Oahu, Pearl Harbor Pier One

A motorized boat released from the battleship "Longwei" in the East Mooring Yard slowly approached the dinghy trestle at the southern end of the wharf, and a young lieutenant colonel dressed in a navy blue army uniform and wearing a staff officer's golden spike belt on his chest left the boat and went ashore to meet Lieutenant General Li Wei, chief of staff of the East China Sea Front.

I saw that Lieutenant General Li Wei, who was fifty years old, took the initiative to extend his hand to this handsome junior in his thirties, and said enthusiastically: "Staff Officer Nie, you have worked hard all the way. ”.

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Li Wei said with a smile: "Commander Shen originally wanted to welcome the Holy Angel in person, but the military affairs and government affairs are endless, and he lacks skills, so he has to order despicable people to do it for him, and I hope Staff Officer Nie will forgive me." ”

Nie Wenqing, the fourth son of Nie Shicheng, an important minister of the former dynasty, has been serving as the military attache of the Empress Chengxian for nearly five years, and is deeply trusted by the empress. The emperor inherits the mandate of heaven and is the son of heaven, and Nie Wenqing is not only the messenger of the Son of Heaven, but also called "angel" There are ancient rules to follow (this angel is not another angel).

At the beginning of the war, the base camp set up the Marianas, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert Islands and the waters east of them as the East China Sea Theater, organized them into the East China Sea Front, and dispatched the main force of the Combined Fleet to inflict heavy damage on the main US fleet with an epoch-making air raid, and then integrated the sea and land to lightningly conquer the Hawaiian Islands. Relying on the Hawaiian Islands, the Combined Fleet has made persistent efforts to launch a plank road blockade operation to block Panama and a typhoon operation to sweep away the west coast of the United States, which have dealt a heavy blow to the national prestige of the United States and to a certain extent intensified the centrifugal tendency of the Latin American region, which is regarded as the backyard of the United States, toward the United States.

After the main force of the Combined Fleet completed the Typhoon operation, the forces under its jurisdiction were divided into two, and one part returned to the mainland. After a short break, he joined the Southern Fleet, one of which was organized on the spot into the East China Sea Fleet, which consisted of four parts -- the Fifth Fleet, the Sixth Fleet, the Seventh Fleet, and the Fifth Air Fleet.

The Fifth Fleet, led by Admiral Liu Guanxiong, commander of the Front Fleet, is the main force of the Front Fleet, with a basic strength of 8 dreadnought warships, 2 battle cruisers, 2 mounted cruisers, 4 jellyfish, cruisers, and 24 destroyers. In addition to defending the entire East China Sea Theater as a "presence fleet," the Fleet was also ordered by the Combined Fleet to separately carry out the second Typhoon operation in mid-March, and in the early 4th Division, it supported the Gilbert Islands operation, in the middle of April, and in the Sixth Fleet in the third Plank Road operation, and in early May. He was also ordered to support the Japanese army in the North Sea Theater in launching the Aleutian-Alaska operation, and has not yet returned to Hawaii.

The Sixth Fleet is a submarine force, commanded by Vice Admiral Li Xiang, with an initial strength of 20 large ocean-going submarines and 3 supply ships. The main task of the team is to reconnoitre, break up diplomatic relations and blockade the Panama Canal by means of mine-laying, and since the beginning of the war, it has given three plank road operations in succession, although it is not yet possible to count the losses caused by the mine-laying operation to the other side, but it is only the result of torpedo and artillery attacks, which reached a total of 300,000 tons in less than May, during which the fleet lost a total of 3 submarines due to battles and accidents, and 7 new ones were replenished.

The Seventh Fleet is the escort force of the East China Sea Theater Transportation and Supply Ship Regiment, and the commander is Vice Admiral Yi Mingxuan. The basic force consisted of 2 dreadnought ships, 6 mounted cruisers, 8 light cruisers, 2 jellyfish, and 22 destroyers, and was responsible for guarding the convoy of transports between the mainland and the main island groups in the theater.

Cruisers and submarines of the British Commonwealth and the United States used their forward bases in the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu Islands, and the Phoenix Islands, as well as Howland and Baker Islands, to penetrate deep into the rear of the theater to carry out raids and sabotage.

On many occasions, the Seventh Fleet had to take the initiative to hunt down, encircle, and suppress enemy ships, but with little success, damaging the Australian cruiser "Sydney" only in late January.

However, in late February, the cruiser "Golden Tiger" led two destroyers to escort a small boat regiment in the Bert Islands when it suddenly encountered the Australian cruiser "Melbourne". The two sides exchanged fierce fire, and the "Melbourne" was weaker in firepower, and gradually lost its strength, releasing a smoke screen in an attempt to escape. Our destroyer boldly approached under the cover of a smoke screen, and suddenly fired a salvo of torpedoes using the area method, hitting 2. The "Melbourne" capsized in just five or six minutes, and only 23 crew members were rescued. After this battle, our transport regiment, which was composed of cruisers, never encountered an enemy cruiser again.

In the middle of 3 July, a large transport ship group bound for Hawaii was attacked by submarine-launched torpedoes as it approached Oahu, and the escort destroyers forced a British submarine out of the water and captured it with a dense deep-fire attack, which was the first time that our army captured a British submarine.

In the late 3rd month, in the northwest waters of the Hawaiian Islands, another ship group was attacked by submarines, and a merchant ship was sunk by a mine. After that, the regiment repeatedly encountered enemy submarines, but thanks to the resourcefulness and courage of the escort force, there were no serious losses.

Since the formation of the Seventh Fleet, it has completed more than 50 escort missions, sinking and damaging 1 enemy cruiser, confirming that 4 submarines were destroyed and 1 was captured, and none of them were damaged, and the escort ship regiment was sunk by a total of 6 ships of about 20,000 tons, wounded 3, and another 5+ tons were sunk by enemy ships deep into the Philippine Sea.

The Fifth Air Fleet is a base air force, commanded by Major General Rujkai, with its headquarters in Honolulu, Oahu, under the jurisdiction of the Ninth and Tenth Air Forces, of which the Tenth Air Force is stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, and the Ninth Air Force has about 50 planes scattered in other islands.

The 10th Air Force is composed as follows:

Directly under the team: 6 land scouts.

The 2nd Mixed Wing of Aircraft: The 214th and 215th Maritime Reconnaissance Squadrons and the 250th Boat Squadron are under the jurisdiction of the 250th Boat Squadron. It is equipped with a universal twin-engine water reconnaissance aircraft and a four-engine water boat.

Land-based 10th Wing: 401402403-Land [Battle.

Land-based 103rd Team: 663rd-666th Land[C. Equipped with medium land attack aircraft.

Separate 707th Army Reconnaissance Squadron, 6 aircraft.

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The main task of the 10 th Air Force was to defend Hawaii and to assist the Seventh Fleet in carrying out the task of escorting and countering the enemy's cruisers and submarines on many occasions.