"………………After Nosaka Tansansan was arrested, Chairman Takeda strengthened his guidance on the armed forces and adjusted the positions of some leading cadres of the Navy and Army. I also got a new job - the Political Commissar of the Joint Fleet of the Red Navy. Uh, in theory, I, a person who knew nothing about the Navy and was also seasick, became the supreme commander of the Joint Fleet! Fortunately, I had a good relationship with the main leading cadres of the Navy, so I took over the job of the Political Commissar of the Joint Fleet very smoothly. On July 1, 1935, I put on a blue navy uniform and took the commission signed by Chairman Takeda personally to board the plane to Hawaii Island. From the local and Nanyang where there was basically no smoke, I suddenly came to the forefront of the world revolution." - The above is excerpted from Yasuo Yasuda's memoir "Memories of a Revolutionary".

Yasuo Yasuo took a Ju52 seaplane to Saipan, Wake Island, and Midway to the Hilo Bay on Hawaii Island. This bay is now the temporary anchorage of the Japanese United Fleet. The bay is densely filled with ships of all sizes, with hundreds of ships! The flagship of the United Fleet, the battlecruiser of the Akagi battleship docked on the deep berth at the port of Hilo Bay. Yasuo Yasuo was accompanied by Yasuo Yasuo himself to board this giant warship with a full load displacement of up to tons. All officers or political commissars of the United Fleet at the brigade level and above were lined up on the deck of the Akagi.

Such courtesy of giving a senior political party is completely incredible for the navies of China, Britain, the United States and Germany. Even the Imperial Japanese Navy before the revolution could not happen. However, it is natural for any people's country led by GCD. Yasuo Yamada is now a member of the Japanese Politburo and the secretary of the Japanese Pacific Bureau! Yamamoto Irosaki is just an alternate member of the Japanese Politburo, and Ishihara, who is the new commander of the Japanese Red Army Hawaii Front.

Kan's position in the party is just a member of the zhong yāng... At the same time, Yamamoto and Ishihara are both members of the Pacific Bureau. Theoretically, the Pacific Bureau is Japan's highest leadership in the Pacific battlefield, and Yasuda is the supreme commander of the entire Pacific Japanese army! Of course, this is just a theoretical statement. Yasuda's actual mission is to supervise the army. If he really wants him to command the Pacific Japanese army, his opponent, General Kimmel, would be very happy.

Comrade Yasuo Yasuo Yasuda walked into the luxurious officer's room of the battle cruiser Akagi, surrounded by senior Japanese Red Navy officers, and looked at the Japanese naval officers in the cabin with a smile. His expressions of seriousness and murderous faces made Yasuo feel a little uncomfortable, and he missed Batavia's comfort zone. However, he could not show any of his face. He nodded with satisfaction: "Everyone zhong yāng has decided on the new general military route. After solving Oahu, we will march towards Australia!"

The strategic navy of entering Australia has been mentioned many times, but now it has finally become Japan's national policy, causing these naval officers to burst into low cheers. They have been waiting for this day for a long time, especially after Britain and the United States suffered a crushing defeat in the Middle East, the British Empire was on the verge of collapse. The rich Australia has almost become a homeless place. When will it not be taken at this time?

However, to seize Australia, it is necessary to first capture Oahu, turn the Hawaiian Islands into Japan's solid fortress in the central Pacific, and then it is possible to transfer the main force of the joint fleet to the South Pacific. However, the US Pacific Fleet will not watch Oahu fall, and another life-and-death battle between the Japanese and American navies will soon begin! Thinking of this, Yamamoto Irosaki waved his hand, and the cheering naval officers immediately became silent.

"Comrades! The current world revolution situation is still very serious. Germany gathers heavy troops in Poland, East Prussia, and Romania and will soon invade the Soviet Union! China has stationed one million troops in Myanmar and Central Asia, and is about to invade India! At the same time, China and Germany have also launched a large increase in troops in the Middle East at the same time. The third Middle East Battle is about to begin. In the next year to one and a half years, the world revolution is likely to go through extremely difficult periods, but for us, Japan, it is very likely that the world revolution will go through extremely difficult periods.

