The effective code name of the surprise attack agreed by the navy was very appetizing to Zhou Changfeng, and he was worried that he would not hear this code name in the end, after all, the difficulty of surprise attacks in wartime is not comparable to sneak attacks in peacetime.

"Wan Sheng!"

"It's too ruthless, it's too ruthless......"

"Really, a monument should be erected and a stone should be engraved."

Now that it was learned that the fleet of the Taiwei Zuoyuan had achieved a lot of success, the whole army of Kauai was extremely excited, and a burst of cheers broke out in the command headquarters, and everyone's eyes were blazing and their faces were ruddy.

"I don't have to say, they are all well-deserved heroes, and of course we have to work harder." Zhou Changfeng looked around and waved his hand, "Snowball, do you understand?" Extend your advantage! ”

"Yes!" Dozens of people responded in unison.

The naval liaison officer crossed his waist and commented with satisfaction: "The senior officers of the DPRK and China should not dare to detain and search this time, and it is estimated that everyone will have to make a record of their first merits, and then the top ones will remember their amazing merits." ”

Zhou Changfeng on the side smiled and said seriously: "That's for sure, if it doesn't work, I, Zhou, will take the lead in making trouble and rolling at the door of the military department." ”

The liaison officer's eyes widened, laughed and waved his hand: "I'll drop for a day, I don't dare to think about it, when the time comes...... I'm afraid that Shangshu himself has to rush out, please stop. ”

Several airports on Oahu have been temporarily paralyzed due to damage in the surprise attack, and it is expected that it will take at least 12 hours for the U.S. military to recover the airfields from the aftermath.

This time is crucial for the Kauai airport, and it is necessary to repair the runway in a race against time, otherwise it will be a missed opportunity when the U.S. military starts to continue air strikes tomorrow.

A few days ago, when the U.S. troops were defeated and retreated, Zhou Changfeng sent people to the beach to clean up the battlefield, saying that the good ones were to collect usable materials, and the bad ones were to pick up the rags.

But in such a situation, it doesn't matter if it's a shame or not, it's a good way to get something.

A dozen D4 bulldozers were destroyed and damaged on the beaches of Kauai, two of which were repaired and ready for use, and the 3rd Marine Brigade Automobile Battalion removed the destroyed bulldozers and pieced together parts and repaired another.

As a result, counting the only one left on their side, the Kauai Ming Army has four usable bulldozers, and the efficiency of the runway repair operation has been greatly improved.

"Hurry up, don't fucking get in the way!"

"Alright, almost, let's call the chariot over."

After the bulldozers filled in the craters of different sizes, the tanks of the brigade convoy rumbled up and crushed them, and then the sappers laid the prefabricated perforated steel plates one by one......

Because of the attack on Oahu, the routine bombing did not arrive this morning, and Weiyuan Airport was finally repaired after so many days.

One by one, the pilots of the Air Force were gearing up and vowing to give out their evil spirits, and some even made bold claims that if the airport was bombed again this time, he would not land even if he ran out of fuel!

The 2nd Destroyer Squadron 1 had 46 fighters transferred to Kauai before, and 21 are still available, excluding air combat losses and bombing damage.

A series of Type 36 destroyers taxied over the airport, their wheels running over the perforated steel runway, and the steel plates made a continuous clicking sound when they touched each other.

The imposing second team Zheng Cui Xu gave a death order - from now on, the vigilance will be rotated, and the destroyers will patrol half in the sky and half on the ground to replenish.

Anyway, now there are more pilots than planes, and those who don't have their turn have plenty of time to rest.

He also urged Midway Island again and again, demanding that the fighters stranded there be transferred to the field immediately to replenish the strength of Weiyuan Airport.

The three teams had already departed from the mainland and transferred to Midway Island ten days ago, but the Weiyuan Airport had been suppressed by that time, so they were stranded until today.

Cui Xusheng is shaking people, and of course Zhou Changfeng will not fall.

With less than 10,000 troops, the current Ming army on Kauai can only be said to be more than enough to protect itself, and it is not enough to attack it, and it is impossible to take the heavily defended Oahu.

The Perimeter Wind Power asked the second echelon, which was still on standby in Saipan and Guam, to prepare for the journey, but not to bring all the troops over at once, but to transport troops and supplies alternately.

The transportation capacity is limited, and it is difficult to send too many troops in one go, so it is most reasonable to send reinforcements in batches.

At noon on that day, a PBY Catalina seaplane that took off from Ford Island Naval Air Station on Oahu spotted the main force of the Ming fleet rushing toward Pearl Harbor from the southwest.

Looking at the countless warships on the sea in the distance, the crew opened their mouths in shock, and for a long time, only the roar of the engine could be heard in the engine room.

