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The return of the first attack aircraft commander, Mitsuo Nakasa Tsuda, was late.

He had just jumped out of the cabin of the Type 97 fighter jet, and the ground crew in white work clothes and pilots in yellow and green combat uniforms rushed forward, cheering and surrounding him in the middle to salute him.

Sato Shizutanaka first replied with a strong military salute, then shouted loudly: "Have you replenished fuel and ammunition? We must attack before the second wave of attack aircraft group returns, otherwise there will be too late?"

A combat staff member handed a blank paper to Yuantian.

"All fuel and ammunition have been replenished, and the backup fighter and the pilots on the back are ready for combat and can set off at any time. Commander Nagyun sent a new order to send a reconnaissance plane to reconnaissance the sea about one hundred nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor. This is the specific coordinates."

After reading the order in confusion, Yuantian frowned loosely.

It turns out that the Enterprise, Maryland and Pennsylvania are actually here, no wonder they are not found in Pearl Harbor.

"Come on my plane quickly and we'll attack right away." Yuantian shouted.

Nine attack aircraft without bombs and torpedoes roared out of the deck and flew towards the coordinates provided by Nanyun to find the whereabouts of the Enterprise.

Wanda was found by Natsuyun and gave a lecture. After returning to the deck, his landline had already replenished fuel.

Yuantian immediately jumped onto the plane and took off first, with 46 Type 99 dive bombers, 37 Type 97 horizontal bombers, and 48 Type Zero fighters followed suit.

The trio of people with wooden shirts stood on the deck, waving their white turban to say goodbye to their comrades and take off.

Seeing the huge group of aircraft gathering in the sky and disappearing into the south, she said, "I really envy them. You can attack again so quickly."

"When our reconnaissance plane finds the remaining aircraft carrier of the enemy, it will be time for us to strike again."

......

On the sea about one hundred and fifty nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor, Bismarck and Prince Eugen were sailing leisurely on the sea at a speed like a "walk after meals".

Shortly after leaving Tokyo, Chen Dao replaced the flagship back to the Prince Eugen Xiangrui ship.

Standing on the fore deck of Prince Eugen, Chen Dao held a twelve-fold enlarged telescope in his hand and looked at the sea in the northwest direction. However, he found nothing.

Looking up at the two American aircraft in the sky that could not recognize the model, Chen Dao touched his chin and said boredly to Major Bach beside him: "These two American aircraft are really persistent. They should have known that Pearl Harbor was bombarded by the Japanese, but they still have the leisure to monitor us here."

Major Bach shrugged his shoulders and said, "They are reconnaissance aircraft. They have no combat power. When they go back, they will just add two results to the Japanese fighter jets."

Major Lorentz interrupted, "Look, our seaplane is back."

Chen Dao looked at the sky northwest and saw four black dots flying towards Prince Eugen.

Looking at these meritorious ministers, Chen Dao laughed wildly. He originally wanted to catch two tigers, but he didn't expect to catch an eagle. This kind of luck really should buy a lottery ticket.

With the help of the fu-touch radar on the warships, when the Pacific Fleet warships and aircraft were tracking and surveillance Chen Dao, Chen Dao was also monitoring them.

During the initial contact, Chen Dao confirmed that there were only two light cruisers and four destroyers nearby.

On the evening of Christmas Eve, Chen Dao suddenly noticed the appearance of battleships in the US warships that were monitoring him, and there were two, perhaps fearless. These two battleships always remained at a range of about ten nautical miles with him.

It was not until Christmas morning that the sky brightened and the two battleships left with their light cruisers and destroyers, and they replaced them with two reconnaissance aircraft.

Knowing that he was in a wolf's den, Chen Dao was so angry that he had no choice but to endure the U.S. ships and planes that were blatantly monitoring him. Although Chen Dao hated him so much that he could only choose to endure it until he received two telegrams.

The first telegram Chen Dao received came from Shintanakasa, which was about reporting the successful attack of "tiger, tiger, tiger".

The second telegram is a clear code telegram from the US military in Pearl Harbor.

After being attacked by the Japanese Navy Air Force, the US military at Pearl Harbor did not forget to report to the United States while resisting.

The situation is urgent. Moreover, the content is not necessary to keep it confidential. The US military in Pearl Harbor chose to send a report in clear code.

Chen Dao easily intercepted the telegram, and the content of the telegram was simple and clear: Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese airstrike, and this was not an exercise.

It was confirmed that the US military in Pearl Harbor had already formed a group with the Japanese Navy Air Force. Chen Dao's courage instantly became enormous.

