On December 24, 1942, Christmas Eve, Lieutenant General Short, the Supreme Commander of Oahu, wrote this sentence in his personal diary.

"I'll never forget the flame that devoured a qiē!"

From November 15, when the first 10.5-ton super bomb landed on the fortress of Oahu, Oahu, a tourist mecca considered a paradise on earth, lost its name as paradise!

Except for a few areas that the Japanese side deliberately let go, such as ship repair yards and heavy oil warehouses, the rest of the area is full of broken walls and shocking super craters.

Most of the vegetation on the island has been destroyed in the continuous bombing that lasted for more than two months, so that the mountains and forests that were originally beautiful and charming are now all ugly and full of deep pits.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of the 24th, a large number of Japanese ships first appeared in the waters around Oahu, and then a group of Japanese gunboats headed by the Yamato hid 200,000 kilometers away and bombarded the booth positions on Oahu with their main guns.

At this time, a large number of merchant ships and landing craft appeared on the sea off Oahu, and every sign indicated that the general attack of the Japanese army on Oahu would officially begin today.

Stranded on the island, the remnants of the defenders who had been bombed by Japanese planes with the "Great Herax" for two months, and who were already a little numb, were preparing to emerge from the tunnels in the belly of the island's mountains and were preparing to urgently enter the defensive positions on the periphery.

They were greeted by a batch of "long-eyed" bomb shots that fell from the sky - Hs293II.

Historically, this gliding remote-controlled homing missile was the world's first guided air-to-ship weapon, with a total combat weight of one ton and a charge of about 295 kilograms, and it participated in the war for the first time in September 1943 and achieved the result of sinking a British frigate.

This historical plane, due to the early appearance of transistors. Radio guidance technology is more mature, and this type of weapon was born earlier than in history.

In view of the characteristics of the Oahu fortress, the HS293II type proposed by the Germans to the Japanese was a fixed dead target on the ground, and it also occupied absolute air supremacy, and dropped bombs after approaching the target without any scruples. So the total combat weight of the improved II was increased to three tons, and the warhead charge was as high as 1.2 tons. After being dropped by the JU88, it glides through the air with radio guidance, targeting precisely those batteries and exits that are built in the dead corners of the cliffs in the belly of the mountain and cannot be hit by horizontal bombardment.

At the fortress of Oahu, some of the shore defense guns, including even the 16-inch guns, were mounted in the cliffs, and the cliff walls had steel gates, and the turrets were usually shrunk inside. In wartime, the head of the Guò track poked out. If the bomb is easy to jump or hit other mountains, you need to just hit it, otherwise you need to blow up the upper part of the cliff first, but in fact this is not possible.

Over the past two months, the Japanese have thrown more than three thousand rounds of Great Herax on the island, and none of them has been able to destroy the disgusting battery of this position.

The HS293II gliding remote-control homing projectile was prepared for the disgusting battery in such a position.

From 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., JU88s flew a total of 40 sorties over Oahu, dropping 40 HS293II gliding remote-controlled navigation bombs. Most of these aerial bombs, guided by radio remote control, accurately hit the exit of the island's batteries. The explosion caused the collapse of these disgusting forts built on the suspended shore, and they could not function in a short time.

In addition, when the gate was opened, a HS293II was drilled in, causing a violent explosion inside, and then detonating the ammunition depot, resulting in a huge shock. Even Lieutenant General Short, who was hiding in the tunnel in the belly of the mountain, was born

The illusion of a Hawaiian volcano spewing fire.

Lieutenant General Short was puzzled by the fact that in the past 10 days of bombing, the Japanese had dropped thousands of large Heraxes with a hit accuracy many times higher than the previous 2,000 rounds, and the real reason was that these bombs were also equipped with radio correction and guidance devices. Hit positions can be corrected in the air. (Note: Historically, Germany has developed similar products after 1944 and used them in actual combat)

The reason why this improved version of Big Herax has not been put into actual combat until now is purely because Hannah is trying to squeeze the Japanese out of money. To paraphrase her, sell the good stuff to the Japanese too soon, and they won't buy more German arms.

With these two new weapons alone, on December 24, the Japanese nearly wiped out the remaining forts on Oahu.

What Lieutenant General Short didn't know was that at that time, the Japanese side was preparing another superweapon with a higher accuracy than the HS293: the HE177 kamikaze.

The specific guidance method was that a Japanese pilot, who had been brainwashed by militarist ideology, flew a plane stuffed with gunpowder and crashed directly into the target on the mountainside. However, this method of "human guidance" did not get the opportunity to appear on the stage due to the excellent performance of the HS293II-type gliding radio-guided navigation missile that day

Immediately after the start of the war on December 24, the American defenders on Oahu were discarded by the Japanese with their most powerful anti-landing weapons.

