The Ming expeditionary force captured some U.S. radar crews during the capture of Kauai, and although the SCR-268 radar deployed on Kauai had been destroyed, the Ming were able to learn of the technical capabilities of the radar based on the interrogation of the prisoners and the review of technical manuals.

It operates at a frequency of 205MHz and has a detection range of 120km for targets flying at an altitude of 6000m and 30km for targets flying at a low altitude of 300m.

Previously, because of the fear of being detected by the US patrol boats on the sea, the Ming attack formation had been kept at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, hiding above the clouds.

But as they got closer and closer to land, in order to reduce the possibility of being detected by radar in advance, Huang Pingdong led the team to descend to a low altitude of only a few hundred meters.

The coastline of Haleiwa in northern Oahu comes into view, with golden sands that seem to sparkle in the sun, and the outline of Pearl Harbor in the distance is becoming clearer.

At this time, the U.S. troops stationed all over Oahu were busy with their own business.

To the southwest, the Eva Marine Corps Air Station is still organizing more fighter jets to take off, and one F2A buffalo after another slowly rises into the air to intercept those strange targets in the southwest.

In the center, the Wheeler Army Airfield was preparing for today's routine bombing mission, and more than a dozen B-18 Broadsword medium bombers lined up at the end of the runway, and ground crews were loading aerial bombs for them.

Due north, the Haleiwa Army airfield was preparing to welcome B-17 bombers flying in from the mainland to transport reinforcements, and after more than 200 people arrived today, the 501st Airborne Regiment was fully deployed.

At 8:02 a.m. on June 16, the sky was high and the clouds were wide, and the wind was harmonious.

After Huang Pingdong gave the order to attack, a group of more than 70 carrier-based planes first climbed to an altitude of 2,000 meters to facilitate the next dive and strafing fire.

Subsequently, they dispersed in an orderly manner and turned into four air strike teams as originally planned.

The five fighters of the Fifth Destroyer Group were still far away, about twenty kilometers behind the group.

After the formation was completed, the four air raid teams split into four and pounced on their respective targets.

"Oh yes, the dogs and teeth down there are staggered, it's all fortifications."

As he flew over Haleiwa Beach, Huang Pingdong saw the trenches crisscrossing below, with various fortifications and bunkers everywhere.

He couldn't help but worry about the future landing attack of the ground troops, but it only lasted a few seconds when his thoughts were interrupted by the light that suddenly rushed into the sky below.

Just as the Ming attack formation was approaching, some American troops finally realized that something was wrong and opened fire while calling for warnings.

A series of tracer bullets shot from below, like spears piercing into the sky.

"Come to life! Brothers, steady! "There are pilots in the radio band who shouted excitedly.

Historically, when the mobile forces were attacking, the Japanese aircraft group was unimpeded along the way, and there were more than 700 anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the ships of the US Pacific Fleet, but they were almost unmanned; The Army deployed thirty-one companies of anti-aircraft guns, but only four were manned and lacked usable artillery shells.

Compared to the other plane, the surprise attack of the Ming army is much more difficult at the moment.

Even if the goal of surprise is achieved, the next thing to face is the air defense of the entire Oahu!

"Damn! Where did they come from?! ”

"Enemy planes! About fifty... No, sixty or more. ”

"Sir, please give us instructions, what should we do?!"

Four anti-aircraft artillery batteries deployed by the Army in the Haleiwa area opened fire one after another, with a reaction time of about one minute.

It took so long in wartime conditions that it was technically unqualified.

The M1 3-inch anti-aircraft gun was pointed at the sky, and the US anti-aircraft artillery inserted the shell into the fuze measuring machine, bound the timed medicine tray fuse, and then stuffed the shell into the gun chamber.

As the firing rod was triggered, the 76.2mm high-explosive shell flew out of the muzzle under the propulsion of gunpowder gas at high temperature and pressure. Inside the fuse, a timed medicine disc like a mini mosquito coil is burning rapidly, and when it burns out, it triggers the detonator to detonate the warhead charge!

The explosion points of the anti-aircraft artillery fire burst out continuously, and clouds of gray-black smoke suddenly emerged around the Ming army's aircraft group.

One of the shells exploded very closely, and Huang Pingdong felt the whole plane shake up and down.

Then he felt that his neck seemed to be wet, so he subconsciously touched it, because he was wearing gloves, so the touch was not obvious, and after a few seconds he realized that it was blood!

The words "It's over, my life is over" popped into his mind, but he immediately dispelled the thought - it must have been a flesh wound, otherwise it could just be a little blood oozing out like this.

There was indeed a crack on the left side of the canopy, which was supposed to be caused by a high-speed fragment.