At his command, Prince Eugen and Bismarck each ejected two Ar-196 seaplanes, exploring the traces of his American warships on the nearby sea surface. The first to be hit were naturally the two battleships that had left shortly.

Because I must be neutral, I cannot attack you, but it does not mean that I cannot kill people with a knife.

Chen Dao made up his mind to use the power of Japanese fighter jets to kill the two battleships. Unexpectedly, about half an hour after the four Ar-196 seaplanes set off, they actually sent him a surprising good news.

In addition to finding the two US battleships, they also found a US fleet, a fleet consisting of an aircraft carrier, two light cruisers and five destroyers.

It is located about fifty nautical miles northwest of the two German warships and about one hundred nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor.

Chen Dao did not hesitate to send the coordinates sent by the reconnaissance plane on the chart and then sent it to Nanyun's fleet.

The missions of Prince Eugen and Bismarck have been completed. As for whether the aircraft carrier and two battleships can be sent to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, I believe that with the capabilities of the Japanese Navy, I will not disappoint myself.

After retracting the plane, Chen Dao glanced at the direction of Pearl Harbor for the last time, and then ordered a speed up and heading towards the United States.

......

When Arita led the third wave of attack teams to fly over Pearl Harbor again, it was a different scene above Pearl Harbor.

Seeing the Japanese fleet attacking again, the US military, who recovered from the sudden air strike, was particularly jealous.

The US pilot, who was ready to fight, immediately ran to the landline. The only remaining 36 P-40 fighters and 16 P-36 fighters at the base came forward and quickly fought with the 48 Zero fighters escorted. The blue sky was full of fighters chasing and biting each other. The smoke from the cannons, the black smoke from the ambushed plane, the broken wings and broken parts were flying in the sky.

Coupled with the countless black smoke columns rising from the port, the contrast of two or three thousand meters high, the battlefield looks unique and thrilling beauty.

Under the desperate cover of Zero fighter jets, the Type 99 dive bomber formation rushed to the Navy shipyard in Pearl Harbor.

The anti-aircraft gun positions around the shipyard spewed out countless shells, and they wanted to stop the Japanese planes but were futile.

Forty-six Type 99 dive bombers dive at super-large angles, accurately remaining 250 kilograms of bombs on the shipyard facilities.

In the clouds of micro mushrooms, the door machines, dock pump rooms, and dock doors of the shipyard were turned into ruins one by one. Cold processing equipment and machining equipment were also destroyed one after another, and various wire lines and parts of the machinery were everywhere.

The most terrifying scene happened in the gantry crane of the shipyard. A dive bomber dived into a huge gantry crane, but was accidentally injured by the anti-aircraft shells from the defending shipyard.

Perhaps it was a coincidence. Or perhaps it was the pilot's passionate behavior. The Type 99 dive bomber dragged long black smoke and carried the bomb on the abdomen of the plane, hitting the slide rail on the right side of the gantry crane.

In the violent flames and explosions, the gantry crane "kneeled down on his right knee", and his tall and mighty body fell to the ground, no longer as majestic as before.

The damage caused by the thirty-seven Type 97 horizontal bombers was even more severe, and they rushed toward the oil depot of Pearl Harbor.

Unlike the Japanese who regard it as their lifeblood, which is afraid of melting when they hold it in their mouths, and fear of being scared when they hold it on top of their heads. In the end, it is hidden underground to be at ease. The US military, which has always been rich and wealthy, built the strategic reserve oil depot on the ground in a grand manner.

Near Pearl Harbor Ford Island, giant oil tanks with a diameter of 100 meters stand proudly like Titan giants. Their huge bodies contain more than four million tons of oil.

Although the Type 97 bomber does not have dive bombing performance, it cannot stop the performance of Japanese pilots.

The Japanese pilots involved in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor can be said to be the elite among the Japanese pilots. The graduation exam for this group of Type 97 bombers was to drop bombs at a height of 3,000 meters and hit the battleship. The width of the battleship was more than 30 meters, and the diameter of the oil depot reached 100 meters, which was no pressure for the pilots.

Different targets and the munitions suspended are also different. The Type 97 horizontal bomber is suspended this time with two 250 kilogram bombs or six 60 kilogram bombs.

Thirty-seven Type 97 bombers flew over the oil storage area, hundreds of 250 kilogram bombs and 60 kilogram bombs drew beautiful parabolas and smashed them mercilessly at huge oil tanks.