After a full eight seconds, the pilot said in a deep voice, "The information from Johnston Atoll is true...... They're coming. ”

Song Zhongkai stood on the bridge of the Yongle battleship, and he liked to stand in the center of this steel giant ship for a long time, looking at the boundless sea ahead, thinking about and imagining possible future changes in the battle situation.

The 100-year-old navy is often used to describe the huge cost and time-consuming construction of the navy, for an industrial country, warships and bases are the easiest to solve, and the more difficult thing is to cultivate talents, and it will take at least two generations to build a complete and complete training system.

Equally difficult but often overlooked are hydrometeorological data, which the Army considers maps to be a classified treasure, and charts that are even more important to the Navy.

The army may be able to send scouts to conduct temporary reconnaissance and map drawing a few days before the war, but if the navy wants to hold on to it temporarily, it will have to be a month in advance.

Logbooks, hydrographic records, and nautical charts are valuable assets that have been left behind over the years, which are the essence of a naval power, but they are often overlooked.

The British, Dutch, American, and Australian fleets relied heavily on the information provided by the Dutch when they fought in the South Seas; In the Battle of Iron Bottom Bay, one of the important reasons why the first fleet of the Mikawa Army accepted it when it saw good was that the chart room of the Bird Sea was destroyed, and the fleet lost its navigation reference materials.

Song Zhongkai was well aware of this, and as the Ming army's offensive was directed at the distant depths of the Pacific Ocean, reliable hydrographic data became scarce, which made it difficult for the navigators of the ships to sleep.

If the Ming Navy has mastered eighty percent of the charts and hydrological data of the South Seas, then the further out the less it goes, and perhaps less than forty percent of it is here in the Hawaiian Islands.

However, for the US military, it is the opposite, and the information is becoming more and more detailed and abundant, so it is a typical trade-off.

At this time, the artillery officer came over and asked with a smile: "Uncle, when you return victorious, it shouldn't be a problem for those people in the court to discuss and give you the title of marquis, right?" ”

Song Zhongkai stared intently ahead, and said calmly: "How many times have you said it, you have to be a military officer outside." ”

The origin of the Lord of Xia Jin is not very glorious - when Emperor Jingzong canonized the empress, according to the standard custom of the Ming Dynasty, the father of the queen was added to the official rank, which gave rise to the first Xia Jinbo.

However, the earl title of the father of the empress of the Ming Dynasty was not hereditary, and the title disappeared after his death.

The queen Song is not as virtuous and virtuous as the previous queens, she relied on the pillow wind to make Jingzong decree to change the first lord of Xia Jin to hereditary, and gave Danshu iron coupons. After that, Emperor Jingzong, who was the same as the temple number, was too carefree, indulged in sensuality, collapsed without children, and became another short-lived emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, many ministers proposed to cancel the hereditary replacement of the lord of Xia Jin, on the grounds that it was not in line with the ancestral system, but Zhuang Zong did not adopt it in the end, and the reasons for this are different, and the wild history and stories say that wealth is hereditary - Xia Jinbo is proficient in the huge profits of overseas smuggling, and the huge amount of wealth accumulated has gone into Zhuang Zong's internal treasury.

This statement is very well accepted by the people, and Xia Jinbo has been indispensable in dealing with the sea, not only operating the sea trade, but also many of his children are working in the sailors.

By the time Song Zhongkai came to his generation, the disgraceful past of Lord Xia Jin had gradually faded, but he was still determined to completely wash it white and dye it red, adding supreme brilliance and glory to it.

"It's been seen, there's nothing to hide. Summon, disarm the radio silence, adjust your position, and move quickly. He commanded.

Capture Hawaii and make an immortal achievement!

He shared his beliefs and expectations with many others in the fleet.

According to a telegram from a submarine near Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet has not yet left port, probably because it has been hampered by mines that have been laid.

This is obviously a good opportunity worth fighting, but the problem is that the fleet and Oahu are still more than 700 kilometers away, and the round-trip range far exceeds the combat radius of carrier-based aircraft.

Some people have proposed a bold no-return attack method -- after the carrier-based aircraft take off from the aircraft carrier, they will go directly to attack, and after the end of the flight, they will not return and fly to Kauai Island to land for supplies.

Ouyang Zhanghua was not very receptive to this risky proposal, because the two Ziweiyuan-class armored aircraft carriers did not have many aircraft, and the fleet had not been replenished after the Battle of Hawaii, so they were not ready to be renumbered.

In the event of such a long-range attack, the two ships would be virtually unavailable for the next day and night, which would undoubtedly be dangerous, after all, the Saratoga would suddenly appear at any point.