When each smoke ball exploded, hundreds of fragments shot out in all directions, and the Ming army planes shuttling through the rain of bullets continued to have planes hit by bullets.

The torpedo bomber with the designation YH-TWZ-1-3 was badly damaged by fragments, the sides and wings of the fuselage were riddled with holes, and some blood was splattered on the hatch cover.

"I'm afraid the steel cable is broken, and I can't control the plane!" The pilot's voice came over the radio.

The plane was seen turning sideways, the hatch open, and crashing towards a makeshift barracks in the Haleiwa area.

The pilot flipped out a few seconds later and parachuted out, but the backseat heavy did not move.

In a few moments, this Type 36 ship mine fell near the camp behind the US army's preset defensive line, and all the bombs it was carrying were detonated, and a black cloud surged.

The blast wave of the explosion toppled a nearby shack, and the splash of aviation gasoline sparked a rapidly expanding fire......

At 8:09, the 1st Air Strike Group, approaching the Haleiwa airfield, officially began its attack.

Compared with the army, the air force's combat method is a little more "knightly", every pilot is an officer, and they can all be called the pride of the sky, and the charisma of being a pioneer is not so strong, but Huang Pingdong is still the first to fly the plane and start diving.

On the runway, two P-40 fighters were scrambling into the air, one after the other, accelerating on the runway.

Huang Pingdong, who swooped down from the air, aimed at them, and the aperture of the reflex sight lassoed the one in front, and then he immediately pulled the trigger, and the 7.36mm aviation machine gun on both wings and the 12.8mm aviation machine gun on the nose sprayed a dense number of bullets!

The hit P-40 deflected to the left and rushed off the runway, quickly engulfed in flames.

The pilot of the P-40 in the back, apparently unwilling to be destroyed on the ground like a lamb to the slaughter, tried to pull it up in advance.

But as soon as the wheels left the ground, the bullets that cut the head and covered the face fell, and in an instant, the wings were full of bullet holes, and wisps of white smoke came out of the engine.

Huang Pingdong, who had completed the attack, abandoned the auxiliary fuel tank under the belly of the plane, and at the same time climbed with a lever, and the Type 37 ship drove away in a graceful arc under his operation.

He turned his head to look behind him, only to see two small black dots falling rapidly from the sky, and the next second two exploded two large balls of fire.

Several fighter jets on the tarmac were engulfed in smoke and dust, and a Hamilton three-bladed propeller soared into the sky like a wild horse, spinning and falling into the distance.

The dive bombers that dropped the two 100kg bombs calmly pulled up, and the airbrakes that opened on both sides of the fuselage were automatically retracted.

"They're coming! They're coming! ”

"Shoot those bitches!"

The US officers and men at the Haleiwa airport and around the airport were screaming hysterically, and a single or twin M2 antiaircraft machine gun was strafing the Ming planes flying wantonly in the sky, but with little success.

The division of labor among the highly skilled and experienced pilots of the Ming army was very clear -- since there were no enemy planes to intercept them for the time being, the ship-driven pilots were responsible for strafing and suppressing anti-aircraft fire.

The task of the ship's bombardment is to attack hangars and high-value targets; Ship mines are responsible for bombing rows of aircraft and the rest of the low-value targets.

Two Type 36 carrier-based torpedo planes swept over the No. 2 runway of the airport at an altitude of 100 meters and dropped more than a dozen 50-kilogram light aerial bombs on the neatly parked fighters.

Columns of smoke rose from the ground, and a dozen P-36 and P-40 fighters turned into wreckage worth $60,000 a unit in five seconds.

Perhaps in later games, this kind of dozens of kilograms of aerial bombs can only be called small sweet potatoes, but in fact, as anti-personnel explosive bombs, the charge of 50kg aerial bombs is as much as 27kg, and one is equivalent to four 152mm grenades.

When the Haleiwa airport was ravaged, a second telegraph representing the effectiveness of the surprise attack was sent.

The content of the telegraph is very short, with only five words: "Longpan Hawaii".

At 8:16, Wheeler Airport in central Oahu was also attacked.

In the hangar and on the park, various types of planes of the Army Air Force were still neatly parked, and more than a dozen B-18 Dadao bombers had already been loaded, and some had not yet started.

The anti-aircraft guns roared, the machine guns roared, and the radio band was filled with all kinds of shouts, and the pilots were at a loss, some cleverly abandoned the planes and fled, while others remained faithful in the cockpit.

In such a situation, Wheeler Airport received one aerial bomb after another......

Tall battleships and countless cruisers, destroyers, and other auxiliary ships stood silent

At 8:25, the Eva Marine Corps air station in the southwest direction was attacked by the 3rd Air Strike Group.

At 8:36, the Hikam Army airfield to the southeast was attacked by the 4th Air Strike Group.

