Before Ma Feng's ass was on the chair, a staff officer hurriedly rushed in: "Report, the United Fleet Command called, the main force was attacked by an enemy submarine 1 hour ago, and the armored cruiser 'Tsukuba' was damaged in a mine and temporarily withdrew from the queue." ”

"It seems that the main force has entered the inner warning circle of the other party." Chief of Staff of the Navy Yan Fu analyzed.

Two hours earlier, the Combined Fleet Command had received a telegram reporting on the losses of the enemy and the enemy in the Pearl Harbor operation that day: 12 enemy battleships (including 7 dreadnoughts) were confirmed, 3 to 4 were damaged, and 5 to 6 large enemy cruisers and 3 to 5 destroyers were sunk; Our army lost a total of 15 aircraft, 2 submarines, and 108 people were missing.

1 hour ago, according to a report from the command of the 6th Fleet (Submarine Alert Force), the remnants of the enemy's main fleet had left the port in batches and their whereabouts were unknown.

"The effect of the surprise attack is too good, more than half of the enemy's capital ships were destroyed in one day, and it is natural for the other party to choose to escape, not to mention that now the whereabouts of the main forces have been discovered by enemy submarines, if I were the commander of the US fleet, I would definitely order all ships to rush back to the west coast at full speed, and how far they can escape - I really didn't expect that they could do this with mobile forces and alert forces alone!"

Yan Fu couldn't help but sigh.

The surprise attack was so successful, that it was too successful, not only did Yan Fu not expect it, but also made some members of the Future People Group feel incredible.

With their backs to the non-group members in the conference room, several Liu Yun gang leaders from the 21st century whispered like thieves:

"Can such a bad plane do this? It's twice as successful as the attack on Pearl Harbor in that era. ”

"Could it be a false report of war exploits?"

"Although the thunderhead is equipped with advanced ZHA medicine at the level of World War II, the four-five-zero torpedo is still too reluctant......"

"I thought that a quarter of the planes would be lost, but did the American anti-aircraft gunners eat? I remember that when Pearl Harbor was attacked in that era, the base and warships were equipped with a total of 1,700 anti-aircraft weapons, and it is estimated that there will be at least three or four hundred of them this time......

"Maybe a pre-war intelligence error? The other side actually doesn't have that many anti-aircraft weapons at all......"

"The speed of the aircraft in that era was two or three times faster, and the faster the speed, the lower the hit rate of the mine on a fixed target, of course, it was really ...... if it was slow and easy to be shot down."

"What's the point of discussing this kind of issue now......"

Ma Feng did not join the discussion, he just silently turned his head and looked around at the huge situation map on the wall—each wall chart occupied almost an entire wall.

The war began, the war finally began, on three sides, no, to be exact, on all sides - on the surface, isn't it a taboo for soldiers?

No, for us, it is a attack from all sides, and for the enemy, it is not a belly attack, especially that calamity-ridden Russia......

Although the first step is not very ideal, and the best scenario -- a decisive battle between our main force and the damaged US main fleet -- will probably not happen, and the dream of completely annihilating the US fleet will come to naught, but the US fleet, which has lost more than half of its main battle strength, will not be able to prevent our army from capturing Hawaii in the short term.

Using Hawaii as a magnet to absorb the essence of the U.S. military and consume it here until the overall situation in the European theater is determined, and finally force the U.S. to make peace—can such a plan really be realized?

The stakes are enormous: no one can estimate how far the United States, mobilized years earlier than it has historically been, will expand its military power, and the best of the imperial military will likely be exhausted before it can force the United States to make peace. Moreover, on the premise of ensuring the security of the homeland, the United States is likely to adopt a strategy of first Europe and then Asia, supporting the European theater with a large number of troops and materials, striving to defeat Germany first, and then go back to encircle and suppress China together.

The crux of the matter is Russia! It is necessary to force Russia to submit before the collapse of Germany's Western Front, and then China and Germany will join forces to attack the Western Front and drive the Entente army into the sea with the superior forces of course!

Can it be done?

I didn't say it......

Ma Feng smiled self-deprecatingly, and thought about the dinner arrangement—Ma Feng had always believed that if officials had to sleep and forget to eat in order to do their jobs well, such a system would be too unsuccessful.

At this time, 100 nautical miles east of Oahu, Admiral Evanley, the commander of the fleet, could not even eat a bite of bread on the USS Pennsylvania, the flagship of the main US fleet.

The mighty fleet, once considered invincible, had gathered the ardent expectations of tens of millions of Americans, but suffered heavy losses at his hands and had to flee like a dog from America's most important forward base in the Pacific.

The latest report sent by the adjutant made his mood even heavier: The battleship "Delaware," which had escaped the third wave of enemy aircraft after leaving the port, could not escape the underwater plot, and first hit a torpedo 15 nautical miles offshore, reducing its speed to less than 10 knots, and two hours later hit another torpedo, and its hull tilted 7 degrees to the left, but it was still able to sail at a slight speed, so it was accompanied by two destroyers and sailed to the west coast on its own chosen course. However, just an hour earlier, the "Delaware" had been hit by a third underwater attack, hitting two torpedoes, losing all power, and the hull was seriously tilted, and the captain had to announce that he had abandoned the ship, and after the crew was transferred, the accompanying destroyer launched a torpedo and sank it.

This means that the Great Fleet, which was already broken, lost another valuable dreadnought battleship - only 6 of the 14 dreadnoughts that were the backbone of the fleet survived!

Only 3 of the fleet's 8 old battleships remained, and with the addition of the 5 old battleships remaining in the Atlantic Fleet, the total number of active battleships in the United States has plummeted from 27 24 hours ago to 14!

In addition, the fleet lost 5 armored cruisers of more than 10,000 tons and 4 destroyers, and the naval air force stationed at the Pearl Harbor base lost all its aircraft and some of the best pilots in the navy.

Within 24 hours, a full 336,500-ton combat ship was driven to the bottom of the sea! The number of casualties and missing officers and soldiers is not yet counted, but is roughly estimated to be between 4,000 and 10,000......

The newly completed battleship New Mexico is still on trial at the East Coast base, two of its sister ships, the USS Mississippi and the USS Idaho, two Tennessee-class battleships have not yet been put off their slipways, and two Colorado-class battleships with 16-inch (406 mm) guns have just begun construction a month ago......

In this way, I am afraid that in the next year, the US Navy will not be able to recover!

What to do? After today, how will the great United States of America wash away its shame?