Chapter 630: Deception Plan (Part II)
Looking at the remaining 30,000 anti-aircraft artillerymen, Feng Ju nodded and said, "You are all the best fighters, I need you to fight for the country." I want you to remember that this mission is for the victory of the Motherland, and even if the people cannot know your exploits, history will remember you, and I will always be with you. ”
"For the Motherland, for the Motherland." The crowd in the square was full of emotion, and the emotions of the soldiers had been ignited.
The anti-aircraft artillery was then regrouped, the officers were called together for a meeting, and they were quickly assigned their tasks. Their task was very simple, in order for the Bostonians not to perceive the deceived, all airfields and ships needed dense anti-aircraft artillery fire. They will hold their posts knowing that they will die, confusing the judgment of the Bostonians and preventing the plan from being exposed.
After everything was ready, Feng Ju came to the underground command post by the sea, where he will command the troops and complete this super big deception. While the huge radar antennas on the summit of Honolulu have been removed, the radars of the Chinese Empire have been introduced for several generations, and they are long past the days when huge old-fashioned mechanical rotating antennas were required for search.
The smaller pulse-Doppler radar has long been placed in several secret radar stations halfway up the mountainside, and they line up in a circle on the mountainside, covering the surrounding space of 360 degrees, and monitoring the passage of various targets within 50 nautical miles near the Oahu Islands around the clock. December 31 was the last day of the year 926, and the Chinese people on the Oahu archipelago celebrated the arrival of the New Year with great enthusiasm as usual, which was the largest festival of the year in the Chinese Empire, and it was also the time when the Chinese people were at their least vigilant.
At three o'clock in the morning, the radar station facing south finally spotted a large swarm. In order to confuse the Imperial Chinese Navy, the cunning Bostonians specially chose this important day for the Chinese people, and chose to launch an attack in the early morning, and also deliberately changed the direction of the attack and launched an attack from the south, all in order to achieve a surprise effect.
The first wave of attack echelons on forty-five aircraft carriers numbered more than 2,000 planes, and they flew at ultra-low altitudes to approach Pearl Harbor at great speed, and in order to avoid possible small radars, they even lowered their altitude to a height of 25 meters above the surface of the sea, at such an altitude that the pilots had to be highly nervous, and the slightest mistake could send them headlong into the sea.
All HNA aircraft are equipped with the most sensitive altimeters and spirit levels to prevent problems during night flights. Fortunately, the Navy pilots were selected from the entire Boston Air Force, and he was very skilled, and he was a relatively easy propeller plane to operate and fly at a slow speed.
The most skilled pilots flew at the front, while the other pilots watched the navigation lights of the planes in front of them, and even so, more than 30 planes fell into the sea with operational errors, but all these losses had to be endured, because their victory or defeat was in one fell swoop.
When the vague black shadow of Oahu appeared at the place where the sky and the sea were connected, the lead plane of the Boston Air Force first began to increase its altitude, and at the same time he broke the radio silence and shouted: "Warriors, our operation has succeeded, let us tell those Chinese people with practical actions what kind of soldiers are the best." The other pilots said yes, and they pulled up their noses and flew as fast as they could.
It was as if Pearl Harbor was still asleep, and there was no hint of the approaching death in the air, but if one looked closely close to the ground, one would see that groups of anti-aircraft artillery were crouching in solid bunkers, ready to strike.
The first Bostonian Avenger torpedo plane lowered its altitude, it flew along the sea level, and soon approached the nearest warship, which in his eyes was a huge general-class aircraft carrier. Aiming at the target, the pilot decisively pressed the launch button of the torpedo, and with a straight waterline crossing a distance of several hundred meters, the torpedo went straight to the middle of the hull.
With a loud 'boom', the torpedoes blew a huge gap in the middle of the hull, but in order to reinforce the ships, they were placed on cement piles hidden under the water, so as not to sink too quickly to arouse the suspicion of the Bostonians. If it weren't for these measures, this unarmored merchant ship would have sunk in the attack just now. Even then, the huge hull, which began to lose its balance due to water ingress, began to tilt gently.
The explosion of the torpedo was like a signal for attack, and a large number of Avenger torpedo planes lowered their altitude and began to throw countless torpedoes at hundreds of 'warships' moored around. With the explosion of the torpedoes, the terrible sound of anti-aircraft sirens resounded throughout the harbor, and the anti-aircraft artillery that had long been ready to attack quickly ran to their posts, and they would set up a dense anti-aircraft fire network for the sky over Pearl Harbor.
