81_81266 "The Japanese fleet is gone!" A young man from the U.S. intelligence department reports to his immediate supervisor about his work: "They left the port a few days ago, and after that we lost our visibility into the fleet's position. ”

At this time, relations between Japan and the United States were not harmonious, and Japanese troops were close to the U.S.-controlled areas such as the Philippines, and the two countries had a very huge dispute over the supply of oil. The United States imposed sanctions on Japan and imposed a total oil and steel embargo on Japan in an attempt to suppress Japan's expansion in the Far East.

However, it is clear that such sanctions have not had a good effect, and the Japanese fleet seems to be more willing to interpret such sanctions as a signal of war due to frequent exercises recently, and no Japanese top brass is willing to return to the negotiating table to discuss the final ownership of China's Shanghai and other regions. They prefer to fight with the United States once to see who can eat each other in one bite and achieve a thousand years of hegemony.

Japan is a country that has a restless and tyrannical heart buried in its bones, and a country closed off on a narrow island has been surrounded by insecurity and inferiority from the moment it was born. They groveled in front of the Han Dynasty, which was far away, groveled on the edge of the powerful and huge Tang Dynasty, and they were still vassals until the Ming Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty - if you have been a subordinate to the leader for three years and feel that you have been wronged, can you understand the monstrous resentment in the heart of a country that has laughed for a thousand years?

Therefore, after Japan became a human being, it couldn't wait to draw a sword against its former benefactor and teacher China, and they were really unwilling to surrender to other people's side and be a historical background. These Japanese people from the small island were full of joy and intoxicated by the victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, and felt that the world was nothing more than that, and that they could be the masters of the whole world.

"How many days have you lost your position?" the intelligence bureau officer was stunned for a moment, then asked in confirmation, and then grabbed the phone in front of him and contacted his immediate superior.

"Yes! they're gone...... There were six aircraft carriers, as well as battleships, as well as cruisers...... A large fleet...... We have no way of knowing for sure where they are targeting...... Yes. Apparently the director of the U.S. intelligence officer on the other side of the phone was a little annoyed, and his roar could be heard from a long distance through the telephone receiver.

Just a few hours ago, a military attache from the German Embassy in the United States rushed to the office of a pro-German American general and informed the US side of the news of the Japanese naval dispatch.

Soon US President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the news that Germany would not hesitate to betray Japan's strategic intentions to prevent the United States from entering the war - this information was at least eighty percent likely to be true. Roosevelt suddenly felt that happiness had come too quickly, and he felt dizzy.

According to German intelligence and some corroborating evidence from China, the vast naval forces of the Japanese Combined Fleet had disappeared into the Pacific Ocean, and their exact location had not yet been found, although all the information had shown that Japan was organizing an attack on an unprecedented scale.

U.S. intelligence services, which had received permission, began to spy on the Japanese embassy in the United States, and sure enough, the information they needed appeared. The Japanese embassy has received instructions from Japan to present credentials to declare war on the United States. The declaration of war is absolutely not deceiving, and the US government is already absolutely sure that Japan will go to war with the United States within a few hours.

"Definitely not Pearl Harbor, where the water depth is not suitable for an air-dropped torpedo attack. An American general swore to the officers around him: "We have set up new radars and dense air defense positions there, and the Japanese are going there at their own death." ”

On the other hand, a congressman who lives on the West Coast knows nothing about the Navy's modernization war: "Will these Japanese attack Los Angeles? If they show up there, will they cause panic?"

"Sir, the chances of a Japanese naval attack on Los Angeles are slim, and if they enter the eastern Pacific, they will be surrounded and annihilated by our fleet. An American general next to him assured the congressman.

While the Americans were still repeatedly confirming where the target of the Japanese attack was, with the order to attack, the planes on the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet began to take off one after another. They formed an echelon over the Japanese fleet and flew neatly towards their target like a row of geese.

"In any case, we must not let the aircraft carrier stay in the harbor! If we lose the aircraft carrier, we will suffer the same defeat as the British in the Atlantic!" Finally a US admiral reached a consensus with the others and issued a special very vague combat order: "Order all the US aircraft carrier fleets to set sail!

"But General, today is the weekend, and it is impossible for the aircraft carrier fleet to be ready to fight and leave its port in an hour!" his deputy said helplessly.

