Chapter 233: Landing in Hawaii

On the Akagi, the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet's general assault formation, Nagumo Tadaichi stood on the bridge deck of the Akagi, and the telescope in his hand kept looking in the direction of the south.

However, no matter how Nan Yunzhong looked at it, there was never a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and a return carrier-based aircraft in the difficult sky.

At this moment, it was already half past ten in the morning, and according to the flight range of the carrier-based aircraft, the fuel was about to run out.

Nagumo Zhongyi put down the binoculars in his hand, and ordered the adjutant beside him with a very serious face: "Report to the commander of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, that the first batch of carrier-based aircraft that attacked Pearl Harbor cannot return, and I ask for instructions on the next step." ”

As soon as the adjutant left, Nagumo Tadashi saw a Type 99 dive bomber swaying out of the sky, and the horn of the aircraft carrier sounded immediately to prepare to recover the carrier-based aircraft.

However, this carrier-based dive bomber, with a very reluctant flight posture, emitted black smoke on its body, and swayed close to the sea.

Nagumo Tadaichi, who picked up the binoculars, could vaguely see the bullet holes on the plane, and a lot of blood stains could be seen in the glass cover of the pilot's cockpit.

In the silent radio of the aircraft carrier, there was also an intermittent call: "Under attack, the flight wing is all shattered." Attacked ......"

There was an intermittent sound on the radio, which silenced everyone on the Akagi, and the flight formation, which was supposed to return to the aircraft carrier in half an hour, really couldn't come back.

The 99 carrier-based bomber in the distance did not hold out to the Akagi, and fell towards the sea from a distance. fell, plunged headlong into the sea, and the fuselage scattered.

Nanyun Zhong clenched his fists for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Order the third group of carrier-based attack aircraft to set off immediately and pick up the second group of attack formations." ”

Someone intercepted a Japanese carrier-based aircraft, which is very likely to be a US aircraft carrier, and Nagumo Tadaichi no longer considered the possibility of a third wave of air raids, and the Americans had obviously reacted that continuing the air raids would not make much sense, but would put the Japanese Combined Fleet in a dangerous situation.

On the six aircraft carriers in the assault formation, one Zero fighter plane after another took off quickly, a total of 36 planes, and flew in the direction of Pearl Harbor.

"Order the fleet, begin the retreat."

Nagumo Tadaichi gave the order decisively, and Yamamoto Isoroku had already given the order for him to decide.

The fleet, which retreated at full speed, did not give up the carrier-based aircraft, because if the carrier-based aircraft could really return, it would be very easy to catch up with the aircraft carrier.

According to the time, the second wave of attack formations at this time should also be on the way back.

However, an hour later, both the third wave of escort fighters and the second wave of attack formations were silent and completely lost contact.

Nanyun Zhong clenched his teeth, and the carrier-based aircraft never returned, so that he was always on his back.

Although the fleet began to retreat, it still did not give him the feeling that it was very safe.

What disturbed him the most was that the United States had so many fighters capable of intercepting its own carrier-based air wings?

Even if the United States can take off more fighters, will not a single carrier-based aircraft be able to break through the interception and return?

Nagumo Zhongyi didn't know, he didn't dare to stay here and wait for an answer, he could only choose to evacuate, this sneak attack itself was a huge adventure, undoubtedly a super adventure.

It wasn't until the carrier's withdrawal to the south of Midway that Nagumo Tadaichi had no choice but to give up all his carrier-based aircraft.

Although this sneak attack has caused damage to Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Combined Fleet has also suffered considerable losses, and not a single one of the more than 300 carrier-based aircraft has returned, and the combat capability of the six aircraft carriers has dropped to the freezing point at the moment, and they must immediately return to the Japanese mainland to replenish their carrier-based aircraft and pilots.

What distressed Nagumo Tadashi the most was that the carrier-based pilots lost this time were all absolute elites carefully selected from the entire Japanese air force, and some pilots were all trump cards drawn from various air forces.

He knew very well that even if the assault formation was replenished with carrier-based aircraft and pilots, its combat effectiveness would be reduced by at least two percent.

However, at this time, it was the Americans who were really distressed, and thick smoke was billowing everywhere throughout Pearl Harbor.

The two air strikes by Japanese carrier-based planes brought great disastrous consequences to Pearl Harbor, and all six US air bases on Oahu were devastated, and more than 100 fighters were destroyed in the airfield.