And the rest of the officers were divided - some believed that several airfields on Oahu should be bombed with all their might, and that the enemy's surface ships were not worth mentioning; Others see the opposite.

Another hidden danger is the Enterprise number that is also missing.

Previously, the Enterprise was sent to the southwest Pacific to attract the attention of the Ming army and put pressure on Kuah Island, and the ship and the Amamichi Youyuan battled for a long time.

However, with the end of the Battle of Hawaii East on May 23, the two British aircraft carriers that came from afar were sunk and damaged, and only the Saratoga was left with the only aircraft carrier available near Hawaii.

So the Enterprise received an urgent order from 100,000 to return to Hawaii as soon as possible.

Because of the long distance, the Enterprise departed from New Caledonia on June 1, but now it is only south of the island of Hawaii.

Her voyage was scheduled to stop at Hiro in the northern part of the Big Island for a short break and then join up with the Saratoga.

Ouyang Zhanghua's caution inadvertently avoided the possibility of the fleet being attacked by the Enterprise.

Otherwise, if it was learned that the Ming fleet had sent a fleet of aircraft to attack Oahu, the Enterprise, which had not yet entered the port, would most likely immediately turn around and carry out a full-deck attack.

At 7:15 a.m. the next day, June 17, the Ming fleet arrived 410 km southwest of Oahu.

The Ziwei Zuoyuan, Ziwei Youyuan, and Tianshi Zuoyuan began to release carrier-based aircraft, and one after another the planes climbed into the sky, joined the formation, and then flew neatly to the northeast.

At the same time, a squadron of fighter jets was also lifted from Kauai Wi Won Airport, which planned to attack various airfields on Oahu with the aircraft carriers.

Because it was impossible to achieve unified organization and coordination, the formation sent by the Air Force arrived more than 10 minutes earlier than the aircraft carrier attack wave.

The pilot of the carrier-based aircraft was surprised to witness the distant scene - there was still a black cloud of smoke in the sky that had not dissipated, and the planes of both sides were entangled in a fierce battle.

The Air Force pilots, who had been aggrieved for so many days, went on a killing spree, and the cutting-edge Type 36 D behaved extremely terrifyingly under their control!

The belated carrier attack wave was not a late one, as American fighter jets had taken off from Bello airfield in the east of the island to reinforce them.

When the enemy saw this, they were very angry, and more than two dozen P-40 fighters immediately turned around and pounced on the group of more than 100 planes here......

The key to victory or defeat lies in the air forces, and the two armies are once again engaged in fierce battles for air supremacy on Oahu.

The importance of land airfields is self-evident, and at the moment only one airfield is available on the Ming military-controlled island of Kauai, while the U.S. military has eight airfields available on Oahu, Lanai, and Maui.

To compensate for this disadvantage, half of the engineer battalion, one infantry battalion, and all the bulldozers were transported to Hanapepe, a small town in the southwest of Kauai, at the suggestion of the Air Force, where a new field airfield was built.

On 18 June, a total of 21 transport planes and six large seaplanes arrived that day, unloading about 20 tons of supplies.

On 19 June, in addition to more than 30 transport sorties, three destroyers, temporarily acting as fast transport vessels, arrived at Kauai and unloaded more than 80 tons of supplies and six prefabricated bulldozer blades.

This prefabricated dozer blade is highly requested by the perimeter wind and has little technical content, but it can be mounted in front of the tank, allowing the tank to be used as a bulldozer temporarily.

On 21 June, a convoy of two destroyers, a minesweeper, and four merchant ships arrived without danger, carrying two light anti-aircraft artillery flotillas and more than 1,500 tons of vital supplies.

From this moment on, both sides gradually realized that the offensive and defensive battle in Hawaii may not end anytime soon, and that it will be a protracted game that will last for months or more, because neither Ming nor the United States can quickly repel each other.

"Fighting a war of attrition like this, don't look at our logistics line farther, but it must be the Americans who lose."

There is a lot of optimism in the Kauai command, which is based on the fact that there are other stopovers along the way in the western Pacific, such as Link, Wake Island, and Midway, while the eastern Pacific has no foothold.

"It's hard to say, it's not necessarily beneficial to drag on for a long time. See what our fleet looks like? The reels have not rested well for so long, and the more it drags on, the more difficult it becomes, but the enemy ships can stop at the island of Hawaii at any time. Zhou Changfeng walked around the table, his eyes falling on the sand table.

After speaking, he picked up his baton and pointed at Oahu, and muttered: "Maybe you really have to take a risk, find a way to surprise the landing, and occupy a foothold." ”

Yu Daixin, commander of the 3rd Marine Brigade two steps away, crossed his waist and sighed: "How can this be done, the air supremacy has not been taken down, and the shore artillery has not been blown up......

(End of chapter)