At this time, an officer of the intelligence department ran to the side of the American general who was discussing the battle with a sweaty head in his arms, and handed the text to the white-haired American admiral: "General!

"Combat report, who are you fighting against?" the general took the report, opened it and carefully read its contents.

It turned out that half an hour earlier, an American coal carrier had spotted a suspicious target near the mouth of Pearl Harbor, and the captain had used a telescope to reveal a sneaky submarine periscope. The captain of the U.S. Navy immediately reported the situation to the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, and the destroyer on duty quickly rushed to the nearby waters and began anti-submarine warfare.

If a person is unlucky, drinking cold water will plug the gap between his teeth. This is a fitting phrase to describe the Japanese submarine that reconnoitred the movements of the US Navy, and the American destroyer, which had just returned to Pearl Harbor three days ago, had been ordered to carry out an anti-submarine mission in the Atlantic.

A U.S. destroyer that had been trained by a German submarine under Dönitz's command was dealing with a Japanese Navy submarine that had little actual combat experience -- did it suddenly feel a kind of cool point of abusive trumpets? After a simple battle, the U.S. destroyer easily sank the Japanese submarine and reported its brilliant achievements.

"Oh my God! Pearl Harbor! They're going to do something against Pearl Harbor!" After reading the report, the American general immediately broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly issued a combat order: "Cancel the leave of the Pearl Harbor soldiers! All personnel return to combat positions! Martial law Pearl Harbor! Immediately! Immediately!"

A few minutes later, various inexplicable orders were received in the telegraph room at Pearl Harbor, which left the telegraph room officer on duty somewhat confused. A telegram ordered the aircraft carrier fleet to set sail and leave at once, ready for battle. Another telegram came in immediately after ordering Pearl Harbor to sound the battle alarm and all soldiers to return to their combat posts.

"It's Sunday, are these bigwigs sleeping?" the soldier sitting in the telegraph room looked up and asked his commander.

Shrugging his shoulders, the U.S. officer on duty said helplessly: "Maybe they want to conduct a drill, but it is a bit too immoral to conduct a drill at this time." ”

He reluctantly put the telegram in his folder, and then walked to the stairs at the end of the corridor to the combat readiness command on the second floor. However, as soon as he reached the door, he saw the soldiers in the communication room passing in front of him in a panic.

"Hey, Tom, what's the hurry?" asked the officer on duty in the telegraph room.

"Radar planes are approaching Pearl Harbor!" replied the soldier named Tom as he walked forward. The radar equipment at Pearl Harbor was developed jointly by the United States and Great Britain, and the technology came largely from the British technical department, and at the same time the American technical department improved the design. Now the technology of this radar is more reliable, but the detection range is still not comparable to the German military radar, and the maximum distance of the current high-altitude target is only a pitiful 12o kilometers. Of course, these radars have a lower ability to detect low altitudes, because they are covered by the mountains of Pearl Harbor, and there are even dead spots in some places, but the emergence of radars has indeed made the United States' Pearl Harbor defense more perfect.

"Could it be our transition plane? The B17 bomber of Flight 6 often flies in transition, which is a common thing. Why is all this fuss?" the officer on duty continued to ask as he caught up with Tom.

"We've checked, there's no 6th Army plane in transit today!" Tom said hurriedly back.

"......" was stunned for about two seconds before the officer on duty reacted, and he hurriedly ran forward, looking at the message under his arm that made him sound the battle alarm with the corner of his eye as he ran.

"General! Telegram from the United States!" the officer on duty rushed into the office of his immediate boss before he even had time to knock on the door. Behind him, Tom also came in at the same time and shouted, "An unknown plane is approaching Pearl Harbor!"

"Military Department exercises?" The American general, who was sitting at his desk and reading the report on fuel reserves in Pearl Harbor, raised his head and looked at his two men: "The next time you come in, remember to knock on the door, will you?"

"General, this is not a drill!" the two men said with frightened expressions on their faces, and hurriedly spoke in unison.

And the officer on duty pressed the telegram directly on the desk of his superior's office: "The telegram from the local headquarters, let us immediately sound the battle alarm, order the soldiers to return to their respective posts immediately, and prepare for battle!" [End of chapter]-4521+35510->.