Near the airport and at the port, a large number of houses were damaged and fires burned.

Of the 8 battleships anchored at Pearl Harbor, 4 were sunk, one ran aground, and the rest were heavily damaged; Six cruisers and three destroyers were damaged, 188 aircraft were destroyed, and thousands of officers and men were killed or wounded.

From the damaged and sunken battleship, a large amount of fuel leaked and drifted on the sea, forming a dirt.

At this moment, Pearl Harbor is full of firefighters, students of the Military Academy, and military police, as well as a large number of military personnel on Oahu, all participating in the rescue.

On the Oahu broadcast, the governor of Hawaii also began to declare martial law throughout Hawaii.

There are also rumors that the Japanese have landed on Oahu, and the whole of Oahu is panicked and closed their homes.

At the same time, the Pentagon officially announced the news and contacted the Governor of Hawaii to arrange the next battle.

A large number of resident White House reporters hurriedly rushed to the telephone set up by the White House, and rushed to report this important news to their newspapers.

It is believed that soon, the news of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will cause a sensation throughout the United States.

At this time, Japan had already submitted its war documents to the United States, and the Japanese Embassy in the United States also burned all important materials.

On Oahu, where there are many people, no one noticed that the radar station set up by the US military on Oahu was attacked at the same time, and the US soldiers in the radar station became prisoners at gunpoint.

While the United States was preparing to retaliate against Japan, a new round of attacks on Pearl Harbor began.

Twenty minutes after the second group of Japanese attacking fighters left, more groups appeared in the sky.

More than a dozen US fighters that took to the air hurriedly met the battle, but in the face of superiority in quantity and quality, all the fighters that the US Air Force had managed to take into the air with great difficulty were quickly shot down.

More bombs fell on the heads of the Americans, and Oahu was littered with news of the third Japanese air raid.

Countless people put down the rescue operation and began to hide, and the huge group of planes, entering from all directions of Oahu, once again patronized the US military airfield, this time the attack was not to destroy the runway, the target of the attack was the hangar in the airport.

This is a loophole in the attack of the Japanese, and the American soldiers who are clearing the runway are also trying to make the fighters in the hangar able to take off as soon as possible, but they are too late.

Aerial bombs were dropped one after another, and the explosions were blazing and smoke billowed into the sky.

Many American pilots and planes parked in hangars were ruthlessly destroyed.

On the sea outside Pearl Harbor, during the air raid, huge warships appeared.

Dreadnought 2nd class battleships, four appeared at once, and these four huge battleships, under the cover of air fighters, directly broke into Pearl Harbor.

The huge battleship made all the Americans in Pearl Harbor drop their jaws in shock.

Several U.S. destroyers on the verge of leaving Pearl Harbor looked feebly at the huge battleships that had rushed into the bay.

The space-time portal that invaded the world, where Fan Yize unfolded, was on the edge of Hawaii.

The fleet, which had set off directly from the world, was on the edge of Hawaii as soon as it appeared, and it only took ten minutes to rush into Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor, this place is too familiar to the Red Police Navy, the depth of the artificially dug waterway, the entry and exit positions, are quite familiar.

The two dreadnought 2nd class battleships rushed directly into the inner bend of Pearl Harbor without any contradictions.

If it weren't for the fact that the purpose of intercepting Japan's carrier-based aircraft had already eliminated the US aircraft carrier, Fan Yize would not even need to dispatch the aircraft carrier battle group and send fighter jets directly from the chrono portal to invade.

The starting point is Oahu, a chrono portal that extends thousands of kilometers to the west, and the main direction of operations is the Pacific region, and Hawaii is only a small part of the connection.

Therefore, a fleet was still needed to occupy the Hawaiian Islands.

As soon as the mountain-like dreadnought second-class battleship appeared, a large number of American sailors in the port were frightened.

The flag fluttering on it, which has never been seen before, can be determined not to be a Japanese battleship and, of course, not an American battleship.

At this time, some Americans realized that the planes raging in the sky were not Japan's previous carrier-based aircraft.

What the hell is going on?

No one can answer the messiness in the hearts of the Americans at this moment, because the naval artillery strikes of the battleships, have already begun.

The ferocious naval guns were directly aimed at the maintenance plant in Pearl Harbor, covered by heavy artillery fire, and the main guns completely ignored the wounded American battleships in the military harbor, because the secondary guns could completely deal with these American battleships that had lost their combat effectiveness.