What Lieutenant General Short called "the flame that devoured a qiē" did not mean that the 10.5-ton super-bomb "Big Herax," which had become famous in the world in the past two months, had a green-painted shell, and that normally, Japanese planes flew in in the direction of the main attack of their landing force, and dropped more than 20 small bombs with small parachutes at low altitudes in one go.

These bombs, which look like cylindrical beer kegs, have a long iron rod sticking out from underneath them, and they are tied to the parachutes and flutter downward, slowly landing above the American defensive positions.

Then, in a series of bomb explosions that were much quieter than usual, the earth was enveloped in clouds of white mist-like gas. Before the U.S. troops on the ground could figure out what was going on, suddenly, there was a thunderstorm, a great earthquake, and suddenly, dozens of football fields on the ground were blazing, trees fell and houses collapsed, and screams were screaming.

At the scene of the explosion, all the dead were either scorched or suffocated, and very few were injured. Strangely, the bodies of the deceased were all intact, there were no signs of shrapnel, only the mouth was wide open. In the most tragic situation were the soldiers who died in the hidden fortifications, and they all scratched their throats before dying - they died of suffocation.

Cloudburst Bomb!

This is another chrono weapon developed by Lin Han and Hannah, a dog man and woman, who are twenty years ahead of this era. It was developed in June 1943, and during the Oahu landing, the Germans generously offered it to the Japanese for trial, and it was a shocking success.

Lieutenant General Short refers to the "flame that devours a qiē" by a huge mushroom-shaped flame that rises from the explosion of a cloud burst bomb.

Oahu lacks good beaches for landing, and Pearl Harbor, the only best landing site, is blocked by shipwrecks in front of the U.S. military.

However, no matter how good the natural fortress is, no matter how difficult the beach area is, if there is no living person to defend it, it is just a relatively troublesome "dangerous beach".

On the 24th, Maui and Maui near Oahu Island continued to take off planes and drop a large number of German-supplied cloudburst bombs on the US military garrison on the beach.

On the eve of 24 Christmas Day, the attacking Japanese marines made a breakthrough in a dozen beachheads around Oahu at a very small cost, occupied a large number of beachheads, and once penetrated the control zone to a range of 2,000 meters inland before dark, laying an excellent foundation for the next military operation.

That night, in order to drive the landing Japanese troops into the sea, Vice Admiral Short organized a death squad to launch a counter-charge against the Japanese troops on the beachheads, but they were defeated by the combined blows of the Japanese naval guns and the beaching troops.

By the 25th, Christmas Day, the Japanese army had sent more than 6,000 soldiers to Oahu, further expanding the occupied area.

In the last few days of 1942, the Japanese troops who landed and the American troops on the island fought fiercely in every corner of Oahu.

In September 1942, there were more than 30,000 U.S. defenders on the island (including young men who had been temporarily recruited from the population during the war), but by December 24, when the Japanese launched an operation to seize the island, the number of defenders had dropped to 27,000. About 5,000 people died directly from the bombardment of the 3,000-odd Great Herax.

At the time of the island-seizing operation, the morale of the US troops on the island was already extremely low.

By the time the battle reached December 31, 1942, the U.S. forces on the island had lost all the control areas on the Oahu Plains and were forced to retreat into two mountains to continue their resistance.

And when the bell rang for the New Year's in Washington in 1943, President Wilkie received a call from Lieutenant General Short, who told the president that the loss of Oahu was inevitable and that his troops were about to surrender to the Japanese.

By 14 January, as the Japanese partially cleared the harbor channel and brought a batch of heavy equipment and more troops to the island, their clearance force increased again.

On February 1, 1943, the desperate Lieutenant General Short ordered the U.S. troops on the island to abandon resistance and surrender to the Japanese troops on the island, after receiving a promise from the Japanese army to "treat prisoners well," and the Hawaiian campaign ended.

In this battle, the attacking Japanese army completely annihilated more than 30,000 American troops on Oahu at the cost of 4,000 killed and more than 10,000 wounded. After the seizure of Hawaii, even with the huge industrial power of the United States, it will inevitably pay a terrible price to retake the island in the future. (To be continued......)

PS: Originally, the Oahu attack could have been written in eight chapters out of ten, but when I think about it, it's really not interesting to write about how awesome the Japanese are. And the hot selling point of this book is the brain-opening strategy and smashing history, writing this kind of overly detailed plot, I feel that there is a suspicion of cheating the number of words, so this plot, I think it's better to mention it in one stroke.

To update first, I'll go take a shower first and go back and proofread the typos