With the participation of the U.S. Minister to Hawaii and the U.S. Marine Corps, local American immigrants overthrew the Queen of Hawaii and established a new government, requesting integration into the United States.

In February, Japan immediately sent the "Naniwa" to Honolulu to rendezvous with the Japanese "Kongo" to express its dissatisfaction with the United States, and on 17 November, Japan sent the "Naniwa" to Hawaii again to inform the Japanese consul general in Honolulu that "it does not recognize any possible government." This forced the United States to change its approach to the immediate annexation of Hawaii. Then-U.S. President Theodore. Roosevelt was dissatisfied with this, saying, "If we don't occupy Hawaii, Japan, Germany, or Great Britain will." ”

The Hawaii crisis, in turn, accelerated Japan's westward expansion, and in 1894 Japan launched the Sino-Japanese War to open up a "difficult situation" in East Asia. The following year, Japan won and turned around to compete with the United States for Hawaii. On June 16, 1897, the United States and Hawaii signed a treaty of union in Washington, D.C. Japan sent ships, the United States and Japan confronted each other, and the United States did not hesitate to use force to uphold the bottom line of security in the eastern Pacific. Because Japan has not yet gained a firm foothold in Northeast Asia, it is still under strategic pressure from Russia. Japan had no choice but to leave the Hawaiian question to be resolved in its entirety in the future, and on December 22, 1897, Japan withdrew its protest against the United States annexing Hawaii. This move marked the limit of Japan's eastward expansion and the bottom line of the United States' tolerance of Japan's eastward expansion.

Since then, Hawaii has completely become a piece of fat that has been swallowed by the Americans, and it is also a long-term regret of the Japanese side.

After the 20th century, Japan's national strength increased day by day, but the United States of America on the other side of the ocean grew even faster, and took advantage of the East Wind of World War I to become the world's largest industrial power, and even achieved the position of the British Navy to sit side by side.

In such a situation, although the Japanese watched Hawaii drool, they could only hide in the corner and draw circles in front of the Stars and Stripes to curse Uncle Sam for his bad luck early, and retaking Hawaii seemed to be a dream that could never be realized.

But now, the Hawaiian Islands, except for the main island and the third largest island, Oahu, are still in the hands of the Americans, and the rest of the place has raised the imperial sun flag, and this qiē is carried out by himself, the commander of the 1st Division of the Royal Marine Division.

It is now December 6, and since the 16th of last month, the HE177 Thunder bombers of the Army Airlines have been dispatched two or three times a day to fly over Oahu to carry out bombing. Every time a super bomb weighs more than 10 tons and explodes on the ground, the loud noise can be heard even on the surface of the sea twenty kilometers away. So far, the Army Aviation has dropped nearly 2,000 of these giant bombs on Oahu.

Up to now, seven of the mortar positions on the extinct crater and anticline on Oahu have been destroyed by this super-giant bomb dropped from a height of 5,000 meters.

According to His Excellency Yamato Nadeshiko, the artillery batteries and artillery positions placed by the Americans on the surface of Oahu have been largely destroyed, and only a few lucky ones and the fortress guns set up in the holes halfway up the mountain are still unharmed.

But for the "shrunken American tortoise" on Oahu, the military department is not the only means of "big Herax", and now on the other side of Kauai, His Excellency Nadeshiko is receiving the gods from Germany, and the military is receiving two other secret weapons from the Germans. According to the news from the military headquarters, after the troops transferred from the mainland have rested for ten days on Hawaii Island and Maui and returned to a state of condition, it is time to launch an all-out attack and landing operation on Oahu. (To be continued......)

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