It is said that it is a good opportunity to develop and grow, because the main forces of the two imperialist camps of China and Germany have placed their main energy on the Soviet Union, the Middle East and India, and have no time to take care of the Pacific battlefield. However, Britain has completely declined and became a vassal of Germany, while the United States has suffered heavy losses in previous wars. The Panama Canal was destroyed by our naval aviation warriors and will not be used for a long time in the future. The United States' powerful navy on the east coast will be difficult to transfer to the Pacific.

Therefore, it is the best time for us to carry forward the naval fighting spirit and establish a great reputation for the country!”

Speaking of this, Yamamoto Iroku suddenly stood up: "Now ask the Political Commissar Yasuda to read out the No. 101 order of Comrade Takeda Yuki, Chairman of the Japanese Revolutionary Military Commission!"

With a loud bang, all the naval officers in the cabin stood up, Yasuo Yasuda also stood up and quickly took a folder from his secretary Yoshiko Kawashima. After opening it, he began to read out loudly: "The Chairman's Order of the Japanese Revolutionary Military Commission, No. ko1..."

Just as Yasuo Yasuda read out the presidential order of Takeda Hiroshi and started the third Hawaii naval battle, General Kimmel was also studying the Pacific Fleet Command on the west coast of San Diego in the United States in detail with Nimitz and Halsey. Since in order to launch the Persian Gulf battle in the Middle East, the two large aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet were all transferred to the Indian Ocean. He originally planned to wait until several Essex-class aircraft carriers that were being tested in the Caribbean Sea were officially put into service and all of them were transferred to the Pacific Fleet to make up for the lack of aviation combat power of the Pacific Fleet. However, no one expected that the Panama Canal was blown up by the Japanese with suicide planes! Now, those Essex-class aircraft carriers will have to be delayed for at least one month before they can reach San Diego, and the Japanese took the opportunity to attack Oahu. It seems that they wanted to seize the island in one fell swoop!

Oahu has been surrounded for more than a year. Although the island has sufficient supplies and ammunition, it is far from exhausted. However, the planes on the island have been exhausted in constant fierce battles! Oahu, which has lost its air cover, is like a warrior without armor. Under the joint attack of Japanese warships and aircraft, it is already in danger!

Once Oahu is lost, the Japanese army completely occupied the most important rush in the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands! Even if the United States has many battleships and aircraft carriers, it will be difficult to use in the South Pacific and the Western Pacific without recapturing the Hawaiian Islands. Although the sea is boundless, ships and sailors cannot always float on the ocean. Ships need maintenance, supplies need supplies, and officers and soldiers need rest. All this requires a reliable naval base. The only base in the central Pacific that can serve as the rear base of the entire Pacific Fleet is Oahu.

Therefore, Oahu must not be lost! Otherwise, I don’t know how much effort it will take to regain it in the future. Moreover, the Japanese army will do everything possible to destroy the port facilities of Pearl Harbor before losing Oahu. I don’t know how much time it will take to repair it? It’s probably not that I can’t let the Pacific Fleet use Pearl Harbor before the end of this world war.

To defend Oahu, we can only send the Pacific Fleet to the waters of the Hawaiian Islands to fight the Japanese fleet. However, the Pacific Fleet now has no large aircraft carriers available, and only 10 escort aircraft carriers of thousands of tons converted from merchant ships. They are not the opponent of more than a dozen aircraft carriers of the Japanese Joint Fleet! What should we do?

"William, can you use escort aircraft carriers and battleships to reinforce Oahu? The Pacific Fleet now has 18 usable battleships. Fighting the fleet against the Japanese is not our opponent." Kimmel turned his head and asked Halsey, who was sitting next to him holding a few photos of fighter jets.

Halsey is now the commander of the Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier force. He is holding the xfg1 aircraft under test. This aircraft was developed by a design team led by Rex Bessel and Igau Sekowski of Chanswater. The biggest highlight of this fighter is the installation of an xr-4 engine developed by Pratt & Whitney, which is also under test. This engine has a power of up to 1bc5 horsepower! It is almost twice the power of the engine used by the Japanese Type 93 carrier-based aircraft now! Moreover, the xr-4 is just the initial model. Generally speaking, this newly developed engine will form a series, and the performance of the final mature model will be greatly improved. Even if it reaches 2,300 horsepower, it is very easy.

