Oahu is still at war. Before returning home, the Japanese planes were in the final stages of rage, throwing away the last bit of ammunition. However, the US counterattack has gradually found a clue and is beginning to show more and more results, and those warships that are still floating on the water have begun to use anti-aircraft fires to cause trouble for those enemy planes shuttling back and forth.

The small-caliber weapons on the destroyers weave a net of fire, so that the enemy can no longer fly and drop bombs at will. * After the plane returns, the flat bombers that are currently rampant here can no longer attack the side projection of the battleship at low altitude. Forced to climb to a high altitude, fly along the longitudinal axis of the enemy ship, and wait for an opportunity to drop bombs. Since the 800-kilogram shell had almost no wind deflection, it was still possible to use the enemy ship as a 200-meter-long target. But maintaining a straight flight at a constant speed is more predictable for the command of the firing below.

Taylor and Will hid at an altitude of 3,500 meters and swooped down to hunt down the dazed Japanese planes. They still did not directly challenge the Zero, and they were impressed by the Zero's climb and circle; But those clumsy 3-seater bombers are a different story.

Relying on their superiority in communication, the two of them both pounced down from the clouds, each biting a 97 to attack. Will quickly tackles one and watches as the bomber loses control and crashes into the ground dock. The frenzied energy of the Japanese made a deep impression on the American ensign.

In the sky above the military port, they spotted a special 97 bomber with a special mark on the rudder, which several times passed by within a range of 2 km. But the plane, which was always protected by 2-5 Zeros, could not get close. Apparently this is an aircraft that is responsible for observing the battlefield and exercising command. In the command system of other countries in the world, there is no such unit that hovers in the air for on-the-spot command. The Japanese seem to have figured out the tactical functions that airborne early warning aircraft can achieve many years later. Of course, in reality, this is just a compromise to ignore the communications equipment, and the main function of this command plane, except for the occasional signal flare, to convey a simple message to all aircraft, is to report to the fleet the situation on the battlefield it sees.

Yuzaki fired a flare into the air, signaling the group to return. Through the radio, he sent a telegram to the flagship that it was not advisable to continue the attack.

The second wave actually suffered, far more than the heavy losses of the first, and if there was a third wave, the Americans would have counterattacked in a more orderly manner; Of course, another reason why he didn't want a third wave of attacks was that when he looked down on the adventurous military port, he couldn't find any targets worth continuing his adventure, and some of his planes attacked fortified facilities such as oil depots and dockyards, and saw only thick smoke and could not confirm whether they had penetrated. The intelligence services never had access to the original blueprints for these buildings, so the thickness of the dome of the circular oil depot was unclear. He didn't want the Japanese pilots to test this value with their lives.

The Japanese planes began to turn east-west and disperse to return home. Captain Taylor gave up the attack on a 97, he killed the machine gunner in the tail of the plane, the bomber was already riddled with holes, and began to pull smoke, apparently let him go, it couldn't go back to the aircraft carrier, pressed too hard maybe the Japanese would pick a target and crash down.

He still had a quarter of the ammunition left, that is, if he kept pulling the trigger, he could shoot continuously for 4 to 5 seconds.

He had already destroyed a dive bomber and a horizontal bomber, and now he wanted a Zero.

Not every fighter will wake up in the first lift-off battle, and many aces will be in the first engagement, but the forced take-off from the airfield blocked by the enemy aircraft for tens of seconds has accelerated the growth of this future ace, and he can even guess the general direction of the enemy's aircraft carrier. He watched as they turned along the island, and then headed north, in the same direction as they had come. He reported this direction many times on the radio, but no one paid attention.

The Zero fighters remained at the end of the return formation, at different altitudes. The American pilots decided to choose a plane with a higher position and a single one. He had his eye on the last two Zeros. They are at an altitude of about 3000 meters and a distance of about 3 kilometers. Second Lieutenant Taylor quietly hid in the clouds, flying on a compass, and since he had a rough idea of the direction in which the enemy was returning, he was sure that he could intercept them under the cover of the clouds. The green livery of the Army Airlines P40 is really not hidden enough, it is not as good as the white livery of the Japanese, of course, the Japanese used a bright insignia to level the two sides.

When he and Will were about to fly to the central mountain range, they rushed out of the descent and out of the clouds, and sure enough, they saw two Japanese planes slowly passing underneath. In order to cover those bombers, the Zero did not climb too high and did not fly too fast.

The P40 dived down and shot a dense net of fire that enveloped the enemy aircraft. The enemy aircraft was beaten into a fireball in the tumble. Taylor suddenly found that the plane was as unbeaten as a papier-mâché, far less resistant to beating than the bombers. The downed Goto Ichihei flew to Cao Chang, becoming the last Japanese plane shot down in this battle.

The planes returning home one after another began to land. Nagumo anxiously looked south with his binoculars, and he didn't seem to stay for a minute. The only third wave that took off was nine Zero fighters on cover duty, and they made a big circle to confirm that no planes would return. During this period, the six aircraft carriers below have begun to turn. After stowing the aircraft on deck under deck, the Kaga aircraft carrier raised its flag for open landing, and the two Crane carriers moved slowly, recovering their fighters 20 minutes late.

