There are eight main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago, but not every island has a garrison, and the U.S. military bases and headquarters are around Honolulu, Hawaii's largest city, on Oahu, and the Pearl Harbor Naval Base is also on the west side of Honolulu.

Another garrison is the island of Hawaii. With a total area of more than 4,000 square kilometers, the island is twice the total area of all the other Hawaiian Islands combined, and the erupting active volcanoes continue to add new land to the island.

These two islands were the main targets of Operation Storm.

Of course, the main target was Pearl Harbor, the main base of the Navy. As Rear Admiral Short, commander of the U.S. Army in Hawaii, said, Hawaii without the protection of the Navy fleet is like a sweet fried steak that anyone will want to take a bite of.

Most of the main warships of the Pacific Fleet were sunk in the East China Sea, and the United States did not have the ability to immediately organize another equally powerful Pacific Fleet, and it was not easy to mobilize the Atlantic Fleet on the east coast. Due to the depth of the Panama Canal, some capital warships with excessive displacement could not travel freely between the two sides of the North American continent.

Chester, the new commander of the Pacific Fleet? William? Nimitz has arrived and held an inauguration ceremony on board the USS Enterprise. Born in Fredericksburg, Texas, to a German-American family, Nimitz began his career as a researcher on submarines and later became an expert in diesel engine technology in the U.S. military. After the Han and the United States declared war, Nimitz replaced Admiral Kimmel who died in Shanghai, and was appointed commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

But that doesn't mean Nimitz can turn the tide, and what else can he do with the empty berths in Pearl Harbor? Is there only one aircraft carrier Enterprise left in the entire Pacific Fleet, and two battleships, the USS Pennsylvania and the USS Maryland, brave enough to defeat the vile and shameless Han Chinese, as Mr. President said in his speech to Congress?

No matter how crazy a commander is, he wouldn't think like that, would he? "Lead an aircraft carrier and two battleships to attack the Great Han Royal Navy, which has four fleets?" Nimitz shrugged, "Unless I'm crazy!" ”

There are still a lot of cruisers in military ports, but in modern naval warfare, the role of the so-called battle cruisers has been reduced to a trick. In a really hard-fought artillery battle, it is a scum against the battleship. In most naval battles, aviation was used as the main force in the decisive battle, which has been proven several times in the Han-Japanese war. Even the textbooks of the Annapolis Naval Academy in the United States have just added the classic "left-battalion air raids," and the real royal road of modern naval warfare is to discover and attack first, and to blow up and sink the opponent's aircraft carrier. Artillery battles? Giant cannons between naval warships fire at each other, that is outdated, and now carrier-based aircraft almost all have a combat radius of hundreds of kilometers, such as the sea dragon of the Han Kingdom, the fury and banshee of the United States, who do you bombard with naval artillery? Fried fish?

And other warships will serve as the escort force of aircraft carriers, after all, relying on aircraft carriers themselves cannot withstand enemy attacks. Under the guidance of such a concept, the cruiser has long been reduced to chicken ribs, and even the existence of battleships seems insignificant, after all, these giant ships have huge main guns and show the value of their existence. If only anti-aircraft and anti-submarine were to do a better job of destroyers than battleships and cruisers, and in terms of cost and cost of navigation, the two are simply not comparable. How many Caldwell-class destroyers can be built at the cost of an Iowa-class battleship? I'm afraid the answer has to be dozens, right?

Nimitz shook his head, stopped his cranky thoughts, and used these naval warships at hand to maintain a relative balance in the Pacific Ocean, waiting for a number of warships in the docks of major shipyards to enter service, especially the five Essex-class aircraft carriers under construction in the dockyard of Newport News Shipyard, as long as they can wait for them to enter service, they can once again organize the US Pacific Fleet against the Han Navy's twin aircraft carrier formation.

However, even the first ship, the Essex, which had already been sun-furnished, would not be officially delivered to the Navy until two months, and before coming to Hawaii, Nimitz made a special trip to Virginia to inspect the Hampton anchorage. In fact, the drunkard didn't mean to drink, but mainly to see the construction of those Essex-class aircraft carriers. Previously, Nimitz, as the director of the Naval Armament Bureau, had also participated in the Essex class improvement program on several occasions, but after the Wusong Port air raid...... "To hell with that improvement!" I just need aircraft carriers that can take off fighters, aircraft carriers that can cross the Pacific. ”

Lighting his pipe, Admiral Nimitz looked at the Enterprise in the military port and was a little depressed, and his commander-in-chief was slightly stronger than the commander of the light pole.

"If the Han army attacks Hawaii, what can the navy do?" The beautiful afterglow of the setting sun over the Hawaiian Sea did not attract Nimitz's attention, and the deep wrinkles between the admiral's brows could still be faintly seen through the green smoke rising from the pipe.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the Telecommunications Department has intercepted an unknown telegram!" An officer in a white navy uniform parked the military vehicle in a nice drift nearby.