A high-horsepower engine of course means that the aircraft can have a larger combat weight, a longer range and a faster speed! A fighter equipped with 1,805 horsepower can almost certainly beat a fighter equipped with 900 horsepower all over the ground... Perhaps in other words, just wait for this xfpu1 aircraft to be finalized and equipped with the Pacific Fleet, and the Japanese Navy Air Force will be over! Before that, Oahu Island will definitely be the end!

Don't lose it! Hearing Kimmel's inquiry, Halsey put down the photo in his hand and smiled: "The Japanese will not fight a decisive battle with us. They only have the main battleships that can be used to fight naval battles, and we have 30! If I were the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, I would definitely use aircraft to solve the battle. Even if I don't blow up our battleships, I will achieve the goal as long as I blow them into heavy damage, right? These big guys are really fragile and have to repair them for several months every time they are injured."

"So according to your opinion, we are sitting in San Diegori waiting for news of the fall of Oahu?" Kimmel asked with a frown.

“I didn’t say that.

"Halsey's nickname is Manniu. He watched the fall of the most critical base in the Pacific, which was not in line with his personality, so he waved his hand and continued: "Fortunately, we have 10 escort aircraft carriers in our hands, and we can use them to deal with the Japanese."

"Use an escort aircraft carrier?" Nimitz, who was studying the charts on the side, suddenly stood up and interrupted Halsey and said, "William, are you kidding? A aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of only over one ton, without armor, and a speed of at most more than ten knots can deal with the Canglong class?"

"It can't be dealt with." Halsey shrugged and spread his hands again: "They are just some merchant ships with layered wooden aviation decks and catapults. But why do we use these escort carriers to fight against the Canglong class? Isn't there no aircraft on Oahu now? Can't each of our escort carriers carry about 20 carrier-based aircraft? There are 0 wildcat carrier-based aircraft aircraft for 10 escort carriers, and the maximum range of PR. is 1,239 kilometers. Our escort aircraft carriers only need to drive to the 1,000 kilometers of water outside Oahu and then launch the aircraft?"

Halsey's words suddenly made Kimmel and Nimitz see hope. Kimmel clapped his hands and smiled and said, "Good solution, why didn't I expect it? As long as 200 aircraft can be sent to Oahu, they can last at least one or two more months. At that time, at least 6 Essex-class ships can reach San Diego, and we have nothing to be afraid of!"

"But the Japanese deployed at least 10 Canglong class ships in the Hawaiian Islands. Their speed was very fast. Once we found that our escort aircraft carriers were approaching, they would attack. At that time, those escort aircraft carriers with little legs and feet could run away?" Nimitz hesitated.

"Haha..." Halsey laughed: "Why do you want to run? Isn't it just 10 escort aircraft carriers? If the Japanese find out, don't want it. Sink it off! Anyway, the United States does not lack escort aircraft carriers."

There is really no shortage! There are more than 60 escort aircraft carriers under construction on boards across the United States, and more than 40 have been completed or modified. After more than two years of war mobilization, the US's huge business strength has begun to show its power!

Unfortunately, the world war is coming to an end. The two real winners, the Greater China Federation and the Greater German Empire, have set their main focus on the post-war rather than on the battlefield.

While the three were talking, the office door was suddenly pushed open. "Which gust of gusts of Raymond blows you?" Halsey shouted when he saw the visitor. The person who came in was Halsey's brother-in-law Spruins. His current position was commander of the Caribbean War Zone of the United States Navy. Seeing Kimmel, Nimitz and Halsey, Spruins immediately took out a transfer order from the briefcase he carried with him and handed it to Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet: "Admiral, I am under your command now. This is the order of the Admiral."

"Commander of the Battleship Detachment... Haha, I didn't expect it was you, Raymond, you are really lucky!" Kimmel took the transfer order and took a look and laughed. According to the original convention, the position of Commander of the Pacific Fleet Battleship Detachment should be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet.