Just a quarter of an hour after the first Avenger torpedo dropped its torpedo, a large number of searchlights began to point their lights at the sky, and then by the illumination of the lights, the muzzles of countless anti-aircraft guns flashed a flash of fire, and the sky had already been hit by the shells of the anti-aircraft guns.
Under the dense fire net, the dreadnought dive bombers began to dive towards the ground, throwing bombs on the aircraft pylons at important facilities in the harbor, and soon the oil depots, ammunition depots, and even the barracks were bombed. The whole of Pearl Harbor was a hellish world, full of wreckage and flames, and the heroic anti-aircraft artillery still held their positions, firing desperately at the enemy planes in the air.
The Chinese Empire's anti-aircraft guns of various calibers performed very well, and there were even a few super-high-speed guns mixed in, and under the attack of anti-aircraft artillery groups with reasonable high and low altitudes, the dreadnought dive bombers were hit with heavy losses, and the high-explosive bombs they dropped also caused many casualties to the anti-aircraft artillery.
The intensive anti-aircraft fire caused heavy losses to the Axis carrier-based aircraft, and even after they blew up the 'warships' and airfields in the harbor, they had to abandon their plans to destroy industrial facilities and port equipment.
The Axis carrier-based aircraft forces began to attack anti-aircraft artillery positions, because the dense anti-aircraft fire on the ground had seriously affected the bombing effect, and if they insisted on bombing industrial facilities, I am afraid that those bombers would be taken down.
The heroic anti-aircraft artillerymen were shirtless, desperately turning their muzzles to shoot into the air. Despite the bullets fired by the planes flying by them, and the aerial bombs exploded continuously, they continued to press the shells into the breeches as if they didn't see them, firing desperately.
After half an hour of continuous attack, the anti-aircraft artillery positions on the ground were still firing stubbornly, and the Axis fleet finally lost patience, and if it continued like this, the fuel on the planes would not be enough to return home. In desperation, the Axis carrier-based aircraft forces had to give up the purpose of continuing the bombing, and the carrier-based planes that were not shot down began to reorganize into formations and return one after another, and the few remaining bombs were also thrown into the sea indiscriminately.
"General, the fleet has begun to return home." The staff officer reported loudly to Nimitz, commander of the Boston Ocean Fleet.
"Hmm." Nimitz didn't move, still sitting in the corner with his eyes closed, but judging from his gradually relaxed muscles, he was also very worried about his previous actions: "How's the harvest?" ”
The staff officer looked at the battle situation and said loudly: "Report to the general, the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire has been completely annihilated, all the ships have been confirmed to have been destroyed, and its land airfield has also been destroyed, and it is conservatively estimated that three hundred aircraft have been destroyed." ”
"All destroyed?" Nimitz opened his eyes suddenly, it was too incredible to destroy all of them, nearly two hundred warships of all kinds, how to say that there were also injured and unsinkable, and all of them were destroyed, which made Nimitz faintly feel that there was something wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong, if this air raid was a big trap laid by the other side, the price of the trap was too great.
"General, the planes have returned one after another, do we carry out a second attack?" The staff officer came over and asked, after all, there were still half of the planes waiting on the deck for the second wave of attack, and if they were not allowed to take off now, they would not be able to land until the first wave of planes returned to the aircraft carrier.
Nimitz shook his head: "We can't be carried away by victory, don't forget that there are still hundreds of submarines of the Chinese Empire in the Eastern Ocean, once they know the location of our military, it will be a huge loss waiting for us." Now that we have destroyed the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire, our mission has been completed, notify the command room, and return as soon as the planes are recovered. Nimitz was very careful in his decision to cancel the scheduled second wave of attacks, and he was now very pleased with the results.
Feng Ju walked out of the anti-aircraft artillery bunker with a group of staff officers, and he kept his promise and stayed with the anti-aircraft artillery from beginning to end until the end of the battle. This time, so many anti-aircraft guns were arranged to return fire, first of all, in order to disguise more perfectly and not let the other side be suspicious. Another reason he wanted to keep the shipyards and dock facilities here was that they would be of great use for future wars, but the troops paid a heavy price for achieving this.
Although the 30,000 antiaircraft artillery men shot down more than 200 planes, they themselves also lost more than 500 antiaircraft guns, nearly 10,000 officers and men were killed, and almost all the survivors were wounded.
Looking at the rows of white tombstones on the naval cemetery, Feng Ju's heart was gloomy for a while, his plan was halfway successful, and all that was left was to see how the other party reacted. However, looking at these numerous tombstones, his heart couldn't help but be a little shaken, he didn't know if his plan was worth it after sacrificing so many excellent soldiers, such a price was too great.