But apparently, the admiral was very disgusted that someone interrupted his musings, "Unidentified telegram? What's the use of sending it to me? Am I a telegraph expert? ”

"Report ...... Tell the Commander-in-Chief, but this telegram is from the southern waters of Hawaii! The young staff officer thought that he would be praised by the commander-in-chief and leave a good impression when he sent it in time, but he did not expect that it would make the general unhappy, but his excellent psychological qualities still made him express his suspicion of this strange telegram.

Nimitz pulled out the pipe in his mouth, and after years in the army, his ups and downs have taught him that caution is always right! "Caution at critical times can save your life!" It is exactly a phrase that the admiral often puts on his lips.

"Southern Hawaii? How far is it from us? Is it possible that a telegram was sent from a fishing boat! ”

"At present, it is not possible to locate accurately with our telecommunications technology, but the experts of the telecommunications department said that it could not have been sent by a civilian ship, and the language on the telegram was not in any known common language, nor was it a native Hawaiian language. Experts suspect that this is an indigenous language unknown to us, and it is impossible for civilian ships to connect in this language! "The words of the young staff officer are very organized.

Nimitz seemed to be persuaded by him, and nodded repeatedly, "Major, what's your name?" ”

"Report to the commander, Major Jean, Staff Officer of the Communications Division of the Pacific Fleet Command? Lowry reports to you! ”

"Okay, Major Lowry, you probably saved our fleet...... No, it saved the United States! Please use your car to get me back to the command, okay? ”

"That's my pleasure, Commander-in-Chief, please!" Major Lowry, who was praised, seemed a little excited, and the American culture is that they like to show off their personal heroism, and praise such as a lone hero or saving America and saving all mankind is the easiest to excite young people.

Nimitz knew this well, and he was admitted to the Annapolis Naval Academy at the age of sixteen, and in his decades in the army, he had seen too many such young men, or even one of them as a young man.

But this does not mean that he agrees with Rory's judgment, it is just a kind of promotion of seniors in the army to juniors.

"This telegram must have been a prank by some telegraph enthusiast. If it was the Royal Navy of the Han Kingdom...... Don't they think the Pacific Ocean is big enough? And then go out of your way to the south and take a detour and come back? Nimitz, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the open-top jeep, laughed at his humor!

Many years later, even on his deathbed, Nimitz was still guilty and remorseful for what had happened today. If he had not been so stubborn in his opinion of the young man, if he had considered the strange telegram carefully, if he had been cautious at that moment he had been more cautious, perhaps......

But there are not so many ifs in this world, and the only time in Nimitz's life was that he was careless, not only ruining one of America's most important overseas territories, but also killing young Major Lowry's chance to save the United States.

That strange telegram was indeed from the Royal Navy's Two Ocean Fleets led by Admiral Long Zhou. Because of the limitations of communication technology in this era, the possibility of the telegraph being intercepted by the enemy is quite large. After Japan's surrender, the whole country found that during the war with Japan, many important telegrams between the allies were intercepted by the Japanese army, and several were deciphered. If this happens to both sides of the enemy and the enemy, which have similar military strength, the result can be imagined!

After this report reached Weiyang Palace, it immediately aroused the great attention of His Majesty. Of course, Zhong Yi knew that the defeat of the Combined Fleet in the Battle of Midway in his previous life was due to the decipherment of the telegram by the US military, and the death of Yamamoto Isoroku was also due to the decipherment of the telegram.

In this era, many technologies of the Americans are at the forefront of the world, and at present, the telegrams of the three armies of the empire are mainly based on Chinese characters, and Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, and the difficulty of deciphering it can be imagined!

It must change, and after His Majesty pondered for a long time, the traverser's aura shone again. At the sound of an order, the female secretary was sent back to Kalgoorlie, the golden city of Yizhou, where the indigenous elder and Vivian's grandfather settled.

A few days later, the special plane escorted the indigenous girl who had aroused the envy of countless people back to Chang'an, along with thirty indigenous young people from their ancient tribe.

One thing these natives have in common is that they are familiar with the native language of the tribe and can easily communicate in Chinese.

After arriving in Chang'an, the natives of these indigenous girls were soon secretly arranged to live in the Royal Command Academy, and with the help of linguists, a new set of telegraph codes was developed.

After that, these natives were given the position of telecommunications officers and placed on various battlefields. The indigenous officers from Kalgoorlie delivered telegrams in their native language, which were then translated into Chinese and delivered to commanders. These indigenous officers, all of whom were directly subordinate to the army group commands, barely left their commanders, and their status was the highest secret. No one knows where they come from, there are hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in Australia, and the indigenous languages of almost every region are different, making these indigenous codes impossible to decipher.

Long Zhou was accompanied by two indigenous officers, who were tasked with compiling the report sent back to Chang'an by the fleet and interpreting the orders from Wei Qingge. His Majesty gave these indigenous officers a name and called them the South China Wind Whisperers!