Before the outbreak of the world war, battleships were regarded as the core of the naval fleet, so most naval powers' fleet commanders served as commanders of the battleship squadron were the only ones except China. However, the current situation is that battleships have become useless in the naval battle, and there is almost no chance to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Even if they barely go to the battlefield, it seems that they are still bombed. In this case, it doesn't seem to be very meaningful to place the Pacific Fleet Command on the battleship ship, and it is even more unnecessary to let the Pacific Fleet Commander serve as the commander of the battleship detachment. So Kimmel reported to the U.S. Navy Department, demanding that the Fleet Commander be moved to the shore, and a full-time battleship detachment commander was appointed.

Spruins looked at the chart on the table, then looked at the three inside the room, and asked in a low voice, "It seems that I'm not late, right? Is the fleet going to fight?"

"I'm going to fight, but I don't have your share." Halsey smiled and patted his brother-in-law on the back: "Now it is the era of aircraft carriers. Your battleship is just staying in the big pool of San Diego and being an existence fleet!"

"Aircraft carrier?" Spruins was stunned. "Are all the aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet trapped in the Indian Ocean."

"Well, we have escort aircraft carriers!" Halsey said his idea to Spruins. Spruins thought for a while and pondered: "The Pacific Fleet now has 18 main battleships, and it is decided to be a very huge force. Just putting it in the port like this is a serious waste." He looked at Kimmel solemnly: "Admiral, I have been thinking about how to use our main battleships to fight the Japanese on the way to San Diego."

Kimmel's face froze: "Raymond, what are you going to do?"

"I want to take all the main battleships of the Pacific Fleet to Australia, and use Port Moresby as a base." Spruins replied: "We have signed an agreement with the British to jointly defend Australia. Port Moresby has our Marine Corps and aviation stationed, and the port is well equipped and has large docks. It is an ideal base for the fleet." He paused and emphasized, "I think we'd better enter Port Moresby as soon as possible and not leave."

Kimmel and Nimitz looked at each other, and they understood what Spruenz meant. Now that England and Germany are getting closer, it is estimated that it will take not long for England and Germany to join forces to defend Australia. There is nothing wrong with the United States!

Spruenz then said: "Now the main force of the Japanese joint fleet is concentrated in the Hawaiian Islands. The Nanyang Islands do not have a large fleet. I think this is our opportunity. If we appear in Port Moresby, or the Japanese find that we are moving towards the South Pacific, they will definitely divide half of the fleet to fight us in the South Pacific or the South Pacific, so that the pressure on the Hawaiian Islands will be greatly reduced."

Kimmel thought for a moment and frowned and said, "But what should we do if the fleet's logistics supply is needed? Without the transit station of Hawaii, we need to cross the entire Pacific Ocean and detour tens of thousands of miles to transport supplies to Port Moresby. On the way, we may be intercepted by the Japanese fleet."

Spruins shook his head: "Admiral, I think we don't need much supplies to maintain it in Port Moresby." He smiled and said, "Because we just changed places to exist as a fleet."

"Go to Port Moresby to be a fleet of existence?" Nimitz looked at the chart and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he smiled and said, "Raymond, you really have you. This idea is so wonderful!"

Kimmel looked at Nimitz with some clues, and Nimitz explained: "Port Moresby is the throat of the southbound Australia. If we put 18 main battleships and hundreds of planes there, it would be difficult for the Japanese to seize Australia."

"I understand this." Kimmel shrugged, "But what does it have to do with us?"

"Of course it's relevant!" Nimitz sneered: "If the Japanese cannot go south, then where will their next development direction be?"

Where would it be? Kimmel thought to himself: "It is probably impossible for the West Coast of the United States. The Army deployed eleven armored divisions and fifty-three infantry divisions along the West Coast, and more than 3,000 land-based aircraft. The Japanese wanted to land and were looking for death! But if they didn't attack the West Coast, where could the Japanese fight? Could they fight against China?" Thinking of this, he stared at Nimitz with his eyes.
Chapter completed!