On the wounded US warships, many US sailors did not forget to counterattack and began to operate a small number of naval guns that could be used to counterattack.

However, this counterattack was only futile, and the pressure on the battleships with a full load displacement of more than 60,000 tons was too great, and the American battleships, which had no main guns to use, could not threaten the dreadnought second class battleships at all.

Behind the two battleships were several cruisers, and the intensive artillery fire soon made it impossible for the American battleships in Pearl Harbor to continue to counterattack.

More American sailors fell into the water, and the situation in Pearl Harbor was out of control.

Hawaiian Governor Durzhin, who received this urgent message, also hurriedly contacted the White House, but the cable telegraph line was cut off, and wireless telegraphy could not send or receive any messages.

Duerzhin remembers the turnaround, he has never encountered such a situation, and Hawaii, which has signed into a state of war, does not have much combat effectiveness at all.

The most terrible thing is that the enemy has already appeared inside Pearl Harbor, and not yet the Japanese.

Standing at the Hawei Governor's Mansion looking at Pearl Harbor, Dulzhin could only pale at the enemy warships in Pearl Harbor and keep shelling the repair shipyards in Pearl Harbor.

In the sky, there were countless enemy warplanes, and the explosion of artillery shells and the roar of fighter jets made the whole of Oahu tremble.

The most worrying thing is that the enemy is very likely to land on Oahu at any time, and in Hawaii, whether the United States has enough defense forces is the most worrying for Durzhin.

Prior to the third attack, Durzhin had issued an order for all U.S. troops in Hawaii to be in combat condition and ready to resist enemy landing operations.

In fact, during the period of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had absolutely no small number of troops in Hawaii.

Due to the restrictions of the Washington Treaty, the only island that the United States can build bases in the Pacific Ocean is Hawaii, so since the signing of the treaty, the U.S. military has spent a lot of effort to build the only supply base in the Pacific Ocean to Japan in this Orange Plan.

At this time, Hawaii had two fully formed army divisions, one of which was fully deployed on Oahu, and there was also an army heavy artillery regiment and engineer regiment on the island, plus the 7.5 ground troops available for combat on Oahu.

And in order to deal with the Japanese threat in the Pacific, six years ago, the Americans installed 406MMK2 fortress guns on the island, which can be used to fire around the island, and the ammunition depot of the cannon is buried deep in the mountains in the middle of the island to resist large-caliber artillery fire and bomb attacks from battleships.

It is a pity that the fortress artillery had already been destroyed in an air raid, otherwise how would the battleship dare to invade into Pearl Harbor.

It is also based on this force structure that Japan is fundamentally capable of landing in Hawaii.

Historically, after Japan took the South Seas region, some staff officers within the navy put forward a plan to occupy Australia, planning to use 10 army forces and 1.2 million tons of ships.

At that time, the entire maritime transportation capacity of the whole of Japan was 6.1 million tons, including 50-ton wooden hull ships!! Departing from places like Mindanao.

And Hawaii is 3,500 nautical miles away from the Japanese mainland, even if it is more than 2,000 nautical miles from Marianas, and more than 7.5 troops are stationed in the entire Hawaii, how many people does Japan have to send up?

The most important point, and the reason why Fan Yize let go of the Japanese fleet, is that the Japanese Navy lacks the ability to fight in the ocean.

During this period, warships burned heavy oil, and the navy had to carry oil tankers to the sea, and at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan had 360,000 tons of oil tankers at that time. Many of them are 10,002,000 tons of offshore tankers to and from the Far East or the Seto Inland Sea, so there are about 1,920 tons of ocean-going tankers.

It was not that the Japanese did not have a strategic vision, nor did they want to spare Hawaii, but that they had no way to occupy it.

Before the war, the base camp had estimated that the limit of the entire main force of the Combined Fleet to fight far from the supply base was 3,000 nautical miles for seven days, and when it was fighting at Midway, almost all of the Combined Fleet was dispatched, and the entire battle plan was 10 days, and the planned heavy oil was 500,000 tons.

Midway is about 2,000 nautical miles away from the Japanese mainland, Pearl Harbor is 3,500 nautical miles from the Japanese mainland, and if Japan were to fight Hawaii, the Combined Fleet would only be able to watch there for seven days before running away due to lack of fuel, leaving a group of land forces lacking sea support on the island, with bullets, shells, and bombs from the Americans.

The Japanese could not do it, and the Red Guard Corps had already begun to land. ...