Fires and gray-white smoke rose. Holes of different sizes were smashed on the weak steel plate of the oil tank, followed by a series of explosions that were comparable to volcanic eruptions. The explosions were so violent that they could shake the entire Pearl Harbor.

The huge oil storage area turned into an active volcano, with hot flames, thick smoke covering the sky, and countless pieces of steel plates flying into the sky. The nearby US military outpost was also turned into a sea of ​​fire. The soldiers screamed and were swallowed by the flames. The air was filled with the pungent smell of fuel, and the pungent aroma of human meat after barbecue was mixed in the middle.

An unprecedented explosion alarmed Admiral Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet.

He could tell at a glance that the explosion came from the oil storage area.

In 1941, Kimmer became the commander of the US Pacific Fleet and was promoted to Admiral.

After Kimmel, who was in office, he repeatedly complained about the emptiness of Pearl Harbor's defense, and even reported to President Roosevelt in person, but he was not valued. Until today, this Christmas that he will never forget.

Looking at the devastated port, a messy port, and the Japanese fighter jets raging in the sky, Jin Moer, who was fifty-nine, was in tears and muttered to himself: "Why don't you come to me, why don't you beat me to death..."

Kimmel has a rigid and upright personality and is regarded as a model of soldiers by the officers who have contact with him.

During his tenure as commander of the Pacific Fleet, many young officers were promoted, and later these people almost all became captains who were the only ones. However, they were irritable and irritable, and it was difficult to communicate with others. They even had the experience of slapping the table with Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the Army.

But Kimmel is not a fool. He knew clearly that suffering such unprecedented losses in American history cannot escape the blame by using the enemy's cunning and shameless battle without declaring it.

The White House will definitely find a scapegoat for such losses that shock the United States and even the world, and the senior management of the US military department, especially Marshall, who is not in harmony with him. Needless to ask, this person must be him, and maybe there is also the same unlucky commander-in-chief of the Pearl Harbor ground forces.

The war ended like this as soon as it started, and it was extremely bad for the two of them to be taken as scapegoats by the White House and the military.

Kimmer is not afraid of being dismissed, nor is he afraid of being demoted or even convicted.

What he really feared was that as a professional soldier, he would bid farewell to the war at the beginning of the war and would always lose the opportunity to avenge his enemies. For a professional soldier like Jinmer, who is honored as life, this kind of blow is the most deadly.

A staff officer ran to Kimmel, who was in tears, and handed him the telegram in his hand.

"General, general, and Opama Radar Station sent a telegram. They confirmed that the Japanese planes were from the north. Other radar stations also called, and before these enemy planes arrived, they did not find their signals in other directions."

Jinmer stopped crying, turned his head to face the north, and gritted his teeth and shouted, "Is the north? Very good. Order the submarine force and all the reconnaissance aircraft in the port that can take off to attack, and look for the position of the Japanese aircraft carrier formation in the north. We must make the Japanese pay blood debts."

The staff officer turned around and was about to leave when he was caught by Jinmer's right hand.

"I informed us of the bomber and told him that the Japanese fleet was north of Pearl Harbor, so that he would not look for the wrong direction."

The staff officer knew that Kimmer was talking about Lieutenant General Halsey, the commander of the Eighth Special Mixed Fleet. Because he liked to advocate new equipment and new technologies, he was especially good at bombing, and was called a "bomber" in the army.

"I will notify General Halsey immediately." After speaking, the staff member hurried into the command center.

Less than ten minutes later, on the sea east of Pearl Harbor, on the USS Enterprise, the flagship of the Eighth Special Mixed Fleet, Lieutenant General Halsey held his telescope and stared anxiously in the direction of Pearl Harbor.

"There are black smoke everywhere, and you can't see the Japanese planes. Where are the messes hiding? Haven't the reconnaissance planes found the locations of the messes yet?" Halsey cursed with blushing face.

"Our reconnaissance planes are searching the south, and I believe there will be results soon," said a staff officer.

"Reported, the headquarters sent an urgent call, and the Japanese fleet was on the sea north of the base, with an unknown location." The communications consultant shouted.

Halsey almost burst into anger when he heard the shout. The base informed him that the Japanese fleet was south of the base.

When the first two rounds of Japanese planes retreated, they first assembled and then retreated. The US troops in the port mistakenly judged the location of the Japanese fleet in the south of the island based on the assembly site of the Japanese planes, which made Halsey run for a flight.

Halsey punched the bridge glass with a slam: "Those smashes turned out to be in the north, and immediately made the fleet turn around. We go to the north to seek revenge on them." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!