"Good work!" Major General Bi Lingbo, commander of the first team, personally went to the deck to greet Cai Yong.

Cai Yong tore off his flight scarf, stepped on the wings and jumped off the plane: "Please take me to see Commander Liang, it is necessary to launch a third wave of attacks!" ”

On the bridge of the "Dapeng" flying ship, Liang Shuming, commander of the mobile unit, listened to Cai Yong's report, turned around and asked Jiang Ye, an intelligence staff officer: "Has the patrol team sent to find out?" ”

"The first patrol team has not yet reported the enemy's situation."

About three hours ago, after the second attack wave had all set off, the "Dapeng" and "Yunpeng" immediately took off four "Dongfeng" naval reconnaissance planes, and the "Xunlei" and "Xianglei" each released two "Seagull" reconnaissance planes, and the first batch of reconnaissance teams with a total of eight reconnaissance planes launched a search for the west and south of the fleet, with a search radius of 200 to 250 nautical miles -- at this time, the planes should have begun to return home.

Half an hour ago, the "Golden Falcon" and "Saker" took off four more ship reconnaissance planes, and each of the four "Kunlun" class armored cruisers released one water reconnaissance to form the second batch of patrol teams -- probably nothing was discovered at this time.

However, the distance between the mobile unit and Pearl Harbor is now less than 100 nautical miles, and the enemy's capital ships can arrive in only four or five hours if they are at full power.

Although the mobile unit was equipped with two combat cruisers armed with 350 mm guns and four new patrol ships, even if it encountered only a quarter of the capital ships in Pearl Harbor, it was likely to pay an unbearable price before successfully escaping.

Cai Yong saw that Liang Shuming was still hesitating, and took a step forward and said: "Commander, we should still have time, the third attack wave will be able to attack in half an hour, and the recovery will be completed in three and a half hours, at that time, even if the opponent's cruiser force arrives first, we will have the ability to repel it and withdraw from the battle before the arrival of the enemy's capital ships." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Zilong, Liang Shuming's most relied on combat staff, made the opposite sound: "What needs to be considered is that when the third attack wave arrives, the undamaged ships of the enemy fleet should have left the port one after another. And even if only the enemy cruiser forces are engaged, there is a risk that the aircraft carrier will be damaged, and we do not know about the deployment of the enemy's submarine forces...... In short, the effect of the current surprise attack has been completely lost, and the risk of sending out the third attack wave is completely disproportionate to the expected results, and the battle should be withdrawn immediately after the second attack wave is recovered, and the north should be avoided at full speed. ”

"Then let the third attack wave be fully loaded with torpedoes and attack the enemy ships that are leaving the port!" Cai Yong is firm and impatient.

"The effectiveness of the existing torpedo planes against enemy ships at high speed is very limited, which has been proven in the exercises, and the maneuverability of the torpedo planes is almost ...... after one or two times the increase."

"It doesn't matter if he has so many, if he can kill one, it's one! The main forces will not arrive until tomorrow, and before that we should weaken the enemy fleet to the maximum! Even if one or two aircraft carriers are damaged, it will not hesitate! ”

Bi Lingbo also came to help his direct generals: "I agree with Captain Cai's opinion, even if the mobile force loses one or two aircraft carriers, if it can be exchanged for the magnificent result of destroying the enemy fleet, it is worth it." Commander, make up your mind! ”

Cai Yong mentioned in his report just now that only three of the 132 carrier-based planes of the first attack wave failed to arrive at the return assembly point on time.

The fighter plane was fleeting, Liang Shuming didn't have much time to continue to hesitate, and the time to test the commander's judgment had come!

"Order, the third attack wave immediately begins to prepare! The attacking troops are all loaded with torpedoes and ready to attack the enemy ships sailing out of the harbor! Captain Cai, you take a squadron without bombs to set off first, and after observing the situation around the harbor, you can either replenish the enemy ships in the harbor, or go all out to intercept the enemy ships that have sailed out of the harbor, and leave it all up to you to decide on the spot! ”

"Understood!" Cai Yong excitedly stood up and saluted - old men who believe in the cannons of giant ships, let you see clearly the true strength of naval aviation, who said that we can only shoot fixed targets!

……

10:00, outside Pearl Harbor.

The cruiser force under the command of Rear Admiral Jones was carefully opening the narrow Pearl Harbor access channel, a heavily fortified channel: at the narrowest point of the channel there were two anti-submarine nets, which could only be opened by order of the base commander; Dense searchlights and rapid-fire artillery positions were placed on both sides of the channel; There are also several destroyers and patrol boats cruising back and forth at any given time near the exit to the ocean.

"Whether it's a torpedo boat or the smallest submarine, it's a dream to sneak safely through this channel and into the harbor! Projecting torpedoes from the air? Not to mention that the existing seaplanes could not carry torpedoes capable of damaging the battleship, and even if there were planes that did drop torpedoes on Pearl Harbor, those torpedoes would have to be plunged into the mud 12 meters underwater before they could reach the battleship......"

It is precisely on the basis of the above general understanding, and at the same time in order to shorten the preparation time for the fleet's emergency dispatch, that the US capital ships in the harbor did not lay down the complicated and cumbersome anti-mine nets -- this was not the fault of the fleet commander alone! The lack of intelligence and the lag of the overall concept led to the tragedy, and it is also the sequelae of the Taft era, which talked about justice and abolished armaments, to the US Navy.

Major General Jones looked at the blazing Pearl Harbor behind him with mixed feelings.

It is useless to sigh, the most important thing now is to fight back, to take revenge!

The vile and shameless yellow monkeys who can only sneak attack from the air, let's fight on the sea with dignity!

The seven 10,000-ton ships of the 2nd and 4th Cruiser Detachments -- the armored cruisers "Sittree," "Memphis," "Huron," and "San Diego," and the large protective cruisers "St. Louis," "Milwaukee," and "Charliston" -- left the harbor one after another, and soon thick black smoke erupted from the chimneys.

Several destroyers and patrol boats were still patrolling outside the harbor as usual, and soon after the air raid was launched, these little guys received an order: keep your eyes open, not a single mouse is allowed in!

In fact, Major Mo Ming, who was peeking at the US cruiser from the periscope at this time, did not even think of sailing his 1,000-ton "Whale 22" ocean-going submarine into the long and unfathomable narrow channel that was terrifying from the commercial charts alone.

Inside Pearl Harbor?

Mo Ming and the other 21 submarine captains in this area had never received such an order.

His patiently waiting, eagerly awaited prey was now dazzling in front of Oahu's blue-gray coastline in an unsuspecting straight line.