At noon, the huge fleet began to return home, and they would pass sideways the nearby aircraft carrier Enterprise. After today, the world will change. The Japanese Empire presented a great problem for Germany, which was fighting hard under Moscow; This is undoubtedly the most difficult time for the United States, but the political conundrum has been solved, and from today onwards, the American people will abandon isolationism, the people will willingly put their taxes into the bottomless pit of the military industry, there will be no more complaints about compulsory military service, large enterprises will be consciously included in military production, young people will line up outside the recruiting station, and women will go to the production line.

However, the success of the military industry is not a matter of overnight, and the average construction period of large warships is more than one year, which means that the situation will still be very difficult throughout 1942, and it will be difficult for the Japanese to reverse their absolute superiority in the Pacific Ocean for a while.

In the process of rapidly approaching Japan, 419 received a large number of telegrams between the Japanese army and the base camp, and they were rushing to the long-coveted resource source.

Cheng Dayang noticed the United Fleet, which had been silent, and sent a telegram to the mobile force for the first time. It was requested that a number of routes be modified in preparation for the interception of a U.S. aircraft carrier on its way back from Midway.

419 has been passing through the underwater acoustic channel, monitoring the movement of American warships from a distance, and indeed a high-speed warship (which can only be an aircraft carrier) is rushing from Midway Island in the direction of Pearl Harbor, and the route cannot be determined. Judging by the history of the war, this was supposed to transport the Lexington of the Army to the island. The Japanese have never grasped the whereabouts of the US Navy's aircraft carriers, and they have just missed the Enterprise in the south. Could it be the traverser at work?

He weighed the pros and cons and decided that 419 didn't have to worry about it. Even if the general course of the target is known, without more specific information, it is completely unrealistic for Nagumo's fleet to intercept an aircraft carrier in the vast Pacific Ocean. Besides, it was impossible for the Lexington to remain unprepared, at least she had kept the radio silent; Of course, the most important point is that the most important thing now is to get Director Lin and his group back, and if they are gone for a few days, they may really starve to death. But he still did not dare to be careless, always sticking out the antenna and monitoring the enemy's movements.

December 10th. A huge fleet led by two old Tenryu-class light cruisers of the 18th Sentai launched an attack on the tiny island of Wake in the Pacific Ocean, but the attack lasted for several days, and the fleet could not control the entire island of Wake Island. On 13 December, Cheng Dayang overheard a report from Rear Admiral Kio on the flagship to Yamamoto about the unfavorable situation of the battle, reporting the loss of one destroyer, the other nearing the end of the other, and the other ships involved in the attack were also beaten by the shore fire of the US Marine Corps. The report highlighted that the U.S. shore defense bunkers were unusually strong, and warships suffered obvious losses when firing at them, requiring heavy firepower or aviation support.

Yamamoto's reply was half a day late, and the writing was very strange, he did not seem to have been as recorded in the war history, because he ushered in the first losses after the start of the war and blamed his subordinates, but comforted, and the telegram even contained the words that the enemy's desperate counterattack was expected, asking the fleet not to fight hard, and to postpone the attack and wait for follow-up support.

What does it mean to be expected?

At the same time, Cheng Dayang received a telegram from Nagato to Nagumo who was returning home, so that he could gain insight into Yamamoto's next deployment adjustments. He demanded that the mobile force returning to the sea immediately dispatch the four aircraft carriers of the 2nd and 5th Naval Battles and the two heavy cruisers of the Tone and Tsukumo, to the aid of Wake Island, and to engage with the four heavy cruisers of the 4th Fleet departing from Truk by the 22nd. The commander was Yamaguchi Tawen.

Later, a telegram was sent requesting that the fleet not have to participate in the attack and defense of Wake Island, that it must maneuver away from Wake Island, that it must not be detected by the island's fighters, and that it should not make unnecessary radio contact.

Obviously, the use of troops on Wick Island is no longer just a tough battle, after the above several deployment adjustments, the original plan is turning into an ambush war that will attack it and save it, encircle the point and send reinforcements, where did Yamamoto's foresight come from? Who gave him such a bad idea?

Pearl Harbor was fought; But history has taken a strange turn here.

On December 14, the Saratoga, which had arrived from mainland China, sailed into Pearl Harbor and arrived early on the Enterprise.

The harbor was a mess, littered with ruined buildings and sunken warships. The Saratoga had to be guided by the pilot ship and sail with great care so as not to hit a wreck that was strewn underwater. Not knowing whether the Japanese would launch a landing, the army on the island waited for them, and the Stuart tanks were deployed to the edge of the harbor, and if the enemy battleships attacked, they would resist with 37mm guns. There was still an intermittent tapping sound from some of the silent warships underwater, and it was clear that there were still people alive, but there was nothing to save them.