All types of ships in Pearl Harbor also opened fire one after another, and a 127mm high-level dual-purpose gun shot into the sky!

The more than 100 warships of the Pacific Fleet were almost idle, and the density of anti-aircraft artillery fire was so high that it was so high that it covered the sky and the sun.

The 4th Air Strike Group, which was responsible for attacking the Hickam Army airfield to the southeast, was within range of the U.S. fleet and suffered heavy losses.

And because of the long distance, Hickam Airport has the longest reaction time, and several fighter jets have already rushed into the air to meet it.

Five P-40 fighters of the 57th Squadron of the Army Air Corps pounced ferociously, and one was accidentally wounded and shot down by naval anti-aircraft fire on the way.

The remaining four were entangled with the Ming fighters a few minutes later, flying up and down, in hot pursuit.

At 8:41, a downed Type 37 ship drove black smoke and crashed towards the city of Honolulu and landed on a baseball field.

The pilot landed slowly and was arrested by several police officers wearing wide-brimmed hats as soon as he cut his parachute.

Although more than 20 fighter planes took off from various airfields one after another, they were too hasty, neither coordinated nor coordinated, and even if they achieved results by luck and courage, they would be shot down immediately.

However, the tide of the battle changed as it approached nine o'clock, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

The two dozen Buffalo and Wildcat fighters that had taken off from the Eva Marine Corps Air Station had been ordered to intercept the strange targets that would split up, but found nothing, and just as the pilots were wondering, they learned that Oahu had been attacked by airstrikes, so they had to hurry back.

Their arrival instantly reversed the situation, and Huang Pingdong weighed the decision to retreat and not continue to entangle on the territory of the Americans.

At 9:36, the attack wave of the Taiwei Zuoyuan shook off its pursuers and began to return.

More than a dozen heavily damaged carrier-based aircraft flew straight to Kauai, while the rest dozens flew to their own mothership.

Because the number of aircraft in the attack formation is small, and this boils down to wartime, the US military is much more closely prepared, and the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ... Or rather, the losses from the surprise attack on Oahu were larger.

Even excluding the damaged aircraft, the Taiwei Zuoyuan lost a total of 27 aircraft, accounting for a third.

Their results were the shooting down of 18 US planes, the destruction of 92 planes, and the wounding of 73, and the loss of four of the six airports on Oahu.

"Sir, we ......"

"They are from the north, there is at least one aircraft carrier there, we should try to pursue!"

The Saratoga is now slowly sailing northeast of Maui, and William Halsey in the bridge is furious, determined to pursue these cunning enemies.

However, the Saratoga was destined not to catch up with the target, because the Taiwei Zuoyuan, which was hundreds of kilometers away, had increased to a top speed of 32 knots, and flew away from the northwest with a group of frigates, leaving only a dozen white tracks to prove that they had come.

The sudden surprise attack makes people realize the crisis in frustration, the enemy will not attack for no reason, I am afraid that the army is about to crush the border.

Yesterday morning, seaplanes patrolling Johnston Atoll spotted the mighty 180 Special Fleet, and the US military was shocked to realize that the Ming army had killed a horse.

Chester-Nimitz did not hesitate to order the Pacific Fleet to leave port, and the warships under maintenance were also immediately suspended, and all warships must leave port in an orderly manner according to the plan this morning.

However, Pearl Harbor was not lucky today, and bad luck happened in the morning.

The USS Clark (DD-361) was hit by a mine on its departure, and a large hole was blown open in the bow. She immediately evaded it, and one of her barges was hit and sunk on the spot, and the Clark was flooded in large quantities, and finally forced to run aground on the beach due to ineffective damage management.

The Pacific Fleet's departure was suspended for three hours, and several minesweepers searched the sea back and forth.

Since the Kauai airport was suppressed, the skies over Oahu have been peaceful, but that doesn't mean the Ming army can't make trouble.

Two days ago, the Lixia-3 ocean-going submarine slipped a few kilometers south of the entrance to Pearl Harbor at great risk, and the sea was full of US destroyers and patrol boats.

The bold Lixia 3 secretly arranged a dozen small mines, and then moved away little by little at an extremely low speed of 1.5 knots underwater, and finally waited until the power and oxygen ran out before rising.

During this period, all electrical appliances, including electric kettles, were discontinued, and non-essential personnel closed their eyes to save oxygen.

At the last minute, all the emergency oxygen candles were used up, and the captain recorded in his diary that because of the sweltering heat and lack of oxygen, the submariners had a splitting headache, and every time they breathed, they opened their mouths wide and gasped for breath.

Lixia 3 lasted a total of 31 hours, which can be said to be an incredible record.

(End of chapter)